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NASHVILLE, TENN. — JLL Capital Markets has facilitated the $50 million sale of Edgehill Village, a 58,468-square-foot mixed-use property located in Nashville’s Music Row district. Originally built in 1920 and 1934 and renovated in 2016, the property comprises 2.4 acres of retail and office space. Tenants at the property include Van Leeuwen Ice Cream, Barcelona, Consider the Wldflwrs, Warby Parker and Vow’d. Brad Buchanan and Jim Hamilton of JLL’s Investment Sales and Advisory team represented the seller, Charlotte-based Asana Partners, in the transaction. The buyer was not disclosed.

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HUNT VALLEY, MD. — Newmark has facilitated the sale of 40 Wight Avenue, a 132,207-square-foot office property located in Hunt Valley, roughly 18 miles north of Baltimore. Built in 2017, the five-story office tower is situated near Hunt Valley Towne Center and a light rail station. Amenities at the property include an outdoor patio area, ample natural lighting and dining and retail offerings. The office complex was 90 percent leased at the time of sale. Nicholas Signor, Cristopher Abramson and Ben McCarty of Newmark represented the seller, an undisclosed national REIT, in the transaction. The buyer was an affiliate of Minnesota-based Onward Investors. The sales price was not disclosed.

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BETHESDA, MD. — DLT Solutions, a government technology solutions aggregator and subsidiary of Tech Data, has renewed its 51,621-square-foot office lease at 2411 Dulles Corner Park, an eight-story, 180,000-square-foot office building  in Bethesda, roughly six miles northwest of Washington, D.C. The building is situated within the larger Dulles Corner Park, a 620,000-square-foot, four-building mixed-use development. The Innovation Center Metro Station on the Silver Line transit serves office workers at 2411 Dulles Corner Park, which comprises a private fitness center, daycare center, conference facilities, onsite restaurants, as well as walking paths, water features, greenspaces and outdoor eating areas. Additional tenants include Peraton, SAP Natinoal Security Services, Mission Essential, Valiant Integrated Services, Synopsys and BlackSky DC. Finmarc Management Inc. owns Dulles Corner Park. DLT Solutions’ lease renewal marks the first transaction since Finmarc purchased the four-building office portfolio for $51 million.

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LOS ANGELES — Allied Commercial has completed the conversion and restoration of an historic 85-year-old post office located at 1601 Main St. in the Venice area of Los Angeles. The 23,690-square-foot creative campus now serves as a versatile event space with dedicated artist studios, collaborative workspace, production offices and facilities, a mixed-use theater, recording studio, podcast suites, a coffee shop and an outdoor garden. Additionally, the site serves as the headquarters of Lighthouse Creative Group. The Louis Simon-designed post office was built as part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. Completed in 1939, the Mediterranean Revival-style property was also adorned with an interior mural, “Abbot Kinney and the Story of Venice” painted by Edward Biberman in 1941. The conversion and restoration project reinstalled the mural and completed interior and exterior renovations and upgrades following rehabilitation guidelines from the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards of Historic Properties. The project team included Chattel as historic preservation consultants, Pacific Edge as project manager, Both Design Architects as architect and JTM Construction Group as general contractor.

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SAN DIEGO — Pacific Coast Commercial has arranged the sale of an 11,700-square-foot office and industrial building located at 3341 Hancock St. in San Diego. The transaction also included two adjacent vacant parcels. Simon & Associates LLC sold the asset to SOMO Properties LLC for $3.6 million. Tommas Golia, Jason Vieira and Colton Speas of Pacific Coast Commercial represented the seller, while Trent Smith of Cushman & Wakefield represented the buyer in the transaction.

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ROCKAWAY, N.J. — CBRE has brokered the $12.7 million sale of Pine Street Commons, an industrial and office complex located in the Northern New Jersey community of Rockaway. The property consists of six buildings on a 17-acre site. According to LoopNet Inc., the property was built in 1955 and totals 63,050 square feet. Charles Berger and Jeffrey Babikian of CBRE represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of which requested anonymity, in the transaction. Pine Street Commons was approximately 95 percent leased at the time of sale.

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HOUSTON — JLL has brokered the sale of Ashford 5, a portfolio of three office buildings totaling 570,045 square feet in West Houston. The eight-story buildings are situated on a 12.2-acre site adjacent to I-10 in the Energy Corridor area. Renovated between 2014 and 2016, the portfolio offers amenities such as a fitness center, tenant lounges and separate parking garages for each building. Marty Hogan, Kevin McConn, Rick Goings, John Ream and Clay Anderson of JLL represented the seller, a court-appointed receiver, in the transaction. The team also assisted the buyer, an entity doing business as LFFP Ashford Portfolio, in the assumption and modification of the seller’s in-place loan. At the time of sale, the portfolio had an occupancy rate of 58 percent and a tenant roster with a weighted average remaining lease term (WALT) of 4.7 years.

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CHICAGO — A joint venture between Leopardo Cos. and GMA Construction Group has broken ground on 79 W. Monroe, Chicago’s first office-to-multifamily conversion under the city’s LaSalle Street Reimagined initiative. Ware Malcomb is providing architecture and interior design services for the transformation of the 14-story property, which is known as the Rector Building and is located in The Loop. The project team includes developer R2 Cos. and building owner Lagfin. Built in 1905, 79 W. Monroe is the oldest surviving commercial structure designed by Chicago architect Jarvis Hunt. The renovation project includes converting seven floors to create 117 multifamily units with 41 units designated as affordable housing. There will also be an upscale lobby and an indoor-outdoor amenity floor, including a tenant lounge, fitness center, outdoor areas, bike storage, a dog wash station and gaming room. Preservation and building landmark efforts will focus on retaining and repairing the building’s exterior masonry, including brick, stone and terra-cotta elements. To enhance energy efficiency and reduce costs for future tenants, the existing single-pane windows will be replaced with double-pane insulated glass, matching the existing profile as required by the local Historic Review Board.

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ST. LOUIS — Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice LLC, a civil litigation defense and trial law firm, has signed a 22,800-square-foot office lease to occupy the entire ninth floor of the Deloitte Building in downtown St. Louis. The firm is relocating from 100 North Broadway. Owner Stanton Road Capital (SRC) is delivering The Outpost, its tenant amenity package, at the Deloitte Building. Scheduled for completion by the end of the year, The Outpost will include a fully modernized fitness center, 100-person conference facility, Wi-Fi-enabled tenant lounge and fresh grab-and-go food-and-beverage options. With the new lease, there has been 72,800 square feet of leasing activity at the Deloitte Building in the last six months. Brandon Wappelhorst, Nick Fiquette and Tom Bajardi of Sansone Group represented SRC in the lease with Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice. Rick Messey and Rollie Fors of CBRE represented the tenant.

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LOMBARD, ILL. — Byline Bank’s Commercial Real Estate Group has provided a $9.2 million loan for the conversion of a 103,109-square-foot office building into self-storage space in the Chicago suburb of Lombard. LSC Development is the developer and borrower. The building, located at the intersection of I-355 and North Avenue, will be transformed into 67,853 square feet of climate-controlled self-storage space with 64 secured surface parking spaces for both RVs and regular vehicles across 14,800 square feet. Two loading docks with overhead doors will also be installed. The project is slated for completion in the first half of 2026. Law firm Blank Rome represented Byline Bank, while Duggan Bertsch LLC represented LSC Development.

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