LAKEWOOD, COLO. — Brown and Caldwell has leased 32,925 square feet of office space in Lakewood. The space is located at 1527 Cole Blvd. The engineering firm was represented by Joe Sigdestad and Ted Harris of Cassidy Turley. The landlord, Denver West Office Leasing Company, was represented by CBRE’s Blake Harris.
FORT WORTH — Norwood Land Services will relocate in mid-October to the Oncor Building in downtown Fort Worth from the city’s west side. Norwood has leased 7,920 square feet on the 13th floor of the 300,347-square-foot building, which is located at 115 W. 7th St. The lease brings the building’s occupancy to 94 percent. Casey Tounget of Coldwell Banker Commercial Alliance’s Dallas office represented the landlord, Benbrooke Electric Partners LLC. Bill Tinsley of Ellis & Tinsley Inc. represented the tenant. Norwood is moving from its current location at 6421 Camp Bowie Blvd.
AUSTIN — Mesa West Capital has provided CapRidge Partners with $12.6 million in first mortgage debt to finance the acquisition and lease up of Canyon at Wild Basin, a 74,580-square-foot Class A office complex in Austin. Boston-based Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. was the seller. The three-story building was built in 1999 and is located at 115 Wild Basin Road with highway frontage along Loop 360. The building was 81 percent leased at the time of sale, with tenants including Cloud 8 Sixteen, Alliance Association Management Inc. and Powell & Leon. Andy Scott and Jim Curtin of HFF’s Dallas office arranged financing for the transaction.
ITASCA, ILL. — Bradford Allen Realty Services has arranged the lease of a 42,435-square-foot office space for Epsilon in Itasca. The global marketing services firm is relocating to 1 Pierce Place from 1100 E. Woodfield Road in Schaumburg. The firm has 60 offices worldwide and more than 5,000 employees. With six offices in the Chicago area, the firm is consolidating its existing Schaumburg location with its office in West Chicago. Ben Azulay and Ryan Moen of Bradford Allen Realty Services represented Epsilon in the lease transaction. Azulay and Moen co-brokered the deal with John Boyle and Denise Orlando of Cassidy Turley’s Boston office. Scott Schroeder of Hamilton Partners represented building ownership.
LACOMBE, LA. — Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Development Co. (WREDCO) has begun developing Tamanend, an 848-acre master-planned community that will feature office space, a college, retail, restaurants and single- and multifamily residential units. Tamanend will be located in the centermost part of St. Tammany Parish north of Lacombe, which is approximately 45 minutes north of New Orleans. Gulf States Real Estate Services is providing project management, marketing and real estate consulting for the project. Northshore Technical Community College is planning to open an advanced technology center and STEM campus at Tamanend.
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. — NAI Mertz has arranged the sale of two office buildings totaling 100,000 square feet in Mount Laurel for an undisclosed price. Situated at 5000 and 7000 Atrium Way within Horizon Corporate Center, the bulidings each offer 50,000 square feet of Class A office space. Currently, 5000 Atrium Way is 100 percent lease and 7000 Atrium Way has one 12,000-square-foot unit available for lease. Rebecca Ting and Julie Kronfield of NAI Mertz represented the seller, Cherry Hill, N.J.-based SJS Realty. The buyer was Main Line Development LLC.
WARREN, N.J. — Colliers International has arranged a long-term lease for Mindtree Ltd., a global technology services provider, at 25 Independence Blvd. in Warren. The Bangalore, India-based company is relocating its U.S. headquarters to the new space. Mindtree will occupy 11,529 square feet on the top floor of the four-story, 106,879-square-foot office building. Michael Tesser of Colliers International represented the tenant, while William O’Keefe and Kelsey Nakamura of Cassidy Turley represented the landlord, Normandy 25 Independence LLC, in the transaction.
STAMFORD, CONN. — GHP Office Realty LLC has brokered the sale of a 65,000-square-foot office building located at 30 Buxton Farms Road in Stamford. MSIH LLC, a Connecticut-based home building company, purchased the Class A property for $13.5 million from GHP Buxton LLC. Located at Exit 35 of the Merritt Parkway/CT-15 and High Ridge Road, the building is 90 percent occupied by 14 tenants, ranging from medical offices to financial services. New Canaan, Conn.-based Hobbs Inc. plans to relocate its headquarters to the remaining vacant space at the building. Andrew Greenspan and James Houlihan of GHP Office Realty represented the seller, while Corey Gubner, Ted Grogan and Greg Romano of RHYS LLC represented the buyer in the transaction. Elizabeth Smith of Goldberg Weprin Finkel Goldstein LLP provided legal counsel for the seller, and Kenneth Gammill Jr. of Gilbride, Tusa, Last and Spellane LLC served as legal counsel for the buyer in the transaction. GHP Office Realty is the office building division of Houlihan-Partners Realtors LLC.
IRVINE, CALIF. – An unnamed buyer has purchased a 118,086-square-foot Irvine Business Complex (IBC) office propertyfor $26.5 million. The property is located at 17000-17040 Red Hill Ave. This space serves as the corporate offices of Pacific Dental Services. The group has occupied the space since it was renovated 18 months ago. The renovation added many creative office elements, such as an indoor/outdoor patio, indoor plants and trees, high ceilings, and natural lighting from skylights and solar tubes. The seller, Red Hill Covenant Group LLC, was represented by Scott Read and Michael Kane of NGKF.
CARLSBAD, CALIF. — Regent Properties has acquired Fairway Corporate Center, a 115,414-square-foot office property in Carlsbad, for $23.5 million. The two-building, Class A center is located at 5540 and 5541 Fermi Court inside the Carlsbad Research Center. TaylorMade-adidas Golf occupies the former address. It also occupies part of the latter address, along with Hartford Life. The property is 70 percent leased in total. The center was built in 1999. Regent Properties now owns seven properties in the North San Diego County area. Aric Starck of Cassidy Turley represented both the buyer and seller, Fermi Court LP, an entity for Greene Properties, in this transaction.