GREENVILLE, S.C. — TWO Capital Partners has completed the sale of Harbinger, a three-building office campus located in Greenville. CCP Commercial Real Estate acquired the asset for $22 million. Located at the Interstate 385 and North Pleasantburg Drive in Greenville, the property was 93 percent leased at the time of sale. Originally constructed in 1982, the 162,962-square-foot, Class A office campus was fully repositioned in 2017 and 2018 through an approximately $3.5 million capital improvements program. Rob Cochran, Jared Londry and Nolan Ashton of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the deal.
BOSTON — NKF Capital Markets has brokered the $222 million sale of a 304,178-square-foot office building in Boston. Located at 200 State St., the property is currently 96 percent leased to a 21-tenant roster that includes Beacon Health Options, TD Bank, FTI Consulting, Beacon Capital Partners and TIFF Investment Management. Edward Maher, Matthew Pullen and James Tribble of NKF’s Boston Capital Markets team represented the seller, GLL Real Estate Partners, in the transaction. The buyer was Carr Properties.
You would be hard pressed to find another city more excited about transformation than Indianapolis right now. Previously known as “Naptown” by outsiders due to the sleepy feel the city exuded, those days are long gone. Indy has experienced incredible transformative activity in the past decade, and that extends to the commercial real estate office sector. For the 18th consecutive quarter, this sector has experienced positive net occupancy gains, and 14 of those quarters have fallen below the 10-year average vacancy rate of 18 percent. Average asking rental rates have experienced healthy growth, with five-year rental rate growth at nearly 14.3 percent. Changing ownership According to colleague Bennett Williams, director, the office landscape is really about change right now. “Long-term Indianapolis owners, such as Duke Realty, historically have developed and held their assets, but now that they are selling off their product, national and international firms are entering the market,” he says. “These new firms have been pushing all facets of the deal to maximize the return for their investors.” Within the past five years, Indy has experienced many ownership changes of large office assets both in the suburban markets and the central business district (CBD). Cushman and Wakefield research …
SAN DIEGO — San Diego-based Parallel Capital Partners has completed the disposition of a 12-building office and lab portfolio, known as the Inspire Portfolio. Boston-based Longfellow Real Estate Partners acquired the asset for $112 million. Situated in the Sorrento Valley area of San Diego, the 318,969-square-foot portfolio was 95 percent occupied at the time of sale. The tenant roster includes 81 life science, technology, and research and development tenants. The properties are: 11535-11585 Sorrento Valley Road (127,991 square feet) 11772 Sorrento Valley Road (19,193 square feet) 11760 Sorrento Valley Road (35,731 square feet) 11750 Sorrento Valley Road (19,921 square feet) 11558-11588 Sorrento Valley Road (85,121 square feet) 11494 Sorrento Valley Road (31,012 square feet) Longfellow Real Estate Partners plans to continue the life science conversion plan started by the seller, adding value by repositioning the remaining 50 percent of the portfolio. Nick Frasco, Nick Psyllos and Michael Leggett of HFF represented the seller in the deal.
SKOKIE, ILL. — Meridian Capital Group has arranged a $6.3 million loan for the refinancing of Fairway Executive Building, a 64,000-square-foot office building in Skokie. Located at 8707 Skokie Blvd., the Class A property rises four stories. Features include an indoor parking garage, a redesigned lobby and a conference room. Weiss Properties purchased the asset as a distressed property in 2010 and invested significant funds to remodel and re-tenant the property. Gershon Friedman of Meridian arranged the 10-year CMBS loan, which features a 4.84 percent rate.
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS — New York City-based Meridian Capital Group has arranged an $11.5 million acquisition loan for Wilson Plaza, a 270,000-square-foot office building in Corpus Christi. The 17-story property was built in 1927 and is considered the city’s first skyscraper. Jason Grimm, Noam Kaminetzky and Israel Schubert of Meridian Capital placed the five-year loan through a balance sheet lender on behalf of the borrower, The Tridium Group.
From large publicly traded companies to mid-size tech companies and small professional services firms, companies are taking notice of the office development and vibrant live-work communities being built in the Lehigh Valley. Located one hour north of Philadelphia and 90 minutes west of New York City, the Lehigh Valley is a two-county region in eastern Pennsylvania consisting of 62 municipalities and the cities of Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton. It is the 69th largest metropolitan region in the United States, with a $39.1 billion GDP larger than that of both Wyoming and Vermont. The Lehigh Valley’s total office market inventory currently stands at 26.8 million square feet. There have been 281,250 square feet of office market deliveries in 2018 so far, and another 329,000 are currently under construction. A total of 669,832 square feet of office space was under construction in the Lehigh Valley as of the first quarter of 2018, with the majority of that development in the region’s urban centers. Ninety-six percent of the office buildings constructed in the Lehigh Valley so far this year have been built in either Allentown, Bethlehem, or Easton and all of the 329,000 square feet of office space currently under construction are in …
SEATTLE — Amazon has decided to split its second headquarters (HQ2) location between two cities, instead of creating one HQ2 facility, according a source who spoke to The Wall Street Journal. According a person familiar with the company’s plans, the driving factor behind the new decision to create two equal offices is the ability to recruit the best tech talent from various geographical regions. Additionally, the decision will ease the potential community issues regarding housing and transit for potentially thousands of new employees in one specific city. Under the new plan, Amazon will create two equal HQ2 facilities, each with approximately 25,000 employees. While Amazon has not announced its final decision, it is in late-stage discussions with several cities — Crystal City in Northern Virginia, Dallas and New York City as front runners — according to The Wall Street Journal, and a decision may be announced as early as this week. Amazon plans to view all three of its main U.S offices as headquarters with similar executive and back-office functions, notes a person familiar with the decision. However, the split means the company is creating two smaller offices than its 45,000-employee Seattle headquarters.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Zydeco Development Corp. has broken ground on Phase II of MetCenter, an office project in central Austin that will feature 410,000 square feet of office space. The property offers proximity to both the downtown area and Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Onsite amenities will include hiking and biking trails, as well as basketball and tennis courts. Completion of Phase II is slated for April 2019. JLL is leasing the project.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — HFF has negotiated the sale of Las Cimas II and III, a 313,716-square-foot office property in Austin. Completed in 2000 and 2001, the two buildings are located at the intersection of Loop 360 and Bee Cave Road on the city’s southwestern side. Amenities include a Whole Foods Market deli, fitness center and a conference room. HFF represented the seller, international investment firm GLL Real Estate Partners, and procured the buyer, Boston-based Rockpoint Group LLC.