BOONVILLE, MO. — Binswanger has brokered the sale of a 250,000-square-foot industrial building in Boonville, about 25 miles west of Columbia. The sales price was not disclosed. The property is located at 2501 Boonslick Drive. Constructed in 1979 with renovations in 1988, the facility features 30-foot clear heights, 14,050 square feet of office space, 22 dock doors, two drive-in doors and parking for 310 vehicles. An individual buyer, Daniel E. Smith, purchased the property with plans to use it for speculative leasing of manufacturing or warehousing uses. Jim Medbery of Binswanger represented the undisclosed seller.
EAST LANSING, MICH. — Costco Wholesale Corp. has opened a 165,000-square-foot membership warehouse in East Lansing. The property is situated on a 64-acre parcel near I-69 that is the site of a former golf course. Shawn O’Brien of CBRE|Martin began working with Costco in 2012 for site selection in the Lansing market. This is Costco’s 15th store in the state of Michigan. A grand opening took place on Friday, Oct. 27.
HIGHLAND PARK, ILL. — Interra Realty has negotiated the sale of a CVS ground lease in Highland Park for $4.8 million. The 13,225-square-foot building is located at 2000 Skokie Valley Road, approximately 25 miles north of Chicago. Craig Martin and Colin O’Malley of Interra represented both parties in the transaction. The seller, a local real estate development firm, developed the property in 2011. The buyer, a local family, was completing a 1031 exchange. CVS has approximately 20 years remaining on its lease.
For the first time since 2009, the U.S. multifamily real estate sector’s annual sales volume is flirting with falling below the preceding year’s total. Through the first three quarters of 2017, U.S. multifamily investment sales totaled a little over $104 billion, according to Real Capital Analytics (RCA), which tracks sales of multifamily properties and portfolios that are $2.5 million and greater. Experts don’t anticipate sales activity in the last quarter of the year to be enough to surpass last year’s grand total of $160.6 billion in trade volume. As a follow up to the cover article “Coming Back Down to Earth” from the September issue of Southeast Real Estate Business, we caught up with Darron Kattan, managing director of Franklin Street’s Tampa office, to get his take on the U.S. multifamily market. The following is an edited interview: Southeast Real Estate Business: Thus far in 2017, multifamily investment sales are on track to be below 2016 totals. In your opinion, what is causing the decreasing volume? Kattan: A few factors are contributing to this trend. First, the slight increase in the interest rates have given the market pause. Many sellers that have owned for a long time are sitting squarely …
NEW YORK CITY — Olayan America and developer Chelsfield have unveiled plans for a $300 million renovation of 550 Madison Avenue, an office tower located in Midtown Manhattan. The property — which was completed in 1984 and designed by architect Philip Johnson — was formerly known as the Sony Tower and the AT&T Building. Olayan America acquired the property in May 2016, and has tapped design firm Snøhetta for the renovation. The renovation is set to double the size of the nearby public space; create an outdoor garden; add food and retail offerings; and partially replace the building’s eye-level façade with undulating glass to allow a transparent look into the lobby, atrium and first two levels of the building. The property will also be seeking LEED Gold certification, WELL certification from the International WELL Building Institute, and Wired certification for digital infrastructure upon completion. The property will incorporate a dedicated outdoor air ventilation system, which will ensure tenants have access to a continuous supply of fresh air while consuming less energy than a typical mechanical ventilation system. The renovation is slated for completion in 2019. Lead brokers for the project are Mary Ann Tighe, Howard Fiddle and Scott Gottlieb of CBRE. Olayan …
Always on the lookout for new yield-producing products, commercial property investors have turned affordable housing into the latest hot alternative real estate asset. Backed by government subsidies and incentives, affordable housing investments provide the relative safety and income of a high-yield Treasury bond or net-lease investment, which is hard to pass up in the crowded field that has driven up conventional property prices. “A lot of cash buyers and funds have come into the affordable housing market. They see it as a stable asset class,” says Heidi Burkhart, founder and president of New York-based Dane Real Estate, an affordable housing brokerage that has closed some $1.5 billion in transactions since 2008. “It’s a cool time to be in affordable housing; it’s a hot topic.” It’s going to get hotter. Economic and cultural trends portend a shortage of the product for years to come as college debt, unpredictable job creation, high home prices, rising rents and other variables are blocking home ownership and weighing down renters, according to observers and Affordable Housing: Emerging Asset Class, Global Investment Possibilities, a report issued by CBRE in July. In New York City, some 54 percent of renters in 2015 were “cost-burdened,” paying more than …
SANTA FE SPRINGS, CALIF. — Westcore Properties has purchased a 74,038-square-foot warehouse building in the Los Angeles submarket of Santa Fe Springs for an undisclosed sum. The warehouse is located at 13915 Maryton Ave. The purchase marks Westcore’s return to the Los Angeles industrial market after an 18-month hiatus. The firm plans to add about 5,000 square feet of speculative office space to the vacant warehouse building. It will also make limited upgrades to the existing structure. The asset is the only modern building of its size available along the 5 Freeway corridor that spans from the City of Commerce to the North Orange County marketplace, according to Scott Heaton, who, along with Chris Sheehan of Colliers International, represented both parties in the transaction. The seller was Bridge Development.
LAS CRUCES, N.M. — The 101-room Marriott SpringHill Suites in Las Cruces has sold to a California-based investor for an undisclosed sum. The hotel is located at 1611 Hickory Loop. The property is situated near New Mexico State University, Downtown Mall, Las Cruces Conventions Center, Memorial Medical Center and White Sands Missile Range. The buyer owns and operates a hotel portfolio throughout the Southwest under major brands including Marriott and Hilton. Mike Armstrong of HREC Investment Advisors represented the private seller in the transaction.
DENVER — A joint venture between Goldman Sachs Asset Management Private Real Estate (GSAM PRE) and Harbor Associates has purchased the Colorado Bank Building, a 115,000-square-foot historic office building in Denver, for an undisclosed sum. The building is situated at the corner of 17th Street and Champa. The asset was built in 1907. The joint venture plans to reposition the property into high-quality creative office space. The renovation will also include a refresh of the property’s historic lobby, added bike storage, locker rooms and showers and the build-out of other on-site food and beverage amenities.
PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. — The 19-room La Dolce Vita Resort & Spa in Palm Springs has sold to 1491 Via Soledad LLC for $2.7 million. The hotel is located at 1491 S. Via Soledad. Joshua Yammer, Sarhan Mheni and Walter Brauer of Marcus & Millichap represented the limited liability company in the transaction. The team also represented the seller, another limited liability company, in the transaction.