BLOOMINGTON, ILL. — AXIS 360 Commercial Real Estate Specialists has brokered the sale of a car wash property located at 1701 Morrissey Drive in the Chicago suburb of Bloomington. The sales price was undisclosed. Meghan O’Neal-Rogozinski of AXIS 360 represented the buyer, 150 Partners LLC, which plans to continue operating the car wash while implementing significant upgrades in the coming months. Matthews Real Estate Investment Services represented the seller, Parkway Car Wash LLC.
COLUMBUS, OHIO — Big Lots (NYSE: BIG) has filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and has entered into a sale agreement with Los Angeles-based private equity firm Nexus Capital Management, a deal that would take the Ohio-based discount retailer private. Under the terms of the agreement, Nexus will serve as the “stalking horse bidder” (the approved investor that sets the low-end bar for a bankrupt company) in a court-supervised auction to acquire “substantially all” of Big Lots’ physical assets and ongoing business operations. Big Lots expects to keep the majority of its stores and online platform open and operational during the reorganization process as well as to be able to pay its employees and “certain critical vendors in the ordinary course of business.” The sale is expected to close during the fourth quarter, assuming Nexus is the winning bidder. In connection with this court-supervised process, Big Lots has secured commitments for $707.5 million in debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing, including $35 million in new financing from certain current lenders. Coupled with cash from ongoing operations, the financing is expected to provide sufficient liquidity for the sale process. The announcement comes after multiple reports of an imminent bankruptcy filing for Big Lots, …
DETROIT — Detroit-based Henry Ford Health and Ascension Michigan have unveiled plans to close their proposed joint venture on Sept. 30 and launch their newly combined organization on Oct. 1. The joint venture will bring Ascension’s southeast Michigan and Genesys healthcare facilities under the Henry Ford brand. The properties include eight hospitals and an addiction treatment center, according to Crain’s Detroit Business. Carol Schmidt, senior vice president of Ascension and CEO of Ascension Michigan, will support the first phase of transition and integration, partnering with Henry Ford Health President and CEO Bob Riney. The combined organization would employ approximately 50,000 team members at more than 550 sites across Michigan. Crain’s reports that Ascension is left with four hospitals in the state, all in the southwest area.
MICHIGAN — Chick-fil-A has unveiled plans to open approximately 25 to 30 new locally owned and operated restaurants across Michigan by the end of 2028. The new restaurants will create over 2,500 jobs across the state. Chick-fil-A first opened in Michigan in 2015, and currently operates 28 locations in the state. In metro Detroit, Chick-fil-A plans to open in Chesterfield Township, Roseville, Taylor and Fort Gratiot this fall or winter. Additional growth includes a licensed location in the First National Building, and locally owned and operated restaurants in Detroit, Auburn Hills, Lincoln Park, Orion Township, Clinton Township, Canton and Ann Arbor. Two restaurants are slated to open in 2025 in Lansing/Jackson, as well as one restaurant in Saginaw and another in Benton Harbor. Chick-fil-A is the third largest quick-service restaurant company in the United States with more than 3,000 restaurants across the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.
ELKHORN, NEB. — CBRE has arranged the sale of The Trails, an 85-unit build-to-rent community in the Omaha suburb of Elkhorn. The sales price was undisclosed. Located at 19111 Grand Ave. and completed this year, the property features a range of four- and five-bedroom floor plans averaging 1,814 square feet. Ted Abramson, Mark Seger and Jeremy Fink of CBRE represented the undisclosed seller. Curtis Capital Group was the buyer.
ANDERSON, IND. — Meridian Design Build has completed construction of a 300,000-square-foot climate-controlled seed storage and distribution facility for Corteva Agriscience in Anderson, about 40 miles northeast of Indianapolis. Scannell Properties was the developer. Located at 4210 W. 67th St., the property is Corteva’s largest warehouse and distribution center in North America, according to Meridian. Constructed on 30 acres, the facility features 100,000 square feet of refrigerated and humidity-controlled cold storage space along with an adjacent dry storage area accessible via high-speed rollup doors. The building features 25 loading docks, two drive-in doors, a storm shelter and 4,000 square feet of office space. Curran Architecture was the architect, and American Structurepoint Inc. handled the civil engineering design.
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, MICH. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $3.5 million sale of McLaren Macomb-Gratiot Medical Building, a 17,333-square-foot medical office property in the Detroit suburb of Clinton Township. The asset is fully leased to McLaren Macomb, a subsidiary of the McLaren Health Care Corp. The multi-specialty clinic serves as a hub for McLaren’s residency program and is situated near the affiliated 288-bed McLaren Macomb Hospital. Seth Haron, Ashish Vakhariya and Darin Gross of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, Platform Ventures LLC, and the buyer, Nova Sky Investments LLC.
CHICAGO — Core Spaces has completed six student housing communities totaling 4,549 beds across the United States. All six communities have opened to residents ahead of the 2024-2025 school year. The communities are all located near the campuses of major universities, including UC Berkeley, University of Cincinnati, Penn State, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Clemson University. The six new properties include: The communities feature a variety of high-end, student-focused amenities. For example, ōLiv Madison boasts a spa, sauna, fitness center, coworking spaces, private study rooms and a sprawling rooftop sundeck with pool and hot tub. Each property offers a diverse mix of floor plans and unit types to appeal to a range of resident needs and price points. “After years of work to bring a project to life, welcoming new residents home is one of the best parts of what we do,” said Marc Lifshin, CEO of Core Spaces. Core Spaces is a residential developer, owner and operator headquartered in Chicago. The company currently owns or manages more than 38,600 beds. The developer currently has a pipeline of approximately 43,000 beds. The pipeline includes an 800-bed project in Knoxville, Tennessee; three developments in Madison totaling 4,000 beds; a 665-unit, 2,195-bed project in …
BELVIDERE, ILL. — Cawley Commercial Real Estate (Cawley CRE) has brokered the sale of 140 acres in Belvidere, about 13 miles east of Rockford. A leading Fortune 500 company purchased the site with plans to build a 1.2 million-square-foot freezer cooler facility. Project costs are estimated at $1 billion. The project will include more than 1,000 trailer stalls as well as automation technology and will support the delivery of fresh and frozen food products across the Midwest. Completion is slated for 2027. David Conroy of Cawley CRE brokered the transaction.
EAGAN, MINN. — Transwestern Real Estate Services has arranged the sale of a 300,000-square-foot flex office building located at 1000 Blue Gentian Road in the Minneapolis suburb of Eagan. The sales price was undisclosed. The buyer, Hunt Electric Corp., will relocate its headquarters from nearby Bloomington. A national electric design, build and maintenance firm, Hunt Electric is currently headquartered in 160,000 square feet at 7900 Chicago Ave. S. Hunt Electric will own its new headquarters property and retain the four tenants currently occupying about half of the building. Chris Weirens, Nate Erickson, Alex Baron, Ben Youds and Max Stewart of Transwestern represented the buyer. Water Street Partners was the seller. Weirens, Erickson and Youds will also represent Hunt Electric in marketing its former property for sale or lease.