ST. PETERS, MO. — Developer GBT Realty Corp. is nearing completion of The Shoppes at Mid Rivers, a 270,000-square-foot shopping center in St. Peters, a suburb of St. Louis. The project is the largest retail development in the St. Louis metro area in nearly a decade, according to GBT. Burlington, Marshalls, HomeGoods and Aspen Dental are set to open at the property in September. Academy Sports + Outdoors and Famous Footwear will open in October. Ross, OshKosh B’gosh, Five Below and Nail Lounge will open in the first quarter of 2018. Approximately 30,000 square feet of space remain available for lease. Knoebel Construction Inc. served as general contractor.
MESA, ARIZ. — The Opus Group has announced plans to build a 147,672-square-foot speculative industrial project inside the Longbow Business Park and Golf Club in Mesa. The project will be called Longbow Gateway One. Construction is scheduled to begin this month, with an estimated completion date of January 2018. The project will be situated near the southeast corner of Higley Road and Longbow Parkway, near the 2 million-square-foot Boeing Co. manufacturing facility. Opus Design Build will construct the property, which designed by Opus AE Group will design. CBRE’s John Werstler and Cooper Fratt will lease the space.
HENDERSON, NEV. — Panattoni Development has completed a 482,300-square-foot industrial building at South 15 Airport Center in the Las Vegas submarket of Henderson. The building is situated on a 28-acre parcel on Executive Airport Drive. The $24 million project has a clear height of 36 feet. The project is the only large industrial development located in the south end of the valley, according to Panattoni. PDC USIF South 15 LLC, a joint venture between Panattoni Development and Hillwood, owns the property. Alston Construction built the asset, which Tectonics Design Group designed.
BOSTON — Lena New Boston, a partnership between New Boston Fund and Lena Park Community Development Corp., is continuing its $200 million redevelopment of the former Boston State Hospital site with 41 additional two- and three-bedroom units of mixed-income townhomes at Olmstead Green, the first workforce housing/homeowners project in Boston funded by MassHousing’s Opportunity Fund, the Department of Neighborhood Development and the Neighborhood Housing Trust. The project’s overall master plan calls for 514 mixed-income rental and homeownership units. To date, Lena New Boston has completed 210 units of affordable housing and 19 units of homeownership townhouse at Olmstead Green. The first units in the latest phase will be delivered next month with the remaining units delivered in phases through April 2018. Eleven of the units will be priced at $210,000 for first-time homebuyers making at or below 80 percent of the area median income (AMI) and 11 of the units will be priced at $267,500 for first-time homebuyers making at or below 100 percent of AMI. The remaining 19 units will be sold at market rate, ranging between $320,000 to $360,000. Financing for the current phase, including an $8.3 million loan from a bank consortium of Eastern Bank and Boston Private …
MONTGOMERY, N.Y. — Meridian Design Build has completed the construction of a package sortation and distribution center located at 201 Neelytown Road in Montgomery for developer SunCap Property Group. Situated on 44.1 acres, the 248,370-square-foot facility was built for a leading provider of global shipping and information services. The facility features 63 loading docks, seven drive-in doors, 184 interior van loading positions, 451 auto parking stalls and 190 exterior trailer stalls. Cornerstone Architects provided architectural services, while Langan provided civil engineering work for the property.
SAVANNAH, GA. — Safavieh, a New-York based manufacturer and distributor of international home furnishings, will invest $60 million to develop a 1.1 million-square-foot fulfillment center at the Savannah River International Trade Park in Savannah. Bob Robers of Cushman & Wakefield represented Safavieh in the acquisition and development of the site, and Bradley Migdal and Carol Henderson of Cushman & Wakefield secured financing for the project. Safavieh currently operates more than 500,000 square feet of warehouse space in Savannah. The new facility will triple the company’s presence in the area and is expected to create 200 jobs upon completion in late 2018.
MCKINNEY, TEXAS — Hunt Southwest will develop a 400,000-square-foot industrial facility in McKinney. The property, which will be built entirely on a speculative basis, will be located near U.S. Highway 380 and be branded University Business Park, according to The Dallas Morning News. A timetable for construction has not yet been established.
BOSTON — Colliers International has arranged the sale of a residential redevelopment property located at 27-29 Isabella St. in Boston’s Bay Village neighborhood. Marist Fathers sold the property New Boston Ventures for $11.4 million. The buyer plans to redevelop the property into nine high-end residential condominiums. Chris Sower, Scott Dragos and Tom Hynes of Colliers represented the seller, while Harry Collings of New Boston Ventures provided in-house representation for the buyer in the deal. Stephen Horan and Patrick Boyle, also of Colliers, procured acquisition and construction financing from Hingham Institution for Savings for the buyer.
CULVER CITY, CALIF. — Lowe, AECOM Capital and Rockwood Capital have begun construction on Ivy Station, a transit-oriented mixed-use development adjacent to the Culver City Station of the Los Angeles Metro Expo light-rail line in Culver City. Situated on 5.2 acres, the $300 million development will feature 200 apartments, 55,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and restaurant space, a 148-room boutique hotel and a 200,000-square-foot office building. Additionally, the project will feature 1,500 spaces of below-grade parking, 300 of which will be dedicated for use by Metro riders. Killefer Flammang Architects and EYRC are providing architectural services for the project, which is slated for completion in fall 2019. Bernards is serving as general contractor for the development.
SAN FRANCISCO — A joint venture between CIM Group and fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) has acquired a 7.3-acre site at 400 Paul Ave. in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco for an undisclosed sum. The site will soon be home to a 187,000-square-foot data center with 24 megawatt power capacity. The acquisition also includes two 1930s-era buildings that total 54,225 square feet. The facilities will undergo improvements to serve as office and support space for data center tenants.