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MIAMI — Littler Mendelson P.C., a labor law firm, and Studley, a commercial real estate services firm, have signed long-term leases for 17,137 square feet and 7,580 square feet, respectively, at Wells Fargo Center in Miami. The leases have an estimated value of more than $14 million. The firms will join tenants such as Wells Fargo Bank and Deloitte in the 750,000-square-foot Class A tower. Brian Gale of Taylor & Mathis represented the owner, MetLife, in the transaction. Carter Hopkins of CBRE represented Littler Mendelson and Studley was self-represented by Greg Katz.

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SAN DIEGO – A 5,000-square-foot office building and a 6,200-square-foot adjacent industrial building in San Diego have sold to a private investor for $2.4 million. The buildings are located at the corner of Cedar and California streets. The new owner plans to convert the property into 11,000 square feet of restaurant, office or retail space. Ben Tashakorian and Nick Totah represented both the buyer and the seller, a limited liability company, in this transaction.

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MINNETONKA, MINN. — OneBeacon Insurance Group, a provider of specialty insurance products, has renewed and expanded its 23,764-square-foot office lease to 45,092 square feet on floors five, six and seven of 601 Tower at Carlson in Minnetonka, a western suburb of Minneapolis. The lease agreement brings the trophy building to 95 percent occupancy. Newport Beach, Calif.-based KBS Real Estate Investment Trust II, a non-traded REIT, purchased the 288,458-square-foot property in 2011. OneBeacon Insurance Group has been a building tenant since 2006. Tom Wille of the CLW Real Estate Services Group in Tampa, Fla., represented OneBeacon in the transaction. Mike Marinovich of CBRE in Minneapolis negotiated the lease on behalf of KBS.

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NEW YORK CITY — Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has renewed its 595,000-square-foot lease for 20 years at 425 Lexington Ave. in Manhattan. The international law firm’s headquarters occupies 26 floors of the 31-story building. Lewis Miller, Ken Rapp and Ramneek Rikhy of CBRE represented Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in the transaction. The New York office of Hines represented the owner, its Hines U.S. Core Office Fund. The law firm was established in 1884 and has more than 850 lawyers with offices located in Beijing, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Calif., Sao Paulo, Seoul, Tokyo and Washington, D.C.

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SAN DIEGO – A 5,000-square-foot office building and a 6,200-square-foot adjacent industrial building in San Diego have sold to a private investor for $2.4 million. The buildings are located at the corner of Cedar and California streets. The new owner plans to convert the property into 11,000 square feet of restaurant, office or retail space. Ben Tashakorian and Nick Totah represented both the buyer and the seller, a limited liability company, in this transaction.

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SAN DIEGO — Copley Business Center, a 102,000-square-foot office campus in San Diego, has sold to Highbrook Investment Management, LP for $22.5 million. The three-building campus resides in the northwest portion of Kearny Mesa. It was 87 percent leased at the time of sale. Notable tenants include XO Communications and Reva Medical, which houses its corporate headquarters at the campus. HFF’s CJ Osbrink and Nick Psyllos represented both the buyer and the seller, a private tenant-in-common entity sponsored by Thompson National Properties. The off-market transaction includes the assumption of an existing CMBS loan.

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SAN FRANCISCO — An 11-story, 140,657-square-foot office building in Downtown San Francisco has received a $14-million mezzanine loan. The building is located at 1155 Market Street. The loan was structured as subordinate financing because of a pre-existing CMBS loan that was in the first lien position when Laurus Corporation acquired the property in 2011. The new loan will be used for leasing costs, tenant improvements and property upgrades. The building was previously occupied by the City of San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. It is now 82 percent leased to the City and County of San Francisco. The loan was funded by Buchanan Street Partners.

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LYNNWOOD, WASH. — Colony Park Business Center, a six-building, flex office portfolio in Lynnwood, has sold to a local investor for $7.8 million. The portfolio contains a total of 82,467 square feet in the Northend submarket that sits north of Seattle. The center is located at 19011-19029 36thAve. West. It was 86 percent leased to 20 tenants at the time of sale.The buyer was represented by Ken Butler of Butler Commercial Investments, LLC. The seller, Colony Park I & II LLC, was represented by Daniel Seger, Ann Chamberlin,Mark Flippoand Brent Jacksonof Jones Lang LaSalle’s Capital Markets group.

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BOCA RATON, FLA. — Bob Dockerty of Dockerty Romer & Co. has arranged $16.4 million in permanent mortgage financing for a 60,000-square-foot office building, along with a 105,000-square-foot warehouse space and a 17,000-square-foot Office Depot store in Boca Raton. Florida Community Bank provided the 10-year, fixed-rate loan for the borrower, Reel State Adventures and Southern State Properties Inc. The property is located on the north side of Glades Road at 123 N.W. 13th St.

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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Skanska USA and EF Education First (EF) hosted a topping out ceremony for EF’s new $66.5 million, 300,000-square-foot North American headquarters in Cambridge on Friday. The 10-story building will include office and academic space for EF. Upon completion, the building’s entrance will feature a glass curtainwall resembling a waterfall running down the south and east facades of the building. The ground floor will include mezzanine space to be used for dining, building services and other purposes. Along with constructing the building, Skanska will also build three levels of above-ground parking with approximately 125 parking spaces for employees and visitors. Skanska is building the headquarters to LEED Silver standards. The project broke ground in September 2012 and 33 percent of the building’s core and shell is complete. Construction is slated for completion by fall 2014.

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