WESTBOROUGH, MASS. — KPM Analytics America, a Massachusetts-based manufacturer of agricultural instruments, has signed a 29,402-square-foot office lease at 8 Technology Drive in Westborough, about 35 miles west of Boston. Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, Feris Development Group, in the lease negotiations. John Eysenbach of R.W. Holmes Realty represented the tenant.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — 3650 REIT has provided a $68.5 million loan to refinance Patewood Corporate Center, a six-building, 447,000-square-foot office park located at 10-80 Patewood Drive in Greenville. Joe Hercenberg of Walker & Dunlop arranged the seven-year, fixed-rate loan through JFR Global Investments. The financing brings 3650 REIT to approximately $301.7 million in capital deployed in 2021 year-to-date. Built in 1985 and renovated in 2015, Patewood Corporate Center offers space at a discount to buildings located in Greenville’s urban core. The center is the closest suburban office park to downtown Greenville and is close Interstates 385 and 85, as well as Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport. The tenants are mostly engineering companies, including Raytheon Technologies and Day & Zimmermann. 3650 REIT is a Miami-based commercial real estate lender originating and servicing portfolio loans for relationship borrowers. The company has recently provided a $68 million loan to fund the acquisition of PetSmart Headquarters, which is a three-building, approximately 365,000-square-foot office complex located in Phoenix.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — USAA will open a new 90,000-square-foot office in Charlotte later this year. The San Antonio- based financial services company entered into a lease agreement with the undisclosed landlord to occupy space within The Square at South End, a 10-story office building located at 200 W. Boulevard. The new location was selected because of the area’s highly skilled individuals in the financial services sector. USAA already has a number of employees living in the Charlotte area. The new office location will eventually host approximately 750 employees who will work either onsite or in a hybrid model. USAA will lease six floors of the 153,000-square-foot building. Employees are expected to begin moving into the building by the end of 2021.
SAN MATEO, CALIF. — Mesa West Capital has provided Longfellow Real Estate Partners with a $178 million first mortgage loan to recapitalize costs associated with its recent acquisition and fund the planned repositioning of the San Mateo Bay Center office campus in San Mateo. A portion of the proceeds from the five-year, floating-rate loan will be used to convert the 235,911-square-foot conventional office property into a life sciences and laboratory facility. Developed in 1984, San Mateo Bay Center features two seven-story office towers located at 901 and 951 Mariner’s Island Blvd. Campus amenities include showers, a fitness center, café and outdoor patio space. The campus is located in the mid-peninsula Foster City/San Mateo life sciences market with an inventory of nearly 2 million square feet of life sciences space, anchored by the 1.4 million-square-foot world headquarters campus for Gilead Sciences. Ramsey Daya of Newmark Knight Frank arranged the financing. Mark Osher of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher LLP represented Mesa West Capital in the deal.
LAS VEGAS — CBRE has brokered the sale of a single-tenant office building located at 7408 W. Sahara Ave. in Las Vegas. A private investor acquired the property for $2.6 million. Bertoldo, Baker, Carter & Smith Attorneys at Law occupy the free-standing, 11,604-square-foot building under a triple-net lease. Tyler Ecklund, James Griffis, Britney Arredondo and Randy Broadhead of CBRE represented the undisclosed seller in the deal.
HERNDON, VA. — JLL Capital Markets has brokered the $113.5 million sale of Dulles Executive Plaza in Northern Virginia’s Herndon. The two-building, Class A office complex totals 384,336 square feet. Dulles Executive Plaza is located at 13530 and 13560 Dulles Technology Drive. The Innovation Center Silver Line Metro Rail Station, scheduled to open later this year, will connect the property to the broader Washington, D.C. region. Built from 2000 to 2001 and renovated in 2019, the office complex features amenities such as a conference center, fitness facility, tenant lounge and food service. The property is 94 percent leased to tenants such as Lockheed Martin and Constellis. Matt Nicholson, Jim Meisel, Andrew Weir and Dave Baker of JLL represented the seller, a partnership between affiliates of Lionstone Investments and funds advised by Columbia Real Estate Management, which is a subsidiary of Columbia Property Trust. The team also procured the buyer, Innovatus Capital Partners LLC. Paul Spellman, Rob Carey and Susan Carras of JLL secured an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing on behalf of Innovatus. New York City-based Innovatus is an independent advisor and portfolio management firm with approximately $1.5 billion in assets under management. — Kristin Hiller
NEW YORK CITY — San Francisco-based developer DivcoWest has acquired a 220,000-square-foot building at 325 Hudson St. in Lower Manhattan that can support office, data center and life sciences users. According to multiple news outlets, including the New York Business Journal, the sales price was $135 million. The property is located adjacent to Disney’s 1.2 million-square-foot headquarters building and is surrounded on three sides by Google’s campus. Building amenities include a conference center, tenant meeting rooms and storage space. The seller was not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based brokerage firm Norman Bobrow & Co. has negotiated a 9,200-square-foot office lease at 40 Wall Street in Manhattan’s Financial District for law firm KI Legal. Josh Berger of Norman Bobrow represented the law firm, which specializes in business litigation, in the negotiations for the 10-year lease. The deal represents an expansion from the firm’s previous 4,000-square-foot space at 90 Broad Street. The Trump Organization owns 40 Wall Street.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A fund sponsored by CBRE Global Investors has acquired the South End Collection, a recently renovated office and retail portfolio in Charlotte totaling 110,000 square feet. Charlotte-based Asana Partners sold the portfolio for an undisclosed amount. The South End Collection is located in Charlotte’s South End neighborhood and features three creative office and retail properties that are all 100 percent leased. One of the properties is a 37,351-square-foot, single-story building located at 2116 Hawkins St. The property is fully leased to Krispy Kreme, which occupies 31,176 square feet of creative office space for its corporate operations and a 6,175-square-foot Krispy Kreme restaurant. The second property, located at 222 Rampart St., is a 24,210-square-foot, single-story creative office building. The building is fully leased to Skiptown, a dog daycare, boarding and bar facility. Lastly, 307 West Tremont Ave. is a single-story, 47,533-square-foot property occupied by Spaces and Pins Mechanical Co. Spaces is a flexible workspace offering from parent company Regus that occupies 27,400 square feet. Occupying 20,133 square feet of retail space, Pins Mechanical is an entertainment venue offering activities like duckpin bowling, bocce ball and ping pong. The South End Collection sits on a 6.5-acre site close to …
BOCA RATON, FLA. — JLL Capital Markets has secured financing for Glades Twin Plaza, a two-building office complex totaling 97,815 square feet in Boca Raton. Chris Drew, Brian Gaswirth, Michael DiCosimo and Reid Carleton of JLL worked on behalf of the borrower, Sterling Organization, to secure the five-year, fixed-rate loan. The non-recourse financing includes initial and future funding totaling $19.4 million. Glades Twin Plaza is situated on 5.3 acres at 2300 Glades Road. The property is part of the larger Glades Plaza mixed-use development, which is also owned by Sterling Organization. Glades Twin Plaza is close to Interstate 95 and is less than three miles away from the Florida Turnpike.