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Crain's Chicago Business An affiliate of Eaton Vance Real Estate Investment Group has bought the 72,500-square-foot Whole Foods Market at 3201 North Ashland Ave. in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood for $70.9 million, or $977.93/sf. The Boston investment firm purchased...

Commercial Property Exeutive Venture One Real Estate LLC has partnered with Kovitz Investment Group to buy a 488,571-square-foot industrial building in Batavia, Ill., for $21.2 million, or $43.39/sf. The venture purchased the property, on 27 acres at 601-605...

Multi Housing News North Park Ventures has bought a 91-unit apartment building at 2730-66 Hampton Parkway in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Ill., for $17 million, or $186,813/unit. The seller was not disclosed. Interra Realty brokered the deal....

Chicago Tribune Facebook has announced plans to develop a data-center project in DeKalb, Ill., about 60 miles west of Chicago. The five-building project is being planned for a 505-acre development site at the southeast corner of Gurler and...

Crain's Chicago Business KKR & Co. Inc. has bought an Amazon fulfillment center totaling 1.5 million square feet in Kenosha, Wis., for $176 million. The New York REIT purchased the two-building industrial property, at 3501 120th Ave. and...

Crain's Chicago Business Intercontinental Real Estate has bought the 111-unit Kelmscott Park Apartments in Lake Forest, Ill., for $54 million, or $486,486/unit. The Boston investment company purchased the property, at 145 Morris Lane, from Focus, a Chicago development...

Milwaukee Business Journal J. Jeffers & Co. is redeveloping the 36-acre site of the former Horlick Malted Milk Co. campus in Racine, Wis., into a residential project that will cost more than $100 million to complete. The Milwaukee...

Kansas City Business Journal Community Buildings of Kansas City is planning to invest between $80 million and $100 million into a multi-phase mixed-use project in that Missouri city. The project, which is being called the Offices at Overlook,...

Milwaukee Business Journal Wangard Partners Inc. has sold the 1910 on Water Apartments in Milwaukee for $11.85 million, or about $174,265/unit. FPA Multifamily of San Francisco bought the 68-unit property, at 1910 North Water St., which was built...