LOS ANGELES — MARCH Vision Care has signed a 17,000-square-foot lease expansion at 6601 Center Drive in Los Angeles. The Class A office building is part of the Howard Hughes Center. The vision care management services provider will continue to occupy 10,000 square feet at neighboring 6701 Center Drive. It will occupy the second floor of its newest building by February. MARCH Vision Care was represented by Brian Davies and Dave Toomey of Cresa Los Angeles. The building’s landlord, Equity Office Properties, was represented by Rick Buckley and Beau Rawi of LA Realty Partners.
LOS ANGELES — Two law firms have leased a total of 14,800 square feet at Los Angeles’ Wilshire Bundy Plaza. Rogan and Lehrman, LLP and Trope & Decarolis have both leased space on the 13th floor of this 14-story building. The consideration for these five-year leases is just less than $3 million. The landlord, Douglas Emmett Company, was represented by Mitchell Stokes of Madison Partners in these transactions.
HAMPTON, VA. — Suttle Holding Corp. has acquired the 67,749-square-foot Hampton North II, an office building located at 303 Butler Farm Dr. in Hampton, from Hampton North I and Hampton North II for $5.25 million. John Duffy of Cushman & Wakefield/Thalhimer's Virginia Beach, Va., office represented the seller in the transaction.
CHICAGO — The Hearn Co. has purchased 55 W. Monroe in Chicago from LaSalle Investment Management for $136 million. The 803,000-square-foot, 40-story office tower was once known as the Xerox Center. The new owner plans to make street-level changes to the entries and upgrade the property's amenities and common areas. Bruce Miller, Jim Postweiler, David Hendrikson, Keith Largay, Jascint Vukelich and Nooshin Felsenthal of Jones Lang LaSalle represented Hearn in the transaction. The brokerage also secured acquisition financing of $108 million: $86.5 million in senior debt through Wells Fargo Bank and $21.5 million in mezzanine facility through Redwood Trust.
NEW YORK CITY — The Albanese Development Corp. has purchased 510 W. 22nd St. in West Chelsea for $54.5 million. ADC plans to redevelop the site from a vacant, five-story garage into a 175,000-square-foot, Class A office building. The site was purchased from Highland Capital, a Texas-based investment fund, which acquired it from the previous owner, an investment group that included Shawn Carter, the rapper known as Jay-Z. Cook + Fox Architects is designing the structure.
IRVING — Atlanta-based The Brookdale Group has closed on its acquisition of the 1.4 million-square-foot Towers at Williams Square, an office complex comprised of four Class A buildings located at 5125 N. O'Connor Blvd. in Irving. The Brookdale Group purchased the property through Brookdale Investors Six, the firm's sixth real estate investment fund. The property consists of a 26-story office building, two 14-story office buildings and a five-story building, and it sits on a 16-acre property that fronts Lake Carolyn.
THE WOODLANDS — The J. Beard Real Estate Co. has brokered the sale of a 2.11-acre tract, located in the Village of Alden Bridge at the intersection of Ginger Jar and Kuykendahl Road in The Woodlands. Alden Land Development, a private partnership, purchased the land from The Woodlands Land Development. Two 10,000-square-foot office buildings will be constructed on the site by Everson Developments. The buildings are slated for a August 2012 completion and J. Beard is handling the marketing, sales and leasing of the office buildings.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Westport Capital Partners LLC has purchased Scottsdale Financial Center II in Scottsdale for an undisclosed sum. The Class A, 150,000-square-foot office building is located at 4141 N. Scottsdale Road. The center is currently 71 percent leased to Coventry Health Care. Jones Lang LaSalle’s Jim Sadler, Dennis Desmond and Brian Ackerman represented the seller. JLL’s Harry Klaff also represented Coventry, the building’s primary tenant, in the lease transaction.
ATLANTA — Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated the sale of the 94,839-square-foot 56 Perimeter Center East, an office building located in Atlanta. Stewart Calhoun, David Meline, Samir Idris and Casey Masters of Cushman & Wakefield's Atlanta office represented Rubenstein Partners, the seller, in the transaction. The buyer was The Simpson Organization.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Wyndham Vacation Ownership has signed a 230,000-square-foot lease at Sea Harbor Office Center, located at 6277 Sea Harbor Dr. in Orlando. David Chapin of Jones Lang LaSalle's Orlando office represented Lexington Realty Trust, the landlord, in the transaction. John Wanamaker of Orange City, Fla.-based Coldwell Banker Commercial/AI Group represented the tenant.