HOUSTON — NAI Partners represented Rockwell Management in the lease of 8,200 square feet at the 1900 St. James Building in Houston’s Galleria submarket. Sam Hansen of NAI Partners represented the landlord, Rockwell Management, in the transaction. Connor Tamlyn of CBRE represented the tenant, ioMosaic.
WALTHAM, MASS. — American Realty Advisors has completed the disposition of an office complex located at 10, 40 and 52 Second Ave. in Waltham. The three-building property consists of 294,663 square feet. The price and the buyer were undisclosed. At the time of sale, the property was 94 percent leased to a variety of tenants, including Massachusetts General Physicians Organization Inc. and National Grid.
CAMBRIDGE, SOMERVILLE AND BOSTON, MASS. — DivcoWest has acquired a 42-acre master-planned development site known as NorthPoint from Canyon Partners Real Estate for an undisclosed price. The site is located across the Charles River from downtown Boston and spans the cities of Boston, Cambridge and Somerville. Located adjacent to two MBTA lines, the transit-oriented site is fully entitled for the development of approximately 4.5 million gross square feet, including 2.4 million gross square feet of residential space and 2.1 million square feet of commercial product. When complete, the project will feature a mix of residential, commercial office, retail, hospitality and life sciences uses surrounding a central park. JLL and DLA Piper represented the seller, while Goulston & Storrs represented the buyer in the transaction. Canyon originally purchased the property in 2010 through its Canyon-Johnson Urban Funds with its development partner, The HYM Investment Group.
HOUSTON — Rent Recover has leased 4,840 square feet at the Park Plaza Business Park building located at 11104 W. Airport Blvd. in Houston. Spencer Starkey, Kurt Kistler and Griffin Jaggard of Moody Rambin represented the building owner, Stafford Office Park II LP, in the transaction. Brian Strait with Lincoln Property Co. represented the tenant in negotiations.
INDIANAPOLIS — Owner and property manager Fairbridge Properties has signed Managed Health Services to a lease extension and expansion at the Landmark Center, a Class A office tower, located at 1099 N. Meridian St. in the central business district of Indianapolis. The deal expands Managed Health Services’ space by 9,768 square feet, bringing the company’s total occupancy to 60,452 square feet. The lease expires April 30, 2017. The 12-story tower is 100 percent leased and includes other full- and multi-floor tenants such as Angie’s List, Disciples of Christ Christian Church, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services and Jacobs Engineering Group. Landmark Center features numerous amenities including a fitness center, conference facility, full-service cafeteria and indoor bike storage. Fairbridge acquires, develops and manages commercial properties ranging in value between $10 million and $45 million.
CHICAGO — Essex Realty Group Inc. has brokered the $2.8 million sale of a 15,900-square-foot office building located at 617 W. Fulton St. in Chicago. The property is situated on the south side of Fulton Street, between Desplaines Street and Jefferson Street, and located less than one quarter-mile from the CTA Clinton station on the Green Line and one-half mile from the CTA Grand station on the Blue Line. Matt Welke and Jason Fishleder of Essex Realty Group Inc. represented the buyer, Fulton & Ogden LLC, and seller, MG Fulton Partners LLC, in the transaction.
It’s no secret that the Sunbelt states have been, and continue to be, the front-runners for corporations looking to relocate to cities with a much lower cost of doing business. With each state taking different approaches, North Carolina does not often offer the relocation incentives that can be found in states such as South Carolina and Texas. Instead, North Carolina favors a system that offers less up-front cash incentives, but tries to offset that with a tax structure and business-friendly climate in an effort to compete for the large, attractive relocations. Because of this, the catalyst for growth in Charlotte has only been moderately associated with the recruitment of out-of-market users looking to relocate headquarters to more affordable and attractive markets. In large part, Charlotte’s growth has been driven by organic growth of existing businesses. In fact, more than 70 percent of the positive absorption in the central business district (CBD) since 2010 has occurred through organic growth. This expansion of existing business has provided for employment growth conditions that work hand-in-hand with the rapidly swelling population. In between new-to-market relocations that provide headline-grabbing bursts of employment, the diverse and impressive growth of Charlotte’s existing companies has attracted talent and …
ANN ARBOR, MICH. — Armada Real Estate Services has brokered the $12 million sale of an 84,000-square-foot office complex located at 3027 Miller Road in Ann Arbor. Constructed in 2000, Forest Cove is 100 percent occupied with 17 tenants, including ETAS Inc., Enlighten and Perficient Inc. Darryl and Bruce Goodwin of Armada Real Estate Services represented both the buyer, Oxford Co., and the undisclosed seller.
DEERFIELD, ILL. — The Philipsborn Co. has arranged $4 million in first mortgage financing for an 81,550-square-foot, multi-tenant office building located at 707 Lake Cook Road in Deerfield, a northern suburb of Chicago. Ameritas Investment Partners provided the 21-year, fixed-rate, self-amortizing refinancing loan. Constructed in 1979, the three-story office building is located in the north village’s corporate business corridor and is currently 80 percent leased. David Kubert of Philipsborn represented the lender and the borrower, an Illinois-based limited liability company.
ATLANTA — Rubenstein Partners LP has sold Sterling Pointe, a two-building, Class A office campus spanning 351,345 square feet in Atlanta’s Central Perimeter submarket. The buyer, a joint venture between Harbert Management Corp. and The Simpson Organization Inc., purchased the office property for an undisclosed price. Mercedes-Benz USA recently leased 89,910 square feet at Sterling Pointe II for its temporary corporate headquarters. William Yowell, Jay O’Meara and Justin Parsonnet of CBRE represented Rubenstein Partners in the sale. Rubenstein recently sold 3.5 acres of former parking lots on the campus for a new hotel and retail space. A hotel is currently under construction and will deliver in January 2016, and a new Corner Bakery Café and other restaurants will open this fall.
