LOGANSPORT, IND. — Quantum Real Estate Advisors Inc. has arranged the $2 million sale of a retail center located at 3900 Lexington Road in central Indiana’s Logansport. The roughly 18,600-square-foot property was 80 percent leased at the time of sale. Dan Waszak of Quantum represented the seller, an East Coast-based private fund. The buyer was an investment group based in Atlanta. The center offers one vacant suite totaling roughly 3,800 square feet along with an additional pad for development.
OMAHA, NEB. — Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE: FRT) has acquired Village Pointe, a 453,000-square-foot, open-air shopping center in Omaha. The retail REIT purchased the property from the undisclosed seller for $153.3 million. “Village Pointe checks the key boxes for us: affluent demographics and growing population, clear unmet retail demand, proven retailer success in the location and a truly dominant asset,” says Don Wood, president and CEO of Federal Realty. Situated on Omaha’s west side on West Dodge Road, Village Pointe draws nearly 6 million annual visits and serves a trade area of over half a million people, with visits averaging one hour in duration. The center was 96 percent leased at the time of sale to national and premium lifestyle retailers — including Apple, lululemon, Sephora, Coach, Bentley, Nordstrom Rack, Madewell — many of which are exclusive to the market. Scheel’s, a large-scale sporting goods retailer, shadow-anchors Village Pointe. Other tenants include Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen, North Italia, DSW, Best Buy, Old Navy, Warby Parker, Urban Outfitters and Marcus Village Pointe Cinema. Federal Realty has noted the value-add opportunity at Village Pointe via elevating the tenant mix and enhancing merchandising. Founded in 1962, Federal Realty Investment Trust is based in North …
While the health of the retail market along the Magnificent Mile continues to recover incrementally with a rebound in foot traffic following a prolonged downturn, Chicago’s neighborhoods and suburbs are bustling with leasing activity. In fact, limited retail supply in the suburbs and throughout most of the city’s neighborhoods is one of the biggest challenges facing the market, according to Michael Flinchbaugh, an associate director with Chicago-based Bradford Allen. He says the dynamic has pushed up rents, leading to more national retailers entering corridors that have historically been occupied by local stores. “Groups that are not as well capitalized are struggling to find affordable space for lease,” says Flinchbaugh. The Loop, on the other hand, is sitting at a vacancy rate around 30 percent, according to Flinchbaugh. He says the hope is that the number of office-to-residential conversions slated to occur in the next two to three years will bring retailers back to the submarket as it becomes more of a live-work community. The Loop is located south of the Chicago River, while the Magnificent Mile is situated on the city’s Near North Side. Long known for its high-end shops, hotels and restaurants, the one-mile section of Michigan Avenue referred …
CLAYTON, MO. — MBG is underway on construction of Vivienne, a luxury property with 151 townhomes and apartments in the St. Louis suburb of Clayton. Keely Properties is the developer. Designed by Trivers, the 252,002-square-foot, mid-rise property will include nine townhomes and 142 apartments. A second-level entertainment and patio space will feature an outdoor pool, outdoor kitchen, fire pits and barbecue grills. Other amenities will include a 3,600-square-foot fitness center, coworking space, indoor lounge, dog park, dog spa, indoor sauna, conference room and speakeasy room. Completion is slated for summer 2026.
MILWAUKEE — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of the 102-room Hampton Inn Milwaukee-Airport hotel. The three-story property is situated on 3.9 acres at 1200 W. College Ave., less than three miles from the Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport. Amenities include an indoor pool, fitness center, business center, breakfast area and shuttle service. Ebrahim Valliani of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of which were private investment groups. The transaction received additional support from Michael Klar, Chris Gomes and Allan Miller of the Miller-Gomes Hotel Team.
MINNEAPOLIS — Kraus-Anderson has completed the renovation of Summit Academy OIC, a longtime workforce development anchor at 935 Olson Memorial Highway in North Minneapolis. The project doubled Summit’s footprint, allowing it to expand career trainings and job placement for low-income adults in the fields of construction, healthcare, financial services and IT. Designed by RSP Architects, the 30,000-square-foot expansion combined two adjacent buildings into one cohesive campus and reclaimed a daycare space that had previously been rented for approximately 30 years. Along with updated classrooms, training space, offices and building systems, the $5 million renovation project also includes a new dental training lab. Construction began in March 2025.
RICHFIELD, MINN. — Mid-America Real Estate Corp. has negotiated the sale of Kensington Park, a 28,135-square-foot neighborhood retail center in Richfield, an inner-ring suburb of Minneapolis. Tenants include Chipotle, Noodles & Co., Potbelly and Sarpino’s Pizza. Nearly 70 percent of the occupied gross leasable area has operated at the center for more than 10 years and some tenants since the inception of the center. Amy Senn, Bryce Thompson, Joe Girardi and Eric Geskermann of Mid-America represented the seller, Solomon Real Estate. Black Gate Partners purchased the asset for $6.8 million.
VOLO, ILL. — The Learning Hills Daycare has purchased a 3.1-acre site at 27065 Route 120 in Volo, a far north suburb of Chicago. Rick Scardino of Lee & Associates represented the buyer, which is a privately owned and operated childcare and learning center. Learning Hills plans to build a new daycare that is slated to open in fall 2026. The company currently operates locations in Crystal Lake, Lake in the Hills and South Elgin. Joe Heffernan of KW Commercial represented the seller, The Ellis Farm Partnership.
INDIANA — Amazon has unveiled plans to invest an estimated $15 billion in northern Indiana to build new data center campuses to support artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing technologies. The company says that generative AI is driving increased demand for advanced cloud infrastructure and compute power. The investment is in addition to the $11 billion investment announced last year in St. Joseph County and will expand Amazon’s infrastructure to new sites across Indiana. The new project will add 2.4 gigawatts of data center capacity in the region. The investment is expected to create more than 1,100 new high-skilled jobs while supporting thousands of other jobs in the data center supply chain. Amazon has partnered with NIPSCO to power its data centers. Through its newly created subsidiary NIPSCO Generation LLC, Amazon will pay fees to use existing power lines and cover the costs for any new power plants, power lines or equipment needed to serve the data center project without additional cost to local residents and businesses. These cloud computing and AI innovation campuses join Amazon’s operations footprint across Indiana that now includes 15 fulfillment and sortation centers, 11 delivery stations and data centers in New Carlisle, Ind. Since 2010, …
CHICAGO — Friedman Properties has completed five leases totaling 107,000 square feet at the Reid Murdoch Building in Chicago’s River North neighborhood. New tenant Smartly, an artificial intelligence-powered advertising technology company with offices around the world, signed a lease for 5,000 square feet of office space. Storck USA, which has maintained its offices in the building since 2002, expanded from 20,000 to 30,000 square feet. Headquartered in Berlin, Storck is a confectionary producer with brands including Werther’s Original, Mamba, Riesen, merci, Knoppers and Toffifay. The Motion Agency, an independently owned marketing agency, expanded from 20,000 to 25,000 square feet. The company’s headquarters have been located at the property since 2018. Theater of the Mind, an immersive theatrical experience presented as part of Goodman Theatre’s centennial 2025/2026 season, signed a 19,000-square-foot lease for ground-floor retail space. River Roast renewed its 28,000-square-foot restaurant lease. The eatery opened in 2014. Friedman Properties recently completed a renovation that included a new tenant lounge, café, audiovisual system, two conference rooms and a fitness center. Additional upgrades included the build-out of a 5,388-square-foot speculative office suite, refreshed common areas and a lobby transformation. Originally constructed in 1914, the Reid Murdoch Building long served as the office, …
