CARO, MICH. — AT&T has signed a 3,991-square-foot retail lease on State Street in Caro, about 45 miles north of Flint. AT&T will relocate from its current location on the south side of town and will join Rite Aid at the two-tenant center. Vicki Gutowski, Michael Murphy and Larry Siedell of Gerdom Realty & Investment represented Rite Aid in the sublease.
ANN ARBOR, MICH. — Brixmor Property Group (NYSE: BRX) has acquired Arborland Center, a 404,000-square-foot, grocery-anchored shopping center located in Ann Arbor, for $102 million. The property is located between the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University at 3600 Washtenaw Ave. Kroger anchors the center, which is also home to tenants including DSW, Old Navy, Marshalls, Maurices, Nordstrom Rack, Starbucks Coffee, Ulta Beauty, Bed Bath & Beyond, Petco and Five Below. The property was previously owned by Stamford, Conn.-based AmCap Inc. and was roughly 96 percent occupied at the time of sale, according to reports by Crain’s Detroit Business. With this acquisition, Brixmor owns four assets totaling over 1 million square feet in metro Ann Arbor. The company’s stock price closed on Monday, March 6, at $22.30 per share, down from $24.04 a year ago. — Katie Sloan
DERBY, KAN. — MedCraft Healthcare Real Estate LLC is developing a $5 million build-to-suit medical facility for Via Christi Clinic in Derby, a suburb of Wichita. The 15,000-square-foot clinic will be located on the northwest corner of Tall Tree Road and Newberry Street. Completion is slated for this fall. The new building will allow Via Christi to expand from four family medicine and pediatric providers to eight, as well as integrate primary care and physical therapy. The clinic’s current location opened 19 years ago at 1720 Osage Road. Eby Construction is the contractor for the project, and Howard + Helmer Architecture is the project architect.
FINDLAY, OHIO — Watseka, Ill.-based Big R has signed a 98,000-square-foot retail lease at a former Sears store in Findlay, 40 miles south of Toledo. The outdoor sporting goods store will occupy the space at the Findlay Village Mall located at 1800 N. Tiffin Ave. The building, vacant since 2014, is now under construction with a planned opening in the second quarter of 2017. This will be the second Ohio location for Big R, joining the recently opened location in Lima. Duke Wheeler of Reichle Klein Group represented the tenant in the lease transaction. JJ Gumberg Co. is the landlord for the mall.
SHELBY TOWNSHIP, MICH. — O.ME.R North America has entered into a 12,633-square-foot industrial lease in Shelby Township in western Michigan. The Italian-based manufacturer of railway interiors will occupy the space at 50570 Wing Drive. This is the company’s first location in the United States. Kris Pawlowski of Signature Associates represented the tenant in the lease transaction.
CHICAGO — City Capital Advisors has renewed its 9,148-square-foot office lease at 444 N. Michigan Ave. in Chicago. As part of the lease, the investment bank will undertake a significant renovation to its current space to improve layout and include the firm’s separate practice group, City Capital Ventures. Jon Milonas and Kyle Kamin of CBRE represented City Capital Advisors in the transaction. Emily Marquardt of The Telos Group represented the landlord.
WEST ALLIS, WIS. — The Dickman Co. Inc./CORFAC International has arranged the sale of a 7,700-square-foot industrial building in West Allis, a suburb of Milwaukee. P & Z Properties purchased the building, located at 11408 W. Lincoln Ave., from Golden Site Management LLP. Samuel M. Dickman Jr. and Samuel D. Dickman of the Dickman Co. represented the seller in the transaction, while Brett Garceau of MLG Commercial represented the buyer.
INDIANAPOLIS — Electronics and home appliances retailer hhgregg’s Inc.’s decision last week to close 88 stores — or roughly 40 percent of its total outlets — and three distribution facilities over the next two months came in the wake of a rough financial stretch for the company. Net sales decreased 23.7 percent on a year-over-year basis during the company’s most recent fiscal quarter, which ended Dec. 31, 2016, and the gross operating margin declined 4.1 percent. The net loss for the quarter was roughly $58.3 million, despite the fact that this period encompassed the holidays. The company was recently delisted from the New York Stock Exchange for failing to meet minimum requirements. Most commonly, delisting occurs when a security trades below $1 per share for 30 consecutive business days; hhgregg had not closed at or above this level since Jan. 9 of this year As a supplier of consumer goods that span several different sectors, hhgregg has been hit equally hard by the rising popularity of e-commerce and competition from other multichannel retailers like Walmart and Home Depot, both of which have enjoyed upward-trending stock prices throughout the year’s early stages. Its electronics division, in particular, was hit hard by this …
CHICAGO — Fifield Cos. and F & F Realty, in a joint venture equity partnership with Ares Management LP, has received $117.8 million in construction financing for the development of 727 West Madison, a 46-story apartment project in Chicago’s West Loop. Upon completion in late 2018, the project will comprise 492 apartment units averaging 783 square feet and approximately 10,000 square feet of retail space. Units will feature a mix of studio to three-bedroom floor plans. Designed by FitzGerald Associates Architects, the building will include amenities such as a swimming pool, yoga room, game room, resident lounge with coffee bar, movie theater, dog park and car wash area. Matthew Lawton and Danny Kaufman of HFF represented the developer by arranging joint venture equity and securing the construction financing. Bank of the Ozarks provided the loan.
COTTAGE GROVE, MINN. — CBRE has arranged the sale of Hinton Heights in Cottage Grove, 10 miles south of St. Paul, for $32 million. The 249-unit apartment property is located at 7750 Hinton Ave. South. The community features amenities such as a clubhouse with community room, game room, business center, fitness center, indoor swimming pool, sauna, hot tub, sport courts, outdoor lounge, picnic area, putting green, dog park and playground. Apartment sizes range from one- to three-bedroom units, with an overall average of 1,081 square feet. Hinton Heights was built from 1990 to 1995 and was 98 percent occupied at the time of the sale. Curtis Capital Group LLC, an entity controlled by Curtis Capital Group in Bellevue, Wash., purchased the property. Abe Appert, Keith Collins, Ted Abramson and Laura Hanneman of CBRE arranged the sale on behalf of the seller, Cottage Grove Investors IV Limited Partnership LLLP, an entity related to the St. Louis Park-based Belgarde.
