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LAS VEGAS — Sun Commercial Real Estate has brokered the sale of a single-tenant, absolute triple-net leased portfolio in Las Vegas. An undisclosed REIT sold the portfolio to an undisclosed buyer for $8.3 million, or $120 per square foot. The portfolio includes a 38,784-square-foot office building located at 2975 S. Rainbow Blvd. and eight residential rehabilitation facilities totaling 30,389 square feet. Cathy Jones, Jessica Cegavske, Roy Fitz, Paul Miachika and Taylor Vasquez of Sun Commercial Real Estate’s Investment Sale Group represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction.

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BELLEVUE, WASH. — Colliers International has arranged the sale of Olympic Medical Center, an office property located at 1310 116th Ave. NE in Bellevue, a western suburb of Seattle. Healthcare Realty acquired the property from BH Properties I LLC for $7.7 million. Radiology Consultants of Washington, Center for Diagnostic Imaging, Overlake Arthritis, Lab Corp and Acute Pain Therapies occupy the 15,274-square-foot property, which was built in 1978. Pat Mutzel and Jeff Jeremiah of Colliers represented the seller in the deal.

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APPLE VALLEY, MINN. — CBRE has brokered the $9.1 million sale of Apple Valley Business Center in Apple Valley, 20 miles south of Minneapolis. The sale includes a 48,733-square-foot office building located at 5550 W. Upper 147th St. and an adjacent 56,320-square-foot building at 14720 Energy Way. Both properties are fully leased to Questar Assessments Inc., an educational assessment provider. Judd Welliver, Ryan Watts, Sonja Dusil and Tom Holtz represented the seller, Excelsior Group LLC. Apple Valley Dakota REIT purchased the properties.

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NAPERVILLE, ILL. — Podolsky Circle CORFAC International has arranged the sale of Naperville Financial Center for $6.4 million. The five-story, 57,969-square-foot office property is located at 400 E. Diehl Road. The multi-tenant building features covered parking, on-site storage, conference facilities and tenant balconies. The property is currently 97 percent leased to tenants that include Rhea+Kaiser, M/I Homes and Cargill. Alissa Adler, John Homsher and Paul Tesdal of Podolsky Circle represented the seller, SARA Investment Real Estate. Gateway Investment Partners purchased the asset.

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RICHMOND, VA. — Bridge Investment Group has sold SunTrust Center One and Two, a two-building office park located at 11011 and 11013 W. Broad St. in Richmond. Washington, D.C.-based FD Stonewater acquired the buildings, which total 419,653 square feet, from Bridge for $62.4 million. SunTrust Center One is fully leased to SunTrust Banks Inc. for 10 years. The building recently underwent a $30 million renovation that included a new lobby, fitness center, cafeteria, new glass storefront and collaborative workspaces. SunTrust Center Two is fully leased to five tenants: Magellan Health, SunTrust Banks, RetailData, Home Care Delivered and EMC Corp. Eric Robison of Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer and Eric Berkman and Williams Collins of Cushman & Wakefield’s D.C. office arranged the transaction on behalf of Bridge. Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer will manage the property and handle the buildings’ leasing assignments.

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ORLANDO, FLA. — HFF has arranged the $39.2 million sale of Resource Square One and Three, a two-building office portfolio in Orlando. The buildings are located at 13501 Ingenuity Drive and 12001 Research Parkway within Orlando’s Central Florida Research Park, which is adjacent to the University of Central Florida. Hermen Rodriguez, Ike Ojala, Tracey Goo and Anthony Frogameni of HFF arranged the transaction on behalf of the sellers, an affiliate of Banyan Street Capital and funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management LP. The HFF team also procured the buyer, an affiliate of TerraCap Management LLC. The three-story Resource Square One totals 91,667 square feet and was built in 1999. Resource Square Three spans five stories and totals 152,882 square feet. The property was constructed in 2003. Collectively, the portfolio was 84.9 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as General Dynamics, AVNET, Cisco Systems and Raytheon.

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DALLAS — Method Architecture, a Houston-based architecture and interior design firm that specializes in breweries and distilleries, will open an office in Dallas in June. The company, which has designed more than 25 breweries across the state, acquired an Austin-based firm in late 2017, making the new Dallas office its third in Texas. Method’s Dallas office will be located at 1919 McKinney Ave. near Klyde Warren Park in the downtown area.

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ADDISON, TEXAS — Elevate Credit, a publicly traded provider of online credit solutions, has doubled the size of its office lease at Spectrum Center, a 614,000-square-foot office complex located in the northern Dallas metro of Addison. The company is expanding its footprint from 26,000 to 52,000 square feet. Cribb Altman and Mike Wyatt of Cushman & Wakefield represented Elevate Credit in the lease negotiations. The expansion will allow the company to grow its staff count from about 130 employees to 300.

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FLORENCE, KY. — An affiliate of FM Capital LLC has originated a $10 million acquisition loan for Turfway Ridge Office Park, a 217,000-square-foot office building in Florence, located roughly six miles from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, home to Amazon’s $1.5 billion Prime Air cargo hub. The borrower, a Los Angeles-based real estate investor, acquired the asset from a special servicer via an auction process. Other terms of the bridge financing were not disclosed. The five-story Turfway Ridge Office Park was originally constructed in 1988 and renovated in 2006. The building was 81 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as ADP, Central Bank and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Economic growth in Tampa Bay continues at an impressive pace, driven by strong population and employment growth over the past several years. The unemployment rate has steadily declined, dropping 110 basis points from December 2016 to a current 3.4 percent, and the strong pace of job growth continues with a rise in non-farm employment of 35,000 new jobs during the trailing 12-month period ending December 2017. As a result, leasing activity has increased, rental rates continue to show incremental growth and there is a strong likelihood of new speculative office construction in the coming year. Major corporations continue to reaffirm their confidence in Tampa with significant announcements of planned corporate expansions by MetLife, Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), AAA and USAA during the second half of 2017. In fact, the Tampa Bay metropolitan area ranked as one of the top 20 “U.S. Markets to Watch” for overall real estate prospects in the Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2018 report published by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Urban Land Institute. Investment Activity Many investors who in years past were seeking opportunities in gateway markets are now turning their attention to secondary markets like the Tampa Bay area in search of higher yields. There were several …

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