CHICAGO — PGIM Real Estate has provided $101 million in floating-rate bridge financing for the acquisition and lease-up of a four-property retail and office portfolio in Chicago’s Fulton Market district. The buildings span 168,206 square feet and are home to 18 tenants. Asana Partners, a real estate investment company headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., was the borrower. Further details were not provided.
NEW YORK CITY — Blackstone (NYSE: BX) has purchased a 49 percent stake in One Manhattan West, a 67-story office tower in Manhattan totaling 2.1 million square feet. Brookfield (NYSE: BAM) and Qatar Investment Authority sold the minority interest to Blackstone and will retain a 51 percent ownership stake in the skyscraper. The purchase price wasn’t disclosed, but Brookfield says that the deal “values the office building at $2.85 billion,” which translates to Blackstone’s stake totaling just below $1.4 billion. Ben Brown, managing partner of Brookfield, says the competition for the acquisition was intense despite the uneven recovery of New York City’s office market due to COVID-19. “The partial sale of One Manhattan West and the interest we received as soon as we put it on the market are clear validations that the highest quality office properties are seeing enormous demand coming out of the pandemic,” says Brown. “One Manhattan West is home to some of the world’s leading companies, and their continued desire to work from and grow in the building is a promising sign for Manhattan West and prime, well-located office assets broadly.” Located on the corner of Ninth Avenue and 33rd Street, One Manhattan West is leased …
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — CBRE has brokered the sale of WestPark, a 373,000-square-foot office campus in White Plains, a northern suburb of New York City. The campus consists of two four-story buildings on a 25-acre site. Jacqueline Novotny, Brian Carcaterra and Michael McCall of CBRE represented the seller, Onyx Equities, in the transaction. William Cuddy Jr. and Mary Ann Tighe, also with CBRE, represented the buyer, New York-Presbyterian Hospital. The sales price was not disclosed.
MARINA DEL REY, CALIF. — CBRE has brokered the sale of an office building located at 5005 McConnell Ave. in Marina del Rey. Montana Avenue Capital Partners sold the asset to a joint venture between Los Angeles-based HATCHspaces, Denver-based NexCore Group and Nuveen Real Estate. Terms of the transaction were not released. The 56,300-square-foot property underwent a full renovation since Montana Avenue Capital Partners acquired it in 2018. Armata Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company on pathogen-specific bacteriophage therapeutics for antibiotic-resistant and difficult-to-treat bacterial infections, leased the entire property starting in 2021. Mike Longo, Todd Tydlaska, Sean Sullivan, Greg Grant, Jeff Pion, Michelle Esquivel and Andrew Riley of CBRE represented the seller in the deal.
By Patrick Riggs, Senior Advisor, Office, Dickson Commercial Group The leasing market in Reno/Sparks is back on track following a strong end to 2021. The fourth quarter of 2021 concluded with an impressive 145,558 square feet of positive net absorption. This was the third straight quarter of positive net growth. Panasonic Energy stole the headlines in the quarter four with its 95,000-square-foot lease of 645 E. Plumb Lane in Reno’s central submarket. However, demand in the smaller office spaces under 5,000 square feet continues to be the driving force in this rebound. Local and regional companies with more flexibility to maneuver the pandemic were rewarded in 2020 and 2021 by capitalizing on aggressive landlord concessions. We are starting to see these concessions being rolled back as demand continues and vacancy nears pre-pandemic levels. The 2021 Reno sales market bounced back from 2020 with increases across the board in overall volume, price per square foot and number of sales. Both volume and the number of sales nearly doubled year over year. Average sales pricing is coming in at $300 per square foot, while new build-to-suit construction is over $400 per square foot with no slowdown in sight. Owner-users and office investors have been …
DURHAM AND MORRISVILLE, N.C. — Dallas-based Stream Realty Partners has arranged the sale of two multi-tenant office buildings in the Research Triangle area. Continental Capital Partners, which has an office in Charlotte, sold the two properties to Texas-based Woodside for an undisclosed price. Jared Londry, Mack Freudenstein and Alex Olofson of Stream Realty Partners represented the seller in the transaction. The two buildings are Park40 Plaza in Durham and RDU Center II in Morrisville. Located at 1000 Park Forty Plaza Drive, Park40 Plaza spans 122,311 square feet. Located at 3131 RDU Center Drive, RDU Center II totals 61,606 square feet. Park40 Plaza and RDU Center II offer easy access to Interstate 40, Research Triangle Park, Raleigh-Durham International Airport and cities including Raleigh, Cary and Chapel Hill.
CHICAGO — Two new tenants have signed leases at The Concourse Chicago office property, which is owned and managed by Berger Asset Management. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador leased 5,965 square feet and expects to take occupancy this summer. The tenant is relocating and expanding its Chicago office from a Michigan Avenue location. GEI Consultants, a national engineering and environmental consulting firm, leased 8,006 square feet. The firm is relocating from Vernon Hills, Ill. Concourse Chicago, which spans 165,000 square feet across 12 single-story buildings, is now 90 percent occupied. Steve Chrastka and Jason Wurtz of NAI Hiffman are the leasing agents for the property. Tom Hanson of Hanson Commercial Real Estate represented the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador, while Jordan Rovito and Jonathan Metzl of Cushman & Wakefield represented GEI Consultants.
NEW YORK CITY — Boston-based private equity firm Rockpoint has completed the renovation of 1700 Broadway, a 627,747-square-foot office building in Midtown Manhattan. Designed by Fogarty Finger and BR Design Associates, the renovation included a lobby upgrade, the installation of new dispatch elevators and the delivery of new tenant amenities. In addition, Rockpoint has recently executed several new leases at 1700 Broadway, including corporate advisory firm M3 Partners LP (13,000 square feet) and Alton Aviation Consultancy (4,900 square feet). Newmark represented Rockpoint in those deals.
ORANGE, CALIF. — LPC West, the West Coast arm of Lincoln Property Co., has partnered with TriGate Capital to purchase The Square on Main, a multi-building office campus located at the intersection of Main Street and La Veta Avenue in Orange. Totaling 420,000 square feet, the five-building asset was 96.5 percent occupied by 13 tenants, including the Orange County Transportation Authority and Western Dental, both tenants of more than 25 years. The 7.2-acre campus includes two 12-story buildings, one six-story building and two one-story buildings, as well as a large parking structure. Additionally, the site offers full transit accessibility, with access to the 22 and 57 freeways and numerous airports within 40 miles. LPC West plans to implement a variety of sustainability upgrades and overall operational enhancements throughout the property to help boost efficiency and limit its environmental footprint.
HAYDEN, IDAHO, AND LAYTON, UTAH — An affiliate of Livingston Street Capital has completed the disposition of two medical office properties, totaling 31,500 square feet, in Idaho and Utah. AEI Net Lease Portfolio 19 DST acquired the assets for $14.4 million. The properties, which include a 15,000-square-foot building at 8300 N. Cornerstone Drive in Hayden and a 16,500-square-foot building at 781 Heritage Park Blvd. in Layton, are both fully leased to BioLife Plasma Services, which collects the plasma that is processed into plasma-based therapies.