FARGO, N.D. — JLL Capital Markets has negotiated the sale of Woodrow Apartments in Fargo for $19 million. The 97-unit apartment complex is located at 1222 4th Ave. and is the adaptive reuse of the 100-year-old Woodrow Wilson School. Amenities include a gym, community lounge, outdoor patio and heated underground parking. Adam Haydon, Mox Gunderson, Dan Linnell and Josh Talberg of JLL represented the seller, Fargo-based Kilbourne Group. Idaho-based Graystoke Capital Partners purchased the asset.
SHILOH, ILL. — Barber Murphy has brokered the sale of a 7,392-square-foot medical office building in Shiloh, about 20 miles east of St. Louis. The sales price was undisclosed. Barber Murphy represented the seller, Chouteau Ventures II LLC. R&R Real Properties Inc. purchased the building, which is located at 1116 Hartman Lane.
SAUGUS, MASS. — JLL has negotiated the $39.5 million sale of Saugus Plaza, a 165,800-square-foot shopping center in the northern Boston suburb of Saugus that is anchored by grocer Stop & Shop. Floor & Décor serves as the second anchor tenant of the center, which was 97 percent leased at the time of sale. Other tenants include Buffalo Wild Wings, North Shore Liquor and King Crab. Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE: FRT) sold the property to a partnership between The Grossman Cos. Inc. and Boston-based North Colony Asset Management. Nat Heald, Chris Angelone and Zach Nitsche of JLL brokered the deal.
NEW YORK CITY— Locally based private equity firm KPG Funds and LaSalle Global Partner Solutions have purchased 480 Broadway in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood with plans to redevelop the property into a boutique office building with retail space. The new ownership purchased the building in conjunction with 155 Spring, a nearby office and retail asset, from Maryland-based REIT Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE: VNO). The redevelopment will include rebranding the building as 40 Crosby.
LANSING, MICH. — Ultium Cells, a joint venture between General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) and LG Energy Solution, has unveiled plans for a $2.6 billion investment to build its third battery cell manufacturing plant in the United States. The facility, which will be located in Lansing, the state capital, is part of a larger $7 billion investment in four Michigan manufacturing sites to increase battery cell and electric truck manufacturing capacity. Detroit-based GM says this is the single largest investment announcement in its history. The Michigan Strategic Fund Board approved $824.1 million in incentives for the projects, according to local media reports. Ultium Cells will build the new plant in Lansing on land leased from GM. The facility is expected to create 1,700 new jobs when fully operational. Site preparation on the roughly 2.8 million-square-foot property is scheduled to begin this summer, and the plant is expected to open in late 2024. The facility will supply battery cells to Orion Assembly in Michigan and other GM electric vehicle (EV) assembly plants. “This significant investment demonstrates our commitment to strengthen our Michigan and U.S. manufacturing presence and grow good-paying jobs,” says Mary Barra, GM chair and CEO. “We will have the …
Fueled by a trifecta of favorable cap rates, an underserved apartment market and sharp increases in market demand, St. Louis is starting to gain momentum with the potential to become a new multifamily hotspot. As investors and developers take note, capital that typically has been focused in higher growth markets on the coast and cities like Chicago and Nashville is starting to flow into the Gateway City. The fruit of these investments is now coming to market. Despite 20-plus percent increases in construction costs, 24 percent more units — 2,057 total — were built in 2021 compared with St. Louis’ five-year annual average. Nearly 4,000 additional units are under construction in the St. Louis region. Population, personal income and job growth are the key economic drivers of multifamily unit demand. In 2020 and 2021, all three of those markers are finishing on the upside in St. Louis after pandemic dips. Employment growth is particularly promising. After slight employment declines over the last five years, St. Louis employment has grown at an average annual rate of 2.7 percent for the last four quarters. CBRE forecasts positive growth of 2 percent for the next two years and 0.8 percent for the next …
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ORLANDO, FLA. — JLL Capital Markets has secured a $318.5 million acquisition loan for a six-property multifamily portfolio located across Maryland, Virginia and Alabama. There were multiple sellers for the properties. The 1,494-unit workforce housing portfolio includes the following: Park at Kingsview Village (326 units) in Germantown, Md.; Stonecreek Club (240 units) in Germantown; Hunt Club (336 units) in Gaithersburg, Md.; Springwoods at Lake Ridge (180 units) in Woodbridge, Va.; Windsor Park (220 units) in Woodbridge; and Oaks of St. Clair (192 units) in Moody, Ala. Melissa Marcolini Quinn, Lee Weaver, Drew Jennewein, Rob Rothaug, Emily Moallem and Cody Mizelle of JLL arranged the loan through J.P. Morgan Chase Bank on behalf of the borrower, Carter Multifamily. The floating-rate, non-recourse bridge loan will facilitate a Single Asset Single Borrower (SASB) securitization, which is a single loan large enough to create its own pool for securitization. “This portfolio acquisition featured multiple sellers and a compressed timeframe, with less than 30 days from signed term sheet to closing,” says Quinn. “The team at JP Morgan was able to provide an attractive, short-term, balance sheet financing option, which is ideal for the planned SASB take out.”
POMPANO BEACH, FLA. — Grover Corlew has received $78.2 million in financing for the first property under the Mayla Residences’ brand called Mayla Pompano, a 355-unit multifamily property in Pompano Beach. PNC Bank provided the construction financing. The project is slated to break ground in February with completion expected by July 2023. Mayla Pompano will be a two-building project and offer studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts, ranging from 548 to 1,383 square feet. Unit features will include bathrooms with soaking tubs, frameless shower enclosures, back-lit vanity mirrors, quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances, built-in microwaves, glass cooktops, walk-in closets, private balconies, hurricane impact windows and in-unit washers and dryers. Community amenities will include a two-story clubroom, coworking spaces, TV lounge, fitness center, pools with cabanas, outdoor kitchens with seating at both buildings, pedestrian bridge between buildings, dog spa, bicycle storage and repair station, garage parking and interior mailrooms and package rooms. The property will also feature 60,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor. Mayla Pompano will be situated on nearly three acres of underutilized parking lots behind Grover Corlew’s 2401 Atlantic and 2335 Atlantic office buildings. Located at 2335 and 2401 E. Atlantic Blvd., the property is …
MURFREESBORO, TENN. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged the sale of The Stonegate Corporate Center, an 85,569-square-foot office building in Murfreesboro. Joe Massa, Anthony Lunceford and Michael Grenaway of IPA represented the undisclosed seller and procured the undisclosed buyer in the transaction. The sales price was not disclosed. Built in 2005, Stonegate Corporate Center was 94 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Regional Information Sharing Systems, Baird and Northwest Mutual. Additionally, the property is anchored by The Department of Veteran Affairs, which occupies about 35 percent of the property’s total rentable square footage. Located at 1639 Medical Center Parkway, Stonegate Corporate Center is situated across from Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital. The property is also 34.3 miles south of downtown Nashville and 35.4 miles from Franklin.
