AUSTIN, TEXAS — Transwestern has brokered the sale of Northview Business Center on behalf of UNUM Life Insurance of America to TriGate Capital. Northview Business Center is a 262,067-square-foot, multi-tenant office building located at 9001 Interstate 35 in northeast Austin. Hale Umstattd, Leah Gallagher and Luke Wheeler of Transwestern represented the seller, Portland, Maine-based UNUM Life Insurance. The property was 70 percent leased at the time of sale.
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Century Plaza II, a 99,126-square-foot, Class A office building in San Jose, has sold to Grosvenor Americas for an undisclosed sum. The six-story building is located at 560 S. Winchester. It is fully occupied by the Rockefeller Group Business Centers, Cushman & Wakefield and Merrill Lynch Wealth Management.
CHICAGO — Ameritus LLC has entered into a joint venture with an East Coast-based private equity firm to acquire the Engineer’s Building at 205 W. Wacker Drive in Chicago. The sales price was $22.3 million, according to local media reports. The 25-story, 263,000-square-foot building was constructed in 1928 and includes panoramic views of the Chicago River. Ameritus plans to invest more than $10 million in the property to replace the mechanical systems, renovate the lobby and common areas and provide tenant amenities to the building. Chris Cassata and Scott Sessa of CBRE will serve as the leasing agents for the property.
CHICAGO — A joint partnership between ACG Equities and Purinton Development has sold Belden Centre at 2301-15 N. Clark St. in Chicago to Newport Capital Partners. The purchase price was undisclosed. The 52,806-square-foot retail property, which is located in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, includes 76 parking spaces. Built in 1991 and renovated in 2011, the fully leased property includes tenants ranging from retail and dining establishments to personal services. Keely Polczynski, a retail investment sales advisor for CBRE, assisted the partnership in the sale.
NEW YORK CITY — American Realty Capital New York Recovery REIT Inc. (NYRR) has acquired a three-story office condominium in Manhattan for $90.8 million. Located at 50 Varick St. in the Tribeca neighborhood, the 158,573-square-foot building is fully leased to a subsidiary of Spring Studios Limited. Spring Studios Limited is a London-based provider of creative services to the world's top international fashion, beauty and luxury brands. With the addition of this asset, NYRR owns nearly $800 million in assets, including properties announced for purchase.
HOUSTON — Jones Lang LaSalle's Capital Markets has arranged the sale and financing of Ashford Place, a two-building, 143,505-square-foot office portfolio in Houston's Energy Corridor. Insite Realty Partners LP purchased the property from CW Capital Asset Management LLC. The two Class B properties are located at 950 Threadneedle St. and 14800 St. Mary's Lane along Katy Freeway (Interstate 10). The properties are 86 percent leased. Rudy Hubbard, Paul House and Kevin McConn of Jones Lang LaSalle led the team in the deal.
HOUSTON — CBRE has brokered the sale of One Oak Park, a fully leased, Class A office building located in Houston's Westchase District. The 153,342-square-foot property was constructed in 2009 and is LEED Gold-certified. A four-level parking garage adjoins the six-story office building. Bernard Branca and Jared Chua of CBRE represented the sellers, The Carlyle Group via Carlyle Realty Partners V and Means-Knaus Partners. Clarion Partners, real estate investment manager, purchased One Oak Park.
LEONIA, N.J. — Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT Inc. has acquired the Infocrossing Data Center property in Leonia, a northern suburb of Newark. The 67,000-square foot property is fully leased to Infocrossing Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Wipro (NYSE: WID). Server Farm Realty, a national data center developer and operator, collaborated with Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT in its purchase of the property.
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — The Lionstone Group, a national real estate investment firm, has sold Waterway Plaza I and II in The Woodlands to Clarion Partners. The two Class A office buildings are located at 10003 and 10001 Woodloch Forest Drive and total 366,074 square feet. The buildings are 98 percent leased with a single-anchor tenant occupying more than 50 percent of the office space under a long-term lease. Jeff Hollinden, Robert Williamson and Trent Agnew of HFF marketed the property on behalf of Lionstone Cash Flow Real Estate Partners One, a joint venture between Lionstone and a large state pension fund. The properties sold for the highest price per square foot paid to date for suburban office property in the Houston MSA, according to HFF.
DALLAS — Miami-based Parmenter Realty Partners has acquired a 14-story, 310,771-square-foot office building in the Central Expressway submarket of Dallas. The property, located at 7557 Rambler Road, is the eighth investment in Parmenter's Fund IV. Parmenter plans to make upgrades to the facility in order to achieve LEED certification. The firm now owns more than 2 million square feet of office space in Dallas.
