TAMPA, FLA. — RealOp Investments has sold Bay West Commerce Park, an eight-building, 195,558-square-foot office campus in Tampa’s Westshore submarket, for $26.7 million. RealOp acquired the property in 2017 and invested $1.5 million in renovations during its ownership. The campus, located six miles west of downtown Tampa, was 86 percent leased at the time of sale. Dale Peterson of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction. The buyer was not disclosed.
WORCESTER, MASS. — Kelleher & Sadowsky Associates Inc. has brokered the sale of Worcester Plaza Tower, a 244,000-square-foot office tower in central Massachusetts. The sales price was $16.5 million. The 24-story tower is the tallest office building in Worcester. Kelleher & Sadowsky represented the seller, S-BNK Worcester Main, an entity registered to the Casey Brothers Trust of Boston. The firm also procured the buyer, Synergy Investments, which plans to make capital improvements to the property.
NEW YORK CITY — SL Green Realty Corp., a publicly traded office investment firm, has acquired 603 West 50th Street, a 160,000-square-foot office building in Manhattan. KCP Holdco Inc., an affiliate of the seller that currently occupies the property, will lease approximately 40,000-square-feet of office space to serve as its headquarters. SL Green will undertake a full-building repositioning to elevate the profile of this asset, which was originally built in 1940. Woody Heller and David Heller of Savills Studley represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
BOSTON — Alduwaliya, a Qatar-based investment firm, has purchased 99 Chauncy Street and 101 Summer Street, two office buildings totaling 159,781 square feet in Boston’s Financial District. Both properties include ground-floor retail space and were fully leased at the time of sale to tenants with an average weighted lease term of 7.2 years. Scott Dragos, Doug Jacoby, Chris Skeffington, Roy Sandeman, Anthony Hayes, Timothy Mulhall and Daniel Hines of CBRE represented the seller, Nuveen Real Estate, in the transaction. The price was not disclosed.
SAN BERNARDINO, CALIF. — A joint venture between Harbor Associates and Taconic Capital Advisors has acquired a five-building office portfolio located within the 153-acre Tri City Corporate Center office park in San Bernardino. An undisclosed seller sold the assets for $41.7 million in an off-market transaction. Totaling 368,000 square feet, the buildings range from 70,000 square feet to 115,000 square feet. The portfolio, which is collectively 55 percent leased to 28 tenants, represents the only block of contiguous office space of more than 75,000 square feet in the Inland Empire. The joint venture plans to re-position and lease-up the assets through a renovation program across the portfolio that includes upgraded building entries and lobby experiences, elevator improvements, new roofs and replacement of the original HVAC units. Upon completion, the portfolio will feature rent-ready speculative suites, electric vehicle charging stations, LED lighting retrofit, as well as new building and project signage. Anthony Delorenzo, Todd Tydlaska and Sammy Cemo of CBRE represented the seller in the deal. The acquisition was leveraged with short-term financing from a subsidiary of Granite Point Mortgage Trust, which is externally managed by Pine River Capital Management.
ALGONQUIN, ILL. AND EARTH CITY, MO. — NAI Hiffman has negotiated the sale-leaseback of several properties occupied by Young Innovations Inc. for $17.1 million. Young Innovations is a manufacturer and distributor of consumable dental supplies and equipment. The assets include the company’s 95,000-square-foot headquarters at 2260 Wendt St. in Algonquin as well as the firm’s three manufacturing facilities totaling 117,400 square feet in Earth City, a suburb of St. Louis. Young Innovations will maintain operations at all properties under a 20-year lease with the buyer, New York-based New Mountain Net Lease. Pat Sullivan and Ryan Chambers of NAI Hiffman brokered the sale.
DETROIT — Coworking provider Venture X has leased 22,000 square feet at 220 W. Congress in downtown Detroit. Venture X is a membership-based, shared workspace and community that blends a boutique hotel and modern office style. This is the company’s first location in Michigan. It will begin occupying the three floors of the 35,000-square-foot building in the first quarter. Brendan George and Jasper Hanifi of CBRE represented the landlord, Basco, in the lease transaction. Kyle Passage of Cushman & Wakefield and Dan Stewart of SVN Stewart Commercial Group LLC represented the tenant.
DALLAS — Accesso, an investment manager and operator of office buildings, has added three tenants to 2626 Cole, the company’s 121,000-square-foot office building in the Uptown/Turtle Creek area of Dallas. WorkSuites signed a lease for 28,600 square feet; Republic Editorial inked a deal for 12,300 square feet; and Annandale Capital signed a lease of an undisclosed size. The leasing activity brings the occupancy of the property, which was recently renovated, to 95 percent.
PLATTEVILLE, COLO. — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has facilitated the sale of a two-story office building located at 501 N. Division Blvd. in Platteville, approximately 40 miles north of Denver. Platteville Energy Partners sold the asset to an undisclosed buyer for $32.5 million, or $282 per square foot. Occidental Petroleum Corp. (formerly Anadarko Petroleum Corp.) fully occupies the 114,524-square-foot building. The company uses the facility as a mission critical operations center in the Denver-Julesburg Basin. John Jugl of NKF represented the seller, Platteville Energy Partners I LLC, in the transaction.
BOSTON — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has brokered the sale of 100 Summer Street, a 1.1 million-square-foot office building in downtown Boston. The 32-story tower, which was built in 1974 and includes ground-floor retail space, features amenities such as a coffee bar, gaming areas, fitness center and close access to the South Station transit hub. Office tenants include Bloomberg News and software company CloudHealth Technologies. Retail tenants include Common Vines Wine Shop and Sebastians Cafe. Edward Maher, Matthew Pullen, James Tribble, Robert Griffin, David Martel and Timothy Bianchi of NKF represented the seller, a partnership between The Blackstone Group and EQ Office, in the transaction. David Douvadjian Sr., Brian Butler, Timothy O’Donnell and David Douvadjian Jr. represented the buyer, Rockpoint Group. The sales price was undisclosed.