WALL TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Holliday Fenoglio Fowler (HFF) has arranged $23.7 million in refinancing for a four-building office complex in Wall Township. Located at 1800 Route 34, the 189,836-square-foot complex is occupied by French & Parrello, First Credit Union, The Earle Companies, KMB Design Group, Secova Securities and Eckman Recycling. Constructed between 2001 and 2007, the property is 95 percent leased. Michael Klein led the HFF debt placement team that arranged the 10-year, fixed-rate loan through CIBC World Markets for the borrower, The Donato Group.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Cushman & Wakefield | Summit Realty Group has arranged the sale of 130 E Washington St., a 203,250-square-foot office building in downtown Indianapolis for $9.2 million. Cushman & Wakefield (C&W)|Summit marketed the property on behalf of the seller, Perennial Washington St. LLC. Onward Investors LLC purchased the asset. The building was formerly known as the Meyer-Kiser Bank Building. Tenants of the property include Arcadis and the national governing bodies of USA Track and Field, Diving, Gymnastics, and Synchronized Swimming. Summit Realty Group has also been retained by new ownership to oversee property management and leasing of the project.
DEDHAM, MASS. — Holliday Fenoglio Fowler (HFF) has brokered the $7 million sale and arranged $4.7 million in acquisition financing for a 39,391-square-foot office building located at 20 Carematrix Drive in Dedham. Coleman Benedict and Ben Sayles of HFF represented the seller, an affiliate of The Bulfinch Companies Inc. Lauren O’Neil, also of HFF, led the debt placement team that arranged the acquisition financing for the buyer, an affiliate of NorthBridge CRE Advisors. The financing was arranged through Country Bank.
LOS ANGELES — Ivanhoé Cambridge and its partner Callahan Capital Properties have acquired a full interest in the PacMutual office property in Downtown Los Angeles for $200 million. The property is located at 523 W. 6th St. The three buildings contain a total of 464,000 square feet. They are interconnected. PacMutual is situated near the 7th Street retail corridor, L.A. LIVE entertainment complex, Staples Center arena, Broadway Theater District, South Park neighborhood, and mixed-use developments like the Bloc and Wilshire Grand.
IRVINE, CALIF. — The Quintana office campus, a 421,935-square-foot office campus in Irvine, has received $100 million in financing. The floating-rate debt package will finance the acquisition, redevelopment and re-tenanting of the Class A property, which Hines purchased in August. The four-building Quintana campus is situated at the intersection of Main Street and Von Karman Avenue in the Irvine Business Complex. One of the buildings is fully leased to StrataCare, a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox Corporation. The remaining three are vacant. Quintana represents the largest block of contiguous office space currently available for a large user in Orange County. It is also the only remaining big block in the airport area, according to New York Life Real Estate Investors, which originated the funds on behalf of institutional investors. HFF’s Kevin MacKenzie worked on behalf of Hines. The floating rate debt package has a total available term of five years.
HOUSTON — Cousins Properties Inc., a publicly traded office REIT based in Atlanta, has signed two new leases totaling 64,000 square feet at Greenway Plaza, a 10-building, 4.4 million-square-foot office complex in Houston. The first lease is a 10-year expansion and relocation that Cousins signed with an existing Greenway Plaza customer. This customer, a financial firm headquartered in Houston, is moving from 44,000 square feet in 3800 Buffalo Speedway to 48,000 square feet in Greenway Plaza Three, which was recently vacated by ExxonMobil. In the second transaction, a publishing firm new to Greenway Plaza signed a seven-and-a-half-year lease for 16,000 square feet at 3800 Buffalo Speedway.
LOS ANGELES — Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles has debuted its new $110 million Life Sciences building. Construction on the 100,000-square-foot project began in June 2013. The new Life Sciences building houses faculty and research staff from the biology, chemistry and biochemistry, health and human sciences, civil engineering, and environmental science departments under the Seaver College of Science and Engineering. It provides modernized laboratories and collaborative research space. The three-story facility contains 35 teaching labs, 40 faculty and staff offices, nine informal student study spaces, a green roof and outdoor laboratory, three conference rooms and a 273-seat auditorium with an adjoining 1,800-square-foot terrace. C.W. Driver constructed the new building, which CO Architects designed.
CHESTERFIELD, MO. — Transwestern has brokered the sale of Corporate Plaza, a five-story office building located at 14528 S. Outer 40 Road in Chesterfield, a suburb of St. Louis. Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III Inc. acquired the 210,409-square-foot property for $36 million from an affiliate of Westport Capital Partners LLC. Completed in 1989, the building was 98 percent leased at the time of sale. The property serves as the executive and administrative headquarters of Mercy Health, a private, nonprofit healthcare provider that operates 35 hospitals and has $4.4 billion in revenue. Gary Nussbaum, Mike Donovan and David Matheis of Transwestern represented the seller in the transaction.
PLYMOUTH, MICH. — Bernard Financial Group has arranged a $3.3 million loan for Plymouth Commerce Center in Plymouth. The property features 76,500 square feet of office space. Neil Gorosh of Bernard Financial secured the financing for the borrower, Plymouth Commerce Center LP. The lender, Advantus, is an exclusive correspondent of Bernard Financial Group, and will fully service the loan.
CHAMBLEE, GA. — Pattillo Industrial Real Estate and Parkside Partners Inc. have formed a joint venture, known as Trackside Partners LLC, to develop a Class A office project in Chamblee, a northeast suburb of Atlanta. The MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority) board of directors selected the joint venture to develop the project, known as Trackside, on a 2.2-acre site located at Peachtree and Chamblee Tucker roads. MARTA owns the site, which is located across from the Chamblee MARTA station. Upon completion, the two-phase, 80,000-square-foot Trackside will be Chamblee’s first Class A office development. Trackside will serve as the new headquarters for Pattillo Industrial Real Estate, which will occupy 20,000 square feet of the four-story, 50,000-square-foot Trackside One building. Pattillo will relocate 35 employees in second-quarter 2017 from its current offices in Stone Mountain, Ga., where the firm has been headquartered since 1975. Pattillo’s office space will feature a rooftop deck and a two-level sky lobby with a walkway beneath a glass roof. Trackside Two will be a two-story, 30,000-square-foot office building that also features a single-level parking deck. Both phases will feature first-floor retail and restaurant space. Construction is scheduled to begin in second-quarter 2016 on Trackside One. Chad …