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MINNEAPOLIS — Owner Accesso has unveiled plans to renovate Crystal Court, a central gathering place located within IDS Center in Minneapolis. The renovation plan, which was designed in collaboration with Perkins and Will and New History, calls for updating the “functionality and aesthetics of the space to better meet the evolving needs of today’s consumer.” Renowned architect Philip Johnson designed the 57-story, 1.4 million-square-foot office tower, which opened in 1972. The updated Crystal Court will feature new collaborative seating areas, a grove of trees and a new water feature. Accesso, a manager, owner and operator, boasts a portfolio of 35 office properties spanning 15.6 million square feet throughout the U.S.

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NORTHBROOK, ILL. — Cannabis Facility Construction (CFC) has completed building a new recreational and medical cannabis dispensary for Greenhouse in Northbrook. Located at 755 Skokie Blvd., the 9,982-square-foot project serves as a flagship dispensary for the brand. The building features an open floor plan with high vaulted ceilings and abundant natural light. To accommodate social distancing, all points of sale are six feet apart. In addition to the retail space, the project features back-office space with a secure vault for inventory storage and an advanced security system.

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DELAFIELD, WIS. — SRS Real Estate Partners has arranged the $2.8 million sale of a Chick-fil-A ground lease in Delafield, about 30 miles west of Milwaukee. The 5,012-square-foot, single-tenant building sits at 2980 Golf Court and opened in February of this year. Sheree Strome and Michael Berk of SRS represented the buyer, a Virginia-based private investor who completed a 1031 exchange. Jon Thoresen of Founders 3 Real Estate Services represented the seller, a Georgia-based developer. The cap rate was 3.96 percent.

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MORRISTOWN, N.J. — New York Life Real Estate Investors has provided a $36.5 million loan for The Metropolitan at 40 Park, a 130-unit apartment building in Morristown, about 35 miles west of New York City. The property features studio, one- and two-bedroom units that offer private balconies or terraces. Amenities include a fitness center, game room, rooftop terrace and a package center with lockers. A partnership between Woodmont Properties and Roseland Residential Trust developed the seven-story, Class A building in 2010.

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UNION, N.J. — JLL has arranged an undisclosed amount of permanent financing for Centurion Union, a newly built, 80-unit apartment building in Union, located southwest of Newark. Residents have access to amenities including a fitness center, game room, lounge, coworking space, dog run and a children’s playroom. Michael Klein and Max Custer of JLL arranged the fixed-rate loan through Provident Bank on behalf of the borrower, American Landmark Development.

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NEWINGTON, N.H. — Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated a 50,000-square-foot office lease at 90 Arboretum Drive in Newington, located in the southeast corner of the state. Designed by Boston-based SGA Architects, the property is the first commercial office building in New England to be constructed with manufactured timber elements. Denis Dancoes, Thomas Farrelly and Sue Ann Johnson of Cushman & Wakefield represented the owner, Farley White Interests, in the transaction. Kent White of The Boulos Company represented the undisclosed tenant.

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DRACUT, MASS. — GreenStar Herbals has opened a 13,000-square-foot cannabis dispensary for recreational use in Dracut, located north of Boston near the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border. The store is GreenStar’s third and offers a variety of flower, edible, tincture and salve products. Vantage Builders Inc., a metro Boston-based design-build and construction management firm, handled the build-out of the space, which also includes a consultation area and a break room and locker area for employees.

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NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS — Centurion American Development Group has broken ground on City Point, a 52-acre mixed-use development in the Dallas suburb of North Richland Hills. Development costs were not disclosed, but D Magazine reports it will cost the Farmers Branch, Texas-based developer $300 million. City Point will comprise 400 to 600 multifamily units, 60,000 square feet of commercial space, a trail system, outdoor greenspace and 366 single-family homes, including bungalows and townhomes. The commercial space will include office, retail and restaurant space. The City of North Richland Hills and Tarrant County each contributed a cap of $4.2 million and $1.7 million, respectively, through a Tax Increment Financing District (TIF) for infrastructure improvements surrounding the development. Cleveland-based NRP Group will build the apartment units, Plano, Texas-based CB Jeni Homes will construct the townhomes and Gunter, Texas-based New Synergy Homes will build the bungalow homes portion of the development. A developer for the commercial space was not disclosed. City Point is situated at the former site of North Mills Mall, which closed in 2004 and was torn down in 2007, according to D Magazine. The site has sat vacant since. The property is located along Grapevine Highway near Interstate 280, …

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By Allison Gray, Steadfast City Economic & Community Partners The growing demand for distribution space and the related importance of freight logistics and a healthy supply chain have remained steady even though the COVID-19 pandemic continues to shake up markets across the U.S. and around the globe. This demand is evident in the bi-state St. Louis region, where more inventory of bulk distribution space has been added in the five-year period between 2015 and 2019 than at any other point in St. Louis history, totaling more than 18 million square feet of top-of-the-line modern bulk space. Recent construction and development trends in the bi-state St. Louis area reveal that bulk distribution buildings — those that top 250,000 square feet — have been the highest growing sector for the regional inventory. Since 2016, 94 percent of all bulk construction has been focused along the vital I-70 corridor, while 90 percent  of the new major industrial parks with significant construction are located within 10 minutes of the I-70 corridor. This corridor, which includes portions of I-170, I-270 and I-370, is a development hotspot that links Illinois and Missouri. It has emerged as a major logistics corridor supported with more than $600 million …

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Landlords, users and brokers throughout the Houston retail market are re-tooling their properties and operating practices to stay afloat amid the COVID-19 pandemic, introducing ways of doing business that may persist long after the public health crisis has subsided. A panel comprising retail leasing, development and investment sales professionals in Houston convened on Tuesday, Oct. 6 to discuss specific ideas and methodologies that have been put into practice as COVID-19 rocks the world of brick-and-mortar retail. Shopping Center Business and Texas Real Estate Business, two magazines published by Atlanta-based France Media Inc., hosted the event. Prior to the pandemic, social events that activated open public spaces helped landlords to promote their tenants’ businesses and to bring traffic to their centers. With public health protocols precluding many of these events from happening, owners and tenants alike have had to think outside the box.  New Practices Sustain Business No retail category has seen this trend displayed more visibly than the restaurant sector. Emily Durham, partner and director of hospitality services at Waterman Steele Real Estate Advisors and a longtime tenant rep specialist for restaurant owners, identified several new practices that have helped restaurants stay above water. “The sit-down and fine dining restaurants have had the …

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