MARYVILLE, MO. — Chicago-based Baum Realty Group LLC has brokered the $5.3 million sale of a single-tenant property in Maryville net-leased to Walgreens. The property, located in northwest Missouri, was sold at 99 percent of its asking price. Walgreens has 20 years remaining on the triple-net lease. Patrick Forkin and Brad Teitelbaum of Baum represented the seller, a Missouri-based private developer, in the transaction. A West Coast-based private investor purchased the property in a 1031 tax-deferred exchange.
BALTIMORE — Tribune Media Co. has sold its printing facility at 300 E. Cromwell St. in Baltimore for $46.5 million. The 60-acre property holds the printing facility for The Baltimore Sun, a Tribune-owned newspaper that currently has a long-term lease on the property. The net proceeds after transaction costs and taxes are slated to be roughly $30 million. The buyer was undisclosed.
MELBOURNE, FLA. — BishopBeale plans to construct Pineda Landings, a 50,000-square-foot, 17.5-acre retail development at the corner of Wickham Road and Jordan Blass Drive in Melbourne. The shopping center will be anchored by The Fresh Market, the first location for the specialty grocer in Brevard County. The shopping center is expected to open for business by the fall of 2015. BishopBeale will handle all leasing and development management for the project.
CLINTON, MISS. — Hertz Investment Group (HIG) has acquired South Pointe Business Park, a 395,920-square-foot Class A office building in Clinton, a town in the Jackson MSA. HIG purchased the four-story, three-pod suburban office building from a private investment group for $20.5 million. The park is currently 93 percent leased to tenants such as the Mississippi Department of Revenue, University Physicians, Lockheed Martin and Verizon Wireless. South Pointe was originally constructed as the headquarters for WorldCom.
BOCA RATON, FLA. — Crocker Partners has purchased two office towers in Boca Raton’s Town Center Mall area from MetLife Real Estate Investors for an undisclosed price. The two properties, known as One Town Center and The Plaza, span 339,000 square feet and were 42 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Wells Fargo and Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors. Crocker Partners purchased the two towers, which were both originally developed by Crocker entities, in a partnership with Siguler Guff. Crocker Partners will manage the properties and CBRE will handle leasing responsibilities.
DELAND, FLA. — Equus Capital Partners Ltd. has sold Madison Carrington Place, a 224-unit apartment community in Deland, roughly 30 miles north or Orlando. The private equity real estate fund manager sold the asset to Bluerock Partners for $14.3 million. Constructed in 1987, the apartment community features a clubhouse, pool, fitness center, tennis and volleyball courts and a playground. The property was 94 percent leased at the time of sale. Luke Wickham and Sheldon Granade of CBRE represented Equus Capital Partners in the transaction.
Over the last four years, North Florida’s industrial market appears to have stabilized. While rental rates remain flat offering a variety of expansion opportunities for users and tenants, rental increases and new construction opportunities may be right around the corner. Consider the facts: the Jacksonville industrial vacancy rate now hovers around 8.5 percent, the lowest in the last five years and down from a high of 11.4 percent in 2010. Rental rates, now in the $3.98 per square foot range for the last two quarters, have stabilized from a high of $4.38 per square foot reported in the first quarter of 2010, according to CoStar. Because of a finite supply, with an increase in demand for Class B and Class C space, a rent increase may be in the forecast. Add with the lack of choices for large blocks of Class A space, expect more build-to-suit activity, or speculative construction. In 2014, two speculative industrial projects were announced in Jacksonville. In order to meet a contractual construction deadline within the city of Jacksonville’s master developer agreement, Hillwood Investment Properties launched a 510,000-square-foot cross-dock project at Alliance Florida. Hillwood was chosen as the master developer of Alliance Florida, formerly Cecil Commerce …
NEW YORK CITY — HFF has arranged $40 million in financing for the fee simple interest of 300 Lafayette, a development site located at the corner of Lafayette and Houston streets in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood. The firm worked on behalf of the borrower, LargaVista Cos., to secure the 20-year, fixed-rate loan through a national life insurance company. The development site is an 11,622-square-foot site with 365 feet of frontage along Crosby, Lafayette and Houston streets. A joint venture between LargaVista Cos. and Related Cos. plans to construct a seven-story mixed-use, retail and office building on the property. Mike Tepedino and Michael Gigliotti of HFF negotiated the transaction.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — DLC Management Corp. has acquired The Shoppes at South Hills, a retail power center located in Poughkeepsie. The 518,000-square-foot center was purchased for an undisclosed price. The Shoppes at South Hills is occupied by a variety of tenants, including ShopRite, Burlington Coat Factory, Christmas Tree Shop, Hobby Lobby, Kmart, Ashley Furniture HomeStore, Bob’s Discount Furniture and Chuck E. Cheese. Jose Cruz and Marc Duvall of HFF represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
MOUNT OLIVE TOWNSHIP, N.J. — River Drive Construction has completed the build-out of a 19,400-square-foot space for DSRV Inc. at 330 Waterloo Valley Road in Mount Olive Township. The project involved the conversion of 10,000 square feet of warehouse space into a light manufacturing facility for a diagnostics reagent process. The conversion involved the restructuring and installing various aspects of the space, including walls, extensive plumbing, HVAC and electric. Additionally, 8,000 square feet of space received a basic refresh. DSRV Inc. will now move its Georgia office and manufacturing activities to Mount Olive Township, which will optimize its operations with the new proximity to its parent company, Diagnostica Stago. River Drive Construction served as project manager of the conversion, which took eight months to complete.