CLEVELAND — The NRP Group has opened 5115 at The Rising, an affordable housing community in Cleveland’s Broadway-Slavic Village. The project consists of 78 apartment units and 10 townhome units, all of which are affordable residences that will be reserved for low- to moderate-income renters. Supported by the Ohio Housing Finance Agency’s Housing Tax Credit program, the community currently has a waitlist of potential residents and has received more than 2,200 inquiries. Additional funding came from KeyBank, Ohio Capital Corp. for Housing, City of Cleveland and Third Federal Foundation. University Settlement, which provides community, family, youth and senior programs, is relocating its offices to the building, occupying 20,000 square feet on the first floor. Another 5,000 square feet of commercial space will serve as a food pantry and a Cuyahoga Community College Access Center.
ST. PETERS, MO. — Reaction Auto Parts Inc. has signed a 265,393-square-foot industrial lease at Premier 370 Business Park in St. Peters, a western suburb of St. Louis. The company will occupy space at the final building within the industrial park, which is slated for completion before the end of the year and will span 366,916 square feet. To date, the development is home to 4.2 million square feet and tenants such as Reckitt Benckiser, Best Buy, Grove Collaborative and Amazon. In 2021, Panattoni Development purchased the last two lots available from Duke Realty and developed a 423,000-square-foot building earlier this year as well as the final building. Geoff Orf and Chad Burkemper of Colliers and Matt Hrubes of CBRE represented Panattoni.
EAST CHICAGO, IND. — Merchants Capital has provided a $15.5 million HUD 221(d)(4) loan for the construction of Lakeshore Manor in East Chicago. Designed to replace the former John B. Nicosia senior building, the development will consist of two four-story buildings that will house 206 units. The residences will be reserved for seniors age 62 and older who earn up to 60 percent of the area median income. Merchants also structured a $13.5 million equity bridge loan through its parent company, Merchants Bank of Indiana. Cinnaire, the property’s equity investor, provided a $21.7 million low-income housing tax credit investment (LIHTC) for the project. Total development costs are estimated at $51 million. DTM Real Estate is the developer. Completion is slated for February 2024.
GODFREY, ILL. — IMPACT Strategies has begun construction of the new BJC Outpatient Center in Godfrey, about 30 miles north of St. Louis. The 20,000-square-foot outpatient clinic marks IMPACT’s eighth project for BJC HealthCare. St. Louis-based SCOUT Capital Group is the developer and Archimages Architects is the project architect. Midwest BankCentre provided funding. Completion is slated for summer 2023.
COLUMBUS, OHIO — JLL Capital Markets has arranged $155 million in acquisition financing for a 400,000-square-foot office campus in Columbus. Paul Spellman and Phil Galligan of JLL arranged the fixed-rate financing on behalf of the borrower, Golden Eagle Group Inc. Further details of the transaction were not provided.
BELVIDERE, ILL. — Scannell Properties has purchased 176 acres in the Chicago suburb of Belvidere with plans to build an industrial and retail development. The first project within the development will be a 1.3 million-square-foot industrial build-to-suit for an undisclosed Fortune 500 company. Plans also call for a 585,000-square-foot build-to-suit. Scannell Properties plans to reconfigure the roadway to provide two additional retail or commercial outlots. Adam Marshall of Newmark represented Scannell in the land acquisition.
CRYSTAL LAKE, ILL. — Northmarq has brokered the $34.7 million sale of a freestanding grocery store property occupied by Mariano’s in the Chicago suburb of Crystal Lake. Built in 2018, the property spans 74,800 square feet. The grocery store features a Starbucks, sushi bar, pizza oven, oyster bar and sweets shop. Jason Maier of Northmarq represented the seller, a New York-based private investor. The New York-based buyer completed a 1031 exchange.
EVANSTON, ILL. — Interra Realty has arranged the sale of a 43-unit apartment building in Evanston for $10.3 million. Originally constructed in 1918, the property at 612 Sheridan Road was 95 percent occupied at the time of sale. There are 21 one-bedroom units, 13 two-bedroom units and nine three-bedroom units. Brad Feldman of Interra represented the buyer, a local real estate investor. Patrick Kennelly and Paul Waterloo of Interra represented the seller, a private family group that had owned the property for more than 80 years.
DAKOTA DUNES, S.D. — Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated the $7.6 million sale of Tower Medical Plaza in eastern Nebraska’s Dakota Dunes. The property totals 35,130 square feet and is fully leased by seven tenants, including Beth Bruening PC, Dunes Family Pharmacy, ENT Consultants, Fyzical, Kevin L. Preston DO, Dunes Pain Specialists and MercyOne. The building is attached to the Dunes Surgical Hospital. Gino Lollio and Travis Ives of Cushman & Wakefield’s healthcare capital markets team partnered with James Hain and Richard Secor of Cushman & Wakefield/The Lund Co. on the transaction. Florida-based Catalyst Healthcare Real Estate purchased the asset from SSC MOB1.
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Project Destined: Training a New and Diverse Generation for Real Estate Careers
For the better part of the last two decades, billions of dollars have poured into underserved neighborhoods across the U.S. as corporations, millennials and real estate investors rediscovered downtowns and other urban districts. But to former Carlyle Group executive Cedric Bobo and real estate entrepreneur Fred Greene, young people who grew up in the neighborhoods were often excluded from playing a role in the transitions. To remedy that problem, in 2016 they began training 15 Detroit high school students in real estate fundamentals and invested $150,000 to buy two properties with the idea of using the cash flow to fund scholarships. Soon after, Bobo and Greene officially launched Project Destined, an endeavor to effect social change in the commercial real estate industry by providing college students with financial literacy, entrepreneurship and real estate training. “Cedric found that there was a real need for diverse talent in commercial real estate but that it was hard for companies to find it,” reports Cristina Ciacciarelli, a junior at Burach College in New York City who completed the program in 2021 and now heads up corporate partnerships for Project Destined. “It was also hard for the companies to sell themselves to diverse talent even …