SEATTLE — Gantry has secured a $10.2 million permanent loan to refinance the historic Terminal Sales office building in downtown Seattle. Located at 1932 1st Ave., adjacent to Pike Place Market, the 11-story, 92,400-square-foot building was originally delivered in 1925. The property was eventually renovated to serve as modern creative office space and includes street-level retail space. Mike Wood and Tim Brown of Gantry represented the borrower, a private real estate investor. The 10-year, fixed-rate nonrecourse loan was secured by Gantry’s network of insurance company correspondent lenders with 25-year amortization. Gantry will service the loan for the lender.
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DES MOINES, IOWA — Foth, an engineering services firm, has relocated to the historic Carpenter Building in downtown Des Moines. Savills managed the lease negotiations, project management and office build-out for the 23,500-square-foot space. The project spans the second and third floors with an interconnected stairwell. Constructed in 1918, the Carpenter Building is a 50,000-square-foot property that has recently been transformed into Class A office space. Amenities include a fitness center, game room and conferencing facilities. Ashley Moen and Andrew Yung of Savills managed the lease negotiations for Foth while colleague Jon Theis led the build-out.
MIDDLEBOROUGH, MASS. — Premier Fence, a provider of fencing and outdoor home goods, has acquired a 25.8-acre industrial facility in Middleborough, located south of Boston. The property at 370 Wareham St. features four approximately 20,000-square-foot buildings. Two buildings will house uses such as manufacturing, warehousing of raw materials, storage of finished goods and office, showroom and employee training space. Premier Fence will market the other two buildings for lease. The company expects to open its new facility this spring. MassDevelopment provided $11.7 million in bond financing, some of which is tax-exempt, for the purchase and build-out of the facility. Cambridge Savings Bank purchased the bond.
BEDFORD, MASS. — Locally based investment firm Cummings Properties has purchased a 330,000-square-foot vacant office and life sciences facility in Bedford, located northwest of Boston. Developed in 2001 and known as Bedford Woods, the two-building facility sits on a 56-acre site at 174-176 Middlesex Turnpike; 35 of those acres remain undeveloped. Cummings acquired the property, which last sold for more than $93 million in 2012 to Texas-based Orion REIT LP, via auction.
By Michael Poris, McIntosh Poris Architects Long defined by its industrial legacy, Detroit development currently combines ground-up construction with intelligent, innovative adaptive reuse. Brick-and-mortar manufacturing-era remnants include many buildings that originally served the automotive industry. As large-scale manufacturing relocated and Detroit’s population declined, several significant buildings were abandoned. Many are viable for second lives, ones that fulfill current commercial real estate market demands. Adaptive reuse makes sense I co-founded McIntosh Poris in 1994 to protect Detroit’s historic buildings from bulldozers and redesign them for a post-manufacturing economy. At that time, demolition was the most expedient option. To address this, we focused as much on civic networking and preservation education as architectural design. Implementation involved organizing events with public officials and the local business community to meet leaders of other cities’ successful urban-renewal programs. To make Detroit more attractive to commercial real estate investment, we lobbied for zoning changes. Most relevant, commercial and historic districts were re-evaluated to permit mixed-use redevelopment. Historic preservation became viable, often making sense both financially and culturally. Well before sustainability became a commercial real estate consideration, we educated developers on available adaptive reuse incentives such as historic tax credits. Combined with the inherent efficiencies of reuse, …
Angelic Real Estate Holdings, JDI Realty Buy Medical Office Building in Eagle River, Alaska
by Amy Works
EAGLE RIVER, ALASKA — Angelic Real Estate Holdings, along with its institutional partner JDI Realty, has purchased 17101 Snowmobile Lane in Eagle River, a suburb of Anchorage. Terms of the transaction were not released. Completed in 2008, the two-story building offers just under 20,000 square feet of rentable medical office space. The new ownership plans to upgrade the property with advanced digital building monitoring and control systems, as well as some aesthetic interior and exterior improvements. Since 2021, Angelic has owned the sibling medical office building in Palmer, Alaska, a 25-minute drive from the Eagle River asset. The acquisition was financed with a loan from First National Bank Alaska, procured by Angelic Real Estate, the affiliated brokerage arm of Angelic Real Estate Holdings.
LAKE FOREST, ILL. — Greenstone Partners has arranged the $8.9 million sale of Conway Park, a 225,000-square-foot office complex in the northern Chicago suburb of Lake Forest. Danny Spitz of Greenstone represented the buyer, The STG Group, a private real estate investment group based in Petaluma, Calif. Matthew Tarshis, Andrew Rubin, Andrew Picchietti, Zack Pearlstein and Andrew Slovis of Frontline Real Estate Partners represented the undisclosed seller. The property is currently 43 percent leased. Three of the five largest tenants have lease terms extending through 2030 and beyond.
DALLAS — Stonelake Capital Partners has signed a 16,008-square-foot office lease at 23Springs, a newly constructed office building in Uptown Dallas. The real estate private equity firm is expanding and relocating from The Crescent to the ninth floor of the 26-story building. Robert Jimenez, Burson Holman and Elizabeth Fortado represented the landlord, Dallas-based Granite Properties, in the lease negotiations on an internal basis. Peery Wood of Stream Realty Partners represented Stonelake Capital.
NEW YORK CITY — Fashion wholesaler Amiee Lynn Inc. has signed a 29,000-square-foot office lease extension in Manhattan’s Garment District. The lease term is five years and seven months, and the space spans the entire 10th and 11th floors of 366 Fifth Avenue, a 12-story historic building. Woody King, Noah Caspi and Todd Korren of Lee & Associates represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Michael Joseph and Aidan Campbell of Colliers represented the landlord, Joseph P. Day Realty.
BOTHELL, WASH. — Colliers has arranged the sale of the Wright Group Building, an office and flex property located at 19201 120th Ave. NE in Bothell’s North Creek business park. RH Wright LLC sold the asset to Gravestone Partners for $10.2 million. Totaling 59,830 square feet, the building offers 25,000 square feet office space supported by flex and warehouse elements. The property features at least 20-foot clear heights, two dock-high doors, eight grade-level doors and 1,000 amps of power. At the time of sale, the building was partially occupied by a mix of office and service-oriented tenants, including Trane Technologies, Element Materials Technologies, ISEC Construction, Taekwondo Way, Biogenesis and Barry Glenn State Farm. David Gunther of Colliers represented the seller in the deal.