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MESA, ARIZ. — Lincoln Property Co. (LPC) and Harvard Investments has broken ground for the first office building at Union, a four-building, 1.3 million-square-foot office project at the junction of Mesa, Tempe and Scottsdale. Union’s first building will total 238,348 square feet spread across four stories, as well as an adjacent four-level parking garage. All the buildings planned at Union will feature a modern glass exterior, an active first floor, large office floorplates with high ceilings, outdoor balconies and 10-foot vision glass offering views of the surrounding city and mountains. Building One will connect to the larger Union master plans via a main pedestrian plaza and indoor-outdoor features such as shaded gathering areas and outdoor linked by the Rio Salado Pathway. Situated on 28.2 acres, the buildings will range from four to eight stories and from 232,000 square feet to 450,000 square feet. Completion of the first building is slated for October 2020. DAVIS is serving as project architect and Wespac is serving as general contractor. LPC will serve as the project’s leasing agent and property manager.

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NEW YORK CITY — A joint venture between Tribeca Investment Group and funds managed by PGIM Real Estate and Meadow Partners will undertake a full repositioning of 295 Fifth Avenue, a 700,000-square-foot property in Manhattan also known as The Textile Building, in a project valued at $300 million. The new ownership signed a 99-year ground lease at the former textile building and plans to convert it into a Class A office tower. Features of the new property will include 40,000-square-foot flexible floor plates and ceiling heights up to 16 feet, as well as a new lobby, new retail storefronts and amenity spaces. Tenant spaces will be redeveloped into loft offices. Darcy Stacom, Bill Shanahan and Doug Middleton of CBRE represented the family ownership on the ground lease. Studios Architecture will be involved in the design and construction of the project.

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SAN ANTONIO — Locally based developer Koontz Corp. has completed Foster Ridge Distribution Center, a 327,000-square-foot industrial project in northeast San Antonio. The property is situated on 21 acres near a distribution center leased to Dollar General and the 871-acre site that will eventually house H-E-B’s distribution facilities. Foster Ridge Distribution Center is a cross-dock building that features 32-foot clear heights, 75 dock-high overhead doors, 130-foot truck courts and an ESFR sprinkler system. Houston-based Powers Brown served as the architect for the project, and San Antonio-based R.C. Page was the general contractor.

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MANHATTAN, KAN., ST. PETERS, MO. AND OMAHA — Knoebel Construction has completed new veterinary hospitals within existing Petco locations in Manhattan, Kan., St. Peters, Mo. and Omaha. Each 1,500 to 2,000-square-foot veterinary clinic features a reception area, four examination rooms, an x-ray room, surgery room and waiting room. SBLM and GPD Group served as the architects. Knoebel has also been selected to add veterinary hospitals within three additional Petco stores in the Las Vegas area.

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WAUKEGAN, ILL. — Bridge Development Partners LLC has begun development of the third and final phase of its Bridge Point North campus in Waukegan. Phase III will consist of four new buildings totaling 918,972 square feet. The buildings will range in size from 100,314 to 500,800 square feet. Clear heights will range from 32 to 36 feet. Phase III buildings are slated for completion in summer and fall 2020. Whit Heitman, Sam Badger and Jared Paff of CBRE are the leasing agents for the project. Premier Design + Build Group is the general contractor. The project team also includes architect Cornerstone Architects Ltd., structural engineer LJB Inc. and civil engineer Manhard Consulting Ltd. CIBC Bank and Simmons Bank provided project financing. Bridge Point North is a 225-acre campus that Bridge has been developing since 2015. Tenants include Amazon, Medline, Thermoflex and Bolke-Miller Corp.

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SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Liv Communities and Ryan Cos. US Inc. have started construction of LivGenerations Mayo Blvd., a luxury senior living community approximately 1.5 miles from the Mayo Clinic hospital campus in Scottsdale. Upon completion, the 285,212-square-foot seniors housing property will offer 181 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. Todd & Associates is the architect of record and interiors were designed by Thoma-Holec Design. Ryan Cos. is leading construction, with a planned completion of third-quarter 2021. Liv Communities will be the community’s operator. Ryan Companies and Liv Communities celebrated the grand opening of LivGenerations Pinnacle Peak in March 2019, which is now 80 percent occupied. That project is also located in Scottsdale.

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IRVINE, CALIF. — A public-private partnership between American Campus Communities (ACC) and the University of California – Irvine has opened Plaza Verde, a 1,441-bed, on-campus residential tower. The community offers fully furnished units and shared amenities including state-of-the-art fitness centers, multi-purpose rooms, outdoor pavilions, an academic success center and group and private study spaces. The community is seeking LEED Platinum status, and features an all-electric system that eliminates the need for natural gas. “In addition to being a healthy and dynamic student community, Plaza Verde is the greenest large-scale student community that has been developed,” says Bill Bayless, CEO of ACC. “We have gone to extensive lengths to ensure sustainability and student-focused design are at the forefront, from initially designing and testing systems for an efficient and comfortable community, then arranging a sizable offset for energy that will actually be achieved.”

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CHICAGO — Lathrop Community Partners, a development partnership between Related Midwest, Heartland Housing and Bickerdike Redevelopment Corp., has revitalized the Julia C. Lathrop Homes public housing project in Chicago. Originally built in 1938 as part of the nation’s New Deal public housing effort, the project now consists of a mixed-income residential property. The rehabilitated North Campus includes the original administration building and updated apartment buildings along the re-activated riverfront. The 35-acre project features 16 buildings. Design firm HED served as the executive architect for Phase I of the redevelopment, which is now open. The firm helped with modernizing historic structures, addressing accessibility challenges and coordinating new technology and HVAC systems. When all phases are complete, Lathrop will comprise a total of 1,116 residences, with 494 units leased at market rates, 222 offered to working families that meet affordable housing guidelines and 400 reserved for Chicago Housing Authority households. The flagship amenity at Lathrop is the five-acre riverfront park, reimagined by landscape architectural firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates. The project team also included Farr & Associates, JGMA, McGuire Igleski & Associates and Terra.

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MCKINNEY, TEXAS — Locally based developer KDC has topped out the new 100,000-square-foot office headquarters building in McKinney for SRS Distribution Inc., a provider of building products and supplies. The four-story, Class A property is located on the corner of the Sam Rayburn Tollway and Alma Road on the northern outskirts of Dallas. The new headquarters features an array of indoor and outdoor amenities, as well as conference and meeting space. Completion is scheduled for spring 2020. Gensler is serving as the design architect, and Adolfson & Peterson is the general contractor. SRS plans to add about 150 new jobs to the local economy over the next decade.

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UPPER ST. CLAIR, PA. — Lifespace Communities has completed a $39.5 million expansion project at Friendship Village of South Hills in Upper St. Clair, located approximately 12 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. The project, construction of which began in summer 2017, added a new building with 50 assisted living apartments, 32 memory care suites and various amenities and wellness services. Perkins Eastman Architects designed the expansion, and LECESSE Construction served as the general contractor.

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