NEW YORK CITY — CI US Holdings, a Canadian wealth management firm, has signed a 50,000-square-foot office lease at 101 Park Avenue, a 1.3 million-square-foot building in Midtown Manhattan. John Cefaly and Nicholas Dysenchuck of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, H.J. Kalikow & Co., in the lease negotiations. Mark Robbins and Evan Foley of Avison Young, along with Mitti Liebersohn of Savills, represented the tenant. Other users that have recently committed to 101 Park Avenue include Incline Equity Partners (18,000 square feet) and Five Iron Golf (30,000 square feet).
CHANDLER, ARIZ. — United Realty M.T.A. has purchased Norte at Chandler, a Class A flex office property located at 4100 W. Galveston St. in Chandler, from an institutional seller for $17.2 million, or $200 per square foot. The 85,797-square-foot, multi-tenant building is 70 percent leased to two investment-grade tenants, Enterprise Holdings and a Fortune 500 semiconductor firm. The single-story, freestanding building was built in 2016 on nearly eight acres. Eric Wichterman, Mike Coover, Steve Lindley and Alexandra Loye of Cushman & Wakefield’s private capital and capital markets teams in Phoenix represented the seller in the transaction.
By Artie Kerckhoff and Joshua Allen, CBRE For businesses, the conversation around the return to office has shifted. Most companies find themselves considering how to entice workers back instead of when to call them back. It’s an interesting dynamic, born out of stopgap remote-working policies and catalyzed by an employee’s market. Where does this leave the St. Louis office market? The metro’s overall office vacancy rate remained steady at 12.9 percent at the end of the third quarter. Yet, leasing velocity has shown significant improvement with leases signed at newly constructed buildings like Forsyth Pointe & Commerce Tower in Clayton and Edge@West in Creve Coeur. In addition, a handful of tenants have signed new leases at existing prime Class A, amenity-rich buildings such as Centene Plaza C Building, The Plaza in Clayton and Shaw Park Plaza. The reason for this uptick is a trend that’s playing out in St. Louis and across the country: an overall flight to quality. Prime at a premium At the onset of the pandemic, office users signed short-term extensions and took a wait-and-see approach to get through the immediate crisis. Now, as those extensions expire, they’re migrating to prime Class A office space with collaborative, …
LAS VEGAS — Avison Young has brokered the purchase of a medical office property located at 6070 S. Fort Apache Road in Las Vegas. AABECK LLC, an entity of Wound Care Experts, acquired the asset from VUELTA, an entity of a pain management group and former tenant, for $3.6 million. Built in 2008, the 10,000-square-foot property features reserved covered parking, a large waiting room, 12 exam rooms, a break room, billing office and two doctors’ offices. The buyer plans to occupy 5,000 square feet of the facility with the remainder available for lease. Barton Hyde of Avison Young represented the buyer, while Kevin Donahoe of Commercial Specialists represented the seller in the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated a 25,000-square-foot office lease at 48 W. 25th St. in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park area. Originally constructed in 1920, the building rises 12 stories and totals 127,130 square feet. Ethan Silverstein, Theodora Livadiotis and Bruce Mosler of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, locally based investment manager Savanna, in the lease negotiations. Anthony LoPresti, also with Cushman & Wakefield, represented the tenant, MediaCo Holding Inc. The space comprises the entire second and third floors and will house the broadcast operations of two of the tenant’s local radio stations.
NEW YORK CITY — Architecture Research Office (ARO), a design and consulting firm, has signed a 10,000-square-foot office lease at 1 Willoughby Square in Brooklyn. Designed by FXCollaborative, which also serves as the anchor tenant, 1 Willoughby Square is a 34-story, 500,000-square-foot building in the downtown area. Nick Farmakis and Kate Walker of Savills represented ARO in the lease negotiations. Paul Amrich, Neil King, Zac Price, Alex D’Amario and James Ackerson of CBRE represented the landlord, JEMB Realty Corp.
CHICAGO — Skender has completed a renovation of 225 W. Wacker Drive, a 31-story office tower totaling 651,000 square feet in Chicago’s West Loop. San Francisco-based Spear Street Capital owns the building. Valerio Dewalt Train served as architect and Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates was the designer. Skender began the process of renovating the building’s lower lobby and Franklin Street entrance, fourth-floor amenity space and roof deck in summer 2021. Connected to the fourth-floor interior space is a completely redesigned open-air terrace with gardens. Cushman & Wakefield served as manager and owner’s representative on the project. OvS served as landscape architect for the terrace.
OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — Hill’s Pet Nutrition has unveiled plans to relocate its global and U.S. headquarters to the Aspiria campus in Overland Park. The company is currently based in Topeka and will continue to invest in its science, technology and manufacturing hubs in Topeka. Hill’s expects to move offices in the fourth quarter of this year and will occupy roughly 100,000 square feet. Occidental Management owns Aspiria, which is the redevelopment of the former Sprint campus.
SAN ANTONIO — CBRE has arranged an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing for Network Crossing, a 143,831-square-foot office complex in northwest San Antonio. Network Crossing consists of five buildings that were 85 percent leased at the time of the loan closing. Brock Hudson and Beau Brehm of CBRE arranged the five-year, fixed-rate loan on behalf of the borrower, Houston-based investment firm Fuller Interests. The direct lender was not disclosed.
GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — SkyWalker Property Partners has sold Brookhollow Riverside, a 119,121-square-foot office building in the central metroplex city of Grand Prairie. Tom Strohbehn and Scott Farber of Younger Partners represented the seller in the transaction. Houston-based Silver Creek Realty Advisors purchased the building for an undisclosed price via a 1031 exchange. SkyWalker Property Partners originally purchased the building, which was 90 percent leased at the time of sale, in 2006.