SANDY SPRINGS, GA. — Multi-brand restaurant company Inspire Brands will locate its global headquarters in Sandy Springs, roughly 20 miles north of Atlanta. The Global Support Center is expected to open in 2019 and will be the corporate hub for Inspire and its portfolio of restaurant brands. Founded in February, Inspire’s portfolio includes more than 4,600 Arby’s, Buffalo Wild Wings and R Taco restaurants worldwide, with combined global system sales of more than $7.6 billion in 2017. The new headquarters is expected to create more than 1,100 jobs in Fulton County over the next six years.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Serendipity Labs Coworking will open two office coworking locations in Charleston totaling 63,200 square feet. A 30,200-square-foot, corporate-owned location will anchor Holder Properties’ Portside-Ferry Wharf Development at the base of the Mount Pleasant Ravenel Bridge. The second, a 33,000-square-foot franchised location owned by hotel industry veteran Trey Scott, will be part of the Garco Mill mixed-use redevelopment project in North Charleston at 4854 O’Hear St. WECCO Development is developing the project. Both Serendipity Labs locations will feature a Lab Café, event space, wellness rooms, private rooms, studios with full A/V capabilities and complimentary tech support. In addition, the locations will feature art shows from local artists and member-only events. Lee Allen and Michael Berman of JLL represented Serendipity Labs in the lease transactions.
New Mexico’s office market has held steady along with the rest of the country throughout 2017. New development in areas outside of metro Albuquerque, like the Facebook development in Los Lunas, is attracting retail- and service-related businesses. While it remains to be seen what this means to the general commercial real estate industry, it is encouraging to see increases in activity in areas where there had been little to no growth in recent years. Albuquerque, the heart of New Mexico’s office market, saw positive absorption start to increase from the past two quarters. The market is seeing organic tenant movement and, more importantly, there has been a swelling interest in Albuquerque metro areas from out-of-state companies looking for a Mountain Time Zone location that is economically attractive. Co-working spaces have gained in momentum with several cropping up since the end of 2016. New co-working spaces include Gravitate, which has expanded into two new locations near FreeRange and the new Tramway Plaza. We expect this trend to continue as the state focuses on investing in entrepreneurs and startup companies. New construction is expected to increase the overall Class A inventory over the course of 2018 and 2019. Compared to many other …
WESTPORT, CONN. — The HK Group has orchestrated the $1.2 million sale of a two-building, 5,571-square-foot office property in Westport. The complex is fully leased to a tenant roster that includes luxury homes builder Milton Development, an Allstate Insurance Agency and Backspace Westport. The seller was Argentini Corp. of Sarasota, Florida, which acquired the property in 1982. Millennium Brothers LLC. purchased the property as part of a 1031 exchange.
FREEHOLD, N.J. — Sheldon Gross Realty has secured five leases totaling 21,000 square feet at the Fairfield Corporate Park in Freehold. The 165,000-square-foot office park is located at 920-922 Route 33. The five companies that signed leases are Declarations Inc. (7,425 square feet); 1-800 Junk (3,600 square feet); Utiliquest LLC (3,600 square feet); Garcia Sequeira LLC (3,209 square feet); and Stylecare Salon Services LLC (3,209 square feet). Glenn Jaffe, Jonathan Glick, and Matthew Leonelli of Sheldon Gross Realty represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease transactions.
LINCOLN, NEB. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged a $3.5 million loan for the refinancing of Lincolnshire Office Park in Lincoln. The four-building property spans 52,620 square feet and is located at 1530 S. 70th St. Steve Ruff of NorthMarq arranged the loan, which is fully amortized over 18 years. A life insurance company provided the loan. The borrower was not disclosed.
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Ridge Capital has completed the sale of Creekside Oaks, an office complex located at 1740, 1750 and 1760 Creekside Oaks Drive in Sacramento. An undisclosed buyer acquired the property in a 1031 exchange for $32.2 million. Kevin Partington, Ron Thomas, Bruce Hohenhaus, Chris Schwarze, Seth Siegel, Steven Hermann, Eric Fox, Adam Lasoff and George Eckard of Cushman & Wakefield’s Sacramento and Bay Area offices represented the seller in transaction. Originally built in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the three-building property underwent significant interior and exterior renovations within the past decade to include revamped commons areas, high-end tenant improvements, mechanical upgrades and new rooftops on all buildings. At the time of sale, the 178,694-square-foot asset was 99 percent leased to a variety of tenants in healthcare, technology and financial services sectors.
NOVATO, CALIF. — NKF Capital Markets has arranged the sale of Rowland Plaza, located at 75 and 88 Rowland Way in Novato. Buchanan Street Partners sold the asset to Pinnacle Capital Management Services and Harrison Street for an undisclosed price. The property features 142,856 square feet of office and medical office space spread across two three-story buildings. At the time of sale, the asset was 82 percent leased to 12 tenants representing medical, finance, government and software firms. Grant Lammersen, Steven Golubchik, Edmund Najera and Tyler Meyerdirk of NKF Capital Markets represented the seller in the deal.
LAS VEGAS — Dornin Investment Group (DIG) has completed the sale of Town Square North, an office asset located within Town Square mixed-use development on Las Vegas Boulevard South and Sunset Road in Las Vegas. Moonwater Capital, a local real estate owner and operator, acquired the property for an undisclosed price. The two-building asset features 131,000 square feet of Class A office space. The property was vacant at both the time of DIG’s acquisition in January and the current sale.
CLEARFIELD, UTAH — Vectra Management Group (VMG) has arranged the sale of an office building located at 888 S. University Park Blvd. in Clearfield. Clearfield 888 acquired the property from 888 Associates for an undisclosed price. Situated on 11.3 acres, the 129,949-square-foot property features one building with a two-story north wing and a three-story south wing. The building was constructed from 1999 to 2001 and fully renovated from 2014 to 2016. Raju Shah and Bryan Barnes led the VMG team that represented the buyer and secured acquisition financing through KeyBank’s Salt Lake City commercial banking division. VMG and CBRE represented the seller in the transaction. The seller is a VMG-sponsored company that acquired the property in November 2015.