CHICAGO — Mansueto Properties LLC has acquired The Wrigley Building, which is located on North Michigan Avenue in Chicago. HFF arranged $150 million in acquisition financing, but the actual purchase price was $255 million, according to local media reports. The iconic Class A office and retail property totals 478,920 square feet. Originally built in 1921 and 1924, the property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The two-tower property, which has connecting walkways on the third and 14th floors, was renovated from 2012 to 2014 to create modern office and retail space, to further enhance the historic façade and to provide amenities such as a fitness center, tenant lounge and conference center. The towers are 90 percent leased. Tenants include American Medical Association, Leo Burnett, ABA, Nuveen, Walgreens and Perkins + Will. Stephen Skok of HFF arranged the 30-year, fixed-rate financing through a major life insurance company. The seller was BDT Capital Partners, according to local media.
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ST. LOUIS — The Cordish Companies, the St. Louis Cardinals and Loews Hotels & Co. have broken ground on the new $65 million Live! by Loews hotel in St. Louis. The hotel will be located inside the second phase of Ballpark Village, a mixed-use development surrounding the Cardinals’ Busch Stadium. The eight-story hotel will feature 216 rooms, including 19 suites. An outdoor terrace will feature a bar called “Gashouse Gang,” a nickname given to the Cardinals baseball team that ultimately won the World Series in 1934. The hotel will also include a wine bar, bourbon bar, second-level terrace bar and open display kitchen. The second level will include 17,000 square feet of meeting and event space. HKS Architects Hospitality Studio designed the hotel. The $260 million second phase of Ballpark Village also features a 29-story apartment tower, a Class A office tower anchored by PricewaterhouseCoopers and a three-story retail pavilion anchored by Onelife Fitness.
WAUKEE, IOWA — Besyata Investment Group and The Scharf Group have acquired Autumn Ridge Apartments in Waukee for $58 million. The purchase will be completed in two phases, as the second half of the apartment property has yet to be constructed. Jeff Seidenfeld of Eastern Union arranged a $27.5 million, 85 percent loan-to-value bridge loan with Greystone for the first phase of the acquisition, which comprises 236 units. Upon completion, the Class A property will total 434 units. HFF brokered the sale of the property and represented the undisclosed seller. BH Management will handle property management and leasing. Both Besyata and Scharf groups are based in New York.
EDINA, MINN. — The Opus Group has completed The Loden, a 246-unit apartment project in Edina. The site was formerly home to a vacant office building. Amenities include an outdoor pool deck and hot tub, fitness center, yoga studio, dog wash, bike storage and work-from-home space. From alcoves to two-bedroom units with dens, the floor plans range from 498 to 1,322 square feet. Opus Development Co. was the developer, Opus Design Build was the builder and Opus AE Group was the interior designer, architect and structural engineer of record. The Excelsior Group will manage the property and oversee leasing efforts.
LEWIS CENTER, OHIO — Romans Properties has brokered the $5 million sale of a data center in Lewis Center, about 20 miles north of Columbus. The 57,000-square-foot facility is located at 8180 Green Meadows Drive. The property is fully leased by Cyxtera, which provides data center colocation, cybersecurity and cloud-based services. Chris Orr of Romans represented the buyer, an institutional client. The seller was not disclosed.
BRENTWOOD, CALIF. — Chicago-based Fairbourne Properties has purchased The Streets of Brentwood, a grocery- and theatre-anchored lifestyle center located at 2455 Sand Creek Road in Brentwood. A fund managed by DRA Advisors sold the asset for $85.7 million, according to property records obtained by the San Francisco Business Times. The 358,615-square-foot center includes a 14-screen AMC Theatre, DSW, Ulta Beauty and Sprouts Farmers Market. Nicholas Bicardo and Brandon Rogoff of NKF Capital Markers represented the seller in the transaction.
LONG BEACH, CALIF. — Stepp Commercial has negotiated the sale of Patio Gardens, an apartment community located at 4874 E. Los Coyotes Diagonal in Long Beach’s Traffic Circle neighborhood. Emeryville, Calif.-based HFH Limited acquired the property from a Long Beach-based private investor for $50.8 million. Built in 1958, the property features 19 two-story buildings with a total of 127 two-bedroom units averaging 1,000 square feet. On-site amenities include landscaped gardens and lawns, laundry facilities, a fitness center and parking garages. Robert Stepp of Stepp Commercial represented the seller and buyer in the deal.
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — PCCP, in a joint venture with Lincoln Property Co., has acquired Valley Technology Centre, a seven-building office and R&D complex located on 26.4 acres in San Jose. MWest sold the property for an undisclosed price. Built in 2000, the 464,000-square-foot property was 74 percent leased at the time of sale. The complex comprises seven two-story office and R&D facilitates with 18-foot clear height on the ground floors to accommodate roll-up doors and shipping/receiving requirements. The properties are located at 2660, 2680, 2700, 2720, 2740 Zanker Road and 2585 and 2595 Junction Ave. in North San Jose.
LOS ANGELES — Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital has arranged $25 million in refinancing for a single-tenant office building located in the South Bay region of Los Angeles. Shelley Magoffin and Max Sauerman of Bellwether’s Los Angeles office secured the first mortgage financing for the borrower, a Los Angeles-based investor. The borrower plans to use the loan to refinance existing debt. The new non-recourse loan features a 12-year term and three years of interest-only payments followed by a 30-year amortization. Originally constructed in the 1950s and expanded in the 1980s, the property features 200,000 square feet of office space. At the time of refinancing, the building was occupied by a defense company, which recently extended its lease for 10 years. Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital is the commercial and multifamily mortgage banking subsidiary of Enterprise Community Investment.
EUGENE, ORE. —Cardinal Group has acquired Arena District, a 244-bed student housing community located near the University of Oregon in Eugene. The property offers two- and four-bedroom units. Shared amenities include a fitness center; hot tub; private study room; study area and internet café; multimedia lounge; clubroom with gaming and pool table; and outdoor courtyard with grilling station. HFF arranged an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing for the transaction. The HFF team, which included Pat Burger, secured the floating-rate loan through Freddie Mac’s CME Program. HFF will also service the securitized loan.