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EDWARDSVILLE, ILL. — Holland Construction Services has broken ground on a $34 million apartment community known as Whispering Heights in Edwardsville, located near St. Louis. Fireside Financial is the developer. The community will feature two six-story buildings with a total of 153 luxury units. The development will also include 18,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space. Additional features include a fitness center, business center and rooftop amenity deck with grilling stations, fire pits and a bar area. Completion is slated for fall 2019. Gray Design Group is the project architect. David Garfinkel of NorthMarq Capital arranged a $21.8 million construction loan for the project through Illinois National Bank.

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CHICAGO — Skender is underway with the interior construction of the future 40,000-square-foot headquarters for Vital Proteins, a retailer of health supplement products. The company is assuming full occupancy of the four-story building at 939 W. Fulton St. and relocating 130 employees from its current office at 1201 W. Washington Blvd. The company’s new space will include open office workstation areas as well as private offices and conference rooms, two reception areas and a large café. The interior design will retain the historic building’s high ceilings, exposed brick walls and wood floors. Completion is slated for July 2019. SCB and JLL are project partners.

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GREEN BAY, WIS. — Mag Mile Capital has arranged a $1.6 million loan for the refinancing of a 12,900-square-foot retail property at 2066 Central Drive in Green Bay. Aveda Salon is one of the tenants. Mac Dobson of Mag Mile Capital arranged the five-year loan on behalf of the private borrower, Michael Nass. The loan features a 5.45 percent rate and a 25-year amortization schedule. The borrower plans to use the funds to refinance a maturing loan and buy out a partner in the property. The lender was not disclosed.

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TORONTO — Starlight Investments, a Toronto-based investment and asset management firm, has received $800.4 million in refinancing for 23 of its multifamily properties in the United States. The portfolio of Class A assets totals 7,289 units across eight states. Specific markets in which the properties are located include Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Nashville, Orlando, Phoenix, Raleigh, San Antonio and Tampa. The average year of construction for the portfolio is 2012 and the average overall occupancy rate is 93 percent. The names of the properties were not disclosed. The financing package was originated as a Freddie Mac structured pool transaction, with five-, six- and seven-year loan terms and a mix of fixed and floating interest rates. Approximately half the units were financed under Freddie Mac’s Green Advantage program, which is available to borrowers that implement energy- and water-saving features to their multifamily properties. Matt Kafka, Campbell Roche and Matthew Williamson, Tolu Akindele and Wilson Bauer of HFF placed and serviced the financing on behalf of Starlight Investments and its closed-end fund, Starlight U.S. Multi-Family (No. 5) Core Fund. “Given the high-performing nature of the assets and diversity of the income stream, Freddie Mac’s Structured Solutions Group was able …

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Louisville’s office landscape can be described as a tale of two distinct submarkets woven together by a common thread of consistency. In the central business district (CBD), Class A vacancy rate stands at approximately 13 percent while the suburban Class A vacancy rate hovers around 8.5 percent. As can be noted, there is a substantial gap in occupancy between the two submarkets — 450 basis points. The thread of consistency in the Louisville office market lies in the fact that both are within 100 basis points of those vacancy rates for the same quarter of last year. The suburban office market continues to see healthy rental rate increases driven by the low rate of delivery for new product, coupled with consistently lower vacancy rates. Newer projects are advertising rates in the range of $24 to $28 per square foot, while second-generation, Class A product has quoted rates in the high teens and low 20s. Many companies such as Thornton Oil, BrightSpring Health Services (formerly ResCare) and V-Soft have chosen to grow their headquarters presence in Louisville, which is helping maintain stability in the suburban market. As in most markets, Class B and C product continues to struggle as functional obsolescence, …

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SAN RAMON, CALIF. — Sunset Development Co. has opened City Center Bishop Ranch, a shopping, dining, entertainment and community development located in San Ramon’s Bishop Ranch area. Designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop and BAR Architects, the 300,000-square-foot regional shopping center will feature 70 stores and restaurants at full occupancy. THE LOT, a 10-screen cinema and dining destination, and Equinox San Ramon, a whole-body personal fitness, training and yoga center, anchor the property. The second location of The Slanted Door, a Vietnamese-inspired eatery, occupies a freestanding, all-glass structure at the center. Currently open tenants include AlysGrace, Boba Guys, Candle Delirium, Fieldwork Brewing Co., M by Maggie Rizer, NEEKO, On the EDGE, Pottery Barn, Starbucks Coffee, West Elm and Williams-Sonoma. Stores slated to open in the coming months include Anthropologie, Athleta, Equinox San Ramon, Heller Jewelers, KIN THE LABEL and Monokrome. Signed restaurants include C CASA, Curry Up Now, Delarosa, Gio Gelati, Joe & The Juice, Mendocino Farms, MIXT, Ramen Hiroshi, Roam, SOCIAL-AFFAIR, THE LOT and The Slanted Door. Sunset Development Co. owns and operates the property.

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MURRIETA, CALIF. — Phillips Edison & Co. has purchased Sierra Vista Plaza, a value-add retail center located at 25030-25100 Hancock St. in Murrieta, for an undisclosed price. Stater Bros., CVS/pharmacy, Chuck E. Cheese, Valley Veterinary Clinic, The UPS Store, Pizza Hut and Jack in the Box are tenants at the 80,259-square-foot property. Bryan Ley, Gleb Lvovich, Justin Kundrak and Tony Ensbury of HFF represented the undisclosed seller in the deal.

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GILBERT, ARIZ. — Chicago-based MedProperties Group has broken ground on Mercy Medical Commons II, a medical office building located on Mercy Road adjacent to the main entrance of Dignity Mercy Gilbert Medical Center in Gilbert. Designed by Ware Malcomb, the three-story, 56,000-square-foot building will feature a 55-foot high-curved fin wall with integrated steel shade canopies, while the western curved façade will open to parking and a porte-cochere arrival area. The CORE Institute will occupy 20,000 square feet of the property, which is slated for completion in third-quarter 2019. Balfour Beatty US is serving as general contractor for the property. Philip Wurth of Colliers International in Greater Phoenix is serving as the leasing agent for the development, which is MedProperties’ first ground-up development in the East Valley area.

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NORTHRIDGE, CALIF. — Investment Real Estate Associates (IREA) has negotiated the sale of a retail property located at 8800 Tampa Ave. in Northridge. A private individual acquired the property for $9.7 million as part of a 1031 exchange. Petco has occupied the 14,280-square-foot property, which is an outparcel to Costco and adjacent to In-N-Out Burger, since March 2004. Clark Everitt, William Everitt and Jonathan Krikorian of IREA represented the buyer in the deal. The name of the seller was not released.

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PORT HUENEME, CALIF. — Surfside Industries LLC has completed the sale of a six-building industrial asset located at 250-278 S. Surfside Drive in Port Hueneme. James Mesa acquired the investment property for $5.1 million. Currently operated as a multi-tenant industrial and RV park, the property is M-1 zoned for manufacturing, processing and distribution use. Chris Roth and Rusty Williams of Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate Services – North San Diego County, along with John Ochoa of Lee & Associates Ventura, represented the seller. Ventura, Calif.-based The Becker Group represented the buyer in the deal.

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