MIDDLEBOROUGH, MASS. — INDUS, a locally based roadway rehabilitation and pavement preservation contractor, will open a 75,000-square-foot headquarters facility in Middleborough, located south of Boston. INDUS purchased a parcel within The Campus at Canopy Drive, an approximately 700,000-square-foot development owned by VMD Cos., earlier this year for $11.6 million. Design work is underway on the facility, which will include 7 acres of outdoor storage space and will also function as a consolidated hub of field operations, bringing 20 permanent new jobs to Middleborough. CBRE is the leasing agent for The Campus at Canopy Drive.
Slatt Capital Arranges $12M in Acquisition Financing for Office Property in Rohnert Park, California
ROHNERT PARK, CALIF. — Slatt Capital has arranged $12 million in acquisition financing for a multi-tenant, 68,094-square-foot office building in Northern California. Located at 5900 State Farm Drive, the property was built in 1973. The Standard, a life insurance company lender, provided the nonrecourse loan, which features a structured staggered term and a 30-year amortization schedule. Sarah Armstrong and Daniel Friedeberg of Slatt Capital led the transaction, while Jonathan Siewert served as analyst.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Trinity Capital Advisors and Town Lane have begun renovations on 440 South Church, a 15-story, 388,657-square-foot office building in Uptown Charlotte. Current tenants at the Class A property include Driven Brands and HDR Engineering. Updates to 440 South Church will include a redesigned lobby, new lounges, upgraded building systems and renovations to the street-level arrival points, amenities and common areas. Trinity Capital originally developed 440 South Church in 2009 and acquired the property last October in a joint venture with Town Lane. The design-build team for the renovation includes architectural firm Redline Design Group and general contractor Choate Construction. The team plans to finalize the renovation work by early second-quarter 2027.
NEW YORK CITY — San Francisco-based Airbnb has purchased 281 Park Avenue South, an office building in Midtown Manhattan, for $81.5 million, according to reports from multiple news outlets, including The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and the New York Post. The landmarked, six-story building is known locally as Church Missions House. According to WSJ, which was first to report Airbnb as the buyer, the purchase comes “as the company continues to lobby local and state officials for loosening of the city’s strict restrictions on short-term rentals.” The Post reports that the 42,500-square-foot building will serve as “a dedicated hub for Airbnb’s New York workforce, which numbers more than 600 employees in the region.”
DALLAS AND CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Global real estate company Lincoln Property Co. has acquired The Spectrum Cos., a full-service real estate firm based in Charlotte. The acquisition enhances Lincoln’s platform in the Carolinas region. Johno Harris, senior executive vice president at Lincoln, and Stephen McClure, CEO of Spectrum, will be leading Lincoln’s Carolinas platform, which will now also include Spectrum’s Northern and Central Florida’s multifamily business. Since its inception in 1982, Spectrum has developed nearly 7,000 multifamily units and currently leases and manages a total of 4.4 million square feet of assets. With this new partnership and investment in the platform, the combined firm is poised to ramp up its development and acquisition pipeline across both multifamily and commercial real estate. “Our shared values are the foundation for seamless integration, and Lincoln’s full-service platform and national resources will only strengthen what we’ve already built,” says McClure. Darryl Dewberry, Spectrum’s executive chairman, will continue in his role to ensure continuity for the development and investment partnerships he has helped cultivate across the Carolinas. Lincoln says the acquisition broadens its product offerings in the region and deepens its capacity to serve clients, pursue opportunities and compete more effectively. Dallas-based Lincoln is one …
NEW YORK CITY — SPORTFIVE has signed an 18,038-square-foot office lease in Midtown Manhattan. The German sports marketing firm will occupy a full floor at 477 Madison Avenue, a 24-story building. Peter Van Duyne and Alex Lachmund of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Arkady Smolyansky and Alex D’Amario of CBRE, along with internal agents A.J. Camhi, Paul Milunec and Rob Weller, represented the landlord, RXR.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — NAI Hallmark has arranged the $14.7 million sale of Butler Pointe, a five-story, 151,815-square-foot office building located at 4500 Salisbury Road in Jacksonville. Daniel Burkhardt, Keith Goldfaden and Alex Caliel of NAI Hallmark represented the seller, an entity doing business as Acorn Butler Pointe LLC, in the transaction. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Gabriel Elkaim purchased the multi-tenant office building, which is situated on approximately eight acres in Jacksonville’s Southpoint submarket.
MINNEAPOLIS — Transwestern has acquired Forte Real Estate Partners, a commercial real estate firm based in the Twin Cities. The transaction adds 12 healthcare, office and industrial tenant advisory team members and a broad property management portfolio. Established in 2021 through the merger of Excelsior Advisory and Paramount Real Estate Corp., Forte provides brokerage and property services across the Twin Cities region. Founders Steve Brown, Jim Jetland and Philip Simonet will join Transwestern, bringing decades of experience and knowledge across healthcare, office and industrial real estate, respectively. Forte has advised clients on more than $885 million in transactions and managed nearly 1 million square feet of commercial property. Following the acquisition, Transwestern maintains roughly 475 team members across the Midwest and oversees more than 52 million square feet of office, industrial, healthcare, retail and government properties. The Forte team will join Transwestern’s Minneapolis office at 705 Marquette Ave.
NEW YORK CITY — San Francisco-based investment firm Spear Street Capital has purchased 76 Eighth Avenue, a 10-story office and retail building in Lower Manhattan, for $50.5 million. The 35,620-square-foot building was completed in 2022 and was fully leased at the time of sale, with Wells Fargo occupying the retail space. Andrew Scandalios, David Giancola, Vickram Jambu, Drew Isaacson and Jennifer Zelko of JLL represented the seller, G4 Capital Partners, in the transaction. Aaron Niedermayer, Peter Rotchford and Christopher Pratt, also with JLL, arranged $27.7 million in acquisition financing for the deal through DekaBank.
NEW YORK CITY — Energy Capital Partners has signed an office lease expansion in Lower Manhattan. The infrastructure investment firm previously occupied the entire 58th floor of One World Trade Center and has now taken the entire 59th floor, yielding a total footprint of 70,425 square feet. Eric Zemachson and Corey Borg of Newmark represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. David Falk, Peter Shimkin, Hal Stein, Nathan Kropp and Paige Raisides, also with Newmark, along with internal agents Eric Engelhardt, Karen Rose and Sayo Kamara, represented the landlord, The Durst Organization, which developed One World Trade Center in partnership with The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
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