FAIRBORN, OHIO — Newmark Grubb Knight Frank (NGKF) has brokered the sale of two office buildings located at 2900 and 3000 Presidential Drive within Wright Executive Center in Fairborn, near Dayton. Presidential LP acquired the properties, which total 120,000 square feet, for $5.2 million. The buyer plans to renovate the buildings’ common areas and offer tenant improvement allowances. Benton Benalcazar of NGKF and David Elson of Neyer Management represented the sellers, 2900 Presidential Drive LLC and 3000 Presidential Drive LLC, in the transaction.
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PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of Waterview Plaza, a Class A office building located at 2001 Route 46 East in Parsippany. Norwalk, Conn.-based Marcus Partners acquired the 130,000-square-foot property for an undisclosed sum from Waterview Plaza Associates LLC, which developed the property in 1981. Key tenants at the property include Hennion & Walsh and HQ Global Workplaces LLC/Regus Corp., both with long-term leases. The buyer has a $2.6 million capital improvement program slated for the property. David Bernhaut, Andy Merin, Andy Schwartz and Nick Karali of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction. Additionally, the buyer retained Cushman & Wakefield as leasing agents for the property.
NEW YORK CITY — TOWN Residential has arranged the purchase of a retail/office building located at 734 Broadway in New York City’s NoHo district. 734 Broadway Acquisitions LLC purchased the 19,000-square-foot property for an undisclosed price. The five-story property features 6,500 square feet of usable retail space and four floors of office space totaling 12,500 square feet. The buyer plans to renovate the property, which was vacant at the time of acquisition. Jonathan Butwin and Scott Dweck of TOWN Residential represented the buyer in the transaction. The name of the seller was not released.
HOUSTON — HFF has arranged the sale of 400 North Belt, a 230,872-square-foot, Class A office project in Houston’s Greenspoint office submarket. HFF marketed the property on behalf of the unnamed seller. Hartman 400 North Belt, a subsidiary of Hartman Short Term Income Properties XX Inc., purchased the asset for an undisclosed amount. 400 North Belt is located at the southeast corner of the Sam Houston Parkway/Beltway 8 at Imperial Valley Drive between the Houston central business district and The Woodlands. The property is close to George Bush Intercontinental Airport, as well as I-45, Hardy Toll Road and I-69. Originally built in 1982, the 12-story property has undergone more than $2 million in capital upgrades during the last 10 years. Building amenities include a deli, bank facility with a drive-thru motor bank and a fitness center planned to open this year. 400 North Belt was 64 percent leased at the time of sale. The HFF investment sales team representing the seller was led by senior managing director Dan Miller and director Trent Agnew. Dave Wheeler, Julian Kwok and Russell Turman of HFF represented the buyer.
HOUSTON — Cousins Properties Inc. has signed Transocean Ltd. to a lease renewal for 255,413 square feet at Greenway Plaza in Houston. Transocean, the fourth largest customer in Cousins’ Houston portfolio, currently occupies 4 Greenway Plaza in its entirety. The transaction renews 100 percent of Transocean’s current space at 4 Greenway Plaza and extends the company’s lease on the space through January 2023. Greenway Plaza is a 4.5 million-square-foot, Class A office complex located in the Greenway submarket of Houston. The property is 90 percent leased. Bob Boykin, Warren Savery, Bubba Harkins and Will Hightower represented Cousins internally in this transaction.
BETHESDA, MD. — HFF has brokered the $63.5 million sale of Bethesda Office Center, a 174,449-square-foot, Class A office building located at 4520 East-West Highway in downtown Bethesda. The office property is located at the intersection of East-West Highway and Waverly Street, one block from the Bethesda Metrorail Station. Jim Meisel, Dek Potts, Andrew Weir, Stephen Conley, Matthew Nicholson and Robert Jenkins of HFF represented the seller, AEW Capital Management LLC, in the transaction. HFF also arranged acquisition financing on behalf of the undisclosed buyer. Cary Abod and Robert Carey of HFF arranged the fixed-rate loan through JP Morgan Chase Bank, NA.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — RealOp Investments and Terra Capital Partners have partnered to acquire and manage an office portfolio in Greenville totaling 570,000 square feet. The properties in the portfolio include two office parks totaling 12 buildings. Park East comprises nine multi-tenant office assets, and Park Central contains three buildings. RealOp, along with leasing and management partner NAI Earle Furman, will update, rebrand and reposition the office properties in the portfolio, and Terra Capital Partners will provide financing.
Dallas/Fort Worth has experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years, and we have all the fundamentals in place to continue this growth. Since 2005, we have added more than 600,000 jobs to the region. That’s a whopping increase of 21 percent! The current outlook is for growth to continue at these levels. In fact, by 2030 population in our region is expected to hit 9 million, an increase of 2.1 million new residents. From a real estate perspective, these fundamentals will fuel demand across all property types for the foreseeable future. More importantly, DFW has evolved into one of the most balanced economies in the U.S. and has created the “perfect storm” for our continued, steady growth. In addition to our central location, key drivers include our diverse employment base, deep roots in technology, low cost of doing business, pro-growth philosophy and affordable housing. For a comparison to the rest of the country, office absorption in Dallas has paced ahead of most U.S. markets in the last few years. In the first quarter of 2015, Dallas made up almost 30 percent of the national net absorption among the 50 largest U.S. markets JLL tracks. While a large proportion of …
ATLANTA — NorthMarq Capital has arranged permanent debt financing for Intellicenter, a 150,000-square-foot, LEED Silver-certified office property located at 2531 Sever Road in Atlanta. Warren Hitchcock of NorthMarq’s Houston office arranged the 12-year loan with a 30-year amortization schedule through an undisclosed life insurance company on behalf of the borrower, Susquehanna Holdings Ltd. The office building was fully leased at the time of the loan transaction.
ENGLEWOOD, N.J. — The S.Hekemian Group has broken ground for construction of Englewood South Phase 4 (ES4), a Class A office building located at 10 Sterling Blvd. in Englewood. The 46,000-square-foot office building, which will feature ground-floor retail space, is slated for completion in first quarter 2016. ES4 will feature strong exterior architecture with classic masonry and refined finishes throughout the interior. Tenant spaces will feature oversized ceiling heights and loft-like, open-plan build-outs with exposed ceilings and ductwork. Brian Silbert and Wayne Kasbar of Silbert Realty & Management are the exclusive leasing agents for the property.