MINNEAPOLIS — Golub & Co. and Oaktree Capital Group LLC have acquired RSM Plaza in downtown Minneapolis for an undisclosed price. The building, formerly known as McGladrey Plaza, is a 415,000-square-foot office tower. The duo also acquired an 850-stall parking garage at the corner of 8th Street and Nicollet Avenue. The asset was purchased from United Properties and the building represented the largest company-owned asset that United Properties has sold in its nearly 100-year history. Tenants in the RSM Plaza include RSM (formerly McGladrey), Amec Foster Wheeler, Unilever, the Clorox Company, Abbott Nutrition, Portico Benefits, First American Title Insurance Co., Panera Bread and Barnes & Noble. Golub and its partners plan to conduct a $10 million renovation, which is slated for completion in mid-2017. The renovation will include improvements to the building common areas as well as the addition of amenities such as a fitness center, conference center, tenant lounge and improvements to the parking garage and retail areas. Scott Pollock of Cushman & Wakefield/NorthMarq represented United Properties in the transaction. Adam Short of Cushman & Wakefield/NorthMarq represented the Golub acquisition team.
HARTFORD, WIS. — Siegel-Gallagher has arranged the sale of a 2,100-square-foot office building in Hartford, approximately 40 miles northwest of Milwaukee, for an undisclosed price. The Thomas L. Kissel and Ruth R. Kissel Revocable Trust sold the property known as the Kissel Law Office to an undisclosed buyer. The building is located a 6140 W. State Road 60. Devin Tessmer of Siegel-Gallagher brokered the transaction.
SAN FRANCISCO — HFF has arranged $144.3 million in financing for Centennial Towers, a 340,000-square-foot office building in South San Francisco. The 12-story tower is located at 1 Tower Place. The loan will be used to finance the Class A property’s acquisition and repositioning. Phase 3 Real Estate Partners will develop the project, converting the space into a science facility rebranded as Genesis. Centennial Towers is located within a one-mile radius of major biotech and life sciences companies like Genentech and Amgen. It offers easy access to Highway 101, which links downtown San Francisco to Silicon Valley. HFF’s Tim Wright, Todd Sugimoto and Zack Holderman originated the loan.
HANOVER, N.J. — Vision Real Estate Partners (VREP) and Rubenstein Partners are ahead of schedule and on budget for the construction of the MetLife Investments Global Headquarters at 67 Whippany Road in Hanover. The 185,000-square-foot, build-to-suit facility is situated adjacent to Bayer Healthcare’s East Coast headquarters. Designed to achieve LEED certification, the facility features an open floor plan with collaborative workspaces, breakout rooms, conference facilities, food court with indoor and outdoor seating, café, fitness center and ample parking. VREP and Rubenstein purchased the site, a former Alcatel-Lucent Campus, in 2010. The MetLife building anchors the redevelopment’s 100-acre South Campus component, with remaining 94 acres housing the 675,000-square-foot Bayer Healthcare facility.
NEW YORK CITY — The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and The Durst Organization have announced that One World Trade Center is ending the year by reaching a major milestone of leasing 2 million square feet of Class A office space. The 1,776-foot tall tower reached this milestone with the signing of two new leases for pre-built space on the property’s 84th floor: a 12,000-square-foot transaction with SHVO, an international developer of luxury residential, hospitality and mixed-use projects; and a 10,000-square-foot lease with Juno Lab, a sharing economy venture. One World Trade Center now includes a roster of 24 tenants in a variety of business sectors, including media, technology, financial services and advertising. The landlord, The Durst Organization, was represented in-house by Karen Kuznick, along with Tara Stacom, Justin Royce, Barry Zeller, Connor Daugstrup and Peter Trivelas of Cushman & Wakefield. Elliott Warren of the Kaufman Organization represented Juno Lab in the transaction, while SHVO was represented in-house.
DALLAS — Jim Turano of Henry S. Miller Brokerage’s office division represented Park Tree North in the sale of their 46,000-square-foot office building in Dallas. The building is located at 17311 Dallas Parkway, just south of Trinity Mills Road. MYCON General Contractors purchased the building with plans to remodel and use it for their new headquarters. Nora Hogan of Transwestern represented the buyer in the transaction.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Lone Star Transmission has purchased Building 2 within the New Mesa Oaks Professional Development in southwest Austin. Building 2 consists of 18,500 square feet and is part of a 120,000-square-foot development project. The sale brings the project to 62 percent occupancy, with two new 18,000-square-foot buildings delivering in the coming months available for lease and sale. Jerry Frey with CBRE represented the buyer and Matt Levin and Patrick Ley with Equitable Commercial Realty (ECR) represented the seller.
In what was the most dynamic quarter since the dot-com boom in 2000, tenants in Greater Boston absorbed 2 million square feet of office space in the second quarter of 2015. The activity was driven by a number of high-profile construction completions throughout both the urban and suburban areas of the market. The Boston CBD experienced its ninth straight strong quarter with 861,000 square feet absorbed. Notably the activity occurred mostly outside of the boundaries of the “Big 3” Boston submarkets of Back Bay, Seaport District and Financial District (though the latter did absorb 290,000 square feet in its own right). North Station saw a major bump in occupancy with the completion of Converse’s 230,000-square-foot headquarters, causing the submarket’s largest quarterly absorption number on record. Move-ins by Sonos and Safari Books Online added 200,000 square feet of absorption in Midtown, where vacancy has dropped to nearly half of what it was a year ago after State Street’s departure. And development continues at Boston Landing, where the 245,000-square-foot second phase is currently under construction and is already partially pre-leased to the Boston Bruins. Space continues to be scarce in Cambridge, where vacancy is just 5.8 percent and availability is at an …
LAKE FOREST, ILL. — JLL has brokered the sale of a 17,000-square-foot industrial and office property in Lake Forest, approximately 30 miles north of Chicago. North American Herb and Spice Co. purchased the property from Rothbart LLC for an undisclosed price. Technique Engineering formerly occupied the space but will relocate to a 9,600-square-foot space at 968-972 Northpoint Blvd. in Waukegan. The property that North American Herb and Spice Co. purchased is located at 13950 Polo Drive and features 19-foot clear heights and 800 amps of power. Francesca DeAmicis of JLL represented the landlord, Rothbart LLC. North American Herb and Spice Co. was self-represented in the transaction, and Paine-Wetzel TCN Worldwide represented Technique Engineering.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — NGKF Capital Markets has brokered the $13.8 million sale of a Class B office building located at 1100 W. McNab Road in Fort Lauderdale. The location will remain the headquarters of ChildNet, the community-based care lead agency for Broward and Palm Beach counties, which is the sole occupant of the property. Clark-Ohio Associates Inc. purchased the two-story, 82,854-square-foot building from Case Holding Co. Inc. Adam Greenberg, Michael Lapointe and Michael Lohmann of NGKF represented the seller in the transaction.