NEWBURGH, IND. — Cohen Financial, a division of SunTrust Bank, has arranged a $10.7 million loan for the acquisition of Bell Oaks in Newburgh, a suburb of Evansville. Schnucks grocery store anchors the 95,000-square-foot shopping center. Dan Rosenberg and Matt Terpstra of Cohen arranged the 10-year, fixed-rate loan with Goldman Sachs. Midland Atlantic Properties was the borrower.
DETROIT — Hunt Real Estate Capital has provided a $7.5 million Fannie Mae loan for the refinancing of East Jefferson Portfolio, a three-property, 131-unit multifamily portfolio in Detroit. The 10-year loan features a fixed rate. Hibbard Tower is a nine-story building with 44 units; the Kean Building is a 15-story tower with 49 units; and Trombley Lodge is a four-story property with 38 units. The properties were constructed between 1926 and 1931. The current owners purchased the portfolio in April 2017 and subsequently invested $1.6 million in upgrades.
FAIRBORN, OHIO — NorthMarq has secured a $6.1 million loan for the refinancing of Wright Executive Center in Fairborn near Dayton. The 119,473-square-foot office building is located on Presidential Drive. Susan Branscome of NorthMarq arranged the 10-year, fixed-rate loan with a life insurance company. The borrower was undisclosed.
INNER GROVE HEIGHTS, MINN. — The Cooper Commercial Investment Group has brokered the $2.1 million sale of Inner Grove Market II, an 8,955-square-foot retail property in Inner Grove Heights, about 20 miles southeast of Minneapolis. Caribou Coffee anchors the building, constructed in 2005. Bob Havasi and Dan Cooper of Cooper Group represented the seller, an East Coast-based private investment group. A North Dakota-based private investment group purchased the asset at a cap rate of 7.28 percent.
LORDSTOWN, OHIO — General Motors and LG Chem have teamed up to invest up to $2.3 billion through a new, equally owned joint venture company. The partnership plans to establish a battery cell assembly plant for electric vehicles on a greenfield manufacturing site in northeast Ohio’s Lordstown. The plant is expected to create more than 1,100 new jobs. Groundbreaking is slated for mid-2020. Coinciding with the news is GM’s sale of its manufacturing complex in Lordstown to Lordstown Motors Corp. for the production of battery-electric trucks. This investment builds on GM’s previously announced $28 million investment in its Warren, Mich. battery lab.
OMAHA, NEB. — Access Commercial LLC has purchased an 11-acre redevelopment site in Omaha with plans to develop a mixed-use project known as Regency Landing. The site comprises the former Regency Lodge hotel and Shaker Place shopping center. Plans call for office, retail and restaurant space in addition to a hotel. Approximately 66,000 square feet of the east building at Shaker Place will be redeveloped, with the complete replacement of lobbies, mechanical systems, elevators and common areas. Some tenants such as Twisted Cork Bistro will remain in the redeveloped space. Regency Lodge, which closed in 2018, operated on the land for more than 40 years. It will be demolished by the end of this year.
INDIANAPOLIS — U.S. OCG has acquired a 497-room, three-property Marriott hotel portfolio in Indianapolis for an undisclosed price. The hotels, located adjacent to each other, include a 315-room Marriott, a 119-room Delta and a 63-room Fairfield Inn & Suites. Together, they include more than 90,000 square feet of meeting space. Nate Sahn, James Foxx, Pravin Boteju and Stephen LaMotte Jr. of CBRE represented the seller, a joint venture between Shadeland Enterprises LLC and Midwest Investments Associates LLC.
FISHERS, IND. — Colliers International has brokered the sale of Crosspoint Plaza One, a four-story Class A office building located at 10475 Crosspoint Blvd. in Fishers. The sales price was $8.8 million, according to the Indianapolis Business Journal. The 138,636-square-foot property is situated in the northeast Indianapolis corridor with immediate access to I-69. Alex Cantu, Alex Davenport, Matt Langfeldt and Rich Forslund of Colliers represented the seller. Arkansas-based Tempus Realty Partners purchased the building, constructed in 1999. Crosspoint Plaza One originally served as a build-to-suit for Wiley Publishing, which recently vacated the property, leaving it 20 percent occupied. The new ownership plans to upgrade the building with modernized common areas, outdoor space and a first-floor conference center.
INDIANAPOLIS — Aaron’s Inc. has signed a 12,100-square-foot retail lease at a 200,000-square-foot shopping center in Indianapolis. The furniture company expects to begin operations at the property as soon as mid-March 2020. Millennial Holdings LLC acquired the center, known as Felbram Plaza, several months ago and is completing renovations such as new signage, lighting, roofs, HVAC units, landscaping and a new parking lot. Millennial plans to rename the property, which is nearly 85 percent leased. Keith Fried of McCrea Property Group is the leasing agent.
CHICAGO — ESG Kullen has acquired 1400 N. Lakeshore Drive in Chicago for $107 million. The buyer will convert the 391-unit, multi-building condominium property back into apartments. Sam Haddadin and Dan Cohen of CBRE represented the condo association and its president, Michael Arrington, in the condo deconversion sale. Built in 1927, the property originally comprised apartment units and was converted to condos in 2006. A large majority of the units are studios and one-bedroom units. The façade of the building was repaired in 2017 and the elevators were updated in 2016. The property features a large rooftop deck for residents. “Chicago is home to a great number of buildings in the age range of 50 to 90 years old. Many of those buildings were converted to condominiums in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s,” says Haddadin. “We’re finding that a large subset of those condominium associations have deferred important maintenance and capital expenditures and are now facing a choice: Do we do a large special assessment to address these capital projects? Or do we sell our building to a developer for a substantial premium and use those proceeds to purchase a newer home?”