CAMP HILL, PA. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the sale of a 26,541-square-foot office property in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. The property is located at 355 N. 21st St and Cumberland Blvd. The sales price was $3.9 million. The building offers 16 office suites leased to tenants in an array of industries, including medicine, finance and law. Craig Dunkle of Marcus & Millichap’s Philadelphia office represented the seller, 355 N. 21st Camp Hill Associates, as well as the buyer, Thank You Hashem, in the transaction.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Akridge and Alcion Partners have sold 1701 Rhode Island Ave., a seven-story, 103,908-square-foot office building in downtown Washington, D.C., for $119 million. The partnership acquired the then-YMCA in March 2016 before repositioning the asset into an office building fully leased to WeWork. WeWork has occupied the space since February. Design firm Hickok Cole Architects and general contractor Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. led the redevelopment of 1701 Rhode Island to include a two-story lobby, pocket park, rooftop decks on the penthouse and seventh floor and a landscaped rooftop terrace. An affiliate of EXAN Capital acquired 1701 Rhode Island. Collins Ege, Sean McDermott, Nicholas Pappas and Nick Carpenter of Eastdil Secured represented the sellers in the transaction. EXAN Capital will remain as the asset manager.
HOUSTON — WeWork will open a 56,000-square-foot coworking space at 609 Main at Texas, a 1 million-square-foot office tower in downtown Houston that was developed by Hines. Members will have access to the building’s café and 7,000-square-foot fitness center. Michael Anderson and Damon Thames of Colvill Office Properties represented Hines in the lease negotiations. Mark O’Donnell of Savills Commercial Real Estate represented WeWork, which now has four locations in Houston. The opening is slated for late 2019.
MINNEAPOLIS — Lingerfelt CommonWealth Partners LLC has acquired 222 South Ninth Street, a 42-story office tower in downtown Minneapolis. The purchase price was $81 million, according to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. Principal Real Estate Investors sold the 727,170-square-foot tower, which will be rebranded as Two22. The new name stems from the property’s street address. Built in 1985, the building was originally known as the Piper Jaffray Tower and most recently the Campbell Mithun Tower. The property is 51 percent occupied. Lingerfelt plans to immediately implement an estimated $20 million comprehensive renovation, including modernization of the elevators, Skyway renovations, additional amenities, a lobby renovation and addition of an outdoor terrace. Lingerfelt will own the tower via its vertically integrated investment platform. Commonwealth Commercial Partners, the company’s affiliated real estate operating firm, will handle day-to-day property management for Two22 and open its first office in the Twin Cities. Atlantic Real Estate Capital arranged acquisition financing for the transaction. Ryan Watts, Judd Welliver, Sonja Dusil and Tom Holtz of CBRE arranged the sale on behalf of the seller.
BELLEVUE, WASH. — Hines has broken ground on Summit 3, a 17-story office tower located in downtown Bellevue, a suburb of Seattle situated on the shores of Lake Washington. The Houston-based development firm has preleased the Class A, 374,220-square-foot office building to a tenant it did not disclose, but the Puget Sound Business Journal reports that Amazon has leased the entire tower with plans to grow its Bellevue employee base to 2,500 by 2020. The Seattle Times reported last week that the Seattle-based tech giant has also begun the permitting process for a new 43-story tower at 600 108th Ave., about two blocks north of Summit 3. Situated at the corner of 108th Ave. NE and N.E. 4th St., general contractor JTM Construction will build Summit 3 atop an existing subterranean parking garage that spans seven levels. Hines will develop the office space to accommodate high-density tech operations. The property is the third building within The Summit office campus, which includes Café Pogacha and a Bright Horizons childcare facility. Other onsite amenities at the Summit campus include a fitness center, conference center and The Summit Room, which functions as a combination of a lobby, lounge and meeting area. The U.S. …
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS — Stan Johnson Co., an Oklahoma-based brokerage firm specializing in net-leased assets, has negotiated the $4 million sale of a single-tenant office building in Corpus Christi. The Texas Department of Family & Protective Services occupies the 51,307-square-foot property and has less than a year remaining on its lease. Brian Corriston of Stan Johnson Co. represented the seller, a Texas-based developer, in the transaction. The buyer was a group of individual investors from the Midwest that acquired the asset in an off-market transaction.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Kirkendall Dwyer LLP and Law Tigers have jointly signed a long-term office lease for 1,474 square feet at the Skelly Building in Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza. The organizations will occupy Suite 208 on the second floor. The building, located at 605 W. 47th St., is now 97 percent occupied. Other tenants include Panera Bread, Bo Lings Chinese restaurant, Footlocker, Roth Living, McDowell Rice Smith & Buchanan, House Park & Dobratz, Block & Co. Inc. Realtors and MegaStar Financial. Alex Block of Block & Co. handled the lease transaction on behalf of property ownership. Kirkendall Dwyer specializes in automotive personal injury. Law Tigers is a national network of motorcycle accident attorneys that focuses more specifically motorcycle personal injury. Block & Co. is the property manager for the Skelly Building.
FRANKLIN, TENN. — Brasfield & Gorrie has delivered the new North American headquarters for Mars Petcare, a leading pet care and products firm. Located in the southern Nashville suburb of Franklin, the pet-friendly campus includes a Wi-Fi-enabled dog park, two indoor dog play areas with options for daycare, coffee bars on every floor with designated “slurp stations” for pets, pet beds and toys throughout the campus, wide furniture that is upholstered with pet-friendly fabric and green space with walking paths. Mars Petcare employs 85,000 associates and features 50 brands, including Pedigree, Iams and Whiskas.
SAN DIEGO — JLL Income Property Trust, an institutionally managed daily NAV REIT, has acquired a two-building medical office campus known as Genesee Plaza for $90 million. Genesee Plaza is located in San Diego’s University Town Center, near the University of California, San Diego and Scripps Hospital campuses.
SAN DIEGO — Cushman & Wakefield has advised the seller in the disposition of Sorrento Ridge, a 103,325-square-foot, three-story office building in the Miramar submarket of San Diego. Tappan Corp. purchased the property, located at 7220 Trade St., from an unnamed seller. The price was not disclosed. Cushman & Wakefield’s Rick Reeder, Brad Tecca, Brooks Campbell and Duncan Dodd represented the seller, while Bill Cavanagh and Mike Novkov provided local market advisory. Larry Glenn of Glendale Mortgage represented the buyer. Sorrento Ridge was nearly 60 percent leased at the time of sale to mainly smaller tenants representing a mix of professional services, engineering and technology firms, with the largest leasing less than 10,000 square feet. The property is situated on 4.4 acres near interstates 5 and 805 and the Sorrento Plaza shopping center.