CHICAGO — Cawley Commercial Real Estate (CRE) has brokered the sale of a 168,000-square-foot industrial building located at 4343 W. Ohio St. in Chicago. The sales price was undisclosed. The property is situated on 7.8 acres within the Northwest Industrial Park and features overhead cranes, an active interior rail spur, zoning allowances for outdoor storage and access to heavy power. Frank Melchert and Stevan Arandjelovic of Cawley CRE represented the seller, Plant One LLC. Adam Schneiderman and Dale Strauss of Strauss Realty represented the buyer.
INDIANAPOLIS, SOUTH BEND AND BLOOMINGTON, IND. — International Workplace Group (IWG), a hybrid workspace platform with brands such as Spaces, Regus and HQ, has added three new coworking spaces in Indiana. The company’s footprint now totals more than 20 locations in the state. The new locations are at 863 Massachusetts Ave. in Indianapolis, 701 N. Niles Ave. in South Bend and 3802 E. 3rd St. in Bloomington. The Bloomington facility is now open, while the others will debut later this year. All will include private offices, meeting rooms, coworking and creative spaces. Citing explosive market growth as companies of all sizes adopt hybrid working for the long term, IWG says that 30 percent of all commercial real estate will be flexible workspace by 2030.
COLUMBUS, OHIO — Mastro’s Steakhouse, a high-end seafood and steak restaurant, has opened a 9,000-square-foot location at Easton Town Center in Columbus. The restaurant marks the first location in the Midwest for Mastro’s, which operates 22 locations across the country. The Columbus restaurant features two main dining rooms, one private dining room, two outdoor patio spaces, a grand double-faced bar, piano lounge and semi-private wine room. Easton Town Center is home to other upscale restaurants such as Del Mar, Mitchell’s Ocean Club and Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant.
PORTER, TEXAS — Baseball and softball training operator D-BAT will open a 15,000-square-foot facility at the Valley Ranch, Signorelli Co.’s master-planned development located northeast of Houston. The facility, which will be constructed on a 1.3-acre site that D-Bat purchased, will offer lessons, camps, workshops, event space, batting cage rentals, a fully stocked pro shop and monthly memberships. The facility will be D-Bat’s 10th in the Houston area and is scheduled to open this summer.
NEW JERSEY — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the $94 million sale of a 519-unit collection of multifamily properties in Northern New Jersey that is known as the Tag Portfolio. The number of properties was not disclosed. The Tag Portfolio, which was 97 percent occupied at the time of sale, features properties that were built between 1920 and 1980 and are located in East Rutherford, Cliffside Park, Palisades Park, Lyndhurst, Garfield, Jersey City and Kearny. The majority (96 percent) of the units are one- or two-bedroom residences and have value-add potential. Niko Nicolaou, Ryan Dowd, Michael Guerra, J.P. Hohl and Alexandria Ebers of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Tag Investment Properties, in the transaction and procured the buyers. Tuli Realty purchased the properties located in East Rutherford, Cliffside Park, Palisades Park, Lyndhurst, Garfield and Jersey City, while Sher Management acquired the Kearny property. Brad Domenico and Frank Stanislaski of Cushman & Wakefield arranged acquisition financing for the deal.
NEWARK, N.J. — Miami-based lender BridgeInvest has provided $60 million in financing for Cosmo 440, a 216-unit multifamily redevelopment project in Newark that is nearing completion. Cosmo 440 was originally built in 1969 as Carmel Towers and is located adjacent to Weequahic Park. The redevelopment encompassed new infrastructure and elevators, as well as redesigned floor plans and upgraded common areas. The building now features 48 one-bedroom apartments, 120 two-bedroom units and 48 three-bedroom residences, and amenities include a fitness center, resident lounge, coworking space and an onsite bar. The borrower is YB Properties. Delivery is slated for the end of the month.
CARTERET, N.J. — YunExpress has signed a 146,000-square-foot industrial lease in the Northern New Jersey community of Carteret. The Chinese logistics company will be the third tenant at Crow Holdings at Carteret, a 1.2 million-square-foot development that is also home to Denmark-based DSV Global Transport & Logistics (355,000 square feet) and Hong Kong-based Weida Freight (188,000 square feet). Christopher Marx, Chris O’Connor, Steve Card, Chris Marx Jr., Taylor DeRisi and Peter Starr of Savills represented YunExpress in the lease negotiations. Jules Nissim, Stan Danzig and Kimberly Bach of Cushman & Wakefield represented Crow Holdings.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — New York City-based investment firm Time Equities Inc. has purchased The Shoppes at Westgate, a 62,049-square-foot shopping center in Rochester. The sales price was $6.1 million. Built in 1958 and renovated in 1986, the center was 91 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Ross Dress for Less, Bath & Body Works and Citizens Bank. Ami Ziff, Jonathan Kim, Grant Scott and Eli Smith represented Time Equities in the transaction on an internal basis. Ben Snyder and Zack Bates of Matthews Real Estate Investment Services represented the undisclosed seller.
NEW YORK CITY — JLL has negotiated a 15,397-square-foot office lease expansion in Midtown Manhattan. The tenant, commercial lender Webster Bank, also extended its lease and now occupies about 46,000 square feet across three full floors at 360 Lexington Avenue, a 268,000-square-foot building. Jeff Szczapa and Drew Saunders of JLL represented Webster Bank in the lease negotiations. Mitchell Konsker, Ben Bass, Barbara Winter and Thomas Swartz, also with JLL, represented the landlord, AmTrust RE.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — New York City-based developer Tishman Speyer has received a $331 million construction loan from global investment group CDPQ for a 40-story multifamily tower in Jersey City. With financing in place, Tishman Speyer plans to begin construction in the coming weeks and deliver the building in 2028. The project is the sister building of 55 Hudson Street, a 58-story, 1,017-unit apartment building that is under construction and slated for an early 2027 completion. The riverfront site at 50 Hudson St. is located in the Paulus Hook neighborhood, less than a block from the Paulus Hook Pier, which offers ferry service to various New York City metro locations. Plans for 50 Hudson Street call for 924 units in studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans, as well as 10,000 square feet of street-level retail space. The two buildings will share roughly 75,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor amenity space, and the development as a whole will feature more than 60,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and entertainment space. In addition, the development will have a 32,000-square-foot waterfront plaza that will connect to Jersey City’s esplanade and will be available for community events. The design team for the project …