BOSTON — BioMed Realty Trust has received the Gold level of LEED-Core & Shell certification for The Center for Life Science | Boston, the company’s approximately 700,000-square-foot research center located in Boston. The campus contains laboratory and office space situated in the heart of the city’s Longwood Medical Area. The center is currently 91 percent leased to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Children’s Hospital Boston, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Immune Disease Institute and Kowa Company Ltd. BioMed Realty Trust now has more than 1.2 million square feet of LEED-certified research space in the Boston and Cambridge, Mass., markets.
FRISCO, TEXAS — Bravo Health Texas, Inc., Net Traffic, America Unit and DaVita Inc. have all signed leases at Hall Office Park, Hall Financial Group’s 15-building, master-planned, Class A office park in Frisco. Bravo Health Texas will take 4,775 square feet at 6801 Gaylord Parkway. Rebecca Griffin of Newmark Knight Frank negotiated the lease on behalf of the tenant. Net Traffic has signed a lease for 4,564 square feet at 3000 Internet Blvd.; and American Unit will occupy 3,950 square feet of space at 2801 Network Blvd. DaVita has signed on for 2,602 square feet at 6801 Gaylord Parkway. Louis Carpenter of USI Real Estate Brokerage Services, Inc. negotiated for the tenant. Jean C. Farris and Tammy Lomonaco handled all negotiations on behalf of the owner and landlord, Hall Financial Group.
PHOENIX — Pacifica Real Estate Group has purchased Southbank II, a 120,778-square-foot office building in Phoenix for $20.14 million. Located at 3255 E. Elwood, the property is fully occupied by two long-term net leases, including The University of Phoenix. The seller was A&B Properties. Bob Buckley, Steve Lindley and Tracy Cartledge of Grubb & Ellis|BRE Commercial represented both parties in the transaction.
ALPHARETTA, GA. — Delaware-based Maxum Indemnity Co. has signed a 25,708-square-foot lease for space in Alpharetta-based Gateway Windward’s Preston Ridge I office complex, located at 3655 N. Point Parkway in Alpharetta. The company is leaving its current location in Johns Creek, Ga., a move that represents an expansion of 10,000 square feet. Atlanta-based Lavista Associates’ Tom Davenport represented Maxum in the lease, and CB Richard Ellis represented the landlord. Preston Ridge I, a six-story, Class A property, encompasses 147,000 square feet.
WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. — Studley has negotiated two long-term leases totaling 160,000 square feet on behalf of Eisai Medical Research (EMR) in Woodcliff Lake. EMR will move its operation from a 210,000-square-foot build-to-suit at 100 Tice Blvd. to a 118,000-square-square-foot building at 155 Tice Blvd. and 41,000 square feet at 300 Tice Blvd. Gregg Najarian, Daniel Foley and Chip Conklin of Studley represented EMR in both transactions. Hartz Mountain Industries, landlord of 155 Tice Blvd., was represented by Emanuel Stern, Gus Milano and Ernie Christoph. The landlord of 300 Tice Blvd., Mack-Cali, was represented by Christopher DeLorenzo.
NEW YORK CITY — Sholom & Zukerbrot has negotiated two 5-year leases in Long Island City on behalf of DeAngelis, Ltd., a high-end upholsterer, and TouchStone Direct, LLC, a fast-growing digital printing firm. Both firms relocated from Manhattan to 21-09 Borden Avenue in the Long Island City section of Queens in New York City. DeAngelis, leased 27,000 square feet on the sixth floor of the seven-story property, and TouchStone Direct signed for 16,000 square feet on the second floor. Natalie Hurwitz of Sholom & Zukerbrot is the exclusive agent for the Borden Avenue property, a 170,000-square-foot loft building. Owned by 21-09 Borden Avenue Corp., the building features two freight and two passenger elevators, and four loading docks. It is centrally located and offers easy access to the #7 subway line, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Long Island Expressway.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — CyrusOne, a data center services provider, has opened a new 50,000-square-foot data center in Austin. The facility is located within The MetCenter, a data center business park that features two on-site electrical substations, underground electrical infrastructure, and redundant telecommunications and water infrastructure. CyrusOne already had the ability to provide disaster recovery and business continuity services for its customers at the Austin site. Data center space is expected to come online in the third quarter of this year.
ATLANTA — The hotel interior design firm Hirsch Bedner Associates has leased 25,000 square feet from Dewberry Capital Corp. in the company’s Two Peachtree Pointe property. Hirsch Bedner will move into the building in August, doubling the size of its Atlanta operations. Terms of the lease were not disclosed. Russ Jobson and Robert Allen of Atlanta-based Colliers Spectrum Cauble represented the tenant. The 310,000-square-foot Two Peachtree Pointe is located at 909 W. Peachtree St. in Atlanta.
POWELL, OHIO — The Columbus, Ohio, office of Sperry Van Ness as arranged the sale of a 20,000-square-foot office and research building, located at 383 N. Liberty Rd. in Powel, for $2.1 million. Originally constructed in 1998, the building is situated on 3.9 acres. It is fully occupied by Aeroflex Corp. Doug Wilson of Sperry Van Ness represented the local seller, Paul Swetnam. Ronald Edwards of Heath, Ohio-based Keller Williams Realty represented the buyer, New Albany, Ohio-based 383 North Liberty Road LLC.
NEW YORK CITY — New York City-based Swig Equities has signed three leases at 80 Broad Street, a 36-story, 400,000-square-foot office tower located in the Financial District of Downtown Manhattan, New York City. The three new tenants include McGiveney & Kluger PC, which was represented by Fred Trump and John Moran of Newmark Knight Frank; Legal Solutions Group LLC, which was represented by Joshua Winslow and Patrick Nash of Winslow & Co.; and Map Financial Group Inc., which was represented by Alan Markowitz of RE Com Partners. The three leases total 8,500 square feet and bring the building, which was recently renovated by Swig Equities, to 97 percent occupancy.