ST. JOSEPH, MO. — Sky Real Estate LLC and Sunflower Development Group LLC have completed a $36 million adaptive multifamily reuse project in downtown St. Joseph, about 55 miles north of Kansas City. The project involved the conversion of the former Richardson Dry Goods Co. headquarters into a 140-unit, loft-style apartment complex named American Electric Lofts. Amenities include a game room, fitness room, pet park and smart home technology throughout the property. Hazel’s Coffee recently opened on the building’s first floor. SWD Architects, Lankford Fendler + Associates and Rau Construction made up the project team. The developers utilized federal and state historic tax credits.
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EVANSVILLE, IND. — Savills has brokered the sale of Graham Packaging’s plastics manufacturing plant in Evansville for $24.7 million. The 266,720-square-foot, net-leased facility is located at 5504 Foundation Drive within Vanderburgh Industrial Park. Graham Packaging produces 300 million food and beverage containers annually at the property, which was built in 2002 and expanded in 2008. Maurice Nieman of Savills represented the undisclosed seller. SomeraRoad was the buyer.
INDIANAPOLIS — Asia Capital Real Estate (ACRE) has provided a $21 million loan for the renovation of Williamsburg North in Indianapolis. The 318-unit multifamily property, located at 4430 Brookline Court, was built in the 1960s. Amenities include a clubhouse, dog park, fitness center, pool and picnic areas. At the time of loan closing, the asset was 97 percent leased. The three-year loan features a loan-to-value ratio of 71 percent. Real estate investor David Shemano was the borrower.
WARREN, MICH. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the $2.6 million sale of the Regal Court medical office property in Warren, a suburb just north of Detroit. The property includes two buildings totaling 40,181 square feet. The anchor tenant is Ascension, which occupies 41 percent. Gino Lollio, Scott Niedergang, Travis Ives and Garrett Keais of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Promanas, an Ann Arbor-based commercial real estate private equity firm. The team also procured the local buyer, CMG Realty Group.
NEW YORK CITY — Ariel Property Advisors has brokered the $3.5 million sale of a 2,700-square-foot retail and residential building in the Kips Bay area of Manhattan that consists of one retail space leased to Dunkin’ and two residential units. Howard Raber, Sean Kelly and Jack Moran of Ariel Property Advisors represented the undisclosed seller in the deal. The buyer and sales price were also not disclosed.
WESTBOROUGH, MASS. — KPM Analytics America, a Massachusetts-based manufacturer of agricultural instruments, has signed a 29,402-square-foot office lease at 8 Technology Drive in Westborough, about 35 miles west of Boston. Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, Feris Development Group, in the lease negotiations. John Eysenbach of R.W. Holmes Realty represented the tenant.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — 3650 REIT has provided a $68.5 million loan to refinance Patewood Corporate Center, a six-building, 447,000-square-foot office park located at 10-80 Patewood Drive in Greenville. Joe Hercenberg of Walker & Dunlop arranged the seven-year, fixed-rate loan through JFR Global Investments. The financing brings 3650 REIT to approximately $301.7 million in capital deployed in 2021 year-to-date. Built in 1985 and renovated in 2015, Patewood Corporate Center offers space at a discount to buildings located in Greenville’s urban core. The center is the closest suburban office park to downtown Greenville and is close Interstates 385 and 85, as well as Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport. The tenants are mostly engineering companies, including Raytheon Technologies and Day & Zimmermann. 3650 REIT is a Miami-based commercial real estate lender originating and servicing portfolio loans for relationship borrowers. The company has recently provided a $68 million loan to fund the acquisition of PetSmart Headquarters, which is a three-building, approximately 365,000-square-foot office complex located in Phoenix.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — USAA will open a new 90,000-square-foot office in Charlotte later this year. The San Antonio- based financial services company entered into a lease agreement with the undisclosed landlord to occupy space within The Square at South End, a 10-story office building located at 200 W. Boulevard. The new location was selected because of the area’s highly skilled individuals in the financial services sector. USAA already has a number of employees living in the Charlotte area. The new office location will eventually host approximately 750 employees who will work either onsite or in a hybrid model. USAA will lease six floors of the 153,000-square-foot building. Employees are expected to begin moving into the building by the end of 2021.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Capstone Apartment Partners has brokered the $49 million sale of Vantage at Powdersville, a 288-unit, garden-style apartment community in Greenville. The property is situated on 22 acres in west Greenville at the intersection of Anderson Road and State Road 153, about 19 miles from Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport and 7.2 miles from downtown Greenville. Caleb Troop, Austin Green and Alex McDermott of Capstone represented the seller, Vantage Communities, in conjunction with Marcus & Millichap’s Institutional Property Advisors. The buyer is California-based RK Properties, which plans to complete light upgrades to the community amenities and interior units. Built in 2019, Vantage at Powdersville features one-, two- and three-bedroom apartment homes with wood-style flooring, fully equipped kitchens, ceiling fans, walk-in closets, full-size washers and dryers and a patio or balcony. Community amenities include a resort-style swimming pool, fitness center, picnic/grilling area, business center, dog parks and washing stations and garages. The community was approximately 97 percent occupied at the time of closing. Vantage at Powdersville is RK’s third transaction in the Carolinas in the past seven months. The company purchased Haven Pointe at Carolina Forest in Myrtle Beach this year, as well as Novel Research Park in Charlotte late last year. …
Mesa West Capital Funds $178M Loan for Acquisition, Conversion of San Mateo Bay Center Office Campus in California
by Amy Works
SAN MATEO, CALIF. — Mesa West Capital has provided Longfellow Real Estate Partners with a $178 million first mortgage loan to recapitalize costs associated with its recent acquisition and fund the planned repositioning of the San Mateo Bay Center office campus in San Mateo. A portion of the proceeds from the five-year, floating-rate loan will be used to convert the 235,911-square-foot conventional office property into a life sciences and laboratory facility. Developed in 1984, San Mateo Bay Center features two seven-story office towers located at 901 and 951 Mariner’s Island Blvd. Campus amenities include showers, a fitness center, café and outdoor patio space. The campus is located in the mid-peninsula Foster City/San Mateo life sciences market with an inventory of nearly 2 million square feet of life sciences space, anchored by the 1.4 million-square-foot world headquarters campus for Gilead Sciences. Ramsey Daya of Newmark Knight Frank arranged the financing. Mark Osher of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher LLP represented Mesa West Capital in the deal.