NEW YORK CITY — MGM Studios has signed a 50,462-square-foot office lease at 260 Madison Avenue, a 570,000-square-foot building in Midtown Manhattan. Peter Turchin, Gregg Rothkin, Tim Freydberg, Hayden Pascal and Jared London of CBRE represented the landlord, The Sapir Organization, in the lease negotiations. The representative of the tenant was not disclosed.
SANTA CLARITA, CALIF. — Spectrum Commercial Real Estate has negotiated the off-market acquisition of an office property located at 25101 The Old Road in Santa Clarita. 360 Executive Suites SCV purchased the asset from an undisclosed seller for $7.1 million. The two-story building features 23,388 square feet of office space and comprises 90 private offices. Matt Sreden of Spectrum CRE represented the buyer in the deal.
MCKINNEY, TEXAS — Avison Young has arranged the sale of a 48,304-square-foot office building located in the northern Dallas suburb of McKinney. The property was built on 2.7 acres in 2006 and includes 152 surface parking spaces. Susan Gwin Burks, Bruce Butler, John Bowles and Philip Boren of Avison Young represented the seller, Dallas-based PAR Capital, in the transaction. Bill Cox of Carey Cox Co. represented the undisclosed, locally based buyer. The building was roughly 95 percent leased at the time of sale.
MIAMI — Law firm Bilzin Sumberg has renewed its office lease at 1450 Brickell office tower in Miami’s Brickell district. Barbara Black, Matthew Goodman and Jeff Gordon of JLL represented Bilzin Sumberg. The firm occupies 84,000 square feet of space at the 625,000-square-foot tower. Tere Blanca and Danet Linares of Blanca Commercial Real Estate represented the building owner, an entity doing business as 1450 Brickell LLC.
NEW YORK CITY — JLL has arranged the $252 million sale of the former AIG global headquarters to 99c LLC, a real estate firm specializing in adaptive reuse development in urban markets. The 31-story property is located at 175 Water St. in Lower Manhattan’s Seaport submarket and comprises 684,500 square feet of rentable space. Vanbarton Group was the seller. The purchase represents 99c’s entry into the New York market following a focus on London, where it acquired millions of square feet of commercial office space. The firm is currently one year into a four-year plan to do the same in New York. 175 Water St. features 12-foot ceilings, 24,000-square-foot floor plates, center-core configuration and an efficient design. The building’s flexibility also includes an unused ground floor, which is being primed for a reimagined lobby along with two usable rooftop terraces with amenities. The building is completely vacant, following AIG’s move to a new location in 2021. Andrew Scandalios, David Giancola, Vickram Jambu, Marion Jones, Steven Rutman and Alexander Riguardi led JLL’s capital markets investment sales advisory team representing the seller. “175 Water St. received a generous amount of investor interest given the nature of the building, which provided a blank canvas …
LONE TREE, COLO. — HR Assets has acquired Park Meadows Medical Center, a multi-tenant medical office property located at 9218 Kimmer Drive in Lone Tree. Park Meadows Medical LLC sold the asset for $14.8 million in an off-market transaction. The three-story, 34,685-square-foot building offers medical office space and a surgery center. At the time of sale, the property was 100 percent occupied. William Lucas, Stuart Thomas and Doug Wulf of Cushman & Wakefield’s Denver office represented the seller in the transaction.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — A partnership between Stream Realty Partners and Charlotte-based investment firm Barings will develop 1400 East, a six-story office building in East Austin. The square footage of the project is still being determined. Amenities will include private patios on each floor, a ground-floor paseo and onsite restaurant space, as well as a fitness center and bike valet services. HKS is the project architect. Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2023 and to be complete in late 2024.
Marcus & Millichap Arranges $6.2M Sale of Rasmussen University-Occupied Property in Suburban Chicago
ROMEOVILLE, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a 25,000-square-foot property occupied by Rasmussen University in the Chicago suburb of Romeoville for $6.2 million. The net-leased asset at 1400 W. Normantown Road was constructed as a build-to-suit for the university in 2009. Peter Doughty and Brent Holder of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a California-based private investor that had purchased the property through a 1031 exchange. The duo also represented the buyer, a New York-based private investor. American Public Education acquired Rasmussen University in 2021.
CHICAGO — Tradewater has signed a 3,565-square-foot office lease at the historic Auxiliary Building in Chicago’s West Fulton Market. The 90,000-square-foot building is located at 1550 W. Carroll Ave. Formerly an industrial building that served as the main factory for H.C. Evans & Co., the 100-year-old property was recently converted into office space. H.C. Evans & Co. was a manufacturer of casino equipment, pinball machines and jukeboxes. Tradewater works to prevent the emission of greenhouse gases. Zach Pruitt and Nicholas Schaefer of Cawley Chicago represented the private landlord. Dan Arends of Colliers represented the tenant.
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — JLL has negotiated the sale of Parkwood II, a five-story, 101,056-square-foot office building located north of Houston in The Woodlands. Kevin McConn led the JLL team that represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. Bryant Lach and Jeff Horton, also with JLL, represented the buyer, The Woodlands Financial Group, which plans to renovate the building to serve as its new headquarters.