ONEBEACON INSURANCE GROUP SIGNS 45,092 SF LEASE IN SUBURBAN MINNEAPOLIS

MINNETONKA, MINN. — OneBeacon Insurance Group, a provider of specialty insurance products, has renewed and expanded its 23,764-square-foot office lease to 45,092 square feet on floors five, six and seven of 601 Tower at Carlson in Minnetonka, a western suburb of Minneapolis. The lease agreement brings the trophy building to 95 percent occupancy. Newport Beach, Calif.-based KBS Real Estate Investment Trust II, a non-traded REIT, purchased the 288,458-square-foot property in 2011. OneBeacon Insurance Group has been a building tenant since 2006. Tom Wille of the CLW Real Estate Services Group in Tampa, Fla., represented OneBeacon in the transaction. Mike Marinovich of CBRE in Minneapolis negotiated the lease on behalf of KBS.