CHICAGO — CBRE has negotiated six leases totaling 54,183 square feet at 609 W. Randolph St., a speculative office building that was completed in March in Chicago’s West Loop. The property is now 63 percent leased. A national technology company leased 21,339 square feet. The other lease signings included New Markets Trading, NTT DATA, Global Real Estate Fund, Confidential Financial Services and Valenti Builders. Jason Houze of CBRE represented ownership, Vista Property.
LAS VEGAS — Nashville, Tenn.-based Patriot Real Estate Holdings has purchased Marnell Corporate Center V (MCC5), a five-story, Class A office building within Marnell Corporate Center in Las Vegas. The name of the seller and acquisition price were not released. Located at 6720 Via Austi Parkway, the asset features 110,974 square feet of multi-tenant office space. The building was constructed in 2007. Patriot Real Estate acquired MCC3, a 71,378-square-foot office building, and MCC4, a 93,702-square-foot office building, from Dornin Investment Group in summer 2022 and spring 2018, respectively. The Marnell Corporate Center is a seven-building, 736,000-square-foot, Class A, master-planned business campus. Marlene Fujita Winkel, Rick Reeder, Brad Tecca, Emily Brun and Alex Casingal of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Highland Ventures has purchased 174 Meeting, a 47,113-square-foot boutique office building in historic downtown Charleston. Cobalt Property Group sold the property to Highland for $16.8 million. Matt Smith, Patrick Gildea, Grayson Hawkins, Robert Hardaway, Charles Carmody and Ryan Carmody of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction. Insite Properties advised Highland Ventures. Built in 2014 near the intersection of Meeting and Market streets, 174 Meeting was fully leased at the time of sale to tenants including Truist Bank, Thrive Co-Working, Stifel Financial Corp. and Evening Post Industries. The property features three levels of office space above a ground-level bank, lobby and parking.
CHICAGO — Skender has broken ground on a 37,000-square-foot expansion of the Greater Chicago Food Depository. The food bank on Chicago’s Southwest Side provides food for families and individuals at risk of food insecurity. The new structure at 4100 W. Ann Lurie Place will add onto the food bank’s existing two-story warehouse and office. Plans call for a commercial kitchen for meal preparation and packaging as well as a demonstration kitchen for nutrition education. The Greater Chicago Food Depository aims to produce and distribute 2.5 million prepared meals annually to community members. Completion is slated for early 2024. Partners by Design is the project architect. This latest expansion as well as renovations that were completed in 2019 are phases of the Nourish Project, which was driven by a $75 million capital campaign.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — JLL has arranged a $39.7 million loan for the refinancing of Bridgepoint Plaza, a 178,061-square-foot office complex in North Austin. The property comprises two buildings on an 8.8-acre site. The amenity package consists of a fitness center, basketball court, pickleball court, outdoor seating and dining areas, a conference facility and structured parking for 580 vehicles. Wally Reid and Jayme Nelson of JLL arranged the loan through Argentic on behalf of the borrower, Spire Real Estate Partners. Bridgepoint Plaza was 78 percent leased at the time of the loan closing.
PHOENIX — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of a single-tenant office building in Phoenix’s Camelback Corridor. McCarthy/MRL Properties Arizona sold the asset to a joint venture between Crowne Point Equity, Corsair Management and A-1 Legacy Properties for $14.5 million. Located at 6225 N. 24th St., McCarthy Building Cos. fully occupies the three-story, 41,982-square-foot building. The property features a shaded garden-level patio with picnic tables; outdoor cooking and seating; multiple conference, break and recreation/game rooms; and a fully equipped kitchen. Eric Wichterman and Mike Coover of Cushman & Wakefield’s private capital team, in collaboration with Mark Seale of Avison Young, represented the seller in the transaction.
ENGLEWOOD, COLO. — CBRE has arranged the sale of Inverness Business Park at 35 Inverness Drive East in Englewood, a southeast suburb of Denver. Terms of the transaction were not released. Teledyne Technologies, a manufacturer of air quality monitoring instrumentation and software, fully leases the 65,000-square-foot property, which it has occupied since 2004. Built in 1980, the multi-use building has a single-story warehouse and a two-story office space. The warehouse space includes a loading dock with five overhead rolling doors. The property also features a tenant cafeteria area and outdoor patio space. Patrick Devereaux, James Brady and Campbell Davis of CBRE represented the undisclosed seller in the deal. The name of the buyer was not released.
By Chip Colvill, executive vice president, Cushman & Wakefield Like many U.S. cities in the post-pandemic world, Houston’s office sector faces a long road to recovery. Historically, office demand follows office job creation — and job growth has been a bright spot of the Houston economy in 2022. Unfortunately, the U.S. economy seems to be slowing, and the outlook remains highly uncertain. Odds of a recession have risen; inflation and wage pressures remain elevated, and higher interest rates are impacting various parts of the economy, including commercial real estate. Throughout the United States as well as in Houston, the correlation between job growth and office demand is tenuous, given that many businesses are still recalibrating workplace strategies to allow remote and hybrid work schedules. However, new jobs — even more flexible, hybrid jobs — will necessitate various types of workspaces, including demand for office and flexible office space. Newer office buildings across Houston have thrived despite the market’s elevated Class A vacancy rate of approximately 26 percent. Each new quarter of data continues to confirm the flight-to-quality trend and the existence of a bifurcated office sector between older and newer office product. Higher-quality and newer office space is dominating as …
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Ram Realty Advisors has purchased South End Business Park, a 377,000-sqaure-foot office park located in Charlotte’s South End district. Patrick Nally, Hunter Barron and Alexis Kaiser of JLL arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, Stockbridge. Built in phases from 1979 to 1984, the property was expanded in 2017 with the addition of a new, 50,000-square-foot building. Ram Realty plans to redevelop the business park but did not disclose a timeline.
NEW ALBANY, OHIO — Tempus Realty Partners has acquired Lane Bryant’s headquarters campus in New Albany, a northeast suburb of Columbus. The purchase price was $42 million. The two-building office property spans 236,070 square feet. Amenities include an onsite café, fitness center, water feature, walking trail and green space. Lane Bryant, a plus-size women’s apparel retailer with 450 stores nationwide, will remain a tenant at the property for at least the next 20 years. The transaction marks the sixth acquisition in the Columbus-area market for Tempus, which focuses on the South and Midwest markets.
