CHARLESTON, S.C. — Bridgeview Properties has acquired an office portfolio of three properties at 4275 Bridgeview Drive, 4355 Bridgeview Drive and 4340 Corporate Road in Charleston, for $8 million. Built in the late 1980s, the properties total more than 112,000 square feet. Two tenants, Serco and NCO, occupy 60 percent of the space. The buyer plans to completely gut and upgrade the interior of 4340 Corporate Road. R. Milton Thomas of Lee & Associates represented the buyer and seller, the Estate of Morton Needle, in the transaction.
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JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $8.4 million sale of Oakwood Villas, a 200-unit apartment property in Jacksonville. The property, located at 8201 Kona Ave., consists of 50, four-unit buildings. Kevin Morris of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company, in the transaction.
SALEM, N.C. — COLE Capital has acquired a 21,018-square-foot grocery store in Salem, which will be occupied by The Fresh Market, for $4.6 million. The property is part of the Mount Tabor Place Development near Wake Forest University. Sean Patrick and Jason Powell of Ackerman & Co. represented the seller, Mount Tabor Place II LLC, in the transaction.
CLEVELAND, OHIO — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has arranged $46 million in financing for Steelyard Commons, a retail shopping center located at 3447 Steelyard Drive in Cleveland. John Hofmann, Michael Keach and Katie Allinder of KeyBank’s Income Property Group worked with Steelyard Commons LLC to negotiate a $40 million first mortgage through Barclays. The group also secured a $6 million mezzanine loan through Investcorp, which paid off an existing KeyBank loan. Steelyard Commons sits at the intersection of I-71 and Jennings Freeway, along the western edge of Cleveland’s industrial valley. The shopping center, which opened in January 2007, includes a combination of retail stores, restaurants and recreation facilities.
CHICAGO — Hotel Indigo, InterContinental Hotels Group’s upscale boutique brand, has plans for a third hotel in the Chicago market. The hotel, which will be located in the historic downtown area’s Atlantic Bank Building, is expected to open in spring 2014. The Hotel Indigo Chicago-Millenium Park hotel, located at 168 N. Michigan Ave. in Chicago, will undergo an estimated $20 million renovation by the ownership. The hotel will occupy a 101-year-old building that first opened in 1912 as the Federal Life Building. The 156-room hotel will feature design elements that reflect its local neighborhood just north of Millennium Park within Chicago’s central business district.
LADUE, MO. — The Women’s Exchange, a nonprofit organization, has signed a 10-year, 6,000-square-foot lease at Colonial Marketplace in Ladue, a western suburb of St. Louis. The organization is moving from a 4,000-square-foot location, located at 9214 Clayton Road, into the new space June 2013, when Colonial Marketplace opens. Jeff Altvater of Hilliker Corp. represented The Women’s Exchange, which will spend $500,000 to build out its space, in the transaction. The Women’s Exchange is a marketplace for women to earn a livelihood through the sale of their handmade goods. The DESCO Group and Idea Architects will renovate the store.
ST. LOUIS — McGrath & Associates has completed the renovation of an existing radiology room at Saint Louis University Hospital in St. Louis into an advanced radiology suite featuring a Siemens Artis Zeego angiography system. As part of the renovation, McGrath added structural steel support beams under the existing first-floor slab to provide support for the Zeego robotic arm equipment. The project also required sheet lead radiation shielding. The room finishes included seamless vinyl flooring with a FlashCove base and sheet wall protection. BSA Lifestructures Inc. was the architect. The project price was undisclosed.
NEWTON, MASS. — Bierbrier Development has received approval from Newton officials for Needham Street Village Shops, a 19,000-square-foot, small-shop development at located at 55 Needham St. The project is set to begin construction this summer and will be ready for tenant occupancy in late 2013, with a grand opening slated for March 2014. The Needham Street Village Shops site is a 1.5-acre assemblage of two properties previously occupied by International Bicycle and Skipjack’s Restaurant. Worcester, Mass.-based Commerce Bank provided construction and acquisition financing, which was arranged by Kyle Juszczyszyn and Carlos Febres of CBRE New England.
NEW YORK CITY — HFF has closed the sale of 166 W. 75th Street, a 207-unit multifamily property with 3,425 square feet of ground-floor retail on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. HFF marketed the property exclusively on behalf of the seller. The 16-story building is located near the intersection of Amsterdam Avenue and 75th Street close to Central Park, Riverside Park, Lincoln Center and the 72nd Street Subway Station. Simon Development Group purchased the asset and intends to renovate the property. Jeff Julien, KC Patel, Andrew Scandalios, Jose Cruz and Kevin O’Hearn led the HFF team representing the seller. The sales price was undisclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of 524 Lorimer Street, a six-unit mixed-use building located in Brooklyn, for $1.7 million. Shaun Riney and Michael Salvatico of Marcus & Millichap’s Brooklyn office represented the seller, a private investor and the buyer, a fund manager, in the transaction.