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BLUE ASH, OHIO — Catholic Health Partners has signed two leases at 4600 McAuley Place, an office building in the Cincinnati suburb of Blue Ash. The locally based health system signed a five-year lease for 12,107 square feet and an 11-month lease for an additional 9,098 square feet. The leases total 21,205 square feet, taking up 90 percent of the building’s space. McAuley Place was built in 2001 and is located near I-71 and I-275. Chambers Street Properties recently acquired full ownership of the asset.

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PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Vision Equities LLC has sold its interest in a 150,500-square-foot Class A office property in Parsippany to Cole Corporate Income Trust Inc. for $32.4 million. The property is located at 299 Jefferson Road. Vision Equities will continue to provide asset/ property management for the building, which serves as a corporate headquarters for Evonik Degussa Co.

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MESA, ARIZ. – An 18,928-square-foot medical office building in Mesa has sold to Campus Professional Plaza, LLC for $5.9 million. The Class B building is located at 1220 South Higley Road on the campus of Phoenix Children’s Specialty and Urgent Care East Valley Center. It was 92.7 percent leased at the time of sale. Campus was represented by Paul Christ of Newport Beach. The seller, Ensemble, LLC, was represented by Mike Coover and Thomas Weinhold of Cassidy Turley Arizona.

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CHICAGO — An investment group, led by Mark Karasick with 601W Companies and Michael Silberberg with Berkley Properties, is spending more than $100 million to take a controlling interest in the Prudential Plaza Office Towers in Chicago. The group, through a partnership with current owner and operator BentleyForbes Holdings LLC, plans to redevelop the property’s retail and common areas. The 1950s-era towers take up a full city block overlooking North Michigan Avenue. Occupying the center point between Illinois Center, the Loop Business District and Grant Park, the Prudential Plaza complex features approximately 2.2 million square feet of Class A office space in two distinctive high-rise towers, which are 41 and 64 stories. The complex also includes 90,000 square feet of retail.

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SECAUCUS, N.J. — Gaia Real Estate Investments has acquired 200 Plaza Drive, a fully-leased, recently renovated office building in Secaucus. Jeffrey Dunne, Kevin Welsh and Brian Schulz of CRBE’s New York Institutional Group represented the buyer, Gaia, and the seller, Hartz Mountain Industries Inc. The 249,863-square-foot building is fully leased to Ernst & Young. 200 Plaza Drive is a LEED-certified building and was redeveloped in 2008 with new base building systems, lobby, and façade renovation.

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WAKEFIELD, MASS .— CTA Construction has completed the new $7 million Municipal Gas and Light Department building at 480 N. Ave. in Wakefield. CTA Construction worked with the Town of Wakefield and HKA Associates to provide demolition of the existing 15,000-square-foot building and construction of a new 30,000-square-foot facility. The new building provides department employees with spacious offices, open administrative areas, a large conference room, training room, large reception area, and kitchen and dining facilities.

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QUINCY, MASS. — Jones Lang LaSalle has arranged the sale of 150 Newport Ave. in Quincy, 121,329-square-foot Class A office building, for $14 million. The four-story building is next to Granite’s 100 Newport Ave. building. Vice Presidents Tom Kent and Sean Lynch of Jones Lang LaSalle represented the buyer, Foxrock Granite LLC, while Normandy Real Estate Partners Principal Justin Krebs represented the seller, Normandy Newport Holdings LLC. Normandy Real Estate Partners currently manages a series of discretionary real estate funds totaling approximately $1.5 billion of equity commitments.

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HOUSTON — Ziegler Cooper Architects has completed a $7.5 million redevelopment project for a 273,000-square-foot, Class A office, located at 515 Post Oak in Houston. Columbia Property Trust owns the property. When Columbia acquired 515 Post Oak in 2004, the building was leased by a single tenant under a lease that expired in 2011. The redevelopment of the property includes an increase in rentable area by 12,000 square feet, a new major building entrance and vehicular drop-off, garage pedestrian entry, atrium skylights and upgraded finishes and strategies preparing the building to achieve the LEED Existing Building certification.

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MESA, ARIZ. – An 18,928-square-foot medical office building in Mesa has sold to Campus Professional Plaza, LLC for $5.9 million. The Class B building is located at 1220 South Higley Road on the campus of Phoenix Children’s Specialty and Urgent Care East Valley Center. It was 92.7 percent leased at the time of sale. Campus was represented by Paul Christ of Newport Beach. The seller, Ensemble, LLC, was represented by Mike Coover and Thomas Weinhold of Cassidy Turley Arizona.

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