NEW YORK CITY — Brookfield Office Properties selected Jones Lang LaSalle as the office leasing agent for One World Financial Center and Three World Financial Center in New York City. The properties total 3.7 million square feet. John Wheeler will lead the Jones Lang LaSalle team overseeing the assignment. The team also includes Paul Glickman and Clayton Cline. One World FInancial Center is a 40-story tower, located at 200 Liberty St. Three World Financial Center is a 53-story tower at 200 Vesey St.
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HOUSTON — Velocis has purchased two Class A office buildings totaling approximately 190,000 square feet in Houston's Hedwig Village. The buildings, 950 and 952 Echo Lane, are currently 90 percent leased. Rudy Hubbard and Kevin McConn of Jones Lang LaSalle represented the seller, Houston Mark I Properties, in the transaction.
HOUSTON — Ziegler Cooper Architects has signed a lease for 25,000 square feet of office space in Bank of America Center, located in downtown Houston. Ziegler Cooper designed its office space to include 65-foot cathedral ceilings over its studio space and a cyber cafe known as Ziegler Cooper Cafe. The new office space is expected to achieve LEED Gold certification and is expected to be complete in December.
DALLAS — Colliers International North Texas has arranged the sale of the 52,750-square-foot Hart Furniture Building, an office and entertainment building located at 1929-1933 Elm St., 201 N. Harwood St. and 1930 Pacific Ave. in downtown Dallas. David Glasscock and Wade Smith of Colliers represented the seller, Cathay Bank, in the transaction. The buyer was Pacific Elm Building.
WEBSTER — NorthMarq Capital has secured $5.8 million in first mortgage refinancing for the 50,100-square-foot Corporate Center Texas, an office building located at 16969 Texas Ave. in Webster. Fiserv, Technology Transfer, Methodist Hospital, Everheart Systems and TRACLabs are major tenants of the property. John Burke and Chad Owens of NorthMarq's Houston office arranged the 10-year loan with a 20-year amortization schedule through a life insurance company on behalf of the borrower, Warehouse Associates Corporate Centre.
NAPLES, FLA. — FTC Naples has sold the 161,000-square-foot Fifth Third Center, located at 999 Vanderbilt Beach Road in Naples, for $49.92 million. The property is the largest office building in Collier County. Premier Commercial represented the buyer in the transaction. Craig Timmins and Clint Sherwood of Investment Properties Corp. represented the seller.
NASHVILLE, TENN. — A joint venture between Adler Real Estate Fund and Kawa Capital Management has purchased the 135,653-square-foot Greenbriar Business Park, an office and flex property located at 2525 Perimeter Place Drive in Nashville. The property is 88 percent leased. Tenants include Honeywell International, Diebold, Dataium and Neopost USA. Steve Preston and Douglass Johnson of CBRE Group represented the seller, KBS REIT I, in the transaction. HFF secured a primary mortgage through SunTrust Bank on behalf of Adler Real Estate Fund.
CHICAGO — Polsinelli Shugart's Chicago office is expanding to a third floor in the Chicago Title and Trust Building at 161 N. Clark St. The law firm will gain an additional 18,000 square feet of space, which is part of the company's growth plan. Polsinelli moved into the property in 2009, originally occupying 29,000 square feet on the 41st and 42nd floors. The company will now occupy a total of 60,000 square feet in the building. Cushman & Wakefield represented Polsinelli in the transaction.
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Aptalis Pharma has expanded its lease by 20,576 square feet at Somerset Corporate Center I in Bridgewater. The transaction marks the second expansion for the privately held specialty pharmaceutical company. Aptalis now leases a total of 52,320 square feet at the property. Benjamin Brenner and Curtis Foster of Cushman & Wakefield represented Aptalis in the transaction. The landlord, SJP Properties, was represented in-house by Peter Bronsnick.
FRISCO — Alliance Architects has completed interior design services for 63,269 square feet of office space at 5300 Town & Country Blvd. in Frisco for Comstock Resources, which occupies three floors of the office building. The redesign included a new internal grand stair that connects all three floors, updated elevator lobby, new catering/serving kitchen, revisions to the storage area, renovations of offices, new breakroom with patio access, remodeled board room and the addition of an executive coffee bar. Highland Builders was the general contractor, Facilities Management and Construction provided construction management services, Brockette Davis Drake provided structural engineering services and Dale Caffey & Associates provided MEP engineering services.