CHANDLER, ARIZ. – Sprint has signed a lease for 12,394 square feet at the Chandler Midway office building. The 189,000-square-foot building is located at 5710 West Chandler Blvd. in Chandler. It is situated near Chandler Regional Hospital. The building is currently 45 percent leased. Sprint was represented by CBRE’s Dave Barrett. The landlord, ViaWest Properties, was represented by Mark Stratz, Tyler Wilson and Scott Baumgarten of Cassidy Turley’s Office Group.
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LONG BEACH, CALIF. – Local developer Urbana Development, LLC, has acquired five acres of land Douglas Park in Long Beach. The developer plans to build two Class A medical office buildings that total 90,000 square feet on the site. The land was part of a 160-acre plot that is situated adjacent to Long Beach Airport. It was acquired by SARES•REGIS Group (SRG) from Boeing Realty Corp. in 2012. This is the first land sale SRG has executed on the site. SRG plans to develop up to 3.2 million square feet of premier office, industrial and retail facilities on the site. Urbana was represented by Jeff Colburn and Shaun McCullough at the Long Beach office of Lee & Associates. SRG was represented by Rick Warner and John Ayoob in CB Richard Ellis’ South Bay office.
ADDISON, TEXAS — HFF and CBRE have jointly brokered the sale of Two Addison Circle, a 198,681-square-foot office property in the northern Dallas suburb of Addison. Completed in 2009, the six-story Class AA building is located at 15725 N. Dallas Parkway, at the entrance to Addison Circle, a 70-acre, mixed-use development. At the time of the sale, the asset was 89 percent leased to tenants including USAA and Gehan Homes. HFF and CBRE marketed the property on behalf of the seller, Brookfield Property Group. LPC Realty Advisors, an affiliate of Lincoln Property Co., purchased the building on behalf of a public pension fund.
SAN DIEGO — Alliance Diversified Holding, LLC, has purchased the Pyramid Building, a 131,218-square-foot office building in the Miramar Mesa submarket of San Diego, for $13.6 million. The building is located at 7310 Miramar Road. It was initially part of the Miramar Metroplex. The value-add private equity firm plans to convert the pyramid-shaped building into a creative office and technology hub. The space will also be rebranded as The San Diego Innovation Center. Alliance was represented by Jon Boland of Voit’s San Diego office. Brandon Keith, Ryan Bracker and Bob Brady, also of Voit, represented the seller, APEX 1 & 2 LP, in this transaction.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Jones Lang LaSalle has arranged a 15,559-square-foot lease at The Exchange, a 87,952-square-foot office building located at 101 S. Garland Ave. in downtown Orlando’s Church Street District. Technology firm PlanSource signed the lease to bring its headquarters to the property. Aaron Gray of Jones Lang LaSalle represented The Exchange’s ownership, Boston-based Tremont Realty Capital, in the lease transaction. Jason Schrago of CNL represented the tenant.
KING OF PRUSSIA, PA. — On behalf of Equus Capital Partners, Jones Lang LaSalle’s (JLL) capital markets team has sold 1000 Continental, a Class A office building located in King of Prussia, a Philadelphia suburb. KBS Capital Advisors LLC purchased the property for $63 million, or $307 per square foot. The 205,424-square-foot office building was 99 percent occupied at the time of sale. It features floor-to-ceiling window lines, a two-story entrance lobby and is LEED Silver certified. Jim Vesey, Doug Rodio, Jim Galbally and John Plower led the JLL team in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY – A $15 million capital improvement plan is underway for 211 East 43rd St., a 210,000-square-foot office property located in Manhattan’s Midtown East neighborhood. The plan includes updating the building’s common areas and strategically attracting new media and tech firms. Meadow Partners, a real estate investor and asset manager with offices in New York City and London, acquired 211 East 43rd St. in March 2013. The company plans to bring it to a standard that is comparable to other Class A buildings in the Midtown East neighborhood. In addition, William Cohen and David Emden of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank were retained as the leasing agents for the property. Starting in 2013, Cohen began executing a new leasing strategy for the property and secured seven transactions totaling nearly 60,000 square feet. New tenants include AWS Construction, Caliber Associates, the Costa Rican Mission to the United Nations, Reger Designs Inc., Rennert International, the Republic of Mauritius Mission to the United Nations and Set Physical Therapy.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Real estate investment management firm PCCP LLC has provided a $41.5 million loan for the recapitalization and lease-up of One City Place, a 313,953-square-foot office building in Fort Worth. The 19-story building, vacant at the time of the loan closing, is located at 300 Throckmorton Street and is part of City Place, a three-building complex owned by Spire Realty Group since 2011. Constructed in 1978, One City Place served as Radio Shack’s headquarters until 2005. Wally Reid and Corby Chaffin of HFF arranged the financing on behalf of Spire, which has invested significant capital in renovations since acquisition.
CULVER CITY, CALIF. — PriceGrabber.com has extended its 45,000-square-foot lease at Wateridge in Culver City. The building is located at La Cienega Boulevard and Slauson Avenue. PriceGrabber.com was represented by Dave Toomey and Brian Davies of Cresa Los Angeles. The landlord, the Muller Company, was represented in-house by Jim Bannan, and by CBRE’s Deron White and Jeff Pion.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF. – GoCoin has leased 7,000 square feet of office space in Santa Monica. The building, known as Keller Block, is located at 227 Broadway. The international payment-services company is relocating and expanding from the Real Office Centers-ROC Santa Monica location, which is a collaborative workspace for startup companies. Randy Starr of Avison Young represented both GoCoin and the landlord, Third Street Limited, in this transaction.