Midwest

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.

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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.

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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.

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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?”

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JEFFERSONVILLE, IND. — SRS Real Estate Partners National Net Lease Group has arranged the sale of Jefferson Town Center West in Jeffersonville for $30 million. The newly developed, 184,663-square-foot regional shopping center is located at 4251 Town Center Blvd. It is fully leased to tenants such as Hobby Lobby, Burlington, TJ Maxx, HomeGoods, Petco, Five Below and Ulta. Michael Carter and Frank Rogers of SRS represented the seller, a Louisville, Ky.-based developer. Carter and Rogers also represented the buyer, a private investor based in Newport Beach, Calif.

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LEBANON, IND. — Quantum Real Estate Advisors Inc. has negotiated the sale of a single-tenant medical office building in Lebanon, about 30 miles northwest of Indianapolis, for $7.7 million. Newly constructed this year, the property is located at 1310 Lebanon St. American Health Network leases the roughly 20,000-square-foot property. Daniel Waszak of Quantum represented the seller, a Midwest-based developer. A Midwest-based medical office REIT purchased the asset.

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EAST LANSING, MICH. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a 10,000-square-foot property leased to Firestone Complete Auto Care in East Lansing for $2.7 million. The building, renovated this year, is located at 2700 E. Grand River Ave. Don McMinn of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, East Lansing BF Retail LLC. Andrew Irvine of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer, Lincoln Street Commercial LLC. “This Firestone traded at 99 percent of list price with a 1031 buyer with multiple back up offers. This speaks to the strong investor demand for Firestone deals due to its strong credit, long-term NNN leases with increases, solid retail locations and internet-resistant business model,” says McMinn.

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LOMBARD, ILL. — Brown Commercial Group has arranged the sale of a 10,000-square-foot industrial warehouse in Lombard for an undisclosed price. The Davey Tree Expert Co. purchased the property, which is located on a 4.7-acre site at 1200 N. Lombard Road. Mike Anotnelli of Brown represented the buyer, a residential and commercial tree and landscaping company. The sale enabled the buyer to acquire a local tree care company that occupied the building and to take over its business.

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Bob Yoshimura of Lee & Associates: I would characterize the industrial sector as the most sought-after asset class across all commercial property types.

Real estate buyers spent a record-setting amount of cash in the sector in the third quarter and remain bullish on the properties amid healthy absorption and rent growth. The industrial real estate sector, traditionally known as the land of big, boring boxes, has become the darling of real estate amid the growth of e-commerce. Investors have poured hundreds of billions of dollars into industrial properties over the last five years alone, and not even the prospect of new construction potentially outpacing demand has tempered enthusiasm. “With online sales continuing to grow at a faster rate than general retail sales, there is no lack of continued tenant demand for industrial warehouses and flex and distribution space,” says Rebecca Wells, CCIM, senior vice president and principal of commercial real estate service provider Lee & Associates in Indianapolis. “We expect investment activity will continue at a red-hot rate through the end of this year and into 2020.” Industrial sales totaled $40.6 billion in the third quarter this year, the highest dollar volume ever recorded in a single quarter for the property type, according to Real Capital Analytics, a New York-based researcher that tracks commercial property deals of $2.5 million or more. An $18.7 …

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. — Harrison Street Social Infrastructure Fund, in partnership with Michigan State University (MSU), has unveiled plans to develop the Doug Meijer Medical Innovation Building at MSU’s Grand Rapids Innovation Park. The park is a research and clinical facility at the university’s health campus in Grand Rapids. The public-private development partnership also includes Murphy Development Group, Walsh Investors and Rockford Construction. Under the arrangement, MSU will retain long-term ownership of the land. The 205,659-square-foot building will be dedicated to research and healthcare innovation as well as the advancement of MSU’s artificial intelligence, bioinformatics and biostatistics departments. MSU, Spectrum Health and BAMF Health will occupy space. Completion is slated for fall 2021.

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