RACINE, WIS. — Matthews Real Estate Investment Services has brokered the $10.7 million sale of a Home Depot-occupied retail property in Racine. The asset is located at 2429 S. Green Bay Road near the High Ridge Shopping Center. Rob Goldberg and Ben Snyder of Matthews represented the seller, a national private investor. An unnamed REIT was the buyer.
PHILADELPHIA — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has negotiated the $52 million sale of Penrose Plaza, a 258,494-square-foot shopping center in South Philadelphia. Anchored by Shoprite Supermarket, the center was 94 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Planet Fitness, DD’s Discounts, Citi Trends, Fine Wine & Good Spirits and Chase Bank. Brad Nathanson of IPA represented the seller, a joint venture between Onyx Equities, Abrams Realty & Development and Siguler Guff & Co., in the deal. Nathanson also procured the buyer, United Hampshire US REIT.
KANNAPOLIS, N.C. — Goldman Sachs and Lansing Melbourne Group have sold Vida Kannapolis, a 289-unit apartment community in Kannapolis, about 25.9 miles north of Charlotte. Red Bank, N.J.-based Denholtz Properties purchased the recently delivered property for $59 million, or approximately $204,152 per unit. Located at 210 S. Main St. in downtown Kannapolis, Vida Kannapolis is a five-story complex that offers studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floorplans. Built in March 2021, the units feature stainless steel appliances, washers and dryers and walk-in closets. Community amenities include a fitness center, pool, indoor parking, game room, grill, pet play area, roof terrace, elevator and bicycle storage. The monthly rent ranges from $1,455 to $1,895, according to Apartments.com. Goldman Sachs partnered with the Fort Lauderdale-based development firm Lansing Melbourne Group and the City of Kannapolis to build the property. Jonathan Brody of Rosewood Realty Group represented the buyer, Denholtz Properties, and Jacob Vogel of Rosewood Realty Group represented the sellers in the transaction.
TACOMA, WASH. — Realterm has purchased Tacoma Gateway II from a partnership between Panattoni Development Co. and Crow Holdings Capital for an undisclosed price. Located at 12005 Steele St. South in Tacoma, Tacoma Gateway II is a newly developed, 274,000-square-foot distribution building with dock-high and grade-level loading, 36-foot clear heights and more than 200 trailer parking stalls on an adjacent 4.7-acre yard. Unis, a third-party logistics company, fully occupies the property, which was completed in July 2021. Brett Hartzell of CBRE’s National Partners Group and Shawn Childs and Monte Decker of CBRE’s Tacoma and Seattle offices represented the seller in the transaction.
LEXINGTON, KY. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of 101 Yorkshire Blvd., a 165,759-square-foot office property located in Lexington. The sales price was $11.5 million. Joseph DiSalvo, Alexander Nulf and Gus Poulos of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, an undisclosed private investor, in the deal. John Mundell of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer, an undisclosed private investor. Colby Haugness of Marcus & Millichap also assisted in closing this transaction. 101 Yorkshire is a four-story office property located on 15.3 acres with 350 parking spaces. The building has a mixture of executive offices, conference rooms and cubicle spaces. The property is located just off the intersection of US Route 25 and Man O War Boulevard, which is the outer loop bypass for State Road 68 and Interstate 75. Previously, 101 Yorkshire operated as a single-tenant call center for Xerox prior to its recent separation of operations from Conduent. As a result of the separation, Conduent absorbed and redistributed all call center operations from this facility effective June 2020 to predominately East Coast locations. The office property has since been completely vacant.
HOUSTON AND DALLAS — Orlando-based Simply Self Storage has purchased a portfolio of 14 facilities in the Houston and Dallas areas totaling 9,878 units. The specific names and locations of the properties were not disclosed. The portfolio spans more than 1 million net rentable square feet, of which nearly two-thirds is climate-controlled space. Aaron Swerdlin and Kenneth Cox of Newmark represented Simply Self Storage in the transaction. The seller and sales price were also not disclosed.
CHICAGO — Becovic has acquired The Juneway Gardens in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood for $7.2 million. Located on Juneway Terrace, the 61-unit apartment building was constructed in 1922. The seller, a local apartment owner, had owned the three-story property for more than 30 years. Becovic Realty, the brokerage arm of Becovic, brokered the sale.
CHICAGO — Hines Global Income Trust Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire the historic WGN-TV Studios building located at 2501 W. Bradley Place in Chicago’s North Center submarket. Chicago-based developer R2 is selling the property for about $30.5 million, according to Crain’s Chicago Business. The deal follows Hines Global’s recent acquisition of Bradley Business Center, a 23-acre mixed-use campus located across the street from the WGN property. The TV station spans 131,000 square feet and is fully leased to WGN-TV, which first aired in 1948. Cody Hundertmark, Tom Sitz and David Knapp of Cushman & Wakefield brokered the transaction.
HOUSTON — Los Angeles-based TruAmerica Multifamily has purchased two properties in Houston totaling 652 units. Camden Oak Crest totals 364 units, and Camden Park totals 288 units. The two garden-style properties are located 1.5 miles apart in the Westchase neighborhood and feature a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units. Amenities at both communities include pools, fitness centers and outdoor grilling areas. David Mitchell of Newmark brokered the sale between TruAmerica and the undisclosed, Houston-based REIT that developed the properties. Ryan Greer of CBRE arranged acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer, which will respectively rebrand the assets as Oak Crest and Wood Park.
RIVERTON, UTAH — Matthews Real Estate Investment Services has arranged the acquisition of a retail property located at 12623 S. Redwood Road in Riverton. An undisclosed buyer purchased the asset for $8.4 million in a 1031 exchange. Anthony Connell, Preston Schwartz, David Harrington and Chad Kurz of Matthews handled the transaction.