WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — Quest Workspaces, a female-owned developer and operator of flexible office spaces, has expanded to occupy 25,947 square feet in downtown West Palm Beach, doubling its previous footprint. The company has been a tenant within the 21-story tower at 515 N. Flagler Drive for nearly 10 years. Vanderbilt Office Properties is the landlord of the building, which features an 11,000-square-foot rooftop garden, gym, two restaurants, a coffee shop, security desk, concierge, shoe-shining station, car wash and a salon. Quest’s amenities include treadmill desks, phone booths, chat rooms, a touchdown space, networking area and a garden wall.
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ERIE, COLO. — Evergreen Devo has completed the disposition of UCHealth – Erie Nine Mile Medical Center, a Class A medical office building in Erie, approximately 25 miles north of Denver. An Arizona-based private real estate company acquired the asset for $5.6 million. Located at 2970 Arapahoe Road, the newly built, single-tenant property features 8,000 square feet of medical office space. UCHealth, a nonprofit healthcare system headquartered in nearby Aurora, fully occupies the asset. The Erie Nine Mile Medical Center is part of a 47-acre, mixed-use center that Evergreen is developing. Upon full build-out, the full development will feature 287 multifamily units, a King Soopers grocery store and multiple retail pads and shops. Jason Schmidt and Larry Thiel of JLL Capital Markets’ investment sales advisory team represented the seller in the deal.
DRAPER, UTAH — Clearlink has signed a deal to occupy 135,000 square feet of office space at 42 Future Way in Draper. The company will consolidate its existing offices at Salt Lake Center International Center and Utah County into the new campus. The Class A office campus, which was originally designed for Pluralsight, offers new furniture, fixtures, conference facilities, a cafeteria and fitness facilities. In 2022, Utah-based Clarke Capital Partners partnered with Sitel Group to drive the growth of Clearlink as a platform that empowers customers to make informed decisions around daily purchases. Brandon Fugal of Colliers represented Clearlink in the lease.
RICHMOND, VA. — Sapporo USA Inc. has signed an office/warehouse lease at Sauer Industrial Center, an industrial park located at 943 S. Airport Drive in Richmond. The beer manufacturer will occupy 149,030 square feet at the property. Cliff Porter of Porter Realty represented the landlord, Becknell Industrial, in the lease negotiations.
BLOOMINGTON, MINN. — SFM Mutual Insurance Co. has renewed its 49,490-square-foot office lease at Northland Center in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington. KBS owns the two-building, 492,514-square-foot property. Amenities include a 40,000-square-foot concourse level offering public areas, 5,000-square-foot fitness center, full-service café, training and conference facilities, atrium lounge, onsite car wash and sundry shop. Bill Rothstein of Cushman & Wakefield represented KBS in the lease. KBS recently completed a $1 million renovation of Northland Center.
GLEN CARBON, ILL. — Strieker Law Firm LLC has signed a 1,582-square-foot office lease at 100 Magnolia Drive in Glen Carbon, about 14 miles northeast of St. Louis. Shiloh, Ill.-based brokerage Barber Murphy represented both the tenant and the landlord, SZO Properties LLC.
NEW YORK CITY — Law firm Pollack, Pollack, Isaac & DeCicco has signed a 16,375-square-foot office lease at 250 Broadway in Lower Manhattan. The 648,000-square-foot building recently underwent a lobby remodel and expansion. Anne Holker, Charles Borrok, Jonathan Fales, Frank Cento, Jonathan Fein and Michelle Mean of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, AmTrust RE, in the lease negotiations. Eric Zemachson of Newmark represented the tenant.
PLANO, TEXAS — Stream Realty Partners has arranged the sale of a two-story, vacant building in Plano that consists of 30,066 square feet of office space and a 7,640-square-foot basement showroom. Jamie Jennings and Ryan Evanich of Stream represented the seller, an entity doing business as Hacienda Care V LP, in the transaction. Pam Goodwin of Goodwin Advisors LLC represented the buyer, Peacock Point LLC, which also plans to occupy the building.
— By Andrew Cheney, Principal, Lee & Associates — The metro Phoenix office market continues a slow recovery as it battles the nation’s highest rates of both sublease growth and inflation. Starting off the fourth quarter at only 532,000 square feet (year-to-date), net absorption in Greater Phoenix remained well off the 20-year average mark of 1.6 million square feet. Direct office vacancy stands at a seemingly high figure of 17.6 percent. However, this is in line with the 20-year average of 18 percent. Currently, there are six key trends impacting Phoenix’s office market. Small tenants are back in the office. I imagine most brokers will report that the highest concentration of active, touring prospects are in the market for less than 10,000 square feet. These company sizes want to be in the office in metro Phoenix, and not just a few days a week. High-quality spec suites rule. Landlords recognize that smaller tenants are driving leasing activity — and that these small tenants will not wait for a build-out. Instead of holding one or two spec suites in inventory at any one time, landlords are building out large batches of five to seven spec suites at a time. And they’re spending money to build …
NASHVILLE, TENN. — Convexity Properties has broken ground on 5 City Blvd, a 15-story office tower within the ONEC1TY master-planned development in Nashville. The 300,000-square-foot building will be situated at the intersection of City and Charlotte avenues, roughly two miles outside of Nashville’s Central Business District and near I-40 and I-440. In addition to upscale offices, 5 City Blvd will feature 17,000 square feet of ground-level retail space, 900 parking spaces, electric vehicle charging stations and fiber optic connectivity. The design-build team includes architect Goettsch Partners and general contractor JE Dunn. Goldman Sachs provided an undisclosed amount of construction for the project. Convexity has tapped Frank Thomasson and Byran Fort of CBRE to lease 5 City Blvd, which is set for a fourth-quarter 2024 delivery.