WATERTOWN, MASS. — Paradigm Capital Advisors has acquired Riverworks at Aetna Mills, an office complex in Watertown. Located at 480 Pleasant St., the property was originally built in 1907 and has been renovated with a number of capital improvements. Recent upgrades include improvements to the common areas, building systems, tenant spaces, cafeteria, fitness center and interior courtyard. The property is currently 98 percent leased to 15 tenants. Riverworks is one mile from Watertown Square, three miles from Cambridge and seven miles from Boston’s central business district.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Holder Properties has completed the development of a corporate campus in Charleston’s Daniel Island submarket for Blackbaud, a provider of software and services for the global philanthropic community. The 172,000-square-foot property features open workspaces, private offices, employee lounges, conference rooms, classrooms, team rooms, a game room, full-service kitchen, cafeteria and a Starbucks café. Exterior amenities include two terraces, a timber-framed pavilion, putting green, bocce ball court, employee garden, activity field and a full-length basketball court. ASD | SKY designed the property, which was built by Balfour Beatty. JLL provided tenant support services for the campus. The building’s interior is designed to LEED Gold standards with energy-saving technologies, like solar panels, HVAC automation, LED lighting and low-flow plumbing fixtures.
OMAHA — Flywheel, a web hosting company, has leased 66,000 square feet within the Millwork Commons development in Omaha for its new headquarters. Millwork Commons is a $300 million mixed-use development spearheaded by Black Dog Management. Flywheel will be the anchor tenant and will occupy 1.5 floors at the property by summer 2020. Currently, Flywheel employs a team of more than 200 people with offices in Omaha, Australia and Europe. Barry Zoob and Chris Mensinger of Colliers International represented Flywheel in the lease transaction.
KIRKWOOD, MO. — Howard Commercial has arranged the sale of a two-story, 4,000-square-foot office building in Kirkwood, a suburb of St. Louis. The sales price was not disclosed. The building, located at 108 N. Kirkwood Road, includes first-floor retail space. Howard represented the buyer, Bean Realty, which plans to open a specialty popcorn retail store within the retail space. A digital marketing company occupies the second floor.
GOODYEAR, ARIZ. — Ware Malcomb has announced the completion of Arizona Desert Ear, Nose & Throat Specialists, a medical office located at 13555 W. McDowell Road in Goodyear, a suburb of Phoenix. Ware Malcomb provided interior architecture and design services for the project. The redesigned 5,200-square-foot property features seven exam rooms, four offices, a sinus procedure room, allergy testing room, audio room, instrument cleaning room, conference room and break room. Design features include sliding barn doors for the conference room, a prominent work surface for the medical assistant station, a spacious waiting room and a check-in/out desk that doubles as a workroom behind a built-in bookshelf. Aksarben served as general contractor for the project.
BOSTON — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has negotiated the $107 million sale of a 192,890-square-foot office and retail complex in Downtown Boston. Located at 226 Causeway St., the property features a tenant roster anchored by the corporate headquarters of Oxfam America, the Boston Celtics and two divisions of TripAdvisor, as well as a regional office for Stantec. Street-level retail at the property includes Equal Exchange Café and Title Boxing Club. The complex is located near The Hub on Causeway, a 1.5 million-square-foot residential, retail and office addition to the TD Garden, a multi-purpose arena that serves as home to the Boston Bruins and Boston Celtics. Located along the Charles River in the bustling Haymarket Square submarket, the property sits in the shadow of the three bridges connecting downtown Boston to Cambridge, Charlestown and the North Shore suburbs. EdwardMaher, Matthew Pullen, James Tribble, Samantha Hallowell and Robert Griffin of NKF’s Boston Capital Markets team represented the seller, Invesco, in the transaction. The buyer was Boston-based real estate private equity firm Rockpoint Group. “226 Causeway epitomizes the ‘cool core’ investment profile, offering stable cash flow and tangible upside potential,” says Edward Maher, NKF vice chairman. “The asset is the beneficiary of significant …
MINNEAPOLIS — Arch Street Capital Advisors LLC has acquired the Lafayette Park Office Campus in metro Minneapolis. The purchase price was $86.4 million, according to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. The four office buildings total 677,514 square feet and are fully leased to the state of Minnesota. The properties have served as the headquarters for four state agencies since the mid-1980s. Ladder Capital, a New York-based real estate investment trust, was the seller.
PLANO, TEXAS — A partnership between Dallas-based Pillar Commercial and investment firm Artemis Real Estate Partners has acquired Lincoln Legacy II, a 130,371-square-foot office building in Plano. The property is located near the intersection of the Dallas North Tollway and Tennyson Parkway and offers amenities such as a fitness center, tenant lounge and conference facilities. Curtis Jaggers of JLL secured acquisition financing through MetLife Inc. for the deal.
RICHARDSON, TEXAS — MetroPCS Communications Inc. has renewed its 115,583-square-foot office lease at Lakeside Centre II, an office property located at 2250 Lakeside Blvd. in the northeastern Dallas metro of Richardson. Tim Terrell and Chase Lopez of Stream Realty Partners represented the landlord, Vereit, in the lease negotiations. CBRE represented the tenant.
COSTA MESA, CALIF. — Invesco Real Estate has acquired The Hive, a three-building creative office campus in Costa Mesa. A joint venture between Goldman Sachs and Steelwave sold the asset for an undisclosed price. Situated on 14.2 acres at 3333, 3335 and 3337 S. Susan St., the 181,822-square-foot property features flexible and open floor plans, a coffee bar adjacent to an outdoor tenant lounge area, a fitness facility with showers and lockers, a conference center, and multiple open-air patios with community activities. At the time of sale, the property was 82 percent occupied by five tenants: Los Angeles Chargers, Lazy Dog Café, Coding Dojo, Agility Fuel Solutions and Steelwave. In addition to existing buildings, the site is entitled for 65,000 square feet of additional commercial development. The seller purchased the property in 2015 and invested approximately $22 million into transforming the development, which was built in 2003, into a creative Class A environment. Kevin Shannon, Paul Jones, Blake Bokosky, Ken White and Brunson Howard of Newmark Knight Frank represented the seller, while Invesco Real Estate was self-represented the in the deal.