PORTLAND, MAINE — Stan Johnson Co. has brokered the $11.8 million sale of an 80,683-square-foot office building in Portland. The three-story property was originally built on 18.3 acres in 1974 and was leased to a single tenant, Consolidated Communications, at the time of sale. Chris Adams and Jim Gibson of Stan Johnson Co. represented the seller, Vermont-based developer Pizzagalli Properties, in the transaction. Josh Soley of Maine Realty Advisors represented the buyer, an undisclosed investor based in California.
ABS National Business Parks Purchases Gardens Plaza Mixed-Use Property in West Palm Beach for $30.6M
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — ABS National Business Parks has purchased Gardens Plaza, a mixed-use campus in West Palm Beach that comprises of a nine-story office tower, two-story medical office building and a development pad. The locally based developer, Stiles, sold the property for $30.5 million. Gardens Plaza is located on the south side of PGA Boulevard, adjacent to Gardens Mall and less than one mile east of Interstate 95. The property was 85 percent leased at the time of sale to a variety of corporate tenants. The tower spans 86,542 rentable square feet, and the medical office building spans 5,627 square feet and has been occupied by Jupiter Medical since 2016. Christian Lee, José Lobón, Kevin Probel and Kevin McCarthy of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction. Brian Warwick with ABS Altman Warwick LLC worked alongside Amy Julian with CBRE’s Debt & Structured Finance division to secure a 10-year, fixed-rate acquisition loan through JPMorgan. ABS National Business Parks is a New York-based, privately held owner and operator. The company plans to modernize Gardens Plaza, including upgrading to a high-level HEPA air filtration system and updating the building’s four elevators.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. — Limestone Asset Management, via a joint venture with its parent company Orion Real Estate Group, has sold a 23,031-square-foot retail and office center in the Tampa Bay area for $5.3 million. Located at 1914 4th St. N in St. Petersburg, the property was 100 percent leased at the time of sale to six tenants, including Outback Steakhouse and Panera Bread. Ben Mallah of Equity Management Partners Inc. purchased the property in a 1031 exchange. Mark Shellabarger and Ari Ravi of CBRE represented Limestone and Orion, both real estate investment firms based in Miami, in the transaction. Limestone Asset Management originally purchased the property in June 2016 for $2.9 million.
DOWNERS GROVE, ILL. — Professional Wealth Advisors (PWA) has signed a 23,000-square-foot office lease renewal and expansion at 2655 Warrenville Road in Downers Grove. The lease comprises a 12,000-square-foot renewal and an 11,000-square-foot expansion. Transwestern Investment owns and manages the building. PWA was founded in 2015 and recently merged with HighPoint Planning Partners. Joel Berger of Bradford Allen represented PWA in the lease transaction.
LAS VEGAS — Barker Pacific Group, in a joint venture with Positive investment Group, has purchased Bank of America Tower, an office complex located at 300 S. 4th St. in Las Vegas. The acquisition marks Barker Pacific’s entry into the Las Vegas market. The joint venture will rebrand the 274,565-square-foot building as Tower 300 and implement an upgrade program to the common areas. Terms of the acquisition were not released. Mike Tabeek, Larry Singer and Christopher Crooks of Newmark will handle leasing for the building.
YONKERS, N.Y. — CBRE has negotiated the $37 million sale of 3 Executive Boulevard and 3 Odell Plaza, two office buildings totaling 130,607 square feet in Yonkers, located north of New York City. Both assets are leased on a long-term basis to a single tenant, Montefiore Health System. Jeffrey Dunne, Steven Bardsley, David Gavin, Jeremy Neuer, Gene Pride and Stuart MacKenzie of CBRE represented the seller, an entity managed by Robert Martin Co., in the transaction. The team also procured the buyer, a joint venture between Benedict Realty Group and Harbor Group International.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Vantage Bank Texas has signed a 15,000-square-foot office lease to be the anchor tenant at Triune Centre, a 30,000-square-foot office development at 3400 West Freeway in Fort Worth. Cullen Donohue, Seth Koschak, Chris Doggett and Vic Meyer of Stream Realty Partners represented the landlord, a partnership between Cornerstone Projects Group and Trident Structures, in the lease negotiations. Theron Bryant of Transwestern represented Vantage Bank Texas. Construction of the building is set to begin this quarter and to be complete next summer.
NEW YORK CITY — Meridian Capital has arranged a $107.7 million senior loan for the refinancing of 55 Broadway, a 32-story office building in Manhattan’s Financial District. The 356,059-square-foot building was 89 percent leased at the time of the loan closing to tenants such as The Kingdom of Morocco, Bank of Communications, Syscom and Assurant Inc. As part of the recapitalization, the borrower, Harbor Group International, also received a future funding component of up to $8.4 million for leasing costs. In addition, an undisclosed capital source invested new equity in the property to retire Paramount Group Inc.’s preferred equity and to fund costs associated with significant recent leasing activity at the building. Ronnie Levine and Ben Jacobs of Meridian Capital Group arranged the financing through an undisclosed life insurance company.
NORWOOD, MASS. — Moderna Inc. will expand its Moderna Technology Center biomanufacturing campus in Norwood, a southern suburb of Boston, by about 350,000 square feet. The biotechnology and pharmaceutical giant plans to renovate and expand its existing production and lab space and has acquired a 240,000-square-foot building on the same campus, ultimately yielding a 50 percent expansion and a total footprint of 650,000 square feet. The expansion will support Moderna’s efforts to ramp up production of its COVID-19 vaccine in late 2021 and early 2022. Moderna originally opened this facility in 2018.
TEANECK, N.J. — Phibro Animal Health Corp. has signed a 49,577-square-foot office lease renewal at Glenpointe, a mixed-use development in the Northern New Jersey community of Teaneck that serves as the company’s global headquarters. Susan Mason and Tom Reilly of JLL represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. David Simson, Jeff Schotz, Peter Rossi, Dan Reider and Peter Kasparian of Newmark represented the landlord, Alfred Sanzari Enterprises. In addition to office uses, the Glenpointe campus houses three hotels totaling roughly 700 rooms, a 26,000-square-foot fitness center and multiple food and beverage options.