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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
TORRANCE, CALIF. — Silicon Valley-based Nome Ventures has purchased Pacific Gateway, an office tower located at 19191 S. Vermont Ave. in Torrance within the South Bay submarket of Los Angeles County. An undisclosed seller sold the asset for $55.5 million. Built in 1981 and renovated in 2019, the 10-story tower features 237,145 square feet of Class A office space. The $6 million renovation included an upgraded lobby, new corridors, a new tenant amenity center and exterior improvements. At the time of sale, the building was nearly 84 percent occupied. Current tenants include Optum Care (formerly DaVita Medical Group), Kumon, Farmers Insurance Federal Credit Union and Olgetree Deakins. Kevin Shannon, Bill Bloodgood, Ken White, Scott Schumacher and Aly Chelf of Newmark Knight Frank represented the seller, while the buyer was self-represented in the transaction. Greg Grant of CBRE Capital Markets in Los Angeles, along with Mike Longo, Todd Tydlaska and Sean Sullivan of CBRE, arranged $39.3 million in financing for the buyer.