HOUSTON — JLL has arranged a loan for the refinancing of a 4411 San Felipe, a 94,825-square-foot office building located in the River Oaks neighborhood of West Houston. Park House Houston, a private social club, anchors the seven-story building, which was built in 2021 and was fully leased at the time of the loan closing. John Ream and Cassie McIntosh of JLL originated the three-year, floating-rate loan, which has an initial financing of $33 million with additional future funding available, through Tannenbaum Capital Group. The borrower was an entity doing business as PH 4411 Houston RE Holdings.
Office
ADDISON, TEXAS — Avison Young has brokered the sale of Midway Office Park, a 53,673-square-foot office building located in the northern Dallas metro of Addison. Built on 2.7 acres in 1977 and renovated in 1998, the building was roughly 40 percent leased at the time of sale. Bruce Butler, Susan Gwin Burks and John Bowles of Avison Young represented the seller in the transaction. Taylor Stell of Lee & Associates represented the buyer, Urban Infraconstruction, which also plans to occupy a portion of the building.
HOUSTON — CUBExec has opened a 12,520-square-foot coworking space in Uptown Houston. The space spans the sixth floor of the building at 1700 Post Oak Blvd., which is known locally as BLVD Place., and features 50 private workspaces and collaborative meeting spaces that can accommodate up to 15 people. Houston-based Whitestone REIT owns BLVD Place.
NAI Capital Negotiates Sale of 26,481 SF Creative Office Building in Irvine, California
by Amy Works
IRVINE, CALIF. — NAI Capital has directed the purchase of a creative office building located at 18012 Cowan in Irvine. A private investor acquired the asset from an undisclosed seller for $9.2 million, or $345 per square foot. John Manion of NAI Capital represented the buyer, while Brian Garbutt and Alejandro Sherratt of Lee & Associates represented the seller in the transaction. The freestanding, two-story building offers 26,481 square feet of creative office space. The property was originally built in 1985 and underwent extensive renovations in 2020. The asset features high-image creative office space with exposed ceilings, an open-concept kitchen and an elevator serving the subterranean parking garage to the first and second floors. Additionally, the building features second-floor outdoor patios and prominent building-top signage.
NEW YORK CITY — Electra USA has signed a 10-year, 25,331-square-foot office lease in Midtown Manhattan. The electrical contractor will occupy the entire fourth and 31st floors at 10 E. 53rd St., a 37-story building that recently underwent a capital improvement program that upgraded the lobby, façade and outdoor plazas. Joseph Cirone, Patrick Dugan and Zachary Price of CBRE represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. The landlord, SL Green, was self-represented.
DENVILLE, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of a two-story, 15,879-square-foot office building located at 165 E. Main St. in the Northern New Jersey community of Denville. Andrew Schwartz, Jordan Sobel, André Balthazard and Dan Bottiglieri of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller the transaction. Toni Kaufmann of Realty Executives represented the new owner-occupier, which also requested anonymity.
One cannot talk about, analyze, nor understand the New Orleans Central Business District (CBD) office market without a corresponding discussion of the entire CBD, not just the office building submarket. This is especially true when we look at the evolution of the New Orleans CBD since the late 1980s, and, more specifically to this article, since Hurricane Katrina. The New Orleans CBD office market is still the largest office submarket in this region. The submarket contains approximately 10.3 million rentable square feet. The balance of our submarkets (East Metairie, West Metairie, Kenner, Elmwood, West Bank, New Orleans East and the Northshore) contain a total of 8.6 million rentable square feet. More importantly, the CBD remains home for most of New Orleans’ “corporate” tenants, virtually all the region’s major law firms and financial institutions. That is the good news. However, the CBD has been transformed over the past 30+ years — and especially for the past two decades after Hurricane Katrina — from a traditional office-centric CBD to a mixed-use downtown area. The supply of office space in the CBD has shrunk from 70 buildings and 16.5 million rentable square feet in 1991, to 50 buildings and 13.8 million rentable square …
HOUSTON — JLL has brokered the sale of 5858 Westheimer, a 130,735-square-foot office building located in the Tanglewood area of West Houston. The eight-story building was constructed in 1981 and was 47 percent leased at the time of sale. Rick Goings and Dawson Hastings of JLL represented the seller, a special servicer, in the transaction. The buyer, an entity doing business as Geirin LandPark Westheimer LLC, plans to implement a value-add program that will upgrade the lobby, common areas, signage and spec suites.
NEW YORK CITY — Upstart has signed a seven-year, 15,356-square-foot office lease in Midtown Manhattan. The AI-driven lending platform will occupy the entire 33rd floor at NoMad Tower, a 39-story building located at 1250 Broadway. Scott Brown of Newmark represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Paul Glickman, Benjamin Bass, Kristen Morgan, Harrison Potter and Diana Biasotti of JLL, along with internal agents Craig Panzirer and Alex Radmin, represented the landlord, Global Holdings.
MINNEAPOLIS — Regus, part of International Workplace Group (IWG), will open a new 30,000-square-foot coworking space on the 21st and 22nd floors of SPS Tower in downtown Minneapolis. Patrick Braswell of Record Real Estate Partners and Teresa Borgen of Newmark represented Regus. The new facility will include private offices, meeting rooms, coworking and creative spaces. IWG operates five other locations in the Twin Cities. SPS Tower, a 655,070-square-foot office building, received 66,000 square feet of new and renewed leases in the third quarter. Three businesses signed new leases. Schechter Dokken Kanter, a Twin Cities-based CFO, accounting and tax firm, leased 14,000 square feet and is moving from Washington Square. Steve and Andrew Chirhart of Tatonka Real Estate represented the tenant. Emergent Software is moving into a 6,700-square-foot spec suite. Matt Elder and Amanda Frelita of Newmark represented the tenant. Heritage Wealth Advisors leased a 4,200-square-foot spec suite and is moving from 60 S. 6th St. Additionally, three existing tenants renewed their leases in the building. These include Skolnick, Bardwell and Johnson Law Firm (4,700 square feet), Ryan Garry Law Firm (3,100 square feet) and Stewart Title (4,200 square feet). Josh Johnson of CBRE represented Stewart Title. Owned by Sumitomo Corp., …
Newer Posts