WALTHAM, MASS. — Bank of America has signed a 23,330-square-foot office lease expansion at Cityside, located at 1025-1075 Main St. in the western Boston suburb of Waltham. Ryan Romano, Tom Hansen and Malcolm See of CBRE represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Rob Byrne and Liz McLaughlin of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, locally based investment firm The Davis Cos.
LINCOLNSHIRE, ILL. — Cawley Chicago has brokered the sale of a 25,229-square-foot office building located at 680 Barclay Blvd. in Lincolnshire for $4 million. Rawly Lantz and Justin Harris of Cawley represented the buyer, Relevant Radio, which opted to move the company’s headquarters closer to its local radio operations. Mason Hezner of Brown Commercial Group represented the seller, Union Building Corp. Based in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Relevant Radio is a religious radio network.
PHOENIX — Portland, Ore.-based BPM Real Estate Group has acquired PetSmart’s corporate headquarters in Phoenix from an undisclosed institutional seller for $110 million. Barry Gabel, Chris Marchildon and Will Mast of CBRE, along with Kevin Shannon, Ken White and CJ Osbrink of Newmark, represented the seller, while Newmark’s Nick Kucha represented the buyer in the deal. David Milestone and Ramsey Daya of Newmark arranged acquisition financing for the buyer. Located at 19601 N. 27th Ave. in Phoenix’s Deer Valley submarket, PetSmart’s corporate headquarters features 365,672 square feet. The property includes three four-story buildings, one of which was built in 1997 and two in 2008, as well as a six-level parking structure. On-site amenities include a recently renovated full-service café, a daycare center and a fitness center with full-service locker rooms. The 15.1-acre site allows for the development of a 90,000-square-foot building and parking structure.
EL MONTE, CALIF. — Realty Advisory Group has arranged the sale of an office and industrial property located at 9320 Telstar Ave. in El Monte’s Flair Park area. Los Angeles-based Rising Realty Partners acquired the asset for $41 million. Built in 1975 and renovated in 2001, the 246,912-square-foot property offers 178,776 square feet of office space, which the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health occupies. Simultaneous with acquisition closing, Los Angeles County and Rising executed a new long-term lease for the office space. The remaining 68,136-square-foot industrial space is available for lease. Jim Abbott Sr. and Jim Abbott Jr. of Realty Advisory Group represented the undisclosed seller in the deal.
CALABASAS, CALIF. — Gemdale USA, a subsidiary of China-based Gemdale Corp., has acquired The Park Calabasas, an office campus located at 4500 Park Granada in Calabasas. Rising Realty Partners and Fortress Investment Group sold the asset for $79 million. Kevin Shannon, Ken White, Rob Hannan and Laura Stumm of Newmark’s U.S. Capital Markets team represented the sellers in the deal. David Milestone and Brett Green of Newmark secured acquisition financing for the buyer. The low-rise campus features 222,524 square feet of office space with expansive outdoor courtyards, on-site amenities, landscaped gardens and executive parking. At the time of sale, the property was 92 percent leased to six tenants. Originally developed as a corporate headquarters facility for Lockheed Martin and later serving as headquarters for Countrywide Financial (Bank of America), The Park Calabasas had been utilized as a single-tenant campus for nearly 20 years until a $12 million renovation by Rising Realty and Fortress Investment Group. The renovation converted the single-tenant property into a multi-tenant creative office space.
PRINCETON, N.J. — Avison Young has negotiated a 48,511-square-foot office headquarters lease for immunotherapy company CytoSorbents Corp. at 305 College Road East in Princeton. The tenant is relocating from Monmouth Junction. Thomas Giannone, Ronald Ganter, Edward English, Paul Errigo III and Tracey Kasper of Avison Young represented CytoSorbents in the lease negotiations. The representative of the landlord, National Business Parks, was not disclosed.
MEDFORD, MASS. — Inkbit, a technology firm known for its innovations in 3D printing, has signed a 38,300-square-foot office lease for its new headquarters at One Cabot Road in Medford, a northern suburb of Boston. Joseph Pearce and Michael Frisoli of Newmark represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Debra Gould and Rory Walsh, also with Newmark, represented the landlord, locally based investment firm The Davis Cos.
DALLAS — Locally based developer M2G Ventures has completed Bogart, a 50,000-square-foot office building at 4621 Ross Ave. in East Dallas that is a redevelopment of the former Dallas Can Academy site. The property offers headquarters, studio and spec office spaces and amenities such as a tenant lounge, fitness room and an outdoor gaming area. In addition, food and beverage concept Fiction Coffee has signed a lease to open a store at the property.
CHICAGO — Skender has completed construction of a 45,000-square-foot office and retail building for furniture company Herman Miller in Chicago’s Fulton Market neighborhood. Located at 1100 W. Fulton St., the build-to-suit project preserved the existing building’s historical masonry while incorporating a new concrete structure to support the 100-year-old exterior. The first floor includes a Herman Miller retail showroom, café and coffee bar. Skender collaborated with architect Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture, owner’s representative CBRE, developer Fulton St. Cos. and project manager ConopCo Project Management.
ASHBURN, VA. — A joint venture between Novais Partners and the Hanover Co. has announced plans for Rivana at Innovation Station, a 4.4 million-square-foot mixed-use development located 30 miles outside Washington, D.C., in Ashburn. The 103-acre, transit-oriented project will be developed adjacent to Loudoun County’s extension of the Metro Silver Line, one stop from Washington-Dulles International Airport. Current plans for the project include 2,000 multifamily units; 1.8 million square feet of Class A office space; a 185,000-square-foot retail village; a 265-room boutique hotel; and a network of green and public spaces, including an 11-acre park. At the center of the project will be Rivana Village, a walkable network of retail and creative office space inspired by the communal villages that dot Virginia’s landscape. Tenants for this portion of the project will include creative, independently-owned restaurants and local retailers. The development’s office space will include hotel-quality amenities as well as post-COVID-era design and engineering, with advanced filtration systems, upgraded air filters and enhanced cleaning protocols. Each office building is targeting LEED certification. The project’s development team plans to submit a land use application next week for consideration by the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. Pending legislative approval, Novais expects to break ground …
