CHICAGO — Essex Realty Group Inc. has brokered the sale of The Northland Apartments in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood for $24.5 million. The luxury apartment building comprises 60 units and one restaurant, Two Lights Seafood & Oyster. Amenities include a dog run and rooftop deck. Monthly rents start at $1,700. Jim Darrow and Jordan Gottlieb of Essex represented the seller, local developer JAB Real Estate. Kate Verde of Essex represented the out-of-state buyer who was completing a 1031 tax-deferred exchange.
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SOUTH HOLLAND, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the $3.7 million sale of a 9,703-square-foot property occupied by DaVita Dialysis in South Holland, about 20 miles south of Chicago. The facility, located at 16110 LaSalle St., opened in 2016. DaVita operates under a 15-year, double net lease. Valerie Cook, Austin Weisenbeck and Sean Sharko of Marcus & Millichap represented the undisclosed seller. An out-of-state buyer completing a 1031 tax-deferred exchange purchased the asset.
IRVING, TEXAS — Perot Development Co. will build a 2.4 million-square-foot industrial park on a 196-acre tract located at the eastern end of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The site, which is located near the regional hubs of FedEx and UPS, fronts the George Bush Turnpike and connects to a Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) station. The project is expected to break ground by March 2019 and will deliver four buildings that are anticipated to be available for lease by 2020. Halff Associates is serving as the project architect and civil engineer, and Peinado Construction will be the general contractor.
DALLAS — Florida-based hospitality REIT Chatham Lodging Trust (NYSE: CLDT) has acquired the 167-room Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Dallas for $49 million. The 12-story hotel, which opened in September, features 3,500 square feet of meeting space and a rooftop restaurant and bar. Island Hospitality Management will manage the property, the seller of which was not disclosed.
SAN ANTONIO — Missouri-based self-storage owner-operator StorageMart has purchased a facility located on Braun Road in northwest San Antonio. The property totals 72,000 square feet of net rentable space across 500 units, 212 of which are climate-controlled. The property also offers 23 parking spaces for rent. The new ownership will upgrade the facility’s security systems and fencing. The seller was not disclosed.
MIDLAND, TEXAS — Minneapolis-based general contractor Adolfson & Peterson Construction (AP) has delivered a new, 70,000-square-foot regional office for oil and gas firm Apache Corp. in the West Texas city of Midland. Designed by Kirksey Architecture, the property offers amenities such as a cafeteria, fitness center, childcare center, meeting space and a health clinic. Construction began in July 2017.
PLANO, TEXAS — Coworking firm Spaces, which was founded in Amsterdam, will open a 31,152-square-foot space at West Plano Village on the northern outskirts of Dallas. The space is scheduled to open in late summer 2019. Fults Commercial and Weitzman, the latter of which manages the retail and office space at West Plano Village, handled lease negotiations for the landlord. CBRE represented Spaces.
Bellwether Enterprise Secures $85M Loan for Warehouse Portfolio in California, Pennsylvania
by Amy Works
LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIF. — Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital has arranged $85 million in permanent financing for s five-building warehouse portfolio. Totaling 1.1 million square feet, three buildings are located in Los Angeles County, one in the Inland Empire West area and one in Central Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley submarket. Each building is a concrete tilt-up warehouse building with minimal office build-out and clear heights ranging from 24 feet to 36 feet. Additionally, each building is leased to a single tenant. Shelley Magoffin and Max Sauerman of Bellwether Enterprise secured the loan with one of the company’s correspondent life insurance companies and Thrivent Financial.
SEQUIM, WASH. — Crystal Investment Property (CIP) has brokered the sale of Olympic View Inn, a hotel located at 830 W. Washington St. in Sequim. The independent mid-scale hotel features 51 guest rooms spread across two exterior corridor buildings on four tax lots with excess land for future development. The hotel offers newly remodeled rooms, a conference room and fitness center. Joseph Kennedy of CIP worked closely with the undisclosed buyer and seller in the deal. The sales price was not released.
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CALIF. — Welltower has purchased two medical office buildings located in Westlake Village, approximately 40 miles from Los Angeles. Nadler Cypress Holdings2 LLC and La Venta LLC sold the assets for $29.9 million in an off-market transaction. Located at 1220 and 1250 La Venta Drive, the buildings offer a total of 50,000 square feet of medical office space. UCLA Health and Providence St. Joseph Health are anchor tenants at the fully occupied properties. Evan Kovac, Andrew Milne and Trent Jemmett of HFF represented the seller in the transaction. Anchor Health Properties will provide property management services for the buildings.