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CHICAGO — A joint venture between Atlas Real Estate Partners, Marc Real Residential and Angelo, Gordon and Co. has acquired 2 E. 8th St., a 330-unit student housing property in Chicago, for $58.5 million. Located in Chicago's South Loop, the 28-story high-rise building is close to Columbia College, Roosevelt University and more than 20 other schools. The property includes 882 beds, 20,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and a four-story parking garage. At the time of sale, the property was 96 percent leased. Chris Bancroft and Chris Epp of ARA Student Housing Group and Susan Lawson and Todd Stofflet of ARA Chicago represented the seller, Philadelphia-based Equus Capital Partners Ltd., formerly BPG Properties Ltd., in the transaction.