LAGRANGE PARK, ILL. — Peak Construction Corp. has completed the renovation of a manufacturing warehouse for Deslauriers Inc. in LaGrange Park, a suburb of Chicago. Deslauriers, which manufactures and distributes concrete forming and testing accessories, purchased the facility in 2007. Due to an increase in production and storage, the company is expanding its warehouse to meet new production goals. Peak served as the design builder of the 26,388-square-foot addition.
Property Type
WIXOM, MICH. — Gerdom Realty & Investment has arranged the sale of a 4,000-square-foot office building in Wixom, approximately 35 miles west of Detroit. Trademark Properties of Michigan purchased the building, located in the Crossroads Business Center on Beck Road, for an undisclosed price. Trademark Properties specializes in investing, rehabilitating and developing a variety of distressed real estate properties. Tjader Gerdom of Novi, Mich.-based Gerdom Realty & Investment represented the buyer.
MONTVILLE, N.J. — Vision Real Estate Partners (VREP) has acquired Montville Corporate Campus located at 340-342 Changebridge Road in Montville from Bayer Pharmaceuticals. Situated on 27 acres within a gated site, the campus currently comprises two three-story travertine marble office buildings. VREP plans to rebrand the property and invest nearly $15 million to reposition the buildings for single- or multi-tenant occupancy. The firm also plans to redevelop the campus into a mixed-use live/work/play environment. The acquisition ties to VREP’s role as developer of Bayer Healthcare’s new 94-acre, 675,000-square-foot East Coast Headquarters in Whippany, N.J. As part of VREP’s sale of that site to Bayer in 2012, the firm retained the option to purchase Montville Corporate Campus. Jones Lang LaSalle’s Capital Markets Group negotiated the multimillion-dollar off-market transaction.
MALVERN, PA. — Gramercy Property Trust has purchased an R&D/flex facility located in Malvern for $28.4 million in an all-cash transaction. The 191,000-square-foot facility is 100 percent leased through March 2030 to a leading healthcare diagnostics company. Year one net operating income is approximately $2.1 million (7.5 percent initial cap rate; 8.7 percent annualized straight-line cap rate) with annual rent escalations throughout the lease term.
WORCESTER, MASS. — Skanska USA has signed a contract to build a maintenance and operations facility for Worcester Regional Transit Authority. The 150,695-square-foot building will include administrative offices, a public meeting space, operations dispatching, bus storage, maintenance shops and additional parking. Construction has begun on the $60 million project and substantial completion is expected in first quarter 2016.
NEW YORK CITY — GFI Realty Services has brokered the sale of 375 Edgecombe Avenue, a five-story walk-up apartment building in Manhattan’s Sugar Hill neighborhood. A local investor purchased the property for $2.34 million or $146,000 per unit, which translates to 10 times rent roll. Built in 1946, the 12,905-square-foot building features 16 units and is within walking distance to retail, restaurants and the 145th Street and 155th Street subway stations. Daniel Shragaei of GFI represented the seller, a local investor, and Gavin Bolsom, also of GFI, represented the buyer in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — TerraCRG has arranged the sale of 65 Irving Avenue in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood. The property sold for $2.55 million, which equals $432 per square foot or $425,000 per unit. Located between Starr and Troutman streets, the 5,906-square-foot four-story building features five free-market residential apartments — four three-bedroom units and one studio unit —and 1,500 square feet of renovated ground-floor commercial space. Matthew Cosentino, Eric Satanovsky and Robert McDonald of TerraCRG represented the seller.
DALLAS AND SAN ANTONIO — Presidium Group LLC has purchased two multifamily properties in Texas, adding to its portfolio of more than 9,000 apartment units. The Dallas-based company has purchased Quarters, a 208-unit apartment complex located at 6415 Melody Lane in Dallas. Presidium will renovate Quarters with interior renovations that include new unit fixtures, plumbing, lighting fixtures and appliances, as well as a new paint scheme. Exterior improvements will consist of aesthetic improvements to amenity areas, the leasing center, property and building signage, and new siding and paint. Presidium has also purchased Sentinel Pointe, a 91-unit complex in San Antonio, located at 1235 E. Mulberry Ave. Its value-add renovations will include new unit fixtures, plumbing, lighting fixtures and appliances, as well as a new paint scheme. Exterior upgrades will improve the building exteriors, amenities and common areas, including the leasing center.
DENTON, TEXAS — Frontera Hotel Group has added two hotels in Denton to its portfolio of managed properties, an 88-room, four-story LaQuinta Inn & Suites and a 92-room, four-story Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites. Angel Hospitality Inc. of Frisco, Texas, acquired the hotels on July 1. Both properties recently underwent extensive renovations. Dallas-based Frontera now manages 12 hotels in Texas, Georgia, Wisconsin and California, and has ownership in two of the properties.
KATY, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Parks Plaza at Westheimer Lakes North, a 32,680-square-foot retail property located at 6734 Westheimer Lakes North Drive in Katy. The asset sold for $8 million. Watt Harrison, an associate, and James Bell, vice president of investments in Marcus & Millichap’s Houston office, represented the seller and procured the buyers.