DENVER — Concord HQ LLC has purchased an office property in Denver from Unico BOP 1406 Wazee LLC/Unico BOP 1408 Wazee for $4.5 million. Located at 1408 Wazee in Denver, the asset features 9,009 square feet of office space. Andrew Blaustein and Josh Pons of Newmark Knight Frank represented the buyer, while JLL represented the seller in the deal. First American Title Insurance Co. also participated in the transaction.
SAN DIEGO — CBRE has arranged the sale of a creative office building, located at 2870 Fifth Ave. in San Diego’s Bankers Hill neighborhood. A private 1031-exchange buyer acquired the approximately 7,300-square-foot property for $3 million, or $411 per square foot. Matt Pourcho, Anthony DeLorenzo, Gary Stache, Doug Mack and Marc Frederick of CBRE represented the seller, HG Fenton Co., in the deal. Originally constructed as a fire station in 1900, the two-story building was recently repositioned and renovated into a modern creative office building. At the time of sale, the property was 100 percent leased. Tenants include Fox & Jane salon, Sojourn Healing Collective, KD Skin beauty salon and Explore That Store digital marketing agency.
BOSTON — Computer software and services company PTC has relocated to a new 250,000-square-foot global headquarters in Boston’s Seaport District. PTC relocated its headquarters in Needham to 121 Seaport Blvd., a newly constructed 17-story, 400,000-square-foot office building. The property will house 1,000 of PTC’s 6,000 employees worldwide. The open design of PTC’s office includes conference rooms and meeting spaces around the building core on each floor as well as a themed work café and coffee space. The office will feature no private offices and no assigned seats. Cresa represented PTC in the site-selection process, lease administration, transaction management, workplace strategy and project management. Gilbane Building Co. served as construction manager and Margulies Perruzzi Architects served as architectural and interior designer on the project. A joint venture of American Realty Advisors and Norges Bank Real Estate Management owns 121 Seaport.
FRISCO, TEXAS — Minneapolis-based Ryan Cos. and Dubai-based Invest Group Overseas will develop Auspire at The Gate, a 900,000-square-foot office campus that will be located in the northern Dallas metro of Frisco. The office space will be part of a mixed-use development that includes retail space, two multifamily buildings totaling 775 units and a hotel. Avison Young will handle leasing of the office space, which has a construction schedule of 18 to 20 months.
DALLAS — Common Desk has opened an 18,085-square-foot coworking office space at Factory Six03, a warehouse-turned-office building located at 603 Munger St. in Dallas’ West End neighborhood. The space features 26 private offices, conference rooms, a vinyl record lounge, nap room and a wet bar. The location represents the second collaboration between Common Desk and the landlord, Granite Properties.
ATLANTA — The Ardent Cos. has purchased Piedmont Center 14, a 300,454-square-foot office building located at 3535 Piedmont Road in Atlanta’s Buckhead district, for $58 million. The building is situated within Piedmont Center, a 2.1 million-square-foot office park in Buckhead located on 52 acres near Ga. Highway 400 and Piedmont Road. According to the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Ardent now owns nearly 1.7 million square feet within Piedmont Center and has the third largest office footprint among Buckhead owners, trailing only Cousins Properties and Highwoods Properties Inc. Built in 1988, Piedmont Center 14 was 79 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including MagMutual, Change Healthcare, Kenzie Lane and NCC Media. Richard Reid, Ryan Clutter, Ralph Smalley and Huston Green of HFF represented the undisclosed seller and procured the buyer in the transaction.
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — A joint venture between CIGNA Investment Management and The Muller Co. has acquired Century Plaza, a six-story office building located at 550 S. Winchester Blvd. near Santana Row in San Jose. New York Life Real Estate Investors sold the property for $63.4 million. The new ownership plans to rebrand the 103,622-square-foot property and invest approximately $4.1 million to upgrade the façade, landscaping, lobby, restrooms and corridors. At the time of sale, the property was 82 percent leased. Eric Fox and Nick Lazzarina of Cushman & Wakefield’s San Jose office, along with Steven Hermann, Seth Siegel and Adam Lasoff of Cushman & Wakefield’s San Francisco office, represented the buyer and seller in the deal.
MILWAUKEE — TPG Real Estate and Crestlight Capital have purchased the Schlitz Park office campus in Milwaukee for an undisclosed price. The joint venture acquired the 32-acre office property from The Brewery Works Inc., the development and ownership group led by the Grunau and Sampson families. After a $30 million, multi-year renovation, Schlitz Park reached full occupancy in mid-2018. Tenants include US Bank, UMB Fund Services, HSA Bank, Aurora Health Care and the Milwaukee Bucks. The property originally served as the brewery for Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co.
MINNEAPOLIS — Sumitomo Corp. of Americas, a New York City-based subsidiary of Japanese general trading firm Sumitomo Corp., has acquired SPS Tower, a 31-story office building located in Minneapolis’ central business district. The seller was not disclosed, but The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that the sales price was $144 million. The building, which totals 655,070 square feet of rentable office space, was 84 percent occupied at the time of sale. SPS Commerce, a provider of cloud-based supply chain management software, and Accenture LLP, a global management and consulting firm, serve as the anchor tenants. Amenities at SPS Tower include a fitness center and conference facilities, as well as banking, dry cleaning and concierge services. The property is connected to three adjacent buildings via a pedestrian skyway and sits atop a 630-space underground parking garage. “This is our first real estate investment in Minneapolis,” says Yurika Sugimoto, real estate manager at Sumitomo Corp. of Americas. “We believe the expertise we’ve cultivated throughout our several years within the U.S. real estate market will allow us to bring insights and improvements related to building management and tenant relationships.” — Taylor Williams
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has secured a 26,206-square-foot lease for The Wallace Foundation at 140 Broadway in downtown Manhattan. The private foundation will occupy the entire 49th floor of the building. Andrew Chase, Carri Lyon and Wes Rudes of Cushman & Wakefield represented The Wallace Foundation in the transaction. Robert Constable, Myles Fennon and Edward Mombello of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, 140 BW LLC. The Wallace Foundation’s mission is to foster learning and enrichment for disadvantaged children and the vitality of the arts.