NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of an industrial/office building located at 14-29 112th St. in the College Point neighborhood of Queens. Excavators Union Local 731 acquired the asset from RJB Realty LLC for $4.2 million, or $200 per square foot. The two-level building features 21,058 square feet of industrial and office space. Located within a M1-2 zone, the property also features up to 14,002 square feet in air rights. Stephen Preuss of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — A joint venture between Lincoln Property Co. and Goldman Sachs has purchased Gainey Center II, a 146,770-square-foot office building in Scottsdale, for $35.2 million. The building is located at 8501 N. Scottsdale Road. Gainey Center is situated about one mile from Loop 101 within the Gainey Ranch community. The building is 89 percent occupied. Notable tenants include J.P. Morgan, TPI Composites Inc., Apriva and McGraw Hill Financial. The space will undergo minor renovations to the lobby, common area, landscaping and signage. CBRE’s Jerry Roberts and Pat Boyle are handling the building’s leasing efforts, while LPC is providing management services.
LOS ANGELES — Hileman Cowley Partners has purchased Victory Studios, a 56,547 –square-foot television production and broadcast center in the Los Angeles submarket of Burbank, for $15.3 million. Telepictures Productions, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, currently occupies the studio. The company has occupied the property since 1994. Telepictures produces television shows like Extra, the Ellen DeGeneres Show and TMZ. Hileman Cowley purchased the existing ground lease and the underlying land. The assets were held by different entities. Mike Guterman and Brad Sevier of Highland Realty Capital arranged a non‐recourse, fixed-rate bank acquisition loan for the transaction. Andrew Burke and Mark Evanoff of Avison Young represented the undisclosed seller.
SAN ANTONIO — Stream Realty Partners has arranged the sale of a 6,000-square-foot medical office building located at 21708 Hardy Oak Blvd. in the far north-central submarket of San Antonio. Michael Kent of Stream Realty represented the seller, LAIT Texas LLC, in the transaction. The property was built in 2001 and tenants include Physical Therapy and Birth Center Stone Oak. The building is near North Central Baptist and Stone Oak Methodist hospitals, with access to Loop 1604 and Highway 281.
MILWAUKEE — Healthcare Business Insights (HBI) has signed a 24,016-square-foot office lease to occupy the entire 15th floor of 411 East Wisconsin Center, a 654,000-square-foot Class A office tower owned by Riverview Realty Partners. The lease brings the 30-story building to 89 percent occupancy. Riverview Realty Partners has completed a $15 million renovation that included an updated lobby, conference center, new elevators, a new HVAC systems and an upgraded parking structure. Tenants at the office building include Quarles & Brady LLP, von Briesen & Roper, Northwestern Mutual, Morgan Stanley, Wisconsin Athletic Club, PNC Bank and others.
LAKE FOREST, ILL. — Colliers International has arranged a 7,811-square-foot office lease in Lake Forest, approximately 35 miles northwest of Chicago. LifeWorking Enterprises signed a long-term lease for space at 717 N. Forest Ave. LifeWorking Enterprises will create a network of productivity and collaboration spaces in Chicago and its suburbs. The Lake Forest property is the venture’s first location. The mixed-use building is located in Lake Forest’s historic Market Square and consists of a two-story building with ground-floor retail. Dougal Jeppe of Colliers represented LikeWorking Enterprises in the transaction, and Chris Cummins and Jonathon Connor of Colliers represented the property owner, L3 Capital.
The last five years have seen a lot of shuffling around for Boston’s mainstay industries, with professional service firms moving to the Seaport and tech companies moving to Kendall Square. Although we’ve seen more new residential and commercial development than ever, there will always be space limitations in Boston, which means there will always be more user demand than there is space on the market. The space left behind from tenants on the move will be easily filled by the next wave of tenants — and the cycle continues. Oxford Properties’ latest announcement of its acquisition of 222 Berkeley St. and 500 Boylston St. in the Back Bay is perhaps the best example of the trajectory model in Boston. And similar to the media and finance switcheroo that Manhattan is experiencing (the media mecca is now downtown and FiDi is now midtown), media companies in Boston are now moving into the financial district and finance firms are moving to the Seaport. Boston Globe Media Partners is close to leasing 75,000 square feet of space at 53 State Street. The publishing company will take some of Goodwin Procter’s block that will be vacated once the company relocates to the Seaport District. …
DALLAS — CBRE Global Investors will launch a $19 million capital improvement program for the Galleria Office Towers in Dallas. The three Class A office buildings are located on the corner of the Dallas North Tollway and LBJ Freeway and are directly connected to the Westin Galleria Hotel, as well as the Galleria mall. The assets were built between 1982 and 1991 and total 1.4 million square feet. Renovations will include a new parking system that will be the first of its kind at an office building in North America. The system includes license plate recognition technology that provides in and out access, electronic signs that display the number of spaces available on each level and overhead LED lights to alert drivers of open spots on each row. Other improvements include new tenant lounges at each building, multiple conference centers, an expanded fitness center and renovations to the lobbies, common corridors, restrooms and elevator cabs. CBRE Global Investors owns the buildings, which include tenants such as MetLife, Merrill Lynch and Ryan Cos. Celeste Fowden, Shannon Brown and Kenzie Killgore of CBRE’s Dallas office are the leasing agents for the Galleria Office Towers. The properties are managed by CBRE under the direction of …
NEW YORK CITY — A joint venture between Savanna and Atom Assets, a Hong Kong-based family office real estate investment platform, has received a $40 million acquisition loan for a development site located at 106 W. 56th St. in Midtown Manhattan. The loan was provided by Singapore-based United Overseas Bank Ltd. The partnership plans to develop the site into a 26-story, Class A boutique office building. Located in Manhattan’s West Fifties neighborhood, the new building will offer 90,000 square feet of Class A boutique office space. Kelly Gaines and Aaron Niedermayer of JLL arranged the financing.
CARMEL, IND. — Citimark will develop a 60,000-square-foot, Class A office building in Carmel, approximately 20 miles north of Indianapolis. Wagner Reese LLP, a personal injury law firm, and Blue Horseshoe, a software and technology enterprise service provider, will occupy approximately half of the three-story building that will be located at 11939 N. Meridian St. The building is slated for completion in January 2017, and construction will start this spring. Rich Forslund and Matt Langfeldt of Colliers International will serve as the listing agents for the project.