HOFFMAN ESTATES, ILL. — Headline Solar has signed a 15,690-square-foot office lease at Bell Works Chicagoland, the redevelopment of the former AT&T campus in Hoffman Estates. The solar panel installation company will make the office its national headquarters. Headline Solar currently operates in Texas and Illinois and plans to expand to Virginia, Florida and the Carolinas by 2023. The company expects to take occupancy of its new space in the first quarter of 2022. Headline Solar joins office tenants Platinum Home Mortgage, CPA Advisors Group, Mosquito Hunters and The Next Unicorn at Bell Works Chicagoland. Somerset Development is the owner and developer.
LONG ISLAND CITY — Locally based developer Tishman Speyer has received a $425 million green bond refinancing for The JACX, a 1.2 million-square-foot office complex in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens. Built in 2019 and fully leased at the time of closing, The JACX consists of two 26-story office towers connected by a five-story base. According to the developer, the property represents the single largest addition to the supply of office space in Long Island City since the opening of the Citicorp Building in 1990. The development houses more than 50,000 square feet of retail space, including a food hall with nine culinary concepts, a restaurant by chef Dan Kluger and an upscale grocer. Other amenities include a fitness center operated by The Wright Fit, a landscaped public plaza, access to multiple public transit lines and a 175-space bike parking area with showers. MdeAS Architects designed the building to LEED Silver certifications, and environmentally friendly features include a 100,000-gallon stormwater reclamation system and an air filtration system. These assets made the property eligible for the green bond refinancing, which Bank of America originated. The transaction retires existing construction debt with permanent CMBS financing. “Tishman Speyer is dedicated to …
SEATTLE — LPC West and Invesco Real Estate have acquired Cascadian, a nine-story office building located in Seattle’s life sciences corridor. Located at the intersection of South Lake Union, Capitol Hill and the central business district, Cascadian features 211,000 rentable square feet and potential ground-floor retail. The buyers plan to convert the property into a life sciences space. The redeveloped property will also feature a 7,300-square-foot rooftop terrace, on-site parking and transit accessibility. Terms of the acquisition were not released.
PHOENIX — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale Riverpoint Building 2, a flex office and industrial property in Phoenix. Michael Hsiung of Phoenix Rising Investments acquired the property from BH Properties for $9 million. Located at 3100 E. Broadway Road, the 61,316-square-foot property was vacant at the time of sale. Built in 2002 on 5.3 acres, the single-story building is currently divided into three shell-condition suites of varying sizes and served by a newly constructed lobby. Eric Wichterman, Mike Coover, Larry Downey and Brett Thompson of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction.
CYPRESS, CALIF. — Romeo Power, an energy technology company delivering electrification solutions for complex commercial vehicle applications, has leased a new headquarters and manufacturing facility in Cypress. The facility will support Romeo Power’s expansion of battery development and testing capabilities adjacent to its production line, allowing for faster innovation and time to market. The 215,000-square-foot facility includes 191,000 square feet of industrial space that will be designed to double critical laboratory and testing capacity. The expanded manufacturing capabilities will enhance throughput, quality and cost effectiveness, while the increased office space will also allow for continued organizational investment in scientific engineering and other support resources. Romeo Power will assume occupancy in the near future, with full occupancy expected to be completed over the next six to nine months.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — CBRE has arranged the sale of South Park Plaza, a three-building office park in Charleston. Boyd Watterson purchased the property from an entity doing business as JEMA II LLC for $31.3 million. Charles Carmody, Patrick Gildea, Matt Smith, Grayson Hawkins and Ryan Carmody of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction. Located at 1-3 South Park Circle, South Park Plaza is a 139,060-square-foot property situated close to Interstate 526 and Citadel Mall, a shopping center anchored by Belk, Dillard’s, Target, Bath & Body Works and Loft. Since 2018, South Park Plaza has been 90.6 percent leased to tenants including The Medical University of South Carolina Hospital Authority.
NEW YORK CITY — Newrez LLC, a tech-centric mortgage lending platform, has signed a 25,000-square-foot office lease at 799 Broadway, a 182,000-square-foot building in development at the convergence of Manhattan’s Greenwich Village and Union Square neighborhoods. Josh Kuriloff and Drew Braver of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. JLL represented the developer, Columbia Property Trust.
ROANOKE, VA. — Kroger LP I has sold its former regional headquarters located at 3631 Peters Creek Road in Roanoke. Fenton Childers and Austin Newman of S.L. Nusbaum Realty Co. represented Kroger in the transaction. The buyer, Roanoke-based The Branch Group Inc., purchased the property for $3.1 million. Steve Zegarski and Jason Fountain of Waldvogel Commercial Properties Inc. represented the buyer. Built in 1983, the 58,690-square-foot, two-story office building sits on 9.5 acres and functioned as Krogers regional headquarters for the Mid-Atlantic division. Kroger occupied the property until 2020.
ST. LOUIS — Remiger Design has opened a new 6,100-square-foot office at 2921 Olive St. in downtown St. Louis. The historic storefront was originally built in 1894. It took a year to outfit the office with the right furniture, lighting and technology and to build out the three-level space. A fourth level now houses the design firm’s extensive files. The office features a conference room, resource library and private room. The third floor houses employee workstations that are carefully spaced to allow for social distancing. Remiger’s team of 12 is able to work from home or in the office.
LAS VEGAS — DraftKings Inc., a fantasy and digital sports betting company based in Boston, plans to open its second largest office hub within UnCommons, a $400 million mixed-use development underway in southwest Las Vegas. DraftKings will occupy 90,000 square feet and ultimately house more than 1,000 employees at the new offices. Matter Real Estate Group, a San Diego-based developer, broke ground on the 40-acre project last summer and plans to deliver the first phase of the campus in early 2022. “Our goal is to create another world-class workplace environment that will foster DraftKings’ innovation, further bolster our local presence and deepen community involvement,” says Matt Kalish, co-founder and president of the North America division of DraftKings (NASDAQ: DKNG). “With these lofty aspirations, we were thrilled to discover that UnCommons mirrors these high standards.” Designed by IA Interior Architects, DraftKings’ new space will mirror its Boston headquarters with 130 sports trading desks surrounded by multimedia walls. The property will also include collaborative work spaces, a cafeteria, putting green, custom casino training pit, private and public outdoor spaces, mothers’ rooms, prayer suites and salons for haircuts and manicures/pedicures. UnCommons will comprise more than 500,000 square feet of modern office space; more …