NEW YORK CITY — Loeb & Loeb has signed an 18,908-square-foot office lease expansion and 16-year extension at 345 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. The law firm is taking partial space on the 13th floor of the 1.9 million-square-foot building, where it has been a tenant since 1993, bringing its total footprint to 178,959 square feet. Lewis Miller, Ken Rapp, Michael Wellen and Alex Kucera of CBRE represented Loeb & Loeb in the lease negotiations. Robert Steinman represented the landlord, Rudin, on an internal basis.
DUBLIN, OHIO — JLL has negotiated a 15-year lease for 75,000 square feet of office space and 8,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space at Bridge North in Dublin. The tenant is Northwest Bank, a subsidiary of Northwest Bancshares Inc. The lease encompasses the development’s entire office component, with Northwest Bank expected to relocate its corporate headquarters from Easton by the first half of 2029. Clayton Davis of JLL represented Northwest Bank, which plans to more than double its central Ohio workforce to 300 employees by the time it moves into the new headquarters. Bridge North, owned by Daimler Group, is a mixed-use development that will feature office, retail and other uses.
CHICAGO — Morningstar Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN), a provider of independent investment insights, has unveiled plans to relocate its global headquarters to the Thompson Center in Chicago’s Loop. Morningstar will co-anchor the building alongside owner Google and will occupy more than 275,000 square feet. The company plans to move to the property in late 2028. The lease marks Chicago’s largest downtown office transaction in 2026 to date, according to Morningstar, which has been headquartered in Chicago since its founding over 40 years ago. Morningstar currently employs over 1,500 people in Chicago. Located at 171 N. LaSalle St., the Thompson Center is one of the city’s highest-profile revitalization projects. Google announced plans to acquire the 1.2 million-square-foot property in 2022 and recently shared new design renderings for the renovation. The all-electric building will feature direct access to public transit, large floor plates, a 17-story atrium with food-and-beverage and retail offerings, as well as onsite employee amenities. Famed Chicago architect Helmut Jahn designed the Thompson Center, which opened in 1985 as the State of Illinois Center. The property was later renamed to honor Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson. Alongside its headquarters move, Morningstar plans to donate $5 million over the next five years …
ALLEN, TEXAS — A partnership between two local real estate companies, developer KDC and investment and operations group Pillar Commercial, will develop One Bethany North, a 225,000-square-foot office project that will be located in the northeastern Dallas suburb of Allen. The nine-story building will be situated within the Watters Creek mixed-use development and will include pickleball courts, putting greens and other outdoor gathering spaces, as well as a 3,500-square-foot restaurant. A tentative construction timeline was not disclosed.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Wells Fargo has signed a 20,560-square-foot office lease renewal in southwest Austin. The space is located within Building I at Uplands Corporate Center. Jake Ragusa and Luke Gholston of JLL represented Wells Fargo in the lease negotiations. Matt Frizzell of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, California-based Drawbridge Realty.
LIVINGSTON, N.J. — CoreWeave has signed a 31,000-square-foot office lease expansion at its headquarters facility in the Northern New Jersey community of Livingston. The cloud computing company now occupies 62,000 square feet at The Eisenhower, a 385,000-square-foot building. Jamie Ragucci, Kevin Murphy and Aaron Sommer of Newmark represented CoreWeave in the lease negotiations. Jon Meisel, Erin Wenzler and Dan Casey of CBRE, along with internal agent Eric Maurer, represented the landlord, Eastman Cos.
DALLAS — WillMax Capital has broken ground on an 11,130-square-foot office project in North Dallas. Phoenix-based LGE Design Build is handling the architectural and construction aspects of the project, which will be located at 4326 W. Lovers Lane and will serve as the locally based developer’s future headquarters. Flanagan Land Solutions is the civil engineer for the project, which is slated for a spring 2027 completion.
WALNUT, CALIF. — JLL Capital Markets has brokered the sale of Walnut Tech Business Center, a shallow-bay business park in Walnut. AEW sold the asset to CIP Real Estate II LLC for $60.6 million. Totaling 200,049 square feet, Walnut Tech Business Center features 11 buildings with 109 individual suites across industrial, flex office and retail designations that are 94 percent leased. Patrick Nally, Evan Moran, Chad Solomon, Shae Vomund and Lauren O’Neill of JLL represented the seller in the deal. Additionally, JLL’s Kevin Mackenzie, Peter Thompson, Kyle White and Colter Smith arranged $42.9 million in acquisition financing for the buyer.
NEW YORK CITY — New York Life Insurance has provided a $386 million loan for the refinancing of 200 Madison Avenue, a 750,000-square-foot office building in Midtown Manhattan. The 26-story building was originally constructed in 1926. Havas Health is the building’s anchor tenant via a 15-year, 254,118-square-foot lease extension and expansion that was signed in August. Other tenants include architecture practice Spectorgroup and boutique law firm BraunHagey & Borden. Jonathan Estreich, Peter Duncan and Egor Petrov of Estreich & Co., along with Adam Spies, Adam Doneger and Willis Robbins of Newmark, arranged the five-year, floating-rate loan. The borrower, George Comfort & Sons, owns the building in partnership with Loeb Partners Realty and Jamestown.
TEMECULA, CALIF. — Gantry has secured a $9 million life company loan to retire a CMBS loan on Vail Ranch Town Square, a low-rise office building in Temecula. Tony Kaufmann, Toby Judge and Jake Davis of Gantry represented the borrower, a Southern California-based private real estate investor, in the financing. Gantry will service the fixed-rate, three-year loan for the lender. Located at 32605 Temecula Parkway, the three-story, 55,000-square-foot building is fully leased to a variety of medical, dental, behavioral health and professional service tenants.
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