ANNAPOLIS, MD. — Ready Capital has closed a $19.8 million refinancing loan for the renovation and lease-up of a 120,000-square-foot office building in Annapolis. The financing will be used to retire existing debt, execute a tenant improvement plan and fund light capital improvements. The non-recourse loan features a 36-month term with interest-only payments and a floating interest rate. The borrower was not disclosed.
PALO ALTO, CALIF. — Ready Capital has closed $15 million in financing for the acquisition, repositioning and lease-up of a flex office building in Palo Alto. Situated in the Embarcadero submarket, the property features 24,000 square feet of Class B flex office space. David Cohen of Ready Capital closed the financing for the undisclosed borrower.
SOUTH MIAMI, FLA. — Midtown Opportunities, a real estate investment fund based in Miami, has purchased The Shops at Sunset Place in South Miami for $65.5 million. The open-air lifestyle property features nearly 515,000 square feet of retail and office space leased to tenants such as AMC Theatres and LA Fitness. A partnership between Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE: FRT), Grass River Property Co. and Comras Co. sold the mixed-used development after more than five years of ownership. Midtown Opportunities has retained Grass River to manage the asset. Federal Realty, Grass River and Comras sold Sunset Place at a significant loss, according to the Miami Herald. The newspaper reported in 2015 that the buyers purchased a majority interest of the once-popular mall from Simon Property Group for $110 million. The Shops at Sunset Place is located on nearly 10 acres at 5701 Sunset Drive. The development is situated near the South Miami Metrorail Station, South Miami Hospital and the University of Miami. No details were disclosed about Midtown Opportunities’ plans related to Sunset Place. The property was 78 percent leased at the time of sale. Other tenants include Barnes & Noble, Gametime and Splitsville, as well as the Yumbrella Food …
EDINA, MINN. — Upland Real Estate Group Inc. has brokered the sale of a two-story office building in Edina for $6.4 million. The 70,400-square-foot property is located at 5350 W. 78th St. Upland represented the seller, W78th 5350 LLC. Merrie Sjogren and Nick Peterson of Assembly MN LLC represented the buyer, ISLA Affiliated Building Co. The buyer, a nonprofit Spanish immersion charter school, currently operates out of a 30,000-square-foot facility in Minnetonka. That site is under contract to local developer Doran Cos., which plans to redevelop it into multifamily housing.
SAN DIEGO — A publicly traded REIT has acquired Torrey Hills Medical Plaza, a Class A medical office building and attached parking garage in San Diego. Virtus Real Estate Capital and Coast Income Properties sold the property for $37.3 million. Situated on 2.6 acres at 4765 Carmel Mountain Road, the 47,596-square-foot asset features a connected, two-level parking garage. Fresenius Medical Care anchors the two-story building, which is 91 percent leased. Andrew Milne, Evan Kovac, Trent Jemmett, Paul Braun, Chris Ross and Kelly Moriarty of JLL Healthcare Capital Markets represented the seller in the transaction.
EL SEGUNDO, CALIF. — Beyond Meat Inc. (NASDAQ: BYND), a producer of plant-based meat replacement products, has signed a 12-year lease for a 300,000-square-foot corporate headquarters less than one mile south of Los Angeles International Airport at 888. N. Douglas St. in El Segundo. The headquarters will be located within a four-building, 550,000-square-foot creative office and industrial campus currently under development by Hackman Capital Partners, which is scheduled for completion this spring. Beyond Meat’s offices are set to open in fall of this year and will include advanced research labs and incubator spaces for the development of new technologies and more innovative products. The company’s headquarters is designed for LEED and Fitwel certification in alignment with Beyond Meat’s mission and commitment to sustainability and workplace wellbeing. “Our new campus and state-of-the-art research facilities will house cutting-edge fundamental and applied research alongside globalized product development teams, all in service to a single goal — creating meat from plants that is indistinguishable from its animal protein equivalent,” says Ethan Brown, founder and CEO of Beyond Meat. The JLL team of Gary Horwitz, Blake Searles, Connor Hall and Kamil Agha represented Beyond Meat in the leasing transaction. The company also tapped DPPM Project Management …
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Balfour Beatty US has broken ground on Morrison Yard, a $42 million office building in downtown Charleston. The Keith Corp. and Origin Development Partners are the co-developers of Morrison Yard. The companies are located in Charlotte and Charleston, respectively. Morrison Yard will stand 12 stories high and will offer 140,000 square feet of office space, 8,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space and a four-story parking deck with approximately 377 parking spaces. The general contractor expects to deliver the asset in summer 2022.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Mohr Capital has acquired a two-story, 78,449-square-foot medical office building in Orlando. The property is situated within Lee Vista Business Park at 6272 Lee Vista Blvd., nine miles southeast of downtown Orlando. The facility houses a distribution warehouse, office space for executives, specialty pharmacy and a team of specialty-trained pharmacists and nurses. Accredo Health Group Inc., a specialty pharmacy operator and subsidiary of global healthcare insurance firm Cigna Corp., fully occupies the asset with more than six years remaining on its lease. The facility was first developed in 2006 for CuraScript Inc., which merged with Accredo in 2012. Rodrigo Godoi internally represented the Dallas-based buyer in the transaction. Ron Rogg of CBRE represented the seller, a tenant in common (TIC) entity, in the transaction. The sales price was not disclosed.
SEATTLE — CBRE has arranged the sale of Terry Thomas, a single-tenant office property located in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. A group of private local investors, including Mike Hess of Hess Callahan Partners and Mark Grey of Stephen Grey & Associates, sold the asset to a newly raised core fund advised by Zurich Alternative Asset Management for $52.2 million. CBRE’s Tom Pehl, Lou Senini, Chais Lowell, Paige Morgan, Charles Safley, Thuy Tran, Brandon McMenomy, Brad Zumpa and Mike Walker represented the seller. Thomas Buffa and Sean Bannon of US Real Estate represented the buyer in the deal. Located at 225 Terry Ave. North, the four-story, 44,445-square-foot building was constructed in 2008. Northeastern University occupies the property, which is LEED Gold certified. The building includes 67 underground parking stalls.
DUBLIN, CALIF. — Toda America has acquired Hites Plaza, a Class A office property located at 5601 Arnold Road in Dublin, from an undisclosed seller for $34.7 million. Built in 2000, the four-story Hites Plaza features 120,199 square feet of office space. At the time of sale, the property was 90 percent leased to national or credit tenants, including Easter Seals; the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the California Department of Justice. The building features redundant power and HVAC capacity, 12-foot ceiling heights and large, flexible floor plates. Brian Lagomarsino and Kevin Moul of Colliers International, along with the firm’s Institutional Capital Markets team, represented the buyer and seller in the deal.