PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Link Logistics will undertake a 123,000-square-foot industrial redevelopment project in the Northern New Jersey community of Parsippany. According to Parsippany Focus, the 10.4-acre site at 2 Hilton Court was previously home to Japanese pharmaceutical company Daiichi Sankyo, which vacated the premises in 2016 but continued paying the lease through 2022. Marc Duval, Jose Cruz, Jordan Avanzato, Nicholas Stefans and Jason Lundy of JLL brokered the land sale. The seller was not disclosed, but the local publication also reports that Onyx Equities purchased the property in 2020.
SADDLE RIVER, N.J. — Saddle River Day School, which is located near the New York-New Jersey border and serves students in grades prekindergarten through 12, is planning a new, 32,000-square-foot science and entrepreneurship facility. The building will house 13 classrooms, five small group instruction rooms, including three specialty learning spaces and four science labs, as well as faculty offices, an upperschool commons, social spaces and a new admissions center. DIGroup Architecture has been tapped to design the project. A general contractor has not yet been named.
BROOKHAVEN, GA. — Insurance giant AIG plans to establish a new regional office at Perimeter Summit, an 83-acre mixed-use development in Brookhaven, a northeast suburb of Atlanta. The firm will occupy 180,000 square feet of office space across seven floors at Summit Two. The new space will consolidate AIG’s existing offices in Atlanta’s Buckhead and North Fulton submarkets and will triple its current office footprint, according to the office of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. The firm plans to house 1,200 employees at the new office and create at least 600 new positions over the next five years. Brooke Dewey, Adam Viente and Alexis Vondersaar of JLL handle leasing efforts for Perimeter Summit on behalf of the developer and landlord, Spear Street Capital. Josh Hirsh, Gregg Metcalf and Patrick Baughman of JLL represented AIG in the lease deal. In addition to the Summit Two office building, Perimeter Summit features a Hyatt Regency hotel and an upcoming 350-unit apartment development by High Street Residential dubbed Residences at Perimeter Summit. Summit Two is a 414,000-square-foot, 18-story office tower that features a coffee shop, large lobby, covered parking, outdoor dining areas, fitness center, market and a café.
MIAMI — Swire Properties has announced 11 new tenants as part of the North Block expansion at Brickell City Centre, a mixed-use development located at 701 S. Miami Ave. in Miami’s Brickell district. The new deals total 65,800 square feet and feature a mix of recent openings and openings for later this year and 2025. The new tenants joining Brickell City Centre include an anchor store for H&M (open); Black Tap Craft Burgers & Beer (open); FP Movement; 7 For All Mankind (open); Anthropologie; John Varvatos; Lacoste; Marc Jacobs; Nespresso; Mango; and Aritzia. Brickell City Centre is a $1 billion, 4.9 million-square-foot mixed-use development comprising two residential towers, two mid-rise office buildings, the EAST Miami hotel and 500,000 square feet of retail and restaurants.
DORAL, FLA. — An affiliate of The Easton Group has acquired a single-tenant department store and adjacent parking lot in the Miami suburb of Doral for $12 million. Situated on a 10-acre site within Miami International Mall, the property totals 150,108 square feet of big box retail space. JCPenney currently occupies the building. Edward Easton, CEO and chairman of Easton Group, says that the company will keep JCPenney in place “as long as the rent payments remain current.”
ANNAPOLIS, MD. — Berkadia’s Seniors Housing & Healthcare team has brokered the sale of Gardens of Annapolis, a 106-unit active adult community. A joint venture between Corten Real Estate and Real Asset Industries purchased the property from Crow Holdings, a Texas-based real estate investment and development firm. Cody Tremper, Dave Fasano, Ross Sanders and Mike Garbers of Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare represented Crow Holdings in the transaction. Berkadia also provided $17.4 million in Fannie Mae acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer. The seven-year, fixed-rate acquisition loan features both an attractive interest rate and interest-only period, according to Berkadia. Austin Sacco, Steve Muth and Alec Rosenfeld of Berkadia originated the acquisition financing. Built in 2002, Gardens of Annapolis is located near historic downtown Annapolis and the U.S. Naval Academy. The property features a mix of 42 one-bedroom, one-bathroom units; 23 two-bedroom, one-bathroom units; and 41 two-bedroom, two-bathroom units.
MEMPHIS, TENN. — Marcus & Millichap’s Taylor McMinn Retail Group in Atlanta has brokered the sale of a newly built restaurant in a southern suburb of Memphis. Whataburger occupies the 3,318-square-foot property on a 14-year, corporate-guaranteed ground lease with rent increases in the initial term and extension options. The restaurant serves as an outparcel to a Walmart Supercenter. Don McMinn of Taylor McMinn represented the seller, a Tennessee-based firm that is a preferred development partner of the Whataburger brand, in the transaction. The buyer was an all-cash investor from California that purchased the restaurant for an undisclosed price in a 1031 exchange. “You can’t underestimate the importance in the relationship between price point and cap rates in today’s market,” says McMinn. “Lower price point deals will get significantly more activity and trade more aggressively.”
COLUMBIA, MO. — A joint venture between The Preiss Co. and a private equity real estate fund advised by Crow Holdings Capital has acquired Elevate 231, a 972-bed student housing community located near the University of Missouri campus in Columbia. The development, which has been rebranded The Collective at Columbia, offers 318 cottage-style units in two- through four-bedroom configurations. Shared amenities at the 50-acre property include a newly renovated clubhouse, resort-style swimming pool, dog park, sand volleyball court and outdoor grilling and cornhole areas. The community was fully occupied at the time of sale. The new ownership plans to launch a comprehensive interior renovation for approximately half of the units imminently. Upgrades will include the installation of new cabinets, countertops, lighting and flooring, as well as the addition of modern furniture packages and smart home technology. Ben Roelke and Ian Walker of Newmark arranged $47.5 million in acquisition financing. An undisclosed life insurance company provided the five-year loan, which features a fixed interest rate of 5.56 percent and interest-only payments for the full term. Aspen Square Management was the seller.
CHICAGO — Skender has broken ground on United Yards, a three-building affordable housing development in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood. Celadon Partners and Blackwood Group are the developers, and DesignBridge is the architect. The project will consist of a 45-unit, six-story apartment building with a ground-floor business entrepreneur hub and youth programming space at 4703 S. Justine St. as well as two three-flat, modular apartment buildings at 1639 and 1641 W. 47th St. Completion is slated for October 2025. Tandem Ventures is managing regulatory compliance, maximizing community engagement and creating local employment opportunities on the project. Other partners include Virgilio & Associates as structural engineer and Element Energy as mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineer.
CHICAGO — Southern California-based private equity firm IRA Capital has acquired a 41,500-square-foot medical outpatient facility in Chicago’s South Loop. The purchase price was $21.8 million, according to Crain’s Chicago Business. Located at 1411 S. Michigan Ave., the facility occupies five floors of a 15-story building and is fully leased to Rush University Medical Center. Constructed in 2018 as a build-to-suit for Rush, the facility is one of the healthcare provider’s largest outpatient centers, offering both adult and pediatric primary care as well as more than 20 medical specialties. The multispecialty clinic includes 61 exam and procedure rooms and is supported by a team of over 60 physicians.