LOS ANGELES — Madison Partners has arranged the sale of a retail and creative office building, located at 62-66 Windward Ave. in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles. Southern California-based Optimus Properties sold the property to BrandView Capital Partners for $7.1 million, or $957 per square foot. Originally constructed in 1922, the 7,471-square-foot asset features a street-level portico with three retail units and a creative office unit on the second level, which features a rooftop deck. Bob Safai, Matt Case and Brad Schlaak of Madison Partners represented the seller in the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — Apparel designer and retailer Tommy Hilfiger has committed to an additional 14,054 square feet of office space at 285 Madison Avenue in Manhattan as part of a lease renewal and expansion. The company now occupies 220,000 square feet at the 26-story, Class A property, which is located at the corner of Madison Avenue and 40th Street. Matthew Astrachan, Mitchell Konsker and Steven Bauer of JLL represented PVH Corp., the parent company of Tommy Hilfiger, in the lease transaction. Konsker, along with JLL associates Alexander Chudnoff, Dan Turkewitz and Diana Biasotti, represented the landlord, RFR Realty, in the lease negotiations. Leasing agents A.J. Camhi and Ryan Silverman also represented RFR Realty on an internal basis.
OMAHA, NEB. — McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. will break ground on Wednesday, May 8 on an office and warehouse building that will serve as the company’s new local office in west Omaha. The 15,000-square-foot development will enable the construction company to expand its services within the healthcare, education, manufacturing, commercial, industrial and entertainment sectors. The office will include conference facilities and flexible gathering spaces. The climate-controlled warehouse will accommodate the delivery and short-term storage of construction materials as well as provide space for pre-assembly of building components. Completion is slated for December. Project partners include developer Tetrad Property Group, architect DLR Group and materials testing company Thiele Geotech. St. Louis-based first established its full-service Omaha office in 2007 and now oversees more than $200 million in construction work throughout Nebraska.
MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Scarsdale, New York-based Goldschmidt & Associates has brokered the sale of the former Chase Bank building, a 10,000-square-foot office property in Mamaroneck, a northern suburb of New York City. The sales price was approximately $2 million. Pam Bren Goldschmidt and Adam Bren of Goldschmidt & Associates represented the seller in the transaction. The buyer was an undisclosed religious institution.
ALPHARETTA, GA. — KBS Strategic Opportunity REIT Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire Georgia 400 Center, a three-building, 416,463-square-foot office campus situated on 24.4 acres in Alpharetta, for $91 million. Georgia 400 Center was built between 1998 and 2001 and is currently 85 percent leased to 31 tenants. The property is located at 2300 Lakeview Parkway, 25 miles north of downtown Atlanta. A date for the expected closing and the seller were not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — CBRE has negotiated a 241,657-square-foot office lease restructuring for global household products provider Colgate-Palmolive Co. at 300 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. Colgate-Palmolive serves as the anchor tenant at the Class A office tower, which is owned by local investment firm Tishman Speyer. The company will consolidate its current footprint to six floors at the 26-story building. Mary Ann Tighe, Mike Geoghegan, Ken Meyerson and Ariel Ball of CBRE represented Colgate-Palmolive in the lease negotiations. Tishman Speyer was represented internally.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based investment firm RFR Realty has signed office leases with three new tenants at 17 State Street, a 42-story tower in Manhattan’s Financial District. The new leases total approximately 53,000 square feet. Global investment firm Alphadyne Asset Management LP signed a 43,872-square-foot lease extension; finance firm Arles Management inked a 4,318-square-foot lease and real estate investment firm RC BME Holdco LLC signed a 5,042-square-foot new lease. Mitchell Konsker, John Wheeler and Clayton Kline of JLL, along with A.J. Camhi and Ryan Silverman of RFR Realty, represented the building ownership in each of the lease negotiations. JLL represented the tenants in the first two deals, and CBRE represented the tenant in the third transaction.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — AQUILA Commercial will redevelop Airport Center, an 86,099-square-foot office building located at 6505 Airport Blvd. in Austin. Located adjacent to the Austin Community College Highland Campus redevelopment project, the site will later house a mixed-use development that will include 326 apartments. Runa Workshop is the architect for the project, construction of which is scheduled to begin in July and wrap up by year’s end. The property will be rebranded Highland Tech Center.
VERNON HILLS, ILL. — Principle Construction Corp. has completed a 15,091-square-foot tenant improvement for Wonderlic at 544 Lakeview Parkway in Vernon Hills. The company, which produces cognitive ability tests, is moving across the street. The scope of the office project enables Wonderlic to have storage space for its printed materials as well as to properly recycle all used paper. Interform Architecture & Design served as the project architect.
WESTLAKE, TEXAS — Wells Fargo Bank has signed an 88,520-square-foot office lease renewal at Plaza @ Solana, located at 1301 Solana Blvd. in Westlake, a northern suburb of Fort Worth. Trey Smith, John Fancher and Christy Thelen of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, Harbert Management Corp., in the lease negotiations. Ken Page and Alan Harrington of Transwestern represented Wells Fargo.