CONCORD, N.C. — Trinity Capital Advisors plans to develop a 277,253-square-foot industrial property located at 215 International Drive in Concord. The design team includes architect Merriman Schmitt Architects and general contractor Myers & Chapman. Construction will begin this month and wrap up in December. Terry Brennan of Trinity Partners is handling the marketing and leasing of the Class A, speculative industrial property.
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ARLINGTON, VA. — Simon Property Group Inc. plans to update The Fashion Centre at Pentagon City, a 170-store mall in Arlington, with a multi-phase renovation and expansion project. Phase I will include a 50,000-square-foot expansion along Hayes Street, which will include a new entrance, office lobby, valet parking area and two levels of new shops and restaurants with outdoor seating. Other improvements include new elevators and escalators, complete renovation of the property’s common areas and new bathrooms. The design team includes architect Omniplan Architects and general contractor VCC. Simon expects to wrap up the expansion and renovation project in 2015. The Fashion Centre at Pentagon City was built in 1989 and is anchored by Nordstrom and Macy’s.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Hill Partners and an unnamed institutional partner have acquired Specialty Shops on the Park, an open-air shopping center in Charlotte’s SouthPark submarket. The property, originally built in 1979, is located across from SouthPark Mall and is surrounded by affluent neighborhoods such as Myers Park, Barclay Downs, Quail Hollow and Foxcroft. The shopping center’s tenants include Talbots, Williams-Sonoma, Brick Top’s, Elizabeth Bruns Jewelers and Toscana Ristorante.
CORAL SPRINGS, FLA. — Inland Real Estate Income Trust Inc. has purchased the North Hills Square Shopping Center, a 63,829-square-foot property located in Coral Springs, about 15 miles southwest of Boca Raton, Fla. Inland purchased the asset for approximately $11.1 million. Walmart Neighborhood Market anchors the center, which was 98 percent leased at the time of the sale to tenants such as Wendy’s and Manhattan Bagel. Matthew Tice of Inland Real Estate Acquisitions Inc. and Lou Quilici of IREIT Business Manager & Advisor Inc. facilitated the purchase of the property.
CHICAGO — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $3.9 million sale of a 10-unit apartment property in Chicago. The property is located at 650 W. Wellington Ave. in Lakeview. The recently renovated units range from one to four bedrooms. Kyle Stengle of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, Jab Real Estate. Stengle also represented the buyer, a limited liability company.
PLYMOUTH, MINN. — Oak Grove Capital has originated a $32.8 million FHA loan for a townhome community in Plymouth. The loan was for Bass Lake Hills Townhomes. The 284-unit, market-rate complex is located at 5875 Teakwood Lane N. Gary Marchiori of Oak Grove Capital facilitated the FHA 223(f) multifamily loan.
CHICAGO — MB Real Estate has brokered the sale of two floors of office space spanning 20,315 square feet at the 55 W. Wacker building in Chicago. The 15-story, 209,000-square-foot tower is located at 55 W. Upper Wacker Drive. The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago (TECO-Chicago) will occupy space on the 12th and 13th floors of the building. The TECO-Chicago office serves Taiwanese citizens in the Midwest as well as the interests of the Republic of China (Taiwan). TECO-Chicago will relocate from its current offices in Chicago this spring.The Class B building was built in 1968. The property is leased and managed by MB Real Estate. Kevin Purcell, Mark Buth and Walter Hennig of MB Real Estate represented building ownership in the transaction. Lisa Davidson and James Stein of Studley Inc. represented TECO-Chicago.
NEW YORK CITY — White & Case LLP, a global law firm with operations in 26 countries, plans to relocate but will remain on Sixth Avenue. The firm has signed a 440,000-square-foot long-term lease at 1221 Avenue of the Americas, which is owned by The Rockefeller Group. The leased space includes the top floors in the building, as well as below-grade space. The firm will move to the 2.5 million-square-foot property in 2017. The tenant was represented by Ken Siegel, Tom Doughty and Lisa Kiell of Jones Lang LaSalle. The Rockefeller Group was represented by an in-house team led by Ed Guiltinan, along with a Cushman & Wakefield brokerage team led by John Cefaly. The lease brings total new leasing activity at 1221 Avenue of the Americas to more than 700,000 square feet over the past 18 months.
NEW YORK CITY — Stephen Palmese of Massey Knakal has arranged the sale of the Brooklyn Law School Portfolio, which consists of six multifamily properties located in the historic Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of New York City. The all-cash transaction was valued at $36.46 million. The six properties — located at 89 Hicks Street, 18 Sidney Place, 144 Willow Street, 100 Pierrepont Street, 27 Monroe Place, and 38 Monroe Place — feature a combined 110 residential apartments and approximately 56,342 gross square feet. The sale price equates to approximately $647 per square foot. The properties have been owner/occupied by Brooklyn Law School, and they were 90 percent vacant at the time of sale.
NEW YORK CITY — Jim Coleman of Houlihan-Parnes Realtors LLC recently arranged acquisition financing of $1.5 million for the purchase of 2075 Haviland Avenue in the Tremont section of the Bronx. The property is a five-story walk-up apartment building containing 27 apartments and 4 stores. The property was purchased to reposition the asset based on existing vacancy. The loan has a flexible nine-year term. The loan was made by a local New York commercial bank. Anthony Simari of Smith, Buss & Jacobs represented the borrower.