LITTLETON, COLO. — John Propp Commercial Group has arranged the sale of an office property located at 8089 S. Lincoln St. in Littleton. RMTN Properties sold the asset to MVP 8089 Lincoln Land for $3.8 million, or $148.97 per square foot. Situated near Littleton Adventist Hospital and Highlands Ranch, the property features 25,802 square feet of office space. The buyer plans to occupy the third floor of the building. Joshua Cohen of John Propp Commercial Group represented the seller in the deal.
By Nora Hogan, SIOR, principal at Transwestern The immediate future of the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) office leasing market is an enigma. Real estate professionals believe we are near the top of a V-shaped recovery curve. However, many tenants disagree and are being cautious about their office leasing decisions. Due to the pandemic, tenants became innovative in providing ways to service their customers. They have learned they can operate, survive and even excel under the current business environment, and thus are delaying their lease decisions. Tenants are learning which employees can work productively without the boundaries of the office. The million-dollar question is whether or not this partial work-from-home model is sustainable. Some employers think not, while others are betting that it has staying power and have placed either all or a portion of their office space on the sublease market. Today, sublease space in DFW represents 15 percent of the total vacant square footage. This percentage is higher than the volume of sublease space that the market posted during the dot-com recession of 2002. Currently the total sublease square footage is 9.5 million, which is almost identical to the December 2002 sublease inventory peak. The difference is that in 2002, …
VISTA, CALIF. — Lee & Associates – North San Diego County has brokered the sale a two-building medical office complex located at 1830-1840 West Drive in Vista. Turner Healthcare Facilities Acquisition LLC acquired the property from 1830-1840 West LLC for $3.8 million. The property offers a total of 24,147 square feet of medical office space. Jeff Abramson of Lee & Associates – North San Diego County represented the buyer, while Dave Dean of Commercial Property Advisors represented the seller in the deal.
LUBBOCK, TEXAS — Locally based developer CMS Properties Inc. has broken ground on an 84,000-square-foot office project at 5107 82nd St. in Lubbock. The four-story, Class A building will feature 21,000-square-foot floor plates, suites that are divisible to 5,000 square feet and views that overlook Lakeridge Country Club. Coldwell Banker Commercial Capital Advisors is handling leasing for the project, which is expected to be complete in the first quarter of 2021.
VANCOUVER, WASH. — New Blueprint Partners and Rabina have purchased The Vancouver Technology Center located at 18110 SE 34th St. in East Vancouver. Terms of the transaction were not released. The new owners have renamed the 700,000-square-foot campus Vancouver Innovation Center and plan to implement a multi-million-dollar repositioning program to transform the property into a best-in-class office/industrial flex campus. Built in 1980, the current campus features six buildings with office, flex and light manufacturing space; an exterior courtyard; community garden; park area; and basketball and volleyball courts. The new owners plan to create new building entrances, new common areas, indoor and outdoor amenities and energy-efficient building systems. The partnership’s long-term plan includes the addition of new uses to the campus that will create a live-work-play environment that connects residential, office, manufacturing and retail uses with a network of public pathways, parks and common spaces. Once complete, the campus will be part of a connected community with all components within a 20-minute walk. Evan Pariser, Marko Kazanjian, Nicco Lupo and Casey Davidson of JLL Capital Markets arranged acquisition financing for the buyers.
DENVER — CapRidge Partners has completed the disposition of The DTC Collection, a Class A office portfolio located in southeast Denver. TerraCap Management purchased the property for $28.7 million. Totaling 181,763 square feet, the two-building portfolio includes Terrace at Orchard Station, a three-story, 115,050-square-foot building at 5575 DTC Parkway, and a six-story, 66,713-square-foot building located at 4949 S. Syracuse St. Built in 1982 and renovated in 2008 and 2015, Terrace at Orchard Station features a conference center, locker rooms and showers, a structured parking deck and web-based service request system. The property on South Syracuse Street, which was also built in 1982, features a two-story atrium and an attached parking structure. Tim Richey, Charley Will, Jenny Knowlton and Chad Flynn of CBRE Capital Markets, Institutional Properties, represented the seller in the transaction. C.J. Kelly, Brady O’Donnell and Jeff Halsey of CBRE Capital Markets’ Debt & Structured Finance arranged acquisition financing for the buyer.
AUBURN, WASH. — Harsch Investment Properties has purchased 30th & B Street Business Park in Auburn for $14.7 million. A partnership between Accord Business Park, D&E Enterprises, Green Valley Ridge Partners and LLC & TDW Auburn previously owned the property. Jim Honan of Neil Walter Co. presented the off-market deal to Harsch. The four-building property features 101,460 square feet of rentable space. At the time of acquisition, the property was fully leased to 19 manufacturing tenants in spaces between 1,500 square feet to 18,000 square feet.
BOSTON — Locally based developer King Street Properties has broken ground on 101 Cambridgepark, a $170 million life sciences project located in the Cambridge area of Boston. King Street is partnering with California-based Healthpeak Properties on the 160,000-square-foot project, which will feature both traditional office and laboratory space within a five-story building. The property will also include 3,000 square feet of street-level retail space with outdoor seating. Completion is slated for the third quarter of 2022. Newmark is leasing the project.
MORRISTOWN, N.J. — JLL has negotiated the $50 million sale of a 232,000-square-foot office building located at 44 Whippany Road in the Northern New Jersey city of Morristown. The property spans 20 acres and features a fitness center, café, outdoor patio and picnic area and access to walking trails. Jose Cruz, Kevin O’Hearn, Steve Simonelli and Michael Oliver of JLL represented the seller, an affiliate of Marcus Partners, in the transaction. The team also procured the buyer, Liberty Properties LLC. The three-story building also recently underwent an $18 million capital improvement program.
SHAFTER, CALIF. — Wonderful Real Estate Development has started construction of a new corporate office building, conference center, wellness center, amenity center and vocational school at Wonderful Industrial Park (WIP) in Shafter. Spanning 98,000 square feet, the logistics park is slated for completion in first-quarter 2022. The development will include a 61,000-square-foot corporate office component, a 37,200-square-foot vocational training center and an 8,500-square-foot restaurant café space. The corporate office space will be home to more than 200 Central Valley employees, including those working for Wonderful Citrus, Wonderful Pistachios and Almonds, Suterra, Pom Wonderful and Wonderful Real Estate Development. Additionally, the office space will provide large meeting rooms that will be available to companies within WIP and the community at-large. The development’s Wonderful Wellness Center will include a gym, exercise classes, healthy awareness programs and access to a mobile clinic. In addition to Wonderful Company’s developments, Walmart Inc. is nearing the completion of a 630,000-square-foot distribution facility at WIP. The highly automated property is optimized for handling, packaging and shipping food. The facility is located on 65 acres that Walmart acquired from WIP in 2018. The facility is slated to be fully operational by spring 2021.