Midwest

CHAMPLIN, MINN. — Northmarq has arranged a $40 million loan for the refinancing of The Bowline at Mississippi Crossings in Champlin, a northern suburb of Minneapolis. The 212-unit luxury apartment community is located at 220 E. River Parkway. The property features views of the Mississippi River along with a pool, theater, coworking lounge, coffee bar and fitness studio. The Bowline is part of the larger master-planned development known as Mississippi Crossings. Monthly rents at The Bowline, which opened this year, average $1,905, according to Apartments.com. Patrick Minea of Northmarq arranged the fixed-rate, seven-year loan. A life insurance company provided the loan for the borrower, Minneapolis-based Greco.

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CHICAGO — Riverside Investment and Development has inked leases with three new tenants for 320 S. Canal, its newest office property in Chicago. Law firm Skadden Arps leased 89,100 square feet, National Futures Association (NFA) leased 55,364 square feet, and insurance company Ullico will occupy 8,445 square feet. NFA is the self-regulatory organization for the U.S. derivatives industry. The new tenants join anchor tenant BMO and two other law firm tenants, Chapman & Cutler and Faegre Drinker, which have already welcomed employees to the property. Developed by Riverside and Convexity Properties and designed by Goettsch Partners, the 52-story building opened in January. The Green, a 1.5-acre, privately owned outdoor park, sits on the west side of the building. Dan McCarthy and Bill Rogers of JLL represented Skadden Arps. Mark Keebler and Brad Serot of CBRE represented National Futures Association, while Brady Wolfe and Bill Sheehy of CBRE represented Ullico. Christy Domin and Drew Neiman represented Riverside on an internal basis.

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STURTEVANT, WIS. — Ashley Capital has broken ground on two new speculative industrial buildings at Enterprise Business Park in Sturtevant, a southern suburb of Milwaukee. Buildings V and VI will each span 390,000 square feet and are slated for completion in the first quarter of 2023. Ashley is also renovating Building IV and expects to have it available for occupancy by the end of this summer. Upon full buildout, Enterprise Business Park will comprise six buildings totaling more than 2.1 million square feet. Current tenants include CNH, Fresenius, Andis and Ryder Logistics. Terence McMahon and Cody Ziegler of Cushman & Wakefield/Boerke Co., along with John Sharpe and Tom Boyle of Lee & Associates, are the leasing agents for the business park.

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WAUSAU, WIS. — Hicks Ventures, a Houston-based privately held development company, has broken ground on a $28 million inpatient rehabilitation facility in central Wisconsin’s Wausau. The 42-bed, 53,000-square-foot project will rise two stories. In addition to rehabilitation services, the facility will also feature an inpatient dialysis suite. The project marks the first in a $100 million joint venture between Hicks and an institutional real estate investment manager formed in January to develop inpatient rehabilitation facilities and behavioral health hospitals.

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WEST DUNDEE, ILL. — Elgin Recycling has signed a 63,800-square-foot industrial lease at 1101 Wesemann Drive in West Dundee, a far northwest suburb of Chicago. The newly built facility is located less than two miles from Elgin Recycling’s headquarters at 46 East End Drive in Gilberts. The new property will be utilized for the company’s electronics division, which disassembles and recycles a wide variety of computer equipment. Dan Brown and Collin Tyrrell of Brown Commercial Group represented the tenant in the lease. The landlord was not disclosed.

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EAST PEORIA, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Community Plaza in East Peoria for $4.9 million. The 46,257-square-foot retail center is located at 210-250 S. Main St. National tenants occupy more than 80 percent of the gross leasable area. Dominic Sulo of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a partnership. Richard Kozarits and Peter Spear of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer, a Chicago-based 1031 exchange investor. Dean Giannakopoulos and Frank Montalto of Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. secured acquisition financing.

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ELKHORN, NEB. — Darland Construction Co. has broken ground on a new clinic for CHI Health in Elkhorn, about 20 miles northwest of Omaha. The 28,700-square-foot project represents Darland’s third healthcare project with Denver-based developer NexCore Group. The clinic will offer primary care, physical therapy, behavioral health services and specialty care as well as imaging services, a laboratory and retail pharmacy. Completion is slated for summer 2023.

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BLOOMINGTON, MINN. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of Normandale Lake Office Park, a 1.7 million-square-foot complex in the southern Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington. The price was not disclosed, but the property sold for $370 million when last it traded hands in 2014, according to the Star Tribune. David Knapp, Jeremiah Olsen, Tom O’Brien, Avery Ticer, Sam Maguire, Dan Phoel and Adam Spies of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, a partnership between insurance giants MetLife Investment Management and Allstate, in the transaction. The buyer was New York City-based Opal Holdings. Normandale Lake Office Park consists of five buildings that were developed between 1983 and 2009. The structures vary in height from 11 to 17 stories and range in size from 242,598 to 467,016 square feet. Amenities include a wellness center, fitness center with locker rooms, multiple conference rooms, heated executive parking structures and walking and biking trails. In addition, the development offers several services for tenants, such as a floral shop, childcare center, car wash and hair salon. Normandale Lake Office Park is also home to a fine dining restaurant, two casual dining concepts and a Caribou Coffee location. At the time of sale, the property was 91 …

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OAK BROOK, ILL. — Oak Brook-based Inland Private Capital Corp. (IPC) has sold 29 properties occupied by CVS and Walgreens across the country for $172.3 million. The separate transactions were completed over the course of five months. The sales included six CVS properties and 23 Walgreens assets totaling 398,040 square feet. IPC, through its subsidiary that serves as asset manager, facilitated the sales on behalf of nine IPC 1031 investment programs.

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WISCONSIN AND NORTH CAROLINA — Affiliates of Phoenix Investors have acquired three former manufacturing facilities totaling more than 1 million square feet in Wisconsin and North Carolina. Phoenix plans to make various capital improvements to each facility in the coming months. The first property was formerly home to Silgan Container Manufacturing Corp. and is located at 500 Libby St. in Waupun, about 70 miles northwest of Milwaukee. The 260,000-square-foot building features 10 dock doors and a freight elevator. Scott Furmanski of CBRE brokered the sale. The second transaction involved a 375,000-square-foot facility formerly occupied by Eaton Corp. in Necedah, a city in central Wisconsin. Adam Matson and Patrick Hanrahan of Newmark represented the seller, MVP Logistics. The sales price was $3 million. The third facility is a 410,000-square-foot property formerly occupied by Alamac American Knits in Lumberton, a city in southern North Carolina. The property features manufacturing, warehousing and office space as well as parking for up to 650 vehicles. Thomas Turner of Newmark brokered the sale.

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