LEVITTOWN, N.Y. — The Feil Organization has signed a quartet of new leases totaling approximately 12,000 square feet at 3601 Hempstead Turnpike, a, 95,450-square-foot office building in the Long Island hamlet of Levittown. The property was built in 1970 and renovated in 2008-2009. Timothy Parlante of The Feil Organization represented the landlord in the lease negotiations. The new tenants include private equity firm Phoenix Capital Partners, which inked a deal for 1,900 square feet, and Independent Physical Exam Referrals, which agreed to lease 2,892 square feet. In addition, City Property USA NY signed a lease for 5,829 square feet. Move-ins will occur later this year.
DURHAM, N.C. — Crescent Communities has acquired SouthCourt, a 133,368-square-foot, Class A office property in Durham. John Mikels, Daniel Flynn, Ryan Clutter and Chris Lingerfelt of JLL Capital Markets represented the undisclosed seller. The sales price was also not disclosed. Built in 1998, the six-story SouthCourt office property was 75.4 percent leased at the time of sale to a variety of tenants, including publicly traded international firms, expanding regional companies and local businesses in the healthcare, financial services, life sciences and legal industries. Located at 3211 Shannon Road, SouthCourt is situated 4.1 miles from downtown Durham and 7.6 miles from Chapel Hill. In addition, SouthCourt is close to Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Research Triangle Park, as well as the Interstate 40.
DALLAS — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of a portfolio of 80 office and light industrial buildings totaling approximately 2.3 million square feet that are located across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. About 75 percent, or 61 of the buildings totaling 1.7 million square feet, are light industrial facilities, and the remainder are office assets. Jud Clements, Robby Rieke, Taylor Starnes and Macki McKim of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, locally based investment firm Momentum Commercial Realty, in the transaction. California-based CIP Real Estate purchased the portfolio for an undisclosed price.
DALLAS — A partnership between Dallas-based investment firm OliveMill Holdings, Hunt Realty Investments and New York City-based Angelo Gordon has acquired a 240,000-square-foot office building in North Dallas. The 18-story building at 2801 N. Central Expressway was constructed in 2015 as a build-to-suit for advertising agency The Richards Group, which still occupies the building. OliveMill will oversee management of the building. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. Jim Curtin, Kris Lowe, Rex Cruz and Ryan Pollack of JLL arranged an undisclosed amount of floating-rate acquisition financing on behalf of the partnership through a fund managed by AllianceBernstein.
LAS VEGAS — Beverly Hills, Calif.-based 3D Investments has purchased Tivoli Village, an open-air, mixed-use property located at 400 S. Rampart Blvd. in Las Vegas. Property and Building Corp. and IDB Group USA sold the asset for $216 million. Built in 2009 and 2016, Tivoli Village features 669,406 square feet of Class A office, retail and restaurant space across 28 acres. Additionally, the property includes an 8.3-acre development parcel entitled for more than 300 residential units. Marlene Fujita Winkel of Cushman & Wakefield’s Las Vegas office represented the seller in the deal. Dave Alleman of Marquis Aurbach Coffing served as counsel for the seller.
DENVER — JLL Capital Markets has arranged $54.3 million in financing for Civica Cherry Creek, an office property in Denver. Located at 250 Fillmore St., the 116,187-square-foot building features floor-to-ceiling glass, a great room with fireside lounge, private wine cellar, secure bike storage, rooftop terrace, building concierge and underground executive parking. The LEED Silver-certified property was built in 2018. Eric Tupler and Leon McBroom of JLL Capital Markets secured the five-year, floating-rate loan with a national bank on behalf of the borrower, a MetLife Investment Management-managed entity.
NEW YORK CITY — Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) has signed a 240,000-square-foot office lease to occupy the top eight floors at 5 Times Square in Midtown Manhattan. The California-based streaming services provider will backfill space previously occupied by Ernst & Young as part of its relocation from a 70,000-square-foot space at 114 West 41st Street. The move-in is slated for the fourth quarter. Bob Alexander, Ryan Alexander, Mike Affronti, Alex Benisatto, Taylor Callaghan and Nicole Marshall of CBRE represented the landlord, RXR Realty, in the lease negotiations along with internal agents Dan Birney and Alexandra Budd. Sacha Zarba and Frederick Fackelmayer of CBRE represented Roku.
SOMERSET, N.J. — CBRE has brokered the $30.7 million sale of a 15-acre site in Somerset, located in the northern-central part of the Garden State, that currently houses a 209,000-square-foot office building. The undisclosed buyer plans to redevelop the property, which was built in 1986, into a warehouse and distribution center. Mark Silverman, Elli Klapper, Charles Berger, Jeremy Wernick and Kevin Dudley of CBRE represented the buyer in the transaction. The seller was also not disclosed.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Newmark has arranged the $815 million sale of Charles Park, a two-building office complex and parking garage in Cambridge. The Davis Cos. and Principal Real Estate Investors sold the asset to an affiliate of Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. (NYSE: ARE). Charles Park spans 408,259 square feet and consists of two Class A office buildings, One Rogers Street and One Charles Park. The property also includes a 656-space, seven-level parking garage. Alexandria plans to redevelop the two buildings into life sciences space, but further details of that project were not provided. Situated near Charles Park is the nearly 1 million-square-foot CambridgeSide complex, which is undergoing a residential and retail development. Charles Park is also located near two Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) subway stations, the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the new Cambridge Crossing mixed-use development and Massachusetts General Hospital. “Charles Park is well positioned along Kendall Square’s rapidly expanding First Street corridor with immediately recognizable architecture highlighted by its distinctive horseshoe-shaped façade,” says Edward Maher, vice chairman with Newmark. “The asset is further surrounded by an unmatched laboratory and technology mecca in the life sciences epicenter of the world.” Maher, along with Robert Griffin, …
By Wes Drown, Broker Associate, REMAX Commercial The Las Vegas Valley continues to see growth in the demand, velocity, rates and a decline in incentives as Vegas bounces back. This is led by the return of our entertainment industries, which are almost to pre-COVID levels, in addition to the massive demand for housing and commercial construction. All you have to do is take a drive around the 215-Beltway to see that activity is everywhere. The news-grabbing projects that are seemingly announced weekly are once again turning heads. They’re attracting young college graduates and stimulating the needs for goods and services, almost to a pre-COVID level. Office construction is underway in earnest, with expansion in Summerlin, the SW “Curve” and West Henderson. High- and mid-rise office with parking structures are being leased up in the Westside areas, with predominantly single-story popping up in Henderson. Rates for suburban office products are pushing over $2.10 per square foot, per month, including operating costs. The spread between asking price and closed deals is shrinking significantly. Incentives are back to “normal” with landlords offering new carpet and paint, or maybe a partial month early occupancy rather than the free rent or step-up rents we’ve seen in the past. …