NORTH AURORA, ILL. — The Opus Group and AEW Capital Management have broken ground on a 452,000-square-foot speculative industrial warehouse in North Aurora, approximately 40 miles west of Chicago. The facility will be situated on 25 acres at 1100 Orchard Gateway Blvd. The property features 36-foot clear heights, 48 docks, four drive-in doors, 79 trailer parking spaces and 263 car parking spaces. The facility can accommodate up to two tenants with distribution and light manufacturing needs that are looking to occupy 200,000 square feet of space or more. Completion of the project is slated for July 2016. Opus Development Co. is the developer, Opus Design Build is the design-builder and Opus AE Group is the architect and structural engineer of record. Brendan Kelly and Todd Heine of Avison Young will market the property for lease.
CLAWSON, MICH. — Mid-America Real Estate Corp. has arranged the sale of Clawson Center, a 130,424-square-foot grocery-anchored shopping center located in the northern Detroit suburb of Clawson, for an undisclosed price. Tenants at the center include Aldi, Dollar Tree, O’Reilly Auto Parts, Rite Aid and Staples. The shopping center was 80 percent occupied at the time of sale. Ben Wineman and Daniel Stern of Mid-America represented the seller, Kimco Realty, in the transaction. Viking Partners was the buyer.
INDIANAPOLIS — RESOURCE Commercial Real Estate has arranged the sale of Eastgate Terrace Apartments, a 77-unit multifamily property in Indianapolis. Renero LLC purchased the asset from Madison Elizabeth Investments LLC for an undisclosed price. Built in 1961, Eastgate Terrace Apartments consists of seven buildings totaling 55,528 rentable square feet in a mixture of one- and two-bedroom units. The buildings sit on 3.6 acres and feature a picnic area, courtyard, laundry facility and covered parking. Michael Wernke of RESOURCE Commercial Real Estate brokered the deal.
MOKENA, ILL. — MedProperties Holdings LLC has acquired a 28,334-square-foot surgery center in Mokena, approximately 40 miles southwest of Chicago, for an undisclosed price. The Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery (CMIS) is situated on 3.5 acres at 19110 Darvin Drive. Surgical Care Affiliates Inc. was the seller. The facility consists of a 14,000-square-foot surgery center with four operating rooms, a 5,350-square-foot recovery center with five overnight stay rooms and medical office space. The building was constructed in 2002 and the recovery center and office space was added in 2008. Erik Tellefson of Capital One, arranged debt financing for the acquisition.
ENGLEWOOD, COLO. — Steadfast Apartment REIT has purchased the 217-unit Fielder’s Creek Apartments in the Denver submarket of Englewood for $32.4 million. The community is located at 3205 W. Floyd Ave., nine miles from downtown Denver. It was built in 1983. Fielder’s Creek is currently 97 percent occupied. The REIT plans to implement a value enhancement program at the property.
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIF. — Hanley Investment Group has arranged the $18.6 million sale of a newly redeveloped retail center located on the corner of Brookhurst Street and Adams Avenue in Huntington Beach. Tenants at the fully occupied, 24,000-square-foot center include PetSmart, U.S. Bank, Phenix Salon, Tenet Healthcare and Orangetheory Fitness. LBG Real Estate Cos. LLC sold the property to an Orange County-based private investor. Ed Hanley, Bill Asher and Eric Vu of Hanley Investment Group arranged the sale of the property in an off-market transaction.
TEMPE, ARIZ. — Wentworth Property Co. has purchased a 228,000-square-foot office building in Tempe for $16.5 million. The building is located at 1515 W. 14th St. It was vacant at the time of sale. The buyer is undertaking significant renovations to the property. CBRE’s Barry Gabel and Chris Marchildon and JLL’s Karsten Peterson, Dave Seeger and Mark Gustin represented the seller, BF Enterprises, in this transaction. The same team will lease the property.
WOODBURN, ORE. — Bradley C. Shepard, Stanley V. Shepard and Growing Investments LLC has purchased a 52,524-square-foot industrial property in Woodburn for $3.2 million. The property is located at 2257 Progress Way. The building is fully leased to Columbia Helicopters. The purchase includes an additional 5.6 acres of industrial-zoned land for future development. Thomas McDowell and Raymond Duchek of Norris & Stevens represented the buyers. Peter Stalick, Steven Klein and Jeff Kiersey of Kidder Mathews represented the seller, Mercer Holdings, in this transaction.
FOOTHILL RANCH, CALIF. — SeneGence International has leased 50,000 square feet of office space in Foothill Ranch. The new space is located at 19651 Alter. The beauty and personal care company is relocating from its current headquarters in the Irvine Spectrum. Andrew Morrow of Savills Studley represented SeneGence. CBRE’s Gregg Haly and Tyler Haly represented the landlord, Western States, in this transaction.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In one of the largest office building transactions ever in North Carolina, Starwood Capital and Vision Properties have sold One Wells Fargo Center in Charlotte’s central business district for $284 million. According to the Charlotte Observer, the buyer was a limited liability company tied to Dennis Troesh, a Nevada businessman who founded a concrete company in the 1970s that was later acquired by Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Materials Corp. Starwood and Vision purchased the building in 2013 for $245 million. One Wells Fargo Center opened in 1988 and is located at 301 S. College St. The 42-story tower, which spans more than 1 million square feet, is home to a mix of financial, legal and real estate firms. One Wells Fargo Center serves as the East Coast headquarters for Wells Fargo, the largest bank in the world in terms of market capitalization. The building was 98 percent occupied at the time of sale. The building features amenities such as covered parking, two restaurants, the Childress Klein YMCA, a coffee shop and a dry cleaner. It also serves as one of only two downtown buildings with direct access to the LYNX public transportation system. One Wells Fargo Center is on …