ST. PETERS, MO. — SVN Chicago Commercial has arranged the $3.8 million sale of the Mercy Health medical office building in St. Peters, a northwest suburb of St. Louis. The 17,296-square-foot property is located at 107 Piper Hill Drive. Mercy Health occupies the building on a net-lease basis and recently executed a lease extension with substantial improvements to the site. Tim Franz of SVN represented the undisclosed seller. The asset sold to a West Coast-based REIT.
SIGNAL HILL, CALIF. — Tova Capital has purchased East Willow Village, an inline shop and pad space in Signal Hill, for $6.7 million in an off-market transaction. Signal Hill is approximately 20 miles south of Los Angeles. Located at 2201 E. Willow St., East Willow Village features 18,600 square feet of retail space. Turner’s Outdoorsman anchors the center on a 5,600-square-foot pad. Additional tenants include food, health, wellness and community-serving retail users. Kelly Hawkshaw, Luc Hawkshaw and Eric Mandell of Ally Commercial Real Estate represented Tova Capital in the deal. The seller was not disclosed.
BEACH PARK, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Self Storage of Beach Park, a 57,050-square-foot self-storage property in Beach Park, a city in northeast Illinois. The sales price was undisclosed. Completed in 2021, the asset features 197 non-climate-controlled units and 250 climate-controlled units within three single-story buildings. Sean Delaney of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company, and procured the buyer, Extra Space Storage. The property will be rebranded as Storage Express.
LAS VEGAS — Evans Senior Investments (ESI) has arranged the sale of a 45-bed post-acute rehab community in Las Vegas. The seller was a regional owner-operator. A national owner-operator with a presence in Nevada acquired the asset for $8.5 million, or $188,888 per bed. The community, exclusively licensed to accept Medicare only, has provided skilled nursing care since its inception in 2015. At the time of marketing, the facility was 73 percent occupied and had struggled to maintain healthy occupancy levels in previous months. Despite these challenges, ESI noted the facility’s growth potential and the anticipated Medicare rate increase set to take effect this year. The previous owner-operator made the strategic decision to divest this asset to better concentrate on its regional portfolio. This was the seller’s only asset outside of the state of Michigan.
By Taylor Williams Industry professionals who hail from and work in San Antonio often describe the city’s economy and real estate scene as steady and healthy in a sort of unspectacular way. Rarely does any commercial sector in San Antonio achieve the high highs and low lows of gateway coastal markets. Further, the market’s quiet consistency has come to stand out as its neighbor up the road, Austin, has exploded as a tech hub in the past decade, bringing with it fervent building booms that still can’t put a dent in the skyrocketing cost of living. Yet this same quality that in years past caused major retailers and restaurants — and investors — to pass on San Antonio is now a primary force that attracts them to the Alamo City, at least according to some local industry experts. Some of these individuals elaborated on the trend at the inaugural InterFace San Antonio retail conference, which took place on April 4 at the Hilton Palacio Del Rio hotel. Bethany Babcock, principal and co-owner of full-service firm Foresite Commercial Real Estate, was the first industry expert who addressed the market’s evolution in the post-COVID era. “We noticed at the last couple trade …
CULVER CITY, CALIF. AND AUSTIN, TEXAS — Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired theater chain Alamo Drafthouse Cinema from Altamont Capital Partners, Fortress Investment Group and founder Tim League for an undisclosed price. Alamo Drafthouse was founded in 1997 in Austin, and has grown from a single mom-and-pop location to 35 cinemas across 25 metropolitan areas. The company is the seventh-largest theater chain in North America and was one of the pioneers of the in-theater elevated food and drink concept. Alamo Drafthouse will maintain its headquarters in Austin and will continue to operate all of its locations, as well as the company’s Fantastic Fest film festival, which was included in the acquisition. Sony will manage these entities under a newly established division, Sony Pictures Experiences, led by Alamo Drafthouse CEO Michael Kustermann. The acquisition is groundbreaking, as it was recently made possible through the Department of Justice’s decision in 2020 to rescind the Paramount Decrees. Put into place by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1948, the Decrees mandated a separation between film distribution and exhibition, requiring major motion picture studios to divest of any theater holdings. “We are excited to make history with Sony Pictures Entertainment and have found the right home …
DALLAS — Newmark has arranged the sale of PROTO Park, a 257,192-square-foot industrial property located in Dallas. PROTO Park is a redevelopment of a 1960s-era brick warehouse that sits on a nine-acre site in the city’s Brookhollow area and features 24-foot clear heights. Dustin Volz, Stephen Bailey, Dom Espinosa and Zach Riebe of Newmark represented the seller, North Texas-based M2G Ventures, which developed the project in partnership with Pennybacker Capital, in the transaction. The buyer was California-based investment firm Bendetti. At the time of sale, PROTO Park was fully leased to tenants such as Dynasty Spirits, Taxila Stone, Preziosa Stone and an undisclosed aviation firm.
HOUSTON — Lone Star PACE has provided $15 million in C-PACE financing for a 53,000-square-foot retail property located within The Allen mixed-use development near downtown Houston. Lone Star PACE partnered with lender Nuveen Green Capital to administer the financing. Locally based developer DC Partners owns The Allen. C-PACE (commercial property-assessed clean energy) financing allows commercial borrowers to obtain favorable loan terms in exchange for implementing eco-friendly devices and initiatives at their properties.
DALLAS — Locally based development and investment firm Shoal Creek Capital is nearing completion of Trinity Industrial Park, an 80,000-square-foot industrial project in Dallas. The 5.3-acre site at 8733 N. Stemmons Freeway is located near Love Field Airport on the city’s northwest side, and the development consists of two buildings with 28-foot clear heights. Full completion is slated for July. NAI Robert Lynn is marketing the project for lease.
HOUSTON — Orion Group Holdings has signed a 63,519-square-foot office lease for its new headquarters space in Houston. The locally based marine and onshore specialty construction services provider is taking three full floors at East River, a 150-acre mixed-use development by Midway in the city’s Historic Fifth Ward. Collin Grimes and Bill Boyer of CBRE represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Amanda Nebel of Parkway, which launched a new company with Midway in May 2023, internally represented ownership.
