LEE’S SUMMIT, MO. — Montecito Medical has acquired a 40,500-square-foot medical office building in Lee’s Summit near Kansas City. The fully leased property opened in 2020. Beacon Surgery Center, a joint venture between local physician partners and Partners Surgical, is the building’s primary tenant. Other tenants include Sano Orthopedics and Advanced Surgical Associates. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
ST. LOUIS — Emerald Capital Strategic Advisors, an affiliate of Green Street Real Estate Ventures, has arranged financing for Elevation, an office and retail development in St. Louis. Funding includes $6 million in New Market Tax Credits (NMTC) in addition to debt and Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing. Matt Drinen and Luke Pope of Emerald Capital sourced and closed debt financing with Chicago-based IFF as well as Elm Tree Unity Debt Fund. St. Louis Development Corp. provided a $6 million allocation in NMTC, and US Bank was the NMTC investor. Kingsway Development is the project developer. Elevation will be situated at 4731 Delmar Blvd. within the Fountain Park neighborhood. The project serves as the first development within the planned 207-acre Kingsway District. Elevation will include 5,000 square feet of street-level retail space for Jamba Juice, UPS and The Original Hot Dog Factory, as well as 12,500 square feet of second-floor office space for the Ethical Society of Police and Park Central Development Corp. Simms Building Group is the general contractor and CASCO is the architect. Construction is scheduled to begin this month, with completion slated for January 2023.
ST. LOUIS — New + Found is scheduled to break ground on the second phase of City Foundry STL in January. The $125 million project will include a 272-unit apartment tower, 83,000-square-foot office building, 25,000 square feet of retail space and a 481-car parking garage. Lawrence Group is the lead architect and interior design firm for the project. ARCO/Murray will construct the apartment building, while Lawrence Group’s construction team will build the timber office building. Completion is slated for early 2024. CliftonLarsonAllen LLP secured $49.7 million in joint venture equity funding for the project. City Foundry STL is the transformation of the former Federal-Mogul foundry site into a mixed-use development. Phase I includes a food hall as well as creative office, retail and entertainment space.
ST. LOUIS — The office and industrial team at Cresa St. Louis and its parent company Pace Properties will be affiliating with Avison Young, effective Jan. 1. The affiliation strengthens Avison Young’s presence in the St. Louis market by adding a team of experts with a strategic focus on office, industrial, project management and property management services. The retail brokerage and retail property management segments of Pace Properties will continue to operate as Pace Properties.
ST. CHARLES, MO. — CRG has begun development of Chapter at The Streets, a 245-unit apartment complex at The Streets of St. Charles, a mixed-use property in the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles. CRG is building the five-story building in partnership with AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust. Completion is slated for the second quarter of 2023. Chapter at The Streets will offer one- and two-bedroom units with monthly rents starting at $1,400. Amenities will include a pool, outdoor deck, fitness center, resident lounge, coworking space and pet grooming station. The project team includes Chicago-based Humphreys & Partners Architects LP and Chesterfield, Mo.-based Brinkmann Constructors. CRG’s Chapter-branded multifamily product is a national collection of upscale apartments. Chapter at The Streets is the third Chapter-branded project. The Streets of St. Charles is a 27-acre mixed-use development owned by Cullinan Properties Ltd.
ST. LOUIS — One Metropolitan Square, an office tower in downtown St. Louis, has sold in two transactions totaling $145 million. One deal was for the building and a separate one was for the land. Kawa Capital Management, an independent asset management firm, purchased the leased fee interest. The seller, 601W Cos., had owned and operated the property since 2005. The building is 92 percent leased to 35 tenants in industries such as law, government, energy and architecture. This past summer, the U.S. Department of Agriculture signed a 20-year lease to occupy 163,000 square feet.
CLAYTON, MO. — Missouri-based Sterling Bank will serve as the anchor tenant for a planned $100 million mixed-use project in Clayton, just west of St. Louis. Green Street Real Estate Ventures LLC is the developer. Located at the intersection of Bemiston and Carondelet avenues, the 20-story development will include 4,500 square feet of first-floor commercial banking space with a walk-up ATM. There will also be 10,500 square feet of branch offices, 10,000 square feet of amenity space, a 270-unit apartment building and a 380-space parking structure. HDA, a Green Street company, is designing the project. Green Street Building Group and joint venture partner Tarlton will lead construction, which is expected to begin in fall 2022 and last 18 months.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Construction is underway on a new $1.5 billion terminal at Kansas City International Airport. Henderson Engineers is serving as the lead engineer and designed the technological infrastructure, which includes touchless kiosks and video walls. This infrastructure will also support a biometric verification system that will enable travelers to use their faces as boarding passes. Using three-dimensional building information modeling software, Henderson determined placement for security cameras throughout the 1 million-square-foot terminal. Siemens is assisting with innovative technology efforts. Completion of the project is slated for early 2023. The airport will transition from its current three-terminal layout to the new single terminal. Since airport operations will need to remain functional during the transition, air transport communications company SITA is designing an IT network that will prevent interruptions to security and other vital systems during the changeover. In addition to technology, Henderson’s array of building systems design services for the new terminal includes acoustics, audio-video, electrical, fire alarm, mechanical and plumbing. Skidmore Owings & Merrill is the lead architect for the project and Edgemoor Infrastructure & Real Estate is the developer.
ST. LOUIS — Sensient Technologies Corp. has signed a 300,481-square-foot industrial lease at 255 Logistics Center in St. Louis. The company manufactures colors, flavors and fragrances. Sensient is leasing space currently occupied by Medline Industries, which is terminating its lease early and moving to a self-developed facility elsewhere in the market. The buildout for Sensient will include reconfiguring office space, the addition of locker rooms, dock upgrades and the installation of additional electric service and new lighting fixtures. SparrowHawk LLC owns the building, which was constructed in 2008. Patrick Reilly and Dave Branding of JLL represented SparrowHawk in the lease transaction. Matt Eastin of Cushman & Wakefield represented Sensient.
ST. LOUIS — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of two industrial buildings totaling 1.1 million square feet in St. Louis for $75.1 million. The buildings are part of Gateway Commerce Center and are situated within the city’s Metro East submarket. The facilities, Gateway East 520 and Gateway East 624, were both developed in 2016. James Carpenter, Mike Hanrahan, Ed Lampitt and Elizabeth Given of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Dallas-based L&B Realty Advisors. Plymouth REIT was the buyer.
