TOLEDO, OHIO — Reichle Klein Group has brokered the $6.3 million sale of a 201-unit apartment property in Toledo. Beacon Place, located at 426 Beacon St., is comprised of 26 buildings situated on 16.5 acres. 401 E. Woodruff LLC sold the property to an undisclosed California-based investor. Tony Plath and Harlan Reichle of Reichle Klein Group represented the seller in the transaction.
FRANKLIN, IND. — RESOURCE Commercial Real Estate has arranged the sale of a 48-unit multifamily community in Franklin, approximately 25 miles south of Indianapolis, for an undisclosed price. Parkside Apartments was built in 1962 and offers a mix of one- and two-bedroom units with an average size of 733 square feet. Parkside Properties LLC sold the complex to Parkside Franklin Apartments LLC. Michael Wernke of RESOURCE Commercial Real Estate brokered the transaction.
CHICAGO — A joint venture between Westmount Realty Capital LLC and Partners Group has acquired an industrial portfolio in the greater Chicago area for an undisclosed amount. The portfolio consists of 19 multi-tenant, light industrial facilities totaling approximately 1.5 million square feet. The portfolio is 86 percent occupied. The seller in the transaction was a large, institutional owner of industrial real estate. Within the portfolio, 14 properties are located near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. The other five assets are located in Romeoville, Gurnee and Wheeling. Westmount will provide property management services, and Cawley Chicago will provide the leasing services.
LANSING, MICH. — Chick-fil-A will break ground next week on a freestanding store in Lansing, kicking off the restaurant chain’s expansion across the state. Chick-fil-A will open 15 to 20 new stores within the next five years. The first building, to be located at 5617 W. Saginaw Highway in Lansing, is slated for completion this fall. The 4,971-square-foot restaurant will feature seating for 132 people with additional patio seating. The building will also include two drive-thru lanes. The second store is expected to open at Troy’s Somerset Collection by the end of the year. The remainder of the stores in the expansion will open at a rate of approximately three to four stores per year, and the franchise is considering additional locations in Kalamazoo, metro Detroit and Grand Rapids. Chick-fil-A currently operates two stores in the state of Michigan, one at Detroit Metropolitan Airport and one on the Oakland University campus in Rochester.
MADISON, WIS. — Siegel-Gallagher has arranged the sale of a 217,814-square-foot office property in Madison for an undisclosed price. Arthur Goldner & Associates purchased High Point Office Park from Vanta Commercial Properties LLC. Patrick Gallagher and Max Schultz of Siegel-Gallagher brokered the transaction. According to Loopnet, High Point Office Park is an 83 percent occupied, Class B property that was listed for $16 million.
O’FALLON, MO. — Baceline Investments LLC has acquired a 36,455-square-foot neighborhood retail center in O’Fallon, a west suburb of St. Louis, for $3.3 million. The Four Seasons Shopping Center, located at 2421-2509 Highway K, was 100 percent leased at the time of sale. The property was built in 1996 and renovated in 2012. The seller in the transaction was undisclosed.
WEST CHICAGO, ILL. — Owen Wagner & Co. has sold a 19,400-square-foot industrial property in West Chicago. Contract Flooring Service of Glendale Heights purchased the suburban property, located at 1185 Atlanta Drive about 35 miles west of Chicago, for an undisclosed price. Contract Flooring Service plans to use the freestanding building as the site of its new headquarters. Andrea Hauger of Owen Wagener & Co. represented the company in the disposition.
The commercial real estate market in West Michigan was quite active in 2015 across all property sectors, including one massive data center deal that is expected to spur billions of dollars in investment. Both new development and transactions involving existing facilities drove deal volume in 2015. Consequently, vacancy rates dropped while leasing rates generally rose. We expect a high level of commercial real estate activity this year as well. A lack of inventory for existing product will continue to drive new development in 2016. Industrial Strength The industrial market, in particular, has experienced a shortage of quality product to satisfy the demands of distribution companies from across the area. The greater Grand Rapids industrial market consists of approximately 115 million square feet. At the end of 2015, the vacancy rate was 4.1 percent. This marks a significant improvement compared with the depths of the Great Recession when the vacancy rate approached 10 percent. For the first time in years, we are seeing speculative development across all sizes of industrial properties. Lease rates for these speculative buildings are significantly higher than what we have experienced in the recent past due to the relatively high cost of construction. The good news for …
MADISON, WIS. — Brookdale Senior Living has completed the addition of 67 units and a new memory care program at Brookdale Madison West, an assisted living community in Madison. The $18 million expansion was completed in several phases. In the first phase, a 67-unit assisted living building was added to the existing 48-unit community, as well as a variety of dining options and amenities. In the second phase, the community’s initial assisted living building was updated and renovated to memory care units. The memory care section is split into two sections of 20 units each — one for those with acute memory care needs, and another to try to slow the progression of early-stage dementia.
IOWA CITY, IOWA — Dougherty Funding LLC has closed an $11.7 million acquisition loan for a 248-unit affordable apartment property in Iowa City. A majority of the units at Iowa City Pheasant Ridge Apartments were covered under a project-based Section 8 Housing Assistance Payment contract. The property was built in 1971 and recently underwent $700,000 worth of improvements such as new furnaces, roofing, kitchen cabinets, countertops and appliances. Iowa City Leased Housing Associates II LLLP was the borrower. Dougherty served as the lead lender and servicer for the loan.
