BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. — Round Table Studios, a provider of flexible and coworking solutions, has opened a 40,000-square-foot space in the Northern New Jersey city of Berkeley Heights. The space is located within The Park, a 185-acre mixed-use redevelopment. The space features configurable office suite studios, on-demand meeting rooms, a traditional coworking gallery and an upscale coworking library. Members also have access to The Park’s onsite amenities, including a 12,000-square-foot fitness center, biking and walking trails and a health clinic.
ALPHARETTA, GA. — KB Venture Partners will redevelop the former Bailey-Johnson School in Alpharetta into an adaptive reuse project comprising 156,048 square feet of creative Class A office space. The Bailey-Johnson School was built in 1950. The Bailey-Johnson School project will include the adaptive reuse of the 21,321-square-foot school building and the 19,234-square-foot gymnasium. The project marks the only adaptive reuse development in North Fulton, according to Cushman & Wakefield. The development also includes construction of a new 115,493-square-foot timber-frame building and a two-level parking structure. Property amenities will include outdoor gathering and green space, private patios for tenants, a lounge, shower/locker rooms and bike storage. Located at 154 Kimball Bridge Road, the property sits three blocks from Avalon, an 86-acre mixed-use development with anchors such as Whole Foods and Regal, as well as a 330-room hotel called The Hotel at Avalon. The Avalon has more than 20 dining options, retail and residential offerings. KB Venture Partners has hired Porter Henritze and John Zintak of Cushman & Wakefield to overseeing leasing at the project. ASD|SKY is the architect for the redevelopment.
HUMBLE, TEXAS — Montgomery, Texas-based brokerage firm West Star Marketing Group has arranged the sale of Airport Commerce Park, a 305,000-square-foot office flex property in the northern Houston suburb of Humble. The property is situated on 16.3 acres at 5950 Sam Houston Parkway. Fort Worth-based Fort Acquisitions purchased the property from Houston-based Redhorn Capital for an undisclosed price. Tom Clarkson of West Star brokered the deal.
GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — Bradford Commercial Real Estate Services has negotiated the sale of Parkway Business Center, a 73,600-square-foot flex property in Grand Prairie. Shane Benner and Josh Meraz of Bradford represented the seller, a California-based entity doing business as WC Parkway Business Center LLC, in the transaction. Rich Young Jr. of Rich Young Cos. represented the buyer, a Los Angeles-based limited liability company. Parkway Business Center was 97 percent leased at the time of sale.
HOFFMAN ESTATES, ILL. — Platinum Home Mortgage Corp. (PHMC) has signed a 22,000-square-foot office lease at Bell Works Chicagoland in Hoffman Estates. The privately held mortgage company and national lender will occupy 16,000 square feet on the fourth floor and an additional 2,000 square feet on the second floor. Freedom Title Corp., an affiliated entity, will occupy 4,000 square feet on the second floor. PHMC plans to move into its new space this fall. Existing tenants at Bell Works Chicagoland include accounting firm CPA Advisors Group, mosquito control company Mosquito Hunters, and equity crowdfunding firm The Next Unicorn. Somerset Development is the owner and developer of the property, which is the adaptive reuse of the former AT&T campus. Steve King, Francis Prock and Darryl Silverman of Colliers International, along with Jeffrey Garibaldi Sr., Tara Keating and Lindsey Florio of The Garibaldi Group, serve as the leasing teams for the office space at Bell Works Chicagoland. Jason Simon of Colliers represented PHMC in its lease.
LENEXA, KAN. — Summit Marketing, a marketing and fundraising communications firm, has signed a 13,400-square-foot office lease at Tech Center 3 within Lenexa’s Southlake Office Park. RJ Trowbridge of JLL represented the owner, City+Ventures, which purchased the property in 2019 and added new signage, exterior paint, landscaping and renovated lobbies. Southlake spans 11 buildings and 753,000 square feet. Straub Construction will build out the interior tenant space for Summit.
MIAMI — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $4.8 million sale of a three-story, 15,250-square-foot medical office property located at 1790 Coral Way in Miami. Douglas Mandel and Adam Klein of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller. Miami-based L2 Partners, a limited liability company, was the seller. The seller will occupy about 30 percent of the building. The property’s corner location is directly on the south side of the historic Coral Way Corridor that connects Coral Gables and Miami. The property is also close to both Brickell and Coral Gables. The building is on about one-third of an acre. In 2018, the property had a full renovation including a new roof, hurricane-impact windows and exterior painting, as well as common area and mechanical upgrades. The office features onsite covered parking, gated and fenced grounds, impact windows and doors, secured access and modern finishes.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Developer Cypress Real Estate Advisors (CREA) has completed shell construction at Eastlake at Tillery, a two-building, 172,000-square-foot office project in East Austin. The development at the corner of East Cesar Chavez Street and Tillery streets is now ready for tenant build-outs. Delineate Studio served as the project architect, and Harvey Cleary was the general contractor. AQUILA Commercial has been tapped to lease Eastlake at Tillery. Construction of the building, which offers amenities such as a prep kitchen, fitness center with locker rooms and multiple outdoor workspaces, began in December 2019.
PLANO, TEXAS — Monarch Alternative Capital, an investment firm based in London and New York City, has purchased The Apex at Legacy, a 209,081-square-foot office building in Plano. The sale included a 2.1-acre adjacent development parcel. Apex at Legacy was completed earlier this year and consists of seven floors of office space above a six-story, 798-space parking garage. Monarch will operate the property in partnership with Tourmaline Capital Partners and has tapped Lincoln Property Co. to assist with leasing and property management plans.
CHICAGO — JLL’s Capital Markets group has arranged a $296 million loan for the refinancing of 321 N. Clark, a 936,240-square-foot trophy office tower in Chicago’s River North submarket. The 35-story property was originally built in 1987 and underwent an $85 million renovation in 2019. The office tower offers a riverfront location and is served by a variety of public transportation options. Amenities include a fitness center, tenant lounge, conference center, parking garage and bike parking. Lettuce Entertain You operates a restaurant and event space at the property. Tenants include the American Bar Association and Foley & Lardner. “As today’s work environment continues to stress the importance of a healthy work-life balance, 321 N. Clark stands at the core of the city’s business and cultural districts, setting a standard for excellence to which all other office properties are compared,” says Keith Largay, senior managing director with JLL. Largay, along with Danny Kaufman and Michael Halbach of JLL, represented the borrower, a joint venture partnership between Hines, American Realty Advisors (ARA) and Diversified Real Estate Capital LLC. The team placed the five-year, floating-rate loan with Nuveen Real Estate. Dallas-based Hines is a privately owned global real estate investment firm that oversees …