ROWLETT, TEXAS — Mycon General Contractors has completed construction of the First Choice Emergency Room (FCER), located at 3301 Lakeview Parkway on a 0.8-acre tract in the Dallas suburb of Rowlett. FCER is a network of independent freestanding emergency rooms, and is an Adeptus Health company. The 6,931-square-foot facility houses diagnostic and radiology suites, including CT scanners, ultrasound and digital X-rays, exam rooms, a nurse’s station and laboratory. The project team includes real estate developer PM Realty Group and architect GSR Andrade Architects. Metropolitan Capital Advisors arranged $5.1 million in construction financing through Happy State Bank. FCER in Rowlett officially opened last month.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — CBRE has brokered the sale of Charter Square, a 243,106-square-foot, Class A office tower located at 555 Fayetteville St. in downtown Raleigh. Highwoods Properties Inc. purchased the building from the seller, a joint venture between Dominion Realty Partners and a global real estate investment manager. The sales price was undisclosed, but the Triangle Business Journal reports that Highwoods plans to invest $83.5 million in the acquisition, including $5.1 million in capital improvements. The office building opened in June 2015 and was certified LEED Platinum earlier this year. The office building was 70 percent leased at the time of sale to 14 tenants, including three ground-floor restaurants: b.good, Living Kitchen and The Haymaker.
SCOTTSDALE — Alvarado Realty has purchased a 50,789-square-foot office building in the master-planned community of McCormick Ranch for $7.7 million. The building is located at 8700 E. Via de Ventura within the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale. The space is 92.6 percent occupied. It was built in 1986. Bob Buckley, Tracy Cartledge, Steve Lindley and Ben Geelan of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, TA Realty, in this transaction.
Darwin Realty Negotiates Sale of 53,289 SF Office/Industrial Building in Buffalo Grove, Illinois
by Amy Works
BUFFALO GROVE, ILL. — Darwin Realty has brokered the sale of a 53,289-square-foot office/industrial property located at 1500 Busch Parkway in Buffalo Grove. JJS Properties sold the property to Knipex Tools for an undisclosed price. The buyer, the North American sales and marketing organization for the German hand-tool manufacturer, plans to relocate its operations from Arlington Heights, Ill., to the facility. Dan Predergast and Adam Haefner of Darwin Realty represented the seller, while Brian Hellgeth of Brian Properties represented the buyer in the transaction.
Colliers International | Wisconsin Facilitates Two Property Sales, One Lease in Wisconsin
by Amy Works
WATERTOWN, BROOKFIELD AND DELAVAN, WIS. — Colliers International | Wisconsin has arranged two property sales and one lease in Wisconsin. In the first deal, FAB Leasing Co. acquired a building, located at 1701 Utah St. in Watertown, from an undisclosed seller for $320,000. Steve Sewart and Westin Kane of Colliers arranged the deal. In the second transaction, WLCFS leased 2,665 square feet of office space at 16535 W. Bluemound Road in Brookfield. Sal Strehlow, Matt Fahey, Ben Anderson and Lyle Landowski of Colliers brokered the transaction. In the third deal, Griego Sound Inventions purchased a building located at 1436 Mound Road in Delavan for $350,000. Jim Larkin and Joe Eldredge of Colliers arranged the transaction. The name of the seller was not released.
SL Green Closes $1.5B Construction Financing for One Vanderbilt Development in Midtown Manhattan
by Amy Works
NEW YORK CITY — SL Green Realty Corp. has closed on $1.5 billion in construction financing for One Vanderbilt, a 58-story office tower located adjacent to Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan. The financing has a term of up to seven years and bears interest at a floating interest rate of 3.5 percent over LIBOR, with the ability to reduce the spread to as low as 3 percent upon achieving certain pre-leasing and completion milestones. Institutions involved in the financing are Wells Fargo Bank as administrative agent; The Bank of New York Melton, JP Morgan Chase Bank, TD Bank N.A. and Bank of China as syndication agents; and Landesbank Baden-Württemberg as documentation agent. Vertical construction is slated to begin in the second quarter of 2017, with completion scheduled for 2020. Tishman Construction is managing the project, which will also include direct connection to Grand Central’s network of mass transit, improved by $220 million in upgrades that SL Green is implementing as part of the project. Designed by Kohn Pederson Fox, the 1.6 million rentable-square-foot tower will be the tallest building in Midtown and the second tallest in New York City. In 2014, TD Bank signed a 20-year, 200,000-square-foot lease at the …
NEW YORK CITY — Madison Realty Capital has provided a $52 million first mortgage loan for the acquisition of a development site in the East Village and the construction of an approved mixed-use development on the site. Located at 644 E. 14th St., the 76,259-square-foot development will feature 50 residential units, 8,064 square feet of retail space with 200 feet of frontage on 14th Street and Avenue C, and 21,575 square feet of community facility space. The loan proceeds helped the undisclosed borrower close on the site acquisition and will fund further predevelopment activities and construction of the building. The residential units will feature contemporary finishes and large balconies with views of the East River. Additionally, the borrower is finalizing a lease with a major New York hospital to occupy the entire community facility portion of the new building.
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J. — G3 Communications Inc. has leased office space at Heights Plaza, located at 777 Terrace Ave. in Hasbrouck Heights. The digital media company, which specializes in B2B marketing, will occupy 6,400 square feet at the six-story 200,000-square-foot office building owned by Alfred Sanzari Enterprises. Stephen Jennings provided in-house representation for the landlord, while Joe Tormen of Lee & Associates represented the tenant in the transaction.
LA GRANGE, TEXAS — Rainier Realty Investments LP has purchased the St. Mark’s Medical Office Building situated on 3.2 acres on St. Mark’s Medical Center campus in La Grange, located halfway between Austin and Houston. Built in 2006, the 31,200-square-foot, single-story medical office building sits is 100 percent leased. Rainier Realty Investments is an affiliate of The Rainier Cos. in Dallas.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. — JLL has opened a new brokerage office located at 15 Ionia Ave. in downtown Grand Rapids to broaden its existing presence in Michigan. Jeffrey Karger and Robert Horn will lead the new office. Karger most recently served as senior advisor/director of office services for CWD Real Estate Investments, and Horn has completed more than 11 million square feet of industrial transactions during his career. JLL employs more than 800 professionals in Michigan, with dedicated teams in Detroit and Ann Arbor, Mich., specializing in project management, corporate solutions and public institutions.