CHICAGO — Interra Realty has brokered the sale of an apartment building in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood for $2.3 million at a 6.2 percent cap rate. The Interra team of Ted Stratman and Jeremy Morton were hired by the seller to market the apartment building. The five-unit property, located at 2144 W. Potomac Ave., was recently renovated with new porches, heating and air conditioning, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, hardwood floors, electrical updates and copper plumbing.
CAROL STREAM, ILL. — SVN | Chicago Commercial has brokered the $1.8 million sale of Elk Trail Center, a 16,299-square-foot shopping center located at 257-81 Elk Trail Road in Carol Stream, a village in DuPage County roughly 33 miles west of Chicago. Tim Franz of SVN | Chicago Commercial represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyer was an out-of-state entity. Elk Trail Center’s tenant roster includes Allstate Insurance, Maytag Laundromat, Papa Ray’s Pizza, Sul Realty, White Bridge Cleaners, Village View Barber Shop and the Carol Stream Food Mart.
DERBY, KAN. — CBC Real Estate Group will develop a $40 million community hospital in Derby, a suburb of Wichita. Rock Regional Hospital, a 65,000-square-foot, 30-bed general acute care hospital with a surgical emphasis, will be situated north of Patriot Avenue and west of Rock Road in the proposed Sales Tax and Revenue (STAR) Bond District at the north end of Derby. The project will also include an adjacent 40,000-square-foot medical office building. Rock Regional Hospital will feature 12 inpatient medical beds, 12 surgical beds and six intensive care unit beds, as well as three operating rooms, two procedure rooms, three cath lab rooms and three emergency department rooms. Southlake, Texas-based Candor Healthcare will operate the hospital upon completion. Kansas City, Mo.-based CBC anticipates construction will begin this year, with Rock Regional Hospital fully operational by 2018.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA — Pine Tree LLC has purchased Metro Crossing Shopping Center in the Omaha suburb of Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dick’s Sporting Goods, TJ Maxx, Hobby Lobby, PetSmart, Bed Bath & Beyond, Dollar Tree and Ulta anchor the 299,578-square-foot shopping center. First developed in 2008 with additional construction phases occurring through 2015, the shopping center sits at the intersection of I-29 and Highway 275. George Good of CBRE brokered the acquisition and Bank of America provided financing. The name of the seller was undisclosed. Kimco Realty Corp. was the developer of the shopping center, according to the Omaha World Herald.
BARTLETT, ILL. — Meridian Design Build has broken ground on a 67,080-square-foot build-to-suit for Traffic Control & Protection on a 9.5-acre site within Abbott Land & Investment’s Blue Heron Business Park in Bartlett, Ill. Traffic Control & Protection provides traffic signs and other traffic control products. The new facility will include a 10,000-square-foot office/employee facility area, a 13,000-square-foot sign shop/silk screen area, a barricade shop and seven interior vehicle maintenance bays. Construction at the site is underway with occupancy scheduled for the fourth quarter of this year. Harris Architects has been retained by Traffic Control & Protection to provide architectural and structural design services. Mackie Consultants is providing civil design services for the project. Dan Flanagan of Flanagan Realty represented Traffic Control & Protection in the selection and acquisition of the site and coordinated overall planning and approval efforts for the project.
AURORA, ILL. — Transwestern has represented Centor North America Inc. in a 62,662-square-foot headquarters lease at 966 Corporate Blvd., a 238,604-square-foot multi-tenant warehouse in Aurora, Ill. Centor, a manufacturer of integrated doors for residential homes as well as folding doors, hardware and screen/blind systems, plans to relocate to the new facility from its current headquarters in Batavia on Oct. 1. Michael Marconi, Justin Lerner and Joe Karmin of Transwestern represented the tenant in the transaction. Completed in 2015, 966 Corporate Blvd. is LEED-certified and includes 32-foot ceilings, seven exterior docks, one drive-in door and 41 trailer stalls. Centor will use tenant improvement funds secured by Transwestern to complete the build-out of its space, which includes a state-of-the-art showroom and corporate offices.
WISCONSIN DELLS, WIS. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Amber’s Resort & Conference Center Wisconsin Dells, a 228-room resort hotel in the Wisconsin Dells, approximately 120 miles northwest of Milwaukee. An undisclosed limited liability company purchased the property for $4.6 million. The seller also was an unnamed limited liability company. Jon Ruzicka, Gordon Allred and Chris Gomes of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller. Jon Ruzicka, also with Marcus & Millichap, represented the buyer. Todd Lindblom assisted in the transaction.
To get a sense of what is happening in Southeast Michigan retail these days, the place to start looking is the past. It’s interesting and important to recognize that the seeds of many of the retail trends manifesting themselves today were planted years ago. Fortunately, the overall retail marketplace in Southeast Michigan remains generally strong. The marketplace may change over time, but one constant that remains unaltered is that quality rises to the top. Thoughtfully designed and developed retail projects in favorable locations have always done well — and that has remained the case through recessionary ups and downs and the whims of a consumer base that can be quick to change. Rethinking e-commerce Today, one of the most discussed topics of conversation for any retailer is the competitive pressure of the online and mobile marketplace. The convenience of virtual transactions, the rise of Internet powers like Amazon, and an increasingly tech-savvy population of shoppers who are comfortable and confident shopping online for a wider variety of goods and services has prompted the vast majority of brick-and-mortar retailers to work hard to carve out their own space in the digital marketplace. Online and mobile growth has had less of a …
CHICAGO — Sonnenblick-Eichner Co. has arranged a $47.5 million loan to refinance the office and retail component of a 21-story building at 208 S. LaSalle St. in Chicago. The 1.1 million-square-foot, mixed-use building is located in the financial district. Michael Reschke of The Prime Group Inc. is the property owner. The loan is secured by five floors (13-17) of office space totaling 207,953 square feet and 11,379 square feet of street-level retail space, which is collectively 94 percent leased. The first 12 floors are occupied by a 610-room JW Marriott hotel. Neither the hotel nor the top four office floors were part of the collateral. The seven-year, non-recourse financing was funded by an affiliate of Guggenheim Commercial Real Estate Finance. The loan refinanced a $35 million mortgage that was a part of a $321 million facility Sonnenblick-Eichner Co. arranged for the ownership two years ago. The deal was comprised of four different loans and included first mortgage debt and mezzanine financing. The property, built in 1914 as the headquarters for the Continental and Commercial National Bank, was designed by Daniel Burnham and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
DES MOINES, IOWA — Des Moines-based BW GAS & Convenience Holdings LLC, an affiliate of Brookwood Financial Partners LLC, will acquire 21 convenience stores located in Iowa from Kum & Go L.C. The first three stores, located in Mason City, are being acquired this week, and the remaining 18 acquisitions will take place over the next four weeks. With these acquisitions, BW GAS & Convenience will own 31 stores in Iowa, and the company plans to acquire between 600 and 1,000 convenience stores throughout the United States over the next several years. In conjunction with the acquisitions, BW GAS & Convenience will begin rolling out a new national convenience store brand named Yesway, which will also be headquartered in Des Moines. BW GAS & Convenience plans to spend approximately $6.7 million to upgrade and remodel the stores that will be rolled into the Yesway portfolio, which will feature an expanded product assortment and food service offerings.
