CHICAGO — SVN | Chicago Commercial has arranged the sale of a loft office building located at 327 N. Aberdeen St. in Chicago’s Fulton Market for $8.1 million. The 27,895-square-foot property is located one block from Google’s Midwest headquarters and three blocks from McDonald’s new headquarters. Chad Schroedl, Drew Dillon and Scott Maesel of SVN represented the seller.
MILWAUKEE — Founders 3 Real Estate Services has been awarded the leasing assignment for Hardware HQ, a mixed-use development in Milwaukee. Purchased in 2015 by WiRED Properties and Phelan Development, the building housed National Ace Hardware for nearly 30 years. Prior to that, it was home to Charles H. Stehling Co. Building ownership has teamed up with Rinka Architects to modernize the building into office space and ground-floor retail. Last year, Milwaukee Motorcycle Co. committed to 14,000 square feet on the first floor for a Harley Davidson location. The showroom space will offer motorcycle and bike sales, merchandise, service and rentals. Ned Purtell, Steve Pape and Jenna Maguire of Founders 3 are marketing the remaining 72,125 square feet for lease.
ST. LOUIS — Guardian Pharmacy Services, a long-term care pharmacy company, has opened a new location in St. Louis. The opening enables Guardian Pharmacy of Missouri to expand its footprint to serve assisted living, skilled nursing, memory care and independent living communities across eastern Missouri. The 6,500-square-foot facility will house technology/automation and an education center to provide in-service and nursing instruction courses for pharmacy employees as well as community staff members. With the new St. Louis location and the existing Springfield location, the company has been able to sign 12 new communities serving approximately 1,000 residents.
SPENCER, IOWA — Dougherty Mortgage has provided a $6.9 million Fannie Mae loan for the refinancing of Windcrest Village in Spencer in northwestern Iowa. The 87-unit apartment property includes laundry facilities, a fitness center and children’s playground. The 12-year loan features a 30-year amortization schedule. Windcrest Village LLC was the borrower.
CHICAGO — Tegus, a research platform for institutional investors, has signed a 14,195-square-foot office lease at 120 S. LaSalle St. in Chicago. Toronto-based Slate Office REIT owns the property, and plans to upgrade the amenity package with a rooftop lounge and fitness center. Tegus plans to move 45 employees into the new space on April 1. The space allows for expansion up to 100 employees. Tony Karmin and Joe Stevens of Colliers International represented Tegus in the lease transaction. Mason Taylor of JLL represented Slate.
SOMERVILLE, MASS. — Sports apparel and accessories company PUMA North America will open a new, 150,000-square-foot office headquarters at Assembly Row, a mixed-use destination in the northwestern Boston metro of Somerville. Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE: FRT) is developing Assembly Row. The new headquarters will be located at 455 Grand Union Blvd. The new building will total 300,000 square feet upon completion, and will bring together PUMA’s two nearby offices in Boston and Westford. The company expects the space to house about 550 employees across five floors beginning in 2021. The transit-served building also features a 19,000-square-foot roof deck complete with a recreational area and basketball court. Additional amenities include a fitness center, a kids’ room and bike storage. “We need to be faster than ever in the way we react and adapt,” says Adam Petrick, PUMA’s global director of branding and marketing. “Somerville is a city buzzing with creative, diverse energy that will help us live out our ‘Forever Faster’ mentality.” Assembly Row is a 40-acre project located along Interstate 93 and the MBTA Orange Line. The developer has launched Phase III of the project, which will feature more than $475 million in new development. Phase III will deliver a 500-unit …
How many cities can boast a multifamily history that goes back 300 years? New Orleans can, as it is celebrating its Tricentennial. New Orleans is home to the first apartment building in the United States. Historians have noted the “oldest continuously rented” multifamily development in the country is the Pontalba Apartments. Built in 1849 by the wealthy Baroness Michaela Pontalba, the iconic apartment’s crown molding, sconces, iron railings and balconies are now synonymous with New Orleans architecture. The Pontalba Apartments occupies prime real estate at the east and west side of the historic Jackson Square in the French Quarter. And yes, there is a waiting list to lease a unit. Today the city that sits on the bend of the Mississippi River has a limited amount of land, which keeps the equilibrium between supply and demand in sync. Thus new development is confined to urban infill locations, adaptive reuse projects or the few submarkets with available land — primarily located to the north of Lake Pontchartrain. Households that have income levels necessary to support the rents required for new properties are fueling market-rate development. The NOLA metro market has an inventory of approximately 54,000 units situated in nine distinct submarkets. …
UPPER MARLBORO, MD. — Finmarc Management Inc. has acquired Largo Town Center, a 280,000-square-foot shopping center in Upper Marlboro, for $43.9 million. The asset was fully leased at the time of the sale to tenants such as Marshalls, Regency Furniture, Shoppers Food Warehouse, Advanced Auto, Dollar Tree and Dress Barn. The center’s tenant roster features 35 retailers and restaurants, including both fast-casual and sit-down concepts. Largo Town Center is situated about 18 miles east of downtown Washington, D.C., and about three miles east of FedEx Field, home of the Washington Redskins. Bill Kent, Ryan Sciullo and Chris Decoufle of CBRE represented the seller, Site Centers, in the transaction.
RICHMOND, VA. — HFF has arranged the sale of the newly constructed Pepsi Bottling Distribution Center in Richmond. ElmTree Funds purchased the 220,825-square-foot asset for $25.9 million. The center was delivered in November and is triple-net-leased to Bottling Group LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pepsi Beverages Co. Situated along Interstate 95 near Interstates 64 and 295, the facility is located about 12 miles south of downtown Richmond. Steve Conley, Bruce Strasburg, Chris Norvell, Coler Yoakam and Patrick Nally of HFF represented the seller, Armada Hoffler Properties Inc., in the transaction.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has provided a $30.3 million construction loan for a planned 67,000-square-foot, two-story retail property that will be fully leased to Target upon completion. The property is situated at 1515 New York Ave. N.E. in Washington, D.C.’s Ivy City neighborhood. Scott Bois and Ashley Reiser of KeyBank arranged the fixed-rate, non-recourse loan with a 20-year amortization schedule. The loan included a credit tenant lease transaction to facilitate the funding. According to Washington Business Journal, the developer, Douglas Development Corp., is planning to open the Target in fall 2020.
