NEW YORK CITY — New York Life Insurance Co. has signed a 47,000-square-foot office sublease at One World Trade Center in Manhattan. The company is subleasing the entire 39th floor of the 104-story skyscraper for 10 years from Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. One World Trade Center was built in 2013 and offers amenities such as a café, conference center and a sky lounge. Peter Riguardi, Steven Rotter, Joseph Messina, Jessica Berkey, Brett Harvey and Andrew Coe of JLL represented Advance Magazine Publishers in the sublease negotiations. Matthew Astrachan, Nicole Tiger, George Gemelos and Kristen Morgan, also with JLL, represented New York Life. The Port Authority of New York/New Jersey owns the building in partnership with The Durst Organization, whose internal agent Eric Engelhardt also worked on the deal. New York Life plans to relocate from 120 Broadway to the new space in May 2023.
CHICAGO — Skender has completed construction of a new 200,000-square-foot office and retail building located at 345 N. Morgan St. in Chicago’s Fulton Market neighborhood. Sterling Bay was the developer. The building is 85 percent leased with tenants expected to start taking occupancy in March. The development features private outdoor terraces on each floor, a 5,000-square-foot roof deck, a bar and lounge, fitness center, coworking library and several conference spaces. Eckenhoff Saunders Architects was the project architect.
AUBURN HILLS, MICH. — L. Mason Capitani/CORFAC International has brokered the sale of two office buildings totaling 275,000 square feet in Auburn Hills for an undisclosed price. The properties, Cambridge Court I and II, are situated near I-75 and University Drive. Mason L. Capitani of the brokerage represented the buyer, LREH Michigan LLC. L. Mason Capitani/CORFAC will oversee leasing at the properties and its property management arm, Liberty Property & Asset Management, will take over all management responsibilities. The new ownership plans to immediately make renovations.
LONG BEACH, CALIF. — Newmark has arranged the sale of Airport Plaza, a two-building office park in Long Beach. WCCP Airport Plaza L.B. LLC sold the asset to LB5000 LLC for $30 million. Located at 5000 and 5001 Airport Plaza Drive, the project features 126,219 square feet of multi-tenant office space. At the time of sale, Airport Plaza was fully leased to 19 tenants, including Federal Aviation Administration, Advanced Medical Management and NACA Logistics. The property is situated on a 2.7-acre plot, which has a 46-year ground lease in place with the City of Long Beach. Kevin Shannon, Ken White and Scott Schumacher of Newmark represented the seller in the deal.
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, COLO. — Focus Property Group has completed the disposition of 5500 Greenwood, an office property in Greenwood Village. A private investor acquired the asset for $15.7 million. Located at 5500 Greenwood Plaza Blvd., the property offers 69,855 square feet of office space. Built in 1974, the two-story building is fully leased to seven tenants, including Galloway & Co. and Enterprise Coworking. The location features easy access to both Interstate 25 and C-470. Patrick Devereaux, James Brady, Campbell Davis and Chad Flynn of CBRE Capital Markets in Denver represented the seller in the transaction.
The Louisville office market is taking diverse paths forward following the pandemic. The suburban Class A market is thriving with new construction, rental rate growth and resiliency in the face of downsizing tenants and negative absorption. A flight to quality among tenants has benefited local developers such as NTS Development, which has been constructing first-class, next-generation buildings at ShelbyHurst Office Campus since 2012. NTS recently completed its fifth speculative office building at the project, 425 North Whittington, a four-story, 130,000-square-foot building that is 60 percent leased with strong leasing activity. The flight to quality is driving tenants to choose higher-quality buildings with more expensive rental rates to help attract and retain talent and cater to a hybrid workforce. Traditional downtown occupiers are also considering the suburbs for the first time to create a workplace that draws employees back to the office. Suburban vacancy rates have increased since the end of 2019, with the Class A rate increasing by 490 basis points to 13.5 percent and the Class B vacancy rate increasing by 440 basis points to 15.2 percent as of second-quarter 2022. The average asking rental rate for Class A suburban space rose during this period despite increased vacancy rates. …
LOS ANGELES — A joint venture between Lowe and Related Fund Management has completed the development of a nine-story office building in the Arts District of downtown Los Angeles. Located at 2130 Violet St., the building features four floors of office space atop 3,300 square feet of ground-floor retail space and four levels of parking. The 113,000-square-foot property offers open 14-foot-high floorplates, floor-to-ceiling glass, and efficient systems and solar panels allowing for reduced utility costs. Additionally, the asset includes balconies and terraces on every floor with ample space for open-air events and meetings, operable windows and balcony doorways allowing for increased outdoor air circulation, and an outdoor rooftop deck with skyline views. The building also features touchless systems and upgraded HVAC with high-capacity air filtration and outside air ventilation. Mike Condon Jr., Pete Collins, Brittany Winn, McKenna Gaskill and Scott Menkus of Cushman & Wakefield are leasing agents for the building.
ATLANTA — Barings plans to convert approximately 45,000 square feet of vacant office space at 3445 Peachtree in Atlanta’s Buckhead district to speculative suites. Spread across five spaces within the 14-story, 287,000-square-foot office building, these suites will range in size from 3,000 square feet to a full 23,000-square-foot floor. Furniture will be provided within some of these spaces and each spec suite will include exposed ceiling duct work and floor plans that invite collaboration. New tenants will also have access to several Class A amenities available to all 3445 Peachtree tenants. No construction timeline was disclosed. According to research from CBRE, metro Atlanta currently has 500,000 square feet of spec suites under construction, which represents about 28 percent of the market’s existing inventory of spec suite space (1.8 million square feet).
TAMPA, FLA. — CBRE has arranged the $14.5 million sale of Tampa Oaks II, a 104,080-square-foot office building located at 12906 Tampa Oaks Blvd. in Tampa. Dale Peterson, Joe Chick, Kristen McFarland Hagen, Courtney Snell and Nick Sharpe of CBRE represented the seller, TerraCap Management, in the transaction. Marc Magliarditi and Travis Landes of CBRE’s Las Vegas office represented the unnamed buyer. Constructed in 2008 by Opus South Corp., Tampa Oaks II’s major tenants include Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., Fieldstone A&E and Home Encounter LLC.
NEW YORK CITY — Japanese alcoholic beverage supplier Suntory has signed a 100,000-square-foot office headquarters lease at 11 Madison Avenue in Manhattan. About 150 employees will work in the full-floor space, which includes two bar areas, a tasting room, interactive conference room, a digital art exhibit and flexible workstations. David Kleinhandler, Joe Cybulski, James Whalen and Maura Flanagan of CBRE represented Suntory, which is relocating from Chicago, in the lease negotiations. Zach Freeman, David Kaufman and Neil Kessner represented the landlord, SL Green, on an internal basis.