AUSTIN, TEXAS — CBRE Investment Properties has arranged the sale of Westlake Place, a 60,338-square-foot, multi-tenant office building in Austin. Maryland-based Moore & Associates purchased the asset from a California-based partnership for an undisclosed price. Westlake Place is a five-story building located at 1515 S. Capital of Texas Highway in the Southwest Austin submarket. Tenants at the Class B property, which is 94 percent occupied, include Sotera Defense Solutions, Frontier & Associates and Vertex Software Corp. Walter Saad, Cathy Nabours and Logan Reichle of CBRE’s Austin office represented the seller.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — HFF has brokered the $23 million sale of Carmel Park I and II, two office assets in Charlotte’s Ballantyne/South Charlotte office submarket totaling 170,128 square feet. Carmel Park I and II are situated on 11.5 acres at 11111-11121 Carmel Commons Blvd. The properties are roughly 80 percent leased to tenants such as Pulte Group, Gentiva Health Services, M3 Engineering and Commercial Defeasance LLC. Ryan Clutter led HFF’s investment sales team in representing the seller, Carmel Park II LP, an entity managed by PICOA Inc. CapRidge Partners LLC purchased the office assets. Travis Anderson, Jim Curtin and Cory Fowler of HFF arranged floating rate acquisition financing through JP Morgan Chase & Co. on behalf of CapRidge Partners.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — JLL has secured a 52,683-square-foot lease transaction at Tower 101, a newly renovated, 21-story office tower located at 101 N.E. 3rd Ave. in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The tenant, Uniforms Direct, is relocating its corporate headquarters from Plantation, Fla., to Tower 101. Uniforms Direct will be the building’s largest tenant and will bring roughly 200 employees to occupy Tower 101’s penthouse level, the 20th floor and half of the 16th and 19th floors. Existing tenants at Tower 101 include Kemet Corp., Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau, the city of Fort Lauderdale and Advantage Opco LLC. Alice Lucia Jackson and Brady Titcomb of JLL represented the landlord, Banyan Street Capital, in the lease transaction. Matthew Cheezem and Zach Wendelin of Cresa represented Uniforms Direct. The transaction is the largest office lease completed in downtown Fort Lauderdale year-to-date.
MONTVILLE, N.J. — Vision Real Estate Partners (VREP) has launched the repositioning of Montville Corporate Campus, an office campus located at 340-342 Changebridge Road in Montville. VREP plans to convert one of the twin 100,000-square-foot office buildings into a multi-tenant building and rezone half the campus for residential use. The company plans to replace the front of the three-story travertine marble office building with a stone and glass curtain wall system. Interior renovations will include a two-story atrium lobby featuring stone, millwork, upgraded lighting and lounge seating with a coffee bar, as well as a town hall-style conference area in extended third-floor space. Additional renovations include refinished elevators, bathrooms and other common area upgrades throughout the building. The company has partnered with Mill Creek, a high-end multifamily specialist, for the residential development.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of an office building located at 1713 Eighth Ave. in Brooklyn’s Greenwood Heights neighborhood. The four-story, 12,800-square-foot building sold for $5.3 million, or $418 per square foot, in an all-cash transaction. The property consists of 47 small units set up as creative artist or office spaces. Aaron Warkov and Richard Velotta of Cushman & Wakefield handled the transaction. The names of the buyer and seller were not disclosed.
DALLAS — A joint venture between Triten Real Estate Partners and Convexity Properties has purchased a two-building office portfolio totaling 270,499 square feet at 6060 and 6080 N. Central Expressway in Dallas. Jack Crews, Evan Stone and Lauren Zimmer of JLL sold the property to Triten and its Chicago-based investment partnership on behalf of the previous owner, Dallas-based Prescott Realty Group. Wells Fargo provided financing for the purchase. 6060 N. Central Expressway is an eight-story office property spanning 224,682 square feet. The property was constructed in 1972 and renovated in 2008. In addition, the portfolio includes 6080 N. Central Expressway, with 45,817 square feet on the first floor, topped by three levels of parking. The structure offers an expansion opportunity that could potentially add 290 parking spaces. At the time of sale the office property was 88 percent leased and the parking structure was 100 percent leased to Zenith Education Group
CORAL SPRINGS, FLA. — Meridian Capital Group has arranged $15.2 million in acquisition financing for Heron Bay Corporate Center I & II in Coral Springs, a city in Broward County. The 89,000-square-foot office campus houses 19 tenants, including Regus. Avi Weinstock and Josh Rhine of Meridian’s New York City office arranged the seven-year loan through a regional balance sheet lender on behalf of the borrower, The Benedict Realty Group. The loan features a fixed 4 percent interest rate and three years of interest-only payments followed by a 30-year amortization schedule.
NORWALK, CONN. — Westport, Conn.-based Vidal/Wettenstein has arranged the sale of an office building located at 185 East Ave. in Norwalk. Harmony LLC sold the property for $1.4 million to Emily Meehan. The two-story property offers 5,600 square feet of office space. Bruce Wettenstein of Vidal/Wettenstein represented the seller, while Susan Cooper of Berkshire Hathaway represented the buyer in the transaction. Richard Lewis of Urban Their & Federer PA provided legal counsel for the seller, while David Stergas of DePanfilis & Vallerie served as legal counsel for the buyer.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a land parcel located at 64 Stanhope St. in Brooklyn. The 3,127-square-foot parcel sold for $1.3 million, or $200 per buildable square foot, in a 1031 exchange. Shaun Riley, Thomas Shihadeh and Daniel Greenblatt of Marcus & Millichap’s Brooklyn office represented the seller, a private investor, while Makan Mostafavi of Marcus & Millichap’s office in Encino, Calif., represented the buyer, a limited liability company, in the transaction.
MENDOTA HEIGHTS, MINN. — Grandbridge Real Estate Capital has secured a $40 million first mortgage for the acquisition of an office park located in Mendota Heights. The six-building park offers 420,000 square feet of office space. The funding, which was provided by BB&T Real Estate Funding and Grandbridge’s exclusive stabilized loan product, features a fixed rate for the entire 10-year term and 25-year amortization. Tony Carlson of Grandbridge originated the acquisition financing for the undisclosed buyer.