NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the $5.5 million sale of a 25-room motel located at 1440 E. 222nd St. in The Bronx. Jonathan Squires, Josh Neustadter and Austin Weiner of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Bay Chester Motel Inc., in the transaction. An entity doing business as Bay Plaza 1440 LLC purchased the motel, which includes 35 parking spaces and will be delivered vacant.
OCEANPORT, N.J. — Birdsmouth Beer will open a 12,080-square-foot brewery in the coastal New Jersey community of Oceanport on Saturday, Oct. 15. The craft beer provider will operate out of The Commissary, a 53,000-square-foot food hall that is part of the redevelopment of the former Fort Monmouth military base. Gary Krauss of Pierson Commercial represented Birdsmouth Beer in the lease negotiations. Suzanne Macknow of CBRE represented the owner, Denholtz Properties, which also recently inked a 19,567-square-foot lease with MGT Foods.
JOLIET, ILL. — PENN Entertainment has unveiled plans to build Hollywood Casino Joliet at the Rock Run Crossings development in Joliet. Construction is expected to begin in late 2023, subject to local regulatory approval. The project has an estimated budget of $185 million and will combine gaming, dining and 10,000 square feet of meeting and event space. The land-based casino will replace PENN’s riverboat casino in Joliet. Cullinan Properties owns Rock Run Crossings, which spans 310 acres and 1 million square feet.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Contegra Construction Co. is underway on a new distribution center at Blue River Commerce Center in Kansas City. The 390,943-square-foot, speculative property marks the fourth of seven planned buildings at the 226-acre industrial campus, which was launched by NorthPoint Development in 2021. The new building will feature 24 dock doors, two drive-in doors, a clear height of 40 feet, 3,000 square feet of office space and a 3,000-square-fot mezzanine served by two stairways. Completion is slated for the end of this year.
CINCINNATI — Northmarq has arranged two loans totaling $6.7 million for the refinancing of three multifamily properties in Cincinnati. Madison & Riddle Apartments is a two-property portfolio totaling 72 units. The loan is fully amortized over 25 years. Sutton Place Apartments consists of 59 units and is fully occupied. The seven-year loan features two years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule. Noah Juran of Northmarq arranged the loans through a life insurance company.
ARCOLA, ILL. — Blue West Capital has brokered the $2.4 million sale of a 75,000-square-foot warehouse occupied by MasterBrand Cabinets in Arcola, a city in central Illinois. The tenant, which recently exercised an early lease extension option, stores raw materials at the property prior to them being assembled at a manufacturing plant 12 miles west in Arthur. Zach Wright and Robert Edwards of Blue West Capital represented the seller, a Midwest-based private equity real estate company. A local 1031 exchange investor was the buyer.
LOCKPORT, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the sale of a 56,326-square-foot industrial building in the Chicago suburb of Lockport for an undisclosed price. The building sits on a little over seven acres at 900 N. State St. Originally constructed in 1970, the property has received multiple expansions and is currently 83 percent leased to eight tenants. Brent Holder and Peter Doughty of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a local private investor who had owned the building for more than 20 years. A Mexico-based private investment group was the buyer.
SALT LAKE CITY — A partnership between ViaWest Group and Clarion Partners has acquired 25 acres of land in Salt Lake City’s Northwest Quadrant from Gannett Enterprises for an undisclosed price. Rusty Bollow and Bobby Stevens of Colliers represented the seller, while Phillip Eilers of Cushman & Wakefield represented the buyer in the deal. ViaWest plans to develop more than 340,000 square feet of Class A industrial space on the site, divided into a 100,000-square-foot building and a 240,000-square-foot building. The development will offer direct access to interstates 5 and 215 and State Route 201. Buildings will feature highway visibility, 107 shared trailer spaces, 67 dock doors and nearly 380 parking spaces. Colliers will serve as leasing agents for the new facilities.
MESA, ARIZ. — OpenPath Investments has completed the sale of Dana Park, an apartment community located on 11 acres in Mesa. Baron Properties acquired the property for $64.6 million, or $291,216 per unit. Completed in 1986, Dana Park features 222 apartments spread across 19 buildings, plus two swimming pools and spas and a community vegetable garden. Apartments feature stackable washers and dryers, built-in bookshelves and walk-in closets. The unit mix is 67 percent two-bedroom/two-bath layouts, with the remainder of the units one-bedroom/one-bath floorplans. The average unit size is 928 square feet. Cliff David and Steve Gebing of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction.
LAKEWOOD, COLO. — Ziegler and M&T Realty Capital Corp. have acted as financial advisor in a $19.5 million Fannie Mae financing on behalf of Essex Communities. The transaction will refinance the existing debt on Carmel Oaks, an age-restricted independent living community in Lakewood. The 10-year, fixed-rate loan was structured at a 75 percent loan-to-value ratio with five years of interest-only payments followed by a 30-year amortization. The loan also carries a declining prepayment schedule, which will provide the borrower with additional flexibility in future years. In addition to refinancing the existing debt, the loan also provided funding for Essex to recover capital improvement expenditures and initial equity.