CHICAGO — The Telos Group LLC has arranged a 49,464-square-foot lease for Cision at One Prudential Plaza in Chicago. Cision, a provider of public relations software and services, will occupy the entire seventh floor of One Prudential Plaza. The building’s ownership, Berkley Properties and 601W Cos., have committed nearly $85 million of improvements, which include the lobby and plaza areas as well as new and upgraded amenities. Jesse Van Dyke of JLL represented Cision in the transaction. Matt Pistorio and Bill Truszkowski of Telos represented building ownership.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Trinity Capital Advisors plans to develop 1000 S. Tryon St., a new 300,000-square-foot, Class A office building in Charlotte’s South End submarket. The 14-story building will be located on the gateway corner of Tryon and Morehead streets. The office building will feature retail space on the ground floor and a multifamily façade is planned for the side of the parking deck fronting Morehead Street. The project is a joint venture between Trinity Capital Advisors and Honey Properties, the long-time owner of the site. Once the asset has a committed anchor, Trinity Capital Advisors will break ground on the property with a 15-month construction schedule, according to Gary Chesson, founding partner of Trinity Capital Advisors.
BOSTON — CBRE/New England’s Debt & Structured Finance team has secured two separate acquisition loans for a three-building portfolio and an office building in Boston. The team secured $21.4 million from Brookline Bank for the Summer Street Portfolio, which comprises 71, 77 and 87 Summer Street in Boston and $27.8 million from Rockland Trust for 38 Chauncy Street in Boston. CBRE/NE’s Carlos Febres-Mazzei, Kyle Juszczyszyn, Chris Coutts, Alex Bradley and Taylor Shepard arranged the financing on behalf of Synergy Investments and DivcoWest. The Summer Street Portfolio totals 90,070 square feet and is 97 percent occupied. 38 Chauncy Street recently underwent significant capital improvements with several million invested in base building enhancements to the heating and cooling systems, elevators and lobby.
YORKTOWN, N.Y. — GHP Office Realty has acquired two properties totaling 351,811 square feet of mixed-use space in Yorktown. The 209,000-square-foot property at 2649 Strang Blvd. is occupied by ENT & Allergy Associates, Hudson Valley Hematology, North Shore-Long Island JHS, Northern Westchester County Dental, Hudson Valley Oral Surgery and Dialysis Clinic Inc. The one-story, 142,811-square-foot building at 2651 Strang Blvd. is home to Mercy College’s Yorktown campus. In total the buildings are 40 percent occupied. Andrew Greenspan, Jamie Schwartz, Mike Cinicolo, Andrea Lofaro and Harrison Lyss provided in-house representation for GHP Office Realty in the transaction. Elizabeth Smith of Goldberg Weprin Finkel Goldstein LLP provided legal counsel and Jim Maloney of The Great American Title Company provided title services for GHP. Additional details of the transaction were not released.
SAN DIEGO – A 33,715-square-foot office and industrial building in San Diego has sold to Ingold Family Investments for $5 million. The building is located at 7740 Kenamar Court within the Centerpointe Court in the Miramar submarket. It is situated near Interstates 805 and 15. The space is fully leased to California Comfort Systems, USA, a mechanical and plumbing contractor. Ingold was represented by Lee & Associates. The seller, Providence II Centerpointe, was represented by Dan Vittone and Alan Pekarcik of Avison Young’s Irvine office.
TEMPE, ARIZ. – Regional Acceptance Corp. has leased 40,000 square feet of space at Papago Technology Center in Tempe. The space is located at 1700 N. Desert Drive. Regional Acceptance is a division of BB&T Bank. It is a national auto finance company. Regional Acceptance was represented by JLL’s Jason Moore and Keith Lammersen. The landlord, WDP Partners, was represented by CBRE’s Bryan Taute.
LOS ANGELES – NAC|Architecture and Osborn Architects have leased 13,000 square feet in the Chinatown district of Los Angeles. The space is located at 837 North Spring Street. The lease is valued at $3.3 million. The space will serve as the new Los Angeles office for the two companies, which recently merged. The firms were represented by Armen Kazaryan of Lee and Associates. The landlord, Redcar Properties, was represented by Jim Jacobsen of Industry Partners.
PRINCETON, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged an $18 million loan for 750 College Road East in Princeton. The three-year, non-recourse loan, which was provided by Square Mile Capital Management LLC, features a floating rate. Built in 2001, the three-story, 100,000-square-foot office building is fully leased to two tenants. Gideon Gil, Sridhar Vankayala and Alex Lapidus of Cushman & Wakefield Equity, Debt and Structured Finance represented the borrower, an affiliate of ML7.
ST. PAUL, MINN. — Meritex has brokered the sale of a 282,565-square-foot office building in St. Paul to an undisclosed buyer. The property, located at 444 Lafayette Road, is fully leased to the State of Minnesota-Department of Human Services. The marketing and sale of the property was part of a 677,500-square-foot, four-building portfolio sale coordinated between owners Meritex and NGP Lafayette Portfolio Owners Corp. The sellers cooperated in the joint marketing, contract negotiations, due diligence coordination and final closing for the entire portfolio. Steven Buss, Tom Holtz, Ryan Watts and Judd Welliver of CBRE represented Meritex and NGP. Meritex has been retained by the buyer as property manager for the entire portfolio. Fred Koehler, asset manager for Meritex, will be responsible for park management.
EAST HANOVER, N.J. — Bergman Real Estate Group, in a joint venture with a vehicle managed by Rialto Capital Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lennar Corp., has acquired 100 Eagle Rock Avenue, an office building in East Hanover. The partnership purchased the 90,000-square-foot property for $6.4 million or $71 per square foot. Current tenants at the property include Friedman LLP, Burns & McDonnell and Hartford Fire Insurance Company. Michael DiFede and Michael Brody of Garden State Office Properties represented the buyer, while Gary Gabriel and Kyle Schmidt of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, TA Associates, in the transaction.