SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — KT Properties Urban has purchased a 70,520-square-foot R&D office building in Santa Clara for $19 million. The building is located at 3055 Patrick Henry Drive. It was vacant at the time of sale. Tom Trombatore of Colliers International represented KT Properties. The seller was Hudson Pacific Properties.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — Blackhawk Properties & Investment LLC has selected Berger Commercial Realty to lease and manage the new seven-story 550 Building that is set to break ground in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Scheduled to begin construction this summer and open in fall 2017, the 70,000-square-foot, Class A office tower will be located at 550 S. Andrews Ave., the former site of the 32,500-square-foot Justice Building. The project will have an attached parking garage and ground-floor retail space. Roughly 10,000 square feet of 550 Building’s office space has been pre-leased. The development team includes Blackhawk, Collins Capital Partners, Craven Thompson & Associates, Douglas Management and Falkanger, Snyder, Martineau and Yates. Steve Hyatt, Joseph Byrnes and Stephanie Bernota of Berger Commercial Realty are the leasing agents for both the office and retail components at the 550 Building.
CHICAGO — Leopardo Companies Inc. has broken ground on a 290,000-square-foot office building in Chicago’s Fulton Market neighborhood. Fulton West, which will be located at 1330 W. Fulton St., will be a nine-story building. The property will include balconies, a private roof deck, 610 onsite parking spaces and an adjacent 20,000-square-foot mini-park. Sterling Bay is the project developer, and Gensler is the architect of record. The speculative building is slated for completion in spring 2017.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Mid America Business Park, a three-story, 84,373-square-foot office building located in Oklahoma City. Cody Payne of Marcus & Millichap’s Fort Worth office marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a Fort Worth-based private partnership. The buyer is a private investor utilizing a 1031 tax-deferred exchange. Ron Hebert of Marcus & Millichap’s Dallas office partnered with Payne on the sale. Tom Mann of the firm’s Tulsa office is Marcus & Millichap’s broker of record in Oklahoma. Built in 2002, the property is located at 7919 Mid America Blvd., a few miles from downtown Oklahoma City. The Veterans Administration and CNI Administration Services anchor the property and account for 65 percent of the gross leasable area. Other tenants include AAR Services, Deaconess Home Care and Edward Jones.
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — General Assembly Inc. has leased a single-tenant building in Dallas’ Great Southwest Industrial District in a move that will keep its operations in Arlington and get the entire business under one roof. General Assembly will relocate its operations to 1011 Oakmead Drive. The 6,615-square-foot office/warehouse space, located near I-30, more than doubles the amount of warehouse space for the professional merchandising services firm, which supports the retail industry with locations in 19 states and the District of Columbia. The company assembles high-end consumer products. The headquarters team is moving from the Vandergriff Town Center at 200 N. Mesquite St. and warehouse workers are relocating from 320 Dixon Lane. The new location has two loading docks, grade-level doors and enough parking for the entire workforce. A local investor, who was represented by Jim Hazard of E. Smith Realty Partners in the lease deal, owns the new location.
PLANO, TEXAS — Citadel Partners LLC has represented Spirent Communications Inc. in a 25,512-square-foot office lease at 800 Klein Road in Plano. Scott Jessen, Scott Morse and Andy Goldston of Citadel Partners represented the tenant, while Joe Whitmer of Transwestern represented the landlord, Liberty Property LP.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. — Avison Young’s Atlanta office has arranged a 91,000-square-foot office lease at 1715 N. Brown Road in Lawrenceville, a northeast suburb of Atlanta in Gwinnett County. Sage Software, an accounting and business management software firm, will lease the space for five years. Chet Koenig of Avison Young represented the landlord, Clarion Partners, in the lease transaction.
BOSTON — German investor Union Investment Real Estate GmbH has purchased 101 Seaport, a 440,000-square-foot office building in Boston, for $452 million. The seller, Skanska, developed the building, which it also uses as its Boston headquarters. Skanska broke ground on the LEED-Platinum project less than three years ago. At the time, it was Seaport Square’s first office tower. PricewaterhouseCoopers and Red Thread/Steelcase also use the building as New England headquarters. The office building includes an on-site fitness center. It is situated within walking distance of Q-Park, Seaport Square Green and the Harbor Walk, a pedestrian promenade in the city’s Seaport district. The office building is one of Skanska’s three Seaport Boulevard developments. The company is also building 121 Seaport, a neighboring office tower with ground-floor retail, and recently completed Watermark Seaport, a luxury residential tower with ground-floor retail that Skanska developed with Twining Properties. Newmark Grubb Knight Frank’s Robert Griffin Jr., Edward Maher and Matthew Pullen represented Skanska in the transaction. The firm’s Bill Anderson and David Martel represented the company on the leases as well. This is Union Investment’s third recent acquisition in Boston. “After the acquisition of the Godfrey Hotel and the Converse Headquarters at Lovejoy Wharf, we …
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — NAI James E. Hanson has arranged the sale of an office building located at 215 14th St. in Jersey City. Adithya Bathena acquired the 30,000-square-foot building from MIS for an undisclosed price. MIS plans to lease back space within the four-story building. The property also features ground-floor retail space that is currently leased to Dunkin’ Donuts. Russell Verducci and Eric Demmers of NAI Hanson represented the buyer, while Dan DePalma of JLL represented the seller in the transaction.
SAN ANTONIO — Bryan Leonard of NorthMarq Capital’s San Antonio office has arranged acquisition financing for a 25,379-square-foot office property located at 7540 Louis Pasteur Drive in San Antonio. The 10-year loan includes a 25-year amortization schedule and 75 percent loan-to-value ratio. NorthMarq Capital arranged financing for the borrower through its relationship with a local bank. The property is located in the South Texas Medical Center and is 100 percent occupied.