NEW YORK CITY — Sandpoint, Idaho-based women’s retailer Coldwater Creek has signed a lease for 23,000 square feet of office space at 575 Broadway, located in the Soho neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The retailer will use the space for creative and design purposes. The tenant was represented by Grant Greenspan of The Kaufman Organization. The landlord was represented by Fred Grand of 575 Broadway Associates LP. The lease carries a 10-year term; the rental rate was not disclosed, but the asking price was $50 per square foot. The 575 Broadway building is a six-story brick building located in Soho’s Cast Iron District. It contains more than 160,000 square feet of loft office space.
DALLAS — Class AA luxury office building Saint Ann Court has topped out in Dallas. Featuring more than 320,000 square feet spread over 26 stories, the LEED-certified office tower is the tallest in Uptown Dallas. The building represents the sixth phase within Harwood International’s planned 17-phase Harwood district, which will ultimately include more than 7 million square feet of condominium, office, retail and residential development. The tower incorporates the historic St. Ann’s School — the first Catholic school for Mexican-American children — into its design by preserving the school’s exterior as well as converting its interior space into a café, a bar and lounge and an art collection. Los Angeles-based Shimoda Design Group designed the building, and Austin Commercial serves as general contractor. Harwood Design Studio partnered with Shimoda Design Group on the landscape design, including a 12,000-square-foot garden on the 12th floor. Saint Ann Court is scheduled to open this fall with a tenant roster featuring Amegy Bank; The Boston Consulting Group; McGuire, Craddock & Strother; and Harwood International’s new headquarters.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Vertical construction of the first phase of Trammell Crow Co.’s 413,000-square-foot Sentinel Square office building is complete. The 12-story, Class A property is located at 90 K St. in Washington’s NoMa district. Sentinel Square is being built to LEED Silver specifications. Detroit-based SmithGroup designed the project, and Houston-based Haynes Whaley Associates is providing engineering services.
LAKEWAY, TEXAS — Stan Johnson Company has sold a JPMorgan Chase Bank Ground Lease located in Lakeway, near Austin. The property, situated at 917 Ranch Road 620 South, had an asking price of more than $3 million, but final terms of the sale were not disclosed. The seller, a Texas-based office developer, was represented by Jim Gibson of Stan Johnson Company’s Houston office. William Kinn of Kinn Real Estate Counselors represented the buyer, an individual investor participating in a 1031 exchange.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — NOL Group, parent company of APL, has signed a long-term lease for approximately 70,000 square feet of office space at MAX at Kierland, a 257,000-square-foot office complex located at 16220 N. Scottsdale Rd. in Scottsdale. Singapore-based NOL will occupy one-and-a-half floors of the building for its new regional headquarters in the Americas. Additionally, the company expects to relocate its current regional headquarters from Oakland, Calif., by the end of the third quarter. The new facility will coordinate APL’s shipping, terminals and logistics activities throughout the Americas, including marine operations to intermodal transport of containers by rail and truck. Eric Danielson of Studley and Patricia Boyd and GeeGee Entz of Arizona Commercial Advisors represented NOL; Patrick Devine, Jerry Noble and Greg Mayer of CB Richard Ellis represented the landlord, Trammell Crow Company and ING, in the transaction.
INDIANAPOLIS – BPG Properties Inc. has announced that Yellow Pages Group has completed a long-term lease for 21,054 square feet of office space, located at 9200 Keystone Dr. in Indianapolis. The property consists of an eight-story, 146,000-square-foot office building within a 1.2 million-square-foot office park. Jon Bishop of Devencore Company, Ltd. and Brian Askins of UGL Equis represented the tenant. John Robinson from Jones Lang LaSalle represented the landlord.
MADISON, WIS. — Commercial Tenant Advisors, LLC has represented the South Central Library System (SCLS) in leasing a new 11,000-square-foot headquarters property located at 4610 S. Biltmore Lane in Madison. The new office holds computer support operations and SCLS’s main office. Tim Rikkers from Commercial Tenant Advisors represented SCLS; the landlord, St. John Properties negotiated the transaction in-house.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Fort Worth’s CentrePort Business Park will soon be home to a new DT Credit Corp. call center. The Phoenix-based company has leased approximately 31,000 square feet at the park, located at 15001 FAA Blvd. in Fort Worth. Scott Ellsworth of NAI Horizon in Phoenix and Van Power of NAI Robert Lynn in Dallas represented DT Credit Corp. Ben Sumner of Stream Realty Partners represented the building’s owner, 15001/CentrePort LP, in the transaction.
HOUSTON – RCP Reliant Corporate Center Ltd., a partnership led by Dallas/Fort Worth-based Realty Capital Partners, has invested approximately $4 million of preferred equity in three Houston office buildings. The properties, located at 2600, 2616, and 2626 South Loop West in the city’s Medical Center/South Main submarket, total 270,000 square feet and average an 89.6 percent occupancy rate. Costa Mesa, Calif.,-based CIMCO is the project sponsor.
WAUKESHA AND BROOKFIELD, WIS. — Siegel-Gallagher • ONCOR International has completed the purchase of a new office location and a new bank branch for Park Bank. The bank’s new office totals 10,764 square feet and is located within Crossroads XIV at 2300 Watertower Blvd. in Waukesha. The new branch totals 9,100 square feet and is located within Brookfield Marketplace at the corner of West Greenfield Avenue and South Moorland Road in Brookfield. Marianne Burish and Dan Mickelson of Siegel-Gallagher represented Park Bank in the transactions.