GURNEE, ILL. — Englewood Construction has broken ground on a 6,524-square-foot Outback Steakhouse restaurant in Gurnee, located about 45 miles north of Chicago. Outback is relocating from 5642 Northridge Drive in Gurnee. Janet Pugh is the project architect. Tampa-based Bloomin’ Brands is the parent company of Outback. Englewood has recently completed Outback restaurants in Downers Grove, Ill.; Springfield, Ill.; and Merrillville, Ind.
LAS VEGAS — Henley Tower 16, a joint venture between Henley USA and Tower 16 Capital Partners, has acquired Foothill Village Apartments, a multifamily property located in the Spring Valley submarket of Las Vegas. Greenberg Traurig sold the property for $50 million in an off-market transaction. The buyers plan to renovate the property and rebrand it as Altura on Tropicana. The community features 512 one-, two- and three-bedroom townhomes with central air conditioning and individual electric metering. On-site amenities include three swimming pools, two hot tubs, two basketball courts, four laundry facilities, a business center, a large playground and dog runs. Pat Sauter, Art Carll-Tangora and Antone Brazill of NAI Vegas retained the buyers in the transaction.
MONTEBELLO, CALIF. — Hunt Mortgage Group has provided $20 million in refinancing for Beverly Towers, an affordable seniors housing property located at 1315 W. Beverly Blvd. in Montebello. The borrower is Montebello Senior Housing, a California limited partnership backed by key principal Stephen Doty. Built in 1975, the property features 189 units in a mix of one-bathroom efficiency units and one-bedroom/one-bathroom apartments. The community is restricted to residents age 62 or older and is a Section 8 Low-Income Housing Tax Credit property. The property currently operates subject to a HUD Section 236(e)(2) use agreement that became effective in 2003 when the pre-existing Section 236 financing was retired.
GLENDALE, ARIZ. — Scottsdale-based YAM Properties has completed the disposition of Arrowhead Professional Center, located at 18301 N. 79th Ave. in Glendale. Cleveland, Ohio-based Woodside Health acquired the property for $16.5 million. Steve Lindley, Bob Buckley and Tracy Cartledge of Cushman & Wakefield Phoenix’s capital markets group, along with the healthcare team of Sheila Bale, Tom Weinhold and Ryan O’Connor, represented the seller in the deal. The eight-building medical and professional office campus features 70,652 square feet of space. At the time of sale, the property was fully occupied and anchored by a surgery center jointly owned by Banner Health and the CORE Institute.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — KPN Industrial had purchased Cornwell Technology Center, located at 17301 N. Perimeter Drive in Scottsdale. Andersen Equities sold the property for $9.9 million, or nearly $175 per square foot. Situated on 4.7 acres, the 56,634-square-foot asset consists of two freestanding multi-tenant R&D industrial buildings. Built in 2000, the fully occupied asset is 100 percent air conditioned and offers high-quality space for tenants with complex and precise processes requiring clean rooms and labs. Current tenants include Hemisphere GNSS, Provista Diagnostics and Plastic Design Co. Andersen Equities arranged its own acquisition financing for the transaction. Mark Linsalata, Patrick Dempsey and Jan Fincham of Lee & Associates Arizona represented the seller, while Ron Schooler and Ken Elmer of Commercial Properties represented the buyer in the deal.
SANTA ANA, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a restaurant property located at 1502 S. Main St. in Santa Ana. A private investor sold the property for $1.5 million. Jack in the Box occupies the 1,311-square-foot property on a net-lease basis. Lior Regenstreif of Marcus & Millichap’s Encino, Calif., office represented the seller. Jon Emrani of Marcus & Millichap’s West Los Angeles office represented the buyer, a private investor, in the transaction.
LOUDOUN COUNTY, VA. — New York-based Sentinel Data Centers has acquired Washington Dulles Gateway, a 280-acre tract in northern Virginia, for $82.5 million. The site features 140 acres of net developable land for a new data center project, which equates to a purchase price of about $589,000 per developable acre. The site is one of the largest contiguous tracts for data center development in in Loudoun County, located northwest of Washington, D.C. “Seventy percent of the world’s internet activity runs through Loudoun County,” says Jay Taustin, a representative for the seller. “We are extremely pleased to have sold this important land parcel to Sentinel Data Centers, which provides world-class facility infrastructure, engineering acumen, technical personnel and operations protocols to its users.” Mark Levy, Matthew Gallagher and Jonathan Walk of JLL represented the seller, which according to datacenterdynamics.com was developer and majority owner H. Christopher Antigone, in the sale. “Significant demand continues to exist for data center product in Loudoun County,” says Levy. “When we began the conversation with Sentinel, it was clear it had the market knowledge and sophistication necessary to execute a complex transaction such as this.” Sentinel also acquired 65 acres in Loudoun County for the same purpose …
The office sector in Rhode Island’s commercial real estate market has seen a strong carryover and positive momentum from 2017, into 2018, which we continue to enjoy today. The market has seen positive absorption in most areas and with little speculative development on the horizon, lease rates are being affected accordingly. It’s safe to say, it is no longer a Tenant’s market. In Providence, vacancy rates are hovering in the 12 percent range, down from 16.5 percent just a few years ago. Recent projects include the redevelopment of South Street Landing, a $230 million dollar renovation of the former Narragansett Electric power station which is now home to the URI/CCRI Nursing School as well as some of the administrative offices of Brown University. Just a block away, construction is underway for the 191,000-square-foot Providence Innovation Center. This will be occupied by the Brown University School of Professional Studies, Johnson & Johnson and the Cambridge Innovation Center. The redevelopment of 75 Fountain Street, a 160,000-square-foot building, once fully occupied by the Providence Journal, has also enjoyed positive absorption. The redevelopment by Nordblom Company and Cornish Associates has attracted companies such as Tufts Healthcare, GE Digital and Virgin Pulse to join the Providence …
Atlanta is the logistics hub and economic engine of the Southeast, which is the fastest growing region in the country. Its 700 million square feet of industrial space makes it the fifth largest logistics market in the United States. Traditionally, population and job growth are key drivers of industrial demand, and Atlanta has had strong growth in each. The metro added 78,000 people in 2017, or nearly 214 new residents every day, which is reminiscent of the solid population growth of the 1990s when Atlanta averaged nearly 100,000 new residents every year. Additionally, Atlanta has had solid job growth, growing 2.5 percent last year, second only to Dallas/Fort Worth among the 12 largest metro areas in the U.S. E-commerce has caused a surge in demand for industrial space that has benefitted the Atlanta industrial market. Online retail sales now make up over 9 percent of total retail sales, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, up from 5 percent in 2012. A recent report from Cushman & Wakefield stated that while e-commerce accounted for just 5 percent of leases in 2013, it now commands over 20 percent of all warehouse leasing. As Amazon and others ramp up delivery times from two-day …
AUSTIN, TEXAS — New York-based Meridian Capital has arranged a $23 million loan for the recapitalization of a 344-unit apartment community in Austin. The community is located north of downtown on Cameron Road and features a pool, spa, on-site laundry and playground. Dov Jeremias and Brian Flax of Meridian arranged the loan, which featured an interest rate that was 200 basis points above the 30-day LIBOR rate, through KeyBank. The sponsor was not disclosed.