Office

CHICAGO — Skender has topped out construction of a 233,000-square-foot office and retail building in Chicago’s Fulton Market. Known as Three Four Five, the project rises 11 stories and is located at 345 N. Morgan St. Completion is slated for fall 2022. Amenities will include private outdoor terraces, a 5,000-square-foot roof deck, bar and lounge, fitness center, coworking library and high-tech conference spaces. Sterling Bay is the developer and owner. Eckenhoff Saunders Architects is the project architect.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

CHICAGO — LifeSpice Ingredients, a global research, developer and manufacturer of proprietary seasoning blends for the food industry, has signed a 16,995-square-foot office lease at 213 West Institute Place in Chicago’s River North neighborhood. KBS Growth & Income REIT owns the property, which rises seven stories and spans 155,385 square feet. Built in 1888, 213 West Institute Place was originally developed for a bicycle manufacturer that eventually became the car company American Motors Corp. KBS has made a number of improvements to the property’s common areas, including a 2,000-square-foot tenant lounge. Scott Sessa of Ameritus represented KBS in the lease transaction.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — PRP Real Estate Investment Management has acquired the global corporate headquarters of Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON) in Charlotte for $275 million. Lincoln Harris and Goldman Sachs Asset Management were the sellers. The property, which opened earlier this month, is dubbed the smartest building in the world given the advanced Honeywell technology implemented in the design, according to PRP. Located at 855 S. Mint St. in Charlotte’s central business district, the headquarters spans 373,921 square feet and rises 23 stories. The building is adjacent to Bank of America Stadium, home of the National Football League’s Carolina Panthers. The property is part of Legacy Union, a 10-acre mixed-use project developed by Lincoln Harris and Goldman Sachs that comprises two city blocks on the former site of The Charlotte Observer. The building design showcases proprietary Honeywell technology, supported by a unit within the company that develops building management solutions, including energy conservation, enhanced security systems, surveillance, health monitoring, air quality measuring and network-based infrastructure. The property can house up to 1,300 Honeywell employees. The building includes ground-floor retail space, terraces on the 22nd and 23rd floors and a podium parking garage with 814 spaces. “Infill trophy office properties like …

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

ORLANDO, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the $315 million sale of SouthPark Center, a 10-building suburban office park in Orlando totaling approximately 1.3 million square feet. PPF Real Estate, part of PPF Group, acquired the property. The property is located near John Young Parkway and Sand Lake Road. The property was sold for the highest amount ever for the office market in Orlando, according to the Orlando Business Journal. Mike Davis, Rick Colon, Rick Brugge, Dominic Montazemi, Zach Eicholtz, Brooke Tulley and Ryan Jenkins of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Boston-based AEW Capital Management, in the sales transaction. Additionally, Brian Linnihan, Jason Hochman, Mike Ryan and Ron Granite of Cushman & Wakefield arranged $233 million in acquisition financing on behalf of PPF Real Estate.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail
425-Park-Avenue-Manhattan

NEW YORK CITY — Locally based developer L&L Holding Co. has received $911.4 million in financing for 425 Park Avenue, a 47-story office building that is nearing completion in Midtown Manhattan. L&L Holding, which is developing the building in partnership with BentallGreenOak and Tokyu Land Corp., will use the proceeds to retire existing construction debt and fund the final stages of development, including lease-up costs. Global asset management firm Citadel has already committed to roughly half of the space as the 670,000-square-foot building’s anchor tenant. Additional tenants include Wafra Capital Partners, Hellman & Friedman and Medical Properties Trust. Michael Tepedino and Michael Gigliotti of JLL arranged the financing through a consortium of lenders led by Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

CHICAGO — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the $41.7 million sale of 1100 West Fulton, a 45,380-square-foot office property in Chicago’s Fulton Market. Fulton Street Cos. and Huizenga Capital Management completed development of the five-story building in 2020. Furniture company Herman Miller occupies space at the property on a long-term lease. Cody Hundertmark, David Knapp, Tom Sitz, Dan Deuter and Paul Lundstedt of Cushman & Wakefield represented the sellers. Zagame Corp. was the buyer. The transaction sets a new per-square-foot record for Chicago office investment sales, according to Cushman & Wakefield.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

SPRINGDALE, OHIO — Trez Capital has provided a $37.3 million construction loan for the conversion of two office buildings into multifamily space in Springdale, a northern suburb of Cincinnati. The borrower, Trinity Square Holdings LLC, plans to build 129 apartment units and 97 rental townhomes. The vacant office buildings were constructed in the early 1980s. Brett Forman and Scott Mehlman of Trez Capital originated the loan. The Warren County Port Authority is investing approximately $8 million in the project.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

BOSTON — Newmark has brokered the $5.6 million sale of a 9,947-square-foot office and retail building located at 50-52 Broad St. in Boston. The property was originally built in 1853 and is known as The Architectural Building. Robert Griffin, Michael Greeley Joseph, Alvarado, George Demoulas and Casey Valent of Newmark represented the seller in the transaction. Matthew George of Newmark procured the buyer. Both parties requested anonymity.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail
Fountain Square

NEW YORK CITY — American Finance Trust Inc. (NASDAQ: AFIN) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a portfolio of 81 retail centers from CIM Real Estate Finance Trust, a REIT managed by Los Angeles-based CIM Group. The transaction is valued at $1.32 billion. The 9.5 million-square-foot portfolio comprises power retail and grocery-anchored shopping centers, as well as two single-tenant properties. The weighted average lease term of the portfolio is five years, according to CIM. The names and locations of the retail properties were not disclosed. The transaction price comprises primarily cash considerations, as well as $53.4 million in AFIN’s stock and additional considerations based on performance metrics achieved in the first 180 days after closing. The transaction is scheduled to close in the first quarter of 2022. “This immediately accretive off-market transaction represents a unique value creation opportunity,” says Michael Weil, CEO of AFIN. “We are adding significant scale while further enhancing our best-in-class portfolio with pandemic-tested assets on accretive terms.” For CIM Real Estate Finance Trust, the sale repositions the REIT’s retail portfolio to 437 credit-leased retail properties with a weighted average lease term of 10.8 years. The remaining portfolio totals 13.2 million square feet across 45 …

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail
Kierland-Corporate-Center-Scottsdale-AZ

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — YMC Co. has acquired Kierland Corporate Center I in Scottsdale from Starwood Property Trust for $37.7 million. Erik Marsh of Kidder Mathews represented the buyer in the deal. Located at 7047 E. Greenway, the property features 109,811 square feet of Class A office space. The center is surrounded by a variety of amenities, including Kierland Commons, Scottsdale Quarter, Westin Kierland Resort and AC Hotel.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail