CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND. — Flaherty & Collins Properties will break ground on Historic Whitlock Place, an apartment project located at 306 Binford St. in downtown Crawfordsville, a city northwest of Indianapolis, on Monday, June 8. An adaptive reuse of Culver Union Hospital, the project will offer 56 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartment units. Community amenities will include a community atrium, a community room with a television, a computer room with free Internet access and an exercise room with equipment. Completion is slated for late summer 2016. The project is a collaborative effort between Sustainable Solutions, Vision Communities, Flaherty & Collins, the City of Crawfordsville, Palma Architects and McKinley Development.
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GRIMES, IOWA — R&R Realty Group has completed the development of Prairie Business Park I, a 260,000-square-foot Class A industrial facility in Grimes. Situated at the southeast corner of S. James Street and SE 37th Street, the facility features ESFR sprinklers and 32-foot clear heights, which increase pallet capacity by 20 to 25 percent compared with 26-foot clear height facilities. Plans for a second warehouse facility in Prairie Business Park are underway. Realty Marketing Group is serving as the listing agent for the business park.
EVANSTON, ILL. — Podolsky|Circle CORFAC has arranged the relocation and renovation of the Evanston Art Center in Evanston. The organization will relocate to a newly acquired 20,000-square-foot facility located at 1717 Central St. this summer from its current location at 2603 Sheridan Road. The Dobbins Group, serving as design-build contractor, renovated the new facility, which was a former office building. The art center features multi-disciplinary offerings, including programming and educational activities in the areas of culinary arts, design, digital fabrication, music and visual arts. Additionally the facility features gallery space and a coffee shop. Randy Podolsky and Adam Tarantur of Podolsky|Circle assisted in the acquisition of the facility for the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Podolsky|Circle and Lebar Construction Management served as construction manager for the renovation project.
PHOENIX – Griffin Capital Corporation has purchased a 513,361-square-foot office building and data center complex in Phoenix for $91.5 million. The complex is located at 3151 and 3202 West Behrend Drive. The property is fully occupied by American Express Travel Related Services Company. The company is a subsidiary of American Express. American Realty Advisors was represented by CBRE’s Jim Fijan and Chad Freese.
LOS ANGELES – The Magellan Group has broken ground on a 501,270-square-foot industrial park in the Los Angeles submarket of El Monte. The $55 million Magellan Gateway will be located at 4127-4213 Temple City Blvd. Magellan purchased the 26.8-acre site one year ago. It was one of the largest infill industrial parcels left in Greater Los Angeles at the time, according to the firm. The company also notes Magellan Gateway is the first new large-scale industrial development in El Monte since 2008. The project will offer 14 units ranging in size from 10,905 square feet to 164,284 square feet. It is scheduled for completion during the fourth quarter of this year. Magellan Gateway will be designed by HPA Architecture. Robin Dodson, John Minervini, Erik Larson and Chris Tolles of Cushman & Wakefield will serve as the project’s leasing agents.
LAS VEGAS — Private equity firm The Bascom Group has acquired the 183-unit Boulder Palms Senior Apartments at 4350 Boulder Highway in Las Vegas for $10.4 million. Debt financing was provided by One West Bank and arranged by Brian Eisendrath and Brandon Smith of CBRE Capital Markets. Doug Schuster and Vittal Ram of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank represented the seller on the transaction. Boulder Palms is a two-story seniors housing community housing 183 units. Completed in 1997, the property covers over four acres. Boulder Palms is Bascom’s eighth acquisition in the Las Vegas area over the last two years.
REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. – A 48-unit apartment building in the San Francisco Peninsula submarket of Redwood City has sold to an unnamed buyer for $13.1 million. The community is located at 180 Buckingham Ave. It was built in 1964. Adam Levin and Robert Johnston of Marcus & Millichap’s Palo Alto office represented both the buyer and seller in this transaction.
TIGARD, ORE. – A 24,733-square-foot retail building in Tigard has sold to Hobo Properties LLC for $2.5 million. The building is located at 12230 SW Main Street in the downtown region. The center is fully occupied by Crown Carpets and Live Laugh Love Glass. Hobo Properties was represented by Joe Kappler of Macadam Forbes. The seller, 3DM Holdings, was represented by Scott Finney and Nick Chessar of Norris & Stevens.
ELGIN, S.C. — Colliers International has brokered the $22.9 million sale of Legacy at Sandhill, a 240-unit Class A apartment community located in Elgin, a suburb of Columbia. Will Mathews, Ron Cameron and Woody Moore of Colliers represented the seller, Atlanta-based Mesa Capital Partners, in the transaction. The buyer was the Wilkinson Group, also based in Atlanta.
Mission Capital Arranges $19M Acquisition, Renovation Loan for Mixed-Use Asset in Miami Beach
by John Nelson
MIAMI BEACH, FLA. — Mission Capital Advisors has arranged $19 million in acquisition and renovation financing for the Variety Building, a 70-unit mixed-use building located at 1700 Alton Road in Miami Beach. The property will undergo renovations as the retail space is prepared for re-leasing and the residential component is converted to hospitality space. Jason Cohen, Jordan Ray, Ari Hirt and Axel DeAngelis of Mission Capital arranged the loan through Ladder Capital on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture between Springhouse Partners and Forte Capital Management. The property’s current tenant roster includes scooter dealer Vespa Miami.