Mixed-Use

5570-Rosemead-Blvd-Temple-City-CA

TEMPLE CITY, CALIF. — Coldwell Banker Commercial has arranged the sale of a development site located at 5570 Rosemead Blvd. in Temple City. An undisclosed buyer acquired the site for $14.4 million. The buyer plans to redevelop the 1.4-acre land parcel into a mixed-use community with 73 residential units and 15,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. The four-story building will offer units ranging from 732 square feet to 1,251 square feet, with three live-work units and lofts on the top floors. A 12,000-square-foot building, which was formerly used as the Learning Center, currently occupies the site. Steve Hayashi of Coldwell Banker Commercial George Realty represented the undisclosed seller in the deal.

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TOWSON, MD. — Greenberg Gibbons and Caves Valley Partners will open Phase I of Towson Row, a $350 million mixed-use development in Towson, in August. The first phase includes Altus, a 214-unit student housing community that will include retail and restaurant space on the ground level. Gilbane Development Co. is developing and managing Altus, which is located at the corner of Susquehanna Avenue and Towson Row, one mile north of Towson University. Located on the first level of the Altus building will be a 2,860-square-foot wine and spirits store, a 2,272-square-foot nail salon and a 2,750-square-foot BurgerFi restaurant. Towson University announced it will open for in-person and online classes Aug. 24. Towson Row is a five-acre mixed-use development that will include a 45,000-square-foot Whole Foods Market, more than 75,000 square feet of retail/restaurant space, 150,000 square feet of office space, 231 apartment units, the adaptive reuse of the former National Guard armory building into Towson University’s StarTUp and a 220-room dual-branded hotel.

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ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. — Skanska USA has completed a $92 million renovation of the historic St. Petersburg Pier on behalf of the City of St. Petersburg. The 26-acre area now includes 44,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, including the St. Pete Museum of History and Tampa Bay Watch Discovery Center. Other tenants include The Driftwood Café; Doc Ford’s Rum Bar & Grille; Spa Beach Bistro; Teak, a waterfront restaurant; and Pier Teaki, a rooftop bar. The five-story Pierhead building includes shops and a fishing platform. The pier area also includes the 35,000-square-foot Pier Plaza, which includes a playground, splash pad and seating areas. The 1,400-foot St. Petersburg Pier, which juts out into Tampa Bay, was originally built in 1889 and is the eighth pier in the city’s history. Rogers Partners, ASD | SKY and landscape architect Ken Smith Workshop designed the project.

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100-claremont-nyc

NEW YORK CITY — A partnership between Australian multinational developer Lendlease and New York-based L+M Development Partners has secured Daiwa House Texas Inc. as a new equity partner for the development team’s 42-story mixed-use tower in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights area. Daiwa House Texas is a U.S. subsidiary of Daiwa House Industry Co., Japan’s largest homebuilder that is pursuing an initiative to expand across the United States. The project, which will be located at 100 Claremont Ave., will feature 165 residential condominiums, 54,000 square feet of academic space for the Union Theological Seminary and 49,000 square feet of faculty housing. Completion is slated for spring 2023.

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300 North Michigan Avenue

CHICAGO — Sterling Bay has received $174.5 million in financing for the construction of 300 North Michigan Avenue, a 47-story mixed-use tower located between Chicago’s Riverwalk and Millennium Park.  Sterling Bay will develop the project in partnership with Magellan Development Group. The tower is set to include a 280-room hotel, 289 apartments and 25,000 square feet of retail space. Boutique hospitality chain citizenM will acquire the hotel component of the property upon completion.  Financing for the development includes senior secured financing from Bank OZK, as well as mezzanine financing from Pearlmark Real Estate and Monroe Capital, and a crowd-sourced equity component fundraised through CrowdStreet.  “This development will serve as a striking new addition to Chicago’s Michigan Avenue,” says Andy Gloor, CEO of Sterling Bay. “We are extremely proud that financing has successfully crossed the finish line despite the pandemic.”  Chicago-based general contractor Linn-Mathes will oversee the construction process, which is slated to begin in August. Local design firm bKL Architecture will serve as lead architect. A timeline for completion was not yet released. The 300 North Michigan Avenue project is estimated to create over 500 on-site construction jobs and approximately 70 permanent on-site jobs in residential and hotel operations once …

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BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — Orchestra Partners has broken ground on Mercantile on Morris, a mixed-use project in downtown Birmingham. Located at 2212 Morris Ave., the property will feature 47 residential units and 14,000 square feet of commercial space, as well as a pedestrian thoroughfare with storefronts connecting First Avenue North and Morris Avenue. Birmingham-based Retail Specialists is handling the commercial leasing effort, which includes spaces ranging from 500 to 1,800 square feet. There is also a 2,100-square-foot space available on the second floor for a restaurant anchor. Orchestra Partners expects to complete Mercantile on Morris in November.

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ST. PAUL, MINN. — Ryan Cos. has broken ground on the redevelopment of a 122-acre former Ford plant in St. Paul’s Highland Park neighborhood. Named Highland Bridge, the project has a focus on residential, featuring seniors housing, market-rate multifamily housing and 760 units of affordable housing, as well as for-sale row homes. In addition to the project’s 3,800 housing units, Highland Bridge is slated to include 150,000 square feet of retail space, 265,000 square feet of office space and 50,000 square feet of civic or institutional spaces. More than 55 acres of public space will include four new parks, biking and walking paths and two little league fields. Ryan Cos. completed the purchase of the former Ford plant in December 2019. Ford began production of the Model T at the site in 1925, but the plant closed in 2011. Total project costs for the redevelopment were not disclosed. An estimated 14,500 construction jobs will be created for the project. Once complete, an estimated 1,000 employees will be employed at the site. “We’ve paid particular attention to what makes Highland Park special, and our goal is to uphold those unique qualities, to expand upon them, and to create a place where …

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Farm-at-Allen

ALLEN, TEXAS — Locally based developer JaRyCo has partnered with the Johnson family to develop its farmland at the southeast corner of the Sam Rayburn Tollway and Alma Drive in Allen, located northeast of Dallas, into a 135-acre mixed-use destination. Current plans for the development, which will be branded The Farm at Allen, call for 1.6 million square feet of office space, 142,000 square feet of retail space, a 150-room hotel, 60,000 square feet of restaurant space and 2,400 urban residential units, including townhomes. Additional features include a 2.5-acre lake with boardwalk restaurants, two miles of hiking and biking trails, a 16-acre greenbelt along Watters Creek and four additional park areas. Infrastructure work at the site is scheduled to begin in late 2020. Omniplan is the project architect, and TBG is the landscape architect. Dynamic Engineering is the civil engineer.

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DETROIT — Two construction cranes now occupy the site that eventually will be home to the highly anticipated Hudson Tower project in downtown Detroit. The cranes signal that vertical construction can begin and Bedrock is able to bring the project into the next phase of development. Plans call for a 680-foot-tall mixed-use tower that will include 1.3 million square feet of retail, office, hotel, residential and public space. Bedrock, the real estate arm of billionaire businessman Dan Gilbert, founder of Quicken Loans, initially broke ground on the project in December 2017. It is now slated for completion in 2024. Southfield-based Barton Malow Co. is the general contractor. The project is a redevelopment of the former J.L. Hudson department store, which closed in 1984 and was imploded in 1998.

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FISHERS, IND. — Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors has negotiated the sale of the Bonn Building in Fishers within suburban Indianapolis. Although the sales price was undisclosed, the transaction marks the third for Hanley in the state of Indiana in the last five months for a total consideration of $12.2 million. Dylan Mallory and Corey Olson of Hanley represented the Toledo-based seller and developer, Republic Development. A Bloomington, Ind.-based private investor purchased the asset. Built in 2007, the Bonn Building sits on 2.3 acres at E. 131st St. within Saxony, a 3.5 million-square-foot office and industrial development. The Bonn Building was 92 percent leased at the time of sale to a mix of retail, food service, healthcare and office tenants.

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