ST. LOUIS — St. Louis-based ElmTree Funds has acquired seven industrial and office properties across the U.S. for approximately $800 million. The single-tenant, net-leased properties span 3.2 million square feet and are fully leased with a weighted average lease term of 13.7 years. The assets are in markets such as Minneapolis, Seattle and Raleigh. ElmTree, a real estate private equity firm that manages capital on behalf of institutional and private investors, made the acquisitions in the first quarter of 2022.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Dwight Capital has provided a $27.2 million HUD 221(d)(4) loan for the construction of The Apartments at Westport Commons in Kansas City. The 138-unit apartment project will be built on the site once occupied by Westport High School. The school closed in 2010 and the site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. Kansas City Public Schools Repurposing Initiative acquired the site. Locally based Brain Group and Mercier Street are the developers. Amenities will include a clubhouse, leasing office, business center, fitness center, dog park, cinema, community rooms, concierge services and 24,000 square feet of commercial space. The project will utilize state and federal historic tax credits in addition to the debt financing from Dwight. The loan includes a Green Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP) reduction set at 25 basis points because the property will qualify as green or energy-efficient housing under the LEED program. Steven Hunt of Dwight originated the loan.
ST. JOSEPH, MO. — Montecito Medical has acquired the St. Joseph Outpatient Surgery Center building in St. Joseph, about 55 miles north of Kansas City. The purchase price and seller were undisclosed. The nearly 15,000-square-foot property is fully leased to St. Joseph Outpatient Surgery Center. Four physician assistants, 19 surgeons and 12 anesthesia providers practice at the facility. The surgeons perform procedures in a variety of specialties, including orthopedics; gastroenterology; plastic surgery; ears, nose and throat (ENT) and podiatry. The facility includes four operating rooms, two procedure rooms and recovery rooms. Montecito Medical is a privately held company specializing in healthcare-related real estate acquisitions and funding for development.
ST. LOUIS — Draper and Kramer Inc. has begun pre-leasing Moda at The Hill, a 225-unit apartment development in The Hill neighborhood of St. Louis. Residents can begin moving in this summer. The four-story building offers units that range in size from 600 to 1,200 square feet. Monthly rents start at $1,270. Amenities include a fitness center, game room, coworking spaces, grilling stations, fire pits, pool and hot tub. Moda at The Hill is part of a larger 11-acre master plan led by Draper and Kramer that includes single-family homes by McBride Homes and a community park.
ST. LOUIS — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the sale of a Chipotle-occupied retail property in St. Louis for $3.1 million. The 2,415-square-foot building, located at 3547 Hampton Ave., features a “Chipotlane” drive-thru. Chipotle opened for business at the location in 2020. Brennan Clegg, Chris Lind and Mark Ruble of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company. The buyer was not disclosed.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Commercial real estate firm Hunt Midwest will take occupancy of the entire second floor of Corrigan Station II in Kansas City beginning this summer. The newly constructed office building rises three stories and spans 22,910 square feet at 1881 Main St. Hunt Midwest will utilize the space as a satellite office for its main headquarters, which is located in SubTropolis, an underground business park in Kansas City. Copaken Brooks owns Corrigan Station II, which offers direct access to one of the city’s streetcar stops. John Coe and Ryan Biery of Copaken Brooks represented ownership, while Hunt Midwest was represented by its management team.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — CBRE has arranged the sale of Arterra, a 126-unit luxury apartment community in Kansas City’s Crossroads Arts District. An affiliate of a Florida-based sovereign wealth fund purchased the property from Arterra LLC, a joint venture between St. Louis-based Altus Properties and Kansas City-based Copaken Brooks. The sales price was undisclosed. Jeff Stingley and Max Helgeson of CBRE represented the seller. Arterra features amenities such as a sun terrace deck, infinity pool, Luxor package system, fitness center and attached parking structure.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — JLL Income Property Trust has acquired a medical office portfolio in metro Kansas City for $22.2 million. The portfolio comprises three properties spanning more than 50,000 square feet. Roeland Park is a nearly 30,000-square-foot building constructed in 2021. Its largest tenant is AdventHealth Shawnee Mission, a subsidiary of AdventHealth. Northland Women’s Healthcare is a 10,000-square-foot property constructed in 2021 that is fully leased to the women’s healthcare provider. Blue Springs Pediatrics is a 10,500-square-foot building that was redeveloped in 2021. It is leased to a physician group that is a subsidiary of Children’s Mercy. JLL Income Property Trust now owns 12 healthcare properties totaling more than 1.1 million square feet that are valued in excess of $450 million and represent approximately 8 percent of its overall portfolio.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Hunt Midwest has closed on the acquisition of more than 1,300 acres located adjacent to the Kansas City International Airport. The land is contiguous with roughly 2,000 acres already owned by Hunt Midwest, which plans to build the largest logistics park in the state of Missouri. Dubbed KCI 29 Logistics Park, the project will support up to 18 million square feet of Class A logistics and manufacturing space, along with more than 20 acres of commercial mixed-use space. Hunt Midwest says the site has the potential to attract more than 8,000 employees with an overall capital investment of nearly $1.3 billion over the next decade. The project will be situated near KCI Air Cargo operations, which includes hubs for UPS, FedEx and USPS.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Meta Platforms Inc., formerly known as Facebook Inc., plans to build a nearly 1 million-square-foot data center in Kansas City. Meta will invest more than $800 million for the project, which will support up to 100 jobs. The facility is expected to be operational in 2024. The data center will be located in Golden Plains Technology Park, a 5.5 million-square-foot data center campus. The site will be supported by 100 percent renewable energy. Meta plans to use the Data Center Sales Tax Exemption Program, a tool that incentivizes the location and expansion of data centers in the state of Missouri.