WINFIELD, ILL. — Conor Commercial Real Estate has completed development of the North Avenue Commerce Center in Winfield, about 35 miles west of Chicago. The 265,550-square-foot, Class A industrial facility is the largest commercial development in Winfield’s history, according to Conor. The speculative project sits on 17 acres and features a clear height of 32 feet, 56 exterior docks, four drive-in doors, 12 trailer parking stalls and 228 vehicle parking stalls. McShane Construction Co. served as general contractor and Ware Malcomb provided architectural services.
INDIANAPOLIS — Berkadia has negotiated the sale of Park Place at Fox Hill, a 60-unit, garden-style apartment community in Indianapolis. The sales price was not disclosed. Originally built in 1970, the property features 15 one-bedroom units measuring 750 square feet and 45 two-bedroom units measuring 950 square feet. Chris Bruzas and Alex Blagojevich of Berkadia represented the seller, Indianapolis-based Barratt Asset Management. Champaign, Ill.-based Fairlawn Real Estate purchased the asset.
NORTHLAKE, ILL. — Frozen Assets LLC has signed a 124,409-square-foot industrial lease at 555 Northwest Ave. in Northlake, about 17 miles west of Chicago. Frozen Assets is a third-party provider of temporary storage, turn-key packing, labeling and logistics for the cold storage industry. Steve Livaditis, John Suerth and Jason Lev of CBRE represented ownership, Bridge Development Partners, in the lease transaction.
CARBONDALE, ILL. — Captain D’s has opened its sixth Illinois location in Carbondale. Located at 1040 E. Walnut St., the company-owned restaurant spans 1,950 square feet. With 290 company-owned locations, Captain D’s plans to continue its growth in various territories, including the Midwest, with another restaurant slated to open in Wisconsin later this year. There are currently 544 open and operating Captain D’s restaurants throughout the nation.
HENDERSON, NEV. — Google has broken ground on a $600 million data center in the metro Las Vegas city of Henderson. The 750,000-square-foot facility sits on a 64-acre site and is expected to open in 2020. It is part of a $13 billion data center and office expansion effort by Google, which also includes facilities in Michigan, Oklahoma and Texas.
SEATTLE — Vanbarton Group, a privately owned real estate investment and advisory firm, has purchased 901 Fifth Ave. from Schnitzer West and Investcorp for $305 million. The 541,190-square-foot, 41-story tower is located at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Madison Street in Seattle’s central business district. Schnitzer West will continue to perform property management services for the tower, which is 100 percent occupied by tenants including Pitchbook and Cray Inc. HFF and Newmark Knight Frank brokered the transition with market leasing support from JLL.
BURLINGAME, CALIF. — Harvest Properties and joint-venture partner New York Life Real Estate Investors, on behalf of McMorgan Northern California Value Add Development Fund I, have sold One Bay Plaza in Burlingame to local developer/operator Woodstock Development for an undisclosed amount. The 196,000-square-foot, nine-story office tower was originally purchased in 2016. Paul Nelson, Stephen Van Dusen, Cartter Berg and Cameron Palmer of Eastdil Secured represented Harvest and New York Life Real Estate Investors on the transaction. Sources close to the sale confirmed a price of $75.3 million.
OXNARD, CALIF. — Oakmont Senior Living has announced plans for Oakmont of Riverpark, slated to open this winter in Oxnard, a coastal city approximately 70 miles west of Los Angeles. Senior living veteran Gina Salman will be executive director of the 90,000-square-foot, resort-style senior living community located on three acres. The property will feature 59 assisted living and 25 memory care apartment homes. A marketing information center is already open at the site.
ESCONDIDO, CALIF. — StorQuest Self Storage has opened a new facility on 222 W. Mission Ave. in downtown Escondido. Set on 1.57 acres, the four-story structure spans 70,000 square feet with 810 rentable units. Features include climate-controlled units, extended access hours, electronic gate access, online bill payment and month-to-month rentals.
After a brief increase in the overall vacancy rate in the Pittsburgh region in 2017, the market has rebounded nicely and is back in the 4 to 5 percent range. But what has been more eye-opening is the increased velocity in the acquisition market that has investors from outside of Pittsburgh more focused on the Western Pennsylvania market than ever before. Multifamily Sales Market Multifamily sales in the Pittsburgh region over the last 10 years have been rather anemic. Sales velocity was slow due to various factors, including the reluctance of long-time local ownership groups to sell a property in a market where few options existed for a 1031 tax-deferred exchange transaction. There was also very little new construction to attract outside capital. In general, not much attention was paid to the Pittsburgh metro. However, developers recently had an epiphany and noticed that there was much old multifamily product scattered throughout the region, and that the time was right to break ground on new projects. Now that a significant amount of new construction projects have been delivered over the last six or so years, Pittsburgh has become a target for many investment firms from outside Western Pennsylvania. Some of the …