HOUSTON — New York-based owner Investcorp has tapped Transwestern to lease One Westchase Center, a 466,000-square-foot office building located at 10777 Westheimer Road in Houston’s Westchase Business District. Doug Little, Louann Paereira and Amanda Lee App of Transwestern will lead the leasing efforts. The Class A office building features a fully furnished conference facility, fitness center with men’s and women’s showers, deli, 24-hour security and on-site property management.
CARY, N.C. — A joint venture between Starwood Capital Group, Trinity Capital Advisors and Vanderbilt Partners has sold two office buildings in Cary for a combined $35.2 million The office assets are located at 100 and 200 Regency Forest Drive within Regency Park. Totaling 207,347 square feet, the properties are leased to tenants such as Cadence Design, MicroMass Communication, MercuryGate International, Crown Castle and Garmin International. Scot Humphrey, Ryan Clutter and Chris Norvell of HFF represented the joint venture in the transaction and procured the buyer, True North Management Group LLC.
FORT COLLINS, COLO. — 2001 Danfield LLC has purchased the LSI Logic building, a 158,000-square-foot office building in Fort Collins, for $5.6 million. The building is located at 2001 Danfield Court. It previously served as a computer chip manufacturing facility for LSI Logic. The LLC plans to convert the space into a multi-tenant office building. CBRE’s Peter Kast and Ham Southworth represented the seller, LSI Corp., in this transaction.
DEERFIELD, ILL. — Fulcrum Assets Advisors has acquired three office buildings in Deerfield, approximately 27 miles northwest of Chicago, for an undisclosed price. The facilities are located within the Parkway North complex, a six-building complex that was constructed between 1988 and 2000. The Class A, 1 million-square-foot property is located between the Lake Cook Road and Deerfield Road interchanges at I-94. The John Buck Company sold the three buildings, which total 484,328 square feet. Tenants at Parkway North include Mondelez International, CF Industries, GCG Financial, Walgreens, Lundbeck and Essendent. Fulcrum plans to upgrade the buildings. Colliers International is overseeing leasing for the property.
ROSSLYN, VA. — The Meridian Group has acquired International Place, a 293,539-square-foot office building in Rosslyn, for $106.5 million. Beacon Capital Partners sold the building, which is located at 1735 N. Lynn St. in an area of Northern Virginia that sits directly across the Potomac River from Georgetown. International Place is across from the Rosslyn Metro station, which contains Blue, Orange and Silver lines and is only one stop away from Washington, D.C. The Pentagon, Reagan National Airport, Tysons and Dulles International Airport are also in close proximity. The LEED-Gold certified building’s amenities include a new ground-floor, 4,376-square-foot fitness center, conference facility and management office. International Place also has “the largest potential for balconies and outdoor space in the Rosslyn-Ballston Corridor,” according to the buyer. The building overlooks the Jefferson Memorial, Memorial Bridge and Potomac River. It also features a centralized location near JBG Cos.’ newly constructed Central Place Development. This project features a 17,000-square-foot public plaza, a 377-unit residential tower and 45,000 square feet of ground-level retail. Bill Collins, Paul Collins, Drew Flood and Shaun Weinberg of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in this transaction. — Nellie Day
Pick up any Birmingham newspaper and the headlines will likely reveal plans for a historic building renovation, a new mixed-use development or a prominent Birmingham company expanding into the Central Business District (CBD). Birmingham has enjoyed a surge of development over the last few years, with nationally recognized projects such as Railroad Park and Regions Field, the renovations of prominent downtown buildings and the emergence of new districts throughout the city. With all the development going on, it’s no wonder that the Birmingham office market is thriving with investors taking an interest in many of the city’s best Class A properties. The years 2014 and 2015 marked a record number of Class A properties trading to prominent national investors, and the trend seems to be continuing into 2016. Over the past year, Hertz Investment Group expanded its Birmingham footprint to include Inverness Center (four buildings), the Wells Fargo Tower and the BB&T Bank Building, a total of more than 1 million square feet. The Matrix Group purchased the four-building portfolio Meadow Brook North, totaling more than 500,000 square feet. 2016 is off to a promising start with the sale of one of the Southern submarket’s most prominent buildings, the 211,335-square-foot …
DALLAS — LegacyTexas bank has leased 20,343 square feet of office space in Sterling Plaza, a Class A office tower located at 5949 Sherry Lane in Dallas. The deal will relocate the bank’s Preston Center corporate banking office. As part of the deal, LegacyTexas will occupy an entire floor inside the 19-story office building, located between the Dallas North Tollway and U.S. Highway 75. Cushman & Wakefield’s Bill McClung and Robbie Baty represented LegacyTexas in the lease transaction. Seth Thatcher, Dennis Barnes, Celeste Fowden and Alexandra Jennings of CBRE represented the landlord, KBS.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — CBRE has brokered the sale of an 11.8-acre site with multiple buildings at 7100 Oakmont Blvd. in Fort Worth. The asset includes a 113,000-square-foot former hospital building and a 12,000-square-foot former power plant. Fort Worth-based TCRG Properties LLC purchased the site for an undisclosed price with a plan to redevelop the assets for lease. The property, formerly occupied by Baylor All Saints Medical Center, is located in southwest Fort Worth. Inwood Bank provided acquisition financing. Bob Scully and Nanci Johnson-Plump with CBRE’s Fort Worth office represented the seller, Rainier Realty Investments. Ryan Wood with TCRG represented the buyer internally.
DALLAS — Woods Capital has assumed property management duties for Thanksgiving Tower, a 50-story office building located in the Main Street district of downtown Dallas. Dallas-based Woods Capital, in partnership with Third Point Opportunities Master Fund, acquired Thanksgiving Tower in 2013 and has undertaken renovations on the property over the last two years.
PHOENIX — Realscape Asset Holdings has purchased a 51,809-square-foot office building in Phoenix for $11.7 million. The Class A building is located at 5055 E. Washington St. It was fully occupied at the time of sale. Eric Wichterman, Mike Coover, Bob Buckley, Steve Lindley, Tracy Cartledge and Adam Tolson of Cushman & Wakefield represented both the buyer and the seller, Irgens Development Partners, in this transaction.
