CHICAGO — Industrious, a flexible workspace provider, has expanded its office space at Accenture Tower in Chicago. Industrious will now occupy more than 93,000 square feet, up from its original footprint of 46,500 square feet. The company says it signed the lease expansion due to overwhelming business demand. Industrious Ogilvie features shared workspaces, private offices and Canvas suites, its signature offering. Amenities include Wi-Fi, daily breakfast in a fully stocked café and networking events. The expanded space is expected to be open in the second quarter of 2020. KBS owns Accenture Tower, a 1.5 million-square-foot office tower. KBS spearheaded a multi-million-dollar renovation of the property in 2015. Wendy Katz and Matt Lerner of Cushman & Wakefield represented KBS in the lease transaction. Paul Reaumond, Mark Cassata and Ian Murphy of CBRE represented Industrious.
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NEW YORK CITY — Equity firm General Atlantic Service Co. will expand its Manhattan headquarters lease to 93,500 square feet. The company currently occupies 62,340 square feet across the 32nd and 33rd floors of Park Avenue Plaza and will incorporate the entire 31,200-square-foot space of the 31st floor beginning in July 2020. Robert Martin of JLL represented General Atlantic in the lease negotiation. Marc Packman and Clark Briffel represented the landlord, Fisher Brothers, on an internal basis.
NEW YORK CITY — JLL has negotiated a 27,000-square-foot, 15-year office lease for public relations firm MWWPR in Manhattan. MWWPR will take occupy the entire third floor of the Nomad Tower, located at 1250 Broadway. Alexander Chudnoff, Benjamin Bass and Kristen Morgan of JLL represented MWWPR in the transaction. Paul Glickman, Mitchell Konsker, Diana Biasotti and Harley Dalton of JLL represented the landlord, Global Holdings Management Group, along with Craig Panzirer of Global Holdings.
RANCHO CORDOVA, CALIF. — CBRE has arranged the sale of an office building, located at 2882 Prospect Park Drive in Rancho Cordova, a suburb 15 miles east of Sacramento. Lafayette, Calif.-based Prospect Park LLC sold the asset to San Jose, Calif.-based Prospect Park Drive LLC for an undisclosed sum. Matt Post, Stuart Wright and Randy Getz of CBRE’s Sacramento office represented the seller in the deal. Built in 1999, the four-story, 112,511-square-foot property was 88 percent leased at the time of sale. The asset is located within the Highway 50 Corridor submarket, which has a total of 11.4 million square feet of office space.
Ready Capital Closes $18.1M in Refinancing for Creative Office Portfolio in Southern California
by Amy Works
CULVER CITY, CALIF. — Ready Capital has provided a $18.1 million loan for the refinancing, repositioning and lease-up of a vacant creative office portfolio in Culver City. The loan will be used to reposition the 38,000-square-foot property from traditional office to modern, creative-type finishes and simultaneously provide a facility for tenant lease-up. The name of the borrower was not released. Ready Capital closed the non-recourse, interest-only, floating-rate loan that features a 36-month term, two extension options and flexible prepayment. Additionally, the loan is inclusive of a facility to provide future funding for the capital expenditures, tenant leasing costs and interest and operating reserves.
DALLAS — JLL has arranged an undisclosed amount of permanent financing for 3000 and 3100 Olympus Boulevard, two office buildings totaling 467,366 square feet in Dallas. Allianz Real Estate of America provided the 15-year, fixed-rate loan, proceeds of which will be used to retire construction debt following the stabilization of the buildings. Trey Morsbach and Jim Curtin of JLL placed the debt on behalf of the borrower, locally based developer Billingsley Co.
WASHNIGTON, D.C. — JLL has arranged a $181.5 million refinancing loan for Portals III, a 510,157-square-foot office building in southwest Washington, D.C. ACORE Capital provided the loan, which will be used to refinance existing debt, lease up the asset and fund capital improvements throughout the property. Portals III marks the third phase of the Portals mixed-use development, which comprises more than 1.5 million square feet of office space, more than 370 residential units, a 400-room Mandarin Oriental hotel and retail space. Andrew Weir, Cary Abod, Rob Carey, Drake Greer and Jay Graham of JLL represented the borrower, Washington, D.C-based Franklin L. Haney Co., in the loan transaction.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Normandy Real Estate Partners has sold 950 L’Enfant Plaza, a 315,726-square-foot office building in Washington, D.C., for $104.6 million. The nine-story building was 86 percent leased at the time of sale. I.M. Pei designed the property, which is situated within the 2.5 million-square-foot L’Enfant Plaza mixed-use development. The asset overlooks the Southwest Waterfront and has access to the L’Enfant Metrorail Station and is two blocks from the Virginia Railway Express Station. Matt Nicholson, Jim Meisel, Andrew Weir, Stephen Conley and Dave Baker of JLL represented the seller in the transaction. The buyer was not disclosed.
SAN FRANCISCO — Polidev has completed the sale of 351 California Street, a 16-story office building located in downtown San Francisco. Tidewater Capital and affiliates of the Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division acquired the property for an undisclosed sum. Built in 1920, the 140,047-square-foot building is one of the most recognized historic office buildings in San Francisco’s Financial District. The property features distinct architectural details, U-shaped floor plates and exposed ceilings. The previous owner invested approximately $8 million into the property with a partial renovation in 2010 and a seismic retrofit in 2015. At the time of sale, the property was 87 percent occupied by a diverse roster of tenants, including tech and professional services firms. Kyle Kovac, Mike Taquino, Russell Ingrum, Mandy Lee and Giancarlo Sangiacomo of CBRE’s San Francisco office represented the seller in the transaction.
NAPERVILLE, ILL. — Franklin Partners has opened The Shuman, a redeveloped 350,000-square-foot office building in Naperville. The property, located at 263 Shuman Blvd., formerly served as the headquarters for OfficeMax. Designed by Wright Heerema Architects, the multi-tenant property now includes a five-story atrium with a custom light installation. A staircase that doubles as seating space leads to the amenity floor, which includes private meeting rooms, a lounge, game room, golf simulator and fitness center. Fiona’s Fare is a dining area while Manan is an in-house coffee bar. Francis Prock and David Florent of Colliers International are marketing the property for lease. Thus far, approximately 35,000 square feet of space has been leased. Franklin Partners acquired the property in April 2018 in a joint venture with Bixby Bridge Capital.