DALLAS — Locally based developer Billingsley Co. is underway on construction of a new, 260,000-square-foot headquarters campus in Dallas for home improvement retailer At Home. The property will be located within Billingsley’s Cypress Waters development and will consist of 182,000 square feet of office space and a 78,000-square-foot design center. Amenities will include training rooms, wellness facilities, coworking spaces and a barista bar. Architecture firms GFF and Corgan designed the project. Completion is slated for December. At Home, which is currently headquartered in Plano, employs a corporate staff of about 400 in Dallas and plans to expand to over 1,000 over the next 10 years. The retailer operates about 230 stores across 40 states.
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NEWTON, MASS. — Boston-based Taurus Investment Holdings has acquired Wells Park, a 377,696-square-foot office complex located in the western Boston suburb of Newton, for $92 million. The three-building complex was 93 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Sally Mae Corp., Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Karyopharm Therapeutics, Ascensus and Adviser Investments. Scott Dragos, Chris Skeffington, Doug Jacoby, Anthony Hayes, Roy Sandeman, Tim Mulhall and Dan Hines of CBRE represented the seller, New York-based Angelo Gordon, in the transaction. The new ownership plans to upgrade the buildings’ energy systems through its subsidiary, RENU Communities.
HARRISBURG, PA. — The Kislak Co. Inc., a New Jersey-based brokerage firm, has negotiated the $16 million sale of Olde Liberty Square, a 95,000-square-foot office building in Harrisburg. The property sits on 4.6 acres and features 310 parking spaces. Matt Wolf and Robert Holland of Kislak represented the seller, Room One Corp., in the transaction. Bo Mangam of Landmark Commercial represented the buyer, an entity doing business as Empire Liberty Square LLC.
LEVITTOWN, N.Y. — The Feil Organization has signed a quartet of new leases totaling approximately 12,000 square feet at 3601 Hempstead Turnpike, a, 95,450-square-foot office building in the Long Island hamlet of Levittown. The property was built in 1970 and renovated in 2008-2009. Timothy Parlante of The Feil Organization represented the landlord in the lease negotiations. The new tenants include private equity firm Phoenix Capital Partners, which inked a deal for 1,900 square feet, and Independent Physical Exam Referrals, which agreed to lease 2,892 square feet. In addition, City Property USA NY signed a lease for 5,829 square feet. Move-ins will occur later this year.
DURHAM, N.C. — Crescent Communities has acquired SouthCourt, a 133,368-square-foot, Class A office property in Durham. John Mikels, Daniel Flynn, Ryan Clutter and Chris Lingerfelt of JLL Capital Markets represented the undisclosed seller. The sales price was also not disclosed. Built in 1998, the six-story SouthCourt office property was 75.4 percent leased at the time of sale to a variety of tenants, including publicly traded international firms, expanding regional companies and local businesses in the healthcare, financial services, life sciences and legal industries. Located at 3211 Shannon Road, SouthCourt is situated 4.1 miles from downtown Durham and 7.6 miles from Chapel Hill. In addition, SouthCourt is close to Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Research Triangle Park, as well as the Interstate 40.
DALLAS — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of a portfolio of 80 office and light industrial buildings totaling approximately 2.3 million square feet that are located across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. About 75 percent, or 61 of the buildings totaling 1.7 million square feet, are light industrial facilities, and the remainder are office assets. Jud Clements, Robby Rieke, Taylor Starnes and Macki McKim of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, locally based investment firm Momentum Commercial Realty, in the transaction. California-based CIP Real Estate purchased the portfolio for an undisclosed price.
DALLAS — A partnership between Dallas-based investment firm OliveMill Holdings, Hunt Realty Investments and New York City-based Angelo Gordon has acquired a 240,000-square-foot office building in North Dallas. The 18-story building at 2801 N. Central Expressway was constructed in 2015 as a build-to-suit for advertising agency The Richards Group, which still occupies the building. OliveMill will oversee management of the building. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. Jim Curtin, Kris Lowe, Rex Cruz and Ryan Pollack of JLL arranged an undisclosed amount of floating-rate acquisition financing on behalf of the partnership through a fund managed by AllianceBernstein.
LAS VEGAS — Beverly Hills, Calif.-based 3D Investments has purchased Tivoli Village, an open-air, mixed-use property located at 400 S. Rampart Blvd. in Las Vegas. Property and Building Corp. and IDB Group USA sold the asset for $216 million. Built in 2009 and 2016, Tivoli Village features 669,406 square feet of Class A office, retail and restaurant space across 28 acres. Additionally, the property includes an 8.3-acre development parcel entitled for more than 300 residential units. Marlene Fujita Winkel of Cushman & Wakefield’s Las Vegas office represented the seller in the deal. Dave Alleman of Marquis Aurbach Coffing served as counsel for the seller.
DENVER — JLL Capital Markets has arranged $54.3 million in financing for Civica Cherry Creek, an office property in Denver. Located at 250 Fillmore St., the 116,187-square-foot building features floor-to-ceiling glass, a great room with fireside lounge, private wine cellar, secure bike storage, rooftop terrace, building concierge and underground executive parking. The LEED Silver-certified property was built in 2018. Eric Tupler and Leon McBroom of JLL Capital Markets secured the five-year, floating-rate loan with a national bank on behalf of the borrower, a MetLife Investment Management-managed entity.
NEW YORK CITY — Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) has signed a 240,000-square-foot office lease to occupy the top eight floors at 5 Times Square in Midtown Manhattan. The California-based streaming services provider will backfill space previously occupied by Ernst & Young as part of its relocation from a 70,000-square-foot space at 114 West 41st Street. The move-in is slated for the fourth quarter. Bob Alexander, Ryan Alexander, Mike Affronti, Alex Benisatto, Taylor Callaghan and Nicole Marshall of CBRE represented the landlord, RXR Realty, in the lease negotiations along with internal agents Dan Birney and Alexandra Budd. Sacha Zarba and Frederick Fackelmayer of CBRE represented Roku.