MENOMONEE FALLS, WIS. — The Wisconsin Athletic Club, Froedtert Health and Ryan Cos. have broken ground on a 90,000-square-foot sports medicine and fitness facility. Located on 10.6 acres near the southwest corner of Pilgrim Road and the U.S. 41 corridor in Menomonee Falls, about 20 miles west of Milwaukee, the building will be anchored by the Wisconsin Athletic Club and Froedtert Health. The Wisconsin Athletic Club will occupy a one-story, 47,500 square-foot portion slated to open this November. Froedtert Health will lease 42,500 square feet of space in a two-story building that will offer a wide variety of sports medicine and orthopedic services scheduled to open Jan. 2014. Ryan Cos. is leading the property development and construction.
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SKOKIE, ILL. — Command Transportation has signed a lease for 19,000 square feet of office space at 5500 W. Howard St., a 60,000-square-foot office building in Skokie, a northern suburb of Chicago. Locally based The Alter Group, a real estate development firm, owns the Class A office building. The deal brings 5500 West Howard to full occupancy.
FISHERS, IND. — Watermark Residential has broken ground on a $22 million luxury apartment community in Fishers, located about 20 miles north of Indianapolis. Watermark on Cumberland will include 220 apartments in three multi-story buildings. Each building will include two elevators. Amenities include a clubroom, pool with cabanas and detached garages. Project completion is scheduled for 2014.Watermark Residential is a full-service multifamily housing developer based in Indianapolis.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. — Cohen Financial has arranged a $10 million loan for 99 Monroe Avenue, a 200,000-square-foot office building, in Grand Rapids. Minneapolis-based Franklin Partners purchased the building last year for $11.8 million. Greystone Financial financed the loan for the 27-year-old building.
INDIANAPOLIS — Block Funds and Block Healthcare Development have acquired two medical buildings in Indianapolis for approximately $8 million. Both buildings were fully occupied at the time of sale. One of the properties, Central Indiana Cancer Center, is located at 6845 Rama Drive and spans more than 19,338 square feet. CyberKnife of Indianapolis, a 108-bed acute care hospital, spans 15,721 square feet and is located at 1346 E. County Line Road.
FLINT, MICH. — Walker International Transportation has signed a lease for 65,000 square feet of industrial space at 4500 Matthew Drive in Flint. The space is part of a 260,000-square-foot building, which was built in 1999. Doug Fura represented Walker International in the deal. The landlord was 4500 Matthew LLC. Walker International is a multi-national logistics service company.
OMAHA — The $23 million conversion of the former Federal Building in Omaha into a Residence Inn by Marriott is under way. Once completed this summer, the hotel will include 152 rooms, a 1,000-square-foot penthouse on the 12th floor with panoramic views of the city and nearly 2,000 square feet of meeting space. The project will preserve and utilize all of the building’s original marble, terrazzo tile, wooden railings and brass fixtures. The conversion of the Omaha Federal Building into a Residence Inn by Marriott is the latest in a series of adaptive reuse projects by First Hospitality Group Inc. aimed at maximizing the potential of historic properties.
INDIANAPOLIS — CBRE’s Indianapolis Investment Properties Group has completed the sale of Capital Center, a 647,818-square-foot office complex. The complex consists of two Class A office towers in the central business district of Indianapolis. CBRE represented the seller, Invesco Real Estate. The buyer was Santa-Monica, Calif.-based Hertz Investment Group. The purchase price was not disclosed, but according to the Indianapolis Business Journal, the two towers have a net operating income of $4.5 million.
ADDISION, ILL. — BB&T Real Estate Funding has secured a $11 million mortgage loan for Iron Mountain, a 234,057-square-foot industrial property. The nonrecourse loan was structured with an 18-month term and a one six-month extension. The property is located at 331 S. Swift Road in Addison, about 20 miles west of Chicago.
UNIVERSITY CITY, MO. — Construction is under way for the new $3 million Firehouse No. 1 in University City, a suburb of St. Louis. The 17,000-square-foot facility, located at Vernon and Westgate avenues, will include five engine bays, a training room, administrative offices and a mezzanine with a workout room. Living quarters on the second floor will include 10 bedrooms with 30 beds, a full kitchen and an outdoor deck. The project is funded in part by a $2.6 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Assistance to Firefighters Station Construction Grant, with the balance funded by University City. Kwame Building Group is the construction project manager, and Archimages is the architect. The firehouse is slated for completion in late summer.