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Regal Entertainment Group Knoxville One Riverwalk

KNOXVILLE, TENN. — Southeastern Development Associates has signed Regal Entertainment Group to a lease that relocates its world corporate headquarters to downtown Knoxville. The company is the world’s largest theater chain with nearly 7,500 screens. Regal will occupy a nine-story, 178,000-square-foot office building located on the Tennessee River in Southeastern Development’s One Riverwalk mixed-use development. Upon completion, One Riverwalk will feature 300 luxury apartment communities, student housing, office space, a hotel, retail shopping, restaurants, a riverwalk esplanade, parks and an entertainment plaza. Regal is expected to bring approximately 400 employees with the relocation. Southeastern Development Associates, formerly known as Blanchard & Calhoun Commercial, partnered with Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam, the city of Knoxville, Knoxville Mayor Tim Burchett and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Tommy Saul, Rhodes Seeger and Chris Senn represented Southeastern Development Associates internally in the transaction.

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SAN DIEGO — HFF has arranged a $96.4 million loan for Genesis at Campus Point, a vacant, four-building office complex in the UTC submarket of San Diego, which will fund the complex’s conversion into a biotech space. The 311,022-square-foot campus is located at 4224, 4242 and 4244 Campus Point Court and 10210 Campus Point Drive. The space is situated near the convergence of interstates 5 and 805 inside a life science cluster. Other notable tenants in the area include the University of California San Diego, Scripps medical campus, Illumina, Eli Lilly and Celgene. The buildings will feature multiple conference rooms, an on-site café with indoor and outdoor seating, a full-service fitness center, large balconies and a combination of covered and surface parking. HFF’s Tim Wright, Todd Sugimoto and Zack Holderman arranged the financing on behalf of the borrower, a partnership between Phase 3 Real Estate Partners and its institutional partner. The 36-month, floating-rate loan was placed with TPG Real Estate Finance Trust. Proceeds will be used to recapitalize the mid-year acquisition and fund the immediate repositioning costs of the asset.

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HOUSTON — HFF has arranged the sale of BBVA Compass Plaza, a Class A office building totaling 326,200 square feet in Houston. BBVA Compass Plaza is the first office building to be delivered to the Galleria area in nearly three decades. HFF marketed the asset on behalf of the seller, a joint venture partnership between Stream Realty Partners, TRC Capital Partners (formerly The Redstone Cos.) and an institutional client of L&B Realty Advisors. Masaveu Post Oak Houston Delaware LLC purchased BBVA Compass Plaza for an undisclosed amount. Completed in 2013, BBVA Compass Plaza is a LEED Gold-certified, 22-story building that is 83 percent leased. BBVA Compass Bank occupies 58 percent of the net rentable area, and the remaining tenants are a mix of national and international firms. The recently completed property features a 1,144-space parking garage, a full retail bank branch, fitness center and two restaurants: Caracol and Oka Sushi. BBVA Compass Plaza is situated in Houston’s Galleria submarket with access to Loop 610, I-10, Highway 59 and Westpark Tollway. Scott Galloway, Dan Miller, Matt Kafka, Colby Mueck and Trent Agnew led the HFF investment sales team.

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DALLAS — Paradigm Tax Group has relocated its headquarters to Dallas and added a new CEO. Paradigm provides property tax consulting services for commercial property owners and has more than 30 regional offices across the U.S. Paradigm will retain its presence in its former headquarters in the Phoenix area. Steve Stubitz will remain chairman of the company but step down from his interim CEO role to welcome Mark Wanic as CEO. Stubitz held the position following the retirement of Paradigm’s prior CEO Bob Dunlap. Wanic comes to Paradigm after holding a variety of executive positions at Cushman & Wakefield. Wanic is the latest addition to a new management team, which includes new CFO Francoise Mattice, who joined Paradigm in March. Paradigm helps clients identify potential tax-saving opportunities.

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PLANO, TEXAS — Boxer Property has concluded long-term lease negotiations on a 17,000-square-foot lease with GuideIT, a Perot company. GuideIT has been a tenant of Boxer in the Plano Tower building since early 2013. Plano Tower is located at 101 E. Park Blvd. and is owned and managed by Boxer Property. Mark Dowdle, of Boxer Property’s Dallas office, negotiated the agreement on behalf of Boxer, and Louis Pascuzzi of Jackson Cooksey represented GuideIT. Plano Tower includes 13 stories with a total of 225,445 square feet of office space for rent. The Class A building features a mirrored glass exterior, surface and covered parking, an upgraded lobby, granite floors, elevator service, on-site banking services and drop boxes.

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BRYN MAWR, PA. — Duke Realty plans to develop a 100,300-square-foot medical office building (MOB) for Main Line Health at its Bryn Mawr Hospital campus. Located at 130 Bryn Mawr Ave. in Bryn Mawr, the four-story building is estimated to cost $35 million. The property will house a 24,000-square-foot ambulatory surgery center, 13,000 square feet of primary care services and 10,000 square feet of auxiliary space to meet Main Line’s future needs. Development will begin in February 2016, and completion is slated for February 2017. The building will be owned by Duke Realty Bryn Mawr Development LLC. The Philadelphia office of Francis Cauffman is serving as architect and Health Sciences Construction Group is serving as general contractor for the project.

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HOUSTON — Bracewell & Giuliani LLP has signed a 189,061-square-foot, long-term lease renewal at Pennzoil Place, located at 711 Louisiana St. in Houston. David Lee, Doug Little and Ben Quinton of Transwestern’s Houston headquarters negotiated the deal on behalf of the building owner, Metropolis Investment Holdings Inc. Bracewell & Giuliani is an international law firm with 450 lawyers in Texas, New York, Washington, D.C., Connecticut, Seattle, Dubai and London, serving Fortune 500 companies, major financial institutions, leading private investment funds, governmental entities and individuals concentrated in the energy, technology and financial services sectors worldwide. Tim Relyea and Brooke Wommack of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant.

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Brookside One Alpharetta

ALPHARETTA, GA. — Lincoln Property Co. Southeast has brokered office leases totaling more than 100,000 square feet in Alpharetta, a northern suburb of Atlanta. Michael Howell and Hunter Henritze of Lincoln represented the landlords in the transactions, which included SunTrust Mortgage’s 6,992-square-foot lease renewal at One Northwinds Center at 2475 Northwinds Parkway; Wells Fargo Advisors’ 17,046-square-foot lease renewal at Two Northwinds Center at 2520 Northwinds Parkway; CenturyLink Communications’ 20,197-square-foot lease renewal at Brookside One at 3625 Brookside Parkway; Guilford Insurance’s new 12,180-square-foot lease at Preston Ridge IV at 3440 Preston Ridge Road; Biota Pharmaceuticals’ 11,788-square-foot lease expansion at Three Northwinds Center at 2500 Northwinds Parkway; Thyssen Krupp’s 19,745-square-foot lease expansion and renewal at 400 Northwinds Parkway; Auto Vin’s new 8,656-square-foot lease at 800 N. Point Parkway; Veeam Software’s 6,959-square-foot lease expansion at 2520 Northwinds Parkway; McManamy McLeod Heller’s new 4,590-square-foot lease at 11525 Haynes Bridge Road; Windward Specialty Group’s new 3,126-square-foot lease at 2500 Northwinds Parkway; and Select Selling’s new 4,307-square-foot lease at 2520 Northwinds Parkway. Kirk Diamond and Dale Lewis of DTZ represented Wells Fargo, Dave Kilborn of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank represented CenturyLink, Allison Bittell of Cushman & Wakefield represented Guilford Insurance, Steve Farrar of Newburger Andes represented …

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LOS ANGELES — A private investor has purchased an 8,568-square-foot medical office building in the Los Angeles submarket of Culver City for $6.5 million. The building is located at 10801 Venice Blvd. It was built in 1979. Lloyd Bakan and Gary Berwick of Avison Young represented the seller, also a local private investor.

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ARCADIA, CALIF. — Regus Corp. has signed an 11-year lease at Arcadia Gateway Centre. The center is located at 440 E. Huntington Drive. The company will occupy the entire third floor, totaling 16,400 square feet. Other notable tenants at the center include Oracle Corp. and Arroyo Insurance. Carl Anderson represented the landlord, Arcadia Gateway Centre Delaware Partners LLC.

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