KENOSHA, WIS. — The City of Kenosha has unveiled plans for a $400 million project known as Downtown Vision. It will include two 11-story towers to be known as the Brindisi Towers, which will feature luxury apartments and condos as well as restaurant and retail space on the ground floor. A new entertainment and performing arts center will also be built with a 1,200-seat main theater and a smaller 300-seat community theater. A gallery will be operated by the Kenosha Public Museum. The performing arts center will connect to a higher-end hotel. As part of the project, Kenosha City Hall will be relocated. The current location will be transformed into a park. A parking ramp will increase downtown parking by 356 stalls. The Downtown Vision plan will be presented for review and recommendation to the Public Works Committee, Public Safety & Welfare Committee and Finance Committee in early December. Then it will go to the Common Council for approval with the goal of receiving final project approval by the end of the year. The Downtown Vision project complements a recently released plan for the Uptown neighborhood with the development of Uptown Lofts, an $18 million project that will transform the …
CHICAGO — Sterling Bay has sold 1515 W. Webster, a 207,000-square-foot office building at Lincoln Yards in Chicago for $110.2 million. Constructed in 2018 on the site of the former Gutmann Leather Tannery, the fully leased property was the first office development completed at Lincoln Yards, Sterling Bay’s mixed-use development located along the North Branch of the Chicago River. A global third-party logistics provider occupies the four-story building, which includes open workstations, private offices, conference rooms, two reception areas, a café and a 5,000-square-foot terrace. David Knapp, Tom Sitz, Cody Hundertmark and Josh McGee of Cushman & Wakefield marketed the property for sale and procured the buyer, Apex Capital. The sale was Chicago’s fourth-largest office sale price of 2020, according to Sterling Bay.
KALAMAZOO, MICH. — A new Hilton Garden Inn hotel has opened in downtown Kalamazoo. The hotel will operate at a reduced capacity of 54 rooms, with the remaining 60 rooms expected to open in February. The dual-branded development adjoins a 106-room Home2 Suites by Hilton hotel that is slated to open in May. PlazaCorp and Dora Hotel Co. partnered on the project, which is a restoration of the historic Mason Temple building. Designed by Spier & Rohns and dating back to 1915, the property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Amenities at the hotel include an indoor pool, onsite restaurant, outdoor courtyard, fitness center, lounge, business center and 2,100 square feet of banquet space.
HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. — The Legacy Companies, a Florida-based food manufacturing and consumer appliance provider, has signed a 78,585-square-foot industrial lease at 2555 Kuser Road in the Northern New Jersey township of Hamilton. Ken Morris of Morris Southeast Group and Mike Witco of Chilmark Real Estate Services LLC represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Scannell Properties owns the building.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Berkadia has provided a $20.5 million Fannie Mae loan for the refinancing of Summit Crossing Phase II in Kansas City. The townhome-style multifamily property consists of 204 units across all phases. Amenities include two playgrounds, two pools, a business center, pickleball court, soccer field and fitness center. John Schorgl of Berkadia originated the loan on behalf of the borrower, Missouri-based Worcester Investments. The 10-year loan features a fixed interest rate with three years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule.
NORTHAMPTON, MASS. — MassHousing has provided $4.5 million in financing for the development of North Commons at Village Hill, a 53-unit workforce housing project that will be located in the Central Massachusetts city of Northampton. The financing consisted of $3.1 million in taxable permanent financing and $1.4 million in financing from the Agency’s Workforce Housing Initiative. The borrower was The Community Builders. The property will feature eight studio units, 19 one-bedroom apartments, 22 two-bedroom residences and four three-bedroom apartments. A construction timeline was not disclosed.
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIF. — Orange County-based Raintree Partners has purchased a portfolio of five multifamily communities in Southern California from a private seller for $142 million. Totaling 551 units, the properties are located in four submarkets: Glendale, Hollywood and Canoga Park in Los Angeles County, and Camarillo in Ventura County. Raintree plans to implement a value-add renovation plan across the four Los Angeles County properties, which will include intensive upgrades to exteriors, amenity areas and unit interiors. Additionally, the firm plans to complete a light refresh at the Camarillo asset. The portfolio includes: Mountain View Apartments, a 106-unit community at 659 Las Posas Road in Camarillo Imperial Manor Remmet & Strathern Apartments, a 64-unit property located at 8101-811 Remmet Ave. and 21601-21609 Strathern St. in Canoga Park Perigee Apartments, a 200-unit asset located at 21041 Parthenia St. in Canoga Park Imperial Crest Apartments, a 44-unit complex at 1120-1124 Thompson Ave. in Glendale Canyon Drive Manor Apartments, a 137-unit community located at 1738 N. Canyon Drive in Hollywood Dean Zander, Stewart Weston and John Montakab of CBRE represented the seller in the deal. Greg Reed and Kristen Croxton of Capital One arranged financing, which Fannie Mae provided.
PHOENIX — Irvine, California-based Granite Phoenix Complex Holdings has completed the disposition of TriWest Corporate Headquarters Campus, a four-building office property in Phoenix. An East Coast-based private buyer entered the Phoenix market by acquiring the property for an undisclosed price. Barry Gabel, Chris Marchildon and Will Mast of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction. Situated on 12.3 acres within Arizona Business Park, TriWest Corporate Headquarters Campus features 121,511 square feet of office space. TriWest Healthcare Alliance fully occupies the property, which is located at 15810, 15820, 15830 and 16010 N. 28th Ave. TriWest has occupied the property since 2003 and recently renewed its lease.
SANTA ANA, CALIF. — Advanced Real Estate Services has acquired a multifamily property in Santa Ana for $64 million with the buyer assuming an existing loan of approximately $37 million. Formerly called Solare, the property will be rebranded as River House. Situated next to the Santa Ana River and Riverview Golf Course, the community features 240 apartments, two swimming pools, a fitness center and a playground. Individual units offer fireplaces, balconies and central air conditioning. The property was built in 1987. Advanced plans to implement a $10 million renovation project at the property. The plans include new windows, roofs, wood siding repair, a modern paint scheme and landscaping. Additionally, the company plans to upgrade the unit interiors with new flooring, cabinets, counters, fixtures and paint. Tyler Leeson of Marcus & Millichap and Stewart Weston of CBRE brokered the transaction. The name of the seller was not released.
SAN MATEO, CALIF. — Sares Regis Group of Northern California (SRGNC) has acquired Mode, an apartment property located at 2089 Pacific Blvd. in San Mateo. Land and Houses sold the property for an undisclosed price. Totaling 108,700 square feet, the two-building community features 111 apartments, a dog run, fitness center, yoga studio, resident clubhouse with kitchen, business center, two outdoor courtyards with barbecue and picnic areas, resident storage with bicycle space, solar roofing, a leasing center and 219 parking spaces. SRGNC has received conditional approval to convert eight of the current two-bedroom units into 16 studios in conjunction with improvements to apartment interiors and common areas. The conversion will increase the total number of apartments to 119, with 12 designated as affordable, in a mix of studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts. Construction on the new studio units is slated to begin during the first quarter of 2021. Philip Saglimbeni, Stanford Jones, Salvatore Saglimbeni and Alexander Tartaglia of Institutional Property Advisors represented the seller, while SRGNC was self-represented in the deal. Jesse Weber of CBRE’s Northern California Multifamily Debt & Structured Finance team arranged debt for the buyer.