BERGENFIELD, N.J. — NAI James Hanson has negotiated the sale of a 5,245-square-foot office building in Bergenfield, a northern suburb of New York City. The buyer, Maywood Physical Therapy & Rehab Center, will utilize a portion of the building as its third medical office location and will continue to lease the remaining space to the four current tenants. NAI James Hanson’s Dominic Fittizzi represented the seller, S&S Realty Holding Co. LLC, in the transaction.
DEERFIELD, ILL. — Transwestern Commercial Services has brokered the sale of 1717 Deerfield Road in Deerfield for an undisclosed price. The 147,096-square-foot office building rises three stories and offers 50,000-square-foot floor plates. It is currently 21.2 percent leased by accounting and consulting firm Warady & Davis LLP. Gary Nussbaum and Paige Gunn of Transwestern represented the seller, Hudson Advisors. Canada-based investment group Progressif and Schaumburg-based Helios Property Management purchased the asset.
San Francisco has been a boom-and-bust market since the Gold Rush. The current intense scrutiny of the yield curve, combined with the stock market’s recent erratic behavior, has sent warnings of the next looming recession. Just how will this affect the office market? Fortunately for the Bay Area, not much. Today, several key factors insulate San Francisco from a severe downturn, unlike past cycles. Among them are Proposition M and a concentration of venture capital, highly skilled talent and some of the world’s largest companies. Since 1986, Proposition M has limited the amount of office development the city will authorize in any given year. The program aims to guard against typical boom-and-bust cycles. The San Francisco office market only includes 85 million square feet, as opposed to Manhattan or Houston, for example, which comprise 400 million and 240 million square feet, respectively. Manhattan currently has 12.4 million square feet of office space under construction, while San Francisco has 3 million square feet in the pipeline. The entitlement limit under Prop M has been reached, meaning no additional new projects can be approved until October when another 950,000 square feet will be allocated for the next year. At first glance, these …
CHICAGO — Skender has completed construction of LinkedIn’s 46,000-square-foot Chicago headquarters expansion at 525 W. Monroe. A staircase now connects the existing space via two floors. The project includes large collaboration areas, open workstations, a salon, mother’s room as well as a fifth-floor amenity space with a garden lounge, game room and music room. California-based LinkedIn’s total footprint in the building is now 185,077 square feet. Skender collaborated with Gensler, ESD Global and Avison Young for the project.
ANN ARBOR, MICH. — Bernard Financial Group has arranged a $44.5 million CMBS loan for the refinancing of 777 E. Eisenhower Parkway in Ann Arbor. The 271,817-square-foot, multi-tenant office property was built in 1975. Dennis Bernard and Joshua Bernard of Southfield-based Bernard arranged the loan with a CMBS firm on behalf of the borrower, 777 Associates LLC.
WAUWATOSA, WIS. — Founders 3 Real Estate Services has brokered the sale of a 51,651-square-foot office building in Wauwatosa, about six miles west of Milwaukee, for $8.4 million. Built in 2002, the Class B property is located at 10400 Innovation Drive. Ned Purtell and Andy Hess of Founders 3 represented the seller, 10400 Innovation LLC. Rupesh Agrawal purchased the asset.
PLANO, TEXAS — Granite Properties, a commercial investment and development firm with five offices around the country, will develop Granite Park Six, an 18-story, 415,000-square-foot office building within the 90-acre Granite Park mixed-use development in Plano. Designed by BOKA Powell, the Class A property will front State Highway 121 and feature a market café, customer lounge with coffee service, a bar, golf simulator, lecture hall, three conference centers and an outdoor amenity deck on the fifth floor. Balfour Beatty is serving as the general contractor for the project, construction of which could begin as early as the first quarter of 2020.
ORANGE, CALIF. — Los Angeles-based Stanton Road Capital (SRC) has acquired TriCentre, a Class A office tower located in Orange, for an undisclosed price. The name of the seller was not released. Completed in 1986, the 10-story TriCentre features 211,916 square feet of office space. The property is situated within the “Platinum Triangle” at the convergence of Interstate 5, California State Route 57 and California State Route 55. At the time of sale, the building was 78 percent leased to a variety of high-profile tenants, including Farmers Insurance, Children’s Home Society of California, MegaMex Foods and Lockheed Martin. The buyer has plans to invest significant post-acquisition capital to improve the tenant experience, including a fully overhauled lobby and courtyard, as well as building upgrades. SRC has retained Cushman & Wakefield to handle leasing and property management of TriCentre.
NEW YORK CITY — JLL has negotiated a 27,811-square-foot office lease for Marquee Brands LLC at 330 West 34th. Street in New York City. Designed by Schulze & Weaver, the 682,000-square-foot building was completed in 1926. Mitchell Konsker, Alexander Chudnoff, Benjamin Bass and Harrison Potter of JLL represented Marquee in the transaction. Josh Glick and Jared Silverman represented the landlord, Vornado Realty Trust, in-house.
SUMMIT, N.J. — A joint venture of Saxum Real Estate and The Becker Organization has purchased a 42,000-square-foot office building in Summit, a western suburb of New York City. The property was built in 2001 and was fully leased to three tenants at the time of sale. Cushman & Wakefield’s Gary Gabriel, Frank DiTommaso, David Bernhaut, Andy Merin and Brian Whitmer represented the seller, The Silverman Group, in the transaction. The Cushman & Wakefield team also procured the buyer.
