AUBURN HILLS, MICH. — Bernard Financial Group has arranged an $11.2 million loan for the refinancing of a 137,994-square-foot office building in Auburn Hills. Multiple tenants occupy the building, located at 691 N. Squirrel Road. Dennis Bernard and Kevin Kovachevich of Bernard Financial arranged the CMBS loan on behalf of Auburn Newco LLC.
OAK BROOK, ILL. — Michael Jordan’s Restaurant has opened in Oak Brook, about 20 miles west of Chicago. Executive chef Craig Couper, who also heads the kitchen at Michael Jordan’s Steak House in downtown Chicago, prepares some of Jordan’s signature items, including prime Delmonico ribeye steaks. In addition to lunch and dinner, the restaurant features made-to-order coffee brewed by Metric Coffee. Michael Jordan’s Restaurant seats 150 diners, not including the 90-seat bar and 68-seat patio. Chicago-based DMAC Architecture designed the restaurant. Cornerstone Restaurant Group oversees all seven Michael Jordan-branded restaurants.
ST. LOUIS — SVN/Infinity Commercial Group has negotiated the sale of a 105,800-square-foot office and warehouse property in St. Louis for $5.3 million. The building sits on 5.4 acres and is located at 1325 N. Warson Road. Mark Zvibleman of SVN/Infinity Commercial Group represented the seller, North Warson Associates. Tom Schenk represented the buyers, White Warson 1 LLC and WFLP LLC.
NORMAN, OKLA. — A joint venture between Balfour Beatty Campus Solutions LLC and Provident Resources Group (PRG) has broken ground on the first phase of a $194 million mixed-use project at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. The development will expand the university’s on-campus living options for upperclassmen as part of a public-private partnership. Located on more than 10 acres in the southern part of OU’s campus, the project will include four mid-rise buildings with 1,231 beds. Plans also call for 40,000 square feet of retail and academic space, as well as a 1,000-car parking garage. Construction of the project is slated for completion in August 2018 in preparation for the 2018-2019 academic year. OU and Balfour Beatty Communities will jointly operate and manage the housing component of the development. JE Dunn Construction is leading the project’s design/build team, in collaboration with Clark Nexsen and Oklahoma City-based Studio Architecture. RBC Capital Markets is the financial underwriter for the project. Balfour Beatty Campus Solutions provides development, asset/property management and other real estate services to higher education with a focus on public-private partnerships. PRG is a national non-profit organization that develops, owns and operates educational, healthcare, seniors housing and multifamily properties. To …
At the end of the first quarter 2017, the Houston industrial market finds itself in very familiar territory, with several dominant trends largely maintaining course. Despite continued struggles within the oilfield manufacturing sector, the overall market is still in very good shape. Large consumer goods distributors driven by population growth in the greater Houston area and plastics users responding to increased demand from expanded chemical plant capacities produce the headliner transactions in the current market. This has been the case for the last 12 to 24 months. While leasing and sales for existing manufacturing facilities have slowed in recent years, there are some bright spots to report. CoStar notes an overall market vacancy increase of less than 0.5 percent to a still-historically low 5.7 percent. Northwest and Southeast Houston lead the way in terms of major activity. Northwest Houston currently has 5.1 percent vacancy, driven by consumer product companies like Serta Mattresses, which leased 268,482 square feet at Trammell Crow’s Fallbrook Pines, and Shaw Carpet, which leased 201,600 square feet at Prologis Jersey Village. These firms are inking long-term deals for manufacturing and distribution hubs, reflecting their confidence in the area’s long-term consumer growth. Multiple large positions from FedEx and …
LOS ANGELES — Rexford Industrial Realty has purchased a six-building industrial park in the Los Angeles submarket of South Bay for $210.5 million. The Class A park is known as Rancho Pacifica Industrial Park. The acquisition contains a total of about 1.2 million square feet on 56 acres. The park is leased to 23 tenants. It sits adjacent to the Alameda Intermodal Corridor, six miles from the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.
ENGLEWOOD, COLO. — Institutional investors have acquired the 300-unit Kent Place Residences in Englewood for $127.4 million. The community is located at 3465 S. Gaylord Court in the Cherry Hills Village area. Kent Place Residences was built in 2015. Outdoor amenities include a rooftop lounge with views of the Rocky Mountains and downtown Denver, as well as outdoor televisions and barbeque grills, outdoor kitchens, a walking trail, pool with two spas, community garden, pet play area, bocce ball court and complimentary bike rentals. HFF’s Jordan Robbins, Jeff Haag and Anna Stevens represented the seller, Forum Real Estate Group, in this transaction. J.P. Morgan Asset Management advised the undisclosed buyers.
CHANDLER, ARIZ. — Summit Healthcare REIT Inc. has acquired Pennington Gardens, a 90-bed assisted living and memory care facility in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler for $13.4 million. Summit will lease the property to Compass Senior Living, which already operates six communities in Summit’s portfolio. The acquisition was made through Summit Chandler LLC, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Summit. Summit is a non-traded REIT with 32 long-term, triple-net-leased healthcare facilities in 12 states.
BEAVERTON, ORE. — Co-developers MorningStar Senior Living and Confluent Senior Living have broken ground on MorningStar of Beaverton, a 104-unit assisted living and memory care community in the Portland suburb of Beaverton. The community is scheduled for completion in September 2018, with an information center opening onsite early in the year. Situated on 5.25 acres, the 97,653-square-foot development will offer 66 suites for assisted living and 38 suites for memory care. This will be MorningStar’s first community in Oregon. The project represents the 12th joint venture between affiliates of MorningStar, a Denver-based senior living developer, owner and operator, and Confluent Senior Living, a subsidiary of Denver-based real estate investment and development firm Confluent Development. Confluent is the project owner and MorningStar will serve as the operator. Local firms involved in the project include LRS Architects and LCG Pence Construction. Thoma-Holec Design, based in Mesa, Ariz., will serve as interior designer.
RIVERSIDE, CALIF. — Lancaster Pollard has arranged a $6.5 million refinancing for Magnolia Grand, a 95-unit independent living community in Riverside, located in the Inland Empire region of California. The borrower is BPM Senior Living Co., which owns and operates a portfolio of seniors housing communities in the Western United States. The Fannie Mae loan is non-recourse and restructures a permanent loan that was nearing maturity. In addition to refinancing existing debt, the loan will provide capital for upgrades and improvements to the property. Matt Lindsay led the transaction for Lancaster Pollard.
