ANSONIA, CONN. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has negotiated the $14 million sale of Ansonia Landing, a 91,460-square-foot shopping center located in Connecticut’s New Haven County. The property, which was built in 1979 and was 91.5 percent leased at the time of sale, consists of a 60,000-square-foot Stop & Shop grocery store and a 31,460-square-foot strip center. Jim Koury of IPA represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of which were limited liability companies, in the transaction.
CHERRY HILL, N.J. — Camden County has signed a 154,211-square-foot office lease at Woodcrest Corporate Center in Cherry Hill, a suburb of Philadelphia. The deal brings the 352,520-square-foot complex to full occupancy. Other tenants at Woodcrest Corporate Center include Auto Lenders, Radian, Penn National Gaming, Jefferson Health Systems, Conduent and Solar Xchange. JLL represented the landlord, Crown Properties, in the lease negotiations.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — JLB Partners has completed the disposition of The Moderne, a mid-rise apartment property located at 4848 N. Goldwater Blvd. in Scottsdale. An undisclosed buyer acquired the asset for $260 million, or $704,607 per unit. Completed in 2015, The Moderne features 369 apartments with nine-foot ceilings, full-size washers/dryers, hardwood flooring, walk-in closets with custom wood shelving and private patios. Select units have integrated desks and bookshelves, built-in wine racks, pass-through laundry chutes and private yards. Community amenities include a resort-style pool and spa, leasing office, resident clubhouse, wellness center, electric car charging stations and private garages. Steve Gebing and Cliff David of Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal, which is the largest single-asset core multifamily sale in Arizona history, according to IPA.
TEMPE, ARIZ. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has arranged $90.7 million in fixed-rate financing for CrossHarbor Capital Partners for the refinancing of The Cameron, an apartment complex in Tempe. Built in 2020 on 13.3 acres, the four-story community features 349 apartments, a pool deck with cabanas, fitness center, clubhouse, outdoor courtyard with fireplaces and lounge spaces, pet spa and bocce ball court. Hayley Suminski and Greg Halvorson of KeyBank structured the nine-year loan from funds managed by Apollo Global Management as lender. The financing features a 4.5-year interest-only period followed by a 30-year amortization schedule.
LAFAYETTE, CALIF. — An institutional investment group has acquired a two-property retail portfolio in Lafayette from an undisclosed private seller. Terms of the transaction were not released. The portfolio includes La Fiesta Square, a 3.9-acre open-air, convenience-oriented lifestyle center, and Lafayette Mercantile, a 56,614-square-foot mixed-use asset. La Fiesta Square features 74,295 square feet of retail space spread across five buildings. The three-story Lafayette Mercantile offers ground-floor retail space and office space on the second and third floors. Nicholas Bicardo and Steven Golubchik of Newmark represented the seller in the transaction.
LOS ANGELES — JLL Capital Markets has provided a $30.3 million loan to refinance Nantucket Creek, a 172-unit, garden-style, age-restricted apartment community in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles. JLL worked on behalf of the borrower, Universe Holdings, to secure the 10-year, fixed-rate loan through Freddie Mac. JLL Real Estate Capital LLC will service the loan. Proceeds from the loan also provided a return of equity to Universe’s balance sheet, which the company plans to use toward future acquisitions. Nantucket Creek comprises one- and two-bedroom units ranging from 623 to 1,100 square feet. The community is located along California’s State Route 27, providing access to local retail and dining centers, as well as Chatsworth Dry Lake Nature Preserve and West Hills Hospital and Medical Center. Charles Halladay, Jonah Aelyon and Elle Miraglia led the JLL Capital Markets debt advisory team representing the borrower.
SAN JOSE, RICHMOND AND HAYWARD, CALIF. — Duke Realty (NYSE: DRE) has started construction of three speculative industrial facilities in Northern California. The projects include: a 302,772-square-foot development with 42-foot clear heights, 47 dock-high doors, 108 truck trailer spaces, 296 car spaces and up to 12,000 amps of power on 17.4 acres at 5853 Rue Ferrari in San Jose. a 153,803-square-foot facility with 36-foot clear heights, 24 dock-high doors, 36 truck trailer spaces and 140 car spaces at 731 W. Cutting Blvd. in Richmond. a 157,725-square-foot property with 36-foot clear heights, 24 dock-high doors, 65 trailer parking stalls and 79 car spaces at 24493 Clawiter Road in Hayward. Chip Sutherland, Rob Shannon and Ben Knight of CBRE are listing brokers for the San Jose asset; Jason Ovadia, Mike Murray, Patrick Metzger and Greg Matter of JLL are handling listing for the Richmond property; and Bob Ferraro, Kevin Hatcher and Chris Van Keulen of CBRE are listing brokers for the Hayward facility.
Like much of the country, the Milwaukee industrial market flourished over the last 12 to 24 months and has continued to shatter records across the board. Tenant demand far exceeded supply, driving vacancy rates down and rental rates up. Pent-up capital chased deals at record numbers, compressing cap rates further in this sector. And new construction continued its speedy pace, with over 8 million square feet on schedule to be delivered in 2022. But with inflation surpassing 8 percent and interest rates on the rise, the question now is how long will we continue this record-setting pace? Just-in-time to just-in-case As supply chain constraints emerged during the pandemic, businesses switched from the widely used just-in-time model to just-in-case, meaning drastic increases in inventory storage and logistic needs for many companies. Tenants scrambled to lease additional space to house what inventory they could get in stock. At the start of 2021, Class A industrial vacancy in Milwaukee was 9.68 percent. By the end of the year, that number had been slashed in half to just 4.39 percent as the flight to quality industrial product exceeded deliveries. In the fourth quarter of 2021, 1.65 million square feet of new industrial space …
CHICAGO — Logistics Property Co. has unveiled plans to develop 1237 West Division, an industrial project on the west side of Chicago that will span 600,000 square feet of logistics space across two floors. The city’s first multi-story warehouse will also offer both rooftop parking and an adjacent five-story parking garage. Logistics Property recently closed on the 11.5-acre land sale in Chicago’s Goose Island neighborhood and received approval from the Chicago City Council for the project. Situated adjacent to the four-way interchange at Division Street and Elston Avenue, 1237 West Division is located 3.5 miles from the Chicago Loop and 15 miles from Chicago O’Hare International Airport. The JLL team of Michael Conway, Leslie Lanne, Dan McGillicuddy and Gavin Stainthorpe will lease and market the property. “1237 West Division provides flexibility for companies that must get closer to their customers,” says Lanne, who leads JLL’s urban infill group. “It gives them access to modern distribution space, which urban core markets are severely lacking.” The first level of 1237 West Division will feature 36-foot clear heights, 28 dock doors and two drive-in doors. The second floor, which will be accessible by separate two-way, double-wide ramps, will feature 33-foot clear heights, 28 …
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — Matthews Southwest has begun the final phase of the expansion and redevelopment of the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center, which includes the 29-story, 800-room Omni Fort Lauderdale hotel. The total cost of the project is about $1.3 billion and is expected to deliver in late 2025. Nunzio Marc DeSantis Architects designed the hotel, Fentress Architects designed the convention center expansion and Balfour Beatty is handling construction. The project is expected to generate 1,000 construction jobs and 1,300 permanent jobs. Matthews Southwest opened Phase I of the convention center in October 2021. The expansion project will add an additional 600,000 square feet of flexible indoor event and meeting space and an additional 200,000 square feet of outdoor programming space, to create a total of more than 1.4 million square feet of event space that includes 350,000 square feet of contiguous exhibition space. The expanded center will also feature a new 65,000-square-foot waterfront ballroom, 50 meeting rooms, new dining concepts, pre-function space and modern décor and technologies. The new Omni hotel will feature a rooftop bar, grand and junior ballrooms, meeting spaces, yoga deck and a pool deck. The project will also include an onsite water taxi …