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LOS ANGELES — The Luzzatto Co. has received $32.4 million in C-PACE financing through Nuveen Green Capital for Depot & Atlas, a creative office campus in Los Angeles’ West Adams submarket. Jeff Sause and Lauren Sackler of JLL Capital Markets Debt Advisory team arranged the financing for the borrower. Located at 3609-3645 10th Ave., Depot & Atlas offers 107,156 square feet of Class A space spread across two buildings, as well as two stories of subterranean parking. After acquiring the site in 2019, The Luzzatto Co. developed the Depot, a 94,726-square-foot creative office building, in late 2023 and redeveloped the neighboring 12,430-square-foot Atlas building. The property was 39 percent leased at the time of financing, with the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health occupying the entire first floor of the building.

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LISLE, ILL. — NAI Hiffman has negotiated three leases totaling 15,642 square feet at 2200 Cabot Drive, a renovated office building within the Corporate Lakes office park in Lisle. Agriculture company Syngenta signed a 13,381-square-foot lease at the five-story building. Prior to the pandemic, Syngenta occupied space in Downers Grove. Additionally, Bethany Christian Services inked a 1,217-square-foot lease, and Retirement Solutions leased 1,044 square feet. Patrick Kiefer of NAI Hiffman represented building owner RE Development Solutions in all three deals. The property is now 70 percent leased. RE Development Solutions acquired the building in November 2019 when it was 5 percent occupied. Ownership has completed extensive renovations, including a redesigned lobby, updated first floor and fifth-floor amenity suite, onsite deli, exterior monument signage, a conference room, updated corridors and washrooms and new mechanical systems. The building offers spec suites to meet demand from small and midsize companies seeking turnkey space.

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NEW YORK CITY — TickPick, an online platform for buying and selling of fee-free event tickets, has signed a 17,000-square-foot office headquarters lease at One Penn Plaza in Midtown Manhattan. Alec Kirschner of Vestian, a global brokerage firm specializing in tenant representation, represented TickPick in the lease negotiations. Vornado Realty Trust owns the building and was self-represented.

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NEW YORK CITY — Local real estate giant Tishman Speyer has received a $385 million refinancing for 300 Park Avenue, a 25-story office building in Midtown Manhattan. Originally built in 1955, 300 Park Avenue totals 770,000 square feet and was fully leased at the time of the loan closing. A consortium of lenders led by J.P. Morgan Chase and including Deutsche Bank Securities and Morgan Stanley provided a $330 million CMBS loan with a fixed interest rate of 5.44 percent. Macquarie Capital Principal Finance provided $55 million in mezzanine financing to complete the capital stack.

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KNOXVILLE, TENN. — Gorney Realty Co. LLC, a family-owned office and industrial investor based in Nashville, has purchased Cedar Ridge at Cedar Bluff, a 90,000-square-foot office building located at 480 N. Cedar Bluff Road in Knoxville. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. The five-story property was 93 percent leased at the time of sale to approximately 30 tenants, some of which have been occupants for nearly 20 years. Gorney Realty plans to upgrade Cedar Ridge at Cedar Bluff’s common areas, including the building’s lobby and restrooms.

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OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — An investment entity led by Copaken Brooks has agreed to sell 6201 College Boulevard, a landmark office building located at the intersection of Lamar Avenue and College Boulevard, to the City of Overland Park. The city plans to convert the 147,000-square-foot building into its future city hall. The sale is expected to close in the fourth quarter. Originally developed in 1990 by Copaken White and Blitt as the national headquarters for the NCAA, the property continues to serve as a multi-tenant office facility. While the ownership will change, Copaken Brooks will remain the property manager, as the city does not manage commercial buildings. The city will begin planning its transition of the space in the coming years.

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CARY, N.C. — Engineering and consulting firm Kimley-Horn has signed a nearly 40,000-square-foot lease at Weston I, a 212,000-square-foot office building located at 1001 Winstead Drive in Cary, a suburb of Raleigh. Tucker Shade and Ben Onderdonk of Savills represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Brian Carr and Brad Corsmeier of CBRE represented the landlord, Accesso. Weston I is situated within the Weston Parkway master-planned business park and recently underwent a $6.5 million capital improvement program, including a new outdoor patio, tenant lounge and fitness center. Other renovations include overhauls to commons areas and the lobby.

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BALTIMORE — CBRE has signed a 16,000-square-foot lease at 1001 Fleet St., a Class A office building in Baltimore’s Harbor East district. Delivered in 2000, the nine-story office building is owned by Harbor East Management Group. CBRE is relocating its Baltimore office from 100 E. Pratt St. to the eighth floor of 1001 Fleet, with occupancy to occur in January. David Fields, Jonathan Hall and Jordana Pollack represented CBRE in the lease negotiations on an internal basis. The new CBRE office is part of the commercial real estate services firm’s Workplace360 program, which has 100 locations nationwide.

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PHILADELPHIA — Hogan Lovells has signed a 34,752-square-foot office lease extension in downtown Philadelphia. The law firm will continue to occupy space on the 22nd and 23rd floors of 1735 Market Street, a 54-story, 1.3 million-square-foot building, for an additional 10-plus years. Perry Kaplan and Tim Monahan of Savills represented Hogan Lovells in the lease negotiations. Mitch Marcus, Tom Weitzel and Jake Marcus of JLL, along with internal agents Keith Cody and Gordon Hough, represented the landlord, Silverstein Properties.

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HOUSTON — Avison Young has negotiated a 25,840-square-foot office lease in West Houston. The tenant, Dean & Draper Insurance, is relocating and expanding its footprint from the nearby building at 3131 W. Alabama St. to the entire 10th floor and part of the eighth floor at Eleven77, an 18-story building. Anthony Squillante and Dustin Devine of Avison Young represented Dean & Draper in the lease negotiations. Kelli Gault, Doug Little and John Heard of Transwestern represented the landlord, Hicks Ventures.

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