MENLO PARK, CALIF. — Palo Alto, Calif.-based Greenheart Land Co. has topped off Station 1300, a three-story, transit-oriented development in downtown Menlo Park. The development is located less than one block from the Menlo Park Caltrain station San Francisco-based BAR Architects designed the project, which will feature two Class A office buildings totaling 200,000 square feet; a 20,000-square-foot public plaza; 183 multifamily units; and approximately 28,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. JETT Landscape Architecture & Design is serving as landscape architect. Todd Husak and Jon Moeller of CBRE’s Palo Alto office are the leasing agents for the office portion of the property.
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NEW YORK CITY — RAL Development Services (RAL) is underway on Zero Irving, a 240,000-square-foot Class A office building in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan. The 21-story building features 176,000 square feet of office space across 14 floors, plus a street-level food hall, coworking spaces, event space and a technology training center designed to improve the skills of tenant employees. Bank OZK provided $120 million of construction financing to RAL and the developer entered a long-term ground lease with NYCEDC. RAL broke ground on the project this summer.
Colliers Brokers Sale of 67,219 SF One Summit Square Office Building in Langhorne, Pennsylvania
by Alex Patton
LANGHORNE, PA. — Colliers International has brokered the sale of One Summit Square, a 67,219-square-foot office building in Langhorne, a western suburb of Trenton. The building is leased by tenants including Comcast, electronics company Ricoh and U.S. Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick. The buyer, an affiliate of Phoenix Nexus Enterprises, will relocate its headquarters to an approximately 13,000-square-foot space at the property. Matthew Shanahan and Carl Neilson of Colliers represented the buyer as well as the seller, Country Life Insurance Co., in the transaction.
BRIDGEPORT, CONN. — Mental Health Connecticut Inc. (MHC) has signed a 3,020-square-foot office lease at 4920 Main Street in Bridgeport, located approximately 20 miles southwest of New Haven. The lease term is for 5 years. Alan Fischer of Fischer Commercial Real Estate represented MHC in the lease negotiations. Ciara McConn of Bayberry Property Management & Leasing represented the landlord, 4920 Main Street Associates LLC.
GBT Realty Acquires Final Piece of Land for 23-Story Office Tower in Downtown Nashville
by Alex Tostado
NASHVILLE, TENN. — GBT Realty has acquired the remaining 0.2-acre plot for its planned One22One Broadway, a 23-story, 365,000-square-foot office building in downtown Nashville. GBT Realty bought the land for $3 million, bringing the total development site to 0.8 acres. The Brentwood, Tenn.-based company revealed plans for One22One Broadway in April. The first two floors of the building will include 15,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space. The 11th floor will offer an amenity deck and café. Gresham Smith & Partners is the project’s architect, and Brasfield & Gorrie is the general contractor. Taylor Hillenmeyer, Janelle Gallagher, Frank Thomasson and Byran Fort of CBRE are marketing One22One to prospective office tenants. A timeline for completion was not disclosed. This announcement was originally published on Thursday, Oct. 24 with the incorrect headline “GBT Realty Breaks Ground on 23-Story Office Tower in Downtown Nashville.”
Denver was one of the top major metros targeted by commercial real estate investors in 2018. This year is proving to be no different as the third quarter closes out with a flood of office deals. Office investors are being forced to look for deals outside Denver’s urban core. Value-add acquisitions are mainly redevelopments driven by tenant demand for “cool” workspace and talent wars. There is no arguing Denver’s office market is maturing, but there appears to be no threats of an impending plateau or decline. The headlines this year have been dominated by large office lease transactions, including WeWork tying up 220,000 square feet at McGregor Square in LoDo. WeWork has taken a commanding stance with 2 million square feet in Denver and counting. Much of that space is dedicated to enterprise office space solutions and headquarters locations. This year has also marked the notable expansion of coworking outside of Denver’s urban core into Midtown, Cherry Creek and Southeast Denver. Occupancy levels within WeWork locations historically ebb and flow with direct vacancy rates per submarket performance. For example, WeWork at Civic Center Plaza in Upper Downtown Denver has been slow to fill with memberships and term. A WeWork desk …
The phenomenal growth taking place in Austin and San Antonio has shown little sign of slowing over the past several years. These two mid-size Texas cities are developing quickly and continue to undergo rapid change. Both are ranked in the top 10 fastest-growing metro areas in the country and both have unemployment levels at near-record lows. Tenant Profiles The industries driving the economy in these two central Texas cities are quite different. Each has strong tourism sectors, but that is where the similarities end. In Austin, the tech industry, government, life sciences and creative arts are keeping the market extremely active. Defense, healthcare, oil and gas and the burgeoning markets of cybersecurity and biotech are driving absorption in San Antonio. New tenants are coming to San Antonio to take advantage of lower costs and an abundant workforce — a positive trend that reflects strong fundamentals and viability. As for Austin, Fortune 500 companies continue to pour into the city not only to capitalize on the lower cost of doing business in Texas, but also to recruit and lure a highly educated workforce. Austin’s third-consecutive gold medal ranking as the “Best Place to Live” by U.S. News & World Report makes …
LEESBURG, VA. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $9.2 million sale of Leesburg Plaza Office Building, a 37,946-square-foot office building in Leesburg. WHR LLC sold the three-story building, which features Dog Money Restaurant & Brewery on the first floor. 10th Street Catoctin LLC acquired the property via a 1031 exchange. Leesburg Plaza Office Building is located at 50 Catoctin Circle NE, 40 miles northwest of downtown Washington, D.C.
MESA, ARIZ. — Lincoln Property Co. (LPC) and Harvard Investments has broken ground for the first office building at Union, a four-building, 1.3 million-square-foot office project at the junction of Mesa, Tempe and Scottsdale. Union’s first building will total 238,348 square feet spread across four stories, as well as an adjacent four-level parking garage. All the buildings planned at Union will feature a modern glass exterior, an active first floor, large office floorplates with high ceilings, outdoor balconies and 10-foot vision glass offering views of the surrounding city and mountains. Building One will connect to the larger Union master plans via a main pedestrian plaza and indoor-outdoor features such as shaded gathering areas and outdoor linked by the Rio Salado Pathway. Situated on 28.2 acres, the buildings will range from four to eight stories and from 232,000 square feet to 450,000 square feet. Completion of the first building is slated for October 2020. DAVIS is serving as project architect and Wespac is serving as general contractor. LPC will serve as the project’s leasing agent and property manager.
BOTHELL, WASH. — JLL has secured $19.9 million in refinancing for Nexus Canyon Park Research Center, a life science, flex and R&D property in Bothell, a suburb of Seattle. The borrower is San Diego-based Nexus Properties. Located at 21720 23rd Drive SE, the two-story Nexus Canyon Park Research Center features 152,050 square feet of space. Constructed in 1999, the facility recently underwent a partial conversion into flex industrial space. Current tenants include Epoch Pharmaceuticals, Sony Biotechnology, Sound Biologics and Shimadzu Scientific. Tim Wright, Zack Holderman, Zack Goodwin and Anthony Rosetta of JLL arranged the loan for a national lender on behalf of the borrower.