PALOS HEIGHTS, ILL. — The Boulder Group has arranged the $15.5 million sale of a single-tenant property net leased to Jewel-Osco in Palos Heights, about 25 miles southwest of Chicago. The 57,685-square-foot building is located on a nearly 10-acre parcel at 12803 Harlem Ave. Randy Blankstein and Jimmy Goodman of Boulder Group represented the seller, a Southwest-based private real estate investment company. A Midwest-based family partnership purchased the asset.
SOUTH ST. PAUL, MINN. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of The Hillcrest Apartments in South St. Paul for $4.5 million. The 53-unit apartment property is located at 219 3rd Ave. The seven-building property features a mix of studios, one- and two-bedroom units. The property was fully occupied and had been under the same ownership and management since the 1960s. Evan Miller of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the undisclosed seller. A private investor purchased the asset.
TAYLOR, MICH. — Colliers International has negotiated the lease of a 70,186-square-foot industrial warehouse in Taylor. The property is located at 8555-8625 Inkster Road. Sheridan Burton of Colliers represented the tenant, Production Management One. This will be the first Michigan location for the traveling concert staging company, which has three locations nationwide. The company will occupy the space on Sept. 1. Paul Choukourian, Peter E. Kepic and Peter J. Kepic of Colliers represented the undisclosed landlord.
NASHVILLE, TENN. — Highwoods Properties Inc. (NYSE: HIW) plans to build a new $285 million headquarters campus in Nashville’s central business district (CBD) for Asurion, a privately held tech solutions firm. The Nashville-based company specializes in providing insurance and warranty plans covering mobile devices and other consumer electronics. Asurion will consolidate four of its existing local offices into the new campus, as well as create 400 new information technology jobs, according to local media reports. Highwoods, a Raleigh-based REIT that now has a development pipeline exceeding $700 million, recently executed the 551,000-square-foot build-to-suit office lease with Asurion. The tech firm will occupy 98.3 percent of the campus under a long-term lease. Nashville has been a haven for employment gains since the downturn. In the past decade, the Middle Tennessee metro has experienced 25 percent job growth, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Nashville MSA’s unemployment rate was 2.3 percent in May 2018. The Asurion campus will be built on a 4.2-acre site located at Church Street and 11th Avenue North along the Gulch Greenway, a seven-mile urban trail. The development will include two buildings rising eight and nine stories built atop a six-level parking podium. The planned parking …
An interesting metric was reached in the Denver multifamily market during the first quarter of 2018 — and that’s record absorption. The city already boasts accolades for quality of life, talks of strong in-migration and speculation of becoming the location for the second Amazon headquarters. After these, the most common topic of conversation for multifamily professionals is the unprecedented construction pipeline and just when will we hit an inflection point where the market won’t accept any more Class A, market-rate apartments. It seems we’re still not there. As of the first quarter of 2018, the trailing 12-month absorption was more than 10,000 units. That’s more units than what was completed in 2017 and the highest absorption on record. The result was metro-wide vacancy dipping year-over-year to 5.79 percent, limited concessions and metro-wide annual rent growth at 3.8 percent. Denver’s average rent now stands at $1,405 per unit and $1.62 per square foot. The Central Business District (CBD) experienced the most absorption this quarter, accounting for nearly 25 percent of total metro absorption. Annual rents also grew by 2.7 percent, leading the CBD to regain its title for most expensive rental submarket in Denver with rents per-unit averaging $1,835. But development …
For Kyle Bach, CEO of The Annex Group LLC, there’s an affordable housing crisis taking place in large university towns. After extensive research in Bloomington, Indiana, and other similar towns, Bach found that over the past decade or so virtually all new multifamily product added to the market has been either student or luxury housing. This has priced out the workforce or affordable housing residents in those communities, he says. About a year-and-a-half ago, Bach’s Indianapolis-based firm reconfigured its development focus in effort to fill this need by providing affordable housing for the university workforce or married students. In Bloomington, The Annex Group is in the midst of securing final approvals for Union at Crescent, a 146-unit affordable housing development about two miles from Indiana University. The $18 million project has received tax credits from the Indiana Housing Community Development Authority. The project will also be financed with Section 42 of the low-income housing tax credits program (LIHTC). With this type of financing, law regulates that full-time students are not allowed to live in the development unless they are married and their spouse’s income qualifies. The Annex Group hopes to break ground in the fourth quarter of this year with …
WALLER, TEXAS — Wolff Cos. has unveiled plans for a 251-acre mixed-use project along U.S. Highway 290 in Waller, a northwestern suburb of Houston. Wolff will develop the infrastructure around the site and has developed a preliminary land plan. The Houston-based company calculates that this plan has the capacity for 1.3 million square feet of industrial space, 800,000 square feet of office space and 172,000 square feet of retail space. The project is part of a larger development that will bring more than 1,000 single-family homes to the site. A timeline for construction of the commercial components has not yet been established.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma City-based investment firm Zerby Partners has acquired Lake Park Tower, a 105,026-square-foot office building in Oklahoma City, for $2.5 million. Amy Dunn, Brent Conway, Jim Austin, Tom Lange and Clay Harris of CBRE represented the seller, Lake Park Tower Cotter LLC, in the transaction. Lake Park Tower, a Class B property, was built in 1983.
HOUSTON — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Jacinto Palms, a 123-unit apartment property in Houston. The property features a pool and a playground. Jeffrey Fript, Christian Mazzini and Ryan Armstrong of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company, in the transaction. Fript and Armstrong also procured the buyer, another limited liability company.
HOUSTON — NAI Partners has brokered the sale of a 15,000-square-foot industrial asset located at 929 E. Airtex Drive in Houston. Jake Wilkinson of NAI Partners represented the buyer, Brennan Industries Inc., a manufacturer of hydraulic and pneumatic fittings and adapters. The seller was not disclosed.
