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BROOKFIELD, WIS. — Hydrite Chemical Co., a manufacturer and supplier of chemicals, has unveiled plans to move its headquarters to Golf Parkway Corporate Center in Brookfield near Milwaukee. Brookfield-based Hydrite will fully occupy a two-story office building spanning approximately 45,000 square feet. Irgens is the developer and owner. Kahler Slater is the project architect and CG Schmidt is the general contractor. A timeline for occupancy was not disclosed. Hydrite currently occupies a 26,000-square-foot office in Brookfield.

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LOWER GWYNEDD, PA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Gwynedd Office Park, a 50,427-square-foot property located in the Philadelphia suburb of Lower Gwynedd. The sales price was $6.8 million. Gwynedd Office Park, which was 98 percent leased at the time of sale, was built on 6.3 acres in 1980 and renovated in 2019. Craig Dunkle of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer, and Craig Fernsler of KW Commercial Real Estate and Joshua Levin of Levin Commercial Real Estate represented the seller. Both parties were limited liability companies that requested anonymity.

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SEGUIN, TEXAS — CoffeeTech Industries, a supplier of cold- and hot-brewed instant coffee, will open a new facility in Seguin, a northeastern suburb of San Antonio, for its new office headquarters and primary manufacturing plant. The facility will span 112,000 square feet, will carry a price tag of roughly $56 million and is expected to bring about 90 new jobs to the area. The facility will be located on a 33.6-acre site just south of Interstate 10 and will have the capacity to produce about 13 million pounds of coffee per year, according to Business Facilities Magazine. Construction is expected to begin in late 2020, and the facility should be operational by 2022.

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SACRAMENTO AND GOLD RIVER, CALIF. — Colliers International’s Institutional Capital Markets team has arranged the sale of an eight-building office portfolio near Sacramento. Cook Endeavors acquired the asset from WHAL Properties for $23 million, or $139 per square foot. Totaling 170,000 square feet, the portfolio includes 11341 and 11335 Gold Express Drive, 11249 Gold Country Blvd. and 11211 Gold Country Blvd. in Gold River, as well as 800 Howe Ave., 3604, 3626 and 3620 Fair Oaks Blvd. in Sacramento. Brad Idleman, Andrew Gibson, Bob Gilley, Kevin Moul and Andy Zighelboim of Colliers represented the seller, while Thomas Walcott of Colliers Sacramento represented the buyer in the off-market transaction.

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FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Infrastructure design firm HNTB Corp. has signed an office lease at Frost Tower, a 314,879-square-foot building in downtown Fort Worth. The property was completed in 2018 and offers a full-service restaurant, conference and event center, elevated outdoor patio areas and wine lockers. Seth Koschak and Cullen Donohue of Stream Realty Partners represented the landlord, Anthracite Realty Partners, in the lease negotiations. Sven Sykes, Brad Balke, Daniel Rudd and Billy Vahrenkamp of Colliers International represented the tenant

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DALLAS — NAI Robert Lynn has negotiated a 26,418-square-foot office sublease for Texas-based Veritex Community Bank at 12750 Merit Drive, a newly renovated building in North Dallas. Veritex Bank is expanding its footprint in Dallas, and the new space will accommodate about 150 of the company’s 700 total employees. Amenities at the property include a conference center, fitness center, tenant lounges and a deli. Kent Smith of NAI Robert Lynn and Dan Boyles of NAI Partners’ Houston office represented Veritex Bank in the lease negotiations. The name and representative of the original tenant and landlord were not disclosed.

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CHICAGO — Health Care Service Corp. (HCSC), the parent company of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois, has signed a 103,533-square-foot office lease at Mural Park in Chicago. Located at 920 W. Cullerton St., the two-building office project is now 63 percent leased. Mural Park is a redevelopment of two historic 100,000-square-foot industrial loft buildings in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood. It was completed in January 2019. HCSC will fully occupy one of the buildings and join existing tenants Puratos Group, Noble Forward, Relay Chicago and Back of the Yards Coffee. Jeff Dowdell and Katie Steele of Transwestern Real Estate Services represented the landlord, Condor Partners, in the lease transaction with HCSC. Sean Reynolds, Meredith O’Connor, Matthew Carolan and Amy Berg of JLL represented HCSC.

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TEMECULA, CALIF. — Newport Beach, Calif.-based MIG Real Estate has completed the sale of One Ridgegate, an office building located at 1 Ridgegate Drive in Temecula. An undisclosed buyer acquired the property for $5.2 million. Situated on three acres and built in 2003, One Ridgegate offers 35,258 square feet of office space. At the time of sale, the property was 92 percent leased. CBRE/Lee & Associates represented the seller, while Mike Realty represented the buyer in the deal.

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BOSTON — Los Angeles-based CIM Group, in partnership with local developer Nordblom Co., has topped out 321 Harrison, a 235,000-square-foot office building located in Boston’s South End neighborhood. The eight-story building is being constructed above a three-story parking garage that also serves the development team’s neighboring 11-story building at 1000 Washington St. The two office buildings will share amenities such as a fitness center, café, bike storage space and lounge areas. Construction of the new building is expected to be complete by the end of the year.  

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BALTIMORE — Armada Hoffler Properties and WeWork have mutually agreed to terminate WeWork’s 69,000-square-foot office lease at Wills Wharf in Baltimore’s Harbor Point neighborhood. The New York City-based coworking company was slated to occupy the top two stories of the office portion of Wills Wharf. A Canopy by Hilton hotel will be situated on the top four floors of the 12-story, 325,000-square-foot building. Armada Hoffler has begun marketing the space again to join other office tenants, which include EY, Jellyfish and Bright Horizons. WeWork also terminated its lease with landlord Columbia Property Trust at 189 Madison Ave. in New York City.

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