DALLAS — Secure Collateral Management, a Dallas-based financial services firm specializing in locating and recovering collateralized assets, has signed a 22,000-square-foot office lease in Dallas. The firm is relocating from its current space to Lake Highlands Tower, a recently renovated office building that includes a bank, barbershop, café and conference center. Blake Shipley, Jay Bailey and Ashley Curry of JLL represented the landlord, Malouf Interests, in the lease negotiations.
DENVER — Denver-based Continuum Partners has received $110 million in financing for A Block, a mixed-use development located in downtown Denver. The 310,055-square-foot project features the 200-key Kimpton Hotel Born, located at 1600 Wewatta St., and a 54,976-square-foot Class A office building with ground-level retail space and a 197-space parking garage, located at 1881 16th St. Completed in 2017, A Block has two separate components: the 12-story Hotel Born and the five-story office and retail portion. The hotel features 13,937 square feet of flexible meeting space, a fitness center, business center, ground-floor retail space and two food and beverage options, Citizen Rail Restaurant in the hotel lobby and Tavernetta. The fully occupied office building features 7,929 square feet of retail space leased to national tenants. Eric Tupler, Leon McBroom and Tyler Dumon of HFF arranged the floating-rate loan with a national bank. Loan proceeds will be used to retire the existing construction financing, which was placed by HFF in 2015.
MALVERN, PA. — HFF has negotiated the sale of a 299,809-square-foot office building in Malvern. The sales price was undisclosed. Located at 1400 Atwater Drive, the five-story property is approximately 30 miles southeast of Philadelphia. Built in 2013, the building is fully leased to Endo Pharmaceuticals as its North American headquarters. HFF represented the seller, Gramercy Property Trust, in the transaction. The buyer was Equus Capital Partners.
IRVINGTON, N.J. — Progress Capital has arranged a $4.4 million refinancing for the Irvington Medical Office in Irvington. Located at 40 and 50 Union Ave., the property consists of two buildings. 40 Union Ave. is a four-story, 19,982-square-foot medical office building built in 1962. The adjacent building, 50 Union Ave., is an eight-story, 50,638-square-foot building built in 1969. The property is currently subject to a ground lease. Kathy Anderson of Progress Capital secured the financing on behalf of the undisclosed borrower, who will use $1.5 million of the proceeds to acquire the land at 50 Union Ave. The five-year, fixed-rate loan includes a 4.5 percent interest rate and a 10-year term with a 25-year amortization. The lender was undisclosed.
EATONTOWN, N.J. — HFF has secured an $8.8 million refinancing for a 79,258-square-foot office building in Eatontown. Located at 4 Industrial Way W., the three-story property is 98 percent leased to nine tenants in a variety of industries ranging from technology to medical practice. The tenant roster includes Wayside Technology Group Inc., Clinilabs Inc., Polaris Alpha and The Memory Enhancement Center of America. HFF represented the borrower, The Donato Group, which originally developed the property in 1988. The lender was First Bank.
MIAMI — New York Life Real Estate Investors, on behalf of an institutional client, has acquired Brickell City Tower, a Class A office tower located in Miami’s Brickell office submarket, for $117 million. The buyer was not disclosed but media outlets have reported that the seller was a joint venture between Banyan Street Capital, Crocker Partners and Independencia Asset Management. The 33-story tower features 291,554 rentable square feet. Recently, the tower underwent a $6.4 million renovation, which included a redesigned and updated building lobby, common area upgrades and a full elevator modernization, as well as a new conference center and tenant lounge. The new ownership plans to continue the renovation program to the property’s common areas, including capital to activate a large terrace adjacent to the conference center and tenant lounge on the 17th floor for tenant use. Brickell City Tower’s notable tenants include Beacon Council, South Florida Business Journal, Uber Technologies, Max Borges, TMF USA Inc., Rumberger Kirk Caldwell and Regus. Chase Bank operates a bank branch on the ground floor.
LAKE FOREST, CALIF. — Harbor Associates has completed the sale of 71 at the Park, an office building located at 25371 Commercentre Drive in Lake Forest. An unidentified overseas buyer acquired the property for $11.7 million. The 37,090-square-foot property features abundant natural light, on-site amenities, a two-story lobby, exposed ceilings, flexible floor space and outdoor community areas. Anthony DeLorenzo, Gary Stache, Doug Mack, Jeff Carr and Brian Cole of CBRE represented the seller in the deal.
LAS VEGAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a professional office building in Las Vegas, located at 7866 W. Sahara Ave. within Coronado Bay Business Park. A local investor sold the property to a Nevada law firm for $1 million. The buyer plans to occupy the 4,850-square-foot building. Ryan McCullough and Tina Taylor of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller in the transaction.
IRVING, TEXAS — Trammell Crow Co. has broken ground on a 259,947-square-foot office and administrative building in Irving to house the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Texas Service Center. Situated on 27 acres, the build-to-suit property is expected to be complete by early 2020. Gensler is the project architect and Manhattan Construction Co. is the general contractor. JPMorgan Chase provided project financing.
Over the past four years, Chicago’s legal sector has accounted for almost 750,000 square feet of negative net absorption despite a robust economy keeping demand for legal services of all types strong. While much has been written about large law firms shedding space as they reconfigure their offices with open floor plans that appeal to millennial and Generation Z talent, not all are following the same course of action. Finding the right size At one end of the spectrum, many large law firms are electing to relocate to ultra-efficient trophy towers, justifying the exorbitant construction costs and rent increases associated with building out new space in Class A+ towers by shedding enormous amounts of space from their footprints. Of the four firms larger than 100,000 square feet that have elected to reduce their space when relocating to newly constructed towers since 2015, all have been able to shed roughly 35.5 percent of their prior footprints on average, with some firms achieving even greater reductions. For example, Holland & Knight attained a 45 percent space reduction in its recently announced move from 105,000 square feet at Citadel Center to 57,000 square feet at 150 North Riverside. There are also many large …