NEW YORK CITY — Advantage Capital Holdings has signed a 10,000-square-foot office lease at 1180 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan. The 398,937-square-foot building recently underwent a value-add program. Bryan Boisi, Michael Baraldi, Harry Blair and Mark Boisi of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, Northwood Investors, in the lease negotiations. Justin Myers and Dennis Someck of Lee & Associates represented the tenant, which is taking space on the 21st floor.
SANDY SPRINGS, GA. — Atlanta-based Bull Realty has brokered the $6.9 million sale of a 36,000-square-foot office building located at 5009 Roswell Road in Sandy Springs, a suburb of Atlanta. The seller was the property’s lender, an unnamed major bank. The buyer was also not disclosed. The property was 90 percent vacant at the time of sale. Michael Bull of Bull Realty represented the seller in the transaction.
EDISON, N.J. — Locally based brokerage firm Zimmel Associates has arranged the $49.7 million sale of a 122,000-square-foot office complex located at 1090 King Georges Post Road in the Northern New Jersey community of Edison. The campus is known as The Business Center at Edison and consists of 12 one-story, standalone buildings. David Zimmel of Zimmel Associates represented the seller, New Jersey-based Denholtz Properties, in the transaction. The buyer, Federal Business Centers, plans to redevelop the property for industrial usage.
NEW YORK CITY — Compensation Advisory Partners, a consulting firm that specializes in executive-level compensation, has signed a 10,000-square-foot office lease at 1180 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan. The 398,937-square-foot building recently underwent a value-add program. Bryan Boisi, Michael Baraldi, Harry Blair and Mark Boisi of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, Northwood Investors, in the lease negotiations. Bert Rosenblatt of Cresa represented the tenant, which is taking space on the 20th floor.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Genworth has completed the sale of The Gregory, an office and retail asset located at 425 NW 10th Ave. in Portland. Jewell Capital purchased the asset for $5.7 million, or $121 per square foot. Constructed in 2001, The Gregory is part of a larger mixed-use project, including 133 condominiums that were not included in the sale. The acquisition totals 50,000 square feet of improvements with three floors of office space over street-level retail space. At the time of sale, The Gregory was 55 percent occupied by local retailers and a mix of professional office users in a variety of suite sizes. Darren Tappen, Sean McCarthy and Brandon O’Leary of Kidder Mathews represented the seller in the transaction.
DETROIT — Interior Environments has inked a 6,117-square-foot office lease at the Burns & Wilcox building, which is located at 119 State St. in Detroit. Steve Eisenshtadt, Andrew Bower and Jordan Friedman of Friedman Real Estate represented the undisclosed landlord. The tenant has launched the nation’s first minority-owned office furniture dealership, according to Friedman.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rockrose Development will complete the 245,000-square-foot renovation of three office properties located in Washington, D.C., this fall. Located within the Dupont Circle neighborhood, the project includes buildings located at 1900 M St. Northwest, 1146 19th St. and 1140 19th St. Together, the renovated properties will comprise “The Row on 19th.” John Skolnik and Michael Katcher of Cushman & Wakefield are exclusively leasing the project on behalf of Rockrose.
NEW YORK CITY — Regus, a provider of coworking and flexible workspace solutions, has signed a 37,031-square-foot office lease renewal at 14 Wall St. in Manhattan’s Financial District. Regus will continue to occupy the entire 20th floor of the 1.1 million-square-foot building, which was originally constructed in 1910 for the Bankers Trust Co. Bradley Gerla, Jon Cope, Mike Rizzo and Masha Dudelzak of CBRE represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations. Jon Pavone and Michael Cohen of Colliers represented Regus.
CARLSBAD, CALIF. — CBRE has arranged the sale of 1530 Faraday Avenue, an office building in Carlsbad, approximately 35 miles north of San Diego. Core Contracting acquired the asset from a private seller for $4.4 million. Matt Pourcho, Anthony DeLorenzo and Matt Harris of CBRE Investment Properties, alongside Nick Williams, Blake Williams and Roger Carlson of CBRE, represented the seller in the deal. Situated in Carlsbad Research Center, the single-story property features 13,093 square feet of office space. Built in 1998, the property recently underwent a renovation, including a new roof, complete interior remodel and new HVAC system. Additionally, the property has 53 parking stalls and a 555-square-foot space for a garage or storage area. The buyer will occupy the space. Chris Roth, Rusty Williams and Jake Rubendall of Lee & Associates represented the buyer in the deal.
In the second quarter of 2023, the Richmond office market posted more than 670,000 square feet of leasing volume, the highest total volume in more than four years. As transactions commence in future quarters, absorption will be impacted from occupancy shifts later in the year. Despite increased leasing activity, however, the market softened slightly as absorption has started to plateau. The second quarter represented the fourth consecutive quarter of negative net absorption as Richmond’s office market observed occupancy losses dipping to 21,489 square feet. Vacancy rates rose and settled at 12.6 percent, an 8-basis-point increase quarter-over-quarter. Pre-pandemic, overall asking rents saw stable upward rent growth. Since 2020, rental rates have continued to increase though at a leaner rate. Class A rents have flattened over the past 12 months, while Class B rents continued to rise. The Manchester and Scott’s Addition submarkets remain the hot spots for office development. Though there are currently no major office buildings underway at this time, most major office projects under construction in the last five years have either been build-to-suits or conversions. The only notable exception to this was The Current, a 70,000-square-foot spec office building that delivered in Manchester at the end of 2021. …