MILWAUKEE — Founders 3 has brokered the sale of the PH Dye House in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward for an undisclosed price. The 125,560-square-foot office building is located at 320 E. Buffalo St. Tenants include Engberg Anderson Architects, Thiel Design and Hailing & Cayo SC. Andy Hess of Founders 3 brokered the transaction. The buyer, an affiliate of Singerman Real Estate LLC, plans to renovate the property.
OAK CREEK, WIS. — Froedtert Hospital & the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Drexel Town Square Health Center has opened in Oak Creek, about 12 miles south of Milwaukee. Developed by HSA PrimeCare, the health center spans 109,000 square feet and includes a 425-space parking garage. The property is home to family and pediatric medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, urgent care and specialty care. The facility also includes an outpatient surgery center, cancer center, pharmacy and lab services. Dual-access exam rooms and an oval-shaped shared workspace for hospital staff and doctors help cut down on wait times.
PLEASANT PRAIRIE, WIS. — CTDI has signed a 166,620-square-foot industrial lease at Majestic Badger Logistics Center in Pleasant Prairie, about 37 miles south of Milwaukee. The global engineering, repair and logistics company will occupy the space within the 424,164-square-foot Building 1. Features of this building include a clear height of 36 feet, ESFR sprinkler system, large truck courtyard, 292 car parking spaces and office space. CTDI is the first tenant within the industrial park, which is owned by Majestic Realty Co. John Morrissey of Jackson Cross Partners represented CTDI in the lease transaction.
MOUNT PLEASANT, WIS. — Nordic Realty Partners LLC has purchased a 10,430-square-foot office building in Mount Pleasant, about 25 miles south of Milwaukee. The sales price was not disclosed. The property, which includes surplus land of 3.1 acres, is located at 13303 Washington Ave. near I-94. Johnson Insurance currently occupies the building, but plans to relocate during 2018. CBRE represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
MILWAUKEE — Zenith Tech Inc. has signed a 5,000-square-foot office lease in Milwaukee. The Wisconsin-based concrete contractor will occupy the space at 2202 W. Clybourn St. Sal Strehlow of Colliers International brokered the lease transaction. The landlord was not disclosed.
MANITOWOC, WIS. — Panera Bread has signed a 4,300-square-foot lease in Manitowoc, about 40 miles southeast of Green Bay. The fast casual restaurant will occupy the space at 4626 Calumet St. Joe Kleiman and Dan Cohen of Mid-America Real Estate-Wisconsin LLC represented Panera in the lease transaction. The landlord was not disclosed.
HUDSON, WIS. — Dougherty Funding has provided Express Hospitality LLC with an $8.8 million loan for the construction of a Holiday Inn Express hotel in Hudson, located in western Wisconsin along the Minnesota border. The 100-room hotel will be situated immediately adjacent to a new conference center that is currently under construction. The hotel and the independently owned conference center are slated to open in late summer 2018. Dougherty’s Minneapolis office provided the loan.
OAK CREEK, WIS. — Meridian Design Build has completed construction of a 48,200-square-foot warehouse expansion for GE Healthcare in Oak Creek, about 15 miles south of Milwaukee. The facility now totals 328,028 square feet. The project features LED lighting, six loading docks and two doors connecting the new space to the existing building. GE Healthcare uses the building as a repair operations center, and the expansion will be utilized to house spare and repaired parts for the company’s equipment. Construction began in late August 2017 and was completed in January. Harris Architects provided architectural services while Pinnacle Engineering completed civil engineering work. Exeter Property Group owns the building.
MADISON, WIS. — McShane Construction Co. has opened a new office in Madison. The company will occupy space on the fifth floor of a property located at 25 W. Main St. A native of Madison, Alison Gorham will lead the office and business development efforts in the Wisconsin market. “Our expansion into Madison was prompted by our growing presence in the area and the consistent construction growth within the region,” says Jeff Raday, president of McShane. Rosemont, Illinois-based McShane operates additional offices in Phoenix, Ariz.; Auburn, Ala.; and Irvine, Calif.
In 2017, downtown Milwaukee was unrecognizable from its former self — a year that brought additional outside investment, both public and private development and a rethinking of how we utilize office space. Developers broke a decade-long dry spell in 2016, and now nearly 500,000 square feet of office space is under construction downtown. It’s a story of persistence, as an overhaul of available office product has occurred over the past few years. Now, a vast majority of outdated Class B and C office product has been removed from downtown, bolstering rent growth and enticing the outside investment that Milwaukee deeply needed. Outside investors Prior to the close of 2017, one of downtown Milwaukee’s largest office buildings and the third largest multi-tenant office complex in the state, 310 West Wisconsin Avenue, sold to an investment group based in New York. Just as Millbrook Real Estate Co. and Fulcrum Asset Advisors finished renovating, rebranding and reopening the Two-Fifty office building — a downtown tower that struggled for years — Milwaukee’s second largest office tower, 411 East Wisconsin, sold to Middleton Partners. The repositioned property sold for $50 million more than it fetched just three years prior. Both projects are a testament to …