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Senior Housing Properties Trust Secures $620M Loan for Life Sciences Buildings in Boston

by Nellie Day July 18, 2016

BOSTON — Senior Housing Properties Trust (NYSE: SNH) has obtained a $620 million mortgage loan for two life sciences buildings in Boston’s Seaport District. The 15-story, Class A towers include 1.6 million square feet of lab space, corporate office space, structured parking and ground-floor retail space. SNH purchased the towers in May 2014 for $1.1 billion. They are 96 percent leased to Vertex Pharmaceuticals through 2028. Vertex is the manufacturer of hepatitis C and cystic fibrosis pharmaceutical treatments. The 10-year loan is interest-only, carries a fixed interest rate of 3.53 percent and matures in August 2026. SNH will use the loan proceeds to repay a portion of the outstanding borrowings under the company’s $1 billion unsecured revolving credit facility, as well as for general business purposes. Following the repayment, there will be approximately $900 million available under SNH’s unsecured revolving credit facility. “We are pleased to take advantage of the current low interest rate environment to term out the majority of the outstanding balance on our unsecured revolving credit facility and to extend the average maturity of our debt to 8.9 years,” says David Hegarty, SNH’s president and chief operating officer. “We believe that this transaction also highlights the value …

July 18, 2016

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Ventas to Acquire Entire Wexford Life Science, Medical Portfolio for $1.5B

by Jeff Shaw July 6, 2016

CHICAGO — Giant healthcare REIT Ventas (NYSE: VTR) has agreed to acquire all the life sciences and medical real estate assets of Wexford Science & Technology for $1.5 billion. Wexford will continue to operate the portfolio, which includes 25 Class A properties totaling 4.5 million square feet. Blackstone Real Estate Partners VIII LP is the current owner of the properties, which are largely leased to universities, academic medical centers and research companies. Tenants include Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Washington University in St. Louis, Wake Forest University and Alexion Pharmaceuticals. Of the 25 properties, 23 are currently in operation and are 97 percent leased. The remaining two properties are currently under development and are nearly 60 percent pre-leased to Duke University and Wake Forest University. Chicago-based Ventas also plans to acquire nine development sites contiguous to the existing assets for $50 million. The purchase will significantly diversify Ventas’ portfolio, as the company’s previous focus was almost exclusively on seniors housing and healthcare properties. Ventas has the second-largest portfolio of seniors housing in the United States with 785 properties totaling 69,708 units, according to the American Seniors Housing Association’s most recent numbers. The transaction includes a long-term management …

July 6, 2016

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Longfellow Real Estate Partners Receives $51M in Financing for Biotech Building in Massachusetts

by Amy Works May 25, 2016

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — An affiliate of Longfellow Real Estate Partners has received $51 million in recapitalization financing for a laboratory/biotechnology building located at 1030 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge. Greg LaBine of HFF placed the five-year, fixed-rate loan with Capital One Healthcare for the borrower. The 77,805-square-foot property is fully leased to seven tenants: five biotech tenants, an indoor cycling studio and a restaurant, which is slated to open in early this summer.

May 25, 2016

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Skanska Breaks Ground on $21M Agriculture & Life Science Building at Texas A&M University

by Haisten Willis November 17, 2015

COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS — Skanska USA has been awarded a $21 million contract with Texas A&M University to oversee the construction of the Agriculture & Life Science Building 4. The project broke ground on Nov. 13 and it will be completed in February 2017. The five-story, 80,000-square-foot building will house the university’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences. The first three floors will include offices, conference rooms and dry work areas. The top two floors will include teaching and wet research laboratories. Kirskey Architecture is project architect.

November 17, 2015

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Genesis at Campus Point in San Diego to Undergo $96.4M Biotech Conversion

by Nellie Day November 10, 2015

SAN DIEGO — HFF has arranged a $96.4 million loan for Genesis at Campus Point, a vacant, four-building office complex in the UTC submarket of San Diego, which will fund the complex’s conversion into a biotech space. The 311,022-square-foot campus is located at 4224, 4242 and 4244 Campus Point Court and 10210 Campus Point Drive. The space is situated near the convergence of interstates 5 and 805 inside a life science cluster. Other notable tenants in the area include the University of California San Diego, Scripps medical campus, Illumina, Eli Lilly and Celgene. The buildings will feature multiple conference rooms, an on-site café with indoor and outdoor seating, a full-service fitness center, large balconies and a combination of covered and surface parking. HFF’s Tim Wright, Todd Sugimoto and Zack Holderman arranged the financing on behalf of the borrower, a partnership between Phase 3 Real Estate Partners and its institutional partner. The 36-month, floating-rate loan was placed with TPG Real Estate Finance Trust. Proceeds will be used to recapitalize the mid-year acquisition and fund the immediate repositioning costs of the asset.

November 10, 2015

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HFF Secures $74.2M in Financing for Lab/Biotech Building in Waltham

by Amy Works September 24, 2015

WALTHAM, MASS. — Holliday Fenoglio Fowler (HFF) has secured $74.2 million in first mortgage financing for a lab/biotech facility located at 830 Winter St. in Waltham, a western suburb of Boston. HFF arranged the floating-rate loan with Wells Fargo while working on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture between King Street Properties and an affiliate of Carlyle Realty Partners VII. Completed in 2001, the 182,104-square-foot facility is fully leased to ImmunoGen, GlaxoSmithKline and Histogenics Corp. Greg LaBine of HFF represented the borrower in the financing transaction.

September 24, 2015

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LMU Debuts New $110M Life Sciences Building in Los Angeles

by Nellie Day September 11, 2015

LOS ANGELES — Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles has debuted its new $110 million Life Sciences building. Construction on the 100,000-square-foot project began in June 2013. The new Life Sciences building houses faculty and research staff from the biology, chemistry and biochemistry, health and human sciences, civil engineering, and environmental science departments under the Seaver College of Science and Engineering. It provides modernized laboratories and collaborative research space. The three-story facility contains 35 teaching labs, 40 faculty and staff offices, nine informal student study spaces, a green roof and outdoor laboratory, three conference rooms and a 273-seat auditorium with an adjoining 1,800-square-foot terrace. C.W. Driver constructed the new building, which CO Architects designed.

September 11, 2015

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GI Partners Buys Life Science Facility in Metro D.C. for $322.5M

by John Nelson December 12, 2014

ROCKVILLE, MD. — GI Partners has acquired a 290,000-square-foot life science facility in Rockville for $322.5 million. The facility is located at 9911 Belward Campus Drive, roughly 20 miles northwest of Washington, D.C. The property is situated along the Interstate 270 corridor that is commonly referred to as “DNA Alley”. The manufacturing facility is fully occupied by Human Genome Sciences Inc. (HGSI). The global healthcare company, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline, has leased the space through June 2026. “We are very pleased to own 9911 Belward, an institutional-quality property with state-of-the-art life science improvements,” says Mike Armstrong, GI’s vice president. “The facility’s location in one of the nation’s largest biotechnology clusters, coupled with its robust infrastructure, makes it an attractive property for life science and biotechnology use.” BioMed Realty (NYSE: BMR) acquired the facility in 2006 as part of a sale-leaseback transaction with HGSI. The company’s board of directors declared a special dividend of $0.30 per share of common stock, reflecting a return to stockholders of a portion — about $61 million — of the sale proceeds. BioMed plans to use the remaining proceeds to pay down the balance of the company’s unsecured revolving credit facility. BioMed …

December 12, 2014

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Suffolk County Community College Opens $29.8M Life Sciences Building

by Amy Works October 28, 2014

SELDEN, N.Y. — Suffolk County Community College (SCCC) has opened a $29.8 million William J. Lindsay Life Sciences Building in Selden. Patchogue, N.Y.-based BBS Architects served as architect, interior designer, and civil, mechanical and electrical engineer for the building, which is aiming to achieve LEED Gold certification. Approximately 5,000 students will attend classes in the new building in the spring semester beginning in January 2015. Additionally, the building will also allow for the expansion of science classes to include an additional 100 students in the spring and 300 students next fall. The project team included J. Petrocelli Contracting, Tsoi/Kobus & Associates, Greenman-Pedersen, Ysrael A. Seinuk and Bladykas Engineering. New York State and Suffolk County financed the project in equal parts.

October 28, 2014

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FOXX LIFE SCIENCES RELOCATES, EXPANDS FACILITY IN SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE

by admin April 29, 2014

SALEM, N.H. — Foxx Life Sciences has leased space at 6 Delaware Drive Crossing, a 20,700-square-foot industrial/flex building in Salem. The company will occupy 18,302 square feet at the property, which will allow it to relocate and expand its headquarters and operations. Foxx Life Sciences previously occupied space at 8E Industrial Way Suite 1 in Salem. Chris Healy of CBRE/New England represented the tenant in the transaction.

April 29, 2014

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