HOUSTON — EDGE Capital Markets has arranged the sale of a restaurant property located at 13740 East Freeway in Houston. Montgomery Land Co. acquired the property for an undisclosed price. Whataburger occupies the site on a long-term, triple-net corporate ground lease. Burdette Huffman and Kevin Holland of EDGE represented the undisclosed seller.
KENOSHA, WIS. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of an industrial building located at 9949 58th Place in Kenosha. The sales price was not disclosed. The 173,000-square-foot warehouse will serve as the manufacturing facility for Colbert Packaging Corp., a manufacturer of folding cartons, boxes and paperboard specialty products. Constructed in 2015, the property features 18 loading docks, 216 parking spaces, 30-foot clear heights and an ESFR sprinkler system. Colbert will consolidate and relocate manufacturing centers from Lake Forest, Wis. and Libertyville, Ill. The company’s headquarters will remain in Lake Forest. Eric Fischer, Brett Kroner, Keith Puritz and Bradley Migdal represented Colbert in the transaction. Sergio Chapa of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank represented the seller, Zilber Ltd.
EVANSTON, ILL. — FD Stonewater has acquired a multi-tenant office building in Evanston, 13 miles north of Chicago. The Class A, 164,845-square-foot building is located at 1007 Church St. Architect Helmut Jahn designed the building. The property was 79 percent leased upon acquisition to tenants in the education, healthcare and technology sectors. The building has been renamed Evanston MetroCenter. FD Stonewater, based in Arlington, Va., plans to make building improvements at Evanston MetroCenter and expand tenant services.
PARK RIDGE, ILL. — Baum Realty Group LLC has arranged the sale of a medical building in Park Ridge for $4.1 million. The 13,925-square-foot building is located at 101 S. Washington Ave. The property is 100 percent leased. Medical practices have occupied the property for over 20 years. Danny Spitz and Greg Dietz of Baum represented the seller, a national developer. A Chicago-based investment group was the buyer.
DAYTON, OHIO — Capstone Apartment Partners has brokered the sale of Claypool Apartments in Dayton. The sales price was not disclosed. The 69-unit building was constructed in 1963. The property was 90 percent occupied at time of sale. The buyer was Pinnacle Dayton LLC. Stasiu Geleszinski, Sherief Gouda and Nathan Murphy of Capstone represented both the buyer and seller, Claypool Apartments LLC.
CHICAGO — Children’s Learning Place has leased 8,000 square feet in the base of Luxe on Chicago, a 59-unit apartment building developed by Fifield Cos. The property is located at 1850 W. Chicago Ave. Chris Irwin and Katie Whelan of Jameson Commercial LLC represented the developer in the transaction. Noah O’Neill represented the tenant, Children’s Learning Place. The early learning academy operates four other locations in Chicago.
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has announced plans to construct a second, 2.6-mile extension of the city’s Purple Line subway through Beverly Hills and Century City. The contract value of the recently announced extension, titled Westside Purple Line Extension Section 2, is anticipated to be approximately $1.4 billion. The project will include two new underground stations at the intersections of Wilshire Boulevard and Rodeo Drive, and Constellation Boulevard and Avenue of the Stars, a hub of office buildings frequented by an estimated 358,000 workers, according to reports by the Los Angeles Daily News. Construction is currently underway on Section 1 of the Purple Line extension, which will add stations at the intersections of Wilshire Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, and Fairfax Avenue and La Cienega Boulevard. At completion, the Purple Line is expected to extend nine miles west of the current terminus at Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue, adding a total of seven new stations. The total development is expected to cost $6.3 billion. A full map of the development can be found here. A contract for the second phase of the development will be awarded by the end of the month. Civil and building construction …
People are aware of the Inland Empire’s rapidly growing market and the fulfillment center trend that’s sweeping Southern California. Amazon, Walmart and many others continue to be pioneers in logistics and door-to-door fulfillment, but the side of the market people are missing is the smaller, more locally sourced user, the groups that service these large international companies. It’s a common theme that when the big guys grow into space there’s normally a contingent of smaller users behind them ready to take down the small- to mid-sized product. This trend has never been more true than it has over the past 12 months. As million-square-foot buildings continue to be leased out by these massive conglomerates, the smaller product has been flying off the shelves. There was a concern in early 2016 that this size range was going to be overbuilt, but due to 8.5 million square feet worth of gross absorption through the first three quarters in the 100,000- to 300,000-square-foot size range, that idea has become a misconception. We’re now sitting with a deficiency of product driving lease rates and sales numbers higher than ever. Lease rates in this size range have jumped about 8 percent over the past year …
SAN MARCOS, CALIF. — Lee & Associates has arranged the $73.4 million sale of Campus Marketplace, a 144,148-square-foot shopping center located roughly 35 miles outside San Diego in San Marcos. Tenants at the center include Ralph’s Grocery, CVS/pharmacy, Starbucks Coffee, Subway, Bank of America, UPS Store and Unleashed by Petco. Jan Fincham and Patrick Dempsey of Lee & Associates brokered the deal on behalf of the buyer, IVT San Marcos Campus LLC, and the sellers, Campus CMH LLC, 36 CMH and Campus BRB LLC. IVT San Marcos Campus LLC is an entity controlled by InvenTrust.
CORVALLIS, ORE. — EdR has acquired The Retreat at Corvallis, a 1,016-bed community located near the Oregon State University campus in Corvallis. Built in 2015, the property offers a mix of one-, two-, three-, four- and five-bedroom units in both traditional apartment configurations and cottages. Community amenities include a clubhouse, resort-style pool, cardio room, weight room, yoga studio, bike storage, complimentary coffee bar, indoor golf simulator, game room, computer lab, tanning and green space. The community is 95 percent occupied for the current school year.