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GLEN ELLYN, ILL. — The Opus Group has started construction on a new 31,175-square-foot retail center in Glen Ellyn, located about 25 miles west of Chicago. The Fresh Market plans to occupy 20,300 square feet of space. The project will transform a vacated car dealership into a new grocery-anchored center serving the Glen Ellyn and North Wheaton communities. The center will include patio seating and 186 customer parking spaces. Other tenants include Great Clips and Tide Dry Cleaners, occupying 1,075 and 2,800 square feet, respectively. Opus Development Company LLC is the developer and Opus Design Build LLC will serve as the general contractor for the project. OKW Architects provided design services. The project is slated for completion later this year, with The Fresh Market expected to open in late 2013 or early 2014.

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CHICAGO — Finesa Real Estate Group has acquired a 41,148-square-foot retail property in Chicago. The retail grocery space is located at 6020 North Cicero Ave. and is leased to Whole Foods under a 15-year agreement. The ground-floor retail space is part of a multi-story, 136-unit condominium building, which includes a 167-space parking garage. Almost 300,000 people live within a three-mile radius of the property and the average household income within a one-mile radius is more than $122,000. The purchase price was undisclosed.

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WEYMOUTH, MASS. — John M. Corcoran and Co. will break ground later this month on the $18.2 million second phase of The Commons at Southfield Highlands, a 226-unit multifamily development in Weymouth, a southern suburb of Boston. The second phase, which is slated for completion by summer 2014, will add 72 new apartments to the 1,400-acre community. The apartments feature wood flooring, granite countertops, a roof deck, smoke-free living and a WiFi café with outdoor patio.

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SECAUCUS, N.J. — Gaia Real Estate Investments has acquired 200 Plaza Drive, a fully-leased, recently renovated office building in Secaucus. Jeffrey Dunne, Kevin Welsh and Brian Schulz of CRBE’s New York Institutional Group represented the buyer, Gaia, and the seller, Hartz Mountain Industries Inc. The 249,863-square-foot building is fully leased to Ernst & Young. 200 Plaza Drive is a LEED-certified building and was redeveloped in 2008 with new base building systems, lobby, and façade renovation.

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WAKEFIELD, MASS .— CTA Construction has completed the new $7 million Municipal Gas and Light Department building at 480 N. Ave. in Wakefield. CTA Construction worked with the Town of Wakefield and HKA Associates to provide demolition of the existing 15,000-square-foot building and construction of a new 30,000-square-foot facility. The new building provides department employees with spacious offices, open administrative areas, a large conference room, training room, large reception area, and kitchen and dining facilities.

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QUINCY, MASS. — Jones Lang LaSalle has arranged the sale of 150 Newport Ave. in Quincy, 121,329-square-foot Class A office building, for $14 million. The four-story building is next to Granite’s 100 Newport Ave. building. Vice Presidents Tom Kent and Sean Lynch of Jones Lang LaSalle represented the buyer, Foxrock Granite LLC, while Normandy Real Estate Partners Principal Justin Krebs represented the seller, Normandy Newport Holdings LLC. Normandy Real Estate Partners currently manages a series of discretionary real estate funds totaling approximately $1.5 billion of equity commitments.

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HOUSTON — Ziegler Cooper Architects has completed a $7.5 million redevelopment project for a 273,000-square-foot, Class A office, located at 515 Post Oak in Houston. Columbia Property Trust owns the property. When Columbia acquired 515 Post Oak in 2004, the building was leased by a single tenant under a lease that expired in 2011. The redevelopment of the property includes an increase in rentable area by 12,000 square feet, a new major building entrance and vehicular drop-off, garage pedestrian entry, atrium skylights and upgraded finishes and strategies preparing the building to achieve the LEED Existing Building certification.

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DALLAS — Lane Kommer of Henry S. Miller Brokerage has arranged the sale of two apartment complexes in the Oaklawn area of Dallas: The Versailles Apartments located at 4625 Cedar Springs Road and the Marrakesh Apartments located at 2930 Kings Road. The communities have a combined 66,838 square feet of rentable space and a total of 77 units. Current occupancy is around 95 percent.

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WESLACO, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services has sold three Burger King restaurants in Texas. These net-leased properties include two Weslaco restaurants totaling 7,775 square feet and a 4,330-square-foot restaurant in San Benito. Philip Levy of Marcus & Millichap’s Fort Worth office represented the sellers, all private investors, as well as the buyer, Coastal King Ltd., in the transactions. All three properties have zero landlord responsibilities and a franchise guarantee from Hart Enterprises.

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SAN ANTONIO — Stream Realty Partners has brokered two industrial leases totaling more than 21,000 square feet in Interwest Business Park, an industrial campus located at 6800 Alamo Downs Parkway in northwest San Antonio. Jason Schnittger of Stream Realty represented the landlord, DRA Advisors Inc., in both transactions. RecoverCare, represented by Briane Ritchie of Pointline Inc., signed a new lease for 11,620 square feet, and Family Endeavors renewed an existing lease at the property for 9,800 square feet. Stream Realty was awarded leasing and management of the business park by DRA Advisors in June 2012.

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