IRVING, TEXAS — Asset manager Singer Equities has signed a 15,294-square-foot lease at Cottonwood Office Center in Irving. The three-building, 165,000-square-foot campus was previously home to Liberty Mutual. John Dickenson and Paul Hernandez of Holt Lunsford Commercial represented the landlord, Capital Commercial Investments, in the lease negotiations. Brad Lipton of Mohr Partners represented the tenant.
LUBBOCK, TEXAS — Tangram Interiors, a Dallas-based interior design firm, has opened a new office at 6510 70th St. in Lubbock. Britni Wilkens, a sales executive with the company, will lead the Lubbock office, which is the seventh for Tangram Interiors. The company’s other five offices are located in California. Tangram Interiors is the flagship dealer for office furniture manufacturer Steelcase, which recently opened a new showroom in Dallas.
SAN DIEGO — JLL Capital Markets has arranged $82.5 million in refinancing for Sunroad Centrum Office Tower, an 11-story office building in San Diego. Aldon Cole, Tim Wright and Bharat Madan of JLL Capital Markets secured the five-year, fixed-rate senior loan thorugh Goldman Sachs for the borrower, Sunroad Enterprises. Originally built in 2008, Sunroad Centrum Office Tower offers 274,758 square feet of Class A office space. Sunroad Enterprises invested $30 million in improvements to re-tenant the building, which was fully occupied at closing. Current tenants include A Berkshire Hathaway Company, Kyocera, Appfolio, Conam, Veterans Administration, California Government Departments and Sunroad Enterprises’ corporate headquarters. Situated on 1.5 acres at 8620 Spectrum Center, Sunroad Centrum Office Tower offers a full-service gym and lockers, restaurant, conference center, controlled access, renovated lobby and elevators, and abundant parking. Additionally, the asset is part of the Sunroad Centrum master plan that include 1,245 apartments, Park Social Restaurant, six gyms, five pools, multiple amenity areas, a barber shop, pickleball courts and a two-acre park, which includes separate dog play and child play areas.
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — Quantum Commercial Group has arranged the sale of a 9,400-square-foot office space at 118, 120 and 122 E. Kiowa St. in Colorado Springs. Spaces Ltd. sold the asset to IV Goats LLC for $2.4 million. Andrew Oyler of Quantum Commercial Group handled the transaction.
HOUSTON — Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HHH) has broken ground on One Bridgeland Green, a 49,000-square-foot, mass timber office project in northwest Houston. The site is located within the 925-acre Bridgeland master-planned development. The design team includes San Antonio-based Lake Flato and Houston-based Kirksey Architecture. Tellepsen is the general contractor for the project, which is slated for a summer 2025 delivery. JLL has been tapped as the leasing agent.
ILLINOIS — IWG, a provider of hybrid working solutions with brands including Spaces, Regus and HQ, is adding seven flexible workspaces in metro Chicago. The centers are designed to shorten commute times and provide increased flexibility for residents to work in the communities in which they reside. IWG says its new Illinois locations come on the heels of the business posting its highest-ever revenue and adding 867 new global locations over the course of 2023. IWG added 35 new locations in Illinois in 2023. With these seven new signings, IWG’s footprint now spans 75 locations across the state. Two of the new spaces are in Chicago, while the rest are in Naperville, Buffalo Grove, Libertyville, Naperville and Olympia Fields. IWG predicts that 30 percent of all commercial real estate will be flexible workspace by 2030.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Piedmont Office Realty Trust Inc. has signed Travel + Leisure Co., a timeshare hospitality giant, to a lease at 501 W. Church in downtown Orlando. The publicly traded tenant will occupy the entirety of the five-story, 182,000-square-foot building and utilize the space for its new corporate headquarters through at least 2040. Alex Valente and Ben Mullenix represented Piedmont Office internally in the lease transaction along with Michael Phipps and Colin Morrison of CBRE. Greg Katz and Jason Warren of Stream Realty Partners, along with Mike Hopper of Newmark, represented the tenant. According to Valente, the Travel + Leisure lease represents the largest lease in downtown Orlando since 2019. Piedmont Office plans to renovate and rebrand the building ahead of the tenant’s occupancy in 2025. Preparations will include adding signage and modern amenities — including a new fitness center, conference center and café — to create a experience tailored for Travel + Leisure’s 900 expected employees.
ANTIOCH, TENN. — NAI Nashville Stanton Group has brokered the $7 million sale of a 44,150-square-foot office building located at 5255 Hickory Hollow Parkway in Antioch, about 13 miles southeast of Nashville. An entity doing business as NCT LLC purchased the property from Rocketown of Middle Tennessee, a faith-based organization that operated the building as a live concert venue and skate park, according to the seller’s website. Ben Claybaker and Brandon Hoop of NAI Nashville Stanton Group represented the seller in the transaction. Sheri Ma of MM Realty and Management represented the buyer.
MIAMI — CP Group and DRA Advisors have executed nearly 40,000 square feet of office lease transactions at Miami Tower, a 47-story, Class A office tower located at 100 S.E. 2nd St. in downtown Miami. The executed deals include two lease renewals (H&R Block and Transwestern), one expansion (law firm Assouline & Berlowe) and seven new leases, all of which were for Miami Tower’s newly completed spec suites. The seven new tenants include Two Chairs, a behavioral healthcare company; GTS Group, a financial services company with locations in New York and Chicago; Shubin Law Group, a law firm specializing in land use and zoning entitlement litigation; Weisberg Kainen Mark PL, a tax law and criminal defense law firm; Latin Securities, an investment advisory firm; NormanMax Insurance Group, a reinsurance group; and Mamone & Villalon, a litigation and business law firm.
NEW YORK CITY — Studio Museum in Harlem has signed a 26,000-square-foot office lease at 121 W. 125th St. The building, which is known as the Urban Empowerment Center and is located across from the actual museum, will also soon be home to the National Urban League headquarters as the organization returns to Harlem. Taconic Partners is leading the office component of the development. No third-party brokers were involved in the lease negotiations.