BLUE SPRING, MO. — JLL Capital Markets has brokered the sale of Adam’s Dairy Landing, a 279,843-square-foot open-air shopping center in the Kansas City suburb of Blue Spring. The property is 96 percent leased to tenants such as TJ Maxx, HomeGoods, Dollar Tree, Ross Dress for Less, Petco, Michaels, Old Navy, Ulta Beauty and Five Below. Built in 2010, the shopping center sits on more than 33 acres at 800 NE Coronado Drive. Clinton Mitchell, Amy Sands, Michael Nieder and Jim Gates of JLL represented the seller, a private investment fund. Albanese Cormier was the buyer.
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SUMMIT, N.J. — New Jersey-based brokerage firm The Kislak Co. Inc. has arranged the $6.2 million sale of a 10-unit townhome property in the Northern New Jersey community of Summit. The property was built in 2019 and consists entirely of two-bedroom units with stainless steel appliances, granite countertops and laundry rooms. Joseph Keenan and Joni Sweetwood of Kislak brokered the deal. Both parties involved in the transaction requested anonymity.
PARMA HEIGHTS, OHIO — DealPoint Merrill has purchased The Shops at Pearl & 130th in Parma Heights, a western suburb of Cleveland. The purchase price was undisclosed. DealPoint Merrill plans to embark on a $10 million renovation project for the 155,805-square-foot shopping center. Construction is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2022. This will be the fourth major construction project launched by DealPoint Merrill in the Cleveland area. DealPoint Merrill’s David Frank and Sterling McGregor handled the due diligence and financing, while Jason Limbert and Tyler Bendicksen completed the acquisition and underwriting.
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA — Ryan Cos. US Inc. and Mercy Cedar Rapids have broken ground on The Heart Center at Mercy, a 72,000-square-foot cardiovascular center in Cedar Rapids. A skybridge will connect the center to the main Mercy hospital. Plans call for space for screenings and detection services as well as community education spaces for CPR and defibrillator training. Construction is scheduled to begin this fall and completion is slated for mid-2023. Ryan is serving as both designer and builder for the project.
MAYWOOD, ILL. — Loyola Medicine has opened a 30,000-square-foot clinical laboratory facility to serve Loyola University Medical Center, its academic medical center, as well as two community hospitals, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital and MacNeal Hospital. The new laboratory is housed on the fourth and fifth floors of the existing emergency medical services building, which is located at the Maywood campus of Loyola University Medical Center. HED designed the space and Leopardo Construction served as the general contractor.
LAS VEGAS — Blackstone (NYSE: BX) has entered into an agreement to sell The Cosmopolitan hotel and casino in Las Vegas to locally based hospitality and entertainment owner-operator MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) for $5.6 billion. Blackstone originally acquired The Cosmopolitan in 2014 for approximately $1.6 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. The firm subsequently invested more than $500 million in capital improvements to renovate the property’s 3,000 existing hotel rooms; add 67 new rooms and suites; enhance and expand the food and beverage offerings; and upgrade common areas and amenity spaces. Under the terms of the agreement, MGM will acquire the operations of The Cosmopolitan and sign a long-term net lease with a partnership between Cherng Family Trust, alternative investment firm Stonepeak Partners and Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust Inc. The deal is expected to close in early 2022. The Journal also reported that as of Friday, Sept. 24, The Cosmopolitan’s hotel rooms had been 87 percent occupied during the current month, with an average daily room rate of $448. The Cosmopolitan originally opened in 2010. In addition to its 3,000-plus hotel rooms, the development features a 110,000-square-foot casino; 300,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space; 150,000 …
Fueled by the acceleration of e-commerce amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Memphis industrial market’s record-setting momentum continued into the first half of the year. Demand fundamentals are the strongest they’ve ever been, with lease transaction volume at mid-year exceeding 12.2 million square feet for the second year in a row and total market direct net absorption reaching an unprecedented 5.3 million square feet. To put these numbers in perspective, lease transaction volume and direct absorption through June of pre-pandemic years averaged 5.8 million square feet and 1.6 million square feet, respectively. The market’s direct vacancy rate has hovered around 6.5 percent since the end of 2019, an impressive feat given the exceptional amount of speculative product that has been added to inventory over the past year and a half. New to the market The region’s central location, complemented by its world-class transportation infrastructure and low rental rates, make Memphis an attractive option for industrial users. Notable deals that have occurred since the beginning of 2020 include Milwaukee Tool’s 1.1 million-square-foot lease at I-269 Industrial Park, as well as two new Amazon leases totaling nearly 2 million square feet, growing the e-commerce giant’s Memphis-area footprint to more than 6.7 million square …
FAYETTEVILLE, ARK. AND TALLAHASSEE, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has secured $73 million in acquisition financing for two student housing properties in Arkansas and Florida. The borrowers, GFH Financial Group and Student Quarters, received the fixed-rate financing for VOX in Tallahassee and The Avenue in Fayetteville. Guardian Life Insurance provided the seven-year financing. VOX is a 602-bed student housing property serving Florida State University. Completed in 2020, the property features a mix of one- through five-bedroom floor plans, all offering bed-bath parity. Community amenities include an outdoor interval training center, a two-story indoor fitness center, social lounge, an outdoor courtyard and fire pit and a covered parking garage. The Avenue is a 652-bed student housing property serving the University of Arkansas. Built in the fall of 2019, The Avenue offers two- and four-bedroom floorplans, all offering bed-bath parity. Community amenities include 507 parking spaces, a fitness center and a swimming pool with cabanas. Gideon Gil, Alex Lapidus, Meredith Donovan and Sebastian Sanchez of Cushman & Wakefield arranged the loan on behalf of the borrowers.
DECATUR, GA. — CBRE has arranged the sale of North Dekalb Mall in Decatur, about 8.6 miles east from downtown Atlanta. West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Sterling Organization sold the property for an undisclosed price. The buyer, Edens, who has a headquarters office in Washington, D.C., plans to redevelop the mall into a mixed-use property, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Located at 2050 Lawrenceville Highway, North Dekalb Mall is located on 76.7 acres at the intersection of Lawrenceville Highway and North Druid Hills Road. The property is situated less than 1.5 miles west of Interstate 285. The enclosed mall’s tenants include AMC Theatres, Dollar Tree, Burlington and Marshalls. AMC Theatres has a maximum of six years left on its lease term at the location.
LUBBOCK, TEXAS — Ascott Residence Trust, a REIT based in Singapore, has acquired Wildwood Lubbock, a 1,005-bed student housing community located about two miles from Texas Tech University. Ascott purchased the community, which offers two- to four-bedroom units with bed-to-bath parity, from an undisclosed seller for $70 million. Shared amenities include a resort-style pool with hot tubs, a swim-up bar, outdoor cabanas and grills and fire pits. In addition, residents of Wildwood Lubbock have access to a fitness center, study rooms, theater, dog park and basketball and volleyball courts.