DALLAS — JLL has negotiated a 157,568-square-foot office lease at One Arts Plaza on behalf of EnLink Midstream Partners LP and EnLink Midstream LLC. One Arts Plaza is located at 1722 Routh St. in the Dallas arts district. The company plans to relocate in 2016. Steve Thelen, Jeff Staubach and Torrey Littlejohn of JLL negotiated the lease on behalf of the tenant. Dallas-based architecture firm Corgan will design the new space.
A blistering cold winter lingered into the late spring and left the commercial real estate market in the Grand Traverse region frozen. Businesses waited for the market and the temperatures to thaw, and a third-quarter surge has activity back on track. From Jan. 1 through Sept. 30, property sales totaled $10.3 million and 221,136 square feet, including 118,515 square feet of industrial/warehouse buildings, 79,463 square feet of professional/medical office space, and 23,158 square feet of retail/restaurant space. That‘s slightly ahead of last year’s pace. During the first three quarters of 2013, property sales totaled $9.9 million and 207,845 square feet, including 121,469 square feet of industrial/warehouse buildings, 44,160 square feet of professional/medical office space, and 42,216 square feet of retail/restaurant space. The office sector posted about a 9 percent increase in the average sales per square foot during the first three quarters of 2014, while the industrial warehouse market recorded an increase of approximately 5 percent. The retail/ restaurant sector saw a 9 percent drop in the average sales per square foot The reduction in the average sales price in the retail/restaurant market sector is mostly due to the lack of quality inventory. This lack of inventory in our market …
SUNNYVALE, CALIF. — Kilroy Realty Corporation has acquired a 261,000-square-foot office property in Sunnyvale for $98 million. The four-building complex is located in the Moffett Park district. Kilroy has been extremely active in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area regions, as of late. The office development specialist recently leased a 587,000-square-foot, three-building Sunnyvale campus to LinkedIn. It is also building a 340,000-square-foot space in San Francisco’s South of Market (SOMA) district that has been leased to Salesforce. Divco, the Moffett Park seller, was represented by Dan Ball of Gibson Dunn. Kilroy was represented by Pete Roth of Allen Matkins in this transaction.
DALLAS — Cassidy Turley’s project and development services team will oversee the design and construction of Sidley Austin LLP’s 73,600-square-foot office space at the new McKinney & Olive office building in uptown Dallas. Sidley Austin is a law firm with more than 1,800 attorneys in 18 offices around the world. The company has leased the top three floors McKinney & Olive, a new office tower owned by Crescent Real Estate Holdings LLC. The space is located next to the Ritz-Carlton and a few blocks from The Crescent. Brad Blankenship, Dale Martin, Kyle Griffith, Randy Cooper and Craig Wilson of Cassidy Turley arranged the transaction on behalf of the tenant. Gensler is the architect for the project.
DALLAS — Hudson Peters Commercial has arranged a 51,400-square-foot lease at the Pyramids Office Tower for Shackelford, McKinley, Melton & Norton LLP, a Dallas law firm. The property is located at 9201 N. Central Expressway and is part of the Pyramids at Park Lane complex. Healthcare Realty Trust Inc. owns the complex. Cincha Kostman and Sanober Syed of Hudson Peters represented the landlord. The Amend Group represented the tenant.
PLYMOUTH, MINN. — CPA:18 – Global, a non-traded REIT managed by W. P. Carey Inc., has acquired a 191,000 square-foot office and research development facility in Plymouth for $43 million. The facility, purchased from Liberty Property Trust, is leased to Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK) for 10 years. ATK is an aerospace, defense and outdoor sports and recreation company operating in 21 states, Puerto Rico and internationally. Since moving into the building in 2001, ATK has made investments in the facility to meet its specific criteria for testing and housing specialized labs and equipment.
BEVERLY HILLS, MICH. — L. Mason Capitani CORFAC International has arranged the sale of a 33,000-square-foot office building in Beverly Hills, five miles northeast of Southfield. The Berkshire Office Building is located at 31000 Lahser Road. California-based LSTC Michigan LLC purchased the building. The asking price for the property was $1.35 million, but the final selling price was undisclosed. Seven individual tenants occupy the building. Mason L. Capitani represented LSTC Michigan in the sale.
PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Angelic Real Estate has secured $7.85 million in financing for the acquisition of three office buildings, 10 and 30 Lanidex and 299 Cherry Hill in Parsippany. A joint venture between Red River Asset Management and Lincoln Property Co. purchased the properties, which included excess land at 20 Lanidex that currently serves as additional parking. The joint venture immediately resold one of the buildings to an affiliate of Grammercy Property Trust. CorAmerica/Colony Capital provided the acquisition financing and loan. The portfolio was approximately 67 percent leased at the time of sale. Gabriel Silverstein and Louis D’Lando of Angelic Real Estate brokered the transaction.
STERLING, VA. — St. John Properties Inc. has acquired three office/flex buildings spanning 125,000 square feet for approximately $11.7 million. The properties are located at 21660, 21670 and 21680 Ridgetop Circle in the Loudoun Tech Center in Sterling, roughly eight miles northwest of Reston, Va. The properties were 36 percent leased at the time of sale. Steve Gichner and Eric Berkman of Cushman & Wakefield represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. St. John Properties plans to make capital improvements to the properties to improve occupancy.
DALLAS — CBRE Capital Markets has brokered the sale of two uptown Dallas office buildings on behalf of Caddo Holdings LLC. The portfolio consists of 3500 Oak Lawn Ave. and 4245 N. Central Expressway. Westdale Real Estate Investment & Management purchased the assets for an undisclosed price. Eric Mackey and Gary Carr of CBRE’s Capital Markets Institutional Properties Group in Dallas represented the unnamed seller. 3500 Oak Lawn Ave. is a 101,541-square-foot office building constructed in 1980 at the intersection of Lemmon Avenue and Oak Lawn Avenue. 4245 N. Central Expressway is an 87,292-square-foot office building constructed in 1986 between the Knox/Henderson area and Fitzhugh Avenue.
