WEST LAFAYETTE, IND. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a 528-bed student housing portfolio in West Lafayette near Purdue University for $33.5 million. A joint venture between Muinzer and South Street Capital purchased the 152-unit portfolio. The buildings, constructed between 1983 and 1993, are all located within walking distance of campus. Brent Silcox and Austin Meeker of Marcus & Millichap represented the undisclosed seller and procured the buyer.
WATERTOWN, WIS. — The Dickman Company Inc./CORFAC International has negotiated the sale of a 245,000-square-foot industrial building in Watertown for an undisclosed price. The property is situated at 1141 S. 10th St. in Watertown, about 50 miles west of Milwaukee. TJ Huenerbein and Nick Keys of Dickman brokered the transaction. TJW Plant 10 LLC purchased the building from Midland Stamping and Fabricating Corp.
PORTAGE, WEST LAFAYETTE AND VALPARAISO, IND. — Maverick Commercial Mortgage has arranged $22.5 million in refinancing for a four-property multifamily portfolio in Indiana. The assets include Breckenridge Apartments, a 168-unit property in Portage; Point West and Point West II, two manufactured housing communities in West Lafayette; and Williamsburg Manor, a 223-site manufactured housing community in Valparaiso. The four nonrecourse loans all featured 10-year terms with 30-year amortization schedules. Proceeds from the loans paid off existing debt and returned equity to the undisclosed borrower.
MILWAUKEE — Colliers International has brokered the sale of the King Juice Co. headquarters in Milwaukee for $4.5 million. The 114,000-square-foot beverage manufacturing property is located at 851 W. Grange Ave. King Juice Co., which makes lemonades, iced teas and fruit beverages, has a long-term lease at the property. Tom Shepherd, Jennifer Huber-Bullock and Steve Sewart of Colliers represented the seller, Milwaukee-based Salvatore B. Purpero Living Trust. New York-based BBS Grange Road Investors LLC purchased the asset. The buyer plans to add a new parking lot and upgrade the office finishes.
ST. LOUIS — McCarthy HITT, a joint venture of McCarthy Building Cos. Inc., HITT Contracting, Black & Veatch Special Projects Corp., Gensler and Akima LLC, has been selected by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to build its new campus in north St. Louis. The total project budget of about $1.7 billion includes the McCarthy HITT contract of $711.7 million, land procurement, post-construction outfitting of the building and small business construction projects. Funds are appropriated through the Pentagon’s military construction budget and Congress has authorized spending over several budget cycles. The campus will be built on a 97-acre site at Jefferson and Cass avenues. Designed to replace the current NGA facility located south of downtown, the new development will feature a 712,000-square-foot office building, parking garages, a visitor center, remote inspection facility and access control points. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will oversee design and construction. Preliminary work beginning this spring will include various design and pre-construction activities, submittals and joint planning. Major construction work will begin in early 2020, with plans for the campus to be operational in 2025. NGA has had a presence in St. Louis for seven decades and currently employs more than 3,000 workers locally.
CHICAGO — Cushman & Wakefield has established a new Sports & Entertainment Advisory Group to provide solutions for designing, building, financing, operating and maximizing revenue streams for athletic and entertainment venues. The new S&E Advisory Group includes partnerships with industry leaders such as Chicago-based sports and entertainment marketing firm W Partners. The group will serve sports franchise owners, local governments and municipalities, private owners of entertainment venues and public and private universities. It will also provide advisory services for arenas, stadiums, adjacent retail and entertainment complexes, amphitheaters, convention centers, motorsports tracks and other event venues. Craig Cassell and Michael Sessa will lead the group in client services, which include sponsorship, branding and naming rights consulting; venue programming and phasing advisory; food and beverage consulting; public-private sponsorship structuring; revenue cost-model analysis; and other commercial real estate services.
CHICAGO — Meridian Design Build has broken ground on an 84,000-square-foot USDA meat processing plant for Amylu Foods in Chicago’s Stockyards Industrial Park. The new sausage processing facility will include 56,000 square feet of production and cold-storage space and a freezer. The property will also include 16,500 square feet of corporate office space, including separate raw and cooked facilities, test kitchens and a laboratory. An expandable ammonia refrigeration plant will accommodate plant cooling and production loads. Harris Architects and Kimley-Horn make up the project team.
GRAYSLAKE, ILL. — The Woodmont Company has unveiled plans to develop a 15,000-square-foot retail center in Grayslake, about 50 miles north of downtown Chicago. Known as Washington & Barron Commons, the four-building property will be situated at the corner of Washington Street and Barron Boulevard. Construction on Phase I is expected to begin this summer. Phase I will include a 9,000-square-foot building for Kiddie Academy and a 4,500-square-foot single-tenant building. Phase II will include an 8,000-square-foot multi-tenant building as well as a 3,000-square-foot single-tenant building. Grant Gary and Robert Snider of Woodmont will market the property for lease.
GALION, OHIO — Grandbridge Real Estate Capital has arranged a $1.5 million loan for the refinancing of Galion West Shopping Center in Galion, about 60 miles north of Columbus. The 59,135-square-foot property includes a Papa John’s. Craig Kegg of Grandbridge arranged the financing with an insurance company. The 10-year loan features an interest rate of 4.93 percent and a 15-year amortization schedule.
ASHLEY, IND. — Brightmark Energy has received $260 million in financing to build the nation’s first commercial-scale plastics-to-fuel plant in Ashley, a small town of fewer than 1,000 residents in the northeast corner of Indiana. The financing includes $185 million in Indiana green bonds, which were underwritten by Goldman Sachs & Co. Brightmark plans to invest $47 million in the plant, according to KPC News, a local news outlet. Brightmark is the controlling owner of RES Polyflow, an Ohio-based energy technology company that innovated the process for converting plastics directly into transportation fuel and other products. Brightmark acquired a majority interest in the company in November. Brightmark Energy Ashley Indiana will convert up to 100,000 tons of plastics into 18 million gallons per year of ultra-low-sulfur diesel and naphtha blend fuels and nearly 6 million gallons a year of commercial-grade wax in a process that is expected to be 93 percent efficient. The outputs could also be used to produce the feedstocks necessary for manufacturing plastic again, “thus creating the world’s first truly circular economy technology for plastics,” according to Brightmark. “We are excited about the market’s confidence in the validity of this technology to economically convert single-use plastics for …
