NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of a corner development site located at 141-57 Northern Blvd. in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens. NY EZ Property Holdings LLC acquired the site from 141-57 Northern Boulevard Inc. for $23 million. The 22,663-square-foot lot allows up to 67,989 square feet of mixed-use development. The site currently features a 14,200-square-foot building occupied by a commercial tenant and Bank of America. Stephen Preuss and Stephen Palmese of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the deal.
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ST. PAUL, MINN. — CBRE, on behalf of Ford Motor Co., is seeking offers from developers for the 143-acre former Ford Motor Co. assembly plant site in St. Paul. Demolition of the assembly plant has been completed and environmental remediation is slated to be finished soon. Richard Palmiter, Brian Pankratz and Steve Lehr of CBRE Land Services began marketing the site for sale in December. Offers from interested parties are due by Feb. 23. The zoning framework for the site calls for a new mixed-use neighborhood on the banks of the Mississippi River.
Millennial Development Partners Announces Plans for Master-Planned Community in Idaho
by Katie Sloan
POCATELLO, IDAHO — Millennial Development Partners has announced plans for Northgate District, a master planned community located in Pocatello, a city in southeastern Idaho. At completion, the development will feature 10,000 residential units; a 1 million-square-foot office/technology park that will support 6,000 jobs; a medical campus; and a shopping district. The residential portion of the community will include single-family homes, condominiums and apartments. Phase I of the project is set to include a retail center, the beginning stages of an Office IT Park and between 500 and 1,000 residential units. Groundbreaking on a new interchange and Phase I of the development is scheduled for later this year. Millennial has selected Coldwell Banker Commercial Advisors to lead commercial sales and leasing efforts for the development. The company has also partnered with Geomancer, a real estate investment startup that blends market analytics, GIS mapping services and data visualization via a software platform. Salt Lake City-based Millennial Development Partners specializes in multifamily, office, industrial, retail and master planned developments. The company has completed 100 real estate projects. — Katie Sloan
EDINA, MINN. — Dougherty Funding LLC has arranged a $54.1 million construction loan for the Market Street redevelopment in the 50th and France neighborhood of Edina. A joint venture between Buhl Investors and Saturday Properties plans to develop 100 luxury apartment units, approximately 33,000 square feet of street-level retail space, 271 stalls of underground parking and a community plaza. The lender was not disclosed. Construction is scheduled to take place in two phases beginning in August, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio City Council has approved the sale of 10 acres on San Antonio’s east side for the development of Echo East, a $65 million mixed-use project. The council also awarded a $450,000 grant for the project, which will be developed by Michigan-based Foremost Development Co. According to San Antonio Express-News, the project will include roughly 500 residential units and 25,000 square feet of retail space. A timetable for construction has not yet been established.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Unicorp National Developments Inc. has unveiled plans for O-Town West, a $1 billion mixed-use development located at the corner of Palm Parkway and Daryl Carter Parkway in Orlando. The development will feature retail, restaurants, upscale apartments, a 600-car garage and a water show in the style of The Fountains of Bellagio in Las Vegas. The retail portion of the 82-acre development will be housed in two segments: the Village at O-Town West and the Boardwalk at O-Town West, according to reports by Orlando Weekly. The Village will feature retailers offering everyday necessities, including a national grocery store. The Boardwalk will offer new-to-market restaurants and retail. A 15,000-unit multifamily community is also planned for the development, alongside 300 to 400 homes, all of which will overlook a recreational lagoon by Miami-based Crystal Lagoons. Groundbreaking is slated for early 2019, with a grand opening projected for summer 2020, Orlando Weekly reports. Unicorp has developed over $2.5 billion worth of commercial and residential real estate, with a focus on retail, mixed-use centers, multifamily and master-planned communities. The company recently developed I-Drive 360 in Orlando, a mixed-use development featuring an observation wheel known as the Coca-Cola Orlando Eye. A $100 million Phase II is currently …
MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. — Concord Capital New York has purchased Playtogs Shopping Plaza, a mixed-use shopping plaza situated on 18 acres at 130-138, 144-146 and 156 Dolson Ave. Concord Capital plans to renovate the existing structure, rename the property Middletown Plaza and Playtogs Corporate Center and lease the mall. The property is a 203,000-square-foot four-building community retail center with more than 40 retail spaces. At the time of sale, the property was 40 percent leased to a variety of tenants, including Family Dollar, TD Bank, Rent-A-Center, Mavis Discount Tire, Carvel and Middletown Cinemas.
CALGARY, ALBERTA AND SAN DIEGO — Brookfield Residential Properties Inc., the residential development arm of private equity firm Brookfield Asset Management, has closed on its acquisition of OliverMcMillan, a San Diego-based developer of large-scale mixed-use properties. Details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but on a conference call Wednesday (Feb. 7), Brookfield Residential chairman and CEO Alan Norris stated that the acquisition encompasses “certain assets” of OliverMcMillan. According to a release from Brookfield Residential, OliverMcMillan will continue to design and build mixed-use developments and will also continue to manage its existing real estate assets. “We simply could not have found a better long-term home,” says Dene Oliver, CEO of OliverMcMillan, in a prepared statement about the merger with Brookfield Residential. OliverMcMillan has several mixed-use projects under development across the country, including the second phases of River Oaks District in Houston and Buckhead Atlanta in Atlanta’s Buckhead district. As part of the merger, Brookfield Residential is acquiring the future pipeline of these two projects but not the operations of the existing assets, according to a source familiar with the acquisition. The second phase of Buckhead Atlanta includes 315,000 square feet of office space, according to the OliverMcMillan website. The project’s first …
NEW YORK CITY — Madison Realty Capital has provided $45.5 million in financing to a New York-based developer to complete the construction of 22 Bond Street, a mixed-use condominium development in the Noho neighborhood of Manhattan. The 11-story, 34,035-square-foot development features a 4,245-square-foot commercial condominium on the cellar and grade levels and six residential condominiums on the upper floors. The residential condominiums are three-bedroom, 3.5-bath duplex units with private elevator access and terraces. On-site amenities include an outdoor garden, storage and a resident lounge. Completion is slated for spring 2018.
NEW YORK CITY — The Vorea Group has purchased a development site, located at 45-57 Davis St. in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, for $21.6 million. Stephen Preuss of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, 45-57 Realty Corp., in the transaction. The site comprises three contiguous tax lots and offers 108,000 buildable square feet within multiple zoning districts, allowing for mixed-use, residential and commercial development.