BOSTON — Four Commonwealth of Massachusetts agencies have taken 138,000 square feet of office space at 1000 Washington Street, an 11-story, 242,000-square-foot office tower located in Boston’s South End that is owned by Nordic Properties. The agencies are all part of the Department of Consumer Affairs and include the Department of Telecommunications and Cable, the Division of Banks, the Division of Insurance and the Division of Professional Licensure. They will occupy floors six through 10, and will share IT facilities and public meeting spaces. The agencies are expected to take occupancy in December. Nordblom Development Co., the parent company of Nordic, will oversee the tenant build-out, and Nordblom Management Co. will oversee property management of the building. Formerly the world headquarters for Teradyne, 1000 Washington Street is situated on a 2-acre city block adjacent to the city’s Financial District and Chinatown. It features a brand new lobby reception area with two outdoor plazas, a top-floor café, a lower-level fitness center and an attached 310-space parking garage.
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PLANO, TEXAS — The Dallas office of Duke Realty Corp. has leased a 100,000-square-foot office building located in Plano to MedAssets. The building is situated at 5556 Tennyson Pkwy. within Legacy Business Park. MedAssets will take occupancy in two phases. In September, MedAssets will occupy 50 percent of the building, which was leased but not occupied by the current tenant, Oracle. In the fourth quarter of 2010, MedAssets will take occupancy of the remaining half of the building, concurrent with the termination of Oracle’s lease of the remaining space. MedAssets will be consolidating two of its Dallas-area offices into the new location, which will serve as the company’s new regional headquarters. MedAssets was represented in lease negotiations by John Flack of Cresa Partner’s Atlanta office, as well as CB Richard Ellis’ Jeff Ellerman, Scott Hobbs and Robert Blount. Oracle was represented in the termination of its lease by Greg Langston and Brett Hefton of Cresa Partners’ Dallas office. Duke was represented in-house by Ben Appleby and by Dale Ray of Peloton.
PLANO, TEXAS — Adler Realty Investments has signed three leases at Tennyson Office Park, located in Plano. CreditAnswers has signed a lease for 31,000 square feet; Real Estate Disposition Corp. has signed a lease for 14,000 square feet; and Infosys has renewed and expanded its lease by 10,000 square feet, bringing its total to 41,000 square feet leased. Rick Rensi and Clay Gilbert of CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) represented Adler in lease negotiations. Baron Aldridge CBRE represented CreditAnswers; Nelson Somerville of Vaughn Commercial Realty Group represented Real Estate Disposition Corp.; and Pat O’Keefe of CBRE represented Infosys. Terms of the leases were not disclosed.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Washington office of Gensler Associates will redesign the 1 million-square-foot Washington Square office tower starting later this year. Twenty retail shops also occupy space in the building. The property, located at 1050 Connecticut Ave. in Washington, is owned by Lerner Enterprises and The Tower Companies. Renovations include enhanced access-control systems, a new elevator system and additional bike racks.
NEW YORK CITY — Denham Wolf Real Estate Services has brokered a 10-year, 7,200-square-foot lease at 171 Madison Ave. in Manhattan, New York City, for Lawyers Alliance for New York Inc. (LANY). The company, which provides business and transactional legal services for nonprofit organizations, will use this new space for its general, executive and administrative offices. Paul Wolf and Amy Lawrence of Denham Wolf Real Estate Services represented the tenant in the transaction while Brian Steinwurtzel and Andrew Udis of Newmark Knight Frank represented ownership, a partnership that is part of Newmark Holdings. Details of the lease were undisclosed, but the asking price was $36 per square foot. Built in 1914, the 16-story building features 113,182 square feet.
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — Beusa Energy Inc. has leased the top floor of the new 4 Waterway Square office building in The Woodlands. Located at the intersection of Waterway Square Place and Woodloch Forest Drive in The Woodlands Waterway Square District, the Class A building is under construction with completion expected in early September. Beusa will relocate from its current offices in the Parkwood Building at 10077 Grogan’s Mill Rd. to its new 24,592-square-foot space at 4 Waterway Square in December. Boston-based Elkus-Manfredi designed the nine-story, 216,000-square-foot office building, which is being built by Harvey Builders of Houston. Gensler Houston is the architect of record. The Woodlands is a project of The Woodlands Development Company.
CLEVELAND, TENN. — Dayton, Tenn.-based Dillard Construction has broken ground on the first phase of Green Development Group’s 26,000-square-foot Ocoee Commons Professional Office Park, located on Ocoee Crossing in Cleveland. The initial phase includes 13,738 square feet, with the remainder of the space being constructed during phase two. A little more than 2,000 square feet has already been leased.
OMAHA, NEB. — Omaha-based Grubb & Ellis | Pacific Realty has brokered two commercial sales in Omaha totaling $11.4 million. In the first transaction, Jasper Stone Properties III LLC purchased Financial Plaza, an 85,653-square-foot office building located at 9410 W. Dodge Rd., from Financial Plaza II LLC. The building traded for $8.3 million. Scott Heider, Edgar Fleming and Candice Bruns, all of Grubb & Ellis, represented the seller. In the second transaction, Mike and Anna Sortino purchased Crossroads Plaza, a 19,906-square-foot shopping center located at 7610 Dodge St., from Friedman Family LP. The center traded for $3.1 million. Erik Wagner of Grubb & Ellis represented the buyer. Barry Zoob and Kyle Peterson, also of Grubb & Ellis, represented the seller. Grubb & Ellis will also be provided property management services for the center.
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. a full-service regional brokerage and investment banking firm, has signed a 10-year, 24,771-square-foot lease at The Treeline Companies’ 1225 Franklin Avenue Plaza in Garden City. Kraig Silver of The Treeline Companies, represented the landlord in-house. Jay Stewart of Grubb & Ellis and Roger Wooster of Sutton & Edwards, Inc. represented the tenant. The five-story, Class A building features 205,000 square feet, as well as amenities such as meeting facilities, executive dining, a fitness center, and on-site owner management. The new lease represents a relocation and expansion for Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, which was previously located at 50 Charles Lindbergh Blvd. in Uniondale, New York. ?
DENVER — HRPT Properties Trust has acquired Seventeenth Street Plaza, a 33-story office tower located at 1225 17th St. in Denver, for an undisclosed price. The 666,653-square-foot is LEED Gold certified and has received ENERGY STAR awards since 2003. At the time of acquisition, the property was 93 percent occupied. Property amenities include an attached parking structure, Ink! Coffee, Heidi’s Brooklyn Deli, a fitness facility with showers and lockers, a bank, 24-hour security and a loading dock with a dedicated freight elevator. Mary Sullivan and Tim Swan of CB Richard Ellis represented the seller, institutional investors advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, in the transaction.