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ANDOVER, MASS. — Spear Street Capital has completed the disposition of an office building located at 400 Minuteman Road in Andover. Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT II acquired the property for $37 million. The 153,000-square-foot building is fully occupied by Time Warner Cable and The Weather Company. The building is part of the seven-building Minuteman Park, a 1 million-square-foot Class A office campus. Campus amenities include two full-service cafeterias, a coffee bar, two fitness centers and a game room/lounge. Robert Griffin, Edward Maher, Matthew Pullen, Samantha Hallowell and Torin Taylor of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank represented the seller in the deal.

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STAMFORD, CONN. — Henkel Consumer Goods Inc. has leased 135,000 square feet of office space at 200 Elm St. in downtown Stamford. The tenant will use the newly renovated space as headquarters for Henkel in North America. The building is part of BLT Financial Centre, which also includes 695 E. Main St. in Stamford. Building and Land Technology (BLT) acquired the property in 2012 and recently completed a multi-million-dollar renovation to transform the vacant corporate property into an amenity-rich, fully modernized office asset.

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NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has appointed Bruce Mosler, chairman of Global Brokerage, as chair of the firm’s Veterans Initiative. In this role, Mosler will oversee a comprehensive program aimed at hiring U.S. veterans into various service lines and geographies at the Cushman & Wakefield. In order to meet its goal of hiring additional veterans to its workforce, the company will leverage existing relationships with partner veteran-focused organizations, like Syracuse University’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families and the Fisher House Foundation. Additionally, the firm will work closely with the Veterans Jobs Mission, a coalition of more than 230 companies that have collectively employed 348,000 veterans.

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SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Equus Capital Partners has sold Scottsdale Financial Center, a 107,000-square-foot office building, for an undisclosed sum. The Class A building is located at 4110 N. Scottsdale Road in Scottsdale. It is 93 percent leased. The buyer was Alternative Investments & Manager Selection Real Estate Group, a business unit within Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — New York Life Real Estate Investors has originated two 15-year loans totaling $90 million for a pair of office buildings in downtown Washington, D.C.’s central business district. The properties include a recently renovated, 10-story building at 1620 Eye St. N.W. and a 12-story building at 1156 15th St. N.W. New York Life Real Estate Investors originated the loans on behalf of the borrower, TF Cornerstone Inc.

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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Blackbaud, a Charleston-based cloud software provider for nonprofits and similar organizations, has selected Holder Properties to develop the company’s new corporate campus in Charleston. Blackbaud’s new campus will consist of a two-phase project situated on 13 acres in the Daniel Island community. Phase I will consist of a four-story, 172,000-square-foot office building and a 650-space surface parking lot located at the corner of Fairchild and Central Island streets. The site is planned to accommodate a second phase expansion for up to 175,000 square feet of additional office space. Construction began in October and Blackbaud will occupy the building upon its completion in the first quarter of 2018. The project team includes architect ASD and general contractor Balfour Beatty. Lee Allen, Chase Monroe, Graham Summers, Denice Michel and John Robinson of JLL represented Blackbaud in the transaction.

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NEW YORK CITY — Meridian Capital Group has arranged $30 million in financing for the refinance of an office property located at 264-268 W. 40th St. in Manhattan’s Garment District. The 10-year loan, provided by a national balance sheet lender, features a competitive fixed rate of 3.5 percent. Avi Weinstock, Josh Rhine and Luke Hingson of Meridian secured the financing for the borrower, Renaissance Properties. The 20-story, 120,000-square-foot office building is occupied by 40 tenants, including two restaurants as retail tenants.

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DALLAS — Stream Energy has relocated to 55,226 square feet of office space located at 14675 Dallas Parkway in Dallas. Stream Energy is a leading company in energy, connected life services and direct selling. Jon Silberman with NAI Partners, along with Van Power and David Schrock of NAI Robert Lynn, represented the tenant, while the landlord, Cawley Partners, was represented internally by Jeremy Duggins.

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The Orlando office market is strong and continues to grow stronger. Vacancy rates are declining, rents are increasing and new developments are in the works. While many large office markets around the country seem to have reached or are approaching the peak of this real estate cycle, the market in the Orlando area still has great potential for expansion. According to the Orlando Economic Development Commission (EDC), there is currently an unprecedented level of office, multifamily and mixed-use development planned for downtown Orlando. This is largely thanks to Tremont Plaza, a 28-story mixed-use development being built by Lincoln Property Co. and Tremont Realty Capital. The $81 million development will have seven floors of office space totaling over 200,000 square feet, along with a 180-room hotel, making it the first large-scale Class A office project for Orlando in 10 years. With several other major multi-use commercial projects on the drawing board, the EDC calculates that more than 1 million additional square feet of construction is planned for Orlando’s downtown business district. There are several factors contributing to the office market’s prosperity, including Florida’s improving economy and business-friendly atmosphere. The state offers a favorable business tax structure, pro-business legislature and access to …

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DALLAS, CEDAR HILL, FORT WORTH AND WAXAHACHIE — NAI Robert Lynn has arranged the sales of four properties totaling 120,722 square feet in Texas. In the first transaction, Taxco Produce acquired an 111,263-square-foot building located at 4202 Dan Morton Drive in Dallas. Matt Elliot of NAI Robert Lynn represented the tenant in the deal. In the second transaction, Tom Heraty of NAI Robert Lynn represented U Need Nails & Tan LLC in the acquisition of a 3,559-square-foot building located at 101 E. Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill. In the third deal, Colt Power of NAI Robert Lynn represented CAP Software in the purchase of a 3,200-square-foot building located at 7250 W. Vickery Blvd. in Fort Worth. Eric Walsh of HGC Commercial represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. In the final transaction, Tom Heraty of NAI Robert Lynn represented the Rocksteady LLC in the acquisition of a 2,700-square-foot building located at 503 N. Highway 77 in Waxahachie. Sandia Properties represented the undisclosed seller in the deal.

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