PHILADELPHIA — Rittenhouse Realty Advisors has arranged the sale of a 272-bed student housing portfolio in Philadelphia. The portfolio consists of five buildings totaling 106 units that serve the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University and Temple University. The portfolio features a mix of newly constructed buildings and value-add assets. The buyer and seller were not disclosed.
UPPER MACUNGIE, PA. — New Jersey-based Woodmont Properties has completed the lease-up of Woodmont Ridge in Upper Macungie, located in the Lehigh Valley area. The property consists of 36 carriage homes in two-bedroom formats that feature open floor plans, modern plank floors and quartz countertops. Amenities include a pool, resident lounge, game room, theater room and a fitness center. The majority of the units also feature attached garages.
PHILADELPHIA — New York City-based RAL Development Services is nearing completion of Broadridge, a 478-unit apartment community that will be located at 1300 Fairmount Ave. near downtown Philadelphia. The property will span 305,000 square feet of residential space within a 14-story building. Units will feature studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans, and amenities will include two outdoor terraces totaling 30,000 square feet, a pool, grilling area, yoga lawn and a dog run. The project will also include 60,000 square feet of retail space that is leased to German discount grocer ALDI, which opened this week, and Spring Education Group, which will open a Chesterbrook Academy Preschool at the site in the near future. Residential move-ins are expected to begin in March. Information on starting rental rates was not released.
WARRENDALE, PA. — Postal Realty Trust (NYSE: PSTL), a New York-based REIT, has acquired a 431,000-square-foot industrial building located in the northern Pittsburgh suburb of Warrendale for $47 million. The property was fully leased at the time of sale to three tenants, with a USPS processing and distribution facility occupying roughly 75 percent of the space. The other tenants are Omnicell Inc., a provider of operational solutions for healthcare facilities, and DBC Real Estate Management LLC, a regional multifamily owner-operator. The seller was not disclosed. Postal Realty Trust now owns 714 properties in 47 states totaling 2.6 million square feet of net leasable commercial space.
PHILADELPHIA — A partnership between developers Silverstein Properties and University Place Associates, as well as financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald LP, will develop a 250,000-square-foot life sciences facility in Philadelphia. The property will be named 3.0 University Place in reference to its location within the University City area, a hotbed of life sciences growth. The Steward Partnership is designing the eight-story lab and office building, which is expected to come on line in the fourth quarter of 2022. According to the Philadelphia Business Journal, the project has a price tag of $56 million.
BLUE BELL, PA. — Saudi Arabian investment firm Sidra Capital has acquired a 90 percent stake in Arborcrest Corporate Campus, an 855,600-square-foot office property located in the Philadelphia suburb of Blue Bell. The five-building campus was completed in two phases between 2015 and 2019 and maintains a sizable life sciences and biotechnology footprint. JLL brokered the deal between Sidra Capital and Spear Street Capital, which retains the other 10 percent ownership in the campus.
PHILADELPHIA — TJX, the parent company of T.J. Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods, has signed a 282,800-square-foot build-to-suit industrial lease at 9801 Blue Grass Road in northeast Philadelphia. The site originally housed a commercial bakery that was built in the 1950s. DH Property Holdings owns the site, and Bridge Development is developing the new facility, which will feature 53-foot clear heights and ample trailer parking. Demolition of the existing facility is expected to begin in the first quarter of 2021, and construction is expected to last 12 to 18 months. Richard Gorodesky of Colliers represented TJX in the deal.
MYERSTOWN, PA. — A fund sponsored by CBRE Global Investors has acquired an 832,000-square-foot industrial facility located at 53 Central Blvd. in Myerstown, a city located within Lebanon County. The cross-dock building, which was acquired as part of a 1.4 million-square-foot portfolio sale, is situated on 72.8 acres and features 36-foot clear heights, 190-foot truck court depths and an ESFR sprinkler system. Michael Hines, Brian Fiumara, Brad Ruppel and Lauren Dawicki of CBRE marketed the facility and negotiated the terms of sale on behalf of the undisclosed seller.
Dick’s Sporting Goods Reports 23.2 Percent Third-Quarter Sales Increase, Announces Leadership Change
PITTSBURGH — Dick’s Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS) reported a 23.2 percent increase in same-store sales for its fiscal third quarter that ended on Oct. 31, the company’s best performance in same-store sales since going public nearly two decades ago. In addition, the Pittsburgh-based retailer saw its e-commerce sales rise by 95 percent relative to the third quarter of 2019, ending the period with roughly $1.1 billion in cash. Net income for the third quarter stood at approximately $177 million, a healthy 67 percent increase from the $57.5 million in net income reported in the third quarter of last year. Dick’s Sporting Goods also announced that as of Feb. 1, 2021, chairman and CEO Edward Stack will assume the role of executive chairman. Lauren Hobart will be the new president and CEO under the long-term succession plan. The company’s stock price opened at $58.74 per share on Tuesday, up from $40.41 per share a year ago.
PITTSBURGH — Regional Industrial Development Corp. (RIDC) has completed the second phase of the redevelopment of Mill 19, a former steel mill in Pittsburgh, a project valued at more than $100 million. The new buildings feature light industrial, lab, office and workshop space and are located near Uber’s autonomous vehicle test track. Tenants at the redeveloped property include global tech firm Motional, the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute, Carnegie Mellon University’s Manufacturing Futures Initiative and Catalyst Connection. Construction originally began in 2017. The mill was redeveloped to be eco-friendly and sustainable and includes 110,000 square feet of rooftop solar panels and will produce over 2 million kilowatt hours of energy per year.