BENSENVILLE, ILL. — Concepts in Flooring has signed a 13,191-square-foot industrial lease at 628 Thomas Drive in Bensenville near the Chicago O’Hare International Airport. The flooring installation company is based in Addison. Jay Farnam of Lee & Associates represented the tenant in the lease transaction. Venture One is the property landlord.
PORTAGE, IND. — Healthy Smiles Northwest Indiana will open a 2,000-square-foot location at the Promenade at Founders Square in Portage. The dental practice will join Big Time Burgers and Brew and the Greater Portage Chamber of Commerce as tenants at the mixed-use development, which includes residential units. Holladay Properties provides leasing and property management services for the Promenade at Founders Square, which is owned by an investment group led by the Portage office of Holladay Properties. Michael O’Connor of Holladay Properties represented the building ownership group in the lease transaction with Healthy Smiles.
FORT MILL, S.C. — RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing Corp. will expand and relocate its headquarters from Charlotte, N.C., to a new $34 million office building in Fort Mill, a South Carolina suburb of Charlotte. The new facility will bring 1,100 new jobs to the area upon completion in the third quarter of 2019. Dan Woodley of Savills Studley arranged the 150,000-square-foot, build-to-suit deal on behalf of RoundPoint. The new building will be located within Southbridge Business Park, a 350-acre property owned by Lincoln Harris and Cato. The RoundPoint building is the first planned new construction of the Southbridge development since the joint venture acquired the property in 2014. The South Carolina Coordinating Council for Economic Development approved job development credits, as well as a $500,000 Set Aside grant to York County to assist with the costs of site preparation and building construction. Founded in 2007, RoundPoint is a fully licensed agency and non-agency subservicer for commercial banks, credit unions, mortgage companies and hedge funds.
JOPPA, MD. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has provided a $29.3 million bridge loan for the acquisition of The Homes at Towne Plaza, a 417-unit apartment community in Joppa, a city in Harford County. A joint venture between Blue Ocean and JCR Capital acquired the property, which was constructed in 1964. The community includes a mix of one- and two-bedroom apartments, as well as two- and three-bedroom townhomes. Community amenities include an on-site leasing center, resident services center, playgrounds and a multi-purpose sports court, all of which will be renovated.
JENSEN BEACH, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of Marketplace Square, a 169,223-square-foot shopping center located at 3181 N.W. Federal Highway in Jensen Beach. Patrick Berman, Jason Donald and Todd Tolbert of Cushman & Wakefield arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, Leon Capital Group. Exchange Solutions Inc. acquired the asset. Hobby Lobby anchors Marketplace Square, which was 89 percent leased at the time of sale. Additional tenants include Dollar Tree, Buffalo Wild Wings, Buddy’s Home Furnishings, Once Upon a Child and Rush Trampoline Park. The center also houses two outparcels, occupied by KFC and Sonic.
NASHVILLE, TENN. — Atlanta-based developer Songy Highroads, in partnership with Hyatt Hotels Corp., has topped out construction on Hyatt House Nashville, a 201-room hotel located in Nashville’s West End district. Rising 15 stories on Hayes Street near the intersection of 21st Avenue, the hotel is located one block from Vanderbilt University, Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital and TriStar Centennial Medical Center. Wakefield Beasley & Associates is designing the hotel, and Reeves Young is the general contractor. The development team expects to wrap up construction on the hotel in early 2019.
ATLANTA — Braves Development Co. has signed Savi Provisions to a 4,500-square-foot lease at The Battery Atlanta. The Atlanta-based gourmet market concept will open its seventh location at the 1.5 million-square-foot mixed-use development in late 2019. The store will feature chef-driven prepared food as well as grab-and-go meals. Customers will be able to order from a menu to enjoy on-site or to take out with them. The market will also deliver anywhere inside The Battery Atlanta. Athens, Ga.-based Jittery Joe’s Coffee will share space within the market as part of the continued expansion of its partnership with Savi Provisions. Gary Lewis of Gary Lewis & Associates Real Estate represented Braves Development Co. in the lease transaction.
ALAMEDA, CALIF. — The City of Alameda and Alameda Point Partners have broken ground on the first phase of the $1 billion mixed-use, transit-oriented waterfront development at the gateway to Alameda Point, called Site A. The 68-acre Site A development is located on the former Naval Air Station Alameda, which closed more than 20 years ago. Alameda Point Partners is a joint venture between managing partner Trammell Crow Residential, a division of Dallas-based Crow Holdings; commercial developer srmERNST Development Partners; affordable nonprofit housing developer Eden Housing; retail landlord Madison Marquette; and financial partner Cypress Equity Investments. Slated to cost $500 million, the first phase of the Site A project consists of 673 housing units, including 130 affordable units for low-income households and an additional 310 units for middle-income households; eight acres of parks and open space; and 100,000 square feet of retail, dining and marker space, as well as community event and gathering space. Major infrastructure improvements on the 30-acre Phase I project include new water, sewer, electrical and gas lines, newly paved streets with bike and transit lanes, and bulkhead improvements on Seaplane Lagoon for a new ferry terminal. Eden Housing will develop 130 affordable housing units during Phase …
CHANDLER, ARIZ. — Los Altos, Calif.-based West Valley Properties has completed the disposition of The Boardwalk at Anderson Springs, a shopping center located at the southeast corner of Dobson and Ray roads in Chandler. Los Angeles-based Westwood Financial purchased the property for $26 million. The original Sprouts Farmers Market anchors the 89,804-square-foot property. Sprouts originally opened in 2005 and is currently undergoing a $1 million renovation. At the time of sale, the property was 97 percent occupied by a variety of tenants, including Pita Jungle, State Farm, Pet Planet and Desert Financial Credit Union. Ryan Schubert and Michael Hackett of Cushman & Wakefield Phoenix represented the seller.
SOUTH PASADENA AND CLOVERDALE, CALIF. — Colliers International has arranged two sales of retail properties located in Sonoma and Los Angeles counties totaling $12 million. In the first deal, Guillermo Olaiz and John Archibald of Colliers represented a family trust in the $5.3 million sale of a corner lot located at 815 Freemont Ave. in South Pasadena. The property is short-term leased to Carrow’s Restaurant. The buyer was a San Gabriel Valley-based builder. In the second transaction, the family trust purchased a single-tenant, net-leased retail property located in Cloverdale for $6.7 million. Grocery Outlet, a regional discount grocer, occupies the 15,756-square-foot property. Olaiz and Archibald of Colliers represented the family trust in this 1031 exchange transaction.
