Related Companies and Lennar have reached a milestone with the raising of the Barn. Anticipated to open Fall 2026, the custom post-and-beam structure will anchor Market Square, a destination food market at the center of The Village at Tuxedo Reserve. The Village in turn is the heart of Tuxedo Reserve, an upcoming 1,200-acre mixed-use downtown district in Tuxedo, NY.

The Village at Tuxedo Reserve will feature shops, restaurants, bars, services, luxury rental residences, and experiential gathering spaces. Within the larger Tuxedo Reserve, the first hamlet, West Terrace, is now selling with a choice of five different floorplans.

“The Barn raising signifies a major step towards an entirely new kind of Hudson Valley destination,” said Greg Gushee, EVP at Related Companies. “Upon completion, The Village at Tuxedo Reserve will create a place unlike anything in the region where people can return to again and again – whether for a weekend getaway, dinner with friends, unique outdoor experiences, or the everyday conveniences that have long been missing from this area.” 

Skender has completed construction on a 38,000-square-foot facility expansion for the Greater Chicago Food Depository.

The new prepared meals center, located at 4100 W. Ann Lurie Place, was completed seven weeks ahead of schedule and has enabled the food bank to increase its response to hunger with the capacity to distribute up to 10,000 scratch-made meals per day.

The project team included JLL as owner’s rep, Partners by Design as an architect, Skender as a general contractor, V3 Companies as a civil engineer, Buro Happold as a structural engineer, Salas O’Brien as a mechanical engineer, and PM&E Partners as food processing engineer.

The expansion added a commercial kitchen for meal preparation, cold storage spaces to support the food preparation areas, a new lobby and 11.5 acres of site work. Skender also coordinated and facilitated the installation of a singular Hydroponic Container Farming Unit.

“The Greater Chicago Food Depository is a pillar of our community, and it’s been an honor to help them expand and serve more people than ever before,” said Eric Fiket, Senior Project Manager and Team Leader at Skender.

Michael Brennan will receive Connect CRE’s Lifetime Achievement Award and will participate in the Keynote Interview with Kevin Brennan, also of Brennan Investment Group. Join us at Connect Industrial Midwest 2025 on the afternoon of Wednesday, March 5, at Joe’s Live in Rosemont, IL, for this exclusive presentation!

Fresh-food distributor, Foster, has purchased a distribution warehouse in Winston-Salem. Food company Purple Crow sold the 157,878 square foot building at 2900 Lowery St. for $23.5 million. Purple Crow is a distributor of Hispanic foods that announced new headquarters last year at Whitaker Park, the former Reynolds Tobacco complex.

The Triad Business Journal reports Foster plans to lease the property for a new headquarters and logistics center to serve customers in retail, business-to-business and wholesale trade, as well as restaurants and business and industry food service. Foster currently operates from the Piedmont Triad Farmers Market in Colfax.

With incentives from Winston-Salem and Forsyth County worth up to $86,550, the company announced an investment of about $6.25 million over five years and an expected 165 additional jobs.

On its website Foster says the company began as Foster & Caviness, a small fruit and vegetable business in Greensboro, North Carolina, that is now a multi-state and multi-disciplined provider of food supply chain solutions.