ORANGE, CONN. — Scannell Properties is underway on construction of a 47,178-square-foot distribution center in Orange, a western suburb of New Haven. Located at 161 Marsh Hill Road, the facility will feature 76 loading docks, 5,858 square feet of office space and an additional 9,680-square-foot maintenance facility. Meridian Design Build is the general contractor. Construction is slated for completion in June 2020.
PARSIPPANY, N.J. — NAI James Hanson has negotiated a 12,000-square-foot retail lease for specialty grocer Indian Stream LLC in Parsippany, located approximately 30 miles west of New York City. The building features 122 feet of highway frontage as well as attached warehouse space. Darren Lizzack and Randy Horning of NAI James Hanson represented the landlord, Peak Realty Associates LLC, in the lease negotiations. The duo also represented Indian Stream.
ST. LOUIS — A joint venture between GMH Capital Partners and AGC Equity Partners has acquired Everly on the Loop, a 428-bed student housing community serving students at Washington University in St. Louis. Built in 2017, the 192,390-square-foot community offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units that average 899 square feet. Shared amenities include a fitness center, yoga room, game room, swimming pool and indoor and outdoor entertainment spaces. The seller and terms of the transaction were undisclosed.
WAUKESHA, WIS. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of Springdale Apartments in Waukesha for $18.7 million. The three-story, 199-unit multifamily property is located at 2415 Springdale Road. Developed in 1973, the community houses a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units averaging 920 square feet. The property was nearly fully leased at the time of sale. Brad Smith of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Milwaukee-based Trike Property Management. Janesville-based Spaulding Group purchased the asset. Prior to the sale, Trike completed renovations to 20 of the units. Spaulding plans to continue upgrading both the units and common areas.
DEERFIELD, ILL. — Colliers International principals Darryl Silverman and Steve Kling recently negotiated office leases totaling more than 116,000 square feet at Parkway North Center in Deerfield. Colliers represented building ownership, Fulcrum Asset Advisors and True North Management. At Six Parkway North, Lundbeck and Advanced Clinical signed leases. The property is now 95 percent leased. Lundbeck, a global pharmaceutical company, leased an additional 24,500 square feet to bring its total footprint to 73,000 square feet. John Goodman of Savils represented Lundbeck. Advanced Clinical signed a new lease for 16,521 square feet and will relocate from Ten Parkway North. Larry Serota and John Marquardt of Transwestern represented the tenant. At Nine Parkway North, now 88 percent leased, Michael Silver & Co. leased 19,253 square feet. The firm will relocate from Skokie in 2020. John Goodman and Isabel Preskill of Savils represented the accounting and consulting firm. Global executive search and leadership consulting firm Spencer Stuart leased 7,890 square feet. Bill Rogers and Isabelle Montagne of JLL represented the tenant.
HOUSTON — Los Angeles-based Cottonwood Group and Hana Alternative Asset Management have provided a $102 million loan for the refinancing of Intercontinental Houston-Medical Center, a 354-room hotel in Houston. The 22-story luxury hotel opened in March and features food and beverage offerings, a lobby bar, outdoor pool, fitness center, workstations and more than 11,000 square feet of meeting and ballroom space. The borrower was Texas-based developer Medistar Corp.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL. AND DES MOINES, IOWA — Maverick Commercial Mortgage Inc. has arranged a $12.7 million first-mortgage loan on behalf of MHPI Inc. for a portfolio of four manufactured housing communities located in Springfield, Ill. and Des Moines. The portfolio includes a combined 303 pad sites. The three Springfield communities were built within the last 15 years. The community in Des Moines features a clubhouse, swimming pool, community room and small self-storage facility. Benjamin Kadish of Maverick arranged the seven-year, fixed-rate loan with an undisclosed national lender. Proceeds paid off the existing lender and paid for closing costs. Arnold Weinberg of Much Shelist represented MHPI.
TOLEDO, OHIO — The Boulder Group has brokered the sale of a single-tenant property net leased to Taco Bell in Toledo for $1.8 million. The building is located at 2234 W. Alexis Road. There are 15 years remaining on Taco Bell’s lease, which is guaranteed by Charter Foods North LLC. Randy Blankstein and Jimmy Goodman of Boulder represented the seller, a Midwest-based real estate investment company. A 1031 exchange buyer purchased the property.
NEWPORT BEACH, LAGUNA BEACH, YOUNTVILLE AND CORONA DEL MAR, CALIF. — JLL has arranged $110 million in acquisition financing for Boardwalk Investments Group. The funds will be used for the purchase of a 12-property retail portfolio in Southern California. John Chun, John Marshall, Sam Godfrey and Jake Fideler of JLL Capital Markets placed the three-year, floating-rate loan with two one-year extension options. Michael Mestel of H.I.G. Realty Partners ran the transaction on behalf of the lender’s retail estate credit fund. Key assets in the portfolio include a CVS/pharmacy-anchored shopping center located at 30814-30936 Pacific Coast Highway in Laguna Beach; a Pavilions-anchored retail center at 3100-3152 Newport Blvd. and a high-street retail asset located at 2902 West Coast Highway in Newport Beach; a fine-dining retail property located at 6725 Washington St. in Yountville; and multiple coastal assets in Newport Beach.
FULLERTON, CALIF. — Goodman Group has acquired a 65-acre manufacturing and distribution property in Fullerton and plans to redevelop the site into a modern logistics campus named Goodman Logistics Center Fullerton. The project will support construction of up to 1.5 million square feet of new space, offering tenants space ranging from 170,000 square feet to 1.5 million square feet across a four-building campus. Slated for delivery in late 2021, the campus will feature potential for cargo/commuter rail service, significant paved trailer parking and cross-dock functionality with multiple points of ingress/egress. Glenn Dyke, Darla Longo and Barbara Emmons of CBRE represented the undisclosed seller, while Sean Ward and Ben Seybold, also of CBRE, were instrumental in the sale of the former distribution center.