HOUSTON — National homebuilder Taylor Morrison has signed a 29,000-square-foot office lease at Reserve at Westchase, a 194,919-square-foot building in Houston’s Westchase District. Jack Scharnberg and John Heard of Transwestern represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations. Jon Lee and Claire Douthit of CBRE represented the tenant, which is relocating from a nearby building at 2929 Briarpark Drive. Reserve at Westchase is currently undergoing a capital improvement program to upgrade the lobby and other common areas.
NEW YORK CITY — EliseAI, a platform that serves the commercial and residential real estate industries, has signed a 26,582-square-foot office lease at 33 E. 33rd St. in Midtown Manhattan. The company is expanding from a 20,582-square-foot space within the 12-story building via a new five-year agreement. Val Stobetsky, Will McGarry, Calum Waddell and Hale King of JLL represented EliseAI in the lease negotiations. Erik Harris and Zach Weil of Newmark represented the landlord, Kalimian Equities.
BELLEVUE, WASH. — First Citizens Bank has acquired an office building at 2606 116th Ave. NE in Bellevue, across Lake Washington from Seattle. Pacific Cataract and Laser Institute sold the asset for $18.5 million, or $558 per square foot. Pacific Cataract and Laser Institute will lease back approximately 15,552 square feet on the first floor of the 33,155-square-foot Class A building. Jeff Chaney of Kidder Mathews represented the seller, which acquired the asset in 2017 for $13.5 million.
HOLLAND TOWNSHIP, MICH. — Bayview PACE has provided $2 million in C-PACE financing for a 132,000-square-foot office building in Holland Township near Grand Rapids that was converted into a church. Family Church, a West Michigan-based religious group with 2,400 current members, spearheaded the project. Located at 10717 Adams St., the three-story former bank headquarters was converted into a church facility with a large sanctuary, fellowship hall, café with commercial kitchen, new offices, classrooms, restrooms and other supporting spaces. The C-PACE funding supported upgrades of primary building systems, including HVAC, electrical and plumbing. C-PACE, or Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy, is a financing tool that provides long-term, low-cost construction financing for new and existing buildings. Eligible improvements include energy efficiency, water efficiency, renewable energy and resiliency measures such as seismic and stormwater measures. The new location for Family Church serves as the largest of three campuses in the area.
HOUSTON — Locally based brokerage firm Oxford Partners has negotiated an 8,263-square-foot office lease in Houston’s Greenway/Upper Kirby area. According to LoopNet Inc., the seven-story building at 2990 Richmond Ave. was constructed in 1967, renovated in 1995 and totals 83,617 square feet. Perry Mazzone & Ryan Hartsell of Oxford Partners represented the tenant, In-Home Attendant Services, in the lease negotiations. Priscilla Alexander of Hansen Partners represented the landlord.
MINNEAPOLIS — Kraus-Anderson has completed construction on a 15,314-square-foot office build-out for Grant Thornton LLP at the Steelman Exchange building in Minneapolis. Grant Thornton is an audit, tax and advisory firm. The Steelman Exchange building is located at 241 5th Ave. North in the city’s North Loop. The new office features workspaces and layouts designed for collaboration. LB Design Group was the architect.
NEW YORK CITY — Weill Cornell Medicine has signed a 100,000-square-foot office and healthcare lease at 575 Lexington Ave., a 35-story, 745,000-square-foot building in Manhattan’s Plaza District. As part of a new 30-year agreement, Weill Cornell Medicine now occupies eight full floors and a portion of the ground floor for a total footprint of 300,000 square feet. David Falk, Andrew Sachs and Ben Shapiro of Newmark represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Peter Duncan and Dana Pike represented the landlord, George Comfort & Sons, on an internal basis.
— By Daniel A. Kapic, Vice President, Regional Manager, Marcus & Millichap — Reno continues to be one of the nation’s fastest-growing smaller markets, underpinning tenant demand in the office sector. While remote and hybrid work have impacted office use in the metro, market-wide vacancies have kept in decent shape. Entering July 2023, Reno’s 15.1 percent vacancy rate was below the pre-2017 average. Rapid household growth has backstopped space needs, with law, financial and health service providers executing expansions to capture share in a growing market. The local household count increased 2.2 percent year over year in September, which was the second fastest among metros with fewer than 600,000 households. South Reno is spearheading this growth with 14 consecutive quarters of positive apartment net absorption through June 2023, drawing consumer-facing office tenants to the highly developed Meadowood neighborhood. The Reno VA Medical Center — which serves patients as far as Alturas, Calif. — recently announced its relocation to the area, which should also elevate long-term needs for nearby medical office space. While household growth has shored up space demand, Reno’s office market is still recalibrating to a 20-year-high supply injection. Overall inventory expanded 2 percent in the first half of …
TAMPA, FLA. — New York Life Insurance Co. has provided a $45 million loan for Midtown West, an eight-story office building within the 22-acre Midtown Tampa development. Ed Coco, Matt Casey and Lee Weaver of JLL arranged the five-year loan through New York Life on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture between Highwoods Properties and The Bromley Cos. Built in 2021, the 152,000-square-foot Midtown West was fully leased at the time of financing to Prudential, Primo and Nestle.
TULSA, OKLA. — CBRE has opened a 9,891-square-foot office at Santa Fe Crossings, a located at 521 E. 2nd St. in downtown Tulsa. The Dallas-based real estate giant is relocating its Tulsa office from 1437 South Boulder Ave. to the seventh floor of the 134,978-square-foot building. The office is part of CBRE’s WorkPlace360 program and features various social spaces, several individual and group workspaces and a boardroom for large-format internal meetings or presentations with clients and visitors.