Office

LOS ANGELES — The Refinery has leased 19,200 square feet at a 30,662-square-foot office building in the Los Angeles submarket of Sherman Oaks. The advertising agency will occupy two full floors of the three-story building. The firm plans to consolidate and relocate to the space in April. The Refinery was represented by Stacy Vierheilig-Fraser of Charles Dunn Company’s Sherman Oaks office. The landlord, a private family trust, was represented by Scott Silverstein and Tom Specker of Lee & Associates.

OAKLAND, CALIF. – Cerexa has expanded and extended its lease at 2100 Franklin in Oakland. The biopharmaceutical company has leased an additional 12,000 square feet on the building’s 8th floor. It now occupies the entire 8th and 9th floors of the nine-story tower, which resides within the Lake Merritt district. The building is owned by CIM Group.

DENVER – A pair of contiguous, Class A office buildings in Denver have received $74 million in refinancing. The buildings are located at 1400 Wewatta and 1401 Wynkoop in the city’s Lower Downtown Denver (LoDo) District. The Wewatta property contains a 202,000-square-foot office building with ground-floor retail. The Wynkoop property contains a 98,000-square-foot office building with ground-floor retail and residential condominiums on the top four floors. The condos were not included in the collateral. The properties are connected by a sky bridge. They also share a parking garage.Notable tenants at the properties include Chipotle Mexican Grill’s world headquarters, Kilpatrick, Townsend & Stockton, LLC, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Milliman and George K. Baum & Company. HFF’s Eric Tupler, Josh Simon and Jake Young worked on behalf of the borrower, Wewatta and Wynkoop PT LLC, a GE Asset Management and Crestone Partners managed entity. The team secured a permanent loan through a national life insurance company correspondent lender.

DENVER – A pair of contiguous, Class A office buildings in Denver have received $74 million in refinancing. The buildings are located at 1400 Wewatta and 1401 Wynkoop in the city’s Lower Downtown Denver (LoDo) District. The Wewatta property contains a 202,000-square-foot office building with ground-floor retail. The Wynkoop property contains a 98,000-square-foot office building with ground-floor retail and residential condominiums on the top four floors. The condos were not included in the collateral. The properties are connected by a sky bridge. They also share a parking garage. Notable tenants at the properties include Chipotle Mexican Grill’s world headquarters, Kilpatrick, Townsend & Stockton, LLC, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Milliman and George K. Baum & Company. HFF’s Eric Tupler, Josh Simon and Jake Young worked on behalf of the borrower, Wewatta and Wynkoop PT LLC, a GE Asset Management and Crestone Partners managed entity. The team secured a permanent loan through a national life insurance company correspondent lender.