ETNA, OHIO — The I-70 Logistics Center, located at 9157 Mink St. SW in the Columbus suburb of Etna, has traded hands for an undisclosed price. Hines Global Income Trust Inc. was the buyer. The 700,000-square-foot property is fully leased to a third-party logistics provider and features a clear height of 40 feet. The facility offers convenient access to two rail providers, reaching roughly 60 percent of the North American population within a one-day drive. Ed Halaburt and Ross Bratcher of JLL represented the seller, Core5 Industrial Partners.
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PLEASANT HILL, IOWA — Colliers Mortgage has provided a $4.9 million Fannie Mae loan for the acquisition of Riverwood Apartments in Pleasant Hill, an eastern suburb of Des Moines. The 69-unit multifamily property features one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Brett Olson and Matt Halberg of Colliers originated the 10-year loan on behalf of the undisclosed borrower.
MILWAUKEE AND BROOKFIELD, WIS. — Planet Fitness has signed two new retail leases in metro Milwaukee. The first lease is for 12,995 square feet at 121 W. Oklahoma Ave. in Milwaukee. PJR Properties LLC is the property landlord. The second lease is for 26,975 square feet at the Shops on Bluemound, which is located at 16085 W. Bluemound Road in Brookfield. An entity doing business as HHAMB LLP is the landlord. Adam Dreier and Tony Colvin of Mid-America Real Estate represented the tenant in both leases.
STURTEVANT, WIS. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a 50-room hotel and restaurant building located at 910 S. Sylvania Ave. in Sturtevant, a southern suburb of Milwaukee. The sales price was undisclosed. The buyer, a private investor, plans to rebrand the property as a Super 8 by Wyndham hotel. Ebrahim Valliani and Michael Klar of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer and the seller, a private investor. Chris Gomes, Allan Miller and Todd Lindblom of Marcus & Millichap also assisted in closing the deal.
TILLMAN’S CORNER, ALA. AND MARYSVILLE, CALIF. — Hyatt Hotels Corp. (NYSE: H) has announced the first two locations for its upper-midscale extended-stay banner, Hyatt Studios. The company has letters of interest for over 100 Hyatt Studios developments across the U.S. Each Hyatt Studios location will be sized to fit approximately 122 rooms, and will offer grab-and-go breakfast and a 24-hour market with snacks and ready-made meals that can be prepared in each guest room’s kitchen. The Chicago-based company has entered into a franchise agreement with 3H Group Inc. to develop the first Hyatt Studios hotel in Tillman’s Corner, roughly 10 miles southeast of Mobile. The property is set to open in late 2024. Presidio Hotel Development has entered into a franchise agreement with Hyatt for the second location, a 113-room hotel in downtown Marysville, approximately 45 miles north of Sacramento. The property is expected to open in 2025 and will feature dedicated meeting spaces. Extended-stay hotels have grown in demand over the past several years, in part due to the asset’s popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bask Development recently announced plans to develop eight Extended Stay America-branded hotels in Florida, and the development of 15 new hotels under the same …
By John Cassidy and Calvin Gunn, Lee & Associates If you love a good groundbreaking photo — full of shiny shovels, hard hats and smiling development teams — you may be disappointed this year, for all the best reasons. With Chicago’s most recent wave of speculative industrial projects currently being delivered, the market now actually has space to offer industrial tenants — a refreshing change from the past few years. With construction costs and interest rates continuing to rise and credit availability shrinking, many developers with ties to Chicago are pausing new projects as exit cap rates are becoming more difficult to predict. At the same time, market fundamentals are starting to cool from the pandemic-era eruption of demand. The good news: Chicago’s industrial market may be down from the clouds, but it’s still historically quite healthy. Vacancy rate in perspective According to Lee & Associates of Illinois’ second-quarter industrial snapshot, construction deliveries caused the Chicago industrial vacancy rate to tick upward for the second consecutive quarter. However, a 3.68 percent vacant market is still considered a historically low vacancy environment. As a comparison, that vacancy rate measured about 12 percent at the end of 2009 and 6.6 percent in …
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Improved Land Surveys, Due Diligence Can Ensure Development Project Success
Due diligence — particularly land surveying — can be a slow, cumbersome process if a project lacks strong guidelines based on the owner or developer’s particular needs. It can be easy to overprepare for the wrong site or underprepare for the succession of steps needed for the right site. REBusiness spoke to two land surveying experts, Billy Logsdon, divisional director of surveying, and Tom Teabo, associate and regional survey manager. Both work for Bohler, a land development consulting and site design firm, and both have strong insights on how to incorporate each step in the due diligence process elegantly within a well-planned approach. Due diligence such as American Land Title Association (ALTA) surveys and gathering topographic information can be time-consuming and expensive steps — making it beneficial to fit their timing into the larger project in a way that reflects the client’s needs — from the purchase of land to development completion. Logsdon and Teabo highlight the importance of streamlining the survey process and getting owners and developers better results based on their desired outcomes, often starting with the information already available about the site early in the process. REBusiness: What is slowing down survey due diligence, in your experience, and do …
ROCKDALE, TEXAS — Dallas-based developer Xebec will build a 3,300-acre manufacturing and logistics campus in Rockdale, located about 60 miles northeast of Austin. The rail-served site is known locally as Sandow Lakes Ranch and was previously used for aluminum smelting, lignite coal mining and coal power generation. The campus, which will ultimately feature between 30 million and 50 million square feet of manufacturing and logistics space, represents the first phase of multi-stage development that will include workforce housing, solar farms, retail, commercial, industrial and hospitality uses, as well as recreational facilities. Xebec expects to the development to be ready for occupancy by mid-2025.
BURLESON, TEXAS — Locally based developer Realty Capital Residential has begun leasing Depot on Main, a 275-unit multifamily project in Burleson, located south of Fort Worth. The five-story building is situated adjacent to the Old Town district. Depot on Main offers one- and two-bedroom units ranging in size from 590 to 1,229 square feet. Amenities include a pool with a tanning deck, coworking lounge, coffee bar, rooftop deck and entertainment terrace, dog park, fitness center and outdoor grilling and dining areas. Rents start at $1,365 per month for a one-bedroom apartment.
DALLAS — Dallas-based investment firm Bridgeview has acquired The Dunhill, a 214-unit apartment complex in the Dallas Design District. Built in 2010, The Dunhill features studio, one- and two-bedroom units that range in size from 665 to 1,671 square feet. Amenities include a pool, resident clubhouse, fitness center, business center, outdoor picnic areas, amphitheater and a dog park. Bridgeview, which acquired the property via a Delaware Statutory Trust, plans to implement a value-add program and rebrand the property as The Adelphi. The seller was not disclosed.