DEERFIELD, ILL. — Lamar Johnson Collaborative (LJC) has completed a full renovation of the office campus for Horizon Therapeutics in Deerfield, a northern suburb of Chicago. The U.S. headquarters for the Ireland-based biopharmaceutical company spans more than 650,000 square feet on 70 acres. Horizon purchased it in early 2020. LJC completed the renovation project in 10 months. Horizon tasked LJC with creating a space that reflected its refreshed brand. The company also sought out amenities for employee retention and recruiting, as well as flexible space for collaboration. New amenities include a coffee shop, full-service cafeteria, tech pub, multipurpose training center, fitness center, game lounge, outdoor terrace and pantries on each floor.
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DALLAS — A joint venture between Westdale Real Estate Investment & Management, Ivanhoe Cambridge and Hines has opened The Stack, a 16-story office building in the Deep Ellum area of Dallas. Designed by 5G Studio Collaborative, the property consists of 200,000 square feet of office space and 15,000 square feet of retail space. Amenities include a terrace with views of the Dallas skyline, fitness center, coffee and cocktail lounge, electric car charging stations and private tenant balconies. Hines plans to relocate its Dallas office to an 11,000-square-foot space within The Stack later this year.
Brookfield Asset Management Buys Facebook-Occupied Block 24 Office Building in Bellevue for $200M
by Amy Works
BELLEVUE, WASH. — Brookfield Asset Management real estate fund has purchased Block 24, a recently completed office property located at The Spring District in Bellevue. Wright Runstad & Co., Shorenstein Properties and institutional investors advised by J.P. Morgan Global Alternatives sold the asset for $200 million. Facebook occupies the 197,959-square-foot building, which is the latest addition to The Spring District. The district currently consists of more than 1 million square feet of office space, neighborhood retail space and over 800 apartments centered on the future Spring District light rail station, which is slated to open in 2023. More than 350,000 square feet of additional office and retail space is under construction at the development, with over 1 million more square feet in the planning stages. This transaction marks Brookfield’s second at The Spring District. The company acquired the adjacent, 338,000-square-foot Block 16 office building, which is also fully leased to Facebook, in October 2020.
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.
Luzzatto Co. Receives $54.7M Construction Loan for Creative Office Development in Los Angeles
by Amy Works
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.