KANSAS CITY, MO. — JLL Income Property Trust has acquired a medical office portfolio in metro Kansas City for $22.2 million. The portfolio comprises three properties spanning more than 50,000 square feet. Roeland Park is a nearly 30,000-square-foot building constructed in 2021. Its largest tenant is AdventHealth Shawnee Mission, a subsidiary of AdventHealth. Northland Women’s Healthcare is a 10,000-square-foot property constructed in 2021 that is fully leased to the women’s healthcare provider. Blue Springs Pediatrics is a 10,500-square-foot building that was redeveloped in 2021. It is leased to a physician group that is a subsidiary of Children’s Mercy. JLL Income Property Trust now owns 12 healthcare properties totaling more than 1.1 million square feet that are valued in excess of $450 million and represent approximately 8 percent of its overall portfolio.
MELROSE PARK, ILL. — NewMark Merrill Cos. Inc. has sold a 90,000-square-foot building at Winston Plaza, a 400,000-square-foot shopping center in the Chicago suburb of Melrose Park. Cermak Fresh Market acquired the building for an undisclosed price and plans to open a new grocery store by the end of this year. Sandy Sigal and Brad Pearl represented NewMark Merrill on an internal basis alongside Joe Parrott and Sean McCourt of CBRE. Dino Geroulis and John Roberson of Axis Realty represented Cermak. Kostas Kavayiotidis of Pacific Southwest Realty structured financing. Anchor tenants at Winston Plaza include Best Buy, Ross Dress for Less, Marshalls, Dollar Tree, Five Below and Office Max.
CHICAGO — Interra Realty has brokered the sale of a 30-unit multifamily property in the Buena Park section of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood for $4.7 million. Built in 1912, the property is located at 755 W. Buena Ave. In addition to five studios, 24 one-bedroom units and one two-bedroom units, the building features onsite laundry facilities and bike storage. Joe Smazal of Interra represented the seller, a local private owner and operator that made select updates to the property. Smazal also represented the local private buyer.
DES PLAINES, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the sale of Bainbridge Plaza in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines for $2.1 million. The 15,042-square-foot retail center is located at 611 W. Golf Road and is fully leased. Anchor tenants include Domino’s Pizza and Suburban Family Dental, which has operated at the property for over 30 years. Mitchell Kiven of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a local private investor. Craig Fuller, Erin Patton and Scott Wiles of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer, an Ohio-based limited liability company.
BOULDER, COLO. — BioMed Realty, a San Diego-based owner-operator of healthcare real estate and a Blackstone portfolio company, has acquired Flatiron Park, a 1 million-square-foot office and life sciences campus in Boulder, a northwestern suburb of Denver. The sales price was not disclosed, but The Wall Street Journal reports that BioMed Realty paid more than $600 million for the property. JLL represented the seller, a joint venture between Crescent Real Estate, Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Lionstone Investments, in the transaction. BioMed Realty plans to invest about $200 million in capital improvements to the campus, an endeavor that is expected to create about 400 local construction jobs. Flatiron Park consists of 22 buildings that were approximately 90 percent leased at the time of sale. The buildings range in size from approximately 15,000 to 133,000 square feet. BioMed officials say that the campus will “anchor” its presence in the greater Denver area, which the company says has an exceptionally talented workforce “Boulder has always been a market to watch, driven by highly educated talent, robust capital flow, an existing base of life sciences and tech pioneers and great quality of life,” says Mike Ruhl, vice president of leasing at BioMed Realty. …
Suburban household growth in metropolitan Nashville was already outpacing urban growth prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but has accelerated since the outbreak due to corporate America’s acceptance of work-from-home staffing. Multifamily investors have followed this suburban household growth as well. Two recent examples are in Lebanon and Murfreesboro, both high-growth, high-quality suburbs of Nashville that have recently experienced record-setting transactions. The Pointe at Five Oaks recently sold for $243,000 per unit, setting a record for Lebanon. Vantage at Murfreesboro recently went under contract north of $270,000 per unit, also setting a record for Murfreesboro. We don’t see this activity and record-setting slowing down any time soon due to the lack of supply, overwhelming out of state demand and skyrocketing replacement costs. New multifamily development continues to follow the suburban trend, often times with a mixed-use component. Case in point, Highwoods Properties has completed the assemblage of all 145 acres of Ovation Franklin and is beginning the journey to reimagine and re-introduce one of the greatest opportunities for mixed-use development in the nation. This project will consist of 1.4 million square feet of Class A offices, 950 residential units, 480,000 square feet of retail and restaurants and 450 hotel rooms. Single-family …
By Steve Firestone, Crown Bay Group Why would anyone choose investing in an aging workforce housing property over razing it to make room for Class A apartments? Are these challenging properties worth the risk? Making this choice may not be right for everyone, but the returns can be unbelievably rewarding. The secret recipe for transforming Class B and C properties to benefit the community, local residents and your bottom line isn’t complicated. The key is entering into each deal with a genuine interest and desire to do what is right and what matters to the residents who call this property home. The age-old saying — by doing good, you will do well — still holds true today. There is an overwhelming demand for Class B and C assets. While a large portion of new development over the past decade has been Class A luxury, the Class A market makes up only 20 percent of the total rental market. New construction of affordable, market-rate units is just not financially feasible today. Consequently, meaningful workforce supply has rarely been added this past decade. Despite the pervasive need for workforce housing, the supply has decreased with older units being demolished to make room …
STATESVILLE, N.C. — CBRE has brokered the sale-leaseback of a 416,300-square-foot manufacturing facility in Statesville. Nevada-based CAI Investments purchased the property for $30.3 million. Patrick Gildea, Trey Barry, Matt Smith, Grayson Hawkins and John Christenbury of CBRE represented the seller and tenant, Kewaunee Scientific Corp., in the sale-leaseback transaction. Kewaunee Scientific Corp. is a designer and manufacturer of laboratory, healthcare and technical furniture products. The Statesville building serves as Kewaunee Scientific’s primary manufacturing facility. Situated on 21.3 acres at 2700 W. Front St., the property is located within three miles of the Interstates 40 and 77 and about 41.6 miles north of Charlotte.
MCLEANSVILLE, N.C. — CN Investors LLC, an affiliate of Raleigh-based APG Capital, has purchased a 176,778-square-foot office building in McLeansville. The Class A property sold for $17 million. Patrick Gildea of CBRE represented the undisclosed seller. Daniel Walser and James Anthony III at APG were responsible for sourcing the deal and closing the acquisition. Originally built in 2004 to house Citibank, the three-story office building is situated on 21 acres. Today, the property’s tenant includes LabCorp, a Burlington, N.C.-based lab test provider. Located at 5450 Millstream Road, the property is situated 36.2 miles from Winston-Salem and 45 miles from Durham.
PIEDMONT, S.C. — Atlanta-based MDH Partners has acquired 301 Grove Reserve, a 158,886-square-foot industrial building in Piedmont, about 12.5 miles from Greenville. Joe DeHaven served as the acquisition lead for MDH Partners. Clay Williams and Grice Hunt of NAI Global represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The sales price was also not disclosed. Built in 2021, 301 Grove Reserve is fully leased to an undisclosed pharmaceutical company that uses the facility to distribute cosmetic and pharmaceutical goods across the country. Situated in the Upstate’s I-85 West submarket, 301 Grove Reserve is located off Grove Reserve Parkway and is located only 16 miles southwest of Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport and 22 miles southwest of Inland Port Greer.