LAKE ORION, MICH. — The Boulder Group has arranged the $4.1 million sale of a single-tenant retail property occupied by tire company Firestone in Lake Orion, about 38 miles north of Detroit. The net-leased, 6,116-square-foot building is located at 25 Indianwood Road. Randy Blankstein and Jimmy Goodman of Boulder represented the seller, a Midwest-based real estate developer. A Southeast-based private real estate investor was the buyer.
SANTA ANA, CALIF., AND WARSAW, MO. — BridgeCore has funded a $3.6 million bridge loan to finance the purchase of a to-be-built retail building that 7-Eleven will occupy in Santa Ana. The loan was cross-collateralized with a Taco Bell-occupied asset in Warsaw. The name of the borrower was not released. The loan features a 12-month term with six months of yield maintenance, which will allow the seller of the 7-Eleven property to complete its construction of the build-to-suit on behalf of the borrower and meet its delivery obligations to 7-Eleven.
SHAWNEE, KAN. — Hunt Midwest is building Heartland Logistics Park on a 113-acre site in Shawnee. The project represents the developer’s first industrial project in the state of Kansas. The site will support up to 1.5 million square feet of industrial space across three to four buildings. Construction is set to begin this month on the first speculative building, which will span 574,732 square feet and feature a clear height of 36 feet, 58 loading dock positions, 69 trailer parking spaces and 230 car parking spaces. Completion of the first building is slated for March 2023. The project team includes civil engineer Renaissance Infrastructure Consulting, architect Finkle + Williams Architecture and general contractor Brinkmann Constructors. Ed Elder and John Stafford of Colliers will market the project for lease.
VERSAILLES, OHIO — Hotel Versailles is set to open this May at 22 N. Center St. in Versailles, about 45 miles north of Dayton. The 30-room boutique hotel will feature Silas Creative Kitchen + Cocktails, a restaurant from Chef Aaron Allen, and the 1819 Room, which offers meeting and event space for up to 200 guests. Local firm Kimberly O. Design served as architect. Local Ohio companies and artisans made all the furnishings and artwork adorning the property. Renaissance Corp., a subsidiary of Midmark Corp., owns the hotel. The site was most recently home to the Inn at Versailles, which closed in 2019 after experiencing a substantial fire.
FREMONT, IND. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $4.9 million sale-leaseback of a 129,920-square-foot industrial building in Fremont, a city in northeast Indiana that is a few miles south of the Michigan state line. Koester Metals Inc. (KMI) occupies the property, which is located at 301 W. Water St. and was built in 1975. Nikalos Beery, Joseph DiSalvo and Forest Bender of Marcus & Millichap represented KMI in the transaction. Aaron Kuroiwa, Jack Friskney and Austin Meeker of Marcus & Millichap secured and represented the buyer, a limited liability company.
WICHITA, KAN. — SVN | Chicago Commercial has brokered the sale of a 15,120-square-foot retail property occupied by Walgreens in Wichita for $4.4 million. The net-leased property is located at 333 W. 13th St. Tim Franz of SVN represented the undisclosed seller. A California-based private equity group was the buyer.
SAGINAW, MICH. — Carelinc Medical Equipment, a home medical equipment supply company, has signed a 12,250-square-foot retail lease at Fashion Square West, a retail strip center in the Mid-Michigan city of Saginaw. David Depodesta and James Mitchell of Dominion Real Estate Advisors LLC worked alongside Michele Rosenblum of Lee & Associates and Earl Clements of Clements Realty on the five-year lease. Clements represented the tenant. The owner of the property was not released.
2021 has been an absolute whirlwind for the Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) industrial market. Plunging cap rates, liquidity growing faster than ever and a sharply felt shortage of new supply have defined the last year and will continue to define 2022. New faces on the development side are entering the market right and left to capture the huge profits to be had from the supply/demand imbalance. New construction has been stabilizing in six to eight months and institutions have ear-marked MSP as a forward-sale market. The following are a few of the salient trends that should be considered when contemplating the MSP industrial market. Liquidity growth Since the last trough in 2016, the MSP industrial market has experienced an average 30 percent year-over-year growth in sales volume. 2021 experienced nearly half a billion dollars more in industrial investment sales than 2020, according to Real Capital Analytics. Cap rate compression Over the last year, the MSP industrial market has experienced change unlike in any other year. Entering 2021, the low-water stabilized cap rate was 5.15 percent, but by year-end, that had sunk 82 basis points to 4.33 percent. Warehouse rates in the $8 to $9 NNN range, once rare, are now commonplace; …
CLAYTON, MO. — Green Street Real Estate Ventures LLC and Midas Enterprises have unveiled plans to build a $100 million condominium and hotel development at the corner of Forsyth Boulevard and North Central Avenue in Clayton, a western suburb of St. Louis. Located just east of the St. Louis County Police Department building, the 25-story project will include 73 condo units and 180 hotel rooms. Among the amenities will be a rooftop terrace and bar, 300-person private event space, street-level restaurant, street-level retail space and a five-story parking structure. HDA, a Green Street company, will serve as architect. The development team expects to break ground this fall with a 24-month construction schedule to follow.
ST. PAUL, MINN. — Stoneleigh Cos. has completed development of Waterford Bay, a 243-unit apartment community located at 380 Randolph Ave. in St. Paul. BKV Group designed the four-story project. Amenities include an outdoor pool and deck, fitness center and yoga studio, resident lounge, business center, rooftop clubroom, dog wash station, bicycle and kayak storage and indoor parking garage. The development sits along the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area. BKV Group worked closely with representatives from Friends of the Mississippi River and the National Park Service during the entitlement process to ensure the project would support the ecological health of the waterway. The community is one of the first opportunity zone projects in St. Paul, according to the developer. Monthly rents start at $1,301 for studios, and residents can now earn up to two months of free rent.
