PITTSBURGH — JLL has negotiated the sale of a 125-room Holiday Inn Express & Suites hotel in Pittsburgh. The six-story hotel sits on a 1.7-acre site on the city’s south side and offers an indoor pool, fitness center, business center and 600 square feet of meeting and event space. Ketan Patel and Phil White of JLL represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of which requested anonymity, in the transaction. The sales price was also not disclosed.
WATERTOWN, MASS. — Seven new tenants have committed to spaces at Arsenal Yards, a mixed-use development in Watertown, located roughly 10 miles outside Boston. Tea One Tea House, Skin Laundry, Restore Hyper Wellness and GNC have recently opened stores, and Blackbird Doughnuts is scheduled to open this fall. Chip City and Medium Rare have also signed leases at the development, with Chip City scheduled to open later this year. A partnership between Wilder Cos. and Boylston Properties owns Arsenal Yards.
RANCHO SANTA FE, CALIF. — Steve Hermann Hotels has sold The Inn at Rancho Santa Fe, an 85-room luxury boutique resort in Rancho Santa Fe, a northern suburb of San Diego. An institutional investment fund purchased the asset for $100 million. The resort is currently undergoing a comprehensive renovation and should be fully operational by the end of this year. Sonnenblick-Eichner Company represented the seller.
NEW YORK CITY — Trading and technology firm GTS Securities has signed a two-year lease extension for its 30,094-square-foot office space at 545 Madison Avenue, a 17-story, 140,000-square-foot building in Manhattan’s Plaza District. The tenant’s footprint includes spaces on the 9th, 15th, 16th and 17th floors of the building, which is owned by Marx Realty. No third-party brokers were involved in the deal. Other tenants at 545 Madison Avenue include private equity firm Snow Phipps and Vialto Partners, a spinoff of PwC.
GARDEN GROVE, CALIF. — Driver SPG, a division of C.W. Driver Companies, has started construction of the St. Callistus Chapel and Crypts, a new worship space located underneath Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove. The $14.5 million chapel, designed in a modern Byzantine architectural style, will feature sacred art from Granda of Madrid, Spain, and will accommodate 220 people with a marble altar for masses and devotional shrines on each side. The project is scheduled for completion by summer 2024. It will include hundreds of niches and burial spaces for generations of Diocese of Orange bishops.
CITY OF INDUSTRY, CALIF. — CapRock Partners has acquired Valley Center Business Park, a 6.5-acre, multi-tenant industrial complex in the City of Industry. The property includes about 92,366 square feet of industrial warehouse space across six buildings. It is strategically positioned for value-add investment in the heart of San Gabriel Valley’s industrial market. CapRock plans to enhance the property’s functionality and marketability through immediate capital improvements.
ESCONDIDO, CALIF. — Express Dry has acquired a 14,000-square-foot industrial building located at 1449 Simpson Way in Escondido for $4.4 million. The purchase was made under the entity Expressunits1449 LLC. The building will facilitate the company’s expansion plans in the Escondido submarket of North San Diego County. JLL’s Chris Baumgart represented the buyer. San Diego Commercial represented the seller, Marky Sparky Toys.
SAN DIEGO — Phase 3 Real Estate Partners has signed three new leases with life sciences companies at GENESIS-Del Mar, an 86,000-square-foot lab building in the Del Mar Heights submarket of San Diego. The building is located at 12250 El Camino Real. The new biotech companies, Mabwell Therapeutics, Genece Health and Lygos, will occupy spaces ranging from 4,000 square feet to 12,000 square feet. JLL’s Chad Urie, Grant Schoneman and Taylor DeBerry represented Phase 3 Real Estate Partners in the three lease transactions.
AURORA, ILL. — Focus, in collaboration with development partner Atlantic Residential and property owner Centennial, has begun the second phase of redevelopment at Fox Valley shopping center in Aurora. This phase includes a 323-unit luxury apartment community as well as a 212-unit seniors housing development, each expected to be completed by fall 2025. In June, Focus completed Lumen, a 304-unit luxury apartment community now being leased at Fox Valley. Being constructed on the site of a former Carson’s store, Phase II will feature apartments with unique amenities such as an outdoor coworking space. The senior living component will offer independent living, assisted living and memory care services. Announcements regarding retail, entertainment and restaurant tenants will be made closer to the completion of Phase II.
REDFORD, MICH. — DTE Energy has inked a new industrial lease for 528,340 square feet at Pinnacle Logistics Park in Redford, a northwest suburb of Detroit. The property is located at 24400 Glendale Road. Jared Friedman of Friedman Real Estate represented the undisclosed landlord. CBRE represented Detroit-based DTE, which will use the facility to store equipment.