Richard B. Tranter

We served as project counsel to our client, an international health care service system, to negotiate a master services agreement pursuant to which an international commercial real estate services firm managed all owned, leased, and sub-leased portfolio of the client’s properties to create efficiencies between our client’s internal facility management, property management, and construction departments and its service providers. In addition to the master services agreement, Dinsmore also negotiated various sub-agreements, including property management, transactional management/brokerage, portfolio administration, project management agreements, which governed specific elements of the relationship between our client and the real estate services firm, including tenant build-outs, portfolio management, leasing, acquisitions, dispositions, and property management. The negotiation required in-depth knowledge of the operations, management and structure of the client’s portfolio of facilities, the service provider’s operations and services, and coordination among the client, its third party consultants, and its service provider.

We represented a nondenominational church in Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio, in obtaining multiple zoning variances to allow for expansion of their assembly building, parking, and vehicular movement areas.

We served as project counsel for a regional multi-family apartment developer in connection with the re-development of a $150 million mixed-use project containing approximately 330 residential units, a boutique hotel, approximately 200,000 sq. ft. of office space, and a 1,400 space public parking garage on the Scioto Peninsula in downtown Columbus. Over a two year period, our team negotiated the purchase, sale and development agreement, and various interrelated land use agreements necessary for facilitating the creation of a new “festival street;” assisted in forming a new community authority which utilized a tax-exempt bond issuance to finance the public improvements supporting the project; collaborated with the Columbus Franklin County Finance Authority to issue tax exempt bonds, utilizing a ground lease/capital lease structure, to receive sales tax exemption savings on the materials used in construction of the apartment buildings; formed a joint venture entity to utilize capital contributions of equity investors and to take advantage of the project’s location in a qualified opportunity zone; and negotiated terms of an approximately $60 million construction loan. Further, our development team negotiated an option of right of first offer as to the public parking garage and laid the groundwork for phase II expansion in the event our client wishes to expand its development footprint.Throughout the project, our team collaborated with the city of Columbus, Columbus Downtown Development Corporation, Columbus-Franklin County Finance Authority, and counsel for two collaborative developers.  

Dinsmore & Shohl represented Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estate, Inc. with respect to the acquisition, development, zoning, leasing, financing and sale of Rookwood Tower in the City of Norwood, Ohio.

We are serving as project counsel for a plumbing and water cleanup service in the rollout of its prototype for a new service facility. Our responsibilities include negotiating and preparing the purchase agreement, and negotiating utility service agreements, obtaining zoning and related land use approvals, closing the transaction and ensuring the project remained on schedule to meet our client’s objectives. Recently completed projects are located in Dayton, Ohio and Indianapolis, Indiana.

We worked extensively on document origination and preparation for Tribal Trust Land leasing matters in Michigan. These included Tribal code review and analysis, ground lease drafting and negotiation, preparation of a retail sublease template, HEARTH ACT research and analysis, and inclusion of related provisions in leasing documents. We also created necessary development and documents to facilitate land and planning components.

Represented the owners of Tri-County Towne Center in the lease out and sale of the 200,000+ square foot, $24.3 million retail shopping center. Representation included the drafting and negotiation of reciprocal easement agreements involving access, parking and utilities rights, maintenance obligations and building limitations between the shopping center and separately-owned outparcels.

Served as project counsel to a non-profit health care provider for the development of its new $5.25 million community health center located in the West End of Cincinnati. Representation included securing federal grants and community development financing to facilitate the project, site selection services to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements, coordinating due diligence, title services to clear over $150,000 in liens from the property, negotiation with the City of Cincinnati to obtain a release of over $250,000 in additional liens burdening the property, structuring and closing on property acquisitions, negotiating construction contracts, obtaining governmental approvals, leasing out portions of the completed facility in accordance with Stark Law and HIPAA requirements and obtaining real estate tax exemption for the completed project.

Served as project counsel for the development of a new freestanding LaRosa’s restaurant in Cold Spring, Kentucky. Representation included coordinating due diligence, closing on property acquisition and negotiating easement and development agreements.

Represented the client in the filing of a Board of Revision complaint to contest the Preble County Auditor’s valuation of commercial real estate property originally valued at over $8 million and in a hearing held by the Board of Revision regarding such complaint; achieved a 73% reduction in the taxable value of the property.

Our client, a national retail services company, undertook a major national facilities expansion. Mr. Hahn prepared the construction contracts for the design professional and contractor, and tailored them to work for a national rollout of each retail location.

We have represented Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estate, Inc. in a wide variety of projects, serving as project counsel with respect to more than $500 million worth of real estate projects, comprised of retail, restaurant, office, hotel and apartment uses. We have advised the client on land use and entitlements for projects throughout the country, worked to secure financing and create ownership structures, counseled on all facets of development and construction, handled leasing for all varieties of retail and office centers, and handled the sale of centers upon the client’s request. Along the way, we have worked with numerous governmental entities to resolve infrastructure issues vital to our client’s projects, such as zoning, access and utilities. Among the projects we have worked on include Rookwood Commons in Ohio, where Brownfield sites were redeveloped, and we facilitated the issuance of a Covenant Not to Sue from the Ohio EPA. Overall, we have worked with the client on projects in Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Florida, South Carolina and Pennsylvania.