Midwest

GLEN CARBON, ILL. — The Goodwill store in Glen Carbon, about 14 miles northeast of St. Louis, has reopened following months of renovations. The store at 210 Junction Drive has been reconfigured from 12,500 square feet of retail space and 3,000 square feet of backend space to 10,000 square feet of retail space and 4,850 square feet of backend space. The expanded backend space will help with the increase in donations the store has received. Additional renovations to the exterior will be made this spring. An entirely new donation reception area will be built with the addition of two new docks and enhanced accessibility, as the drop-off area will no longer require the use of stairs.

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NEW RICHMOND AND SPARTA, WIS. — Starbucks has signed two new retail leases in Wisconsin. Each lease totals 2,460 square feet. The first property is located at 124 Grant Way in New Richmond, about 45 miles northeast of Minneapolis. The other is at 630 S. Black River St. in Sparta, about 28 miles east of La Crosse. Tony Colvin of Mid-America Real Estate represented Starbucks. The landlords for both properties were Jacques Holdings LLC and OLH II LLC.

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OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, MICH. — Meadowbrook Animal Clinic has signed a 2,082-square-foot, five-year lease at Country Creek Commons shopping center in Oakland Township, a northern suburb of Detroit. The veterinary clinic is relocating from Rochester Hills. Barry Landau of Dominion Real Estate Advisors LLC represented both the tenant and landlord.

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MADISON HEIGHTS, MICH. AND PITTSBURGH — Dick’s Sporting Goods has agreed to acquire outdoor retailer Moosejaw from Walmart. Founded in Michigan in 1992, Moosejaw operates brick-and-mortar locations in Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan and Missouri, in addition to its e-commerce platform. “We believe there’s potential to grow the Moosejaw business and provide compelling experiences and an expanded product assortment to its millions of loyal customers,” says Todd Spaletto, senior vice president of Pittsburgh-based Dick’s and president of the company’s specialty outdoor retailer, Public Lands. Moosejaw CEO Eoin Comerford will stay on following the acquisition, reporting to Spaletto. The deal is expected to close in March 2023.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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, …

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