ST. CHARLES, ILL. — Lee & Associates has brokered the $1.2 million sale of a 10,696-square-foot industrial building in the western Chicago suburb of St. Charles. Andrew Block of Lee & Associates represented the buyer, Labels & Specialty Products. The transaction marks the buyer’s second facility in St. Charles. Michael Marconi and Mark Kaplarevic of Transwestern represented the seller, Voestalpine Eifeler Coatings.
NEW YORK CITY — Law firm Meirowitz & Wasserberg has signed a 12,007-square-foot office lease expansion at 1040 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan. The deal is part of a series of leases that brings the 24-story building to 97 percent occupancy. Billy Cohen, J.D. Cohen and Ariel Harwood of Newmark represented the owner, Skyline Developers, in the lease negotiations. The tenant representative was not disclosed.
LAKEWOOD, COLO. — Colorado Christian University (CCU) is nearly the completion of $170 million of new facility construction at the Lakewood campus, just west of Denver. The facilities include Leprino Hall, an academic building; Yetter and Rockmont Halls, apartment-style residence halls; Anschutz Student Center; and the soon-to-be-completed Armstrong Center. The 60,000-square-foot Armstrong Center will enable the school of music to return to CCU’s main campus, expand the library, offer a 500-seat performance theater and provide the university with its first dedicated chapel. Additionally, CCU is investing $45 million for a new science and engineering building and athletic facilities.
SEATTLE — Washington Federal Bank, the wholly owned subsidiary of WaFd Inc. (NASDAQ: WAFD), has consummated the sale of approximately $2.8 billion of multifamily commercial real estate loans to Bank of America, which in turn is selling the loans to funds managed by Pacific Investment Management Co. The sale of the multifamily loans was executed at no loss to WaFd and provides immediate liquidity, according to the seller. The packaged loans all came from WaFd’s acquisition of Luther Burbank Savings in March. The sale of the CRE loans was not a condition of the merger.
SEATTLE — Kidder Mathews has negotiated the sale of Uptown Queen Anne Apartments, a mid-rise multifamily property at 315 First Ave. W. in Seattle. The seller, which originally developed the building in 2001, sold the asset to Trinity Real Estate for $19.9 million, or $331,000 per unit. Situated in the Queen Anne neighborhood, Uptown Queen Anne Apartments features 60 apartments and two commercial spaces. Jerrid Anderson and Winslow Lee of the Simon and Anderson team, a multifamily investment team based at Kidder Mathews’ Seattle headquarters, represented the seller in the off-market transaction.
NORTH PLAINS, ORE. — Colliers has arranged the completion of a 10-year lease agreement with DB Schenker, as the tenant, and the forward sale of North Plains Logistics Center to STAG Industrial Holdings. Far West Fibers sold the asset for an undisclosed price. Situated on 10.5 acres in North Plains, located within Oregon’s Silicon Forest submarket just west of Portland, North Plains Logistics Center features 201,750 square feet of industrial space. Jerry Matson and Colin Russell of Colliers, along with West Industrial Capital Markets’ Michael Kendall and Gian Bruno, represented the seller in the deal. Matson and Cole Hooper of Colliers represented tenant, DB Schenker, in the site selection and lease negotiations. Matson and Russell also represented the landlord in lease negotiations.
SAN DIMAS, CALIF. — CBRE has brokered the sale of Arrow Pines Business Park, an industrial business park in San Dimas. Arrow SD LLC acquired the asset from SoCal Industrial LLC, a joint venture between Birtcher Anderson Davis & Associates and Belay Investment Group, for $9.2 million. Built in 1987, Arrow Pines Business Park offers three buildings ranging in size from 11,240 square feet to 16,473 square feet, with unit sizes varying from 960 square feet to 3,192 square feet. The 44,125-square-foot property features 12- to 15-foot clear heights and 32 grade-level doors. The property is situated on 3.1 acres at 210 and 260 W. Arrow Highway and 440 S. Cataract Ave. CBRE Investment Properties’ Mark Shaffer, Anthony DeLorenzo, Gerand Poutier and Dylan Rutigliano, along with CBRE National Partners’ Barbara Perrier and Eric Cox, represented the seller in the deal.
CLEVELAND — Spark GHC and Cleveland Construction Inc. have formed a joint venture to redevelop a 400,000-square-foot office building in downtown Cleveland into mixed-use space. Dubbed Project Scarlet, the $100 million development involves the adaptive reuse of the Rose Building, which formerly served as the headquarters of insurance company Medical Mutual. The joint venture plans to transform the property into a boutique hotel with apartment units and ground-floor retail space. The project team says the development will not only breathe new life into a historic structure, but also address the evolving needs of the Cleveland community for contemporary living spaces and upscale hospitality offerings. Founded in 1934, Medical Mutual is the oldest and one of the largest health insurance companies based in Ohio. The Rose Building had served as the home of Medical Mutual since 1947, but the insurer announced in late 2022 that it would leave the downtown offices for its suburban headquarters in Brooklyn, Ohio, according to Cleveland.com. Since 2020, the Cleveland market has emptied nearly 2.4 million square feet of office space due to negative absorption, according to Newmark. The office vacancy rate increased to 23.4 percent in the first quarter of 2024, up 50 basis points …
By Taylor Williams If you build it, they will come — assuming “it” is equipped with the all the facilities, necessities and conveniences of 21st-century living. As residents and consumers, it is remarkably easy to overlook the critical pieces of infrastructure that enable these necessities and conveniences. From the perspective of end users, these facilities and systems are not instrumental to the success of commercial and residential developments because they are taken for granted as minimal requirements for occupancy. Further, in many cases, the infrastructure is not visible to the naked eye. Yet for developers, particularly those in high-growth regions like North Texas, infrastructure is anything but an afterthought. “In the eyes of developers, infrastructure is a primary aspect of any project,” says Jack Turnage, development manager at Wildcatter Realty Partners, the developer behind The Greenbelt, a 325-acre mixed-use project in Hunt County. “Without that, the only way to navigate our site is on horseback.” Located in Greenville on the northeastern outskirts of Dallas, The Greenbelt is one of numerous large-scale mixed-use projects sprouting up in the region. Plans call for close to 1,000 single-family and multifamily units; several hundred thousand square feet of commercial space; numerous restaurant pad sites; …
DENTON, TEXAS — A partnership between two Dallas-based firms, Town Cos. and BC2 Capital, and New Orleans-based Benson Capital Partners has purchased Panhandle at Rayzor Ranch, a 105-unit multifamily property located in the North Texas city of Denton. The complex is part of the 400-acre Rayzor Ranch mixed-use development. Information on floor plans and amenities was not disclosed. The seller and sales price were also not disclosed.
