CHICAGO — Uber Technologies has signed a 10-year office lease for 463,000 square feet at Chicago’s Old Post Office. The ridesharing company will serve as the building’s anchor tenant and expects to take over the space beginning Jan. 5. The office will be Uber’s second-largest office behind its headquarters in San Francisco. The owner and developer of the property, 601W Cos., is underway on an $800 million redevelopment of the 2.8 million-square-foot former post office. Walgreens, Home Chef, Ferrara Candy Co. and AbelsonTaylor have previously signed leases at the project.
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CHICAGO — J.C. Anderson has completed a 29,000-square-foot renovation project at the Aon Center in Chicago. The project scope included new amenities for the building’s 70th floor. Known as the Cloud Level, the project features a new fitness center, conference center, bar area, dining area, game room, library and private event meeting space. Gary Lee Partners provided architectural services and JLL provided project management services. Property owners include 601W Cos. and Brickell 13 Chicago. Located downtown, the Aon Center is an 83-story skyscraper. It is currently the third-tallest building in Chicago and was completed in 1973. Major tenants include Aon, JLL and Kraft Heinz.
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has brokered the sale of 900 and 990 Stewart Ave., two Class A office buildings totaling 462,000 square feet in Garden City, Long Island. The buildings were 88 percent leased at the time of sale. Kevin Welsh, Brian Schulz, Jason Emrani, Rob Griffin, Steven Schultz, Scott Berfas and Dan Oliver of NKF represented the seller, a joint venture of Boston-based The Davis Companies and New Jersey-based Onyx Equities, in the transaction. The NKF team also procured the buyer, a New York-based investor.
NAI James Hanson Negotiates 5,500 SF Medical Office Lease Extension in Clifton, New Jersey
by Alex Patton
CLIFTON, N.J. — NAI James Hanson has negotiated a lease extension for a 5,500-square-foot medical office space in Clifton, a western suburb of New York City, for Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation Inc. The office is located within 1135 Broad Street, a three-story, 68,000-square-foot medical office building. Randy Horning and Darren Lizzack of NAI James Hanson represented the landlord, First Equity Development Co., in the lease negotiations. John Morrissey of Jackson Cross Partners represented Kessler.
The momentum of the Charlotte office market continued in the first quarter of 2019, as office rents rose for an eighth consecutive quarter and the city notched a major economic development win with the announcement that BB&T and SunTrust would merge, creating a new bank that will be headquartered in Charlotte. The news came on the heels of announcements late last year that Honeywell plans to relocate its corporate headquarters to the city and that LendingTree would expand its headquarters, creating 436 jobs over five years. The city’s economic strength has been fueled by a growing labor market that was led by the tech sector in 2018. Last fall, CompTIA’s 2018 Tech Town Index found that Charlotte is the No. 1 city for information technology workers when it comes to job opportunity and cost of living. At the time of the report, more than 44,000 IT jobs had been posted in Charlotte over the previous 12 months. That number is projected to grow by 11 percent over the next five years as Bank of America Corp., Wells Fargo & Co. and Ally Financial look to fill IT jobs at all levels. Office rental rates in Charlotte increased by 6.5 percent …
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Bulfinch, a Boston-based investment firm, has acquired a 193,000-square-foot office building in Cambridge. The office is located within the 27-acre Cambridge Discovery Park (CDP) development, and is 100 percent leased to market research company Forrester Research. With the acquisition, Bulfinch now owns all of CDP’s lab, office research and development facilities. People’s United Bank provided long-term financing for the acquisition.
ATLANTA — Savlan Capital has acquired six office buildings totaling 289,433 square feet within Camp Creek Business Center, a 400-acre business park in south Atlanta. Hollywood, Fla.-based Savlan bought the property from Indianapolis-based Duke Realty for $111.25 per square foot. The office buildings are located at 1000, 1100, 1200, 1400, 1800 and 2000 Centre Parkway, five miles west of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Duke Realty is developing Camp Creek, which comprises 2.9 million square feet of existing industrial and office buildings with the capacity for an additional 2 million square feet of development. The six buildings were 79 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Sto Corp., DoverStaffing, Hopebridge, Jaguar Land Rover Automotive North America, Keller Williams and Primerica.
Cushman & Wakefield Negotiates Two Office Leases Totaling 4,920 SF in Somerset, New Jersey
by Alex Patton
SOMERSET, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated two office leases totaling 4,920 square feet in Somerset, a city located about 40 miles east of New York City. The offices are situated within 200 Cottontail Lane, a 208,000-square-foot Class A office property. August eTech signed a 3,230-square-foot headquarters office lease, and Tekcon Construction signed a 1,800-square-foot regional office lease. Paul Giannone, Todd Elfand, Kevin Carton and Joe Vacca of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, The Winter Organization, in both lease negotiations. Carolyn Sica of CBRE represented eTech.
RIVERSIDE, CALIF. — Northstar Commercial Partners has completed the sale of an office building located at 1595 Spruce St. in Riverside. An undisclosed buyer acquired the asset for $6 million. An affiliate of Northstar originally purchased the 67,076-square-foot property in 2015 as one of 24 total assets in a portfolio acquisition totaling $224.3 million. Gary Stache, Doug Mack, Vindar Batoosingh and Phil Woodford of CBRE represented the seller in the deal.
KENT, WASH. — Menashe Properties has completed the disposition of Creeksides at Centerpoint, an office campus located in Kent. An undisclosed buyer acquired the asset for $39 million. The three-building campus features 218,650 square feet of office space. At the time of sale, the asset was 97.6 percent leased to a diverse roster of local, regional, national and government tenants, including Blue Nile and the State of Washington. Logan Greer and Kevin Freels of JLL Capital Markets, along with Scott Sulman and Michael George of NAI Puget Sound Properties, represented the seller in the deal.