CLEVELAND — Cushman & Wakefield|CRESCO Real Estate has been selected as the exclusive leasing agent for Post Office Plaza, located at 1500 W. 3rd St. in downtown Cleveland. Built in 1934, the property offers 476,000 square feet of office space. Formerly the M.K Ferguson Building, the property originally served as Cleveland’s main post office and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The property is managed by Forest City Commercial Management.
CINCINNATI — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a retail property located at 6401 Colerian Ave. in Cincinnati. A local REIT sold the property to an out-of-state REIT for $7.8 million. The 57,692-square-foot property is triple net leased to Kroger through 2020. Craig Fuller, Scott Wiles and Erin Patton of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and buyer in the deal.
PERRYBURG, OHIO — CPA:17 – Global, a non-traded real estate investment trust, has acquired a distribution and light manufacturing facility in Perrysburg. InSite Real Estate sold the property for $14 million. The facility is net leased to First Solar Inc. under a 10-year term. The 391,700-square-foot facility serves primarily as warehousing for solar panels with about 80,000 square feet dedicated to light assembly. W. P. Carey Inc. brokered the transaction.
LEXINGTON, OHIO — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Turn Key Storage, a self-storage facility located at 1435 Orchard Park Road in Lexington. An individual/personal trust sold the property to a limited liability company for $1.8 million. Brett Hatcher and Joseph Holloway of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and the buyer in the transaction. Situated on 5.7 acres, the 48,900-square-foot property features 352 units with 54 expansion-ready units. Facility amenities include steel roll-up doors, paved drives throughout, 24-hour video surveillance and digital gate access.
LIMA, OHIO — Reichle Klein Group has arranged the lease of a former Walmart retail building located at 975 N. Cable Road in Lima. Big R Stores signed a 10-year lease for the 110,580-square-foot property. The site will be the store’s first location in Ohio. Big R sells a variety of goods, including apparel, sporting goods, home basics, toys, and pet, livestock, auto and lawn and garden products. Duke Wheeler of Reichle Klein Group represented the lessee in the deal. The landlord was not disclosed.
PARMA, OHIO — Gordmans has opened a new store in The Shoppes at Parma in the Cleveland suburb of Parma. The value-priced department store joins a JCPenney, Walmart, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Marc’s grocery store at the 750,000-square-foot, mixed-use redevelopment. The new Gordmans totals 45,000 square feet.
CINCINNATI — The Global Operations Center has opened at The Banks mixed-use development in Cincinnati. More than 2,000 employees will work in the 12-story, 338,000-square-foot tower. The main entrance will be at the corner of Second and Rosa Parks streets. The new building is located in Phase II of The Banks, and includes 19,000 square feet of street-level retail space. Taste of Belgium and Pies & Pints are under construction and will open in the coming weeks. Next door, the Radius at The Banks apartment community is also now open. GE has signed a 15-year lease with Carter and Nicol Investment Co., co-owners of the building. PNC Financial Services led the construction financing for the project, and Brasfield & Gorrie oversaw construction along with Cincinnati-based Jostin Construction. RJTR is the architect and CBRE will manage the property.
COLUMBUS, WILLOUGHBY OHIO — Hunt Mortgage Group has provided two Fannie Mae loans totaling $18.8 million to refinance two multifamily properties located in Ohio. The properties include: The Ridge at Taylor Station in Columbus — Hunt Mortgage Group provided a $6 million Fannie Mae loan facility to refinance the property. Perry-Sycamore LP sponsors the borrower. The borrower acquired Ridge at Taylor Station in 2000 and the loan features a 10-year term, 30-year amortization period and a 9.5-year yield maintenance period. Built in 1974, the property was renovated by the current owners in 2004 and 2015. The property is a 192-unit garden-style multifamily facility comprised of eight three-story residential buildings, plus a standalone leasing office. Property amenities include an outdoor picnic area, pool, playground and a basketball court. Fox Run Apartments in Willoughby — Hunt Mortgage Group provided a $12.8 million Fannie Mae loan to refinance the property, a 192-unit garden-style apartment complex. The property is comprised of 12 two-story apartment buildings. Friedman Properties Ltd., an Ohio limited liability company, is the borrower. The transaction is structured with a 10-year term with 9.5 years of yield maintenance and a 30-year amortization schedule. Fox Run Apartments was constructed between 1986 and 1997 …
MENTOR, OHIO — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the sale of Holiday Inn Cleveland East-Mentor, a 132-room hotel, for $9.4 million. The hotel is located at 7701 Reynolds Road in Mentor. The full-service hotel opened as a Holiday Inn in 2013 and features 8,772 square feet of attached meeting space as well as an on-site restaurant and lounge. Alexandre Duong, an investment specialist in Marcus & Millichap’s Cleveland office, marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a private investor. Duong also secured and represented the buyer, a limited liability company.
CLEVELAND — Forest City Realty Trust Inc. has sold Terminal Tower, a 597,000-square-foot office building in downtown Cleveland, to an affiliate of K&D Group for $38.5 million. The sale corresponds with Forest City’s decision earlier this year to explore new options for the location of its corporate offices, which have been housed at the Terminal Tower since 1997. The company is engaged in a search process, though no change is expected before the end of 2017. Opened as Cleveland Union Terminal in 1930, the Terminal Tower was the tallest building outside of New York City until 1964. Forest City acquired the building in 1983. In 2010, the company completed a four-year interior and exterior renovation of the tower. Included in the project were a restoration of the building’s observation deck and the installation of an exterior LED lighting system.