Mixed-Use

CHICAGO — JDL Development Corp. has received construction financing for One Chicago Square, an $850 million mixed-use tower in Chicago. The 76-story, 1.5 million-square-foot development will be located in the city’s River North submarket. The project’s senior construction lender is Bank OZK. Other sources of financing for this project include an investment from equity partner Wanxiang America Real Estate Group, as well as $260 million in preferred equity and mezzanine financing from Square Mile Capital Management LLC. One Chicago Square will include 735 apartment units and 77 condominium units. The project’s 193,000 square feet of retail space is largely pre-leased to Whole Foods Market and Life Time Athletic. Plans also call for office space, event space and 1,000 parking spaces. The property will occupy a full city block on the site of a former parking lot that JDL purchased from the Archdiocese of Chicago. Construction is expected to take three years, with completion slated for year-end 2022. Project architects include Goettsch Partners and Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture. JDL is a Chicago-based residential developer founded by Jim Letchinger. Wanxiang America Real Estate Group is a unit of a Chinese auto-parts company. New York-based Square Mile Capital is an integrated institutional real estate …

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ST. LOUIS — Saint Louis University (SLU) has selected Cullinan Properties to develop a 14-acre site at the corner of Grand Boulevard and Chouteau Avenue in midtown St. Louis. The site will house an 850,000-square-foot mixed-use development adjacent to SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital, which is under construction and slated for completion in spring 2020. The mixed-use development will connect SLU’s north and south campuses and will include retail, entertainment, restaurant, office and hotel space. Cullinan Properties is partnering with BatesForum and Clayco for design-build services. Stock & Associates Consulting Engineers Inc. will handle civil engineering services. Jim Loft, Carrie Hermann and Justin Moses of Colliers International have been selected to lead the office leasing while Patty Kueneke and Kathleen Cullinan Brill of Cullinan Properties will handle all other leasing inquiries. A timeline for construction was not disclosed.

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SAN MATEO, CALIF. — HFF has arranged a $21 million refinancing for Baywood, an office and retail asset property in downtown San Mateo. The borrower is developURBAN, a private developer. Chris Gandy and Taylor Gimian of HFF secured the 10-year, fixed-rate loan with full-term interest-only payments. Citigroup provided the capital. Loan proceeds will be used to refinance the existing debt that HFF arranged in 2017. The 27,897-square-foot property is fully leased and recently underwent renovations and capital improvements. The property is home to a technology arm of a publicly listed company, with the ground-floor office space leased to a data analytics firm and the retail space leased to a yoga chain.

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GOLDEN, COLO. — Los Angeles-based Karlin Golden has completed the disposition of Clear Creek Square, a mixed-use building located at 600-650 12th St. in downtown Golden. Colorado State Land Board acquired the asset for $15.9 million in an off-market transaction. Built in 2002, the building features 78,647 square feet of office space, with approximately 11 percent of the square footage dedicated to ground-floor retail space, free covered parking, on-site showers and lockers. The multi-tenant building is home to five office users. Tenants include Equian, The Regis Co., Institutional Cash Distributor, Big Ring Cycles, Anthony’s Pizza & Pasta and Barrels & Bottles. At the time of sale, the property was 95 percent occupied. Campbell Davis, James Brody and Blake Harris of CBRE represented the seller in the deal.

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PRINCETON, N.J. — Cronheim Mortgage has arranged a $10 million loan to refinance a mixed-use property in Princeton. Located at 277 and 281 Witherspoon St., the property consists of two adjacent retail and office buildings. The first, 277 Witherspoon, is a recently completed two-story building. The second, 281 Witherspoon, is a three-story building built in 1984 and renovated in 2015. Cronheim secured the 10-year loan with three years of interest-only payments on behalf of the borrower, HP Witherspoon LLC, an affiliate of Princeton-based Herring Properties. The lender was undisclosed.

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While other U.S. cities have demonstrated volatile economic markets, Boston has sustained a strong, healthy economy for more than 40 years. This economic health coupled with the city’s diversity of industries has had a lasting, positive impact and increased demand for commercial space in the greater Boston market. The snapshot of the Class A and B, lab and office market is strong but shows some signs of regression. Today, overall vacancy for lab and office including sublet space is 12.8 percent, according to research from Colliers International. When you break down the numbers by region, the current downtown Boston office market has 71 million square feet, with a 9.2 percent vacancy rate. Cambridge has 23.6 million square feet of space and 3.8 percent vacancy and the suburbs total 123.5 million square feet with 16.6 percent vacancy.  The entire Boston area absorption for lab and office space is 5.2 million square feet. While those stats are favorable compared to the last two years, (2017 with 1.8 million square feet and 2016 with 1 million square feet), they are dwarfed by 2015 which had absorption of 5.8 million square feet. It is also the first time that Class B rents have topped …

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TOMS RIVER, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $2.1 million sale of a 28,400-square-foot, mixed-use property in Toms River. Located at 26 Main St., the property is currently occupied by 26 tenants. Alan Cafiero and Ben Sgambati in Marcus & Millichap’s New Jersey office represented the seller, a partnership, in the transaction. The buyer was a personal trust.

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AUSTIN, TEXAS — Endeavor Real Estate Group and joint venture partner MetLife Investment Management have broken ground on The Quincy, a 30-story mixed-use tower that will be located in downtown Austin. The project will deliver 347 apartments across 19 floors, three floors of Class A office space totaling 77,540 square feet and 10,360 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Amenities will include a pool, exercise lawn, sports lounge, media room and a coworking space and business center, as well as a dog park, package lockers and an Uber pickup lounge. The Quincy is expected to open in early 2021.

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BOCA RATON, FLA. — HFF has arranged a $125.7 million construction loan for Uptown Boca, a 38-acre mixed-use project in Boca Raton. Jutland Finance Inc. provided the floating-rate loan to the development team of Giles Capital Group, Rosemurgy Properties, Schmier Property Group and Wheelock Street Capital. Elliott Throne, Steven Klein and Jesse Wright led HFF’s debt placement team in the transaction. The developers broke ground in October 2018 and said Uptown Boca will comprise 456 residential units, which are expected to deliver in early 2020, and 171,086 square feet of retail space, which is expected to deliver this summer. Retail tenants include Lucky’s Market, Silverspot Cinema, Bolay, Chick-fil-A and BurgerFi. The development will be situated at the corner of Glades Road and 95th Avenue, about five miles west of downtown Boca Raton.

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MONTCLAIR, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $1.2 million sale of a 4,500-square-foot mixed-use property in New Jersey. Located at 413 Bloomfield Ave., the property consists of two apartment units and one retail unit. Alan Cafiero, Ben Sgambati, Chip Collins, David Cafiero, Michael DeVita and Thomas Cleary of Marcus & Millichap’s New Jersey office represented the seller, a personal trust, in the transaction. The buyer was a limited liability company. 

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