DEER PARK, TEXAS — The Dow Chemical Co. has leased 75,920 square feet in Deerwood Office III, an office building under construction at 4460 State Highway 225 in Deer Park. Completion of the 98,230-square-foot, two-story building is scheduled for August 2016. Clay Development and Construction, is the developer of Deerwood Office III, the third building in the office park section of Deerwood Glen Business Park, a 150-acre site acquired by Clay in 2008. Deerwood Glen III is now 77 percent leased. A fourth office building is planned in the park. Craig Beyer, Jeff Cutler and Kristian Nielsen of CBRE represented Dow in the transaction, and Charlie Christ of Clay Development & Construction represented the landlord in lease negotiations. Deerwood Office III is located on 8.6 acres and features 50,293-square-foot floorplates. The property has a parking ratio of four spots per 1,000 square feet.
CORAL GABLES, FLA. — A joint venture between Greenstreet Partners and CREC has sold 2121 Ponce, a 164,848-square-foot office building in Coral Gables. A member company of Zurich North America purchased 2121 Ponce for $57.5 million. The property was more than 95 percent occupied at the time of sale to tenants such as Goldstein Schechter, Fox Latin America, Valley National Bank, the Consulate of Barbados and CREC. In addition to office space, 2121 Ponce features a five-story, 586-space parking garage and ground-level retail space including restaurant POC. Warren Weiser, Harry Blyden and Andrew Remick of CREC co-brokered the sale with the CBRE team of Christian Lee, Jose Lobon and Andrew Chilgren. Roy Rosenbaum and Sean Bannon of Zurich Alternative Asset Management LLC advised the buyer.
ATLANTA — HD Supply has broken ground on its Leadership Development Center, an eight-story, 222,500-square-foot office building located at 3400 Cumberland Blvd. in the Atlanta portion of Cobb County. Set to open in early 2018, the property will house 900 HD Supply employees and feature a leadership training and customer support center. The project team includes Atlanta-based developer Greenstone Properties, broker Colliers International and architects HLG Studio and Wakefield Beasley & Associates. HD Supply is an industrial distribution company with 13,000 associates operating in 500 locations across 48 states and six Canadian provinces.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a mixed-use property located at 524 Lorimer St. in Brooklyn. A limited liability company acquired the 3,384-square-foot building for $4 million. The purchaser was a 1031 exchange buyer from the Upper East Side. Shaun Riney, James Saros, Michael Salvatico and Matthew Steinberg of Marcus & Millichap’s Brooklyn office represented the seller and buyer in the transaction.
DENVER — A partnership between Investcorp and Griffin Partners has purchased a 10-building office/flex portfolio in Denver for $78.5 million. The portfolio includes 345 Inverness Drive S. and Arapahoe Business Park, comprising a total of 484,737 square feet. The Inverness property is a three-building, 175,287-square-foot complex that was built in 2001. Arapahoe Business Park is a seven-building complex that was completed in two phases from 1998 to 2001. The park contains a total of 309,450 rentable square feet and is situated at the entrance to Centennial Airport Center. Both projects sit east of Interstate 25. The assets are 95 percent leased to 15 tenants. The tenant roster is composed of companies within the technological, research and development, laboratory testing, light manufacturing, distribution and automotive fields. NGKF’s Dave Tilton, David Lee and Jason Addlesperger represented the seller, Hines REIT, in this transaction. The NGKF team was retained to lease and manage the portfolio.
NEW YORK CITY — Delshah Capital has acquired a portfolio of five buildings, totaling 205,000 square feet, from Mount Sinai St. Luke’s for $111.5 million, or $543 per square foot. Eastern Consolidated arranged a $60 million first mortgage bridge loan to finance the acquisition of the portfolio. Bank of the Ozarks provided the $60 million loan to the borrower, which also received a $17.5 million mezzanine loan from Square Mile Capital. The properties are located at 401 West and 411 W. 113th St. and 400 West and 408 W. 114th Street in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights. The buildings formerly housed numerous hospital services that are in the process of being relocated to alternate space within the remainder of the Mount Sinai St. Luke’s campus. Paul Massey, Hall Oster, Teddy Galligan and Andrew Berry of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction. Adam Hakim, Sam Zabala and James Murad of Eastern Consolidated secured the bridge loan for the borrower.
ITASCA, ILL. — The Opus Group will build a 183,000-square-foot office building for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). The national headquarters facility will be located within the Hamilton Lakes Business Park in Itasca, approximately 30 miles northwest of Chicago. The five-story building will feature 10-foot floor-to-ceiling windows and a two-story lobby, which will serve as the central hub for AAP’s conference center and visitor activity. The office will have areas dedicated to educational training, recording videos for procedures and demonstrations, conferences, outdoor meetings and a historical archival storage area. Construction is slated to start this July and be completed by the fall of 2017. Eric Kunkel and Scott Ohlander of JLL represented AAP in the transaction.
SAN ANTONIO — Kennedy Wilson has represented Hartman Income REIT Management in a lease with Galen College of Nursing to expand to nearly 68,000 square feet at One Technology Center. The property is located at 7411 John Smith Drive in San Antonio. Suzanne Havekost of Kennedy Wilson represented the landlord and negotiated directly with the tenant on the transaction. Galen leased 24,000 square feet at One Technology Center in 2008 and gradually grew to 41,800 square feet. One Technology Center is a 14-story, 196,000-square-foot office building located on the west side of the South Texas Medical Center. In addition to Galen College of Nursing, tenants include the Veterans Administration, University of Texas Health Science Center South, BSG and Progressive Insurance.
CHICAGO — White Oak Realty Partners LLC and CA Ventures have broken ground on a 20-story, trophy office tower in Chicago’s West Loop. The project is slated for completion by the first quarter of 2018, according to Crain’s Chicago. The building, located at 625 W. Adams St., will consist of 432,000 square feet of office space and a 400-space parking facility. Amenities at the tower will include three outdoor terraces, a fitness center, panoramic views, a conference auditorium that can accommodate up to 1,000 people and 2,500 square feet of ground-floor retail. Martin Wolf of Solomon Cordwell Buenz designed the project.
GRANDVIEW HEIGHTS, OHIO — C.H. Robinson, a global third-party logistics provider, has signed an 11,700-square-foot office lease at Grandview Yard, a 1.2 million-square-foot commercial development four miles northwest of downtown Columbus. C.H. Robinson will occupy space on the first floor of the 800 Yard Street building starting this fall. Other tenants in the building include Northwestern Mutual, Ernst & Young, Hilliard Lyons and Unum Life Insurance Co. Dina Zavislak of Mohr Partners and John Underman of Colliers International represented C.H. Robinson in the transaction. Christopher Bradley of Nationwide Realty Investors and Wayne Harer of Continental Realty represented the owner, Nationwide Realty Investors.