TOMBALL, TEXAS — Black Bear Diner will open a 5,250-square-foot restaurant at the intersection of State Highway 249 and the Grand Parkway in the northwestern Houston suburb of Tomball. Andrew Alvis represented the landlord, NewQuest Properties, in the lease negotiations on an internal basis. Matt Parsons of JLL represented the tenant. A tentative opening date was not disclosed.
PHILADELPHIA — The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has topped out the Morgan Center for Research & Innovation, a healthcare project valued at $480 million. The 17-story, 350,000-square-foot facility is located on CHOP’s campus in South Philadelphia and will include both wet and dry lab space. Construction began in October 2022, and the development team includes a trio of general contractors and construction managers: Gilbane Building Co., Pride Enterprises and McKissack & McKissack. Mitchell Morgan, founder and chairman of multifamily development firm Morgan Properties, and his family donated $50 million to the project. Full completion is slated for some time next year.
PEABODY, MASS. — New York City-based Tishman Speyer will undertake a 700,000-square-foot industrial redevelopment project in Peabody, a northern suburb of Boston. For the past 40 years, the 60-acre site at 8 Centennial Drive served as the headquarters of Analogic, a multinational corporation that specializes in healthcare technology and aviation security products and services. The project will convert the former 515,000-square-foot office and manufacturing campus into a warehouse and distribution center with four buildings that will range in size from 130,000 to 260,000 square feet. Tishman Speyer is redeveloping the property in partnership with Mitsui Fudosan America. A construction timeline has not yet been established. Analogic was also the seller of the property.
LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. — Reynolds Asset Management has received a $16 million loan for the refinancing of Princeton Pike Office Park, a six-building campus located just north of Trenton in Lawrenceville. Northwest Bank provided the loan, which carries a fixed interest rate of 6.6 percent. Reynolds acquired the property in April 2022 in partnership with Capital Solutions, at which time the campus was 50 percent leased, and implemented a capital improvement program. Today, Princeton Pike Office Park has an occupancy rate of 95 percent.
BALA CYNWYD, PA. — Federal Realty Investment Trust has broken ground on a 217-unit multifamily redevelopment project in Bala Cynwyd, a northwestern suburb of Philadelphia. The project, which represents the second phase of a larger redevelopment, will convert a former 120,000-square-foot Lord & Taylor department store into an apartment complex with 16,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Bernardon is the project architect, and Bohler is the civil engineer. Construction is slated for a 2026 completion. Federal Realty received zoning approval for the project in February.
NEW YORK CITY — Room 11 Hospitality has signed a 23,000-square-foot retail lease in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg district. The space at 25 Kent, a 511,000-square-foot mixed-use building, will be an event and catering venue for Room 11 affiliate La Sirena Events. Sam Seiler and Joe Whitten Morris of JLL represented the landlord, Rubenstein Partners, in the lease negotiations. Seiler also represented the tenant in conjunction with Joseph Sipala of JLL. The venue is scheduled to open next spring.
ELLENDALE, N.D. — CIM Group has provided a $125 million loan with a potential increase up to $200 million to fund construction of Applied Digital’s High-Performance Computing (HPC) Campus in Ellendale, a city in southern North Dakota. The data center is designed to provide massive computing power and support HPC applications. Applied Digital is a designer, builder and operator of next-generation digital infrastructure for HPC applications. The company began construction on the first building at its HPC campus in October. Applied Digital has also executed a Letter of Intent with a U.S.-based hyperscaler for a 400-megawatt lease at the campus, which has more than 600 megawatts of future capacity.
CHICAGO — DMG Capital, the multifamily investment affiliate of Chicago-based Daniel Management Group, has acquired Linkt Apartments in Chicago’s River West neighborhood for $14.2 million. The luxury apartment property includes 47 units and two street-level retail spaces. The asset is 95 percent occupied. DMG will manage the building and oversee a common area refresh and light unit rehabs. The fitness center, outdoor green space and lobby will all be part of upgrades that will occur in the second half of this year. The acquisition marks DMG Capital’s third in six months, totaling $40 million in new assets. Philip Galligan and Danny Kaufman of JLL Capital Markets arranged debt financing through Freddie Mac. Meredith Katz and Ariel Murray of Greenberg Traurig LLP represented DMG in the purchase. Craig Martin and Joe Smazal of Interra Realty brokered the transaction on behalf of the buyer and undisclosed seller.
GREEN BAY, WIS. — Brisky Net Lease has brokered the sale of a 186,588-square-foot industrial property in Green Bay for $11.7 million. The single-tenant building is located at 3181 Commodity Lane. The tenant, Itasca, Ill.-based Advanced Converting Works, provides solutions for the flexible packaging converting industry. There are 15 years remaining on the lease. Brian Brisky of Brisky Net Lease represented the seller, a REIT. The buyer was undisclosed.
ELGIN, ILL. — Venture One Real Estate, through its acquisition fund VK Industrial VI LP, has acquired a 32,496-square-foot industrial building in Elgin for an undisclosed price. Located on Church Road and built in 1979, the property is fully leased to three tenants. The facility features three docks, four drive-in doors and parking for 30 cars. Nick Kyriazes of 360 Real Estate Services represented the undisclosed seller, while Matthew Lee and Parker Ray of Core Industrial Realty represented Venture One. VK Industrial VI is co-sponsored by Venture One and Kovitz Investment Group.