KATY — Myers Crow & Saviers has begun development of the 135,716-square-foot Mason Creek Office Center, a new two-story office building located at 21420 Merchants Way in Katy. The new office building will be part of the 110-acre Mason Creek Corporate Park. Mood Rambin has been retained as the property's leasing agent. The property is slated for a May 2013 completion.
DENVER – A pair of Denver office buildings received $59 million in financing. The buildings are cross-collateralized, and were acquired by Broadreach Capital Partners in 2007. They include One Union Square, a 188,707-square-foot office building at 143 Union Blvd. in Lakewood’s Union Corridor, and a 277,710-square-foot office building at 303 E. 17th Ave. in Downtown Denver The funds include a $49 –million, first-mortgage loan provided by Mesa West, and $10 million in mezzanine debt provided by Investcorp. The funds were used to remove the existing debt and to fund future leasing costs to stabilize the properties, according to Ronnie Gul, a Mesa West principal who originated the financing, which was arranged by Brad Zampa of Newmark Knight Frank Cornish & Carey Capital Group.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — McCormick Place, a 74,474-square-foot office building in Scottsdale, has sold to Scottsdale Healthcare Corporation for $14.95 million. An adjacent, free-standing, covered parking garage was also included in the acquisition. The vacant building is located at 8125 N. Hayden Road. The building previously served as Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation’s corporate headquarters until 2008. Scottsdale Healthcare plans to relocate its corporate headquarters here in 2013. The company was represented by Luke Walker and David Carder of CBRE’s Phoenix office, along with Patti Gentry of Arizona Commercial Advisors. The seller, a Northern California real estate investment company, was represented by Jerry Noble, Pat Devine and Greg Mayer out of the same office.
ORLANDO, FLA. — A one-story, 19,344-square-foot office building at 1001 N. Orange Ave. in downtown Orlando recently traded for $2 million. Donald F. Evans Trust sold the property, which was built by The Evans Group in 1998 and expanded in 2003, to Orlando-based 1001 North Orange Avenue LLC. Thomas Hankins and Eric Parrs of NAI Realvest represented the seller.
BROOKFIELD, ILL. — Commercial real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle plans to open a new corporate office in suburban Brookfield. Dan Jessup, a longtime Milwaukee-area commercial real estate executive, has been tapped to lead the new office and will be joined by fellow broker Michael Streit. Jessup and Streit are joining the firm from APEX Commercial Realty and will specialize in representing office and industrial real estate tenants and owners, as well as local corporations. Among the team's first assignments is overseeing leasing for four office buildings totaling 350,000 square feet in Waukesha and Brookfield owned by a private Midwest-based real estate investment company.
NEW YORK CITY — Construction is complete on an $11 million renovation at 650 Fifth Ave., a 36-story office tower in New York City that is home to tenants such as Citigroup, Starwood Hotels and Resorts and Liz Claiborne. The 18-month project resulted in a new lobby, elevators, a new outdoor esplanade and new restrooms on vacant floors. The 382,500-square-foot property is owned by 650 Fifth Ave. Co., which hired architectural firm Swanke Hayden Connell for the project. The owner also tapped CBRE Group to lease and manage the property, which is located at the edge of Rockefeller Center.
LEXINGTON, MASS. — Sekisui Diagnostics, a medical testing tools manufacturer, has signed a lease for 18,707 square feet of office and laboratory space at 4 Hartwell Place in Lexington. The company's new space will house 85 employees. The one-story building has direct access to I-95 and accommodates a range of uses from lab space to development functions. Joe Fallon, Kevin Hanna, Mike Brown and Connor Barnes of Cassidy Turley FHO represented Sekisui in the transaction. Eric Smith of Richards Barry Joyce & Partners represented the landlord, King Street Properties.
HOUSTON — NorthMarq Capital has secured $18.2 million in acquisition financing for the 189,000-square-foot Echo Office Building, located in Houston. Bart Dickinson of NorthMarq's Dallas office arranged the five-year loan with a 30-year amortization schedule through a life insurance company lender on behalf of the borrower, Velocis Partners.
DENVER – A pair of Denver office buildings received $59 million in financing. The buildings are cross-collateralized, and were acquired by Broadreach Capital Partners in 2007. They include One Union Square, a 188,707-square-foot office building at 143 Union Blvd. in Lakewood’s Union Corridor, and a 277,710-square-foot office building at 303 E. 17th Ave. in Downtown Denver The funds include a $49 –million, first-mortgage loan provided by Mesa West, and $10 million in mezzanine debt provided by Investcorp. The funds were used to remove the existing debt and to fund future leasing costs to stabilize the properties, according to Ronnie Gul, a Mesa West principal who originated the financing, which was arranged by Brad Zampa of Newmark Knight Frank Cornish & Carey Capital Group.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — McCormick Place, a 74,474-square-foot office building in Scottsdale, has sold to Scottsdale Healthcare Corporation for $14.95 million. An adjacent, free-standing, covered parking garage was also included in the acquisition. The vacant building is located at 8125 N. Hayden Road. The building previously served as Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation’s corporate headquarters until 2008. Scottsdale Healthcare plans to relocate its corporate headquarters here in 2013. The company was represented by Luke Walker and David Carder of CBRE’s Phoenix office, along with Patti Gentry of Arizona Commercial Advisors. The seller, a Northern California real estate investment company, was represented by Jerry Noble, Pat Devine and Greg Mayer out of the same office.
