HOFFMAN ESTATES, ILL. — Heritage-Crystal Clean Inc. (HCC) has signed an 11-year office lease for 39,000 square feet at Bell Works Chicagoland in Hoffman Estates. The company is the property’s largest tenant to date. HCC plans to move its team of 180 workers from its longtime home in Elgin to Bell Works Chicagoland in August. The publicly traded environmental products and services company will occupy space on the third floor. NELSON Worldwide will design the office. Sven Sykes of Colliers represented HCC in the lease, while Steve Kling of Colliers represented ownership. Bell Works Chicagoland is the redevelopment of the former AT&T campus being undertaken by New Jersey-based Somerset Development.
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SPRINGFIELD, ILL. — With a new 11,377-square-foot lease signed by Boot Barn, Sherwood Plaza shopping center in Springfield is now fully leased. Joe Parrott, Sean McCourt and Riley McCarron of CBRE represented Boot Barn, which will take occupancy in the coming months. Seritage Growth Properties redeveloped the 130,000-square-foot shopping center, which was nearly vacant at the start of the redevelopment project. CBRE negotiated leases with 10 new tenants, including Burlington, Marshalls, Binny’s Beverage Depot, Orange Theory Fitness and Outback Steakhouse.
INDIANAPOLIS — In a sale-leaseback transaction, MAG Capital Partners LLC has acquired a 34,630-square-foot industrial facility in Indianapolis for an undisclosed price. The building sits on three acres at 6266 Morenci Trail. The seller, Printing Technologies Inc., has occupied the property since its founding in 1994. The facility was originally built in 1984. Based in Fort Worth, Texas, MAG Capital Partners is led by Dax Mitchell and Andrew Gi.
ADDISON, ILL. — Clear Height Properties has sold a 31,385-square-foot industrial building in Addison for $3.1 million. Clear Height purchased the property at 345 S. Fairbank St. in November and completed improvements such as roof repair, interior renovations, dock repairs, masonry repair and new LED lighting. Justin Lerner, Joe Karmin and Ross Lehrman of Transwestern represented Clear Height. Brent DeNoble and Doug Altenberger of Lee & Associates represented the undisclosed buyer.
TEMPE, ARIZ. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged the sale of Hudson on Farmer, an apartment community in downtown Tempe. Ideal Capital Group purchased the property from 8th & Farmer Owner LLC for $96 million, or $561,404 per unit. Completed in 2021, Hudson on Farmer features 171 apartments with full-size washers/dryers, walk-in showers and private balconies. Community amenities include a heated swimming pool, spa and second-story resident lounge with social space, a conference room and workspaces. The landscaped courtyard offers a covered outdoor dining area, barbecue grills, a firepit, desert vegetation and misting systems. The property also features a fitness center, bike parking room and electric vehicle charging stations. Steve Gebing and Cliff David of IPA represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.
MONTEREY PARK, CALIF. — BH Properties has acquired a 120,191-square-foot suburban commercial office campus in Monterey Park from Blue Shield of California in a $15 million sale/leaseback transaction. Andrew Harper, Will Poulsen, Matt McRoskey and Owen Muller of JLL marketed the property on behalf of Blue Shield. Situated on 7.9 acres, the asset features a 91,363-square-foot building and a 28,828-square-foot property, both of which serve as the headquarters of Blue Shield’s Promise Health Plan, a managed care organization. Blue Shield will continue to occupy the asset through July 2023.
CBRE Negotiates $75M Acquisition of Sanctuary on Broadway Multifamily Complex in Arizona
by Amy Works
TEMPE, ARIZ. — CBRE has arranged the sale of Sanctuary on Broadway, an apartment community located at 1330 W. Broadway Road in Tempe. A private, Washington-based company acquired the asset for $75 million. Brian Smuckler, Jeff Seaman, Derek Smigiel and Bryson Fricke of CBRE represented the buyer in the deal. Sanctuary on Broadway features 240 apartments, with 60 percent of the units as two-bedroom floor plans averaging 700 square feet. The two-building, two-story property offers renovated interiors, including stainless steel appliances, Shaker-style cabinetry, subway-tile backsplashes, modern bathroom vanities and in-suite washers/dryers in select units. Community amenities include a swimming pool, clubhouse, picnic areas with barbecues and a fitness center.
LOVELAND, COLO. — Roaring Fork Real Estate has completed the sale of a warehouse cold storage building located at 7311 E. Highway 34 in Loveland. WS Properties Loveland acquired the asset for $6 million. Situated on four acres, the 31,612-square-foot facility features more than 20,000 square feet of cold storage and dry storage. The asset also includes a shipping/receiving area, locker rooms and office space. The buyer plans to convert the single-tenant facility property into a third-party logistics facility. The existing tenant, Canyon Bakehouse, is scheduled to vacate the premises in June. Jared Goodman of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction.
SEATTLE — Barings and Schnitzer West LLC have sold Madison Centre, a 37-story office tower in downtown Seattle, for $730 million. The buyer was Boston Properties Inc. (NYSE: BXP). Completed in September 2017 and currently 93 percent leased, Madison Centre spans 760,971 rentable square feet and features 480 parking stalls. Amenities include a rooftop terrace, great room, conference center, boardroom, library and a fitness center operated by the Washington Athletic Club. Certified LEED Platinum, the building features HVAC purification systems and touchless entry. “The property is positioned to compete post-COVID with exactly what tenants are looking for and has performed extremely well throughout our hold period,” says Ben Green, managing director with Barings, which developed Madison Centre in partnership with Schnitzer West. Located at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Madison Street, the office tower is located five blocks south of Seattle’s retail core, one block west of the Interstate 5 freeway and four blocks southeast of a Link light rail station. Kevin Shannon, Nick Kucha, Ken White and Mike Moll of Newmark brokered the sale. “This is the largest multi-tenant office sale in the nation year to date, and the asset garnered significant investor interest globally,” says Shannon, co-head, …
By Randy Summers, vice president, CCIM, CPM, Davis Equity Realty “Y’all come” is the message being sent to developers, retailers, franchisees, quick-service restaurants, corporations and manufacturers from the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) region of Texas — and all these users seem to be heeding the call. The local economy seems to be hitting on all cylinders, albeit with constraints on labor and supplies, as well as rising costs. The four counties that statistically make up the RGV — Hidalgo, Cameron, Starr and Willacy — combine to produce a regional population of over 1.4 million and a workforce population of over 485,000. While COVID-19 continues to have lasting effects on labor, the Small Business Administration reported that the Lower Rio Grande Valley District, which serves 14 counties, had 44,471 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans approved totaling $2.4 billion. Of that, 71 percent were loans for the RGV’s four counties representing 59 percent of the dollar amount, or $1.4 billion. That is a considerable amount of money that was pumped into the local economy and doesn’t include the $64.6 million in grants provided to restaurants through the Restaurant Revitalization Fund out of the American Rescue Plan Act. Year-to-date sales tax revenue provided …