FOREST PARK, ILL. — Interra Realty has brokered the $2.4 milion sale of the Forest Hall Apartments, a 39-unit apartment building located at 500 Des Plaines Ave. in Forest Park. The unit mix includes studio and one-bedroom apartments. The property is located within walking distance to the Blue Line train station and the Madison Street entertainment district. Joe Smazal and James Clough of Interra Realty represented both the undisclosed seller and the buyer.
LOCKPORT, ILL. — Construction has begun on a 10,800-square-foot retail building at the 77-acre Lockport Square Shopping Center in Lockport. The property is located at the intersection of I-355 and 159th Street (IL Hwy 7). The multitenant retail building is located on a 1.3-acre site fronting 159th Street, providing high visibility for the property’s retail tenants. Construction will be completed by early fall. Leases have been signed with Mattress Firm (3,500 square feet) and Sport Clips (1,600 square feet). Lease negotiations are underway with a third tenant for an additional 1,600 square feet. The remaining 4,100 square feet at the project is expected to be leased within 12 months. Janko Group, GMX Real Estate Group and Purinton Development are the co-developers of Lockport Square Shopping Center. The construction team includes JTS Architects, RTM Applied Engineering and Boulder Contractors. MidAmerica Real Estate and Metro Commercial Real Estate are the leasing brokers for the shopping center.
CHICAGO — Baum Realty Group has brokered the $16.6 million sale of five retail properties totaling 81,606 square feet in the Chicago area. The properties include: 1422 – 1426 N. Milwaukee Ave., a mixed-use redevelopment in the Bucktown / Wicker Park neighborhood that sold for $4.2 million; 701 – 749 N. Milwaukee Ave., a fully leased retail strip center anchored by the Westin North Shore Hotel in Wheeling that sold for $4.9 million; 4700 N. Kimball Ave., an OREO multitenant retail strip center adjacent to the Kimball Brown Line ‘L’ Station that sold for $2.3 million; 847 N. Larrabee St., a development parcel in the River North neighborhood that sold for $4.1 million; and 1312 – 14 N. Clybourn Ave. and 1321 N. Larrabee St. located within the North and Clybourn Corridor that sold for $1.1 million Greg Dietz and Danny Spitz of Baum Realty Group’s Investment Sales Team represented the five separate private sellers in transactions.
OAK LAWN, ILL. — Capital One Multifamily Finance has provided a $10.9 million fixed-rate, HUD 232/223(f) loan to refinance a 133-bed skilled nursing facility in Oak Lawn. Joshua Rosen of Capital One originated the transaction for the undisclosed borrower. The property was built in 1962, with an addition in 1985 and substantial renovations and improvements between 2005 and 2012. The current owners acquired the property in 2012, and have upgraded resident rooms and bathrooms.
GLEN ELLYN, ILL. — Mid-America Real Estate Corp. has brokered the sale of a 2,500-square-foot Dunkin Donuts and a 1,400-square-foot Short Term Loans. The retail properties are two adjacent parcels located at 651 and 661 Roosevelt Road in Glen Ellyn. A private Illinois-based buyer purchased the property for full asking price of $1.7 million at a 6.75 percent cap rate.
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH. — Agree Realty Corp. has acquired six retail properties for $35.4 million and sold a shopping center in Marshall, Mich. The properties include an H-E-B grocery store in Brenham, Texas; a 24 Hour Fitness in Fort Worth, Texas; a Golden Corral restaurant in Springfield, Ill.; and Advanced Auto Parts stores in Lorai, Ohio; Tallahassee, Fla. And Alabama; and a Dollar General in Blacksburg, S.C. In addition, the Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based company has sold Marshall Plaza, a Kmart-anchored shopping center, for $5.5 million.
OAK LAWN, ILL. — The Boulder Group has arranged the $10.7 million sale of a new single-tenant, triple-net-leased Walgreens property in Oak Lawn. The property is located at the southwest corner of 95th Street and Southwest Highway. The 61,909-square-foot Walgreens property replaces a previous Walgreens store that lacked a drive-thru. Randy Blankstein and Jimmy Goodman of The Boulder Group represented both the buyer and seller in the transaction. The seller was a Midwest-based developer and the buyer was a Northeast-based family office. The 20-year lease features 11 five-year renewal option periods.
CHICAGO — Waterton Associates LLC has acquired Pensacola Place, a 264-unit mixed-use property in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. The seller was undisclosed. Built in 1981, the Stanley Tigerman-designed building includes a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments, as well as 12 two-bedroom townhomes overlooking the property’s fourth-level sundeck. The property includes more than 81,000 square feet of retail space anchored by a recently renovated Jewel-Osco grocery store on the lower level of the building. Waterton will make upgrades to individual residences and also plans to update the community’s common areas. Waterton will serve as the manager for the property.
ELDORADO, ILL. — BARBERMurphy Group has arranged the sale of a 40,000-square-foot, 24-unit apartment complex in Eldorado. The asset is located at 1901 Organ St. BONLUKE Apartments purchased the property for an undisclosed sales price. Jerry Hunt of BARBERMurphy Group represented the buyer and the undisclosed seller.
AURORA, ILL. — The Chicago office of Duke Realty Corp. is developing a 242,372-square-foot, build-to-suit corporate headquarters and warehouse for Shorr Packaging Corp, a distributor of packaging products, equipment and services. The new facility is being constructed on 13 acres in Butterfield Corporate Park, Duke Realty’s multi-building industrial campus located off I-88 in Aurora. Shorr Packaging will consolidate operations from a 120,000-square-foot building it owns in Meridian Business Park, a 34,000-square-foot space in the Meridian Business Park it leases from Duke Realty and 36,127 square feet it leases in another building in Aurora. Trevor Ragsdale of JLL represented Shorr Packaging. Susan Bergdoll of Duke Realty, along with Traci Payette, David Prell and John Suerth of CBRE, represented Duke Realty. Construction on Shorr Packaging’s new facility in Butterfield Corporate Park is slated to begin this summer with delivery in spring 2016.
