CHICAGO — BearingPoint, an independent management and technology consultancy firm, has signed a 12,000-square-foot office lease at The Mart located at 222 Merchandise Mart Plaza in Chicago’s River North. BearingPoint is headquartered in Europe and has invested heavily in its international expansion, including Chicago, which doubles as the firm’s U.S. hub. BearingPoint moved its Chicago office from another location in River North. The new office consists of individual workstations, a large café and lounge, two conference rooms, private work areas and multiple collaboration areas. Connor Kerr and Stephen Scott of Savills represented BearingPoint. Vornado Realty Trust owns The Mart, which rises 25 stories and is undergoing a $60 million renovation. Plans call for a new 27,000-square-foot amenity space and conference center, a second 23,500-square-foot gym and a lounge. Completion is slated for late 2023.
NEW HAVEN, IND. — Temco Logistics has signed a 37,580-square-foot office lease at 10651 Rose Ave. in New Haven, just east of Fort Wayne. Bill Drinkall and Chad Voglewede of Bradley Co. represented the landlord, Cedar CDT LLC. Pomona, Calif.-based Temco Logistics delivers and installs home goods.
LA PORTE, IND. — Holladay Properties has sold an 11,700-square-foot primary and urgent care facility occupied by Northwest Health in La Porte, a city in Northwest Indiana. The sales price and buyer were undisclosed. Northwest Health will continue to operate the facility, which offers primary and urgent care services, two separate entrances and 80 parking spaces. Holladay Properties developed the building and Holladay Construction Group served as general contractor. Holladay has developed and constructed three buildings for Northwest Health with a fourth currently under construction in Valparaiso. Brian Wilcox of Holladay facilitated the transaction.
SHREWSBURY, MO. — Spellman Brady & Co. (SBC) has completed the interior design for the addition to Our Mother of Perpetual Help Memory Care at the Cardinal Ritter Senior Service’s campus in Shrewsbury, a western suburb of St. Louis. SBC selected the project’s interior finishes as well as the furnishings and artwork. The single-story memory care addition features two memory care households consisting of 13 private units each. Bright door colors were used in the hallways to help residents locate their units. SBC collaborated with Vessel Architecture, which developed the building addition, and BSI Constructors, the general contractor.
CHICAGO — Trammell Crow Co. and Beacon Capital Partners have broken ground on Hyde Park Labs in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. The project will feature 302,388 square feet of lab and office space as well as ground-floor retail and community space. Completion is slated for late 2024. Project costs are estimated at $225 million, according to Crain’s Chicago Business. The University of Chicago has pre-leased one-and-a-half floors of the building totaling 55,000 square feet, a portion of which will house researchers from the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. Space will also be used to develop an incubator program to support startup companies focused on the life sciences. Hyde Park Labs will rise 14 stories. The project marks the second phase of development at Harper Court, which currently features a hotel, office building housing many UChicago administrative offices and retail space. Tenants of Hyde Park Labs will have access to nearly 40,000 square feet of amenities, including a fifth-floor terrace dubbed “The Lawn.” The project team includes Elkus Manfredi Architects, Interactive Design Architects, Power Construction, Ujamaa and Trinal. Dan Lyne and Brandon Green of CBRE are marketing the project for lease.
CHICAGO — Lendlease has begun pre-leasing at The Reed at Southbank in Chicago’s South Loop. The 41-story residential tower includes both rental units and for-sale homes. The Reed is the second building Lendlease is developing as part of Southbank, a seven-acre master plan community situated along the Chicago River. The Reed features 224 apartment units on floors nine through 22. Floor plans range from 544 to 1,417 square feet and monthly rents start at $2,160. First move-ins are expected in late May. The eighth floor features 15,000 square feet of outdoor amenities, including a pool, cabanas, sunning lawn, fire pits, outdoor kitchens and dining areas. The Reed also features an indoor-outdoor fitness center with dedicated HIIT and yoga spaces, as well as cardio and strength-training equipment. Other eighth-floor amenities include a wet lounge adjacent to the pool deck, lounge room, virtual sports simulation room, massage room and media room. A rooftop garden created in partnership with The Roof Crop will feature fresh flowers, gardens and honey. Bozzuto manages the apartments. At the center of the Southbank master plan is Southbank Park, a two-acre publicly accessible green space that connects the neighborhood’s residents to the Chicago River. Designed by Hoeer Schaudt, …
BENSENVILLE, ILL. — Advanced Metalcraft has purchased industrial space in Bensenville for an undisclosed price. The two adjoining buildings at 110 and 210 Gateway Road total 44,600 square feet. Advanced Metalcraft, a fabricator of precision metal components and assemblies, is relocating and expanding from a 15,000-square-foot space in Franklin Park. Trinity Scurto of Brown Commercial Group represented Advanced Metalcraft, while Brian Carroll of JLL represented the seller, 110 Gateway LLC. Advanced Metalcraft plans to complete building renovations and take occupancy this quarter.
EDEN PRAIRIE, MINN. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $2.3 million sale of an 8,276-square-foot restaurant property occupied by Buca Di Beppo in the Minneapolis suburb of Eden Prairie. The net-leased building is located at 7711 Mitchell Road. Tom Gommels of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company. Alvin Mansour and Sim Liberow of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer, a limited liability company completing a 1031 exchange.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. — Copper Coin, a custom tattoo shop, has opened a 2,340-square-foot space in the West Grand neighborhood of Grand Rapids. Wesley Emert and Tina Emert of CityWide Real Estate Services assisted Copper Coin in securing the space at 436 Leonard St. NW. CityWide Real Estate Services acquired the residential and commercial building in August 2020. Additional tenants at the property include Alt City NA Bottles, Trinity Chiropractic, FURN on Leonard and Captain Bizzaro’s Treasure World.
DETROIT — Locally based real estate firm Bedrock has unveiled plans for Development at Cadillac Square, a 1.5 million-square-foot mixed-use campus in downtown Detroit. The site is located near Ford Field, home of the NFL’s Detroit Lions, as well as Campus Martius Park and Cadillac Square. The development will feature residential, retail, office and entertainment space, as well as parking. Bedrock is owned by billionaire and Rocket Cos. founder Dan Gilbert, who with his companies has invested $5.6 billion in the purchase and rehabilitation of buildings in downtown Detroit, according to Forbes. Gilbert himself boasts a net worth of $18 billion and owns Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse — home of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers (also owned by Gilbert) — in Cleveland, Ohio, where his real estate arm is planning the Cuyahoga Riverfront, another in the trend of developing mixed-use projects around sports stadiums. Upon completion, the Development at Cadillac Square property will include 230,000 square feet of residential space, comprised of 250 to 280 units. The project is subject to an Affordable Housing Agreement with the City of Detroit. Retail space will total 90,000 square feet in the form of a market hall, grocery store, restaurants and other shops. Plans for …