HOUSTON — Xceed Office, a provider of executive suites, has signed a 22,450-square-foot lease in Houston’s Galleria district. The space spans a full floor within 5POP, a 28-story, 566,773-square-foot building. Edward Edson and Jordan Trout of Colliers represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Eric Anderson, Evelyn Ward and Avery McGahee of Transwestern represented the landlord, Florida-based CP Group.
TAMPA, FLA. — A partnership between Banyan Street Capital and Lafayette Street Capital has acquired Harborview Plaza, a 6.7-acre, waterfront office complex in Tampa’s Westshore submarket. Atlanta-based Cousins Properties sold the 206,329-square-foot property for $39.5 million. Christian Lee and Sean Kelly of CBRE’s National Office Partners team represented Cousins Properties in the transaction. Amy Julian and Andrew Chilgren of CBRE’s Debt & Structured Finance team arranged acquisition financing for the new owners through Prime Finance. Tom Rappa, Matthew Lee, Max Nathan, Joe Chick and Dale Peterson of CBRE supported the transaction. Banyan Street Capital and Lafayette Street Capital have retained Jim Moler and Deana Beer of JLL to handle the leasing assignment at Harborview Plaza. The new owners plan to make several capital improvements at the office complex, including updated elevators, a new lobby, tenant lounge, café, waterfront outdoor patio and a “third workplace.” Future enhancements will include new wayfinding and building signage.
PHOENIX — Workspace Property Trust has completed the disposition of a two-building office campus in Phoenix. An affiliate of Wentworth Property Co. acquired the property for an undisclosed price. Totaling 238,500 square feet, the campus includes two three-story buildings with 39,750-square-foot floor plates. Onsite amenities include a fitness center with locker rooms, a large kitchen, electric vehicle charging stations, multiple indoor and outdoor work areas and loading docks. Originally built in 2001, the asset offers flexible configurations suitable for a range of tenant needs. The campus is located at 25500-25600 N. Norterra Drive. Wentworth plans to invest in the property, including a full mechanical engineering upgrade and new food, wellness and training amenities. Jim Bayless and Ashley Brooks Jr. of CBRE advised on the transaction. The team will handle leasing for the property on behalf of Wentworth, with Wentworth Property Management managing the campus.
WESTWOOD, CALIF. — Newmark has arranged the sale of 10918-10926 Le Conte Avenue, a land site with a 9,647-square-foot office building in Westwood. An undisclosed buyer acquired the asset from Le Conte Westwood Development for $38.2 million. Ryan Plummer of Newmark, along with WESTMAC’s Willa McNamara Fields and Jim Burnap, represented the seller. Newmark’s David Kluth and JLL’s Aliya Coher represented the buyer in the off-market transaction. The buyer’s plans for the new development on the site will be released in the upcoming months.
SEATTLE — Gantry has secured a $10.2 million permanent loan to refinance the historic Terminal Sales office building in downtown Seattle. Located at 1932 1st Ave., adjacent to Pike Place Market, the 11-story, 92,400-square-foot building was originally delivered in 1925. The property was eventually renovated to serve as modern creative office space and includes street-level retail space. Mike Wood and Tim Brown of Gantry represented the borrower, a private real estate investor. The 10-year, fixed-rate nonrecourse loan was secured by Gantry’s network of insurance company correspondent lenders with 25-year amortization. Gantry will service the loan for the lender.
DES MOINES, IOWA — Foth, an engineering services firm, has relocated to the historic Carpenter Building in downtown Des Moines. Savills managed the lease negotiations, project management and office build-out for the 23,500-square-foot space. The project spans the second and third floors with an interconnected stairwell. Constructed in 1918, the Carpenter Building is a 50,000-square-foot property that has recently been transformed into Class A office space. Amenities include a fitness center, game room and conferencing facilities. Ashley Moen and Andrew Yung of Savills managed the lease negotiations for Foth while colleague Jon Theis led the build-out.
MIDDLEBOROUGH, MASS. — Premier Fence, a provider of fencing and outdoor home goods, has acquired a 25.8-acre industrial facility in Middleborough, located south of Boston. The property at 370 Wareham St. features four approximately 20,000-square-foot buildings. Two buildings will house uses such as manufacturing, warehousing of raw materials, storage of finished goods and office, showroom and employee training space. Premier Fence will market the other two buildings for lease. The company expects to open its new facility this spring. MassDevelopment provided $11.7 million in bond financing, some of which is tax-exempt, for the purchase and build-out of the facility. Cambridge Savings Bank purchased the bond.
BEDFORD, MASS. — Locally based investment firm Cummings Properties has purchased a 330,000-square-foot vacant office and life sciences facility in Bedford, located northwest of Boston. Developed in 2001 and known as Bedford Woods, the two-building facility sits on a 56-acre site at 174-176 Middlesex Turnpike; 35 of those acres remain undeveloped. Cummings acquired the property, which last sold for more than $93 million in 2012 to Texas-based Orion REIT LP, via auction.
By Michael Poris, McIntosh Poris Architects Long defined by its industrial legacy, Detroit development currently combines ground-up construction with intelligent, innovative adaptive reuse. Brick-and-mortar manufacturing-era remnants include many buildings that originally served the automotive industry. As large-scale manufacturing relocated and Detroit’s population declined, several significant buildings were abandoned. Many are viable for second lives, ones that fulfill current commercial real estate market demands. Adaptive reuse makes sense I co-founded McIntosh Poris in 1994 to protect Detroit’s historic buildings from bulldozers and redesign them for a post-manufacturing economy. At that time, demolition was the most expedient option. To address this, we focused as much on civic networking and preservation education as architectural design. Implementation involved organizing events with public officials and the local business community to meet leaders of other cities’ successful urban-renewal programs. To make Detroit more attractive to commercial real estate investment, we lobbied for zoning changes. Most relevant, commercial and historic districts were re-evaluated to permit mixed-use redevelopment. Historic preservation became viable, often making sense both financially and culturally. Well before sustainability became a commercial real estate consideration, we educated developers on available adaptive reuse incentives such as historic tax credits. Combined with the inherent efficiencies of reuse, …
EAGLE RIVER, ALASKA — Angelic Real Estate Holdings, along with its institutional partner JDI Realty, has purchased 17101 Snowmobile Lane in Eagle River, a suburb of Anchorage. Terms of the transaction were not released. Completed in 2008, the two-story building offers just under 20,000 square feet of rentable medical office space. The new ownership plans to upgrade the property with advanced digital building monitoring and control systems, as well as some aesthetic interior and exterior improvements. Since 2021, Angelic has owned the sibling medical office building in Palmer, Alaska, a 25-minute drive from the Eagle River asset. The acquisition was financed with a loan from First National Bank Alaska, procured by Angelic Real Estate, the affiliated brokerage arm of Angelic Real Estate Holdings.
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