TINLEY PARK, ILL. — Lee & Associates has negotiated the $7 million sale of an 84,388-square-foot industrial building in Tinley Park, about 30 miles south of Chicago. The property is located at 8201 W. 183rd St. Terry Grapenthin, Jeff Galanteand Ryan Earley of Lee & Associates represented the buyer, 7600 Grant BR LLC. The seller was not disclosed. The property was 80 percent leased at the time of sale.
BLUE ASH, OHIO — Colliers International has brokered the $2.9 million sale of the Corporate Centre of Blue Ash, a 57,722-square-foot flex office building in suburban Cincinnati. Built in 1990, the property is located at 11101 Kenwood Road. Tenants include Fastsigns, Handyman Connection, Ohio State Auditor, Parallel Technologies Inc., Sellyourmac.com, Sheppard Insurance and Financial and IT support company 4bis.com. Steve Timmel, Jeff Johnston, Chris Prosser, Will Roberts and Matt Smyth of Colliers brokered the transaction. Midwest Properties Corp. purchased the asset from LNR Partners.
TAMPA, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of Tampa City Center, an office tower located at 201 N. Franklin St. in downtown Tampa. A partnership between affiliates of Miami-based Banyan Street Capital and funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management acquired the 38-story property for $110 million. An affiliate of Alliance Partners HSP, the East Coast operating arm of the Shilder Group, sold the property. Mike Davis, Rick Brugge and Michael Lerner of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the deal. Ernst & Young, Deloitte, Masonite, Morgan & Morgan, FieldCore (a division of GE), CDW, PNC Bank and The University Club are tenants at the 757,425-square-foot, Class A office building. Via a skybridge, the tower is connected to the 520-room Hilton Tampa Downtown, with 30,000 square feet of meeting and conference space; 211 Restaurant; Starbucks Coffee; and Fort Brooke parking garage, a covered parking facility owned by the City of Tampa. Jason Hochman, Chris Lentz, Michael Ryan and Brian Linnihan of Cushman & Wakefield’s Equity, Debt & Structured Finance Group assisted the buyer in securing an $84 million acquisition loan. Funded by HSBC Bank, the loan includes proceeds at acquisition plus future funding for capital improvements to …
HARFORD COUNTY, MD. — Chesapeake Real Estate Group (CREG), on behalf of TA Realty, has broken ground on a two-building warehouse/industrial project within Trimble Road Business Park in the Edgewood submarket of Harford County, approximately 30 miles northeast of Baltimore. Having acquired the site from CREG in 2018, TA Realty is moving forward with the construction of a 210,000-square-foot speculative facility at 102 Fulfillment Drive and a 140,450-square-foot building at 103 Fulfillment Drive. AGCO, a designer, manufacturer and distributor of agriculture equipment and solutions, has preleased 50,000 square feet of space within 103 Fulfillment Drive, representing 35 percent of the building’s capacity. Slated for delivery in 2019, both buildings will feature concrete tilt-up construction, 32-foot clear ceiling heights and 7-inch unreinforced concrete floor slabs to accommodate heavy loads. The facility at 102 Fulfillment Drive will feature 18 dock doors and two drive-in doors.
LEXINGTON, KY. — Ziff Properties has purchased the former Golden Burley Tobacco Warehouse and Building Materials Warehouse located on Angliana Avenue in Lexington for an undisclosed price. Fred Pfister of Silvestri Craig Realtors facilitated the transaction. The name of the seller and sales price were not released. Ziff Properties plans to convert the property, which is situated on 3.5 acres, into a Class A self-storage facility with 103,500 square feet of climate- and non-climate-controlled units. CubeSmart Self Storage will manage the asset.
BLACKSBURG, VA. — Hunt Real Estate Capital has provided a $9 million first mortgage bridge loan for the acquisition and renovation of a student housing portfolio located near Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg. The acquisition includes two garden-style student housing communities — Carlton Scott Apartments and Stonegate Apartments — totaling 196 beds on two non-contiguous parcels at 500 Broce Drive and 600 Appalachian Drive. The portfolio consists of 13 two- and three-story buildings offering one-, two- and three-bedroom units. The borrower, Willow Creek, plans to begin exterior renovations on both properties upon closing. Renovations are set for completion in May 2019.
ROWLETT, TEXAS — Dallas-based REIT Transcontinental Realty Investors Inc. (NYSE: TCI) and its subsidiary, Abode Properties, have opened Terra Lago Apartments, a 451-unit multifamily community in Rowlett, a northeastern suburb of Dallas. The Class A property features one, two- and three-bedroom units and offers amenities such as a pool, fitness center, business center, conference room and a bocce ball court. The property also fronts Lake Ray Hubbard.
HOUSTON — 29th Street Capital, a privately held investment firm with offices in San Francisco and Chicago, has acquired Cali Sommerall Apartments, a 368-unit multifamily asset located in Houston’s Copperfield/Bear Creek submarket. The company will invest in new countertops and paint for the unit interiors, as well as upgrades to the amenity spaces, which include a pool, coffee bar, dog park, fitness center and a grilling station. The seller was not disclosed.
LOUISVILLE, KY. — Brennan Investment Group has acquired an industrial property located at 1300 W. Park Road in the Bullitt submarket of Louisville. Concurrent with the acquisition, the 194,519-square-foot property was leased back to the seller, a joint venture between Westfall Technik and a client of Arch Street Capital Advisors. The building is fully occupied by Amaray, a specialized global plastic packaging company, which was simultaneously acquired by Westfall Technik. Amaray has occupied the property since 2003.
HOUSTON — The Meritex Co., a Minnesota-based investment firm, has purchased Park 225, a 121,520-square-foot light industrial building located at the interchange of Highway 225 and Beltway 8 in Houston. The property was fully leased to four tenants at the time of sale. Tom Lynch of CBRE brokered the deal. Stream Realty Partners will manage the property. With this acquisition, Meritex now owns more than 500,000 square feet of industrial space in the metro Houston area.
