ATLANTA — KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III (KBS REIT III) has acquired a 21-story trophy office tower located at 171 17th St. in Atlanta’s Midtown submarket for $132.5 million. The tower is part of the larger 5.6 million-square-foot Atlantic Station mixed-use development. KBS REIT III purchased the Class A asset from JP Morgan. The 509,237-square-foot property was 89 percent leased at the time of the sale and was the world’s first LEED Silver Core & Shell-certified high-rise building, according to KBS.
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PLANTATION, FLA. — A pension fund advised by LPC Realty Advisors I LP, an affiliate of Lincoln Property Co., has purchased the Royal Palm office complex in Plantation from Duke Realty for $128 million. The Class A property consists of two buildings totaling 465,592 square feet. Lincoln Property has been retained to manage Royal Palm, which features amenities such as an on-site café, conference training center and a gym with locker room facilities. The site has two, four-level parking garages and 400 surface parking spaces. Lincoln Property has selected Blanca Commercial Real Estate to lease the project.
BOSTON — HFF (NYSE: HF) has secured financing totaling $240 million for One Channel Center and the Channel Center Garage, a 501,650-square-foot, newly built office building and 967-space parking garage in Boston’s Seaport District. HFF represented the borrower, a venture between affiliates of Ares Management LLC and CV Properties LLC. The financing was structured as a $190 million first mortgage loan and a $50 million mezzanine loan. The loans will be used to refinance the construction loan on the property. One Channel Center, designed by the architectural firm of ADD Inc. in collaboration with Spalding Tougias Architects, was completed in June 2014. HFF also arranged the $170 million construction loan for the property in 2012. The 11-story One Channel Center is leased entirely to State Street Corp., an international financial services company. One Channel Center and the Channel Center Garage are located within the larger Channel Center master-plan area, a 2.1 million-square-foot mixed-use neighborhood combining office, luxury residential and street-front retail and restaurants. Channel Center is anchored by a series of landscaped parks that include the 1.7-acre Channel Center Park. Anthony Cutone, managing director, and Brett Paulsrud, senior real estate analyst, led the HFF debt placement team.
WESTBOROUGH, MASS. — W. P. Carey Inc. has acquired a facility within Westborough Technology Park in Westborough, a suburb 30 miles west of Boston. The 250,813-square-foot office property sold for $47 million. The property is currently leased to Bose Corp. for a period of 11 years. The seller was Columbia Property Trust. W. P. Carey is a global net-lease REIT specializing in corporate sale-leaseback financing, build-to-suit construction financing and the acquisition of single-tenant net-lease properties.
NEW YORK CITY — Servcorp, a global provider of equipped executive offices and virtual office space, has signed a 15-year lease for 34,775 square feet at One World Trade Center. The Australia-based company will occupy the entire 85th floor of the 3 million-square-foot office tower. Founded in 1978, Servcorp currently has 140 locations in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The company’s One World Trade Center location is scheduled to open in first quarter 2015. One World Trade Center, which will celebrate its official opening later this year, is being developed as a joint venture of The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and The Durst Organization.
MINNEAPOLIS — NorthMarq Capital has arranged a $15.7 million loan for the refinancing of the BLN Office Park I & II, a 336,294-square-foot property in Bloomington, Minn. The property is located at 2001 and 2051 Killebrew Drive. Dan Trebil of NorthMarq Capital’s Minneapolis office originated the non-recourse bridge loan for the borrower through its correspondent relationship with a life insurance company.
GLENDALE, CALIF. – Television production company Tim & Eric, Inc. has signed a five-year lease for 15,300 square feet at a creative office campus in Glendale. The two-building property is located at 1442 and 1500 Flower Street. The lease is valued at $1.5 million. The production company was represented by Roger Beck and Gelena Skya-Wasserman of Charles Dunn Company. The landlord, Avalon Investment Company, was represented by Stevenson Real Estate.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Virtus Real Estate Capital, a real estate private equity firm based in Austin, has acquired a self-storage facility in Oklahoma City. The company has acquired Pro Storage, Virtus’ seventh acquisition in the Oklahoma City area since 2012. The purchase is the second in the firm’s joint venture partnership with Advantage Self-Storage. Pro Storage is a 65,475-square-foot Class A facility with 516 units. It was 94 percent occupied at the time of sale. Virtus plans to expand the building by 15,000 square feet, adding 124 units by the second quarter of 2015.
NEW YORK CITY — New York City-based Savanna in partnership with another New York-based company has acquired the controlling interest in One Court Square, a 1.5 million-square-foot Class A office and retail building in Long Island City. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, One Court Square is comprised of a 51-story Class A high-rise tower and a four-story low-rise annex building. The tower features 31,000-square-foot floor plates and views of the Manhattan skyline. Turner Construction built the property in 1989. David Werner and his investor group, which sold the controlling interest, will also remain a partner in the deal.
MADISON, N.J. — CBRE Group has brokered the sale of 2 Giralda Farms, a 146,366-square-foot office building in Madison. Maersk Inc. sold the property for $53.3 million to American Realty Capital Global Trust Inc. The property was originally designed as a build-to-suit for the North American headquarters of Maersk. Jeffrey Dunne, Kevin Welsh, Brian Schulz, Frank Maresca and Alec Monaghan of CBRE represented the seller, Maersk, in the transaction. Maersk has relocated its North American headquarters nearby to 180 Park Avenue in Florham Park. An undisclosed tenant had signed a long-term lease at 2 Giralda Farms before the sale took place.