PARSIPPANY, N.J. — A partnership between P3 Properties, Image Capital LLC and Lionstone Capital has sold a majority interest in MCC Blue, a 541,035-square-foot trophy office building in the Northern New Jersey city of Parsippany. The building serves as the U.S. headquarters of Teva Pharmaceuticals and was 93 percent leased at the time of sale. Jeff Dunne, Jeremy Neuer, Steve Bardsley, Gene Pride, David Gavin, Travis Langer and Zach McHale of CBRE represented the partnership in the transaction.
FOXBOROUGH, MASS. — Boston-based mortgage banking firm EagleBridge Capital has arranged a $4.7 million acquisition loan for a 64,319-square-foot office building in Foxborough, a southern suburb of Boston. The two-story building sits on 6.4 acres within Foxborough Business Center. Ted Sidel of EagleBridge Capital placed the debt through a New England-based financial institution on behalf of the undisclosed borrower.
DALLAS — McKinney, Texas-based Independent Financial has signed a 12,000-square-foot office lease at Rosewood Court in Uptown Dallas. The company plans to take occupancy of its new space on the 10th floor in September. Bill McClung of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Haley Collard represented the landlord, Dallas-based Rosewood Property Co., on an internal basis.
ISELIN, N.J. — California-based investment firm KBS has sold Woodbridge Corporate Plaza, a 629,189-square-foot office complex in Iselin, located in the northern part of the Garden State, for $88 million. Kevin Welsh, Brian Schulz, Jason Emrani, Maria Betancourt and Jamie Drummond of Newmark represented KBS, which originally purchased the asset in 2005 and implemented a multimillion-dollar renovation program, in the transaction. Amenities include a 6,000-square-foot fitness center, full-service café and shuttle service to the nearby Metropark transit hub. The buyer was New York-based Northeast Capital Group. The six-building property was 90 percent leased to a roster of 64 tenants at the time of sale.
MONTVALE, N.J. — New Jersey-based developer S. Hekemian Group has completed Workplace North Market, a 52,000-square-foot office and retail project in the Northern New Jersey community of Montvale. The four-story building consists of 40,500 square feet of office space and 11,500 square feet of retail space. Law firm Beattie Padovano LLC has preleased 20,000 square feet at Workplace North Market as the anchor tenant.
LOS ANGELES — The Luzzatto Co. has received a total of $54.7 million in construction financing for the development of The Depot, a 1.5-acre creative office campus in the West Adams market of Los Angeles. JLL Capital Markets secured a $28 million senior loan through Bank OZK and a $26.7 million mezzanine loan through Related Fund Management. Paul Brindley, Jeff Sause and Spencer Richley of JLL Capital Markets represented Luzzatto in the financing. Upon completion, The Depot will feature 107,199 square feet of creative office space, three levels of outdoor space totaling more than 20,000 square feet, a 225-space subterranean parking garage, 15-foot ceiling heights and steel-and-glass construction with 30-foot bays.
SAN FRANCISCO — PG&E Corp., parent company of Pacific Gas and Electric Co., has agreed to sell the company’s San Francisco headquarters complex, located at 77 Beale St. and 245 Market St., to Hines Atlas US for $800 million. Under the terms of the sale agreement, the transaction closing is contingent on California Public Utilities Commission’s (CPUC) approval of the sale. PG&E will propose distributing approximately $390 million to $420 million to customers resulting from the gain on sale over a five-year period to offset future customer rates. CBRE’s San Francisco Capital Markets team represented PG&E in the transaction. PG&E is on track for a phased move to its new headquarters at 300 Lakeside Drive in Oakland, beginning in the first half of 2022. The company expects the move to Oakland to result in substantially lower headquarters costs over a long-term period. The company also plans to consolidate two other East Bay satellite offices – 3410 Crow Canyon Road in San Ramon and 1850 Gateway Blvd. in Concord – into the new Oakland headquarters.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the $63 million sale of 20 North Orange Avenue, a 279,780-square-foot office tower located in downtown Orlando’s central business district. Banyan Street Capital, a Miami-based private equity firm, purchased the property in a joint venture with a fund managed by DRA Advisors. The price was disclosed by the Orlando Business Journal. Mike Davis, Rick Colon, Rick Brugge and Dominic Montazemi of Cushman & Wakefield, with support from colleagues Zach Eicholtz, Ryan Jenkins and Brooke Tulley, represented the selling partnership, which comprised funds managed by Apollo Global Management, principals of Square2 Capital and Steelbridge Capital. The new ownership has tapped Robert Kellogg, Todd Davis and Colin Morrison of Cushman & Wakefield to lease the property. Banyan Street Capital will operate the office building in collaboration with Square2 Capital. Built in 1983, the 16-story building was purchased by the sellers in 2014 when it was 73 percent leased. The previous ownership spent approximately $5.3 million in capital improvements, including streetscape enhancements, updating both lobby areas, modernizing elevator and mechanical systems and renovating all of the common areas. As a result of these enhancements, occupancy improved to 90 percent. New tenants have been added such …
NEW YORK CITY — St. Francis College, a private Catholic educational institution, will relocate its campus from Brooklyn Heights to The Wheeler, Tishman Speyer’s new building that is situated atop a former Macy’s department store in downtown Brooklyn. Under the terms of the 30-year lease, St. Francis College will occupy 255,091 square feet across the fifth, sixth and seventh floors beginning in September 2022.
HOUSTON — Newmark has arranged the sale of a two-building, 115,000-square-foot office complex located at 6250 and 6260 Westpark Drive in Houston’s Galleria District. Built in 1973 and renovated in 2016, the complex offers amenities such as covered parking, multiple conference rooms and a deli. Spencer Hough and Connor Darling of Newmark, along with Jim Autenreith and Stephen Ghedi of Moody Rambin, represented the seller, Texas-based developer Presidium Group, in the transaction. The buyer was an entity doing business as Westpark @ 59 Office Plaza LLC.
