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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — Flywheel Capital, a Denver-based commercial real estate investment company, has started development of Peak Technology Campus, a speculative office project in Colorado Springs. The 210,000-square-foot campus will offer secure-ready site for the aerospace and defense industrial. Situated within the 900-acre Peak Innovation Park business park, Peak Technology Campus will feature four single-story office buildings with full-floor and multi-tenant configurations, secure-ready sites with dedicated entries, building signage, loading docks, 4.5 parking spaces per 1,000 square feet and secured satellite area. Plans for the new development include a 50,000-square-foot Building 1, a 40,000-square-foot Building 2, a 60,000-square-foot Building 3 and a 60,000-square-foot Building 4. Construction for Building 1 is slated to start in first-quarter 2021, with delivery set for third-quarter 2021. Kenton Mau, Brian Wagner and Mark O’Donnell of Newark will market the property for lease. According to Newmark Research, Peak Technology Campus represents the largest speculative office development in Colorado Springs since 2001.

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PEACHTREE CORNERS, GA. — Consulting firm Merlinos & Associates Inc. has signed a full-floor, 25,347-square-foot office lease at Summit at Peachtree Parkway in Peachtree Corners. The landlord, OA Development, renovated the lobby, corridors and elevators, and added a fitness center and conference center in 2019. The six-story, 179,617-square-foot building is located at 5550 Peachtree Parkway, 22 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta. Howard Garrett of KW Commercial represented Merlinos & Associates in the transaction. Chip Roach and Stephen Clifton of Transwestern represented the landlord. Merlinos & Associates specializes in property, casualty, health, disability and life actuarial consulting.

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DALLAS — Home goods discount retailer Tuesday Morning has entered into an agreement with Miami-based Rialto Capital to sell its Dallas headquarters building, located at 6250 LBJ Freeway, and three warehouses for $60 million. The deal comes several months after the Dallas-based retailer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing major financial losses stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. Tuesday Morning is also closing 230 stores, or roughly a third of its total inventory, across the country. The deal is expected to close by the end of the year.

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AUSTIN, TEXAS — Weitzman has expanded its corporate services platform by launching a new branch in Austin that will focus on tenant solutions for office users in Austin and the surrounding Central Texas market. The new platform will offer services such as strategic planning and needs assessment, financial, market and labor analyses, lease restructuring, renewals, relocations, expansions, subleasing and disposition of excess space, acquisitions, dispositions and build-to-suits. Matt Epple, executive vice president and director of brokerage for Weitzman, will lead the new office. Weitzman’s office management portfolio in Texas currently spans more than 1 million square feet, including buildings in Austin such as downtown’s Scarbrough and Littlefield Buildings and the office tower at Capital Plaza.

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BOSTON — Locally based biotechnology firm Ginkgo Bioworks has signed a 38,759-square-foot life sciences lease at 10 Wilson Road in the Cambridge area of Boston. The new space is located within The Quad, a four-building, 510,000-square-foot campus that is being developed in phases by The Davis Companies. McKenna Teague and Erick Smith of CBRE represented the developer in the lease negotiations. Anne Columbia and Patrick Downey of Columbia Group Realty Advisors Inc. represented the tenant.

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LOWELL, MASS. — SVN | Parsons Commercial Group | Boston has brokered the sale of a 33,000-square-foot office building located at 81 Bridge St. in Lowell, which is located north of Boston. The sales price was approximately $2.5 million. According to LoopNet Inc., the two-story building was constructed in 1916. Marci Alvarado and Jake Parsons of SVN represented the seller, Bridge Street Business Center LLC, in the transaction. The duo also procured the buyer, Mill Bridge Residential LLC.

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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.

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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, …

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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.

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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.  

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