OMAHA, NEB. — Mutual of Omaha has broken ground on a 44-story office tower that will act as the company’s headquarters in downtown Omaha. At 677 feet, the building will rise 43 feet above the city’s current tallest building, First National Bank Tower. The 800,000-square-foot development will include a street-level lobby with conference space and an “experience center” spotlighting the company’s history, brand and impact on customers and the community; a sky lobby, welcoming associates from the planned 2,200-stall parking structure; food and wellness services, a fitness center and flexible meeting spaces on the 16th through 20th floors; and conference facilities with a two-story atrium on the 44th floor. Despite the skyscraper’s record-breaking height, the building will be less than half the square footage of the company’s current 1.7 million-square-foot headquarters in Omaha’s Midtown neighborhood. This shift in design is to support flexible work arrangements, including in-person, remote and hybrid models. “As a customer-focused company, we worked closely with our design team to create a headquarters that is appropriately sized, adaptable to ways of working that may emerge in the future and able to serve our policyholders in an effective and efficient manner,” says CEO James Blackledge. Mutual of Omaha’s …
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OMAHA, NEB. — Northmarq has arranged a $5.3 million loan for the refinancing of Clocktower Village in Omaha. The retail strip center spans 44,000 square feet and is located at 605 N. 98th St. John Reed of Northmarq arranged the fixed-rate loan, which features a 10-year term and a 25-year amortization schedule. A local credit union provided the loan.
OMAHA, NEB. — Northmarq has negotiated more than $67 million in Freddie Mac acquisition financing for two multifamily properties in metro Omaha. Northmarq arranged the floating-rate loan on behalf of the borrower, Hamilton Point Investments. The transactions were each structured with a seven-year term with three years of interest-only payments followed by a 30-year amortization schedule. Vantage at Coventry is a 294-unit class A property located at 5575 S. 206th Court in Elkhorn, Neb., at the western edge of Omaha. The community offers studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Construction on Vantage at Coventry was completed in 2019. The property is located two miles from the 180th Plaza shopping center and just under seven miles from Two Rivers State Recreation Area. Community amenities at Vantage at Coventry include a pool with tanning ledge seating and poolside grills, media lounge with internet café, urban clubhouse with tech center, business center, gated access, detached garages and onsite storage units, two dog parks and a package concierge. Individual units feature stainless-steel appliances, glass backsplashes, ceiling fans, in-unit washers and dryers, USB wall ports, balconies or patios and large fenced yards in select units. Northmarq arranged $31.6 million in acquisition financing for Vantage at …
Greystone Housing Impact Investors Sells Two Multifamily Properties in Omaha for $27.7M
by Jeff Shaw
OMAHA, NEB. — Greystone Housing Impact Investors LP has sold two multifamily properties located in Omaha. Both properties, Vantage at Stone Creek and Vantage at Coventry, comprise 294 market-rate units and feature a swimming pool. No buyer information was provided. Greystone received net cash of approximately $27.7 million upon closing the sales, inclusive of the return of its contributed equity. Greystone’s investment in Vantage at Stone Creek originated in March 2018 and included $7.1 million in contributed equity during construction. Greystone’s investment in Vantage at Coventry originated in September 2018 and totaled $8.1 million in equity during construction.
OMAHA, NEB. — Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors has negotiated the sale of Applewood Centre, a 112,005-square-foot shopping center in Omaha, for $17.2 million. Anchored by Hy-Vee, the property is nearly 99 percent leased and was built in 1989. Hy-Vee has occupied space at the center ever since it was built and has expanded and renovated its store over the last 10 years, including a drive-thru for the pharmacy, an interior Starbucks and Wahlburgers, and a full wine and spirits section. Additional tenants at the property include Edward Jones, Great Clips, H&R Block, Papa John’s, Pet Supplies Plus and Sun Tan City. Jeff Lefko and Bill Asher of Hanley represented the seller, Omaha-based Woodsonia Real Estate Inc. The all-cash buyer was a family office based in Oregon.
LINCOLN AND ASHLAND, NEB. — Walker & Dunlop has originated a total of $20.9 million in HUD refinancing for Fallbrook Assisted Living and Memory Care in Lincoln and Oxbow Living Center in Ashland. Walker & Dunlop’s Kevin Giusti and Mikko Erkamaa originated the loans in both deals on behalf of the borrower, MJ Senior Housing. Both transactions refinanced floating-rate debt and provided cash proceeds. Fallbrook Assisted Living and Memory Care received a $13.3 million loan. The property is a 71-unit assisted living and memory care facility that was built in 2018 and opened in 2019. Oxbow Living Center received a $7.6 million loan. The property is a three-story, 79-unit assisted living and memory care community.
NEBRASKA, IOWA AND INDIANA — An affiliate of Phoenix Investors has acquired a four-property industrial property located in Nebraska, Iowa and Indiana for an undisclosed price. The facilities were formerly home to Eaton Corp., an intelligent power management company. A property at 300 E. 39th St. in Hastings, Neb., totals 107,940 square feet with two cranes, a clear height of 28 feet, parking for up to 150 vehicles and outdoor storage. Renovated in 2019, a property at 700 Luick’s Lane in Belmond, Iowa, spans 270,500 square feet with a clear height of 40 feet. The other two facilities are located in Auburn, Ind. One totals 345,000 square feet while the other spans 15,000 square feet. Adam Wolinetz of CBRE brokered the sale. Eaton was the seller.
MICHIGAN, NEBRASKA AND GEORGIA — In a sale-leaseback transaction, MAG Capital Partners LLC has acquired three industrial properties in three states for an undisclosed price. Applegate Greenfiber, a manufacturer of insulation products for commercial and residential use, occupies the properties. The first building spans 30,000 square feet and is located at 1000 Highview Drive in Webberville, Mich. The second totals 104,930 square feet at 3421 Old Highway 8 in Norfolk, Neb. Lastly, the portfolio includes a 110,000-square-foot property at 1241 Meadowbrook Drive in Eastanollee, Ga. Earlier this year, Industrial Opportunity Partners, a Chicago-based industrial investment firm, acquired both Applegate Holdings LLC and the assets of Greenfiber Holdings LLC to form Applegate Greenfiber Holdings LLC, which is based in Charlotte, N.C. Daniel Macks of STREAM Capital Partners represented the seller. Led by Dax Mitchell and Andrew Gi, MAG Capital Partners is based in Fort Worth, Texas.
By Denny Sciscoe, The Lund Co. The Omaha industrial market is experiencing increased leasing velocity, positive rent growth and record-breaking development. The market consists of 18 submarkets, totaling 103 million square feet of inventory. Omaha has traditionally been a risk-averse market with steady, slow-paced growth. Since 2016, Omaha has seen increased speculative development, which is absorbed as fast as it is built. In 2020, we began to see hyper-development, fueled by increased demand and developer confidence. The increased demand was a result of COVID-19, where we experienced five years of growth in a 12-month period as occupiers scrambled to find space for inventories and e-commerce, which was exasperated by the demand to store “just in case” inventories. The supply and demand dynamics of our market have been almost perfectly balanced. The average deliveries are around 1.3 million square feet annually, and our average absorption has been around 1.4 million square feet. Since the beginning of 2022, we are tracking about 5 million square feet of demand and another 2.2 million square feet of space that is currently in the construction pipeline. Overall vacancy currently sits at 2.6 percent, which is 100 basis points below our average of 3.6 percent. …
BELLEVUE, NEB. — Northmarq has provided a $29.9 million Freddie Mac loan for the refinancing of Fontenelle Hills in Bellevue, a southern suburb of Omaha. The multifamily property is comprised of 339 units across 36 buildings. Community amenities include a fitness center, pool, basketball court, walking trails and laundry facilities. Brett Hood of Northmarq structured the 15-year, fixed-rate loan. The borrower was undisclosed.