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KANSAS CITY, MO. — The Yards, a $41 million luxury apartment development, is scheduled to open in Kansas City’s Stockyards District this month. Located at 1660 Genessee St. in downtown Kansas City, the project features 232 apartment units and 3,150 square feet of retail space. The amenities, spread over approximately 9,500 square feet, includes a saltwater pool, outdoor area, community kitchen, activity lounge, fitness center and dog park. Residents can also use kayaks to access the Kansas River. Plans also call for a partnership with Amigoni Winery to create the first vineyard within an apartment community in Kansas City. Prospective residents can now schedule virtual tours and take advantage of two months of free rent and reduced fees. Monthly rental rates range from $825 to $1,650. Flaherty & Collins is the developer and KEM Studio is the architect.

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CRYSTAL LAKE, ILL. — Skender has completed the construction of Residences of Crystal Lake, an affordable independent senior living facility in Crystal Lake. Turnstone Development owns the 60-unit, 63,000-square-foot property. Residents have access to a fitness area, theater room, community rooms, computer rooms, a gazebo and outdoor spaces. Residents must be age 55 or older and meet the annual income restriction. The project team included UrbanWorks, Groundwork, DKI and TH Associates. Turnstone is a nonprofit that has developed more than 1,680 affordable housing units in Illinois and Florida since 1998.

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EAST TROY, WIS. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $2.7 million sale of the Quality Inn & Suites in East Troy, about 35 miles southwest of Milwaukee. Built in 1999, the 51-room hotel is located at 2921 O’Leary Lane. The property spans 38,660 square feet. Ebrahim Valliani, John Yurich, Allan Miller and Chris Gomes of Marcus & Millichap’s Chicago Oak Brook office marketed the hotel on behalf of the seller, a private investor. The team also secured and represented the buyer, a private investor. Todd Lindblom assisted on the transaction as the broker of record in Marcus & Millichap’s Wisconsin office.

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LINCOLNSHIRE, ILL. — Melinta Therapeutics, an antibiotics company, has signed a four-year office lease renewal at Tri State International in Lincolnshire. The company occupies 8,876 square feet on the second floor. Dan Fernitz, Matt Alexander and Milan Gacanovic of Bradford Allen represented ownership in the lease transaction. Henry Lee and Max Zwolan of JLL represented the tenant.

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PHOENIX — Hines has purchased approximately 11 acres near the northwest corner of Happy Valley Road and 35th Avenue in Phoenix’s West Valley market. The Pederson Group sold the development site for $6.7 million. The buyer plans to develop a 325-unit multifamily property on the site. Totaling 318,000 square feet, the community will feature 161 one-bedroom, 140 two-bedroom and 24 three-bedroom apartment units. Chaz Smith, John Finnegan and Ramey Peru of Colliers International in Arizona represented the seller, while Hines represented itself in the transaction.

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FORT WAYNE, IND. — Waterfield Capital LLC has renewed its 4,030-square-foot office lease at 7221 Engle Road in Fort Wayne. The investment company occupies space at 7221 Engle Road. Brady Gardner and Kevin Ellis of Sturges Property Group represented both the tenant and the landlord, Midwestern Office Park Acquisition LLC, in the lease transaction.

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TEMECULA, CALIF. — San Diego-based Stos Partners has purchased an industrial asset located at 42301 Zevo Drive in Temecula. A private investor sold the facility for $28.9 million in an off-market transaction. Currently, a global, publicly traded healthcare company occupies the entire 228,912-square-foot property. The tenant plans to utilize the facility as part of its distribution network for COVID-19 tests. Scott Stewart of Lee & Associates represented Stos Partners, while Alisa Lovas of Lee & Associates represented the seller in the deal.

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LOS ANGELES — Green Pace Financial, along with its affiliate Hoover Financial, has arranged $44.5 million in PACE-approved construction financing for Live, Work, Create Equity LLC. The loans will be used for the development of an apartment community in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles. The combined 80 percent loan-to-cost, non-recourse financing included $14.5 million in C-PACE energy saving financing. The balance of the C-PACE-approved financing for the project was a $30 million senior construction loan. One of Green Pace Financial’s private equity construction lenders provided those funds. Construction on the 126-unit multifamily property is slated to begin this summer.

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SAN DIEGO — Berkadia has arranged the sale of The Sterling, a colonial revival multifamily asset in San Diego. Chicago-based Highlands REIT acquired the community from San Diego-based SENTRE for $7.3 million. Located at 470 20th St., the fully renovated, 27-unit property holds a Mills Act historic designation as part of the historic Sherman Heights neighborhood. The building features 14 studios and 13 one-bedroom units, all of which have been fully renovated with retained style and detailing of the early 20th century. Select units feature bay windows and private balconies. Community amenities include park-like garden terraces, restored and decorated common areas, and colonial revival architecture. Ed Rosen, John Chu and Tyler Sinks of Berkadia’s San Diego office represented the seller in the deal.

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NEW YORK CITY — J.Crew Group Inc., which operates the J.Crew and Madewell fashion retail brands, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company hopes to restructure its debt while aiming to eventually reopen its stores in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Chinos Holdings Inc., the parent company of J.Crew, filed the voluntary petitions for protection on Monday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Eastern District of Virginia. In a statement, the New York City-based retailer said its lenders and stakeholders agreed to convert $1.6 billion of debt into equity. Typically in a debt-to-equity conversion, lenders receive ownership of a company in exchange for cancelling existing debt. With this conversion, creditors will now own about 82 percent of the company, per The Wall Street Journal. The company also said it has secured $400 million in debtor-in-possession financing to exit debt structures with existing lenders such as Anchorage Capital Group and GSO Capital Partners. Between these initiatives, the company believes it can reopen many stores that have been temporarily shuttered amid the COVID-19 outbreak. As of May 1, J.Crew Group Inc. operated 181 J.Crew retail stores, 140 Madewell stores and 170 factory stores. “This agreement with our lenders …

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