CHICAGO — Baum Realty Group LLC has arranged the sale of a 16,180-square-foot mixed-use building located at 6-8 S. Clark St. in Chicago. The sales price was not disclosed. The first floor of the building was previously occupied by a Wendy’s restaurant while the other three floors have been vacant in recent years. Greg Dietz and Danny Spitz of Baum represented the undisclosed seller. An out-of-state investor purchased the property.
ALLEN, TEXAS — Hines will develop a 135-acre corporate campus and mixed-use development in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro of Allen, which will be branded as The Strand. Phase I of the project will deliver approximately 200,000 square feet of office space and 80,000 square feet of retail space. Later phases will complete the build-out with 1.5 million square feet of office space and 300,000 square feet of retail space. A timetable for project delivery and groundbreaking has not yet been established.
BASKING RIDGE and WARREN, N.J. — Cronheim Mortgage has arranged $10.9 million in financing for two mixed-use properties in Basking Ridge and Warren. The loans were placed with State Life Insurance Co. and Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Co., which Cronheim represents as a correspondent and servicing agent. Riverwalk Village, located in Basking Ridge, received $8.5 million in financing. The 18-year loan is self-liquidating with a 3.8 percent interest rate. Tenants at the 47,604-square-foot property include Starbucks, Supercuts and Gymboree. Second-floor office space is leased to YMCA, a chiropractor and an orthodontist. Gateway East in Warren was refinanced for $2.4 million at a 3.8 percent interest rate. The property includes a pair of freestanding, two-story buildings with first-floor retail and office space on the second floor. Tenants include Subway, Great Clips, a pilates studio, law offices and a dentist. The property is located at a signalized intersection and features surface parking for 89 vehicles. Cronheim’s Andrew Stewart, Dev Morris and Allison Villamagna originated and placed the loans.
NEW YORK CITY — Equicap has secured a $7.9 million land loan for property in the East Village section of Manhattan. The borrower purchased the development site on Second Avenue for $9.15 million and was seeking bridge financing to carry the project through predevelopment. The proposed building will consist of 19,000 square feet of residential and retail condominiums. Equicap executed a closing at 86 percent of the purchase price for the transaction. A future funding component was also added for potential air rights.
MIAMI — The Related Group has acquired a 50 percent interest in Wynwood 25, a planned mixed-use development in Miami’s Wynwood district, from East End Capital. Wynwood 25 will feature 289 multifamily residences, 31,000 square feet of retail space and 340 parking spaces. Related Group and East End Capital plan to break ground on the project this summer. Situated between 24th and 25th Streets near 2nd Avenue, the property will feature studio, one- and two-bedroom units with rents starting at $1,400 per month. Community amenities will include a fitness center with a yoga studio, co-working office spaces, coffee lounge, courtyard, bike storage, package storage, dog wash facilities and a rooftop terrace with a pool, grills, movie screen and outdoor and covered work areas.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — American Realty Advisors and Stonemar Properties have partnered to acquire Ballantyne Village, a 171,559-square-foot mixed-use development located at 14825 Ballantyne Village Way in Charlotte. The sales price was undisclosed, but the Charlotte Business Journal reports that the buyers purchased the asset from a limited liability corporation controlled by Vision Ventures and Mount Vernon Asset Management for $43.2 million. Situated near Ballantyne Corporate Park, which recently sold for more than $1 billion, the development features 13 dining options, two schools, personal services providers, office space and outdoor gathering areas. Rob Carter, David Webb, Rad von Werssowetz and Alex Quarrier of Berkeley Capital Advisors represented the seller in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — HFZ Capital Group, a Manhattan-based real estate development and investment company, has secured construction financing for The Eleventh, a mixed-use development located at 76 11th Ave. between 17th and 18th streets. A British financial institution provided HFZ Capital with construction financing for the development. HFZ’s John Shannon directed the firm’s negotiations to secure the financing. Situated on the Far West Side of Chelsea, The Eleventh is slated to open in 2019 featuring two towers between the High Line and the Hudson River. Bjarke Ingels Group designed the project. In addition to residences, Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas will open its flagship North American hotel inside the project. HFZ originally secured $870 million in acquisition and pre-development financing in May 2015 from a consortium of lenders, including JPMorgan, BlackRock and SL Green Realty. Construction of The Eleventh has already begun, and sales of condominium residences will begin later this year.
NEWARK, N.J. — Edison Properties has begun construction at Ironside Newark, a mixed-use building in downtown Newark. Located at the corner of Edison Place and McCarter Highway (Route 21), Ironside Newark will transform the warehouse building into a commercial and retail destination. Designed by New York City-based Perkins Eastman, the project will include 456,000 square feet of offices across its six upper floors, with access to a rooftop featuring green space and views of Newark and Manhattan. Two floors of retail and restaurant space will front the newly announced Mulberry Commons Park, providing a link between Ironside Newark and Newark Penn Station, Prudential Center arena and downtown Newark. Hollister Construction Services will serve as the sole construction manager on the project. Construction on the building is expected to last 18 months, with opening tentatively scheduled for fall 2018.
Generally, when one thinks about the massive, new mixed-use projects under development, a few images come to mind. Apartments, offices, hotels and retail mixed together, with some green walking trails and open spaces. Seniors housing, however, is probably not among those first impressions. This idea is changing, though, as mixed-use developers and seniors housing owners and operators begin to see the mutual benefits that senior living can bring to a project. The demographic wave of Baby Boomers hitting retirement age will nearly double the 65-plus population in the United States by 2050, from 43.1 million to 83.7 million, according to projections by the U.S. Census Bureau. The tactic of integrating seniors living into mixed-use developments is becoming more common throughout the country. Usually in high-end developments, the target market is seniors with disposable income. While the projects are a one-off concept for most seniors housing developers, some are making it a cornerstone of their development philosophies. For example, Georgia-based Formation Development Group, a subsidiary of private equity group Formation Capital, has opened four communities in mixed-use developments in Texas and Illinois since 2009. The company has a fifth currently under construction in Pennsylvania. “That’s an intentional strategy on our part,” …
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Facebook’s $1 billion data center in Fort Worth, which includes 440,000 square feet of server space and 70,000 square feet of administrative space, has gone operational. Construction of the property, which is situated on 150 acres at State Highway 170 and Park Vista Boulevard, began in June 2015. The Menlo Park, California-based media giant will also build a $267 million addition to the center that will deliver more than 400,000 square feet of additional space, according to The Dallas Morning News.
