CHICAGO — Temporary staffing firm TrueBlue has signed an 83,000-square-foot office lease at Chicago’s Old Post Office. The Tacoma, Wash.-based company currently maintains a local office at 860 W. Evergreen Ave. near Goose Island. TrueBlue is expected to move into the new office in early 2021. Jack Keenan of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant in the lease transaction. Cushman & Wakefield will also handle project management for the new space. 601W Cos. is redeveloping the Old Post Office project. Other tenants who have signed leases at the property include Walgreens, Uber and Ferrara Candy.
COLUMBUS, OHIO — Brad Kitchen of Alterra Real Estate Advisors has acquired a five-story, 86,524-square-foot office building known as 3 Easton Oval in Columbus for $6.5 million. M/I Homes sold the property and had owned and operated it since 1995. M/I plans to vacate the building this spring. Alterra plans to undertake a renovation of the property that will include an update of the lobby and tenant spaces. Kevin Serna of Liberty National Bank originated acquisition financing.
GRAIN VALLEY, MO. — Newmark Grubb Zimmer has arranged the sale of a 36-unit multifamily property in Grain Valley, an eastern suburb of Kansas City. The sales price was undisclosed. The property, located on Barr Road, was fully occupied at the time of sale. Chris Robertson and Trenton Wahl of Newmark Grubb Zimmer brokered the transaction. T&T Real Estate LLC sold the asset to a Utah-based investor.
ST. PETERS, MO. — Distribution Management Inc. has signed an industrial lease to occupy an entire 375,200-square-foot warehouse within Premier 370 Business Park in St. Peters. The building is situated at 1001 Premier Parkway, about 30 miles west of St. Louis. The landlord and developer, Duke Realty Corp., has now completed the lease-up of the five buildings within the 2.5 million-square-foot park. Art Leichner and Andrew Crites of Newmark Knight Frank along with Kevin McLaughlin and Dan Lesinski of Newmark Grubb Zimmer represented the tenant in the lease transaction. Geoff Orf of Colliers International served as the property’s listing agent. Distribution Management is an imaging supplies distributor and order fulfillment company.
BUFFALO GROVE, ILL. — Stream Capital Partners LLC has brokered the sale-leaseback of a 161,976-square-foot industrial facility in Buffalo Grove for $16.8 million. The property, occupied by Safco Dental Supply Co., is located at 1111 Corporate Grove Drive. Chelsea Mandel and Phil DiGennaro of Stream represented Safco, a national distributor of dental supplies, in the sale. A REIT acquired the property and simultaneously entered into a long-term lease agreement with Safco.
LAWRENCEBURG, IND. — Evans Senior Investments (ESI) has negotiated the sale of Shady Nook Care Center, a 94-bed skilled nursing facility in Lawrenceburg, located along the Ohio River near the Kentucky and Ohio borders. An independent owner-operator was the seller. A national owner-operator group bought the property for $9 million, or $96,000 per bed. Built in 1983, Shady Nook Care Center is located in a tertiary submarket of Cincinnati. The facility was 79 percent occupied at the time of sale.
CHICAGO — JLL has arranged a $6 million loan for the refinancing of 200 East Ohio in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood. The 27,000-square-foot boutique office property rises five stories and is nearly 90 percent occupied by multiple tenants. Christopher Carroll and Lucas Borges of JLL represented the borrower, Tishman Realty. A Chicago-based financial institution provided the loan, terms of which were undisclosed. Boutique office buildings are smaller than traditional office buildings, typically under 150,000 square feet.
NEW HUDSON, MICH. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $2.8 million sale of a 9,451-square-foot property net leased to KinderCare in New Hudson, about 40 miles northwest of Detroit. The building is located at 30786 Lyon Center Drive. KinderCare has signed a new 15-year lease. Dominic Sulo and Chad Lieber of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a private investor. Andrean Angelov, Chad Lieber, Dominic Sulo, Ryan Engle and Timothy Stephenson Jr. of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer, a limited liability company.
MINNETONKA, MINN. — Dominium has acquired Crest Ridge, a 120,000-square-foot office building in Minnetonka. The purchase price was undisclosed. Dominium, a Minnesota-based apartment owner, developer and manager, plans to relocate its corporate office to the building and occupy approximately half of the property. Dominium also plans to begin renovating the building early this year. Constructed in 2009, Crest Ridge was formerly home to Syngenta Seeds.
BELTON, MO. — An 82-room Fairfield Inn & Suites hotel has opened in Belton, about 20 miles south of Kansas City. Located just north of Highway 58 between Mullen Road and I-49, the four-story property features complimentary Wi-Fi, meeting rooms, free parking and electric car charging stations. Other amenities include a fitness center, indoor swimming pool and valet laundry. The hotel will operate as a Marriott franchise, owned and managed by Kansas Hospitality Management Services.