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1991-Broadway-Redwood-City-CA

REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. — DivcoWest, a DivCore Capital company, has acquired 1991 Broadway, a three-story, 66,000-square-foot office building in downtown Redwood City, from an owner-user in an off-market transaction. Simultaneous with the closing, DivcoWest executed a 45,000-square-foot long-term lease with Paul Hastings, a global law firm, that will serve as the anchor tenant for the building. As a result of the Paul Hastings lease, the building was 82 percent leased to three tenants at closing. Ham Southworth, Ken Rapp and Morgan Griffith of CBRE represented Paul Hastings in the lease negotiations. Ben Paul of Cushman & Wakefield represented DivcoWest.

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DALLAS — Newmark has negotiated the sale of The Offices at Park Lane, a 230,691-square-foot office complex in North Dallas. Completed in the mid-1970s, the two-building complex is located within The Shops at Park Lane, a 33-acre mixed-use development, and was 66 percent leased to 16 tenants at the time of sale. Chris Murphy, Robert Hill, Gary Carr and Austin Sheahan of Newmark represented the seller, Northwood Investors, in the transaction. The buyer was DFW LAND Real Estate.

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BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Colliers has negotiated the sale of CenterPointe I, a 66,500-square-foot vacant office building in the Northern New Jersey community of Bridgewater. Allstate Insurance previously occupied the building, which according to LoopNet Inc. is part of a larger campus known as CenterPointe at Bridgewater. Jacklene Chesler, Patrick Norris and Brittany Leventoff of Colliers represented the seller, Signature Acquisitions, in the transaction. The buyer was an undisclosed nonprofit organization.

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NEW YORK CITY — EQT Partners has signed a 38,358-square-foot office lease expansion in Midtown Manhattan. The global investment organization now occupies 114,562 square feet across the 32nd, 33rd and 34th floors of 245 Park Avenue, a 44-story, 1.8 million-square-foot. Michael Movshovich and Ethan Silverstein of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Bruce Mosler, Harry Blair, Ron LoRusso, Justin Royce and Pierce Hance, also with Cushman & Wakefield, represented the landlord, SL Green.

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NEW YORK CITY — Walker & Dunlop Inc. has arranged an $867 million financing package for 111 Wall Street, a 24-story, waterfront office building in Lower Manhattan’s Financial District. The development team, led by borrower InterVest capital partners, a global alternative investment manager based in New York City, plans to convert the fully vacant office building into a 30-story luxury apartment building housing 1,568 rental units. Approximately 25 percent of the units will be designated as affordable housing for residents earning an average of 80 percent of the area median income (AMI), qualifying the project for New York City’s Affordable Housing Conversion Program. Dustin Stolly, Aaron Appel, Adam Schwartz, Keith Kurland, Jonathan Schwartz, Sean Reimer and Sean Bastian of Walker & Dunlop arranged a $778.6 million construction loan through Apollo Global Management, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and TYKO Capital. The closing of this financing marks the largest single-building office-to-residential conversion loan in New York City history as well as the country, according to Walker & Dunlop. Walker & Dunlop also advised on the extension of an existing $88.4 million C-PACE loan from Petros that remained in the capitalization, bringing the total financing package to $867 million. “With office vacancies …

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — BXP has acquired 2100 M Street, a 300,000-square-foot office building located in the West End of Washington, D.C., for $55 million. The publicly traded, Boston-based office REIT plans to demolish the existing building and develop a new 320,000-square-foot office tower. BXP expects to commence construction of the project in 2028. Eastdil Secured represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. Additionally, Sidley Austin LLP has signed a 240,000-square-foot lease to anchor the future trophy property, occupying 75 percent of the building. The global law firm will be situated on the fourth through 10th floors and is scheduled to move into its new space in 2031. Lou Christopher and Jordan Brainard of CBRE represented Sidley Austin in the lease transaction.

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10000-Energy-Drive-Spring-Texas

SPRING, TEXAS — Tetra Technologies has signed a 61,975-square-foot office headquarters lease in Spring, a northern suburb of Houston. The energy services company will occupy space at 10000 Energy Drive, a two-building, 563,716-square-foot complex that was completed in 2014. David Baker, Elliott Hirshfeld and Kristen Baker of Newmark represented the landlord, Spear Street Capital, in the lease negotiations. Caleb Lawson of Flatrock Commercial Real Estate Group represented the tenant.

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4625-S-Wendler-Dr-Tempe-AZ

TEMPE, ARIZ. — Home photographer Rocket Lister has acquired a two-story office building, located at 4625 S. Wendler Drive in Tempe, from Batch Leads for $5.7 million. Rocket Lister will use a portion of the 46,804-square-foot building for its headquarters and lease the remaining space. Kurt Kerner and Connor Maloney of Kidder Matthews represented Rocket Lister in the transaction and will manage leasing of the property.

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140-Kendrick-Street-Needham-Massachusetts

NEEDHAM, MASS. — Newmark has negotiated the $132 million sale of 140 Kendrick Street, a 400,00-square-foot office property in Needham, located southwest of Boston. Wellington Management anchors the property, which comprises three interconnected buildings that are also home to tenants such as Clarks, CyberArk and Focus Partners Wealth. Robert Griffin, Edward Maher, Matthew Pullen, James Tribble, Samantha Hallowell and William Sleeper of Newmark represented the seller, BXP (formerly known as Boston Properties), in the transaction. The team also procured the buyer, a partnership between Cross Ocean Partners and Lincoln Property Co.

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LUBBOCK, TEXAS —SIMFLO, a locally based provider of vertical and submersible turbine pumps, has opened a 30,000-square-foot industrial and office facility in the West Texas city of Lubbock. The facility functions as a quality control center for conducting inspections on all components not manufactured in-house and is part of SIMFLO’s existing corporate campus. The facility is expected to be fully operational by early to mid-January.

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