NAPERVILLE, ILL. — DeJames Builders has broken ground on a 15,000-square-foot office for real estate services company Baird & Warner in Naperville. The office, located at 1528 Aurora Ave., is designed to house up to 500 Baird & Warner agents when it opens in 2023. The new office will accommodate all three of Baird & Warner’s business lines — brokerage, mortgage lending and title insurance — under one roof. The project team includes developer RX Health & Science Trust and architect OKW Architects. Baird & Warner’s current Naperville office is located at 836 W. 75th St. The firm maintains several offices throughout Chicagoland.
LENEXA, KAN. — Vytelle is relocating its headquarters from Oregon to The District at Lenexa City Center in Kansas. Lenexa is about 15 southwest of Kansas City. The livestock company helps cattle producers optimize their herds worldwide. Vytelle chose Kansas for its new headquarters due to the central location within the United States and proximity to a large and growing community of animal health and agriculture technology companies in the region. Vytelle will occupy 2,477 square feet on the second floor of the Penn II building at 8789 Penrose Lane. Ellen Fisher of AREA Real Estate Advisors represented the tenant. Ryan Biery of Copaken Brooks represented the landlord on an internal basis. When fully developed, Lenexa City Center will consist of more than 2 million square feet, including civic components for the City of Lenexa, nearly 1 million square feet of office and retail space, and 375 apartment units.
DETROIT — Bedrock has acquired the Roberts Riverwalk Hotel located at 1000 River Place in Detroit’s East Riverfront neighborhood. The purchase price was undisclosed. The seller was Michael Roberts, a St. Louis-based business mogul, according to Crain’s Detroit Business. The 108-room hotel features 5,500 square feet of banquet and event space as well as 126 parking spaces. Bedrock says this acquisition aligns with its mission to further position the riverfront as an ideal site for sustainable urban development. In the East Riverfront area, Bedrock has previously purchased the former UAW-GM Center for Human Resources and a portfolio of properties previously owned by the Stroh family. Bedrock plans to make additional updates regarding the riverfront in 2023. Bedrock, the real estate arm of Rocket Mortgage founder Dan Gilbert, maintains a portfolio of more than 19 million square feet of office, retail and residential space.
ELKHART, IND. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has brokered the sale of an 801,218-square-foot industrial facility in Elkhart for an undisclosed price. Completed in October, the build-to-suit is home to a recreational vehicle tenant. The property, which includes a showroom and office as well as warehouse and distribution space, features a clear height of 30 feet, 56 dock-high doors, a 194-foot truck court and seven drive-in overhead doors. Peter Bauman and Tivon Moffitt of IPA represented the seller and procured the buyer, neither of which were disclosed.
TRAVERSE CITY, MICH. — Woda Cooper Cos. Inc. has broken ground on Annika Place, a $14.7 million affordable housing community in Traverse City. The 53-unit development will be reserved for residents who earn 30 to 80 percent of the area median income. Rental rates are projected to range from $360 to $1,125 per month depending on the income restriction and size of the unit. The Traverse City Housing Commission is providing rental assistance vouchers for eight units. The four-story building will feature amenities such as a community room, computer center, fitness center and rooftop terrace. In honor of the many who serve in the U.S. Coast Guard and the Coast Guard Air Station in Traverse City, Annika Place will honor the memory of Coast Guardsman Douglas Munro by featuring a special lighted flagpole and his namesake for the property’s community room. Munro lost his life at the Guadalcanal in 1942 as a result of heroic measures with his boat that saved the lives of 500 marines. He is the only Coast Guard member to receive the Medal of Honor. Funding for Annika Place comes from Low-Income Housing Tax Credits allocated by the Michigan State Housing Development Authority. Affordable housing finance …
INDIANAPOLIS — Government Investment Partners (GIP) has purchased two adjacent office properties in Indianapolis for $8.2 million. The buildings are located at 4150 and 4160 N. Keystone Ave. just east of Fall Creek Parkway near the Indiana State Fairgrounds. MS Land Holdings LLC sold the 60,000-square-foot building at 4160 N. Keystone, which is fully leased to the State of Indiana on behalf of the Indiana Department of Child Services. LNR Partners sold the other building, which totals 95,157 square feet and is roughly 40 percent leased. It is also home to Department of Child Services offices as well as the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. GIP, which specializes in commercial properties leased to federal, state and local government agencies, now maintains a portfolio of more than 30 buildings in 18 states.
NAPERVILLE, ILL. — Halsted Street Deli & Bagel is opening a 1,500-square-foot location at Park Plaza, an office building in the Chicago suburb of Naperville. Accesso owns the building. Slated to open in January, the restaurant will be accessible to tenants of the property as well as the general public. Halsted Street Deli is known for its soups, salads, sandwiches and bagels. The Naperville location will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day.
CLEVELAND — A partnership between Detroit-based developer Bedrock and the City of Cleveland has unveiled plans for the Cuyahoga Riverfront, an initiative that will feature 3.5 million square feet of new development and adaptive reuse projects across 35 acres of publicly and privately owned waterfront land. According to multiple news outlets including The Plain Dealer and Spectrum News, the project is valued at $3.5 billion. Preliminary plans for the site call for the addition of approximately 2,000 residential units, 850,000 square feet of office space and 12 acres of open public space, as well as hospitality, retail and restaurant uses. The development team is targeting a 15- to 20-year timeline for full buildout and transformation of the site. In addition, Bedrock partnered with Sherwin-Williams Co. to acquire Landmark Office Towers and the Breen Technology Center. Specific plans regarding the future use of these buildings were not immediately disclosed. The development team — which includes master architect David Adjaye, local firm Osborn Engineering and urban planning firm MKSK — views the site as a natural connective bridge between the Cuyahoga River and downtown Cleveland. Adjaye spent the last several months in Cleveland cultivating a plan to make that vision a reality. …
CHICAGO — Metro Edge Development Partners has unveiled plans to build a $257 million data center within the Illinois Medical District (IMD) in Chicago. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2023 and be completed in 2024. Metro Edge secured a 75-year ground lease on a nearly two-acre parcel owned by IMD. The data center will rise five stories and span 184,720 square feet. The facility is 50 percent preleased. Corgan is the project architect. Clune Construction is overseeing all construction in partnership with Power Construction and Ujamaa Construction. T5 Data Centers is the project manager.
CHICAGO — NASCAR has opened an office at Two Prudential Plaza in downtown Chicago. Dubbed “One Two Pru,” the two-building office complex spans 2.3 million square feet and features amenities such as a rooftop terrace, lounge, conferencing facilities and health club with Peloton bikes. NASCAR recently announced that it would be hosting the Chicago Street Race in July. The 2.2-mile race will take place downtown and is expected to have an economic impact of $113.8 million. Clark Evans and Kevin Morgan of JLL represented NASCAR in the three-year lease for 4,250 rentable square feet. The landlord was undisclosed.