MOUNT PLEASANT, N.Y. — GHP Office Realty has acquired 115-117 Stevens Ave., a two-building office complex totaling 182,630 square feet in Mount Pleasant, nearly 40 miles north of New York City in Westchester County. Jeffrey Dunne, Steven Bardsley and Stuart MacKenzie of CBRE represented the seller, Reckson, a division of SL Green Realty Corp.,in the transaction. The buyer was a White Plains-based commercial real estate firm.The first property, 115 Stevens Ave., is a three-story, 130,630-square-foot office building. Totaling 52,000 square feet, 117 Stevens Ave. is a two-story office building. GHP intends to invest $3.5 million of new capital into the buildings. Amenities at the buildings include a fitness facility, full service café and conference center. Current office tenants include Retriever Medical Dental Payments Inc., Archcare, Cardinal McCloskey Community Services and Utopus Insights.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS — Cravey Real Estate Services Inc. has brokered the sale of a 6,372-square-foot flex property located at 229 S. Padre Island Drive in Corpus Christi. Built in 1991, the property is zoned for light industrial uses and consists of 5,272 square feet of office space and 1,100 square feet of warehouse space. Matt Cravey of Cravey Real Estate Services represented the seller, Charan Investments Ltd. Scott Fauver, also with Cravey Real Estate Services, represented the buyer, Koetter Fire Protection, a Dallas-based provider of fire protection systems.
ROLLING MEADOWS, ILL. — Krusinski Construction Co. has broken ground on a 112,505-square-foot flex facility for School Health Corp. at 5600 Apollo Drive in Rolling Meadows. School Health is a national, full-service provider of health supplies, services and solutions. Construction on the distribution, shop and office facility began May 1. Ware Malcomb is the project architect and the Trammell Crow Co. is serving as project consultant. When completed, the new structure will include a two-story, 24,700-square-foot office space, plus a state-of-the-art warehouse with a dozen dock doors, a clear height of 32 feet, LED lighting and modern material handling equipment to service more than 100,000 customer orders per year. The new LEED-certified building will be centrally located among various retail restaurants and shopping centers, with close proximity to I-290 and I-90 situated directly north. The project is scheduled for completion this fall.
THORNTON, COLO. — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has arranged the sale of an office building located at 9351 Grant St. in Thornton. Horizon Terrace sold the property to 1641 California LLC for $9.1 million. The property features 90,094 square feet of office space. Riki Hashimoto and Daniel Grooters of NKF represented the seller in the transaction.
PHILADELPHIA — CBRE has brokered the $130.5M sale of Five Crescent Drive, a 207,779-square-foot office building in Philadelphia’s Navy Yard. An affiliate of Korea Investment Management Co. purchased the property. Robert Fahey, Jerry Kranzel, Erin Hannan and Jack Corcoran of CBRE represented the seller, Liberty Property Trust, in the transaction. Built in 2013, the four-story property is one of only a few office buildings in the United States to achieve LEED Double Platinum status. GlaxoSmithKline, a global leader in the life sciences industry, fully occupies the building on a long-term lease. The property is located in Philadelphia’s Navy Yard complex, a master-planned, 1,200-acre urban waterfront development on the Delaware River. The development currently serves as home to more than 13,000 employees and 152 companies in the life sciences, financial services, engineering, manufacturing and research and development sectors.
MILWAUKEE — HSA Bank, a division of Webster Bank NA and provider of consumer-directed health accounts, has extended the lease on its 57,517-square-foot office space in Milwaukee. The bank is also expanding by 10,725 square feet. HSA Bank is located on the second floor of Schlitz Park’s RiverCenter building at 1515 N. RiverCenter Drive. The office is home to 335 employees. Ned Purtell and Jenna Maguire of Founders 3 Real Estate Services represented Schlitz Park in the lease transaction. Drew Saunders and Dan Jessup of JLL represented the tenant. The expansion is expected to be complete this summer.
From Dallas-Fort Worth’s (DFW) explosive rate of corporate relocations and expansions to Houston’s reliance on oil prices to Austin’s strong supply of tech talent, there’s very little common ground among the office sectors of Texas’ biggest cities. And whereas the pace of sales, development and absorption for certain property types — industrial, multifamily, self-storage — are strong across DFW, Houston, Austin and San Antonio, it’s the office sectors of these metros that truly capture their differences. The office markets of the Lone Star State’s four major metros each have a different story to tell — a narrative that speaks to their core demand drivers, as well as their projected performances for the rest of the year. In this piece, we take a closer look at the crucial factors underlying each of the Big Four’s office markets. DFW: Slowing But Stable The DFW office market isn’t as hot as its multifamily or industrial sectors, which are seeing record volumes of new construction and absorption, respectively. But the metro’s ability to create 100,000-plus jobs per year ensures that its strong office fundamentals can be maintained. The metro posted year-over-year rent growth of 2.2 percent, according to CoStar Group, right on par with …
HOUSTON — California-based direct lender Money360 has closed a $15.6 million bridge loan for an undisclosed office property in Houston. The three-year recourse loan features a 74 percent loan-to-value (LTV) ratio. Proceeds from the loan will be used to pay off existing debt, complete construction, conduct tenant improvements and market the property, which was impacted by Hurricane Harvey.
SARASOTA, FLA. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has brokered the $16.4 million sale of Kane Plaza, a 77,089-square-foot office building located at 1 S. School Ave. in Sarasota. Douglas Mandel and Nicholas Hanson of IPA arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, TerraCap Management LLC. JLK Global Fund U.S. 2 Inc. acquired the asset. The 10-story Kane Plaza was constructed in 2000 and features a structured parking garage and renovated lobby.
Cruzan, Cigna Investment Management Acquire 106,890 SF Office Building in Beverly Hills
by Amy Works
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. — A joint venture between Cruzan and Cigna Investment Management has purchased an office building located at 9171 Wilshire Drive in Beverly Hills. An undisclosed seller sold the property for $69.2 million. At the time of sale, the six-story, 106,890-square-foot building was 83 percent occupied. Current tenants include Avalon Holdings, Kaplan Perrone Entertainment and Mejia & Kaplan. The buyer plans to renovate the building. Andrew Harper, Matthew Fisher and Ryan Gallagher of HFF represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal. Additionally, Paul Brindley, Todd Sugimoto, Steven Paskover and Ryan Ashe, also of HFF, arranged a $51.5 million acquisition loan through Mesa West Capital for the buyer.