BENNINGTON, VT. — CBRE has arranged a $10 million sale-leaseback of a 20,219-square-foot car dealership in Bennington, located near the Vermont-Massachusetts border. Legacy Automotive Capital acquired the site, which was constructed in 2018, and will continue to lease it to Lundgren Subaru of Bennington. Karly Iacono of CBRE represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction.
ROCHESTER, MINN. — Northland has broken ground on a 194-unit expansion to SoRoc on Maine in Rochester. Northland acquired the 186-unit, garden-style community in February of this year. Once complete, the property will include 380 units across five buildings. Amenities will include a pool, green area, three fitness centers, clubhouse with private event space and a commercial kitchen. Northland is partnering with several local companies on the project, including Miller Architects & Builders. Minnwest Bank provided $28 million in construction financing. Completion is slated for early 2024.
LAWRENCE, KAN. — McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. will build a $70 million improvement project for the Kansas River Wastewater Treatment Plant located at 1400 E. 8th St. in Lawrence. The project marks the city’s second-largest funded wastewater project. The improvements are required to meet the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System regulatory permit requirements issued by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The plant, which receives nearly 80 percent of the city’s wastewater, originally opened in 1956 and has an average daily flow of 8 million gallons per day. Preconstruction efforts are underway, with official groundbreaking slated for May 2023. Completion is scheduled for fall 2026.
NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Crumbl Cookies has opened a 1,794-square-foot store at The Shoppes at North Brunswick, located near Rutgers University in New Jersey. Kevin Pelio and James Azarian represented the landlord, Azarian Realty Co., in the lease negotiations on an internal basis. Jerry Johnson of Bennett Williams Commercial represented the tenant.
BURLINGTON, IOWA — Cambridge Realty Capital Cos. has provided a $10.4 million HUD Lean loan for the refinancing of Oakview Nursing and Rehabilitation and Ridgeview Assisted Living, a dual-facility campus also known as The Views of Burlington. Situated in Burlington, a city in Southeast Iowa, the campus features 60 skilled nursing beds and 42 assisted living beds. Andrew Erkes of Cambridge originated the 35-year loan, which features a 35-year amortization schedule. The borrower was an Iowa-based limited liability company. Denny Howell of Howell Investment Finance arranged the loan.
MINNEAPOLIS — CBRE has brokered the sale of a four-property, value-add multifamily portfolio in Minneapolis for an undisclosed price. Grannes Properties LLC sold the portfolio to two separate buyers. Webdigs LLC purchased a 14-unit building at 3710 Minnehaha Ave. Millennial Properties LLC acquired a 12-unit property at 315 University Ave. SE, a six-unit building at 3505 22nd Ave. and an 11-unit property at 420 73rd St. The assets were built in the 1960s and were fully occupied at the time of sale. Drew Rafshol of CBRE Minneapolis Multifamily represented the seller.
OAK LAWN, ILL. — Greenstone Partners has arranged the $2.6 million sale of a retail development site in the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn. The site comprises a vacant restaurant that was formerly home to Texas Corral. The buyer plans to demolish the restaurant and build a new retail development. Located at 6616 W. 95th St., the property is situated across the street from Chicago Ridge Mall. Brewster Hague and AJ Patel of Greenstone brokered the transaction. Buyer and seller information was not provided. The deal marks the highest land price per acre in Oak Lawn, according to Greenstone.
DENVER — Flatirons Asset Management, a Denver-based investment firm, has acquired a 33-property self-storage portfolio from Red Dot Storage for an undisclosed price. The portfolio spans 1.3 million square feet and includes 9,125 units. The properties are located in Alabama, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Tennessee and Wisconsin, and were 90 percent occupied as of Aug. 31. Red Dot Storage will continue to operate the portfolio following the acquisition. The Louisville, Colorado-based company operates more than 190 locations across 19 states. “Self-storage has shown itself to be a resilient asset class with attractive fundamentals and, given the recent disruption caused by the global pandemic, even more people are turning to self-storage,” says Scott Smith, president and CEO of Flatirons. Self-storage has been making headlines this fall, with large transactions including the acquisition of Storage Express by Extra Space Storage Inc. in September for $590 million. During this week alone, a number of self-storage properties and portfolios have traded hands, including a 768-unit portfolio in San Antonio; two properties in Tulsa, Okla. offering 950 units; and a 24,480-square-foot facility in Kenosha, Wis. Flatirons Asset Management is a private investment firm that specializes in sponsoring tax-advantaged real estate offerings, including Delaware statutory …
By Denny Sciscoe, The Lund Co. The Omaha industrial market is experiencing increased leasing velocity, positive rent growth and record-breaking development. The market consists of 18 submarkets, totaling 103 million square feet of inventory. Omaha has traditionally been a risk-averse market with steady, slow-paced growth. Since 2016, Omaha has seen increased speculative development, which is absorbed as fast as it is built. In 2020, we began to see hyper-development, fueled by increased demand and developer confidence. The increased demand was a result of COVID-19, where we experienced five years of growth in a 12-month period as occupiers scrambled to find space for inventories and e-commerce, which was exasperated by the demand to store “just in case” inventories. The supply and demand dynamics of our market have been almost perfectly balanced. The average deliveries are around 1.3 million square feet annually, and our average absorption has been around 1.4 million square feet. Since the beginning of 2022, we are tracking about 5 million square feet of demand and another 2.2 million square feet of space that is currently in the construction pipeline. Overall vacancy currently sits at 2.6 percent, which is 100 basis points below our average of 3.6 percent. …
Fiber networks built with multifamily properties in mind offer network resilience while maximizing ROI for owners and operators. Well-constructed fiber networks are at the heart of meeting and exceeding residents’ growing Internet needs, especially when work-from-home culture and the constant need for online connection have made Internet slowdowns and downtime unacceptable for end users. Fiber can also strengthen connectivity across multifamily properties, shoring up the Wi-Fi services residents have come to know and on which they’ve come to depend. How does a national fiber network integrate with multifamily properties? By focusing just on the needs of the multi-dwelling unit (MDU). “Instead of building out 200-mile routes of duct and fiber, we build out ‘miracle miles’ in densely populated MDU areas. From that point, we’re able to easily grow or expand out from that area,” says Michael O’Linc, president of fiber services & campus communications at Pavlov Media. O’Linc stresses the importance of a more planned, methodical approach for MDUs. A network that serves multifamily buildings must be a network focused on backups and fail safes. The “miracle mile” method creates a main line with laterals — creating a ring shape as it expands. This approach to fiber makes networks easier to …