MANCHESTER, CONN. — Colliers has brokered the sale-leaseback of a 21,940-square-foot office building located at 160 Chapel Road in Manchester, an eastern suburb of Hartford. The property traded for $1.4 million. Bob Pagani and Christian Dietz of Colliers represented the seller, MMNT Certified Public Accountants, in the transaction. Nick Morizio of Colliers represented the buyer, private investor Dan Sullivan.
MARLBORO, N.J. — Locally based firm Private Lender Law has acquired a 20,000-square-foot office building in the Northern New Jersey community of Marlboro with plans to relocate from nearby Freehold. The firm will occupy approximately half of the two-story building, which was constructed in 1988 and previously housed the Marlboro Medical Annex. The relocation will begin in December. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — CBRE has negotiated five office leases totaling 17,687 square feet at 424 Madison Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. The new tenants are Japanese Medical Care, Alignage Fertility, Vaerstandig & Sons, Yehuda Diamond Co. and JKB2 Medical Management. Paul Walker and Jordan Donohue represented the landlord, BLDG Management, in the lease negotiations. The tenant representatives were not disclosed.
CHICAGO — JLL Capital Markets has brokered the $19.2 million sale of 65 East Wacker Place, a 222,728-square-foot office and retail building in Chicago. The buyer, Intersection Realty Group, plans to convert a portion of the property into apartment units. Constructed in 1928, the 24-story building is recognized by the National Register of Historic Places and is currently 46 percent leased. Morton’s Steakhouse occupies floors one and two of the building. Sam DiFrancesca, Patrick Shields, Jaime Fink and Bruce Miller of JLL represented the seller, a New York-based investment firm. The team also procured the buyer.
TEMPE, ARIZ. — BH Properties has completed the disposition of Tempe Commerce Center, a flex office property in Tempe. JLNI LLC, a company formed by a private individual based in San Diego, purchased the asset for $14.1 million, or $215 per square foot. Located at 6420 S. Kyrene Road, Tempe Commerce Center offers 65,857 square feet of flex office space. At the time of sale, the building was 53 percent leased to a mix of commercial users. Situated on more than 5.5 acres, the property features a 5/1,000 parking ratio, 24-foot clear heights and floor-to-ceiling reflective windows in the main entry with reflective glass entries wrapping around the building. Eric Wichterman, Mike Coover, Tracy Cartledge and Bob Buckley of Cushman & Wakefield’s private capital and capital markets teams in Phoenix represented the seller in the transaction.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Avison Young has arranged a $139 million loan for the construction of 1000 Social, a 12-story trophy office building in Raleigh. The 350,000-square-foot project represents the first phase of vertical construction at The Exchange Raleigh, a $1 billion, 40-acre mixed-use development that will feature nearly 1 million square feet of trophy office space, a park, apartments, stores and restaurants upon full buildout. Wes Boatwright, Michael Yavinsky, Jon Goldstein and Connor Burke of Avison Young’s Structured Finance Group arranged the financing on behalf of the developer, Dewitt Carolinas. The direct lender was not disclosed. The groundbreaking for 1000 Social took place last month, with construction expected to be completed in about 18 months. The new landmark tower will offer 20,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space, outdoor patios, individual bathroom pods on every floor, event center and a parking structure with over 1,500 spaces.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP has signed a 21,065-square-foot office lease at 1601 K St. in Washington, D.C. The firm will occupy the entire third floor of the 11-story office building. The D.C. space will serve as the second domestic location for the law firm, which has offices in New York and London. Kyle Luby, Andy Eichberg and Matt Pacinelli of Stream Realty Partners represented the unnamed landlord in the transaction. Lou Christopher, Asher Inman, Jordan Brainard O’Neil, Lewis Miller, Andrew Sussman and Munish Viralam of CBRE represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Stream also provides property management and construction management services for building ownership, which plans to debut two new speculative suites next year.
IRVING, TEXAS — Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) will open a 22-acre campus in Irving, a move that is expected to add about 650 new jobs and $455 million in total capital investment to the local economy. The San Francisco-based banking giant’s build-to-suit campus will comprise two 10-story, 400,000-square-foot buildings and a connecting parking garage, as well as various open green spaces. According to The Dallas Morning News, Wells Fargo expects to eventually employ about 3,000 people at the campus. A construction timeline was not disclosed. Mirasol Capital sold the land on which the campus will be developed.
BOCA RATON, FLA. — Colliers has brokered the $51 million sale of South City Plaza, a four-story, 179,837-square-foot office building located at 1515 S. Federal Highway in Boca Raton. Mark Rubin, Bastian Laggerbauer and Jake Stauber of the Colliers South Florida Investment Services team represented the seller, locally based Penn-Florida Cos., in the transaction. Maria Gomez of Powerful Real Estate represented the buyer, New York-based Renaissance Properties. The property is situated near another Penn-Florida project, Via Mizner, a $1.2 billion mixed-use development that features a Mandarin Oriental Hotel, luxury apartments, private condominium homes, retail space and a golf course spanning three towers that are all connected by a sky bridge.
KANNAPOLIS, N.C. — Insite Properties and partner BentallGreenOak have acquired a 60,000-square-foot medical office building located at 201 Dale Earnhardt Blvd. in downtown Kannapolis, a suburb of Charlotte. The multi-tenant property was 65 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Atrium Health and Duke University. Charlotte-based Insite Properties will be providing property management and leasing services for the property. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. Built in 2013, the three-story medical office building is located within the North Carolina Research Campus, a 350-acre medical research center that houses departments from eight universities including Duke and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the David H. Murdock Research Institute, private companies and entrepreneurs that all focus on research-and-development for food and nutritional science.