KANSAS CITY, MO. — StorageMart has acquired a Go Storage facility located on 8th Street in downtown Kansas City. The purchase price was undisclosed. The self-storage facility features 310 climate-controlled units. The property recently underwent a renovation and received a new elevator. StorageMart plans to make further improvements, including adding perimeter fencing, gates with keypad access, renovating the office and installing motion sensor lighting in the loading bay.
KINGDOM CITY, MO. — Mumford Co. has negotiated the sale of a 60-room Super 8 hotel in Kingdom City, approximately 25 miles east of Columbia. The sales price was not disclosed. The three-story property is located near I-70. George Arvanitis of Mumford represented the seller, CapeInn LLC, and procured the buyer, Americas Value Inn LLC. The buyer intends to rebrand the property as Amerihost Inn & Suites.
FLORISSANT, MO. — Tarlton Corp. has completed the conversion of a Quality Inn hotel in Florissant into the state’s first alternate care facility to treat non-acute COVID-19 patients. The facility, if needed, will serve as backup for patients referred by St. Louis-area hospitals. Members of the Missouri National Guard will staff the facility. Tarlton worked with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the project, as well as Ross & Baruzzini, Rock Hill Mechanical Corp. and Guarantee Electrical Co. The 4.5-day project yielded more than 100 patient rooms on the four floors of the 130-room hotel. The team built a nurse’s station on each floor and turned the existing phone system into a nurse call system. The project assignment came just hours after Tarlton President Tracy Hart and COO Dirk Elsperman lost their father, Bob Elsperman, to COVID-19. Bob Elsperman led Tarlton from 1972 to1999. He was admitted to a St. Louis-area hospital on March 30 and died eight days later at the age of 83.
FRONTENAC, MO. — The Desco Group has completed the development of a 36,000-square-foot office building in Frontenac, about 15 miles west of St. Louis. HDA Architects designed the Class A property, which features an all-brick exterior. The three-story building will include retail space on its first floor. The project is part of a larger $80 million mixed-use development.
ST. LOUIS — LuxLiving has sold The Steelyard, a 170-unit apartment complex in the Historic Soulard neighborhood of St. Louis, for $45.9 million. Partly a redevelopment, the four-story property includes 42 adaptive reuse units in addition to 128 new units. The Steelyard is located on the site of the former Victor Iron Works, which fabricated cast-iron storefronts throughout St. Louis. Big Sur Construction completed construction of the apartment project in 2019. Amenities include a self-pour beer and wine system, resident marketplace, fitness center, pet park and outdoor amenity deck with a pool, hot tub, kitchen, hammocks and cabanas. Monthly rents start at $1,450. Will Mathews, Tyler Hague, Bob Galamba and Gregory Russell of Colliers International represented the buyer, Hamilton Zanze. Mission Rock Residential will manage the property.
ST. LOUIS — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has brokered the sale of a 167-bed skilled nursing facility in St. Louis. An undisclosed real estate investment trust sold the property. The operating partner plans to exit Missouri altogether. Despite a $1.2 million renovation in 2015, occupancy and cash flow were both in decline. An East Coast-based owner-operator with an existing presence in the state was the buyer. Housing & Healthcare Finance sourced the acquisition loan. The price was not disclosed.
ST. CHARLES, MO. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $1.4 million sale of a 5,159-square-foot urgent care facility net leased to Our Urgent Care in St. Charles near St. Louis. The property is located at 2893 Veterans Memorial Parkway. Benjamin Bach and Dominic Sulo of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a limited liability company. An out-of-state buyer completing a 1031 tax-deferred exchange purchased the building at 100 percent of the list price.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Community Builders of Kansas City (CBKC) has unveiled plans to develop The Rochester on Blue Parkway, a $12.6 million multifamily project within an Opportunity Zone in Kansas City. The 81,400-square-foot, four-story development will house 64 units. Amenities will include a rooftop deck, fitness center, package room and community meeting space. Monthly rents will range from $985 to $1,275. The property was named after Rochester Gatson, the founder of CBKC. Straub Construction and Hufft Projects make up the project team. A timeline for completion was not disclosed. CBKC says it is working with several partners to finalize the project’s capital stack.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Watermark Residential, a wholly owned affiliate of development and construction company Thompson Thrift, has acquired 23 acres in Kansas City with plans to develop The Element by Watermark, a 276-unit Class A apartment community. Located in Platte County at 8101 Northwest Barrybrooke Drive, the community will consist of three-story, garden-style buildings. Amenities will include a clubhouse, 24-hour fitness center, swimming pool, bark park and dog spa. Element, slated for completion in November 2021, will be Watermark’s third multifamily development in the state of Missouri.
ST. LOUIS — CapStone Holdings Inc., a business incubator and investment group, has acquired a $40 million stake in City Foundry STL, a food hall and office project set to open in downtown St. Louis this summer. CapStone represents one of the largest single-entity investors in the $210 million first phase of the project, which will feature 122,000 square feet of restaurant and entertainment space, 105,000 square feet of retail and 107,000 square feet of office. City Foundry is a redevelopment of the former Federal Mogul factory. The Lawrence Group is the developer for the 15-acre project.