CHICAGO — Farmer’s Business Network (FBN) has signed a 43,000-square-foot office lease at 1320 W. Fulton St. in Chicago’s Fulton Market district. The company will take occupancy of the entire third and fourth floors. Originally built in 1916 to house a Chicago Fire station, the building spans 121,000 square feet. Jeff Newcom and Holly Duran of Colliers Chicago represented FBN in the lease. FBN is an ag-tech platform and farmer-to-farmer network with a mission to help reduce the cost of production and maximize value of farmers’ crops.
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GRAPEVINE, TEXAS — CBRE has negotiated the sale of a 202,140-square-foot industrial property located near Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport in Grapevine. DFW North Logistics Center consists of two buildings that were constructed in 2008 and feature 21- to 30-foot clear heights and parking space for up to 100 trailers. Randy Baird, Jonathan Bryan, Ryan Thornton and Eliza Bachhuber of CBRE represented the seller, an affiliate of Olympus Ventures, in the transaction. Boston-based STAG Industrial purchased the asset, which was fully leased at the time of sale, for an undisclosed price.
NEWCASTLE, OKLA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Riverside Boat & RV Storage, a 492-unit facility in Newcastle, a southern suburb of Oklahoma City. The property spans 161,316 net rentable square feet of space. Bryan Quaschnick, Brandon Karr and Danny Cunningham of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private owner who developed the facility, and procured the buyer in the transaction. Both parties requested anonymity.
HOUSTON — A partnership between two locally based boutique real estate firms, CBK Interests and Saber Street, has broken ground on the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic — Memorial Villages, a build-to-suit project for Houston-based provider Kelsey-Seybold. The project includes a 126,113-square-foot medical office building and a seven-story parking garage. Kirksey Architecture provided design and engineering services for the project, and Tellepsen has been selected as the general contractor. First Horizon Bank provided construction financing. Completion is slated for July 2022.
DALLAS — Global investment firm Partners Group and Florida-based Accesso have sold 2626 Cole, a 120,599-square-foot office building in the Uptown/Turtle Creek area of Dallas. The partnership acquired the building in 2014 and implemented a value-add program. Current tenants include WorkSuites, Republic Editorial and Annandale Capital. Andrew Levy, Todd Savage and Parker McCormack of JLL represented Partners Group and Accesso in the transaction. Metro Seattle-based Talon Private Capital purchased the asset for an undisclosed price.
HOUSTON — NorthMarq has arranged a $21 million loan for the refinancing of Vista Apartments, a 300-unit workforce housing community in North Houston. The property was built in 1980 and renovated in 2019. Warren Hitchcock of NorthMarq arranged the loan, which carried a 10-year term with an initial interest-only period, a fixed 3.75 percent interest rate and a 30-year amortization schedule, on behalf of the Houston-based borrower. An undisclosed national balance sheet lender provided the debt.
YORK, PA. — A joint venture between ASB Real Estate Investments and Endurance Real Estate Group has acquired York Business Center, a 1.5 million-square-foot industrial facility located in the central part of the state, for approximately $91 million. The three-building property, which was 94 percent leased at the time of sale, sits on a 119-acre site near the intersection of Interstate 83 and State Route 30. Tenants include Harley-Davidson, which operates a preassembly facility that supports the nearby manufacturing plant, as well as printing company LSC Communications and nonprofit healthcare provider WellSpan. Building features include clear heights of up to 32 feet and parking for roughly 1,600 cars and 400 trailers. The seller was not disclosed.
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Locally based development and investment firm The Kane Co. has completed construction of a 91,000-square-foot office building at 145 Maplewood Ave. in Portsmouth, located in the southern coastal part of the Granite State. New Hampshire-based firm PROCON handled design and construction of the project, which includes ground-floor retail space. Tenants include Heinemann Publishing, Steward Partners and Sentient Decision Science.
NEW YORK CITY — Rosewood Realty Group has negotiated the $24.5 million sale of a portfolio of seven multifamily buildings in The Bronx. The first property at 45 E. Moshulu Parkway North in the Norwood area was built in 1926 and totals 71 units. The second complex at 501 W. 147th St. in Hamilton Heights was constructed in 1930 and comprises 33 apartments and four commercial spaces. Lastly, the asset at 741-745 E. 217th St. in Olinville was built in 2005 and totals 21 units. Aaron Jungreis, Ben Khakshoor and Alex Fuchs of Rosewood Realty represented both the buyer, a private family, and the seller, Ron Rettner, in the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — Avison Young has brokered the $15.5 million sale of two apartment buildings in New York City’s East Village neighborhood. The 10-unit building at 164 First Ave. includes three retail spaces and sold for $10.4 million, while the four-story property at 218 E. Ninth St. fetched a price of $5.1 million. Brandon Polakoff, James Nelson, Eric Karmitz and Ryan McGuirl of Avison Young represented the seller of 218 East 9th Street. Polakoff and McGuirl also handled the sale of 164 First Avenue. The buyers in both deals were not disclosed.