CHICAGO — Full-service law firm Ice Miller LLP has signed a long-term lease extension and expansion at 200 West Madison in Chicago. The firm will increase its current 22,897-square-foot space to 36,112 square feet, remaining on the entire 35th floor and expanding to part of the 36th floor. Corey Siegrist, Bill Rogers and Brian Means of JLL represented Ice Miller in the lease negations. Jeff Dowdell and Eric Myers of Transwestern represented ownership, BentallGreenOak.
MIAMI — Shorenstein Properties, a privately owned investment firm with offices in New York City and San Francisco, has sold 2 & 3 MiamiCentral, a 320,000-square-foot office complex in the city’s downtown area. A fund backed by Blackstone purchased the property for $230 million. Constructed in 2018, the two-building complex is located within MiamiCentral, a transit-oriented, mixed-use development that spans nine acres and roughly 3 million square feet of residential and commercial space. The site’s history as a transit hub dates back to 1896, when it served as the southern terminus for Henry Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railway that ran throughout the Florida Keys. According to the Miami Herald, Florida East Coast was the original developer of the MiamiCentral project in 2007. The first office building rises 17 stories and includes a 288-space valet parking garage. The second building comprises four floors of office, eight levels of parking and a 33,000-square-foot Publix grocery store on the ground floor. Amenities include a conference room, caterer’s kitchen, fitness center with locker rooms and an outdoor amenity deck. In addition, the adjacent MiamiCentral train station houses an 18,000-square-foot food hall with more than 20 different food and beverage vendors. Blackstone is also a …
In addition to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Nashville weathered tornadoes that traveled through its core in the first quarter and a bomb explosion on 2nd Avenue North in the fourth quarter. Both catastrophes destroyed commercial properties. Despite these events last year, the fundamentals that make Nashville a strong office market remain unchanged. Nashville stays a magnet for corporate relocations, most recently attracting multiple companies from California. According to the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce data, The Daily Wire, Design Lab, N2M Advisory and Revance Therapeutics announced relocations in the second half of 2020. These announcements encompass over 100,000 square feet of office to be occupied and 540 jobs total. Industry experts surveyed by Urban Land Institute (ULI) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for the latest Emerging Trends in Real Estate report ranked Nashville as the No. 3 “Market to Watch in 2021.” This is Nashville’s sixth consecutive year in the top 10. The report credits Nashville’s attractive business climate, affordable cost of living and speed of recovery post-COVID-19. The report names Nashville as one of six new boomtowns as it’s a top in-migration market that is attracting a large share of smart young workers. Additionally, ULI and PwC acknowledge that Nashville …
ALISO VIEJO, CALIF. — Harbor Associates, in partnership with Singerman Real Estate, has purchased Summit IV, an office campus in Aliso Viejo. The seller and terms of the off-market transaction were not released. Harbor plans to renovate the 297,277-square-foot property, which was 80 percent leased at the time of sale. Planned renovations include improving workplace wellness and the addition of onsite lifestyle amenities throughout the outdoor courtyard, as well as a new lobby, move-in ready suites and updates to the restrooms and corridors.
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. — George Smith Partners has arranged $45.6 million in bridge financing on behalf of DJM Capital for the recapitalization of Lido Marina Village, a multi-block, waterfront retail and office property on Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach. Lido Marina Village features 106,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and office space in 14 separate structures, including waterfront retail and restaurant space, as well as 47 boat slips. Current tenants include Nobu, Malibu Farm, Elysse Walker, LoveShakeFancy, Serena & Lily and Jenni Kayne. Steve Bram, David Pascale and Patrick O’Donnell of George Smith Partners secured the financing. Arc Capital Partners is an equity partner in the transaction. Since acquiring the asset in 2013, DJM has implemented extensive renovations to the property and rebranded Lido Marketplace as a boutique and restaurant destination.
CHICAGO — Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has signed a 30,000-square-foot office lease in Chicago. The tenant is moving into sublease space at River Point North, which is located at 350 N. Orleans St. HIMSS is a member-based association offering expertise in health innovation, public policy, workforce development, research and analytics to advise global leaders, stakeholders and influencers on best practices in health information and technology. The association is moving from 33 W. Monroe in Chicago. The new space offers a flexible layout and a rental rate far below the building’s asking rent, according to Avison Young. Chad Bermingham of Avison Young represented HIMSS in the lease transaction. Gartner Research listed the office space for sublease. Christine Bower and Matt Carolan of JLL represented Gartner, which will continue to occupy 44,450 square feet at the building.
BOSTON — A partnership between Lendlease and Ivanhoe Cambridge has acquired land at 60 Guest St. within Boston Landing, a mixed-use destination in the Allston/Brighton area, for the development of a 320,000-square-foot life sciences building. The parcel sold for $67 million. The project will be situated on 1.1 acres, rise nine stories and offer traditional office space in addition to lab and research/development space. SGA Architects is designing the building, construction of which is targeted to begin in June 2022. Coleman Benedict and Kerry Hawkins of JLL represented the seller of the land, NB Development Group, and procured the partnership as the buyer.
WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of the Lantower Southwest Building, a 124,356-square-foot office property in Wichita Falls, located roughly midway between Dallas and Amarillo. The building is situated on 3.5 acres and was 81 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan Chase, Wichita Home Health and Jacksboro National Bank. Joseph Jacques of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a partnership, and procured the buyer, a limited liability company. Both parties requested anonymity.
LONG BEACH, CALIF. — A partnership between Turnbridge Equities and Waterford Property Co., along with Monument Square Investment Group, has purchased City Place Long Beach, a 14-acre, large-scale, open-air, mixed-use development in downtown Long Beach. The partnership first acquired the loan on the asset at the end of 2020 and now reached an agreement to take over ownership of the property. Originally the site was Long Beach Plaza Mall, an enclosed shopping mall that was built in 1982 and demolished in 2002 to make way for City Place. The partnership is now reinventing the property as a mixed-use development with retail, office, restaurant and entertainment spaces, as well as working to immediately stabilize the asset.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. — Google has announced plans to invest $7 billion in offices and data centers across the U.S. this year, creating 10,000 new full-time jobs across 19 states. The investment will include over $1 billion in the state of California; office expansions in Atlanta, Chicago, New York City and Washington, D.C.; and data center expansions in Nebraska, South Carolina, Virginia, Nevada and Texas. Further details on planned investments across the U.S. are below: South In the Southern U.S., Google will increase its investment in an existing South Carolina data center and its existing office campuses in Atlanta and Washington, D.C.; establish a new cloud engineering site in Durham, N.C.; open its first U.S. Google Operations Center in Southaven, Miss.; open a new office in Reston, Va.; and expand its data center in Virginia’s Loudon County. Midwest Earlier this year, Google established its first Minnesota office in Rochester and its new data centers in New Albany, Ohio, and Papillion, Neb., became operational. The company plans to expand its data center footprint in Nebraska over the course of 2021 and will begin further improvements at its Detroit, Chicago and Ann Arbor, Mich., offices. Texas Google’s new data center in Midlothian, …