ST. LOUIS — One Metropolitan Square, an office tower in downtown St. Louis, has sold in two transactions totaling $145 million. One deal was for the building and a separate one was for the land. Kawa Capital Management, an independent asset management firm, purchased the leased fee interest. The seller, 601W Cos., had owned and operated the property since 2005. The building is 92 percent leased to 35 tenants in industries such as law, government, energy and architecture. This past summer, the U.S. Department of Agriculture signed a 20-year lease to occupy 163,000 square feet.
CLEVELAND — City Club Apartments has broken ground on a new 23-story development in downtown Cleveland. Located at 776 Euclid Ave. and dubbed an “apartment hotel,” the project will feature 304 luxury apartment units and penthouses along with street-level retail space, including a restaurant and speakeasy, café and doggie daycare. Guests can rent a furnished or unfurnished unit for a day, week, month or multiple years. The units will come in 22 different floorplans. Amenities will include an entertainment sky club, heated rooftop pool, sky park, fitness center, yoga room, business center and theaters. Construction will begin later this month with pre-leasing scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2022. First move-ins are slated for spring 2023.
BOARDMAN, OHIO — First National Realty Partners has acquired Southland Crossings in Boardman, about 50 miles east of Akron. The purchase price and seller were undisclosed. Giant Eagle Supermarket anchors the 245,678-square-foot shopping center, which is located on Doral Drive. The property is 91 percent leased by tenants such as Ross Dress for Less, PetSmart, DSW and Michaels.
OMAHA, NEB. — Investors Realty has brokered the sale of a two-building industrial portfolio in Omaha for $8.5 million. The two adjacent buildings total 99,616 square feet and are located at the corner of 136th Street and Cornhusker Road. Ember Grummons of Investors Realty represented the buyer, STAG Industrial Holdings LLC. Joe Kutilek of Magnum Realty Inc. represented the seller, K & J Investments LLC.
SPENCER, IOWA — Colliers Mortgage has provided a $7.3 million Fannie Mae loan for the refinancing of Windcrest Village II in the northwest Iowa town of Spencer. The 93-unit multifamily property, built in 2020, features a fitness center, dog park and community center. The seven-year loan features a 30-year amortization schedule. An entity doing business as Windcrest Village II LLC was the borrower.
HACKENSACK, N.J. — Enburg Group, a developer that was established in Taiwan in 1978 as a food manufacturer, has opened Brick of Hackensack, a 378-unit apartment community in the Northern New Jersey city’s downtown area. The 15-story building features studio, one- and two-bedroom units that are furnished with stainless steel appliances, marble quartz countertops and individual washers and dryers. Amenities include a pool, fitness center with a yoga studio and a clubhouse with a pool table and TVs. Rents start at $1,800 per month for a studio unit.
EASTON, PA. — Global logistics operator Realterm has acquired a 307,290-square-foot warehouse that is located at 3747 Hecktown Road in the Lehigh Valley city of Easton. Built on 28.5 acres in 1986 and expanded in 2017, the single-tenant property features 32 loading positions, 56 trailer parking stalls, 370 car parking spaces and 4,800 square feet of freezer space. The property was fully leased at the time of sale. John Plower, Ryan Cottone, Zach Maguire and Jeff Lockard of JLL brokered the deal on behalf of Realterm. The seller was not disclosed.
FRANKLIN AND DANVERS, MASS. — Avison Young has brokered the $37.2 million sale of a portfolio of two industrial buildings totaling 205,324 square feet in metro Boston. The properties, which were fully leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Panera Bread, JNJ Industries, Lansing Building Products and McCue Corp., are located in the southwestern suburb of Franklin and the northern suburb of Danvers. Scott Jamieson and Brandon Dickason of Avison Young represented the seller, Arris Partners LLC, in the transaction and procured the buyer, Denver-based Black Creek Group.
NEW YORK CITY — Walker & Dunlop has arranged a $36 million loan for the refinancing of a 64-unit multifamily property in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. Built in 2018, the property consists of 23 studios and 41 two-bedroom apartments with 30 percent of units designated as affordable housing, as well as 14,080 square feet of retail space that is fully leased. Aaron Appel, Michael Diaz, Michael Ianno and Jackson Irwin of Walker & Dunlop arranged the five-year, floating-rate loan through Amherst Capital Management on behalf of the borrower, Cayuga Capital Management.
BOSTON — MassHousing has provided $28.5 million in financing for Council Tower, a 145-unit affordable seniors housing property in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. Excluding the property manager’s unit, all of Council Tower’s 28 studios and 117 one-bedroom units are subsidized by a Section 8 Housing Assistance Payment contract. The borrower, the Council of Elders Housing Corp., will use proceeds to refinance existing debt, fund capital improvements and preserve the affordability of the 17-story building.