KINGSPORT, TENN. — Cushman & Wakefield Commercial Advisors has brokered the sale of a three-property office portfolio in Kingsport, a city near the Tennessee-Virginia border. The properties — 4, 7 and 8 Sheridan Square — span 90,723 square feet combined and serve the Bristol-Johnson City-Kingsport region. Landon Williams and Katie Hargett of Cushman & Wakefield Commercial Advisors, along with Miguel Alcivar of Cushman & Wakefield, represented the seller, Raptor Realty Investments 7 LLC, in the transaction. Gary Heeseman of Franklin Street represented the buyer, a locally based investment group doing business as AG Commercial GP.
STAMFORD, CONN. — CBRE has brokered the sale of Stamford Towers, a 326,468-square-foot office complex in southern coastal Connecticut. Stamford Towers is a two-building, transit-served development that is home to tenants such as Citigroup, Gerald Metals, H/2 Capital, Oaktree and Legal & General. Jeff Dunne, Steve Bardsley, Travis Langer and David Block of CBRE represented the seller, CBRE Investment Management, in the transaction. The quartet also procured the buyer, a joint venture between Lamar Cos. and Real Capital Solutions.
WHIPPANY, N.J. — Boston-based development and investment firm Marcus Partners has broken ground on an office-to-industrial conversion project in Whippany, located in Northern New Jersey. The project will convert a 40,000-square-foot vacant office building that sits on a 6.6-acre site at 35 S. Jefferson Road into a 72,000-square-foot logistics facility with a clear height of 36 feet. Truist Bank is financing the project, which is expected to be complete in the third quarter of 2026. JLL arranged the construction debt.
NEW YORK CITY — Courier Health Inc. has signed a 15,038-square-foot office lease in Manhattan’s NoMad district. The locally based healthcare technology company will occupy the entire third floor of 135 Madison Avenue, a 175,200-square-foot building that was originally constructed in 1911. Max Koeppel of Koeppel Rosen represented the landlord in the lease negotiations on an internal basis. Jacob Wolkenfeld of Norman Bobrow & Co. represented Courier Health.
CARLSBAD, CALIF. — Pacific Development Partners has completed the sale of an 85,000-square-foot office building, located at 1265 Laurel Tree Lane in Carlsbad, to Sharp HealthCare for $31 million. Lars Eisenhauer and Dan Henry of CBRE, along with Greg Lewis and Steven Field of JLL, represented the seller, while Mike Labelle of Cushman & Wakefield represented the buyer in the transaction. Initially developed for the 24 Hour Fitness corporate headquarters, the three-story property features a ground-floor fitness facility and two floors of corporate office space. Sharp HealthCare plans to convert the top floor into a Sharp Rees-Stealy outpatient clinic with immediate occupancy and grow into the balance of the building over time. 24 Hour Fitness will continue to operate out of the first and second floors until the phased conversion is complete.
MINNEAPOLIS — Zimmerman Reed has signed a long-term renewal of its 15,179-square-foot lease at IDS Center, a Class A office building in downtown Minneapolis. Kevin Salmen and Danny Callahan of Transwestern Real Estate Services represented the law firm, which has been headquartered at IDS Center since 2011. The firm plans a full-scale renovation of its space. Jon Dahl of JLL represented the landlord, Accesso.
DETROIT — Bedrock has completed the 12-story office building at 1240 Woodward Ave. that is part of the Hudson’s Detroit development. Designed by SHoP Architects, the building adds more than 400,000 square feet of Class A office space, retail space, an event venue and a rooftop lounge on the 12th floor that will open in 2026. The project’s 56,000-square-foot event space, dubbed The Department at Hudson’s, opened earlier this year. Bedrock expects to open the 45-story tower component of Hudson’s Detroit in 2027. The 685-foot skyscraper, the second-tallest building in the state, will include dining space, The Detroit EDITION hotel and The Residences at The Detroit EDITION, rounding out the development’s total square footage to 1.5 million square feet. Hudson’s Detroit is the redevelopment of the former J.L. Hudson Department Store, which once stood as the tallest department store in the world, according to Bedrock. The store shuttered in 1983 and was imploded in 1998, according to Crain’s Detroit Business. Construction on Hudson’s Detroit began in December 2017. The development faced design changes, delays and project costs that ballooned to more than $1 billion. “Ten years in the making, Hudson’s Detroit is elevating downtown and creating space for the …
AURORA, ILL. — SVN Chicago Commercial’s Next Level Team, in collaboration with Capital Real Estate Partners, have brokered the sale of a 53,818-square-foot office building in Aurora. The property at 711 N. Commons Drive was sold vacant. Jennifer Hopkins and Olivia Czyzynski of SVN Chicago Commercial and Jay Scholten and Scott Fedyski of Capital Real Estate represented the seller, Liberty Commons NFP. Adam Johnson of NAI Hiffman represented the buyer. The asset garnered five qualified offers and went under contract within three months of hitting the market.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — CoCoTiv Coworking, a French-American cooperative workspace provider, has signed a 25,244-square-foot lease at Whitehall Corporate Center IV in Charlotte. Christianna Williams and Zach McLaren of Cresa represented CoCoTiv in the lease negotiations. This lease marks CoCoTiv’s second location in the Charlotte market. Built in 2007, Whitehall Corporate Center IV, a 210,000-square-foot office building owned by American Asset Corp., is situated within the 700-acre master-planned community of Whitehall. Whitehall Corporate Center features six office buildings, along with a technology park, corporate center, retail district, various residential communities and a nature preserve.
BOSTON — Global private equity firm KKR has signed a 15-year, 132,529-square-foot office lease at Two International Place in downtown Boston. International Place is a 1.8 million-square-foot complex that was built in phases between 1987 and 1992 and is currently in the midst of a $100 million renovation. JLL and Cushman & Wakefield co-represented KKR in the lease negotiations. Newmark represented the landlord, The Chiofaro Co., which owns International Place in partnership with PGIM.