CLEVELAND — Farbman Group has taken over management of the 508,397-square-foot, 27-story Fifth Third Center in downtown Cleveland. The Class A office building is situated near the city’s historic Superior Avenue. Tenants include Fifth Third Bank, McDonald Hopkins, HWH Architects Engineers Planners, Brouse McDowell and more. Farbman manages more than 30 million square feet of office, retail, multifamily, student housing and industrial space throughout the Midwest.
HOUSTON — Morales Capital Group, an affiliate of Mexcor International, has unveiled redevelopment plans for Viva Center, a 2.3 million-square-foot office and warehouse complex on a 66-acre site in Houston. The developer plans to revitalize the facility to support the research and development of liquid-cooled IT equipment for supercomputing. Eduardo Morales, CEO of Mexcor International and Morales Capital Group, says he envisions the newly rebranded Viva Center as “a transformative tech hub that seamlessly blends Houston’s rich history with futuristic innovations. With a focus on integrating cutting-edge infrastructure and next-gen application platforms, Viva Center aims to lead the charge in shaping Houston’s technological landscape for years to come.” Morales bought the property in 2022. The asset is part of a larger, sprawling, 300-acre campus that once served as the headquarters of Compaq, which was the largest home computer manufacturer of the 1990s. Fellow tech giant Hewlett-Packard bought Compaq in 2002 and has gradually sold off pieces of the campus, finally leaving the site entirely for a newly built, smaller building in the suburbs in 2022. For example, in 2009, Lone Star College purchased 1.2 million square feet of the property and turned it into a branch of the college. VivaVerse Solutions LLC will lead …
NEW YORK CITY — Advent International has signed a 10-year, 34,000-square-foot office lease at The Seagram Building in Midtown Manhattan. The private equity firm will occupy the entire 14th and 15th floors of the 38-story building, which is located at 375 Park Ave. and was originally constructed in 1958. Lindsay Ornstein, Patrick Robinson, Casey Noel and Kate Whitman of OPEN Impact Real Estate represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. A.J. Camhi and Paul Milunec represented the landlord, locally based investment firm RFR, on an internal basis.
WAYNE, PA. — Locally based design firm Meyer has completed the renovation of the 21,500-square-foot office headquarters of Bala Consulting Engineers in Wayne, a northwestern suburb of Philadelphia. The space house a café with gaming options and other amenities that converts to a training and conference room for flexible gathering. Digital signage highlights messaging from all of Bala’s office locations. Other features include video conferencing cameras, room reservation systems, mobile AV capabilities and conference room occupancy sensors.
PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated a 10,583-square-foot office lease renewal in the Northern New Jersey community of Parsippany. The tenant, Business Credentialing Services, is taking space at 199 Cherry Hill Road, which according to LoopNet Inc. was built in 1970, renovated in 2017 and totals 57,445 square feet. William O’Keefe and Courtney Rosenkrantz of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, locally based investment firm The Birch Group, in the lease negotiations.
SEATTLE — Gantry has arranged a $6.2 million permanent loan to refinance Lake Union Center, a Class A property in Seattle’s North Lake Union submarket. The borrower is a private real estate entity. Mike Wood and Colin Ceithaml of Gantry’s Seattle office secured the 10-year loan, which features a fixed rate and 25-year amortization schedule. Located at 1441 N. 34th St., the property features 65,000 square feet of office space that was fully occupied at the time of sale.
CONROE, TEXAS — Law firm Griffin, Cain & Herbig has signed a 5,000-square-foot office lease in Conroe, about 40 miles north of Houston. The firm is taking space at the new Woodforest Bank Building, which occupies a full city block in the downtown area. Lisa Hughes of SVN | J. Beard Real Estate — Greater Houston represented Woodforest National Bank in the lease negotiations.
BROOKFIELD, WIS. — NAI Greywolf has negotiated two office leases totaling 22,500 square feet at Executive Center V in Brookfield, a suburb of Milwaukee. Heuer Law Offices SC leased 3,074 square feet with a lease term of more than five years. Common Ground Inc., a healthcare insurance solution for small businesses, nonprofits, individuals and families, leased 19,675 square feet. Matt Hock of NAI Greywolf represented the undisclosed landlord. The property is located at 300 N. Executive Drive.
MILWAUKEE — Klement’s Sausage Co. has signed a 3,091-square-foot office lease at the Timbers Building within the Tannery Office Complex in Milwaukee. The property is located at 700 W. Virginia St. John Davis and Ned Purtell of Founders 3 Real Estate Services represented the owner, R2 Properties. Klement’s has been making small batch, handcrafted sausages in Milwaukee for more than 60 years.
HOUSTON — Midway has broken ground on CITYCENTRE Six, a 320,000-square-foot office building within the locally based developer’s CITYCENTRE mixed-use destination in West Houston. Additionally, Midway has named global chemical and building materials supplier Dow as the anchor tenant. Dow will occupy about 208,000 square feet within the 19-story building, which will include 12,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space and onsite parking. The design team includes architect of record Kirksey, Munoz + Albin Architecture & Planning and OJB Landscape Architecture. Construction is slated for a 2026 completion.
