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510-530-Walnut-St-Philadelphia-PA

PHILADELPHIA — Keystone Property Group has acquired One Washington Square, also known as the Penn Mutual Tower, located at 510-530 Walnut St. in Philadelphia. An undisclosed seller sold the 880,000-square-foot commercial building for $114 million. The building is occupied by several corporate headquarters, including the American Board of Internal Medicine, Urban Engineers and BPD International. Keystone plans to convert the building’s ground floor and mezzanine office space located at 530 Walnut St. into retail space.

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CINCINNATI — CBRE Group Inc. has arranged an office lease renewal and expansion for Blue & Co., an independent accounting and advisory firm. The company, which will continue to occupy space on the first floor of the Sawyer Point Building, signed a lease for 5,359 additional square feet on the second floor, doubling its space. The Sawyer Point Building is a four-story, 185,000-square-foot office building located at 720 E. Pete Rose Way. Chuck Male of CBRE represented the tenant in the transaction. John Eckert and Travis Likes of CBRE represented the landlord.

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The office market in Chesterfield, a suburb of St. Louis, has undergone tremendous growth in the past two years. In particular, the I-64/Highway 40 corridor within the West St. Louis County submarket has experienced a flurry of activity highlighted by the construction of several corporate headquarters as well as expansions. The corridor, which stretches from Clayton to Chesterfield, boasts a highly visible central location, proximity to high-end housing that appeals to corporate executives, newer buildings that bode well for future resale or leasing, and convenient interstate access. With a Class A vacancy rate of only 7.6 percent, the West St. Louis County submarket is experiencing a shortage of available blocks of office space of 50,000 square feet or more. Corporations desiring to locate along the prestigious corridor are relocating from older Class B space to existing or build-to-suit Class A properties. In fact, new construction during the last two years added 774,000 square feet of office space to this submarket, of which all but 50,000 square feet was already committed upon delivery. Less than 50,000 square feet was considered speculative. Magnet for headquarters  RaboAgrifinance will relocate its corporate headquarters from Creve Coeur Pointe to the new Delmar Gardens III at …

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ROCHESTER HILLS, MICH. — American Healthcare Investors and Griffin Capital Corp., the co-sponsors of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV Inc., have agreed to buy a medical office building in Rochester Hills for an undisclosed price. The 30,000-square-foot facility is approximately 93 percent leased to seven tenants, the largest of which is William Beaumont Hospital. An undisclosed seller disposed of the property located approximately 30 miles north of Detroit.

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PHARMA-LEASING-NJ-2016

By many measures, 2015 was Northern New Jersey’s best year for its office market in quite some time. Tenants leased 11.7 million square feet, the strongest annual activity since 2003. Business confidence improved and companies showed a growing willingness to invest in their workforce and workplace. The number of larger leases dropped off a bit in 2015, though, as many of the largest space searches were fulfilled and fewer quality space options remained in some of the most sought after areas. Tenants have no shortage of options in much of Morris County and Newark, but steady leasing in Metropark and Jersey City’s waterfront has pushed availability below 15 percent. Smaller and mid-sized tenants can still find space in these locations, but there are far fewer big blocks of quality space remaining. There were fewer larger leases in 2015, but tenants were very mobile: relocations outnumbered renewals by two to one with 12 firms opting to move and six renewing. An analysis of larger leases (deals over 40,000 square feet) signed since 2009 shows that larger tenants renewed slightly less than 50 percent of the time (81 firms moved and 75 renewed). From a supply perspective, market conditions have been ideal …

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DALLAS — K2 Construction will serve as the general contractor for new downtown Dallas offices for Chubb Insurance, Compass Professional Healthcare Services (CPHS) and El Centro College. Chubb Insurance will relocate within its current building at Bryan Tower to accommodate the company’s recent acquisition by ACE Group. Chubb will shift its offices from the 33rd and 34th floors to the 3rd, 35th and 36th floors. Dallas-based K2 Construction will collaborate with Spire Realty and moran & murphy architects to build approximately 90,000 square feet of office space for the move. Sam Williamson with Spire Realty is the construction manager for this project. Meanwhile, CPHS has leased two floors in the Bank of America Plaza. The relocation of its operations from the Centrum on Oak Lawn Avenue will require 60,000 square feet on the 57th and 58th floors of the new location. Interior Architects designed the space. Darrell Payne with Peloton Commercial and Kris Hopson with CBRE are the construction managers for this project. El Centro College, a sector of Dallas County Community College District, has leased two floors in One Main Place tower located at 1201 Main St. The 10th and 11th floors will provide El Centro with approximately 57,000 …

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DALLAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a 20,000-square-foot flex office property located at 14209-14223 Proton Road in Dallas. Built in 1973 and renovated in 2010, the single-story asset features an exterior loading dock with 14-foot ceilings. The property was 88 percent leased at the time of sale. Ron Hebert and Joe Santelli of Marcus & Millichap’s Dallas office represented the seller, an international limited liability company, in the transaction. The buyer, a limited liability company, purchased the property in a reverse 1031 exchange.

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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.

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100 and 200 Regency Forest Drive Cary

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.

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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.

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