NEW YORK CITY — Distyl AI Inc. has signed a 15,038-square-foot office lease in Midtown Manhattan. The developer of AI-native operational systems for Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies will occupy the entire 10th floor of 135 Madison Avenue, which is also home to tenants such as WeWork, Blender Workspace and FLOS. Max Koeppel represented the landlord, Koeppel Rosen, in the lease negotiations on an internal basis. Savills represented the tenant.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nuveen Green Capital (NGC) has provided $465 million in C-PACE financing for The Geneva, an office-to-residential conversion project in Washington, D.C. The transaction represents the largest Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing in history as well as D.C.’s largest office-to-residential conversion to date, according to NGC. The borrower, Philadelphia-based developer Post Brothers, also received a $110 million senior loan from investment firm Mavik, bringing total financing to $575 million. The project’s overall price tag is $750 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. Located at 1825-1875 Connecticut Ave. NW, the 604,000-square-foot office property is comprised of two nine-story towers at the confluence of D.C.’s upscale Kalorama, Dupont Circle and Adams Morgan neighborhoods. The property will be converted into a 15-story luxury apartment building with 429 market-rate units, 42 extended-stay rentals, 61 affordable housing units and 57,000 square feet of commercial space. A timeline for construction was not provided. The $465 million in C-PACE financing was administered through DC Green Bank, which serves as the administrator of the DC PACE program on behalf of the District of Columbia. The DC PACE program is a special financing option for renewable energy projects such as solar, energy efficiency upgrades …
NEW YORK CITY — Local real estate giant SL Green (NYSE: SLG) has sold a 49 percent stake in 100 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan to Boston-based real estate private equity firm Rockpoint at a gross asset valuation of $425 million. Major tenants at the 36-story, 905,000-square-foot building include Alphasights (192,630 square feet) and Alvarez & Marsal Holdings (220,221 square feet). The building also features a recently renovated amenity center on the second floor that has a lounge, golf simulator, game room, personal training studio and conference rooms. Adam Spies and Doug Harmon of Newmark advised on the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Related Cos. and Oxford Properties Group have fully capitalized 70 Hudson Yards, a 72-story office tower underway within the co-developers’ 28-acre Hudson Yards campus in Manhattan’s Midtown West neighborhood. The companies recently closed $2.45 billion in financing for the project, including a $1.6 billion construction loan from Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Standard Chartered, as well as equity from institutional investors. “Securing full equity and the largest construction loan in New York since 2020, on attractive terms, demonstrates the growing global demand from sophisticated investors and lenders of capital into first class office product like 70 Hudson Yards,” says Dean Shapiro, Oxford’s global head of development. The multi-tenant tower will span 1.4 million square feet and include the U.S. headquarters for Deloitte, one of the “big four” accounting firms that signed a lease for more than 800,000 square feet at the tower last year. The lease represents the largest tenant relocation in New York City since 2020, according to Related and Oxford. Shapiro adds that the co-developers broke ground before the lease with Deloitte was executed. Related and Oxford plan to begin vertical construction in the first half of the year. The foundations are nearing …
ORANGE, CALIF. — Newmark has brokered the sale of Orange City Square, a repositioned Class A office campus in Orange. Granite Properties sold the asset to MGR Real Estate for $89 million. Kevin Shannon, Paul Jones, Ken White and Brandon White of Newmark represented the seller in the deal. Jonathan Firestone and Blake Thompson of Newark arranged $57 million in financing for the buyer. Situated on 14.1 acres at 750, 770, 790 and 840 The City Drive South, the three-building campus offers 383,558 square feet of office space and 8,966 square feet of retail space. The asset was built in 1988 and extensively renovated through 2025. Amenities include reimagined lobbies, a customer lounge with kitchen, a fitness center, two conference centers and an outdoor event space with TVs, WiFi and barbecue facilities. At the time of sale, the property was 84 percent leased.
ATLANTA — Selig Enterprises has obtained a $245 million loan for the refinancing of 1105 West Peachtree, a 31-story office tower in Midtown Atlanta. The 653,525-square-foot tower was nearly fully leased at the time of financing to tech giant Google and law firm Smith, Gambrell & Russell. Matt Rendele and Christine Curry of Selig worked with CBRE on the financing, which was structured as a CMBS SASB (single-asset/single-borrower) loan. Delivered in 2021, 1105 West Peachtree features The Office Bar and Sky Plaza, a one-acre amenity deck that connects to the Epicurean Atlanta hotel and 40 West 12th, a luxury condo tower.
DALLAS — Wealth Partners Alliance has signed a 9,673-square-foot office lease renewal and expansion in North Dallas. According to LoopNet Inc., the building at 12240 Inwood Road was built in 1982 and totals 34,663 square feet. Nathan Denton of Lee & Associates represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Sean Dalton of Younger Partners represented the landlord.
NAPA, CALIF. — CBRE has arranged $57.6 million in refinancing for First Street Napa, a Class A mixed-use property in downtown Napa. Brad Zampa and Mike Walker of CBRE’s Debt and Structured Finance team in San Francisco secured the five-year, nonrecourse floating-rate loan from an East Coast-based debt fund on behalf of NTC Shops LLC. Located at 1300 First St., the property features 162,000 square feet of retail, dining, tasting rooms and office space across six buildings. The asset is currently 90 percent leased to a variety of tenants, including Lululemon, Free People, Hestan and Silicon Valley Bank.
REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. — DivcoWest, a DivCore Capital company, has acquired 1991 Broadway, a three-story, 66,000-square-foot office building in downtown Redwood City, from an owner-user in an off-market transaction. Simultaneous with the closing, DivcoWest executed a 45,000-square-foot long-term lease with Paul Hastings, a global law firm, that will serve as the anchor tenant for the building. As a result of the Paul Hastings lease, the building was 82 percent leased to three tenants at closing. Ham Southworth, Ken Rapp and Morgan Griffith of CBRE represented Paul Hastings in the lease negotiations. Ben Paul of Cushman & Wakefield represented DivcoWest.
DALLAS — Newmark has negotiated the sale of The Offices at Park Lane, a 230,691-square-foot office complex in North Dallas. Completed in the mid-1970s, the two-building complex is located within The Shops at Park Lane, a 33-acre mixed-use development, and was 66 percent leased to 16 tenants at the time of sale. Chris Murphy, Robert Hill, Gary Carr and Austin Sheahan of Newmark represented the seller, Northwood Investors, in the transaction. The buyer was DFW LAND Real Estate.