NEW YORK CITY — New York Life Real Estate Investors has provided a $75 million mezzanine loan for Park Avenue Plaza, a 1.1 million-square-foot office tower in Manhattan’s Plaza District. A joint venture between Fisher Brothers and Sungate Park Avenue Trust owns the property. Mark Youngof New York Life Real Estate Investors’ New York Regional Officearranged the fixed-rate loan, which has a term of seven years.
MT. PLEASANT, S.C. — Holder Properties is underway on Portside, a 120,000-square-foot office building located within Ferry Wharf, a master-planned development in Mt. Pleasant that includes office, retail, hospitality and residential projects. The development is located at the foot of the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge along the Charleston Harbor. Holder Properties broke ground on Portside in March. The five-story building is approximately 45 percent preleased, including a recently executed lease with Serendipity Labs Coworking. Portside will share a parking deck with a new hotel under construction at Ferry Wharf. The office building will be available for occupancy in spring 2019. McMilan Pazdan Smith Architecture is designing the building, and Freese Johnson is the general contractor.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — San Antonio-based grocer H-E-B will develop an 81,000-square-foot office and tech facility in Austin to support its on-demand delivery service platform. The company will convert a recently renovated industrial warehouse at 2416 E. Sixth St. into a creative and collaborative workspace. H-E-B expects the project to be complete by spring 2019.
PHOENIX — Orion Investment Real Estate has arranged the sale of a medical office and surgery center facility, located at 15401 N. 29th Ave. in Phoenix. Nashville, Tenn.-based Montecito Medical Real Estate acquired the property for $14.4 million, or $392 per square foot. Built in 1988 and renovated in 2017, the 36,796-square-foot property is occupied by Retinal Consultants of Arizona, occupying 72 percent, and Spectra Eye Institute, occupying the remaining 28 percent. Braxton Glass and J.T. Taylor of Orion represented the undisclosed seller and buyer in the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — Workspace provider Knotel has signed a 19,563-square-foot lease in the Hudson Square neighborhood of Manhattan. The lease will encompass a large portion of the 3rd floor of the property, which is located at 250 Hudson St. The 15-story, 400,000-square-foot building is owned by Jack Resnick & Sons. Tenants at the building include Daniel J. Edelman, Bed Bath & Beyond, Gluckman Tang Architects, Sopexa, Lieff Cabraser Heinmann & Bernstein and Writers Guild of America East. Knotel, which was founded in 2016, designs, builds and operates custom spaces for companies of 50 employees or more. The company currently has more than 70 locations worldwide. Michael Morris and Greg DiGioia of Newmark Knight Frank represented Knotel in the leasing transaction.
OMAHA, NEB. — NKF Capital Markets has arranged a $30 million loan for the refinancing of the Gavilon headquarters in Omaha. The five-story office building spans 130,448 square feet. Amenities include a fitness center, café and rooftop patio. Gavilon is a global grain trader. Dustin Stolly, Jordan Roeschlaub and Daniel Fromm of NKF arranged the loan on behalf of the borrower, Kawa Capital Management. Citibank provided the loan. Terms of the loan were not disclosed. The Opus Group completed development of the property in December 2013.
ROYAL OAK, MICH. — Bernard Financial Group has secured a $15 million loan for the refinancing of a 73,000-square-foot office building in Royal Oak. The multi-tenant building was completed this summer. The loan, provided by RGA Recap, will be used to refinance a construction loan. Dennis Bernard arranged the loan on behalf of the borrower, Innovo Royal Oak LLC.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Philadelphia-based Brandywine Realty Trust (NYSE: BDN) will develop 405 Colorado, a 200,000-square-foot office tower in downtown Austin. The 25-story, Class A building will include 3,665 square feet of ground-floor retail space and a 12,500-square-foot sky lounge on the 14th floor. The sky lounge will offer a café, conference areas and a fitness center. Construction is scheduled to begin in January 2019 and wrap up in December 2020. CBRE will handle leasing and marketing of the property.
SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Giants has selected Tishman Speyer as its joint venture partner to develop Mission Rock, a waterfront mixed-use neighborhood near AT&T Park in San Francisco. The development is a public-private partnership with the Port of San Francisco and the City and County of San Francisco. Serving as the centerpiece of the emerging Central Waterfront neighborhood, Mission Rock will span 28 acres and feature approximately 1,400 residential rental units, with 40 percent affordable to low- and moderate-income families; eight acres of parks and open space, including a waterfront park; up to 1.4 million square feet of office space; 250,000 square feet of retail and local manufacturing space; a parking structure to serve ballpark and neighborhood needs; rehabilitation of the historic Pier 48; and public waterfront access and improvements, including a segment of the Blue Greenway trail connection from Embarcadero to Hunters Point.
SAN DIEGO — Amazon has opened an 85,000-square-foot office within Alexandria Real Estate Equities’ Campus Pointe, located in the University Town Center neighborhood of San Diego. The new space will house the company’s expanded San Diego Tech Hub, which will include 300 new high-tech jobs in fields in the software development, machine learning, cloud computing and digital entertainment. Amazon’s San Diego Tech Hub is one of 17 Tech Hubs outside of Seattle that employ more than 17,500 people across North America who invent and build new products and services for Amazon customers. Employees at the San Diego Tech Hub develop software systems for AmazonFresh, Prime Now, Amazon Web Services, supply chain tech, and preventing fraud and abuse on Amazon. Additionally, San Diego-based engineers and scientists recently played a key role in the launch of Whole Foods Market pickup and delivery via Prime Now, Alexa features for grocery shopping, and data-drive and machine-learning innovations. This expansion more than doubles Amazon’s tech workforce in the San Diego area.