JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — International Management Co. (IMC) will break ground this week on a three-story, 62,751-square-foot office building located at 203 Fort Wade Road in Jacksonville. The property will be situated within the Fort Wade Road Office Park in Jacksonville’s Ponte Vedra/Nocatee submarket. Jacksonville-based IMC has selected CBRE as the landlord representative for the new building. Lou Nutter of CBRE will oversee the listing. IMC expects to complete the property by July 2016.
ROUND ROCK, TEXAS — W2 Real Estate Partners is set to move forward with a 400,000-square- foot, Class A office campus called Frontera Ridge. The development will be located on the last major land parcel within the 328-acre La Frontera mixed-use development, directly fronting State Highway 45 in Round Rock. The $100 million office project, which can be expanded to 800,000 square feet, is expected to receive both city of Round Rock and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality site development permits within the fourth quarter of this year. Frontera Ridge will target LEED Silver certification and will include a structured parking garage with five spaces per 1,000 square feet. Developer W2 has partnered with STG Design and TBG Partners to handle the architecture and land planning, respectively. The two buildings, designed with 40,000-square-foot floor plates, will rise five stories.
HOUSTON — HPI Holdings will expand its real estate portfolio with the purchase of a 34-building business park that offers nearly 865,000 square feet of office, warehouse and industrial space. The business park is located in north Houston along West Hardy Road near the North Sam Houston Tollway and the George Bush Intercontinental Airport. The park will also be renamed and renovated. Caldwell Brokerage Co. will handle leasing and property management for the park.
HOUSTON — HighStreet Net Lease Group, a Texas-based company specializing in the sale and acquisition of net leased investment properties, represented a Houston-based investor in the acquisition of a three-story office complex with retail on the ground floor. The 14,400-square-foot mixed-use building is located at 1305 Prairie St. in downtown Houston. Matt Moake of HighStreet represented the buyer. Fred Ghabriel of Bejjani & Associates represented the seller, a local partnership that owned the property for 30 years. The historic building was constructed in 1920 and was once the site of General Sam Houston’s home. The new owner plans to renovate the interior and exterior of the property. The property includes a surface parking lot.
DALLAS — NAI Robert Lynn represented JQ, a Texas-based structural and civil engineering firm, in the company’s move to the Dallas Design District. Last month, Commerce Street Partners and Commerce Street 2104 Partners, the real estate affiliates of JQ, sold their offices at 2105 Commerce St., a 13,500-square-foot building. JQ’s new offices at 100 Glass St. are being renovated and will provide more than double the space. The 31,000-square-foot building is located at the southeast corner of Levee and Glass streets. Merriman Associates/Architects Inc. is designing the interior of JQ’s new headquarters building. Nearly 100 employees will be moving to the new location before the end of the year. Sam Hocker and Jayson Montoya of the NAI Robert Lynn office division represented JQ in the sale of the firm’s downtown holdings and the purchase of 100 Glass St.
GAHANNA, OHIO — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a 19,910-square-foot medical office property in Gahanna, a Columbus suburb. The Stonybrook Medical Center sold for $3.8 million. John P. Reehil of Marcus & Millichap represented the undisclosed seller. Michael Barron, Dan Burkons, Josh Wintermute, Richard Lattro and Jordan Marshall represented the undisclosed buyer. The property, located at 5175 Morse Road, is 77 percent occupied. Tenants include Ohio State University Otolaryngology, COPCP, Smith Facial Plastics and Advanced Dental.
CHICAGO — Sterling Bay has unveiled plans to develop a 207,000-square-foot office building in Chicago. The build-to-suit property is located at 1511 W. Webster in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. Sterling Bay acquired the 4.1-acre site earlier this year and will be the developer and manager of the property. The three-story building will become the new headquarters for C.H. Robinson, which has signed a 15-year lease for the entire property. The relocation will provide C.H. Robinson, the largest logistics company in Chicago, with 47,000 more square feet than it occupies in its current lease at 1840 N. Marcey St. Occupancy is slated for late 2018.
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Nestlé Health Science has signed a long-term lease to occupy 180,000 square feet of space at the New Jersey Center of Excellence in Bridgewater. Nestlé Health Science, a health-science company engaged in the development of innovative nutritional therapies, will occupy a building that previously served as a research center within the former Sanofi U.S Research and Development Campus. Since acquiring the campus, the joint partnership of Advance Realty and CrossHarbor Capital Partners has fully repositioned the site and turned it into a premier research and development campus. The interior fit-out for the new space will begin before the end of this year, with the move-in slated for July 2016.
DALLAS —Harwood International has announced it will develop a new office tower known as 2850. Designed by Dallas-based HDF, the Class A office tower features 22 floors totaling 228,000 square feet. It will be the ninth development in the master-planned district of Harwood. The ground level of the building will include over 12,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space with adjacent gardens and outdoor seating. The gardens are continued on the ninth level with 20,000 square feet of green roof terraces. The building is topped off with 11,000 square feet of office space and two roof gardens. The 18-block district of Harwood has building rights to over 12 million square feet of condominium, office, retail, and multifamily developments.
PICKERINGTON, OHIO — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a 12,539-square-foot medical office building for $4.4 million in Pickerington, a Columbus suburb. Scott Niedergang and Gino Lollio of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, Stage Equity Partners LLC. Charlie Hampton III of Marcus and Millichap represented the undisclosed buyer in the transaction. Pediatric Associates is the tenant.
