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ATLANTA — Spaces, a co-working office space brand owned by Regus, plans to open a new location at 715 Peachtree in Midtown Atlanta. Situated across from the Fox Theatre, Spaces Midtown East will provide more than 100 private offices, 40 private desks, a 10,000-square-foot business club, hospitality-quality services and three meeting rooms available to Spaces members and community residents. The new Midtown location, the brand’s fourth in North America, is set to open on February 6, with co-working memberships starting at $199. In mid-2017, Spaces will open Spaces Atlanta-The Battery at SunTrust Park at The Battery Atlanta, a $1 billion mixed-use village surrounding SunTrust Park, the Atlanta Braves’ new ballpark in Cobb County. All Spaces locations provide 24/7 access to dedicated desks and office space for members, as well as access Monday through Friday to the business club.

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NEW YORK CITY — A joint venture between GIC and Paramount Group has acquired a 1.6 million-square-foot office tower in New York City for $1 billion. The 47-story tower is located at 60 Wall St. in the Financial District of downtown Manhattan. The property is fully leased. It serves as the U.S. headquarters of Deutsche Bank. GIC, a sovereign wealth fund based in Singapore, has a 95 percent stake in the joint venture, while Paramount Group holds the remaining 5 percent. Paramount managed and owned about 5 percent of the property through its ownership in certain private equity funds prior to the acquisition. The joint venture also received $575 million in financing for the property in relation to the acquisition. “This investment reflects our long-term confidence in downtown Manhattan, which is benefitting from over $30 billion of recent public and private investments in infrastructure and new construction,” says Adam Gallistel, GIC’s regional head of Americas. “We believe 60 Wall St. is one of the top buildings in downtown and is poised to benefit from the ongoing downtown renaissance.” Deutsche Bank announced plans to renovate the office space in late 2016. It purchased the asset from J.P. Morgan & Co. in …

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DENVER — A joint venture between Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Pearlmark has received $93.5 million in financing for the acquisition of a 492,799-square-foot office building in Denver. The Class A space is located at 1125 17th St. It occupies an entire city block on the corner of 17th and Lawrence streets where the Central Business District and Lower Downtown (LoDo) converge. The 25-story tower is 85.2 percent leased to JP Morgan Chase & Co. and Halliburton, among others. On-site amenities include a fitness club, juice and smoothie bar, basketball and bocce courts, and underground parking. HFF’s Eric Tupler and Josh Simon secured the four-year, floating-rate loan through Bank of America.

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PORTLAND, ORE. — Zeller Realty Group has purchased the 298,176-square-foot Umpqua Bank Plaza in Downtown Portland. The building sold for $90 million, according to Portland Business Journal. The Class A office tower is situated on the western shore of the Willamette River. The property was originally developed in 1974 but underwent renovations in 2015. The space was 97 percent leased at the time of sale. Lana Baldock, Dan Swift and Havilah Coady of Cushman & Wakefield will handle leasing at the property.

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HURST AND ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Coldwell Banker Commercial Advisors DFW has arranged two separate sales of office properties in Hurst and Arlington. In the first deal, RAKS Real Estate LLC acquired a 6,503-square-foot office building located at 800 Forest Oaks Lane in Hurst. Doug Tonne Investments sold the property for an undisclosed price. The buyer will use the property as a dental office. In the second transaction, TL Reeves Realty LLC acquired a 7,572-square-foot office building located at 400 N. East St. in Arlington, from Monopoly Ltd. The buyer plans to use the property as an adult daycare facility. The acquisition price was not released. Chris Mendez of Coldwell Banker represented the sellers in both transactions.

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LOS ANGELES — A joint venture between Canyon Catalyst Fund and Pacshore Partners has sold its 212,700-square-foot West Los Angeles office portfolio for an undisclosed sum. The portfolio contains three properties, including 22619 Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, and 12901 W. Jefferson Blvd. and 5340 Alla Road, which are both located in Playa Vista. The JV acquired the three properties between July 2013 and March 2015. The sale is the partnership’s first disposition of investments within the Canyon Catalyst Fund, which Canyon Partners Real Estate manages on behalf of CalPERS.

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ATLANTA — Spaces, a co-working office space brand owned by Regus, plans to open a new location at 715 Peachtree in Midtown Atlanta. Situated across from the Fox Theatre, Spaces Midtown East will provide more than 100 private offices, 40 private desks, a 10,000-square-foot business club, hospitality-quality services and three meeting rooms available to Spaces members and community residents. The new Midtown location, the brand’s fourth in North America, is set to open on February 6, with co-working memberships starting at $199. In mid-2017, Spaces will open Spaces Atlanta-The Battery at SunTrust Park at The Battery Atlanta, a $1 billion mixed-use village surrounding SunTrust Park, the Atlanta Braves new ballpark in Cobb County. All Spaces locations provide 24/7 access to dedicated desks and office space for members, as well as access Monday through Friday of the business club.

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RICHMOND, VA. — Capital Square 1031 has completed the stabilization and sale of Forest Office Park, a 19-building, 710,000-square-foot office campus in Richmond, for $24.1 million. The firm served as a replacement sponsor and manager of NNN Forest Office Park LLC, a tenant-in-common (TIC) ownership. Forest Office Park was under TIC ownership for the past 11 years. Capital Square 1031 assumed sponsorship and management in February 2016, replacing the previous manager after more than a decade, to take over sponsorship, management and serve as loan guarantor for the TIC program. Forest Office Park is situated in Richmond’s West End at the corner of Three Chopt Road and Forest Avenue. Located within six miles of Short Pump and downtown Richmond, the property was approximately 95 percent leased at the time of sale. CBRE | Hampton Roads, CBRE | Richmond and the Atlanta office of CBRE Group Inc. brokered the sale on behalf of the TIC ownership.

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NEW YORK CITY — A joint venture between Boston Properties and Rudin Development has closed on a $250 million construction loan for Dock 72, a creative office development at Brooklyn Navy Yard. The financing was led by J.P. Morgan, M&T Bank and U.S. Bank. The previously announced 16-story project will feature 675,000 square feet of office space. WeWork, acting as co-developer, will occupy 222,000 square feet of the property and will curate the amenity space, including a health and wellness center, specialty food and beverage offerings and a rooftop conference center. Construction broke ground in May 2016. The project will be ready for tenant fit-out late this year with completion scheduled for early 2018.

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NORWICH, CONN. — Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III has acquired a two-building medical office portfolio in Norwich for $15.6 million. Totaling 56,265 square feet, the portfolio includes Wawecus Medical Center and a building located at 105 Wawecus St. Yale Cardiovascular, Eastern Connecticut Endoscopy, Connecticut GI and Norwich Ophthalmology occupy the portfolio. Lisa Menin of Jacobson Properties and John LaBella of RE/MAX Right Choice brokered the transaction. The name of the seller was not released.

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