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Gridline Properties Arranges $5.4M Sale of Former Methodist Church and School in Miami

by Julia Sanders March 24, 2021

MIAMI — Gridline Properties has arranged the sale of a former Methodist church and school in Miami for $5.4 million. The 28, 947-square-foot property is located at 205 NE 87th St. in Miami’s Upper East Side and within El Portal Village. Built in 1952, the former Rader Memorial United Methodist Church has been vacant for more than 10 years. Gridline’s Alfredo Riascos represented the sellers, Seth Gadinsky of Gadinsky Real Estate LLC and Samuel Soriero of Group 10 Capital Management LLC, in the transaction. The buyer, The Sanctuary LLC, a client of Elm Spring Inc., plans to adapt the property into restaurant, retail and office space. The sellers acquired the property in 2016 for $3.2 million and entitled the asset into a mixed-use retail, office and event space building prior to selling. No timeline was given on the redevelopment project.

March 24, 2021

Market Reports Office Texas Texas Market Reports

Despite Current Pain, Long-Term Needs for Office Space Won’t Disappear in Houston

by Taylor Williams March 24, 2021

By Dustin Devine, vice president, Avison Young In 2020, COVID-19 further compounded the issues Houston’s office market was facing with depressed oil and gas prices. With many office users implementing work-from-home policies — although a shift back to the office is in progress — and minimal business travel, there was weak demand for office space in 2020. Houston’s office market is expecting a resurgence of sorts beginning in mid- to late-2021 due to increased vaccine rollouts and work-from-home burnout, along with commodity prices continuing to tick upward. Increased demand will not occur overnight, however, as it will take years to absorb all of the current available space. Most activity at present is expiration-driven. Although Houston’s economy today is more diversified than it was in the 1980s, much of the city’s business either revolves around or touches the oil and gas industry. Avison Young’s recent Office Market Report shows that current citywide office availability is over 25 percent, with nearly 6.5 million square feet of sublease space available. With availability rates and the amount of sublease inventory at such high levels, it is clear that many industries are hurting, including commercial real estate. As a firm, we are doing whatever we …

March 24, 2021

Georgia Leasing Activity Office Southeast Top Stories

Google to Occupy 19 Floors of Midtown Atlanta Office Tower

by Kristin Harlow March 24, 2021

ATLANTA — Google will occupy 19 floors of its new Atlanta office currently under construction in Midtown. The office tower is part of a mixed-use development known as 1105 West Peachtree. Selig Enterprises is developing the office tower, which is slated for completion in the third quarter of 2022. In addition to the 645,000-square-foot office component, the overall project will include a 64-unit condominium tower and a 178-room Epicurean Hotel. Starting next year, Google will take occupancy of five floors, or roughly 150,000 square feet of the Midtown office building. The company says it will move into the remaining space over the next several years. Last week, Google announced that it planned to invest more than $7 billion in offices and data centers across the country and create at least 10,000 new full-time jobs. Of that investment, $25 million is in the state of Georgia. In its 2020 Economic Impact Report, Google shared how more than 67,000 businesses, publishers and nonprofits in Georgia used Google products last year. This activity generated $9.9 billion in economic activity in 2020, a 13 percent increase from 2019. Google has called Georgia home since 2003. The company maintains an existing Midtown office, as well …

March 24, 2021

California Development Life Sciences Office Western

Healthpeak Properties to Develop 141,000 SF Life Sciences Project in South San Francisco

by Amy Works March 22, 2021

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. — Healthpeak Properties will commence construction on Nexus on Grand, a life sciences development located at 233 E. Grand Ave. in South San Francisco. The Class A development will consist of a five-story, 141,000-square-foot building and an adjacent parking structure. The purpose-built lab building will feature modern design, prominent location on East Grand Avenue, flexible and efficient floor plates and lab-ready building systems that will accommodate a number of life sciences users. Nexus on Grand will be Healthpeak’s third ground-up development in the San Francisco market since 2015, following the leasing of The Cove at Oyster Point and The Shore at Sierra Point.

March 22, 2021

Florida Leasing Activity Office Retail Southeast

Sterling Bay Signs Retail Lease with Love Life Café at 545WYN in Miami

by Julia Sanders March 22, 2021

MIAMI — Sterling Bay, a Chicago-based real estate development firm, has signed a retail lease with eatery Love Life Café in Miami’s Wynwood district. Love Life Café will take 3,767 square feet of storefront space at 545wyn, Wynwood’s first Class A creative office building. Sterling Bay broke ground on 545wyn in January 2019 and completed the building in late 2020. The 298,000-square-foot creative office and retail property offers tenants flexible floorplates and access to amenities like a wellness center, touchless elevator systems, lounges with outdoor space, air filtration systems, a private parking garage and art installations by local artists. Gensler, the global design and architecture firm, is another confirmed tenant. Love Life Café, a plant-based dining concept, will be relocating its existing Wynwood location at 2616 NW 5 Ave. to its new location at 545 NW 26th St. later this year. Veronica Menin and her husband, Diego Tosoni, created Love Life Café in 2015. Tosoni, a self-taught chef with a passion for vegan cooking, aims to bring plant-based foods to 545wyn, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner items. Love Life Café currently operates venues at Time Out Market in Miami Beach and another at 18 N Dollins Ave. in Orlando.

March 22, 2021

Leasing Activity Office Texas

Axiom Space Signs 32,389 SF Office Lease Expansion Near NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston

by Taylor Williams March 22, 2021

HOUSTON — Axiom Space Inc., a locally based developer of space infrastructure, has signed a 32,389-square-foot office lease expansion at 1290 Hercules Ave. near the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston. Matthew Seliger, Doug Little and Louann Pereira of Transwestern represented the building owner, Capital Commercial Investments Inc., in the lease negotiations. Noah Kruger and Derrell Curry of Savills Inc. represented the tenant, which originally leased space at the 63,716-square-foot building last year. The new lease expansion brings the property to full occupancy.

March 22, 2021

Acquisitions Colorado Office Western

Continental Divide Holdings Buys 8,000 SF Office Property in Littleton, Colorado for Medical Office Conversion

by Amy Works March 22, 2021

LITTLETON, COLO. — Continental Divide Holdings LLC has acquired an office property located at 8331 Continental Divide in Littleton. Colorado Credit Union sold the asset for an undisclosed price. Formerly a credit union brand and headquarters, the 8,000-square-foot property feature a drive-thru and monument signage. The buyer plans to convert the building into a medical office space for use as its pediatric practice. Rick Egitto of Avison Young, along with Justin Rayburn of Fountainhead Commercial Properties, represented the seller, while Dann Burke and Stephani Gaskins of CBRE Healthcare Real Estate Brokerage Services represented the buyer in the deal.

March 22, 2021

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Acquisitions New Jersey Northeast Office

Birch Group Acquires Office Portfolio in Morristown, New Jersey, for $77M

by Taylor Williams March 22, 2021

MORRISTOWN, N.J. — The Birch Group, a New York-based investment firm, has acquired a portfolio of three office buildings totaling 411,737 square feet in the Northern New Jersey city of Morristown. The sales price was $77 million. The buildings are located at 60 Columbia Drive, 100 Southgate Pkwy. and 1200 Mount Kemble Ave. and were collectively 98 percent leased at the time of sale. Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Lincoln Equities Group, in the transaction.

March 22, 2021

Illinois Leasing Activity Midwest Office

Law Firm Ice Miller Signs Office Lease Extension, Expansion in Chicago

by Kristin Harlow March 22, 2021

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.

March 22, 2021

Acquisitions Florida Office Southeast Top Stories

Shorenstein Properties Sells Miami Office Complex for $230M

by Taylor Williams March 22, 2021

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 …

March 22, 2021

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