Missouri

CRESTWOOD, MO. — Architectural firm Remiger Design has unveiled a master plan for the redevelopment of the former Crestwood Mall in suburban St. Louis. Remiger is working with Chris Cedergreen, a commercial real estate design advisor. Plans call for more than 794,000 square feet of retail, office and residential space. The retail portion will feature 160,000 square feet, including a pharmacy, four outlots and a cinema. The office portion will include 240,000 square feet of office and medical space. The residential component will feature a four-story building with amenities such as a fitness room, pool and outdoor meeting area. Plans call for nearly 3,000 parking spaces. Known as Crestwood City Center, the development will connect to Grant’s Trail, a greenway. Crestwood Mall, which once housed more than 100 retailers in 1 million square feet, closed in September 2013. Owner UrbanStreet Group has completed the environmental remediation and demolition of the mall. Walpert Properties Inc. is the project developer. HBD is the general contractor. Pam Hinds and Christopher Zoellner of Balke Brown Transwestern will market the office and retail portions for lease. The target date for completion of the office portion is January 2020.

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ST. LOUIS — Fields Foods is opening a store at the Lofts@Euclid in St. Louis. The grocer will occupy the remaining 8,186 square feet of commercial space on the ground floor of the 87-unit loft development, which opened in 2016. Fields Foods plans to be open for business later this year. The property originally opened in 1910 and served as the headquarters for the Langan & Taylor Co.

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CREVE COEUR, MO. — NAI Desco has brokered the sale of Ballas Place in Creve Coeur for $5.5 million. The 78,252-square-foot office building is located at 425 N. New Ballas Road. Constructed in 1980, the property is 74 percent occupied by tenants such as Central Bank of St. Louis, Trileaf Corp., Brookdale Senior Living and Povaddo. Bamboo Equity Partners, the buyer, plans to invest $4 million in building upgrades over the next year. Plans call for the transformation of the two-story atrium into shared collaborative space. Carl Conceller and Stephen Gwinnup of NAI Desco represented the undisclosed seller. Intelica Commercial Real Estate represented Bamboo.

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ST. LOUIS — Tarlton Corp. is constructing a new $12 million parking garage in the Cortex Innovation Community in St. Louis. The five-level garage will provide spaces for 678 vehicles. Completion is slated for May 2019. HOK is the architect. The project is the first of three parking garage projects planned for the district. The Cortex Innovation Community is home to 350 technology-related businesses.

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BELTON, MO. — Furniture Deals, a family-owned furniture retailer, has opened a 50,000-square-foot showroom in the North Cass Shopping Center in Belton, located about 21 miles south of Kansas City. Furniture Deals replaces Price Chopper as the anchor tenant of the shopping center. The showroom doubles the size of the company’s original Belton location at 1737 E. North Ave. Founded in 2004, Furniture Deals now employs 100 people and offers a selection of furniture, mattresses and home decor.

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ST. LOUIS — Select Strategies Retail Holdings V LLC, an affiliate of privately held real estate investment firm Select Strategies Realty, has purchased a seven-property shopping center portfolio in metro St. Louis for $78.4 million. The 1.1 million-square-foot portfolio is 91 percent leased to tenants such as Aldi, Fresh Thyme Farmers Market, Burlington and Planet Fitness. The properties include Creve Coeur, Kings Highway, LeMay Shopping Center, Gravois Plaza, Kirkwood Crossing, Overland Crossing and Fairview City Centre. Jeremy Sain of HFF represented Select Strategies. The seller was not disclosed.

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ST. LOUIS — Developer Propper Construction Services has completed the 1400 Russell Apartments in the Soulard neighborhood of St. Louis. The 130-unit apartment property is located on the site of a former warehouse. Amenities include a rooftop pool, lounge, courtyard, fitness center, business center and concierge services. Monthly rents range from $965 to $3,070. More than 40 percent of the units are leased. Trivers Associates Architects designed the property and Paric Corp. was the general contractor.

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KANSAS CITY, MO. — The Opus Group has begun construction on a 256-unit apartment complex in the Westport neighborhood of Kansas City. The development, located at the corner of Westport Road and Broadway Boulevard, will also include 10,000 square feet of ground-level retail space. An array of amenities will feature a pool, fitness center, dog wash station, lounge areas, conference rooms and bike storage. The project is slated for completion in spring 2020. Additional project partners include Central Bank of the Midwest and CTK Real Estate.

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KANSAS CITY, MO. — Berkadia has arranged the sale of Plaza East, a garden- and townhome-style apartment community in Kansas City. Located at 1500 E. 46th St., Plaza East is convenient to The Country Club Plaza, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art and The University of Missouri-Kansas City. The 380-unit property was originally constructed in 1950 and has been partially upgraded over the last three years. Brett Meinzer and Michael Sullivan of Berkadia arranged the sale on behalf of a local private partnership. Time Equities Inc. purchased the asset for an undisclosed price.

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ST. LOUIS — Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors LLC has brokered the sale of a three-property dollar store portfolio in metro St. Louis for $3.2 million. The portfolio includes a Dollar General store at 7900 Olive St. in University City; a Dollar General store at 10 Fee Fee Road in Maryland Heights; and a Family Dollar store at 9474 Lackland Road in Overland. Zach Wright of Pinnacle’s Edwards | Ethington Team represented the buyer, a Colorado-based investor completing a 1031 tax-deferred exchange. A local real estate company was the seller.

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