ATLANTA — Grove Street Partners, in a joint venture with Batson-Cook Development Co. (BCDC), has broken ground on Gateway Center Two, a 51,000-square-foot office building located a half-mile from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The building is part of the second phase of Gateway Center, a $230 million, 1.1 million-square-foot mixed-use project that Grove Street Partners is developing. The development also houses the 128,396-square-foot Gateway Center One and three Marriott-branded hotels spanning 754 rooms. Gateway Center Two marks the first joint venture between Grove Street Partners and BCDC. In addition to the groundbreaking, the joint venture inked a lease with ECFMG, a nonprofit medical certification and training provider based in Philadelphia. ECFMG will occupy a full floor, or 24,000 square feet, upon completion in March 2019. Lee Evans of Colliers International represented the landlord in the lease, and John Behm, Jim Byrd and Jason Jones of Cresa represented the tenant. Alfie Means, Wilson Rogers and Jimmy Warren of iCap Realty Advisors arranged construction financing through Protective Life Insurance Co. Gateway Center offers direct connectivity to Hartsfield-Jackson and MARTA via the airport’s SkyTrain commuter rail.
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MUKILTEO, WASH. — Colliers International has brokered the acquisition of an office property located at 12121 Harbor Reach Drive in Mukilteo. HPO Investment LLC purchased the building from Bocek/NCA for $7.5 million. The fully-leased, 33,387-square-foot property is Harbour Point’s Building A, North Campus. The building is one component of a 2,810-acre master-planned community that includes residential buildings, manufacturing facilities, a golf course, parks and a wildlife preserve. Derek Heed and Gregg Riva of Colliers represented the buyer in the transaction.
ST. LOUIS — Save-A-Lot has selected a new location in St. Louis for its corporate headquarters. Currently located in Earth City, the supermarket chain is planning to move to The Crossings at Northwest mixed-use development and expand its headquarters workforce by approximately 64 people. The Crossings at Northwest, formerly Northwest Plaza shopping mall, is now home to companies such as Charter Communications, Starbucks and Menards, as well as a wide range of St. Louis County government services. Save-A-Lot has been headquartered in St. Louis for more than 40 years.
CORAL SPRINGS, FLA. — HFF has brokered the $21.2 million sale of One Charter Place, a 101,941-square-foot office complex located at 3301 N. University Drive in Coral Springs. Ike Ojala, Hermen Rodriguez and Tracey Goo of HFF arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, a partnership between True North Management Group LLC and Delma Properties Inc. HFF also procured the buyer, Borsa Properties LLC. Completed in 2007, One Charter Place includes a four-story, 76,904-square-foot office building; three single-story buildings; and a 489-space parking garage. The property was 94 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as the Florida Department of Revenue, BFS Cos., Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo, Sola Salons and Keller Williams.
HOUSTON — The Deal Co., a Houston-based development firm, will open Sabine Street Studios, a 48,000-square-foot creative office building in Houston. The building, which has 67 studio spaces available for lease to local artists and creative businesses, is situated within Sawyer Yards, a 55-acre mixed-use development in Houston’s historic First Ward. The grand opening is scheduled for Saturday, April 28.
ROMEOVILLE, ILL. — Principle Construction Corp. has broken ground on a 43,227-square-foot, speculative office development in Romeoville, about 30 miles southwest of Chicago. Known as the OWL 3 Spec Office, the property is located at 1250 Windham Parkway. The project, slated for completion this October, will be able to accommodate 10 tenants. This will be the first LEED-certified office building in Romeoville, according to Principle. The project is being developed in partnership with Lakeview Realty Investors LLC. SKJN Architeckten is providing architectural services.
ATLANTA — Charlotte-based Asana Partners has acquired Krog Street Market and Atlanta Stove Works, two mixed-use destinations in Atlanta’s Inman Park neighborhood that once housed Tyler Perry Studios. Paces Properties sold both assets to Asana for an undisclosed price. Situated across Krog Street from one another, the properties are adjacent to the Atlanta BeltLine’s Eastside Trail, a former railway corridor-turned-multi-use trail. Krog Street Market houses a food hall and retail shops including Hop City, Bar Mercado, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, Superica, Ticonderoga Club, The Collective and The Merchant. Atlanta Stove Works houses creative office space for firms like Media Star Promotions, Trees Atlanta and Atlanta BeltLine Partnership, as well as three restaurants — Rathbuns, Bell Street Burrito and Krog Bar. Paces Properties opened Krog Street Market in 2014 in a former 1920s warehouse. The Atlanta-based company acquired Stove Works in 2012. Asana will invest capital to enhance the properties, building on their appeal as central gathering spaces along the BeltLine trail. King & Spalding served as legal adviser to Asana, and Eastdil Secured arranged the transaction on behalf of Paces Properties.
NORTH SIOUX CITY, S.D. — Sterling Computers has purchased an 82,829-square-foot office building in North Sioux City for $4.7 million. The property, which is connected to a 105,938-square-foot distribution center, is situated on 5.7 acres within the former Gateway Computer Campus. Chris Bogenrief of NAI United represented the seller, Keating Resources, in the transaction. Keating purchased the 750,000-square-foot, six-building campus in January and plans to sell all of the buildings to local companies.
HOUSTON — Clay Development & Construction will build Offices @ North Post Oak, a seven-building, 150,000-square-foot office campus in Houston. The property will be situated on a 7.5-acre site between the Galleria/Post Oak area and the planned high-speed rail terminal at Northwest Mall. Building features will include 12,000-square-foot floor plates and 14-foot ceiling heights. Clay will break ground on the first two buildings during the third quarter, with a target completion date of first-quarter 2019. Frost Bank is providing construction financing for the project, which is being designed by Cisneros Design Studio.
ALPHARETTA, GA. — HFF has arranged the $23.5 million sale of Preston Ridge I, a 148,355-square-foot office building located at 3655 N. Point Parkway in Alpharetta, roughly 26 miles north of Atlanta. Ralph Smalley of HFF represented the seller, Barings Real Estate, a subsidiary of Barings LLC, on behalf of an institutional client. HFF also procured the buyer, The Simpson Organization. The six-story building was constructed in 1997 and features 25,000-square-foot floorplates, a circular entrance lobby and more than 590 parking spaces. The property is located less than a mile from Avalon, an 86-acre mixed-use development situated on Old Milton Parkway near Ga 400.