MIDDLETOWN, CONN. — Trevor Davis Commercial Real Estate LLC has arranged four leases at Middletown Business Park in Middletown. New Tech Installation leased 3,171 square feet; the State of Connecticut Department of Administrative Services, Department of Rehabilitation Services inked a deal for 1,340 square feet; UBTS leased 583 square feet; and A&B Home Health Care will occupy 411 square feet. The landlord is BostonMiddletown LLC. Trevor Davis of Trevor Davis Commercial was the sole broker in the transactions. The 75,000-square-foot office and light industrial park is now 85 percent occupied.
WILLISTON, VT. — Nedde Real Estate has brokered an office lease in the Hillside East subdivision of Williston. Cognizant Technology Solutions has inked a deal to occupy 9,025 square feet of office space at the property. Grant Butterfield of Nedde Real Estate represented Cognizant in the transaction. Cognizant is an American multinational corporation that provides custom information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services. Terms of the lease and the name of the landlord were not released.
PHOENIX — Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester LLP has leased 16,360 square feet of office space at Security Title Plaza in downtown Phoenix. The space is located at 3636 North Central Ave. The company was previously headquartered in Scottsdale. Tiffany Winne and Luke Raimondo of Savills Studley represented the law firm. DTZ’s Mark Stratz and Scott Baumgarten represented the landlord, Reven Capital.
NEW YORK CITY — SL Green Realty Corp. has sold its interest in a commercial office condominium located at 315 W. 36th St. in New York City. Walter & Samuels Inc. acquired the 35.5 percent stake for a gross asset valuation of $115 million, or $779 per square foot. The 17-story property features 14 loft condominiums across the upper seven floors and 132,945 square feet of office space across the lower nine levels. Designed by George and Andrew Blum in 1925, the building is listed in the National Architectural Trust. SL Green acquired its interest in the property in late 2012 at a gross asset valuation of $45 million. Woody Heller of Savills Studley advised SL Green in the transaction.
PLANO, TEXAS — Capital One will begin construction this week on a new office building expected to house between 1,000 and 1,200 employees. The new building is an expansion of Capital One’s corporate campus located at 8058 Dominion Parkway in Plano, and will be the seventh office building on the campus. The four-story building will include six training rooms, a cafeteria, collaboration spaces and a game room. The Capital One Plano campus is located on 75 acres, with six current office buildings, three parking garages and a multi-purpose conference center. The combined space covers 1.3 million square feet and houses 5,900 employees. Construction of the new building is scheduled to be complete in the first quarter of 2017.
HOUSTON — Q10 | Kinghorn, Driver, Hough & Co. has leased 8,992 square feet at the 2000 West Loop South building in Houston. Bob Cromwell and Kevin Nolan of Moody Rambin represented the building owner, SRI Nine 2000 WL LP, in the lease transaction. John Parsley and Jay Kyle with Colliers International represented the tenant in negotiations.
SCHAUMBURG, ILL. AND MILWAUKEE, WIS. — Bloomfield Capital and Alpha Alternative have closed an $8.5 million senior bridge loan. The loan was used to purchase a discounted note from the existing lender on a 102,000-square-foot Class B office building in Schaumburg and a 34,000-square-foot Class B office building in Milwaukee. Bloomfield Capital was approached by Alpha Alternatives to create a bridge loan structure for the existing sponsor. That structure included funding a $6.6 million discounted note purchase plus additional funds for interest and renovation reserves, totaling $8.5 million. The sponsor required additional capital for tenant improvements and leasing commissions. The buildings averaged below 70 percent occupancy at closing.
Three major storylines are playing out in Baltimore, the northern part of the one-two city punch that combines for more than 9 million people and forms the fourth-largest metropolitan region of the country. These three sub-plots each contribute to the larger vernacular of the Charm City story. The activity in the office sector is occurring against the backdrop of a robust warehouse/industrial market, as national companies are recognizing the attractiveness of the Port of Baltimore and access to the Eastern Seaboard. Baltimore is also enjoying the healthiest retail environments seen in years, highlighted by the construction of new large-scale shopping centers to service Millennials and empty-nesters moving downtown. 1. Shifting Blocks of Space Two separate 200,000-square-foot blocks of prime office space are moving to the now-under-construction Harbor Point overlooking Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, the development centerpiece of the Constellation Energy Group merger with Exelon Corp. Upon completion, the former industrial brownfield site will feature more than 1.6 million square feet of commercial office space. Add in a separate 200,000-square-foot move by the Baltimore headquarters of M&T Bank from 25 S. Charles St. (with sources indicating the company may back-fill the space themselves) and you have pretty large shoes to fill in …
MCKINNEY, TEXAS — Baylor Scott & White Health, a not-for profit healthcare system, along with Duke Realty, an Indianapolis-based commercial real estate developer, have begun developing the 75,000-square-foot, three-story Baylor McKinney II medical office building (MOB) at 5252 W. University Drive in McKinney. The MOB will be located on the Baylor Medical Center at McKinney campus adjacent to Baylor McKinney I, a 114,924-square-foot MOB which opened in 2012. Baylor McKinney MOB II is expected to be complete in September 2016. The Dallas office of Medco Construction is the general contractor for the project, and the Dallas office of HDR is the architect.
JACKSON, MISS. — Hertz Investment Group, a Santa Monica, Calif-based commercial real estate investor and manager, has acquired the 266,700-square-foot City Centre located at 200 S. Lamar St. in Jackson’s central business district (CBD). Hertz purchased the two-tower, Class A office property from Parkway Properties for $6.2 million. The office property was 87 percent leased at the time of sale to a tenant mix comprising law firms, government agencies and insurance companies. City Centre was renovated in 1987 and features two lobbies with marble finishes and an atrium with black granite and mahogany panels. In addition to City Centre, Hertz’s downtown Jackson portfolio includes the Pinnacle, One Jackson Place, 111 East Capitol, Regions Plaza and Regions Bank Building. The investor’s overall portfolio spans more than 19 million square feet of office space in 20 cities across 15 states.