DENVER — Accounting firm Eide Bailly has leased 29,704 of office space at One Belleview Station, a transit-oriented-development within the Denver Tech Center. The firm will occupy the entire seventh floor. One Belleview Station is scheduled for delivery on Dec. 1 of this year. It will feature 318,000 square feet of Class AA office space. The new space will allow Eide Bailly to consolidate its Golden and Denver Tech Center offices into a single location. The general contractor for One Belleview Station is Weitz, while Gensler’s Denver studio is the architect. The master developer is Front Range Land and Development Co.
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DALLAS — Grander Capital Partners LLC has purchased Emerald Plaza, a 74,182-square-foot office building located at 14900 Landmark Boulevard in Dallas. The purchase of the six-story office building is Grander Capital’s first in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Grander Capital has retained Ward Eastman and Rodney Helm of Cushman & Wakefield to lease the property. Grander Capital’s investment in Emerald Plaza includes plans to modernize the building’s lobby, signage and landscaping. Located in the Quorum Market near the Dallas North Tollway, Emerald Plaza is 84 percent leased and includes amenities such as 100 percent underground parking and proximity to several restaurants and retail establishments.
HOUSTON — Colvill Office Properties (COP) and Cushman & Wakefield have secured a 52,822-square-foot lease for Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) at 2500 CityWest Boulevard, a 578,284-square-foot office building located in Houston’s Westchase District. SABIC recently expanded its presence at the Class A asset, taking two full floors totaling 46,063 square feet and another 6,759 square feet in the lobby. This brings SABIC’s capacity at the 25-story tower to 75,840 square feet. David Guion and Tim Relyea of Cushman & Wakefield represented SABIC in the lease transaction. Win Haggard of COP represented the property ownership, Crimson Real Estate Fund LP, a private equity fund sponsored by Patrinely Group and USAA Real Estate Co.
DALLAS — Veritas Advisory Group Inc. has signed a long-term, 19,166-square-foot lease extension and expansion for its Dallas office at Thanksgiving Tower. Veritas provides forensic accounting, litigation support and expert witness testimony to clients in a variety of industries, including banking, construction, energy, manufacturing and telecommunications. Arthur Green of Avison Young represented Veritas Advisory in renewal negotiations. A $38 million infrastructure, lobby and plaza area renovation is underway at Thanksgiving Tower that is scheduled for completion by the end of 2016. Improvements include HVAC replacement, thermal storage tank refurbishment, elevator modernization and podium redevelopment.
CARMEL, IND. — Rubenstein Partners LP and Strategic Capital Partners have acquired Parkwood Crossing, a 1.2 million-square-foot office complex in Carmel approximately 25 miles north of Indianapolis, for $162.9 million. The seller, Duke Realty Corp., developed the eight-building property between 1989 and 2005. The buyers will build a standalone amenity center, which will feature dining, fitness, conference and collaboration space. The joint venture also plans to make upgrades to the buildings’ aesthetics and physical systems. JLL brokered the transaction and will serve as exclusive leasing agent for the property.
ATLANTA — NXT Capital has provided a $13.6 million acquisition loan for the purchase of Northridge Plaza, a six-story, Class B office building in Atlanta. The 128,000-square-foot property is located at the intersection of GA 400 and Northridge Road.
Fairfield County, Connecticut, which has traditionally been home to many multi-national financial tenants, is transitioning to become one of the most diverse business environments in the region and attracting some of the biggest names from the TAMI (technology, advertising, media and information), creative, engineering and corporate arenas. This shift in the fabric of the business community may be attributed to major investments made by a number of owners to improve and reposition their office properties to meet the demands of this new type of tenant. Owners are virtually creating new tenant experiences in their buildings, with office space boasting technological efficiencies and tenant amenities designed to support a balance between professional and personal needs. The “if you build, he will come,” quote made famous in the movie Field of Dreams is certainly apropos when looking at the trend of newly renovated properties attracting some of the best tenants in the market. A perfect example is the success at Merritt 7, a six-building, 1.4 million-square-foot office complex that recently completed more than 600,000 square feet of new leases — including a recent 133,000-square-foot lease by Datto Inc., one of the fastest- growing information technology firms in the world for its global …
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Austin-based JTM Development will break ground next week on Walsh Tarlton Overlook, a 55,000-square-foot office building in southwest Austin. Located just north of Capital of Texas Highway (Loop 360) and west of the Barton Creek Square Mall, the three-story building is located at 2530 Walsh Tarlton Lane. Sixthriver Architects designed the project, which will feature limestone, marble and walnut finishes throughout the building, as well as in the elevator lobbies and elevators. The structure includes a five-floor parking garage beneath the building. Walsh Tarlton Overlook is scheduled to open in 2017. The Burt Group is the general contractor on the project. TBG Group designed the landscaping. JTM Development is partnering on the project with Cypress Real Estate Advisors, which has owned the 16-acre site since 2007. Cypress received approval from the city of Austin to rezone the property for mixed-use development in 2011.
HOUSTON — NAI Partners has represented Panattoni Development Co. in the sale of a 24,000-square-foot office/warehouse facility located on 10.6 acres to Eagle Fabricators Inc. The facility is located at 5522 Shirley Lane in Houston. John Ferruzzo and Clay Pritchett of NAI Partners represented Panattoni Development during the transaction negotiations.
SARASOTA, FLA. — Belle Amie Anthem Realty LLC has purchased the BMO Harris Bank Building, an 11-story, Class A office building in Sarasota, for $23 million. The 128,389-square-foot property is located at 240 S. Pineapple Ave. The building was 95 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as BMO Harris Bank, the Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick law firm, Kirk Pinkerton law firm and Brown & Brown Insurance. Michele Fuller of Ian Black Real Estate represented the buyer in the transaction. HFF and Jag Grewal, also with Ian Black Real Estate, represented the seller, 240 S. Pineapple Office-Sarasota LLC.