LIVONIA, MICH. — Mid-America Real Estate Corp. has arranged the sale of Millennium Park shopping center, a 273,029-square-foot retail center in Livonia, a suburb of Detroit. Grand Sakwa Properties acquired the asset for an undisclosed price. Ben Wineman of Mid-America arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust. Millennium Park shopping center is home to tenants including The Home Depot, Marshalls, Michaels, PetSmart and Ulta Beauty. Costco and Meijer anchor the center.
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MAPLEWOOD, MINN. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of English Manor for $3 million. The 37-unit apartment building is located on English Street in Maplewood, about 20 miles east of Minneapolis. The property features 21 one-bedroom units and 16 two-bedroom units. Evan Miller, Mox Gunderson, Dan Linnell and Josh Talberg of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller and procured the buyer. Both were private investors.
DOUGLASVILLE, GA. — CyrusOne, a Dallas-based global data center REIT, has unveiled plans to expand into the Atlanta-area market with a 44-acre campus in Douglasville. The $206 million project will be located near the home of Google’s 2 million-square-foot server farm, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. At full build-out, the project will include three data centers totaling 440,000 square feet, and 50 megawatts of critical power. Construction is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2018, with completion of the first building slated for the summer of 2018. CyrusOne’s Atlanta centers will have access to multiple cloud providers and will be linked to the CyrusOne National Internet Exchange, which delivers interconnection between other CyrusOne locations across the country. The company currently operates 44 data center facilities across the United States, Europe and Asia.
PEMBROKE PINES, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of Pembroke Pointe 880, a 143,535-square-foot office building in Pembroke Pines, a city in Broward County. Public records show the building sold for $42 million. Scott O’Donnell, Mike Davis, Michael Lerner, Dominic Montazemi, Miguel Alcivar, Greg Miller and Rick Brugge of Cushman & Wakefield arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, Duke Realty. Jason Hochman of Cushman & Wakefield arranged a $22.7 million, long-term acquisition loan on behalf of the buyer, Pembroke Pointe Office LLC, an affiliate of Miami-based Midtown Capital Partners LLC. Pembroke Pointe 880 was constructed in 2015 and features 36,111-square-foot floor plates, a parking ratio of 5.5 per 1,000 square feet and Interstate 75 frontage. In addition, the property is located adjacent to the 400,000-square-foot Shops at Pembroke Gardens, an open-air retail center. At the time of sale, the building was 86 percent leased to tenants including Global Medical Management, Elizabeth Arden, CES Consultants Inc., Boxy Charm, Kronos Inc., Corestaff, Devry Education Group and Evolution Lighting LLC.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — McCraney Property Co. has acquired a 54-acre land parcel in Charlotte for the development of a 610,700-square-foot speculative industrial project. Dubbed Airport South Business Park, the property will be located near the intersection of Billy Graham Parkway and West Boulevard, less than one mile from Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Upon completion, the development will include five Class A industrial buildings. Warren Snowdon and David Hanna of Foundry Commercial arranged the land acquisition on behalf of McCraney Property Co. The project is part of the developer’s more than 2 million-square-foot industrial pipeline currently under development or planned throughout the Southeast.
BOWIE, MD. — Neuman Commercial Group LLC has arranged the $21 million sale of The Shoppes at Bowie Town Center, a 104,000-square-foot retail center in Bowie, a suburb 18 miles east of Washington, D.C. Gil Neuman of Neuman Commercial Group arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, Shoppes at Bowie Town Center LLC, and procured the buyer, J.A.R. New York RLT. The center was 98 percent leased at the time of sale to 12 tenants including Five Below, Party City, Goodwill, Bank of America, A.C. Moore, Music & Arts, David’s Bridal, Sprint and California Tortilla. The Shoppes at Bowie Town Center is a specialty extension of the 578,000-square-foot Bowie Town Center, an open-air shopping center leased to tenants including Safeway, Macy’s, Best Buy, Off Broadway Shoes, LA Fitness, Chipotle Mexican Grill and Barnes & Noble.
HOOVER, ALA. — SDM Partners has acquired Meadow Brook North, a three-building, 365,000-square-foot office portfolio located on Corporate Parkway in Hoover, roughly 11 miles south of Birmingham. Patterson Real Estate Advisory Group arranged acquisition financing for the transaction, which included a joint venture equity partnership with Blue Vista and bridge loans from Hamilton State Bank and State Bank & Trust Co. Other terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The portfolio originally included a fourth building, which SDM negotiated the sale of to a local user that closed simultaneously with SDM. Of the three buildings in SDM’s acquisition, one is fully leased to BlueCross BlueShield of Alabama, one is a multi-tenant building currently 87 percent leased and the third is vacant. Joe Sandner III and Joe Sandner IV of Colliers International will handle the portfolio’s leasing assignment.
SEATTLE — Takenaka Corp. has purchased Tilt49, a 290,573-square-foot office building in Seattle, for $268.5 million. The Class A building is located at 1812 Boren Ave. in the Denny Triangle area of the city. Tilt49 is triple-net leased to Amazon through 2033. The newly constructed project includes 1,646 square feet of retail leased to Mighty-O Donuts. NKF represented the seller, a joint venture between Principal Real Estate Investors and Touchstone. The firm’s Kevin Shannon, Ken White, Rob Hannan, Tim O’Keefe and Michael Moll executed the transaction. The 11-story creative office property is nearby more than 100 restaurants, 3,000 hotel rooms, 28,000 urban residential units and public transit. The Denny Triangle submarket has experienced a 51 percent increase in average asking lease rates over the past three years, according to NKF. Tilt49 sold for $924 per square foot. This is approximately about $40 per square foot more than the recently sold Midtown 21 office property, which is situated adjacent to Tilt49 and also leased to Amazon. “The buyer [was sourced] via an ad hoc Asia/Pacific roadshow to four countries,” Shannon says. “As a result, we identified a strong buyer and achieved record-setting pricing for a Seattle office property. Takenaka is a …
With a statewide unemployment rate of 2.7 percent, New Hampshire has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation, and is well below the national unemployment rate of 4.4 percent. The New Hampshire labor market has continued to tighten, with unemployment having dropped 0.2 percentage points since third quarter of last year. Employment gains have not been seen in two traditionally industrial sectors: trade, transportation & utilities or manufacturing. Employment in these sectors has remained relatively flat year-over-year, at -0.4 percent and 0.6 percent growth respectively. Year-to-date industrial absorption was pushed up to 623,485 square feet by continued positive absorption in the third quarter. The three largest submarkets — Nashua, Manchester, and Portsmouth —made up the majority of that absorption, while two of the smaller submarkets — Concord and Bedford — are the only ones experiencing negative year-to-date absorption. The largest new lease of the fourth quarter of 2017 was Bensonwood Woodworking’s lease of more than 100,000 square feet of space at 25 Production Avenue in Keene. The space will be used mainly for manufacturing purposes. On the capital markets front, the largest transaction of the quarter was the purchase of 55 and 85 Mechanic Street, a 119,000-square-foot multi-tenant …
ENGLEWOOD, COLO. — CA Senior Living LLC, the seniors housing investment and development division of Chicago-based CA Ventures, has started construction of Atria Englewood, a 130-unit seniors housing community in the Denver suburb of Englewood. Atria Senior Living will operate the seven-story community, which will offer a mix of assisted living and memory care apartments. The property is scheduled to open in summer 2019. When complete, Atria Englewood will offer a total of 106 assisted living apartments, with floor plans ranging from 380 to 1,200 square feet. The remaining 24 apartments will be for memory care. Atria Englewood represents CA Senior Living’s plans to build infill, mid-rise seniors housing near major metros.