ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, MD. — St. John Properties Inc. has signed DRS Technologies to lease totaling 15,000 square feet within The Government and Technology Enterprise (The GATE at APG) project. This is the 50th lease at the 416-acre business park located in Aberdeen Proving Ground in Harford County. Since acquiring the rights to continue to develop The GATE at APG from the Department of Army in 2009, the Baltimore-based firm has developed 12 office and R&D buildings totaling more than 600,000 square feet at the property. St. John Properties has also leased roughly 530,000 square feet of new space. Tenants at The GATE feature some of the top defense contractors in the nation, including The Boeing Co., CACI, General Dynamics, CSC, Raytheon, Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), Engility, DSCI and Lockheed Martin. DRS Technologies plans to move 50 employees to The GATE this fall.
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BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. – A 68,423-square-foot office building in Beverly Hills has received $25 million in financing. The Class A building is located at 315 South Beverly Drive. It is currently 95 percent occupied. The financing includes a $21-million first mortgage and a $4-million mezzanine loan. The non-recourse loan carries a 10-year term with five years interest-only and a fixed interest rate. The loans were provided by Lucent Capital.
MURRIETA, CALIF. – A pair of office buildings in Murrieta has sold to Village Walk Murrieta LP for $7.7 million. The first property, Village Walk Corporate Center,is located at 41391 Kalmia Street. The second building is located at 41381 Kalmia Street. Village Walk Corporate Center contains 11 tenants. It is 96 percent occupied. The second building is fully occupied by Pacific Western Bank. Dan Vittoneand Alan Pekarcik of Avison Young represented both the buyer and seller, Village Walk Square LLC, in this transaction.
ATLANTA — Tishman Speyer will begin construction on Three Alliance Center on Aug. 1 in Atlanta’s Buckhead submarket. The 30-story, 500,000-square-foot office tower will be adjacent to Buckhead’s gateway intersection of GA 400 and the Buckhead Loop. The design team includes architect Mack Scogin of Mack Scogin Merrill Elam and general contractor Turner Construction. The Class A tower will be built to LEED Gold certification standards, according to Tishman Speyer. The New York-based developer plans to deliver Three Alliance Center in September 2016.
RICHLAND, MISS. — Southeast Industrial Properties II LLC, a joint venture between Duckworth Realty and Hines Investments, has completed a 21,650-square-foot flex facility at 101 Riverview Drive in Richland. The facility is the corporate headquarters for APAC Mississippi Inc. and features office space, a warehouse and equipment service bays with an overhead crane. Peoples Construction Corp. was the general contractor for the project.
STERLING, VA. — New Boston Fund Inc. has sold Rockwell Collins, a 178,234-square-foot research and development facility at TransDulles Centre in Sterling. American Realty Capital Properties Inc. purchased the Class A property for an undisclosed price. New Boston Fund developed the build-to-suit project for Rockwell Collins Simulation & Training Solutions Group in 2011. Dek Potts, Bruce Strasburg, Jim Meisel, Andrew Weir and Stephen Conley of HFF represented New Boston in the transaction.
FORT LEE, N.J. — James Campbell Co. has invested more than $2 million in capital improvements for the company’s 217,000-square-foot office property located at 2200 Fletcher Ave. in Fort Lee. The renovation will include a new roof and cooler tower, significant parking garage upgrades, and a modernization of the atrium lobby and common areas on each of the building’s seven floors. Designed by DMR Architects, the new interior space will feature “living walls” that reflect the ownership’s commitment to sustainability, an updated color scheme and other features to enhance the tenant environment. The property is currently 90 percent leased to a variety of tenants, including Merrill Lynch, Telemundo and MetLife. Cushman & Wakefield, which serves as exclusive leasing agent and onsite property manager for the property, will oversee the capital improvements project. The property’s leasing team includes Richard Baumstein, Marc Graham and Christian Politan of Cushman & Wakefield, and Bob Stark and Charlene LeMoine, also of Cushman & Wakefield, oversee property management for the building.
BLOOMINGTON, MINN. — KBS Realty Advisors of Newport Beach, California, has acquired Northland Center, a 465,168-square-foot office complex in Bloomington, for $51 million. The property was 89 percent leased at closing; United Properties sold the property. Northland Center is a LEED-EB Silver-rated property located at 3500 and 3600 American Blvd. West. Renovated in 2010, the two-building asset is seven stories high and covers 12.9 acres. Amenities include an onsite, full-service cafeteria, fitness facility with locker rooms and showers, conference rooms, sundry shop, hair salon, dry cleaning service and a car wash/detailing service. Tom O'Brien and Scott Pollock of Cushman & Wakefield/NorthMarq, Minneapolis, represented United Properties in the sale.
WESTERVILLE, OHIO — The Cooper Commercial Investment Group has arranged the $6.5 million sale of the TPUSA Inc. office building in Westerville, a suburb of Columbus. TPUSA, a subsidiary of the internationally recognized and publicly traded French company Teleperformance, signed a new seven-year lease, with yearly rental increases through 2020 and reimbursments for all operating expenses and also management expense of the property. Dan Cooper of Cooper Commercial Investment Group’s Cleveland office represented the seller, a Cleveland-based private investment group, and the buyer, a New York-based private investment group. The property was sold representing an 8.17 percent capitalization rate and just over $149 per square foot.
MURRIETA, CALIF. – A pair of Class A office buildings in Murrieta has sold to Village Walk Murrieta LP for $7.7 million. The properties contain a total of 37,652 square feet. The first building is called Village Walk Corporate Center. It was built in 2004 at 41391 Kalmia Street. Village Walk is 96 percent occupied by 11 tenants. The second building is located at 41381 Kalmia Street. This building is fully occupied by Pacific Western Bank. Dan Vittoneand Alan Pekarcik of Avison Young represented both the buyer and seller, Village Walk Square LLC, in this transaction.