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NEW CARROLLTON, MD. — Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States plans to open a new 176,000-square-foot administrative and IT building in New Carrollton, roughly 12 miles east of Washington, D.C., in Prince George’s County. The facility will have room for approximately 850 employees. The office building will anchor a mixed-use development adjacent to the New Carrollton Transit Center, a transit station that services the Washington Metro, MARC and Amtrak lines. Other components of the transit-oriented development, which is being developed by Urban Atlantic and Forest City Realty Trust, will include retail, residential and a community park. Construction of the Kaiser Permanente building will be complete in November 2018.

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ALPHARETTA, GA. — Lincoln Property Co. Southeast has arranged the sale of a four-story, 106,561-square-foot office building located within Brookside Office Park at 3925 Brookside Parkway in Alpharetta. The property is situated near Ga. 400 via Old Milton Parkway. Built in 1998, the asset is currently leased to NCR Corp., an Atlanta-based financial technology firm, through the end of the year. Cousins Properties is currently developing a new office campus in Midtown Atlanta for NCR. Hunter Henritze of Lincoln Property Co. Southeast represented the seller, Equity Office, in the transaction. Jay Dowlen and Charles Beard of CBRE represented the buyer, AmTrust Group, which has retained Lincoln Property Co. Southeast to manage the office building. The sales price was not disclosed.

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PLANO, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of 18th Street Office, an office property situated on 2.5 acres at 651-671 E. 18th St. in Plano. Built in 1972, the property consists of three suites totaling 28,363 square feet. Ron Hebert and Joe Santelli of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller in the transaction. Both the buyer and the seller were private investors.

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AUSTIN, TEXAS — JLL has negotiated the sale of Oak Creek Plaza, a two-story, 50,502-square-foot office building located at 3107 Oak Creek Drive on Austin’s north side. The sale includes the 7.6 acres on which the property is situated. Jeff Coddington and Kevin Kimbrough of JLL represented the seller, Toronto-based Eastbourne Investments. TMF Health Quality, an Austin-based healthcare consulting firm, purchased the property.

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NEW YORK CITY — Tishman Speyer has unveiled plans for development of The Wheeler, a 10-story office hub to be located above the Macy’s department store in downtown Brooklyn. The Wheeler, named for 19th century Brooklyn developer Andrew Wheeler, will include 620,000 square feet of office space. Features will include 16-foot ceilings on each floor, an acre of outdoor space, a dedicated amenity floor and views of the New York skyline. The project is scheduled for completion in mid-2019. Construction financing, which was arranged by HFF, is being provided by Bank of the Ozarks.

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ELMSFORD, N.Y. — DLC Management Corp., an owner and operator of open-air shopping centers, will relocate its headquarters to a 175,000-square-foot office building located at 565 Taxter Road in the New York City suburb of Elmsford. The move will be effective in August, with construction to begin on the 19,533-square-foot space in May. DLC has collaborated with the Westchester County Industrial Development Agency to facilitate the move. The new office will include open workspaces and collaborative areas for all teams, as well as various meeting and conference rooms able to house up to 90 employees. The property will also include an on-site gym, locker room and cafeteria.

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BEDFORD, ANDOVER & BILLERICA, MASS. — Avison Young, as buyer representative for Atlantic Management, has arranged the purchase of three office/flex buildings in Massachusetts. Atlantic Management acquired the 211,377-square-foot portfolio from Wheelock-Novaya for $26.5 million. The assets are located at 15 Crosby Dr. in Bedford, 200 Bulfinch Dr. in Andover and 5 Federal St. in Billerica. Tenants at the properties include Ocular Therapeutix and Becton Dickinson. Scott Jamieson of Avison Young worked with Joe Zink and Steve Wyman of Atlantic Management on the buyer’s side, while Wheelock-Novaya was represented by Gary Kamin of Wheelock Street Capital and Scott Tully and Shawn Hawthorne of Novaya Real Estate Ventures.

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FARMINGTON, CONN. — Second Foundation has purchased a 9,860-square-foot office property located at 21 Talcott Notch Road in Farmington for $1.1 million. SCEN International was the seller of the three-story property, which is located on .99 acres. Sentry Commercial represented the seller and CBRE represented the buyer in the transaction.

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PORTLAND, ORE. — ScanlanKemperBard Cos. (SKB) has sold the historic American Bank Building in Portland’s central business district for $53 million. The 15-story creative office building is located at 621 S.W. Morrison St. The American Bank Building was built in 1914.The property was 61 percent leased to tenants like Wells Fargo and The Department of Justice. HFF’s Nick Kucha represented SKB in the transaction. The firm also recapitalized the property with Lionstone Investments, arranging a four-year, floating-rate loan through CIT Bank for the new partnership. The amount of the financing was not disclosed.

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LOS ANGELES — A joint venture between Barak Investors Group and MIP Investment has sold a 103,154-square-foot office building in the Los Angeles submarket of Universal City. Though the price was not disclosed, the JV suggested that the property sold for between $35 million and $40 million. The Class A building is located at 3330 Cahuenga Blvd. It is 92 percent leased to tenants like Extreme Reach, Panasonic, EPSCineworks and Abominable Pictures. The buyers are Cahuenga Investment LLC and Cahuenga Equity LLC. NGKF’s Kevin Shannon Team represented the JV in this transaction.

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