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BURNSVILLE, MINN. — Redwood Capital Group LLC has sold Southwind Village, a 320-unit apartment property in Burnsville. An Indianapolis-based investment firm purchased the asset. CBRE brokered the sale. Southwind Village consists of five two-story, townhome-style buildings. Amenities include a fitness center, two swimming pools, an outdoor kitchen, package delivery system and community room. Redwood has updated a portion of the units with new plumbing fixtures, countertops, appliances and lighting. The buyer and sales price were not disclosed.

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WESTMONT AND LAKE ZURICH, ILL. — CBRE has arranged a $45.7 million refinancing for Aspired Living of Westmont and Azpira Place of Lake Zurich, both seniors housing communities outside of Chicago.The borrower is a joint venture between Virtus Real Estate Capital and Pathway to Living, the latter of which will continue to operate the communities. Aspired Living of Westmont is a 107-unit assisted living and memory care community in the affluent submarket of Westmont, approximately 25 miles west of Chicago. Within a five-mile radius of the community the average household income is $126,000, according to CBRE. Azpira Place of Lake Zurich is a 120-unit assisted living community approximately 45 miles northwest of Chicago in Lake Zurich. Within a five-mile radius of the community the average household income is $158,000, according to CBRE. Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root of CBRE National Senior Housing secured the five-year, floating-rate loan with 36 months of interest-only payments from a regional bank.

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ELGIN, ILL. — Meridian Design Build has broken ground on two speculative industrial buildings on behalf of developer Scannell Properties in Elgin. The buildings are located at 2451 Bath Road and 1755 Britannia Drive. The Bath road facility will span 325,020 square feet and feature a clear height of 36 feet, four drive-in doors, 367 auto parking spaces and 56 trailer parking stalls. The Britannia Drive facility will span 80,400 square feet and feature a clear height of 32 feet, two drive-in doors and 93 auto parking spaces. Paul Woody Architects and Manhard Consulting make up the project team. Kenneth Franzese and John Cassidy of Lee & Associates will market the properties for lease.

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ROMEOVILLE, ILL. — Crate & Barrel has selected The Pizzuti Cos. to develop a build-to-suit, Class A industrial facility in Romeoville. The property is being developed at Pinnacle Business Center in the heart of Chicago’s I-55 corridor. An affiliate of Heitman LLC owns the property. Crate & Barrel will occupy a facility known as Pinnacle XXIV, a 646,380-square-foot building. The development will serve as an e-commerce facility for the national home décor company. Construction is scheduled to begin immediately with completion slated for the third quarter of 2020. Jules Nissim and Jason West of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant while Jeff Kapcheck of CBRE represented ownership.

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HOUSTON — Clarion Partners LP has landed three new office tenants with a combined footprint of 187,054 square feet at Westchase Park, the company’s 560,825-square-foot office development in Houston. LJA Engineering Inc. leased 90,989 square feet, and Centurion Pipeline Co. LLC leased 28,078 square feet, with both firms planning to take occupancy during the first half of 2020. Additionally, ABB Inc. renewed its lease for 67,987 square feet. Eric Anderson, Parker Burkett, and Katy Gragg of Transwestern Commercial Services represented Clarion Partners in the lease negotiations. Lonna Dorman of Transwestern represented Centurion; Anthony Squillante and Dustin Devine of Stream Realty Partners represented LJA; and Beau Bellow and Josh Hirsch of JLL represented ABB Inc.

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ROUND ROCK, TEXAS — JLL has brokered the sale of Vintage Plaza, a 40,612-square-foot retail center. The property is located within the 330-acre La Frontera master-planned development in Round Rock, a northern suburb of Austin. Built in 2003, the asset was approximately 93 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Men’s Wearhouse, Bamboo Nails & Spa and Burn Boot Camp. Cathy Nabours, Walter Saad, Kyle Shaffer and Josh Villarreal of JLL represented the seller, Ironwood Real Estate, in the transaction. SITE Centers Corp. purchased the asset for an undisclosed price.

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DALLAS — Greystone’s Investment Sales Group has arranged the sale of Villas del Lago, a 247-unit apartment community located in the Bachman Lake submarket of Dallas. The sales price was $13.4 million. Built in 1974 and renovated in 2013, the property features one- and two-bedroom units, as well as an outdoor grilling and picnic area. Todd Franks of Greystone represented the seller in the transaction. Other terms of the sale were not disclosed.

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MCKINNEY, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has secured a 51,288-square-foot industrial least at 1581 Corporate Drive in McKinney, a northeastern suburb of Dallas. Brett Lewis and George Tanghongs of Lee & Associates represented the landlord, Dalfen Industrial, in the lease negotiations. The tenant was not disclosed.

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FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Stream Realty Partners has negotiated a 39,950-square-foot industrial lease at Parc North in Fort Worth. Seth Koschak and Forrest Cook of Stream Realty Partners represented the landlord, EastGroup Properties, in the lease negotiations. Todd Hubbard of NAI Robert Lynn represented the tenant, Texas AirSystems.

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Across the Northeast, the high level of demand from retailers, food companies and transportation/logistics firms is outpacing the level of development and redevelopment in the industrial market, causing a severe shortage of product and skyrocketing rents across the region. At the center of this trend is New Jersey, situated in the heart of the Northeast’s Boston-Washington, D.C. corridor between Philadelphia and New York City. The demand for industrial space in New Jersey is driven by its strategic location and sophisticated infrastructure including air, freight, port and rail options linking it to the rest of the country. Despite the near-record level of development in the industrial sector,  the state faces a product deficit that even the nearly 5.3 million square feet of space currently under construction cannot satisfy. In fact, 93 percent of the more than 21 million square feet that was developed in 2017 and 2018 has already been leased. Demand has pushed the average asking rent across the state to $8.41 per square foot, an all-time high. Moreover, asking rents are often not listed in new buildings or those under construction, many of which have rents as high as the low teens. Not listing the asking rents demonstrates how …

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