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WASHINGTON, MO. — Contegra Construction Co. has completed building a new headquarters and manufacturing facility for Melton Machine & Control Co. in Washington, about 50 miles west of St. Louis. The 367,000-square-foot project more than doubles the size of the company’s existing 154,000-square-foot operations. The development includes a 74,000-square-foot corporate office, training and conference space, and is designed to improve collaboration and support with nearby subsidiary Computech Manufacturing Co. The headquarters is situated on 42 acres within Heidmann Industrial Park. Joining Contegra on the project team were Gray Design Group, 21 Design Group, Case Structural Engineering, RJP Electric, Wiegmann Associates, Heggemann Plumbing, Bi-State Fire Protection and Washington Engineering & Architecture. Melton designs and builds automated welding systems for a variety of industries. The company employs 132 workers and plans to add another 20 employees at the new facility.

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WARREN, N.J. — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has negotiated the sale of a 181,210-square-foot life sciences facility in Warren that is fully leased to Celgene/Bristol Myers Squibb. Kevin Welsh, Brian Schulz, Jason Emrani, Steven Schultz and Dan Reider of NKF represented the seller, a joint venture between Ivy Realty and Waterfall Asset Management, in the transaction. The team also procured the buyer, Thor Equities. The property recently underwent a value-add program that included a new roof and HVAC upgrades.

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LOS ANGELES — California Landmark Group (CLG) has completed the final phase of G8, a mixed-use development in Los Angeles’ Marina del Rey neighborhood. The $120 million project includes 228 apartments and 25,000 square feet of creative office space. Situated in the Marina Arts District, G8 offers a mix of single, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans ranging in size from 550 square feet to 1,500 square feet, with 23 units earmarked as affordable and 68 designated as co-living suites. The community features 18,000 square feet of exterior common areas, including a public pocket park, swimming pool, spas and an 8,000-square-foot rooftop deck with outdoor grills and lounge seating. G8 also offers more than 10,000 square feet of shared indoor workspaces, a private movie theater, game room, fitness center and a yoga/stretching studio. Additionally, the project includes street-level creative office space designed as a colorful arrangement of cargo shipping containers. With this development, CLG has delivered nine mixed-use projects, totaling nearly 1 million square feet of residential and commercial space, to the Marina del Rey neighborhood.

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BEAVERTON, ORE. — Smartcap, a Seattle-based real estate investment firm, has purchased The Cortez Building, a warehouse and office property located at 701 SW 158th Ave. in Beaverton, a suburb eight miles west of Portland. An undisclosed seller sold the asset for $12.2 million. Nike Inc. occupies the 73,200-square-foot flex property through April 2025. The apparel company has leased the building since its delivery in 1994. Keith Young of Kidder Mathews and Denis Mehigan of The Mehigan Co. represented the buyer in the transaction.

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NEW YORK CITY — Locally based firm Extell Development has begun the lease-up of Harlem Headquarters, a 441,600-square-foot office building located at 180 E. 125th St. between Third and Lexington avenues in Harlem. Gensler designed the property, which also houses 50,000 square feet of retail space. Amenities include a rooftop terrace, bicycle storage space, locker rooms and showers and other outdoor gathering spaces. Harlem Headquarters also features floor-by-floor direct expansion air-conditioning units, four passenger elevators, one dedicated service elevator and one retail service elevator. Cushman & Wakefield is handling leasing of the project, completion of which is slated for 2022.

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OMAHA, NEB. — McCarthy Building Cos. has completed the conversion of a decades-old warehouse into a headquarters, manufacturing facility and showroom for Elliott Equipment Co. in Omaha. The 220,000-square-foot project includes a renovated 26,000-square-foot office building originally constructed in 1982 and a modernized 194,000-square-foot warehouse originally built in 1977. Elliott has consolidated manufacturing operations that had been spread out across five buildings in different locations across Omaha. Founded in Omaha in 1948, Elliott specializes in designing and manufacturing cranes, trucks and aerial platforms.

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FALLS CHURCH, VA. — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has arranged the $87.5 million sale of two office buildings located at 3170 and 3180 Fairview Park in Falls Church. The seller, an affiliate of Boston-based Marcus Partners, completed a renovation at the property this year. The upgrades included adding 25,000 square feet of amenity space, an outdoor terrace, firepit, 100-person auditorium, 100-person conference facility and a fitness center. The assets were 98 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including General Dynamics Information Technology, Capital Caring Health, Sheet Metal Workers’ National Pension Fund and Balfour Beatty. The leases have a weighted average of 11 years remaining. The asset is situated 15 miles west of downtown Washington, D.C. James Cassidy, Jud Ryan and Cliff Cummings of NKF represented the seller in the transaction. Joe Donato and Kassi Saridakis of NKF worked with the buyer, Vanderbilt Office Properties, on the financing of the acquisition. Terms of the financing were not disclosed.

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SAN ANTONIO — California-based beer brewer Pabst Blue Ribbon (PBR) will relocate its corporate headquarters from Los Angeles to downtown San Antonio, according to multiple news sources including CultureMap San Antonio and the San Antonio Business Journal. According to the former publication, PBR was headquartered in San Antonio between 1996 and 2006 and still maintains an office there. Local cable news outlet WOAI reports that PBR currently has about 60 employees in San Antonio and plans to grow its workforce to more than 115 employees in the coming months. PBR owns several different brands, Old Milwaukee, Rainier and National Bohemian.  

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NORFOLK, VA. — Colliers International has brokered the $20 million sale of an office building at Military Circle Mall in Norfolk. The property, which is located at 824 N. Military Highway, was originally built for J.C. Penney in 1969 and used to anchor Military Circle Mall. Now a 200,000-square-foot office building, the property sits on 16 acres and offers 1,436 parking spaces. Movement Mortgage and Sentara Health Plans occupy the asset. Patrick Gill of Colliers represented the seller, the City of Norfolk Economic Development Authority, in the transaction. MPB Inc. acquired the asset.

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AUSTIN, TEXAS — Heritage Title Co. of Austin Inc., which provides title insurance and settlement services, has preleased 20,459 square feet of office space at Indeed Tower, a 36-story development nearing completion at 200 W. Sixth St. in downtown Austin. The developer, a partnership between Trammell Crow and Principal Real Estate Investors, broke ground on the 673,000-square-foot tower, formerly known as Block 71, in October 2017. The partnership expects to compete construction during the first half of next year. Troy Holme, Casey Ford and Katie Ekstrom of CBRE represented ownership in the lease negotiations, while Derek Lewis and Todd Gilfillan of Lincoln Property Co. represented the tenant.

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