DALLAS — A partnership between Estein USA and Vanderbilt Office Properties has acquired Pinnacle Tower, a 549,170-square-foot office building in North Dallas. The seller was New York Life. The 24-story building, which was 88 percent leased at the time of sale, offers amenities such as a café, tenant lounge, conference center, coffee bar, outdoor amenity area and a fitness center. The new ownership has tapped JLL as the building’s leasing agent.
NEW YORK CITY — The Hudson Cos. Inc. and its affiliate, Broadway Builders LLC, have signed an 18,200-square-foot office lease in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. The joint tenancy will occupy the entire 12th floor at 902 Broadway under an 11-year lease. Benjamin Waller and Daria Ghasemi of ABS Partners Real Estate represented the tenants in the lease negotiations. Max Koeppel of Koeppel Rosen represented the landlord on an internal basis.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Diversified Partners has closed on a waterfront property in Scottsdale that will become The Lakefront at Scottsdale, a mixed-use redevelopment. The project will revitalize a landmark waterfront site in Scottsdale, transforming a long-established location into a destination for dining, retail and gathering spaces. The 100,000-square-foot property will be redeveloped in phases offering restaurant, retail and office space centered around walkability, gathering spaces and waterfront activation. Originally developed in 1978, the redevelopment will preserve elements of the property’s longstanding architectural character while modernizing the site to serve the needs of the Scottsdale community. The Lakefront at Scottsdale will feature signature restaurants with outdoor dining overlooking the lake, boutique and experiential retail concepts, luxury wellness and lifestyle tenants and Class A office space with waterfront views, as well as a small marina with Duffy boat rentals. Construction is slated to start in third-quarter 2026 with the first phase focused on demolition and development of the restaurant and retail components. The second phase scheduled to begin in early 2027 and focus on the redevelopment of the remaining retail and office portions.
ROSEMONT, ILL. — NAI Hiffman has negotiated a 2,748-square-foot office lease for Horn-McGowan Insurance Agency at 5500 Pearl Street in Rosemont. The lease brings the four-story building to 100 percent occupancy. Owner Integris Ventures purchased 5500 Pearl Steet in 2018 and upgraded the amenities to include a fitness center, lounge, game room and boardroom. NAI Hiffman was engaged by ownership in 2019 to oversee the upgrades and leasing and marketing strategy. Jason Wurtz, Jack Reardon and Sarah Walker of NAI Hiffman represented Integris Ventures in the negotiations.
PLANO, TEXAS — JLL has negotiated a 75,000-square-foot office lease at APEX at Legacy, a 220,000-square-foot building located at the intersection of Dallas North Tollway and Sam Rayburn tollways in Plano. The deal with the tenant, cloud-based educational software company PowerSchool, brings APEX at Legacy to 97 percent occupancy. Blake Shipley, Gini Rounsaville and Michael Williams of JLL represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations. Stephen Salomon, Will Haynes and Jad Charif of CBRE represented the tenant.
SOMERSET, N.J. — Sprouts Farmers Market will open a 28,750-square-foot grocery store in the Central New Jersey community of Somerset. The Phoenix-based grocer is taking space at the 219,000-square-foot Somerset Shopping Center. Vanessa Kelty and Ed Vasconcellos of Levin Management Corp. represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations. Mike Horn and Steven Winters of RIPCO Real Estate represented Sprouts. A tentative opening date has not yet been announced.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Creative Action, a youth arts education organization, will open a 25,000-square-foot headquarters at Mueller, a 700-acre mixed-use district in North Austin that is a redevelopment of a former municipal airport. The space will be housed across two levels within a two-story building and will include 15,000 square feet for performing arts and communal gathering functions. The other 10,000 square feet will house programming and administrative space.
PRINCETON, N.J. — TRAC Intermodal has signed a 31,000-square-foot office lease in Princeton. The provider of logistics services is taking space on the third floor of the building at 600 College Road, which is part of the Princeton Point campus. Todd Elfand and Kevin Carton of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, Nuveen Real Estate, in the lease negotiations. The tenant representative was not disclosed.
CHICAGO — Kohan Retail Investment Group has acquired 131 South Dearborn, a 1.5 million-square-foot office tower formerly known as Citadel Center in Chicago’s central business district. The purchase price of $137 million represents a 76 percent discount from the property’s 2006 sales price, according to Crain’s Chicago Business. The acquisition was completed alongside investment partners Alan Assil and Kevin Assil, whose partnership has supported the continued expansion of Kohan’s office portfolio. Kohan, which is based in Great Neck, N.Y., and led by Mike Kohan, owns and operates retail, office and mixed-use properties. A partnership between Angelo, Gordon & Co., Hines and Dearborn Capital Group acquired the property in 2016. It was completed in 2003.
BEDFORD, MASS. — A joint venture between Anchor Line Partners and Alloy Properties has refinanced The Core at Crosby, a 615,305-square-foot office and life sciences campus in Bedford, a northwestern suburb of Boston. Berlin Hyp, the commercial real estate finance arm of LBBW, provided the debt for the nine-building campus, which is anchored by software provider AspenTech. Robert Griffin, David Douvadjian Sr., David Douvadjian Jr., Timothy O’Donnell, Edward Maher and Matthew Pullen of Newmark arranged the debt on behalf of the joint venture.
