KATY, TEXAS — Engineering firm Percheron Holdings has signed a 28,597-square-foot office lease extension for its headquarters space at Grandway West, located at 1904 Grand Parkway N in the western Houston suburb of Katy. Chris Nash of Colliers and Jeremy Hunt of Hunt’s Real Estate represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Parker Burkett and Eric Anderson with Transwestern represented the locally based landlord, InSite Realty.
SAN FRANCISCO — Harbert Management Corp. has completed the disposition of Concord Corporate Centre, an office campus in San Francisco’s East Bay area. Sierra Pacific acquired the asset for an undisclosed price. Located at 1320 and 1390 Willow Pass Road, the 346,731-square-foot, two-building campus was 73 percent leased at the time of sale. The property also includes a 1,167-stall parking garage. The buyer plans to add updated amenities and renovate the common areas of the property. Steven Golubchik, Edmund Najera, Jonathan Schaefler and Darren Hollak of Newmark represented the seller in the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — Five tenants have signed leases for office and showroom space at 1 East 33rd Street, a 160,000-square-foot building in Midtown Manhattan. The tenants are apparel company Q4 Designs (26,504 square feet); pet products provider European Home Designs (13,027 square feet), home furnishings firm Franco Manufacturing (6,894 square feet); Regal Jewelry (13,027 square feet); and Jem International (18,624 square feet). Koeppel Rosen LLC owns the building, which was originally constructed in 1913 and is now fully leased.
HOUSTON — Solar power provider Chariot Energy has signed a 16,192-square-foot office lease at Galleria Tower 2 in Houston. The tenant plans to relocate from Williams Tower to the entire 14th floor early next year. Brad Beasley and Win Haggard of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, Unilev Management, in the lease negotiations. Nick Bockhorn and Cameran Lindee of CBRE represented the tenant.
WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, OHIO — Industrial Commercial Properties (ICP) has acquired the research and development (R&D) campus of The Sherwin-Williams Co. in Warrensville Heights, an eastern suburb of Cleveland. The purchase price was undisclosed. The 105-acre property includes several buildings. Sherwin-Williams has entered into a short-term sale-leaseback agreement with ICP, which plans to repurpose some of the smaller commercial structures on the site while it finalizes redevelopment plans for the R&D building and adjacent acreage. The property will soon be vacated by Sherwin-Williams, which is building a new R&D center in Brecksville and a new headquarters in downtown Cleveland.
MINNEAPOLIS — The McKnight Foundation has signed a new 20-year office lease at 921 Washington Ave. South in Minneapolis. The tenant will occupy the entire 50,000-square-foot property. Mike Salmen, Eric Rapp and Reed Christianson of Transwestern Real Estate Services represented ownership, STF Holdings LLC. The McKnight Foundation’s current office totals 38,577 square feet at 710 S. Second St. The new lease commences in February 2025. The building will undergo significant renovations to modernize the space and meet the climate and energy goals of the foundation. Updates will include a state-of-the-art HVAC system that will reduce onsite energy use while offsetting demand on the electrical grid, as well as electric vehicle car charging stations. Julie Kimble of KimbleCo represented the tenant in the lease negotiations.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Beam Development and Urban Development + Partners have completed the disposition of 224 S.E. 2nd Street, a Class B flex building in Portland. Sherpa Design acquired the property in an off-market transaction for an undisclosed price. The sellers recently renovated the 14,589-square-foot former coffee production facility for the new owner, which plans to occupy the space itself. The 22-year-old product development, engineering services and manufacturing firm relocated and expanded to the 2nd Street space from another Portland location. Originally built in 1936, the three-story flex building offers creative office and light industrial space with large windows, 4,700-square-foot floorplates and high ceilings. Buzz Ellis of JLL Capital Markets and Annalore Rodman of JLL Agency Leasing represented the seller in the deal.
DURHAM, N.C. — IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has sold a portion of the IBM 500 Campus in Durham, a city near Raleigh. The Armonk, New York-based computer hardware giant sold the property in a sale-leaseback deal. The price was not disclosed, but the Triad Business Journal reports it traded for $66 million. Located at 4205 S. Miami Blvd., the four-building property spans 774,000 square feet and is 100 percent leased to IBM. No plans were announced, but multiple media outlets report that the property is suited for future mixed-use redevelopment opportunities. The IBM 500 Campus sits on 146 acres next to Research Triangle Park (RTP), the largest research park in the United States. RTP is a district in the Raleigh-Durham metropolitan area that houses 375 private companies in technology and life sciences sectors who can draw talent from three established research universities: Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. IBM has had a presence in the RTP since the mid-1960s. Hines Global Income Trust Inc., a REIT managed by Houston-based Hines, purchased the IBM 500 facilities and leased them back to IBM. In addition to this acquisition, the firm is a partner developer on …
MIAMI — CBRE has brokered the $68 million sale of 5505 Waterford, an office building located in the Waterford Business District of Miami. The property totals 213,182 square feet and recently underwent a renovation that includes a new grand lobby, tenant lounge, 5,000-square-foot fitness center and the addition of a new level to the parking structure. Christian Lee, Sean Kelly, Amy Julian, Andrew Chilgren, Marcos Minaya, Tom Rappa, James Carr and Matthew Lee of CBRE represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyer was also not disclosed.
DALLAS — Locally based hospitality development firm Sava Holdings has purchased Stemmons Towers, a 285,312-square-foot office complex in West Dallas, with plans to convert the property to multifamily use. Stemmons Towers consists of two 12-story buildings that were originally developed in the 1960s by Trammell Crow and John Stemmons, and Sava plans to add a 13th floor to each building as part of the project. The 13-acre site also includes open space for a residential pocket park and greenbelt area. Sava will rebrand the property as Lumiere. Construction is scheduled to begin in mid- to late 2024. John St. Clair and Trae Anderson of Dallas-based brokerage firm Younger Partners represented the seller in the disposition of the property.