DALLAS — Sperry Commercial Global Affiliates has announced a new franchise affiliate, Dallas-based Engvest Commercial Realty LLC. The first Dallas/Fort Worth affiliate to join Sperry Commercial, Engvest was founded by Daniel Eng to serve its clients as a full-service commercial real estate investment firm. Eng and his business partner Calvin Wong will provide leasing, acquisitions, disposition and property management services under the Sperry Commercial Global Affiliates brand. Engvest brings more than 1 million square feet of retail center listings to the platform.
ATLANTA — Dockerty Romer & Co. has arranged a $34.2 million permanent loan for a Class A, 13-story office building located at 2100 Riveredge Parkway in Atlanta. Situated by the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, the 264,374-square-foot building is currently 92 percent leased, with United Healthcare as its anchor tenant. Craig Romer and Chris Romer of Dockerty Romer arranged the two-year, floating-rate loan through NXT Capital on behalf of the borrower, Mainstreet Capital Partners.
LOS ANGELES — SunCal is set to develop 6AM, a 14.5-acre mixed-use development located in the downtown Los Angeles Arts District. The project will feature public and private outdoor space; art creation space and exhibition space; creative offices; space allocated for use by a school; fitness centers; two 58-story residential towers offering live/work residences; outdoor pools and spas; hotel; grocer; food hall; retail space; and parking. Architectural firm Herzog & De Meuron is designing the project. A timeline for the development — located at the intersection of 6th and Alameda streets — has yet to be announced.
BEDFORD, TEXAS — CBRE has arranged the sale of Airport Centre I & II, a Class A office complex located in Bedford near the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. The property consists of two two-story buildings totaling 251,168 square feet and an overall parking ratio of 5.8 per 1,000 square feet. Constructed in 2000 and 2001, Airport Centre I and II feature 10-foot ceiling heights. With an occupancy rate of 81.6 percent, the property serves as the headquarters of Warrantech Corp. Stanton Road Capital purchased the asset from Allegiancy Houston LLC for an undisclosed price. CBRE’s Eric Mackey, Gary Carr, John Alvarado, Jared Chua, Robert Hill and Pete Van Amburgh arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller.
LEE’S SUMMIT, MO. — Parrot Properties, in partnership with Block & Co., has received approval for its $225 million Village at View High development in Lee’s Summit from the city’s planning commission. The mixed-use project will feature multifamily space, 250,000 square feet of retail space and more than 100,000 square feet of office and medical space, as well as a proposed senior living facility. To be developed in three phrases, the project will feature 23 acres of land for 300 luxury apartments, 13 acres for a gated-community of senior living villas, townhomes and apartments, and 35 acres for retail, restaurant and office development. The project team includes Engineering Solutions, TransSystems, Hirst and Associates Architects, Bushyhead, and Humphrey, Farrington & McClain PC.
INDIANAPOLIS — Colliers International has brokered the sale of Waterfront Office Park, an office park located at 2611-2780 Waterfront Parkway E. Drive in Indianapolis. New Boston Fund sold the four-building, 201,276-square-foot park for an undisclosed price. Alex Cantu, Rich Forslund and Matt Langfeldt of Colliers Indianapolis | Capital Markets represented the seller in the deal. The name of the buyer was not released.
NUTLEY AND CLIFTON, N.J. — PB Nutclif I, an affiliate of Prism Capital Partners, has completed its previously announced purchase of the 116-acre former Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. North American headquarters campus in Nutley and Clifton. The company plans to reposition the campus as a mixed-use development anchored by a medical school. In July, Hackensack Meridian Heath and Seton Hall University committed to leasing two buildings and 16 acres at the property. Seton Hall and Hackensack Meridian will immediately start improvements to convert the leased buildings to accommodate the needs of the new Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. Seton Hall will co-locate its College of Nursing and School of Health and Medical Sciences at the site, and Hackensack Meridian plans to create a National Health Institute-designated Clinical Research Center on the campus.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Choyce Peterson Inc. has arranged the lease of 29,000 square feet of office space at 701 Westchester Ave. in White Plains. Pentegra Retirement Services is relocating its headquarters from 108 Corporate Park Drive to the new location. John Hannigan and Alan Peterson of Choyce Peterson represented the tenant, while Brian Carcaterra of CBRE represented the landlord, Normandy Real Estate Partners, in the transaction.
RICHMOND, VA. — Dominion Realty Partners has purchased a three-building office portfolio totaling 288,416 square feet in Richmond for an undisclosed price. Situated within Boulders Office Park, the purchase of Boulders I, II and III will increase Dominion Realty’s Virginia office portfolio to 450,723 square feet. The portfolio was 76 percent leased at the time of sale to 34 tenants including Timmons Group and Tredegar Corp. Dominion Realty plans to make capital improvements to the portfolio, including upgrades of the common area lobbies, corridors and restrooms, parking lot resurfacing and landscaping improvements. Eric Robison of Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
The Raleigh-Durham office market has not only recovered from the Great Recession, it is solidly in expansion mode, and tenants are facing market conditions not witnessed in 15 years. The current cycle has been marked by a prolonged period of limited development activity. While job growth in the local market has been rebounding for more than five years, the construction pipeline has only recently filled in a meaningful way, and a large portion of the development activity in 2014 and early 2015 was driven by build-to-suits. With Class A vacancy now at a 15-year low, speculative development is heating up again. While projects totaling 1.4 million square feet were underway in the first quarter, most of this product will not be delivered until 2017 or later, and approximately half of the space has already been spoken for. In the near term, the market heavily favors landlords. The Triangle office market began 2016 with strong activity as tenants absorbed 453,997 square feet, driving vacancy down by 40 basis points to 12.1 percent. This figure is down by 180 basis points on a year-over-year basis and has fallen from a cyclical high of 18.7 percent. Class A vacancy ended the first quarter …