CHICAGO — Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital LLC (BWE) has secured a $74.5 million life company loan on behalf of Continental Realty Corp. (CRC) for the acquisition of a Chicagoland shopping center portfolio. CRC acquired the portfolio from DiMucci Cos. Comprising five properties and 900,000 square feet, the portfolio was 82 percent leased at the time of sale. The sale included Cicero Marketplace in Cicero, Ill.; Northwest Shopping Center and English Valley in Palatine, Ill.; Golf Plaza II in Mount Prospect, Ill.; and Fox River Commons in Naperville, Ill. Together, the shopping centers feature almost 70 tenants, with a focus on grocery and necessity retailers, such as Sam’s Club, Home Depot, Jewel Osco, Walgreens and Kroger. Daniel Rosenberg of BWE’s Chicago office arranged the three-year fixed-rate, interest-only loan. CRC will use the financing to fund the portfolio acquisition as well as capital improvements, renovations and leasing costs to increase occupancy.
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Magnus Capital Partners to Break Ground on $51.5M Workforce Housing Development in Grand Rapids
by Jeff Shaw
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. — Magnus Capital Partners, a Grand Rapids-based asset management and real estate investment firm, is set to break ground Dec. 19 on HōM Flats at Maynard, a new $51.5 million multifamily housing development located in Grand Rapids. Situated on 12.8 acres off Lake Michigan Drive NW, HōM Flats at Maynard will comprise seven buildings and 240 one-, two- and three-bedrooms apartments. Amenities at the community will include fitness and yoga centers, play spaces for children, indoor and outdoor dog parks, a pet spa, a café, rooftop lounge, indoor bike storage, a game room and green spaces. Once constructed, HōM Flats at Maynard will join Magnus Capital Partners’ current portfolio of HōM Flats at 28 West in Wyoming, Michigan and HōM Flats at Felch Street in Holland, Michigan. Both properties were completed in 2021. Hooker DeYoung will serve as the architect and Rhode Construction will serve as general contractor for the project. Magnus Capital and its equity partner, Stratford, received project approval from the Michigan State Housing Development Authority in late November. The project will be financed through the federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program, making the apartments affordable based on tenant income. The developer is targeting tenants …
OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — LANE4 Property Group has purchased Hawthorne Plaza, a 135,000-square-foot retail center located at the southwest corner of 119th St. and Roe Ave. in Overland Park, approximately 10 miles south of Kansas City. CBRE represented the seller, Dallas-based Invesco. Developed in 1990 and renovated in 2015, the property was 96 percent occupied at the time of sale. Tom O’Leary and Weston Buckley of LANE4 will handle leasing of the property. LANE4 will also provide in-house management of the center. The purchase price was not disclosed.
TERRE HAUTE, IND. — Tampa, Florida-based real estate investment firm Gray Capital has acquired Sycamore Terrace Apartments in Terre Haute as part of its $100 million multifamily investment fund, The Gray Fund. The sale was brokered by Cushman & Wakefield. The sales price was not disclosed. Sycamore Terrace Apartments is a 250-unit luxury multifamily apartment community. The community offers one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans and amenities such as a swimming pool, fitness center, clubhouse and a media center. Gray Capital plans to repaint the exteriors of the property, as well as install a controlled access and gate system. Sycamore Terrace Apartments will be managed by Gray Capital’s property management company, Gray Residential. George Tikijian, Hannah Ott and Cameron Benz of Cushman & Wakefield’s Indianapolis office represented the seller in the transaction. Gray Capital represented itself in the deal.
BLACK RIVER FALLS, WIS. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Comfort Inn and Suites Black River Falls I-94, a 75-room hotel property located in Black River Falls, approximately 45 miles northeast of La Crosse. Ebrahim Valliani and Michael Gantman of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, in the transaction. Valliani and Gantman, with Todd Lindblom of Marcus & Millichap, also represented the buyer, an undisclosed private investor. Chris Gomes and Allan Miller of Marcus & Millichap also assisted the deal as brokers. The property, located on 6.8 acres at N6295 Holiday Drive, was originally built in 1997. The sales price was not disclosed.
JLL Arranges $110M Refinancing for Two Adjacent Beachfront Hotels in Pensacola Beach, Florida
by John Nelson
PENSACOLA BEACH, FLA. — JLL has arranged the $110 million refinancing for two adjacent beachfront hotels totaling 481 rooms in Pensacola Beach. The properties include the 275-room Hilton Pensacola Beach and the 206-room Holiday Inn Resort Pensacola Beach. Located at 12 and 14 Via De Luna Drive, both hotels have approximately 300 square feet of frontage along Pensacola Beach. Jeff Bucaro, Maddie Blount and Mark DesLauries of JLL’s Hotels & Hospitality team represented the borrower, Innisfree Hotels, in securing the five-year, fixed-rate loan with flexible repayment options through an unnamed regional bank. The loan proceeds were used to pay off a maturing CMBS loan that JLL secured 10 years ago. In addition, the loan included over $18 million for future capital improvements and $23 million of cash back to the sponsorship. This transaction represents over $500 million that JLL has secured on behalf of Innisfree Hotels.
MURFREESBORO, TENN. — Stonemont Financial Group, a private real estate investment firm, plans to develop Stonemont Commerce Park 840, a two-building, 157-acre industrial park in Murfreesboro. The developer plans to break ground in the first quarter of 2023 and wrap up construction in late first-quarter 2024. The industrial park will sit on Sulphur Springs Road with direct access to I-840 and proximity to I-24 and Nashville International Airport. The development will include a 1.2 million-square-foot facility with 40-foot clear heights, 280 auto parking stalls and 276 trailer stalls. It will also house a 273,000-square-foot facility to accommodate smaller tenants, with 36-foot clear heights, 200 auto parking stalls and 76 trailer stalls. The design-build team includes general contractor Frampton Construction, brokerage firm Lee & Associates and civil engineer Site Engineering Consultants Inc.
HOUSTON — Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated a 603,389-square-foot industrial lease at South Belt Central Business Park, a development that is under construction in southeast Houston. The tenant, a national third-party logistics firm, will occupy the entirety of the Building 4 upon completion in January 2023. The cross-dock building will feature 36-foot clear heights, 360 car parking spaces, 196 trailer parking stalls, an ESFR sprinkler system and 4,500 square feet of office space. Jim Foreman and Brooke Forrest of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, an affiliate of Houston-based Investment & Development Ventures LLC, in the lease negotiations. Stephen Schneidau and Chuck Berger, also with Cushman & Wakefield, represented the tenant.
SAN ANTONIO — Fort Worth-based investment firm Fort Capital has acquired The Starcrest Industrial Portfolio, a collection of eight Class B light industrial buildings totaling 465,648 square feet in San Antonio. The buildings are located within a mile of San Antonio International Airport and had a collective occupancy rate of 89 percent at the time of sale. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
TEXAS CITY, TEXAS — Locally based investment and brokerage firm NewQuest Properties has arranged the sale of the 130,525-square-foot Tradewinds Shopping Center, located southeast of Houston in Texas City. At the time of sale, the property, which sits on 11.5 acres, was roughly 40 percent leased to tenants such as DD’s Discount, Family Dollar, Texas First Bank and Little Caesars. David Luther of NewQuest represented the seller, a limited partnership, in the transaction. Dakota Workman, also with NewQuest, represented the buyer, an entity doing business as 2020 Harwin 59 Shopping Center Ltd.