NASHVILLE, TENN. — Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has signed a long-term lease to move its Nashville office to One22One, a new high-rise office building located at 1221 Broadway in the city’s Gulch district. The locally based law firm plans to occupy 100,000 square feet of office space across the top four floors by late 2023. The tenant retained Savills for its search for new office space. The developer and landlord, Brentwood, Tenn.-based GBT Realty, delivered the $140 million, 24-story tower last month. Featured amenities at One22One include outdoor space for business and social gatherings, a fitness center and retail space. FirstBank occupies 52,000 square feet of office space on floors 13 and 14 that will include the headquarters of FB Financial Corp. (NYSE: FBK), the parent company of FirstBank.
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UNION, N.J. — The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has signed a 47,000-square-foot office lease in the Northern New Jersey township of Union. The tenant is expanding from a 41,000-square-foot subleased space at Liberty Hall Corporate Center, a five-story, 210,000-square-foot building. The lease term is 10 years. David Stifleman and Chris Conklin of JLL represented the landlord, a joint venture led by the Cali Family, in the lease negotiations. The representative of TSA was not disclosed.
STOCKBRIDGE, GA. — Birmingham, Ala.-based Growth Capital Partners (GCP) has recently signed Dollar General Corp., the Goodlettsville, Tenn.-based national discount retailer, to a full-building industrial lease in metro Atlanta. GCP’s Fund II purchased the recently vacated property, located at 500 Business Center Drive in Stockbridge, in March. The 712,040-square-foot property is situated in the South I-75 Atlanta industrial submarket and features 30-foot clear heights, 74 dock doors and seven rail doors. The center is expected to be fully operational in the fourth quarter and will employ approximately 50 Dollar General employees. Reed Davis, Bob Currie and Brad Pope of JLL represented GCP in the lease negotiations, and Scott Delphy of Food Properties Group represented Dollar General. GCP’s Fund II includes 1.9 million square feet of bulk distribution properties in Georgia and Tennessee and 1.9 million square feet of industrial development projects currently under construction in the Carolinas, Florida, Tennessee and Texas. In addition to the Stockbridge facility, Dollar General recently invested $480 million to expand its distribution network with three new facilities planned in Arkansas, Oregon and Colorado.
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LA Multifamily Investment Deals See Volume Normalization, Pricing Resets for Select Assets
Multifamily investment transaction volume had an unprecedented year in 2021, and the first six months of 2022 were quite robust. Now, economic uncertainty in the form of rising interest rates and a cooling economy has created some hesitancy on the part of investors. “Some normalization is occurring in the market now, in addition to a pullback because of what is going on in the capital markets and economy,” says Paul Darrow, a managing director of Walker & Dunlop’s investment sales team based out of Los Angeles. Walker & Dunlop is one of the largest providers of capital to commercial real estate industry in the United States. Darrow sat down with REBusinessOnline to talk about multifamily investment sales trends in the Los Angeles area and the opportunities he sees for investors down the road. REBusiness: Investor interests have shifted in the past few months. What kinds of properties are investors most interested in now? Darrow: It’s a mixed bag when it comes to investor appetite. Those who raised money to buy specific types of buildings are obviously guided by what they’ve promised their investors in the form of return profiles and risk. Core funds, for example, can’t just switch to value-add or …
ALGONQUIN, ILL. — FunCity Adventure Park has signed a 35,549-square-foot retail lease to open at River Pointe in the northwest Chicago suburb of Algonquin. The location will be FunCity’s 25th nationwide. FunCity is an indoor entertainment concept that offers activities such as trampolines, laser tag, foam pits, bumper cars, arcades and party rooms. River Pointe is a shopping center anchored by Jewel-Osco. KeyPoint Partners represented FunCity, which currently operates in eight states.
COMMACK, N.Y. — Lidl has opened a 30,000-square-foot store at Mayfair Shopping Center, a 222,000-square-foot regional power center in Commack, located on Long Island. The German discount grocer will backfill a space previously occupied by Stein Mart, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2020. Mayfair Shopping Center’s tenant roster includes Planet Fitness, Runway Clothing, The Crushed Olive and Bagel Toasterie, among others. Levin Management Corp. represented the landlord in the lease negotiations.
NEW YORK CITY — Private equity firm Corsair Capital has signed a 23,919-square-foot office lease at 550 Madison Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. Since opening in 1984, the 41-story building has housed the operations of two tenants: AT&T and Sony. Silvio Petriello and Chris Corrinet of CBRE represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Mary Anne Tighe, Howard Fiddle and Scott Gottlieb, also with CBRE, represented the landlord, The Olayan Group, which acquired the asset in 2016 and implemented a value-add program.
CHICAGO — The Back Room, an entertainment destination and live music venue, has signed a 6,000-square-foot retail lease at 318 N. Carpenter St. in Chicago’s Fulton Market district. The Back Room, which has been a part of Chicago’s music scene for 50 years, is relocating from 1007 N. Rush St. The new property is an eight-story, 95,445-square-foot office building with ground-level retail space that is situated directly across the street from Google’s Chicago headquarters. James Schutter, Larry Kling and Nick Garlick of Newmark represented the building owner, a joint venture between Murphy Real Estate Services and Creek Lane Capital.
ANDOVER, MASS. — Global technology firm Broadcom has signed a 60,000-square-foot office lease renewal at 100 Brickstone Square in the northern Boston suburb of Andover. Brickstone Square was originally constructed in 1922 and recently underwent a capital improvement program that delivered expanded café services, a fitness center, onsite bistro, game room and a new outdoor patio and courtyard. Blake Baldwin, Shayne O’Neil and Petra Flynn represented the landlord, KS Partners, in the lease negotiations. John Wilson of CBRE represented the tenant.
WOBURN, MASS. — Locally based brokerage and advisory firm KeyPoint Partners has negotiated a 21,842-square-foot retail lease at Main Street Shopping Center in Woburn, a northern suburb of Boston. The tenant, Ski Haus, a retailer of outdoor patio furniture and winter sports equipment, will backfill a space previously occupied by AC Moore at the grocery-anchored center. Don Mace of KeyPoint Partners represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations.