AUSTIN, TEXAS — A partnership between Starwood Capital Group and Vanderbilt Partners has purchased the Campus at Arboretum, a 319,000-square-foot office property in northwest Austin. The campus offers proximity to The Domain, one of Austin’s premier shopping and dining destinations, as well as picnic areas, a volleyball court and a basketball court.
ROLLING MEADOWS, ILL. — GlenStar and Rubenstein Partners LP have launched a $15 million capital improvement plan for Continental Towers, a 910,796-square-foot office complex in Rolling Meadows, about 30 miles northwest of Chicago. This is the second of a two-phase renovation project initiated in 2015. Plans call for a reimagined outdoor terrace with a lounge, grilling areas, fire pits and lawn area. The property’s café and amenity center, which are currently undergoing renovations, will be connected to the new terrace. Project completion is scheduled for second-quarter 2020. Phase I was a $30 million project that included the construction of a new 734-stall parking garage and a full renovation of the 22,000-square-foot fitness center run by Midtown Health Club. Continental Towers is a three-tower property situated on 34 acres at 1701 Golf Road. GlenStar originally acquired the property in 2013 and recapitalized the asset in 2018 with Rubenstein.
BOULDER, COLO. — JLL has arranged $8.7 million in bridge financing for the acquisition of two flex buildings in Boulder. The borrower is Ivy Realty. Leon McBroom of JLL Capital Markets team secured the three-year, floating-rate loan with two one-year extensions. A regional lender provided the funds. Located at 5300 and 5305 Sterling Drive, the properties total 46,702 square feet. Beginning in the summer of 2020, Ivy Realty plans to start converting the buildings into creative office space for use by large single tenants. The borrower previously repositioned the adjacent building at 5360 Sterling Drive with a similar strategy. Built in 1983, 5300 Sterling Drive is currently a two-story industrial warehouse consisting of 19,904 square feet. 5305 Sterling Drive, which was constructed in 1996, is a two-story, 26,798-square-foot, Class B flex building.
ATLANTA — Piedmont Office Realty Trust Inc. (NYSE: PDM) has purchased the remainder of Atlanta Galleria Office Park in northwest Atlanta. The $231 million acquisition consolidates Atlanta Galleria’s multi-tenant office buildings and 6,000-space structured parking facilities under a single owner for the first time. Situated in the city’s Cumberland-Galleria submarket near SunTrust Park and The Battery Atlanta, the acquisition comprises Galleria 400 and Galleria 600, two office towers totaling approximately 860,000 square feet. The purchase also included an adjacent 10.2-acre parcel entitled for 1 million square feet of additional development. The seller was undisclosed. “When we acquired Galleria 300 in 2015, we boldly imagined the environment a single owner could create adjacent to the unique amenity set evolving in The Battery,” says Brent Smith, president and CEO of Piedmont Office Realty Trust. “Today, the first step of that vision becomes a reality and marks the beginning of Piedmont’s transformation of this prominent Atlanta mixed-use development.” Piedmont Office Realty Trust purchased Galleria 100 and an additional 1.5-acre parcel in May for $95.1 million. The company’s total investment in The Galleria is just under $500 million. The 2.1 million square feet of office space within the master-planned development is spread across five …
While Austin is the Texas city that has become most synonymous with a tech-heavy office market over the last decade, the remarkable amount of overall job growth in the metroplex is allowing Dallas to slowly grab a larger piece of the tech pie. While some of the fastest-growing tech firms in the market right now — Google, Facebook, Indeed — have committed to larger office footprints in Austin, many of these firms still retain offices in Dallas due to its strong supply of qualified labor and relatively cheaper cost of doing business. However, in addition to having offices in Dallas, these firms have contributed to commercial real estate growth in the metroplex through build-to-suit data center developments and large colocation leases with established data center operators in the market. Facebook’s $1 billion data center development in Fort Worth is among the largest in the country, and construction recently began on Google’s $600 million data center campus in the southern suburb of Midlothian. IBM SoftLayer, Rackspace, and LinkedIn are other examples of technology firms taking large data center leases in the Dallas metroplex, North America’s third-largest data center market, according to 2019 figures from DataCenter Hawk. Outside of the context of …
GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — Local office developer Cawley Partners will build a 150,000-square-foot office building at 161 Toll Road in Grand Prairie, located roughly midway between Dallas and Fort Worth. The property will be located within the Mayfield Groves mixed-use development. Construction is expected to begin in late 2020.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Charleston Executive Offices (CEO) has signed 21 tenants to occupy space at The Offices at Nexton. The office building is situated within Nexton, a 5,000-acre, master-planned community in Charleston that will offer more than 8 million square feet of commercial space. CEO is developing The Offices at Nexton, while North America Sekisui House LLC (NASH) and Newland are master co-developers of Nexton, which is located on Interstate 26, about 25 miles northwest of downtown Charleston. Some of the 21 tenants include Microsoft, Citizens One Home Loans, Curtiss-Wright Electro-Mechanical, Glenn Law Firm, Harvey & Vallini, IM Marketing Group, Global Software Inc., Predicate Logic Inc., Strategic Wealth Advisory Group and Velocity Data Systems.
VIENNA, VA. — Phillips Realty Capital has arranged a $67 million refinancing loan for a 199,097-square-foot Tier III data center and office building in Vienna. The borrowers acquired the building in 2016 and immediately began renovations. The funds are being used to refinance the initial construction loan as well as add 130,000 square feet of raised floor, including an 8 MW expansion of critical power. The data center is categorized as a Tier III center due to having 99.982 percent operational time and not more than 1.6 hours of downtime per year, according to The Uptime Institute. The property also features a “N+1 configuration,” which gives the building 72-hour power outage protection. The building is located 17 miles west of Washington, D.C. William Lawson, Adam Bieber, and Harmon Handorf of Phillips Realty Capital arranged the loan through EagleBank on behalf of the borrowers, Element Critical, Safanad and Industry Capital.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — JLL has brokered the $18 million sale of Crouse Medical Center, a 173,466-square-foot of medical office building in Syracuse. The property comprises two connected buildings that are 88 percent leased to medical tenants including Crouse Health System. Steven Rutman, Ben Appel, Jose Cruz and Rob Rizzi of JLL represented the seller, Brittonfield Associates, in the transaction. ICONIC Property Partners was the buyer.
NEW YORK CITY — Helmsley Spear has negotiated a 56,000-square-foot office lease for WeWork at 83 Maiden Lane in the Financial District of Manhattan. The 15-year lease comprises the entire 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th floors of the building, which brings the property to 100 percent occupancy. Kent Swig and Andrew Simon of Helmsley Spear represented WeWork and the landlord, AHRC New York City, in the lease negotiations,
