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DALLAS — Kaizen Development Partners has begun demolition work on The Link at Uptown, a 300,000-square-foot office project located at 2601 Olive St. in Uptown Dallas. BOKA Powell and Balfour Beatty are respectively serving as the architect and general contractor for the 25-story building, which will be situated near a variety of retail and restaurant destinations. JLL is handling leasing and marketing of the property, which is expected to be complete in fall 2021. An investment fund managed by Goldman Sachs’ merchant banking division is providing project financing.

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DENVER — Schnitzer West has purchased a land parcel, located at 3615 Delgany St. in Denver’s River North Art District, for an undisclosed price. The acquisition is the result of a partnership between Schnitzer West and Craft Cos., a Denver-based real estate firm. Schnitzer plans to develop a 12-story, 200,000-square-foot speculative office building on the 34,250-square-foot site. The current site design includes one level of underground parking, five levels of above-grade podium parking and seven floors of office space. The first phase of construction is scheduled to begin first-quarter 2020.

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ATLANTA — FleetCor Technologies Inc. will move its headquarters to Atlanta’s Buckhead District by the end of the year. Currently occupying 100,000 square feet in Norcross, Ga., FleetCor will move into a 46,000-square-foot space within Terminus 100 formerly occupied by Bain & Co. Terminus 100 is a 27-story, 660,000-square-foot office tower situated 10 miles north of downtown Atlanta. Kevin Carroll of CBRE represented FleetCor in the lease negotiations.

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NEW YORK CITY — JLL has arranged a $66.7 million construction loan for a nine-story boutique office building in Manhattan. Located at 141 E. Houston St., the 63,000-square-foot property will include seven individual office floors ranging from 5,000 to 7,000 square feet, a 3,300-square-foot retail store at grade level, and two additional below-grade retail levels. Aaron Appel, Jonathan Schwartz, Michael Diaz, and Patrick Cotter of JLL secured the financing on behalf of the borrowers, East End Capital and K Property Group. The lender was CapitalSource, a division of Pacific Western Bank and Canyon Partners Real Estate LLC. Terms of the financing were not disclosed.

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SAN FRANCISO — Clarion Partners and LPC West have acquired 215 Fremont, an office building in San Francisco’s financial district for an undisclosed price. Constructed in 1927 and renovated in 2001, the eight-story office building features 360,000 square feet of office space with 45,000-square-foot floor plates and multiple roof decks. Additional building amenities include terraces, bicycle parking, shower facilities, on-site parking and 19,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. JLL and Eastdil Secured assisted in the transaction.

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SAN DIEGO — Brookwood Financial Partners has purchased Four Points Business Park in San Diego’s Kearny Mesa district. San Diego-based Fenway Capital Advisors and Water Asset Management sold the property for $28.2 million. Louay Alsadek and Hunter Rowe of CBRE represented the seller, while Fenway Capital Advisors and Waterfall Asset Management were self-represented. Located at 5575, 5625 and 5675 Ruffin Road, the 124,463-square-foot office campus was 92 percent leased at the time of sale. The asset consists of three freestanding buildings and 590 on-site parking spaces. The sellers acquired the property in 2013.

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CULVER CITY, CALIF. — HBO has signed a long-term lease to move its West Coast corporate headquarters from Santa Monica, Calif. to Ivy Station in Culver City in 2021. HBO will fully occupy the five-story, 240,000-square-foot office building at Ivy Station. HBO’s current lease at Colorado Center in Santa Monica, where it has been based since 2004, expires at the end of this year. The Los Angeles Times reports that the new lease is for 15 years. A joint venture between Lowe, AECOM-Canyon Partners and Rockwood Capital broke ground on the $350 million, 5.2-acre mixed-use project in September 2017. Completion is scheduled for mid-2020. Ivy Station is situated adjacent to the Culver City station stop along the Los Angeles Metro Expo Line. The transit-oriented development will include 200 apartment units, a 148-room hotel, 50,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, two acres of outdoor space and 1,500 parking spaces, 300 of which will be designated for metro transit riders. “HBO is an ideal business anchor for Ivy Station, bringing to the property creative professionals that will enjoy access to public transit, host out of town guests at the hotel, and frequent the shops and restaurants that will populate the …

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ATLANTA — Barings Real Estate and Bank OZK has provided a $100 million construction loan to The Allen Morris Co. for Star Metals Offices, the office component of Star Metals, a $330 million mixed-use development in West Midtown Atlanta. Situated along Howell Mill Road, Star Metals Offices will span 267,000 square feet and is expected to deliver in fall 2020. Amenities will include 35,000 square feet of ground-level retail space, a 5,000-square-foot rooftop restaurant, five levels of parking, fitness center and locker rooms. Star Metals Offices is 25 percent preleased to Spaces, a coworking company backed by Regus. Oppenheim Architecture and Warner Summers Architecture designed the asset. MBR LLC, an affiliate of The Allen Morris Co. and ICM Asset Management Inc. provided equity in the project.

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PHOENIX — A joint venture between Barker Pacific Group and Iron Point Partners has purchased City Square, an office complex in Phoenix, for an undisclosed price. The 736,809-square-foot asset comprises three office towers, two street-level retail buildings and a shared plaza. City Square is the joint venture’s second foray into the Phoenix area. The partnership originally entered the market in 2017 with the acquisition of Mesa Tower. Brett Abramson, Chris Beal and John Bonnell of JLL is the leasing team for the property. The name of the seller was not released.

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SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Velocis, a private equity real estate fund manager, has completed the disposition of Camelback Square, an office building located in Old Town Scottsdale. City Office REIT acquired the property for an undisclosed price. Located at 6991 E. Camelback Road, the three-story asset features 175,268 square feet of Class A office space. At the time of sale, the property was 84 percent leased to a variety of tenants, including Digital Airstrike, Zocdoc, Regus and Echo. Velocis acquired the building in 2015 and completed a total repositioning of the property. Renovations included a new tenant lounge, upgrades to corridors, elevator lobby refresh, new roof, restroom improvements and a new conference center. Barry Gabel, Chris Marchildon and Will Mast of CBRE Capital Markets, Institutional Properties in Phoenix, represented the seller in the deal.

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