CLEVELAND, OHIO — The Cooper Commercial Investment Group has arranged the sale of a three-building office portfolio located in Cleveland’s eastern suburbs. The properties sold for $8.5 million, or 95 percent of the listing price. Dan Cooper of Cooper Group represented the seller, a private investment group, and procured the buyer, an East Coast-based private equity group, in the transaction.
LOCKLAND, OHIO — Irvine Wood Recovery has acquired an industrial building located at 531 N. Wayne Ave. in Lockland, a suburb of Cincinnati. T&R Janszen sold the 97,000-square-foot property for $850,000. Situated on nearly nine acres, the property features heavy electrical services, nine docks and one drive-in door. Jeff Bender of DTZ represented the buyer in the transaction.
CLEVELAND, OHIO — Friedman Integrated Real Estate Solutions will auction off a 41,780-square-foot retail center in Cleveland on Aug. 31-Sept. 2 on behalf of an undisclosed seller. Constructed in 1993, Brooklyn Centre is located at W. 25th St. and sits on a three-acre site. The property is 57 percent occupied. The center is comprised of three buildings, the largest of which is 29,780 square feet. The two smaller buildings are each 6,000 square feet. One building is divided for multi-tenant use and the other is configured for a single tenant. Tenants of the property include Rent-A-Center, CVS Pharmacy, America Cash Express and Cricket. Bidding for the Brooklyn Centre will start at $600,000, according to auction.com. Barry Swatsenberg and Rich Deptula of Friedman Integrated Real Estate Solutions are representing the seller. The auction will take place online at auction.com
DAYTON, OHIO — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $2.1 million sale of a 5,780-square-foot building net leased to National Tire & Battery (NTB) in Dayton. The auto service center is located off I-75 at 2892 Miamisburg-Centerville Road and is less than a mile from the Dayton Mall. Barry Wolfe and Alan Lipsky of Marcus & Millichap’s Fort Lauderdale office represented the seller, a private individual. Michael Glass of Marcus & Millichap’s Ohio office represented the buyer, a limited liability company based in Lexington, Ken.
AKRON, OHIO — Brennan Investment Group LLC has acquired Landmark Plastic Corp.’s headquarters building located at 1331 Kelly Ave. in Akron. The acquisition of the Landmark Plastic facility was funded through Brennan’s $300 million joint venture with one of Arch Street Capital Advisors’ institutional clients. Full transaction terms were not disclosed. The building is 100 percent leased to Landmark Plastic, which specializes in the manufacturing of thermoformed and injection molded products for the horticultural industry.
BOWLING GREEN, OHIO — Reichle Klein Group has brokered the $4.15 million sale of Green Meadow Apartments, a 190-unit apartment complex in Bowling Green, about 25 miles south of Toledo. Located at 214 Napoleon Road, Green Meadows Apartments consists of one- and two-bedroom units. The apartment complex features a centralized laundry facility, 24-hour maintenance service, locked mailboxes and ample parking. Green Meadow Apartments is within walking distance of local drug, automotive, grocery and furniture stores. Walter (Tony) Plath and Harlan Reichle of Reichle Klein Group’s Investment Property Advisors Apartment Group represented the seller, a private investor from Santa Barbara, Calif., in the transaction. The buyer was Park Avenue Realty of Union, N.J.
PERRYSBURG, OHIO — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a 22,089-square-foot medical office building in Perrysburg, approximately 10 miles south of Toledo. The Starbright Professional Center at 28555 Starbright Blvd. sold for $4.7 million. The office is part of the ProMedica St. Luke’s Hospital Health System. Ryan Moore and Christopher Mitchel of Marcus & Millichap’s Cleveland office represented the seller, a private investor. A limited liability company represented itself as the buyer.
ORANGE VILLAGE, OHIO — Fairmount Properties, lead developer on the $225 million mixed-use Pinecrest development in affluent Orange Village southeast of Cleveland, has teamed up with Lennar Commercial to make an initial $17 million investment in the project. The investment is being made through an advance to the partnership by Lennar Commercial’s sister company, Rialto Capital. The 58-acre development will feature 400,000 square feet of retail and restaurants, including a gourmet grocer; 150,000 square feet of office space linked to a 120-room hotel and parking garage; and 90 new apartments. Retailers that have committed to the project include REI, Pinstripes, Old Town Pourhouse and Silverspot Cinema. Pinecrest is set to open in 2017.
CLEVELAND — Love Funding has closed on a $15.3 million loan to renovate a large, historic city block in downtown Cleveland into a loft apartment community. West 25th Street Lofts will offer 83 market-rate loft apartments in four adjacent buildings in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, including one that was originally constructed in 1866 to house the Jacob Beahr Brewery. In short, the apartments will replace a vacant group of buildings on West 25th Street. The developers of the $27.4 million project are Rick Foran of Foran Group Development LLC and Chris Smythe of Smythe Property Advisors LLC. Love Funding Midwest Regional Director Bruce Gerhart secured the financing through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 221(d)(4) loan insurance program. The HUD program provided the development team with low-rate, non-recourse financing for the duration of construction and for a subsequent 40-year term. The loan was originally slated to be finalized in 2014, but the closing of a charter school in one of the newer buildings enabled the development team to add another 22 units to the project, according to Love Funding. Since then, the immediate area has benefited from further development, leadingUSA Today to name the area one of the 10 “up and coming” neighborhoods in the United States. …
COLUMBUS, OHIO — Duke Realty Corp. has broken ground on a 421,000-square-foot bulk warehouse for BASF Corp. The build-to-suit facility is being constructed on a 33-acre site in Rickenbacker Global Logistics Park, a 1,576-acre, multi-modal industrial site being developed through a partnership between Duke Realty, the Columbus Regional Airport Authority and Capitol Square Ltd. The facility will be adjacent to Rickenbacker Parkway and in close proximity to Norfolk Southern’s intermodal terminal and Rickenbacker International Airport. The cross-docked building will feature 32-foot clear ceiling heights; 28 dock doors with levelers, bumpers, seals and lights, staging for 50 trailers next to the building and a 135-foot truck court. Completion of the warehouse is set for 2016.