SKOKIE, ILL. — Newcastle Properties has acquired the 14,856-square-foot Boardwalk Plaza retail center in Skokie. Located at the intersection of Dempster Street and Keeler Avenue across from the Evanston Country Club, the property is home to Starbucks, SAS Comfort Shoes, Devonshire Montessori School and Albert Memi Salon. The seller and sales price were not provided. Newcastle owns and operates 82 properties in 23 states with a focus on the retail, multifamily, hospitality and office sectors.
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Rising Interest Rates and Inflation to Fuel Change in Property Markets
Beginning in the fourth quarter of 2020, commercial real estate buyers and sellers moved off the sidelines and began fueling an impressive investment sales rebound as many pandemic-related lockdowns and restrictions eased or ended. The rush to purchase hard assets hit its apex a year later when commercial property sales surged to a record $362 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021 alone, according to Real Capital Analytics, a part of MSCI Real Assets that tracks property transactions of $2.5 million or more. The strong market is continuing this year: Deals of $170.8 billion closed in the first quarter, a year-over-year increase of 56 percent, Real Capital reports. Buyers in the first quarter also pushed up prices 17.4 percent over the prior year, according to Real Capital’s Commercial Property Price Indices (CPPI). But given rising interest rates and other recent headwinds, will investors continue to drive robust investment activity and bid up prices? The 10-Year Treasury yield has spiked some 150 basis points to around 3 percent since the beginning of 2022, and fixed 10-year mortgage rates of between 3 percent and 4 percent are up about 100 basis points. For short-term variable loans, the benchmark secured overnight financing rate …
OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — JVM Realty Corp. has acquired The Vue, a 219-unit luxury apartment complex in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park. Hunt Midwest sold the asset for an undisclosed price. Units at The Vue, located at 7201 W. 80th St., average 936 square feet. Completed in 2018, the six-story property includes 7,300 square feet of ground-floor retail space that is leased to tenants such as Parisi Coffee and Evolve Juicery & Kitchen. Amenities include a sundeck, fitness center, clubhouse, outdoor lounge and pet spa.
MINNEAPOLIS — Fox Rothschild LLP, a national law firm, is relocating its Minneapolis headquarters from Two22 Tower to City Center in November. The firm will occupy 39,081 square feet of Target’s former space. Francis Cauffman Architects will serve as architect and interior designer for Fox Rothschild’s new space, which will span half of floor 36 and the entirety of floor 37. City Center is a 51-story, 1.6 million-square-foot office and retail tower owned by Ryan Cos. US Inc.
STERLING HEIGHTS, MICH. — Alliant Credit Union has provided a five-year, $16 million loan for the refinancing of a 370,656-square-foot industrial building in Sterling Heights, about 20 miles north of downtown Detroit. The property includes 47,856 square feet of office space. The borrower was a private investor group that closed an original loan with Alliant in December 2017.
COUNTRYSIDE, ILL. — In a sale-leaseback transaction, MDH Partners has purchased a 78,490-square-foot industrial property in Countryside, about 18 miles southwest of Chicago. The sales price was undisclosed. The property is located at 5315 Dansher Road within Chicago’s North I-55 industrial submarket. Doug Pilcher of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller and tenant, Sokol & Co., which is a food manufacturing company. Houston Hawley served as the acquisition lead for MDH.
ELGIN, ILL. — Chicago-based Martinez Produce & Seafood has expanded its Chicagoland footprint with the purchase of a 65,772-square-foot industrial facility in Elgin. The building, which features six truck docks and two drive-in doors, more than doubles the company’s footprint. Cory Kay and Mike DeSerto of Entre Commercial Realty represented Martinez Produce & Seafood, while Lee & Associates represented the seller. The sales price and seller were not provided.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA — The Opus Group has broken ground on River Road Logistics, a 302,300-square-foot speculative industrial building in Council Bluffs. Located at the intersection of Nebraska Avenue and River Road, the development will feature 34 dock doors, two drive-in doors, 50 dedicated trailer parking stalls, 225 car parking stalls and a clear height of 32 feet. More than half of the building has been preleased. The facility is slated for completion in the first quarter of 2023, and Opus plans to build a second building at the site. Opus is the developer, design-builder, architect and structural engineer. Matt Hasenjager and Denny Sciscoe of Cushman & Wakefield/The Lund Co. are marketing the space for lease.
SAINT FRANCIS, WIS. — JLL Capital Markets has brokered the $15.1 million sale of Whitnall Square in Saint Francis, just south of Milwaukee. Pick ’N Save anchors the 133,421-square-foot shopping center, which was constructed between 1989 and 1991. Other tenants include Petco, Planet Fitness, Harbor Freight Tools, Metro PCS, Dollar Tree, Subway, H&R Block, Bangkok House Restaurant, Hariport, Papa Murphy’s Pizza and P.T. Nails. The center is 96 percent leased. Amy Sands, Clinton Mitchell, Michael Nieder and Jaime Fink of JLL represented the seller, Newport Capital Partners, and procured the buyer, Savitar Realty Advisors.
Maverick Commercial Arranges $14M in Permanent Financing for Home Depot-Occupied Property in Chicago
CHICAGO — Maverick Commercial Mortgage Inc. has arranged a $14 million first mortgage loan for a 103,550-square-foot retail property occupied by Home Depot in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood. Earlier this year, Home Depot signed a new 10-year lease with MG Development LP for the property, which is located at 200 W. 87th St. and includes an exterior garden center. A regional bank provided the 10-year, floating-rate loan, which features a 25-year amortization schedule. Proceeds from the loan paid off the existing lender, provided cash to the borrower and paid for closing costs.