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FRANKLIN PARK, ILL. — CRG has sold The Cubes at ORD, a newly constructed industrial building totaling 66,552 square feet in Franklin Park, located immediately southeast of the Chicago O’Hare International Airport. Developed on a speculative basis in 2025, the facility is fully leased to Worldwide Flight Services. The infill development offers direct access to I-294 and features 20 exterior dock doors, two drive-in doors, 11 trailer storage spaces and parking for 70 vehicles. Erik Foster, Mike Wilson, Brian Colson and Brian Pomorski of Avison Young represented CRG in the transaction. Matt Mulvihill of CBRE represented the tenant. The buyer and sales price were undisclosed. CRG integrated partner LJC designed The Cubes at ORD, while parent company Clayco served as general contractor.

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CHICAGO — Greenstone Partners has brokered the $5.6 million sale of a retail and medical property located at 1455 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. The urban infill asset sold for 98 percent of the list price to a New York-based buyer. The two-story property features 11,370 rentable square feet, roughly 125 feet of frontage along North Milwaukee Avenue and a private surface parking lot with 23 dedicated spaces. Barry’s Bootcamp occupies the ground floor. The upper level is leased to medical services provider Kindbody, formerly Vios Fertility Institute. Danny Spitz and Brewster Hague of Greenstone represented the seller, a Chicago-based investment and development company, and procured the buyer.

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PHILADELPHIA — Banco Inbursa has provided a $150 million senior construction loan for a multifamily project that will be located within Wharton Piers, a mixed-use waterfront development in South Philadelphia. The project will consist of a 36-story residential building and a single-story commercial building for a total of 620 market-rate apartments and 30,800 square feet of retail space. The borrower/developer is New York City-based Brevet Capital. Construction is expected to begin in early 2027, with leasing to commence in the fourth quarter of 2028. Full completion is slated for the first quarter of 2029.

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MORRISTOWN, N.J. — CBRE has arranged a $40 million construction loan for an 89-unit multifamily project that will be located in the Northern New Jersey community of Morristown. Known as Morristown Station, the development will comprise 76 market-rate apartments and 13  affordable housing units, mostly in two-bedroom floor plans, as well as 5,111 square feet of retail space. Matthew Pizzolato and Josh Stein of CBRE arranged the loan through Truist Bank on behalf of the owner, an entity doing business as Lackawanna Place Morristown Urban Renewal LLC.

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BEDFORD, MASS. — Newmark has negotiated a 47,500-square-foot industrial lease in Bedford, located northwest of Boston. The tenant is sustainable energy company Fourth Power, and the space is located within a newly built, 147,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility. Torin Taylor, Rich Ruggiero, Matt Adams, Tyler McGrail and Rory Walsh of Newmark represented the landlord, a partnership between Camber Development and Wheelock Street Capital, in the lease negotiations. Rob Glor and Michael Goodwin of Rise73 represented the tenant.

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PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Provident Bank has signed a 23,000-square-foot office lease in the Northern New Jersey community of Parsippany. The lender is taking space at the 200,000-square-foot building at 9 Entin Road. Jeff Babikian and Mark Trevisan of CBRE represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Jamie Drummond, Andrew Perrotti and Luke Reid of Newmark represented the landlord, American Equity Partners.

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By Ryan Brittain, Colliers Speculative construction has always carried a certain boldness in industrial real estate. Building without a tenant can either signal visionary thinking or a bold bet on future demand.  In metro Detroit, that confidence was on full display during the post-COVID boom. To meet the surge in tenant demand, highly respected industrial developers raced to deliver modern distribution space across the region. At the height, preleasing was not always necessary but often occurred. Developers pushed forward on new Class A warehouses, confident that tenant requirements would catch up and, for a time, they did. Yet here we are in 2026, and speculative development is not an idea of the past. It is returning, this time with more discipline. This is not another Resurgit cineribus Detroit comeback story, but rather a thoughtful recalibration. The “Return of the Spec” reflects a market that has matured and learned, not one that has overheated. To understand it today, it helps to revisit how we arrived. As a wave of newly completed speculative projects delivered (at one point, the market saw 12 million square feet under construction), availability expanded. Shortly thereafter, the automotive industry hit an uncertain patch in late 2023. Vacancy …

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EL PASO, TEXAS — Dallas-based development and investment firm Green Point Property Co. is underway on construction of Sky Park El Paso, a 200-acre industrial project. Phase I will consist of two buildings: a 443,975-square-foot, cross-dock warehouse/flex building and an adjacent 192,490-square-foot, rear-load building. Project partners include Silverado Interests (equity partner), Stellar Bank (construction lender), Ridgemont Commercial Construction (general contractor) and CBRE (leasing agent). Phase I is expected to be substantially complete before the end of the year.

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DALLAS — Harbert South Bay will develop The Marianne on Inwood, a 162-unit seniors housing project in Dallas. The site is adjacent to the Highland Park area, and the 294,000-square-foot facility will offer independent living, assisted living and memory care residences. Amenities will include multiple dining venues, indoor and outdoor pools, a gym, hair salon, media lounge and a golf simulator. Project partners include Arcadis (architect), Bozzuto Construction (general contractor) and Momentum Senior Living (operator). Construction will begin in the coming weeks, and completion is scheduled for 2027.

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MANVEL, TEXAS — Lowe’s Home Improvement has opened a 94,000-square-foot store in Manvel, a southern suburb of Houston. The store, which includes a 30,000-square-foot garden and nursery and will ultimately employ about 100 people, is located within Weitzman’s 273-acre Manvel Town Center mixed-use development. James Namken, Kyle Knight and Emily Guenther represented Weitzman in the lease negotiations on an internal basis. Lowe’s was self-represented.

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