SAN RAMON, CALIF. — University Avenue Partners has purchased a mixed-use property located at 2551 San Ramon Valley Blvd. in San Ramon. Terms of the transaction were not released. At the time of sale, the 52,149-square-foot asset was 90 percent leased to a diverse mix of office and retail tenants. Steven Golubchik, Edmund Najera, Jonathan Schaefler and Darren Hollak of Newmark facilitated the transaction. Nicholas Bicardo of Newmark advised on the retail component of the sale.
CHICAGO — Owner CIM Group has negotiated three new leases totaling 108,975 square feet at 425 S. Financial Place, a 40-story, 1 million-square-foot office tower in Chicago’s Central Loop. Loop Capital, a full-service investment bank, brokerage and advisory firm, leased 36,676 square feet on the 26th and 27th floors. The company is relocating its Chicago operations. Chicago Trading Co., which has occupied space at 425 S. Financial Place since 2009, is expanding within the building taking an additional 46,343 square feet on the seventh and eighth floors. The company is a proprietary trading firm and consists of a collaborative group of traders, quants, technologists and operations team members. TICG Management, which offers a range of products including mortgage loans, real estate services and a line of insurance, renewed its lease for 25,956 square feet. The company has occupied space on the 20th floor since 2014. In 2015, 425 S. Financial Place underwent renovations, including the addition of a full-service cafeteria, conference centers, concierge services, a tenant lounge and outdoor terrace. The property also houses the Buckingham.AC, a private social and athletic club, as well as the 21-room Buckingham Hotel.
DALLAS — Law firm McGuireWoods has signed a 33,345-square-foot office lease at The Link at Uptown in Dallas. The firm will occupy the entire 22nd floor and part of the 21st floor of the 25-story building, which is now 96 percent leased. Blake Shipley of JLL, in conjunction with Sarah Kennington and Bryce Jackson of Thirty-Four Commercial, represented the landlord, Kaizen Development Partners, in the lease negotiations. Stephen Hemphill, Cory Darden and Steve Macnoll of Mohr Partners represented McGuireWoods.
RICHMOND, VA. — Locally based real estate investment firm Lingerfelt has sold a portfolio of 11 office buildings in and around the Innsbrook master-planned park in Virginia’s Henrico County. Charlottesville, Va.-based Seminole Trail purchased the portfolio for approximately $119 million. The 723,103-square-foot portfolio was approximately 82 percent leased at the time of sale. The buyer plans to move forward with adding over 1,300 apartments to five of the 11 properties in the portfolio, which Henrico County rezoned for mixed-use in 2021. Lingerfelt and its investors will continue to own eight properties within Innsbrook totaling 240,000 square feet of office and flex warehouse buildings. The company also has an active development pipeline for new industrial assets and multifamily communities in Henrico County and beyond.
LAGUNA HILLS, CALIF. — Newport Beach-based Buchanan Street Partners has purchased Oakbrook Plaza, an office building located at 24422 Avenida De La Carlota in Laguna Hills. A New York City-based fund manager sold the property for $28.1 million in an off-market transaction. The four-story building features 120,354 square feet of space. Currently, the property is 66 percent occupied, with 30 percent of the existing space leased to medical tenants. The asset is located less than one mile from MemorialCare Sadddleback Medical Center and several retirement communities. Kevin Shannon, Paul Jones and Brandon White of Newmark represented the seller in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Fintech services firm WorkFusion has signed a 13,327-square-foot office lease at 1450 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan. The tenant will relocate from 48 Wall Street to the entire 19th floor of the 42-story building, which features a fitness center, conference facility and tenant lounges. Val Stobetsky, William McGarry and Michael Pallas of JLL represented WorkFusion in the lease negotiations. Mitchell Konsker, Barbara Winter, Greg Wang, Simon Landmann and Thomas Swart, also with JLL, represented the landlord, ZG Capital. The building is now 90 percent leased.
By Ken Colao, president and CEO, CNY Group Whether you’re on the Jersey Parkway or the Turnpike, you’ve undoubtedly driven past commercial buildings and office parks that have stood in the Garden State for decades. But the age of many of these structures is starting to cause problems. Earlier this year, JLL released a report in which the real estate firm estimated that 57 percent of suburban office space nationwide is old enough to be considered functionally obsolete. In New Jersey, specifically, that figure rises to 72 percent, among the highest in the nation. Based on two decades worth of construction experience in New Jersey and New York, CNY Group believes the two most likely outcomes for these structures involve upgrades to true Class A offices or conversion to life sciences facilities. Keeping Offices Intact With a growing number of people migrating out of urban cores, suburban office developers are revitalizing their properties to attract new tenants. When employees began moving away from city centers, employers didn’t particularly follow them, but that trend could change. Businesses will decrease their real estate footprints in urban areas unless costs of occupancy are reduced, safety is maintained and environmental standards and practices are …
DALLAS — Granite Properties, in partnership with publicly traded REIT Highwoods Properties (NYSE: HIW), has acquired McKinney & Olive, a 507,000-square-foot office building in Uptown Dallas. Designed by architect Cesar Pelli and completed in 2016, the building includes 50,000 square feet of retail space and was 99 percent leased at the time of sale. Other amenities include a fitness center, rooftop terrace, lounge and a conference center. Andrew Levy and Todd Savage of JLL represented the seller and developer, institutional investors advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, in the transaction.
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLO. — Blue West Capital has brokered the sale of a single-tenant property located at 2717 S. Copper Passage in Steamboat Springs. A Colorado-based private investor sold the asset to a Denver-based buyer for $5 million in an all-cash transaction. FedEx has operated at the property since 2000 and recently signed a long-term, net-lease extension. Brandon Gayeski of Blue West Capital represented the seller in the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — SJP Properties and PGIM Real Estate have completed a $15 million renovation project at 470 Park Avenue, a 300,000-square-foot office building in Manhattan. The multi-year project refreshed the building façade, replaced windows to increase natural lighting, delivered custom buildouts of select suites, upgraded infrastructure, improved sustainability systems and modernized the elevator system. Ownership also added a new tenant lounge and outdoor space for meetings, presentations and conferences and updated the building’s retail space.
