LIBERTYVILLE, ILL. — Medline has unveiled plans to open a 140,000-square-foot sales support center in Libertyville, a northern suburb of Chicago. The company will consolidate nearly a dozen teams totaling 600 employees at the center, which will be the seventh Medline facility in Lake County. Most of the employees will be relocating from the company’s Northfield headquarters or its Mundelein business campus. Both locations have reached capacity. In the last three years, Medline has increased its Chicago-area jobs by 34 percent. Medline provides clinical and supply chain resources to healthcare systems and independent facilities across the continuum of care.
MILWAUKEE — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has negotiated the $15 million sale of a four-property retail portfolio in metro Milwaukee. The portfolio totals 97,259 square feet. The properties include Harvard Square and Northfield Shopping Center in Brookfield, Lincoln Plaza in West Allis and Mitchell Bank Plaza in New Berlin. Kevin Schnoldt and Brian Vanevenhoven of NKF represented the sellers, which comprised various entities associated with William Reilly and Leon Joseph. Baceline Investments purchased the assets.
OAK BROOK, ILL. — Lizzadro Properties has completed the redevelopment of 1220 Kensington Road in Oak Brook. The building is now home to the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art, which focuses on stone art. The Museum Plaza Professional Offices are located on the second floor. Lizzadro purchased the 1970s-era office building in the fall of 2015. Lizzadro now occupies a portion of the second-floor space for its family business operations. The remaining 13,600 square feet of space is being leased to other office users, including Skawski Law Offices LLC, Waddell & Reed Financial Advisory, AFIN Family Wealth Management and Sarantakis Law Group LTD. Only 900 square feet remain available for lease. Lizzadro worked with Wright Heerema Architects and Keeley Construction on the project.
ST. PAUL, MINN. — Commonwealth Properties LLC has opened The Davidson, a boutique eight-room hotel in St. Paul. Located at 344 Summit Ave., the building is a 105-year-old former mansion. Five of the rooms have a view of downtown St. Paul, while the other three face Summit Avenue, which is known for its stretch of historic homes. Each guest room is equipped with a kitchen. The hotel provides guests with breakfast vouchers that can be used at nearby Bon Vie. Hotel guests also have access to the fitness facilities at The University Club of St. Paul and the Saint Paul Athletic Club. The hotel draws its name from the building’s original occupants, the Davidson family. The 18,000-square-foot home was built in 1915. Commonwealth Properties purchased the building in 2013.
KONA, HAWAII — The Davies Group at Los Angeles-based George Smith Partners has arranged both a $51.7 million senior construction loan and $16.2 million in mezzanine debt for the ground-up development of Niumalu Marketplace, a shopping center in Kona. The borrower is Commercial Real Estate Development Enterprise (CREDE). Safeway will anchor the 204,275-square-foot retail property, which is slated for completion by fourth-quarter 2020. Malcolm Davies, Zachary Streit, Evan Kinne, Alexander Rossinsky, Rachael Lewis, Aiden Moran and Maxwell Shedlosky of George Smith Partners facilitated the transaction. Centennial Bank provided the construction financing portion and Pearlmark Real Estate Partners provided the mezzanine debt.
PATERSON, N.J. — Love Funding Corp. has provided two loans totaling $55.6 million for the construction and permanent financing of Riverside Village Senior Apartments and Riverside Village Family Apartments. Both properties are located in Paterson, a northwestern suburb of New York City. The borrower was Roizman Development. The lender provided the developer with low-rate, nonrecourse financing for the duration of construction and for a subsequent 40-year term. Riverside Village Senior Apartments will feature 81 units in a four-story, elevator-serviced building. Riverside Village Family Apartments will feature 165 townhouse-style rental units. The construction will be part of an existing public housing development known as Riverside Terrace, currently containing 300 units. The apartment complex will be the second phase of the Riverside Terrace Master Redevelopment Plan. Inglese Architecture + Engineering is serving as the design architect, and ETC Cos. LLC is the general contractor. S.H.N.I.R. Apartment Management Corp. will be the operator. Riverside Senior Apartments is slated for completion in June 2021. Riverside Village Family apartments is slated for completion in January 2022.
PENNSYLVANIA — SRS Real Estate Partners has brokered the $36 million sale of a 26-property retail portfolio leased to Dollar General. The properties are located in various suburban areas throughout Pennsylvania. Each freestanding store features approximately 9,000 square feet of retail space, and all leases have between 12 and 13 years remaining. The stores sold for approximately $1.4 million each. Andrew Fallon of SRS represented the seller, Tennessee-based GBT Realty Corp., which developed the properties over the past two years, in the transaction. The buyer was a Virginia-based private investment group that was completing a 1031 exchange.
LAS VEGAS — CapRock Partners has completed the disposition of a three-property, 276,912-square-foot industrial portfolio in Las Vegas. Nicola Wealth Real Estate, a Canada-based subsidiary of wealth management firm Nicola Wealth, acquired the assets for an undisclosed price. The acquisition is Nicola Wealth’s first venture into the Las Vegas market. The portfolio includes The Park @ Arville at 4350 Arville St.; Valley View Commerce Center at 5130, 5160, 5190 and 5230 S. Valley View Blvd.; and Valley View Business Park at 3021 S. Valley View Blvd. Built in 1974, The Park @ Arville features 160,554 square feet of multi-tenant space, with suites ranging from 1,000 square feet to 10,000 square feet with private storage yards and 15-foot to 20-foot clear heights. Valley View Commerce Center was constructed in 1989 and features 73,508 square feet of multi-tenant space, with suites ranging from 1,776 square feet to 6,528 square feet, and 15-foot to 17-foot clear heights. Developed in 1986, the 42,850-square-foot Valley View Business Park offers suites ranging from 2,000 square feet to 7,000 square feet. The property is close to Interstate 15, with convenient access to U.S. 95 and McCarren International Airport.
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Whole Foods Market will open a 42,000-square-foot grocery store in Portsmouth, located approximately 45 miles east of Concord. The store will be the Austin-based grocer’s third in the state and will anchor Durgin Square Shopping Center, a 135,000-square-foot retail property that also houses HomeGoods and T.J. Maxx. The store is slated to open this fall. Scott Black of Dartmouth Co. represented Whole Foods in the lease negotiations. Ben Starr of Atlantic Retail represented the landlord, Black Creek Group.
NEW YORK CITY — Investment advisory firm Neville, Rodie & Shaw Inc. (NRS) has signed a 10-year office lease extension for its 7,300-square-foot space at 200 Madison Avenue in the Grand Central neighborhood of Manhattan. NRS will remain in its space on the 20th floor of the 26-story building, which it has occupied for more than 30 years, through 2031. NRS was represented internally in the lease negotiations. Andrew Conrad and Matt Coudert represented the building owner, a partnership of George Comfort & Sons, Loeb Partners Realty and Jamestown, also on an internal basis.