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EDWARDSVILLE, ILL. — Holland Construction Services has broken ground on a $34 million apartment community known as Whispering Heights in Edwardsville, located near St. Louis. Fireside Financial is the developer. The community will feature two six-story buildings with a total of 153 luxury units. The development will also include 18,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space. Additional features include a fitness center, business center and rooftop amenity deck with grilling stations, fire pits and a bar area. Completion is slated for fall 2019. Gray Design Group is the project architect. David Garfinkel of NorthMarq Capital arranged a $21.8 million construction loan for the project through Illinois National Bank.

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CHICAGO — Skender is underway with the interior construction of the future 40,000-square-foot headquarters for Vital Proteins, a retailer of health supplement products. The company is assuming full occupancy of the four-story building at 939 W. Fulton St. and relocating 130 employees from its current office at 1201 W. Washington Blvd. The company’s new space will include open office workstation areas as well as private offices and conference rooms, two reception areas and a large café. The interior design will retain the historic building’s high ceilings, exposed brick walls and wood floors. Completion is slated for July 2019. SCB and JLL are project partners.

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SAN RAMON, CALIF. — Sunset Development Co. has opened City Center Bishop Ranch, a shopping, dining, entertainment and community development located in San Ramon’s Bishop Ranch area. Designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop and BAR Architects, the 300,000-square-foot regional shopping center will feature 70 stores and restaurants at full occupancy. THE LOT, a 10-screen cinema and dining destination, and Equinox San Ramon, a whole-body personal fitness, training and yoga center, anchor the property. The second location of The Slanted Door, a Vietnamese-inspired eatery, occupies a freestanding, all-glass structure at the center. Currently open tenants include AlysGrace, Boba Guys, Candle Delirium, Fieldwork Brewing Co., M by Maggie Rizer, NEEKO, On the EDGE, Pottery Barn, Starbucks Coffee, West Elm and Williams-Sonoma. Stores slated to open in the coming months include Anthropologie, Athleta, Equinox San Ramon, Heller Jewelers, KIN THE LABEL and Monokrome. Signed restaurants include C CASA, Curry Up Now, Delarosa, Gio Gelati, Joe & The Juice, Mendocino Farms, MIXT, Ramen Hiroshi, Roam, SOCIAL-AFFAIR, THE LOT and The Slanted Door. Sunset Development Co. owns and operates the property.

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CHICAGO — Cushman & Wakefield has been selected by Hilco Redevelopment Partners to complete lease-up of Exchange 55, which is currently under development. The 1 million-square-foot warehouse is the largest new industrial development available in Chicago, according to Cushman & Wakefield. The planned development is a fully entitled and zoned for industrial use. Hilco plans to break ground immediately, with completion slated for the first quarter of 2020. The development is intended to attract a variety of users from e-commerce and manufacturing to food and cold storage and rail users. The project, located within Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, will feature a clear height of 40 feet, 70-foot speed bays, multiple access points and options for parking expansion.

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DALLAS — Hines has broken ground on The Victor, a 39-story residential tower that will be located within the Victory Park mixed-use development in Dallas. According to culturemap.com, the project carries a price tag of $150 million. The for-rent property will consist of 344 units featuring 10-foot ceilings, private balconies and floor-to-ceiling windows. Amenities will include a resort-style pool, a fitness center, coworking and conference spaces, social lounges with complimentary beverage and coffee bars, a pet spa, bike shop and 9,500 square feet of street-level retail space. Munoz + Albin designed the building, which is slated for a second-quarter 2021 completion. Preleasing will begin in fall 2020.

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COOKEVILLE, TENN. — CBL Properties, along with Browning Development Solutions and CHM LLC, has opened The Shoppes at Eagle Point, a power retail center located on Interstate Drive in Cookeville. Publix, Academy Sports + Outdoor, Ross Dress for Less, PetSmart, Shoe Carnival and Ulta Beauty anchor the 228,000-square-foot shopping center. Additional tenants include Panera Beach and Chipotle Mexican Grille, among other shops and restaurants.

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POOLER, GA. — Knighthead Funding has provided an $8.5 million short-term loan for the completion of a Holiday Inn & Suites in Pooler, approximately 20 miles west of Savannah. The sponsor is a Georgia-based hotel development and management company whose assets include Hilton, Marriott and Holiday Inn flagged properties throughout the state. Upon completion in 2019, the hotel will feature 104 guest rooms, a restaurant and lounge, outdoor pool with sundeck, fitness center, business center and market pantry. The sponsor used its own capital to fund the first half of the development, and due to liquidity constraints, needed a creative source of capital to fund the remaining portion of the development.

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DENVER — Knighthead Funding has originated a $10 million non-recourse loan for the construction of The Condor, a 28-unit townhome development in Denver’s Berkeley neighborhood. First Stone Development is the borrower. Located at 4469 Tennyson St., the three-level townhomes will range in size from 1,100 square feet to 1,800 square feet and will include an attached single-car garage and rooftop deck. This is the second loan Knighthead has funded for the borrower.

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DEARBORN, MICH. — Beaumont Health and Universal Health Services (UHS) have formed a joint venture to develop a new $40 million mental health hospital in Dearborn. The partnership also plans to implement Beaumont graduate medical education programs in psychiatry, psychopharmacology and other clinical training opportunities, and expand intensive day programs and outpatient care. Construction is slated to begin in early 2019 on the 150-bed hospital, which will be located across the street from Beaumont Hospital. The facility is expected to open in early to mid-2021. Inpatient mental health services across Beaumont Health will be consolidated into the one location, which will serve adult, pediatric and geriatric patients. Over time, Beaumont plans to implement a comprehensive telemedicine program that will support its nine emergency rooms and other patient care settings across the system.

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LOS ANGELES — Walker & Dunlop has arranged $153.7 million in construction financing for Rise Koreatown, a seven-story multifamily property located off Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles’ Koreatown submarket. Boca Raton, Fla.-based Rescore Property Corp. is developing the property along with Los Angeles-based Cal-Coast. Rise Koreatown will feature 364 studio and one-bedroom apartments, averaging 649 square feet, catering to the young professional demographic. The property will also feature 52,000 square feet of ground-floor retail anchored by Zion Market, a Korean grocery chain. Kevin O’Grady and Eric McGlynn of Walker & Dunlop’s Capital Markets group structured both senior and mezzanine financing for the project.

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