HICKORY, N.C. — Flagship Healthcare Trust Inc. has acquired Tate Medical Commons IV, a 55,912-square-foot medical office building in Hickory. The Charlotte-based REIT will also manage the property, which was fully leased at the time of sale to tenants including Catawba Valley Medical Center and Catawba Women’s Center. The asset is situated at 1501 Tate Blvd. SE, next to Tate Medical Commons. First Horizon Bank provided acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
Office
AURORA, COLO. — Subaru of America has signed a long-term lease with Majestic Realty Co. for a 550,000-square-foot build-to-suit facility at Majestic Commercenter in Aurora. Located at the intersection of Interstate 70 and Tower Road, the master-planned park encompasses 1,600 acres. Subaru will relocate from a smaller existing location and expand into the new regional office, parts distribution and technical training center for its retail service technicians. Groundbreaking is scheduled for late 2020, with completion of Subaru’s full buildout and occupancy in late 2021. Constructed by Commerce Construction, Building 16 will feature 36-foot clear heights, 70-foot speed bays, 115 dock doors and signage fronting I-70. In addition to the Subaru development, Majestic Realty is developing a 32-acre retail complex at the park’s entrance. The retail component will offer space for up to 15 tenants, including at least one hotel. Earlier this year, Amazon signed a long-term lease agreement to occupy Building 15, a 702,000-square-foot facility, and Shamrock Foods purchased land at the park resulting in a 1.3 million-square-foot complex now under construction. Upon completion of these projects, Majestic Commercenter will feature more than 9 million square feet, valued at approximately $500 million.
RIVERSIDE, CALIF. — Orange County, Calif.-based Dornin Investment Group has completed the disposition of an office building located in Riverside. A Chicago-based institutional buyer acquired the asset for $16 million, or $361 per square foot. CBRE’s Anthony DeLorenzo, Sammy Cemo, Gary Stache, Doug Mack and Bryan Johnson represented both the seller and the buyer in the deal. Located at 3480 Vine St. in the Inland Empire, the 44,354-square-foot office building was originally built in 2004 and features prominent freeway frontage. At the time of sale, the property was fully occupied by three tenants: the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), Fidelity National Title and the County of Riverside.
FENTON, MO. — Kadean Construction has completed construction of a new 185,590-square-foot headquarters and logistics facility for 1st Phorm, a manufacturer and distributor of nutrition supplements and athletic apparel. The multi-million-dollar facility is located in Fenton Logistics Park in Fenton, a southwest suburb of St. Louis. The project includes corporate offices, 16 Zoom rooms, a 222-seat education and training auditorium, private library, podcast studio and a 16,000-square-foot athletic facility with a weight training room, basketball court and batting cages. The company is relocating from its headquarters in South St. Louis County and consolidating several warehouses around the St. Louis area. More than 400 employees will work at the building. U.S. Capital Development is the developer and owner of the project. M+H Architects served as architect.
CHICAGO — Sloan, a manufacturer of commercial plumbing systems and touchless restroom solutions, has signed a 20,000-square-foot office lease at 333 N. Green in Chicago’s Fulton Market. Sloan will use the space for its first Chicago showroom. Owned by Sterling Bay, 333 N. Green is now 93 percent leased. Russ Cora and Gillian Keebler of Sterling Bay negotiated the lease transaction. Larry Cohn of @properties represented the tenant.
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — CBRE has negotiated two office leases totaling 6,200 square feet at 23 Vreeland Road in Florham Park, about 30 miles west of New York City. International export company Hockman-Lewis inked a 4,600-square-foot lease, while law firm Bakos & Kritzer committed to a 1,600-square-foot space. Jonathan Meisel, Dan Casey and Erin Wenzler of CBRE represented the landlord, Eastman Cos., in the lease negotiations. Dylan Tusinac and David DeMatteis of Cushman & Wakefield represented Hockman-Lewis, while Bakos & Kritzer was self-represented.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Exeter Property Group has purchased 92 Mountain View, an office property located in north Scottsdale, a suburb of Phoenix. Equus Capital Partners sold the asset for $19.2 million. The transaction completes the seller’s disposition of its two-property, 223,249-square-foot office portfolio, including the previously announced sale of Scottsdale Gateway I. CVS Health occupies 89 percent of the 116,200-square-foot property, which shares fiber connectivity with the main CVS Caremark campus that is near the building. Additionally, the property is adjacent to HonorHealth Scottsdale Shea Medical Center, a 433-bed, full-service, acute-care hospital. Ben Geelan, Andrew Milne and Michael Legget of JLL represented the seller, while John DiVall provided in-house representation for the buyer in the deal. John Chun and Tim Brousse, also of JLL, advised from a debt and structured finance perspective.
Boston Properties Buys 50 Percent Interest in Beach Cities Media Campus Joint Venture in El Segundo, California
by Amy Works
EL SEGUNDO, CALIF. — Boston Properties has acquired a 50 percent interest in an existing joint venture that owns Beach Cities Media Campus, a 6.4-acre site on the Rosecrans Corridor in El Segundo. Continental Development, a developer and owner of Class A properties in the El Segundo and South Bay submarkets of Los Angeles, is another partner in the joint venture. The site is fully entitled to support the future development of approximately 275,000 square feet of Class A creative office space. The Media Campus is the western border of Continental Park, a 3 million-square-foot, 86-acre office and mixed-use campus.
LEWISVILLE, TEXAS —Bright Realty has completed Crown Centre at Castle Hills, a 109,000-square-foot office building in the northern Dallas suburb of Lewisville that represents Phase I of the locally based developer’s Crown Centre mixed-use project. The four-story, Class A property is the first of more that 35 buildings that will ultimately comprise Crown Centre. Upon completion, the development will consist of 35 buildings featuring 3 million square feet of office space, 2,000 apartments, 140,000 square feet of dining and retail space, and 500 hotel rooms interconnected by extensive walking trails lined. Hill & Wilkinson served as the general contractor for the office building.
OMAHA, NEB. — McCarthy Building Cos. has completed construction of the Omaha VA Ambulatory Care Center, an $86 million, 157,000-square-foot outpatient facility for veterans. The property includes seven primary-care units, an outpatient surgery suite and a specialty medicine unit allowing 400 additional patients to visit the clinic each day, as well as a dedicated women’s health clinic area. The new facility, which is connected to the existing 12-story VA Medical Campus, will open to patients this month. This is the first center in the country to take advantage of the C.H.I.P.I.N. for Vets Act passed through Congress in 2016, according to McCarthy. Under the law, the VA is permitted to accept private donations to complete construction projects. The VA entered a public-private partnership with nonprofit group Veterans Ambulatory Center Development Corp. (VACDC) to save taxpayers roughly $30 million. The law also requires the builder to use innovative delivery techniques that fall outside federally prescribed specifications and methods. Such initiatives include subsurface utility mapping, virtual design and construction, and using a design-assist subcontracting approach instead of a hard-bid approach. McCarthy claims it completed the project four months ahead of schedule. “Breaking from the traditional design-bid-build delivery format allowed for creative solutions, more …