ATLANTA — Lincoln Property Co. (LPC) Southeast has brokered the sale of Park Central, a 215,000-square-foot office building located at 2970 Clairmont Road in Atlanta’s North Druid Hills submarket. Florida-based TerraCap Management LLC acquired the asset for an undisclosed price with plans to invest $3.4 million to upgrade the building systems, common areas and amenities. Park Central features 24-hour security, a fitness center, conference center, on-site management and free covered parking. Michael Howell, Hunter Henritze and Caroline Cole of LPC Southeast will be retained to manage and lease the building. The trio recently completed leases at Park Central with tenants such as First Landmark Bank, Everest Campus Services Cos LLC, Delaplex Software LLC and Mallernee, Branch & Daffner LLP.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Fallon Co. has unveiled the renovation and rebranding plans for its 13-story office property located at 301 S. McDowell St. in Midtown Charlotte. The developer originally acquired the 184,144-square-foot tower in July 2017. The Fallon Co. will rename the building 301 Midtown and will implement interior and exterior enhancements. Plans for the exterior of the building include upgrades to the building’s ground floor and parking level entrances, canopies and expanded outdoor plaza space. The exterior lighting system will also be enhanced. Interior renovations will include a new fitness center with locker rooms, a grab-and-go café and added concierge and security services. The Fallon Co. will also modernize the conference center and add tenant storage space. 301 Midtown is situated within walking distance to public transportation, retailers, restaurants, parks and apartment communities. The Fallon Co. plans to begin renovations this spring and finish in the fall.
INDIANAPOLIS — In partnership with privately held Redico, Black Salmon has acquired Bank of Montreal (BMO) Plaza in Indianapolis for $70 million. The 444,644-square-foot, Class A office building is located between Monument Circle and Mass Avenue at 135 N. Pennsylvania St. Tenants include BMO Harris Bank, the U.S. Department of Defense and General Electric Capital Services. The property underwent a $6 million renovation in 2016 and 2017, but Black Salmon plans to make additional upgrades to the common areas. Black Salmon is a new business line of TSG Group, a real estate development and investment company based in South Florida.
BOISE, IDAHO — City Office REIT Inc. (NYSE: CIO) has sold Washington Group Plaza, a four-building office campus situated on 24 acres in Boise. The Vancouver-based REIT sold the property to St. Luke’s, Idaho’s only nonprofit healthcare system, for $86.5 million. City Office REIT recently executed a 148,000-square-foot lease at the complex with St. Luke’s. The company operates 14 hospitals and medical centers in Idaho, four of which are in Boise. Located at 400 Broadway Ave., 701 Morrison Drive and 720 and 800 Park Blvd., Washington Group Plaza is situated within walking distance to Boise State University, Boise River the Ada County Courthouse and Idaho’s only Whole Foods Market. The recently renovated campus spans 557,510 square feet and features 1,050 structured parking spaces and 896 surface spaces. Amenities include an on-site cafeteria, fitness center and a 250-seat auditorium. “The four office buildings that comprise Washington Group Plaza were contributed to City Office as part of the initial public offering in April 2014,” says Greg Tylee, chief operating officer and president of City Office REIT. “Since that time, we have implemented substantial operational improvements and cost savings.” City Office REIT will use proceeds from the sale to repay approximately $32.1 million …
Would you believe that San Antonio is the second most sought-after city for millennials? According to local media pundits and reports from Forbes, San Antonio is attracting the greatest number of millennials of any city in Texas, even beating out Austin, the original yuppie capital of the state. San Antonio, which had taken a back seat to Austin in terms of creating tech jobs and drawing millennial workers, has surged ahead in recent years. The metro has begun to appeal to a different breed of people born between 1980 and 1999. We refer to members of this group as the “logical millennials.” While entrepreneurial in spirit, the San Antonio millennial differs from the standard millennial through his or her understanding of the need for affordable housing and a lower cost of living. The influx of this sub-type of millennials has created growth in urban areas, most notably the Pearl District, which is situated adjacent to the downtown area. The popularity of this mixed-use shopping and community destination has spurred the development of a number of new urban lifestyle projects. Frost Tower, Rising Rents Another indicator of San Antonio’s success at attracting a younger demographic is embodied in the most significant …
WOBURN, MASS. – NKF and Cushman & Wakefield have arranged the sale of Montvale Hill, a development parcel in Woburn, a suburb of Boston. Leggat McCall Properties acquired the development opportunity from Kraft Heinz for an undisclosed price. The development site can accommodate users from 300,000 square feet to 700,000 square feet. Torin Taylor, Justin Smith and Robert Griffin of NKF, along with Christopher Porter of Cushman & Wakefield, represented the seller in the deal.
CHULA VISTA, CALIF. — Chesnut Properties plans to build Millenia Office, a 1.4-million-square-foot, three-property office campus in the San Diego submarket of Chula Vista. The three campuses include Think Campus, which includes two buildings encompassing 324,000 square feet; Discover Campus, which includes one building encompassing 400,000 square feet; and Invent campus, a four-building, 700,000-square foot project. Each property will be expandable to accommodate a Google-style, mega-scale campus. Millenia Office has the potential to grow up to 3 million square feet to accommodate one or several large-scale office, tech, medical and/or educational tenants. The Think Campus will feature large 37,000-square-foot floorplates, prominent Highway 125 access, an above-standard parking ratio of 4.3/1,000, outdoor connectivity from every floor and tenant space, an amenity patio space connecting the two buildings, a 6,000-square-foot amenity building with a restaurant and fitness center and a large outdoor lawn area for employees. Millenia Office will be the only available mega-scale campus in San Diego, residing just 20 minutes south of the city’s downtown region. The campus is situated within the Millenia Master Plan in Eastern Chula Vista, which has major construction in multiple districts underway. The Millenia Master Plan includes up to 3,000 multifamily residences; 1.5 million square …
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — FNB Corp., the parent company of First National Bank, has signed on as the anchor tenant for a planned 31-story office tower in Charlotte. Dominion Realty Partners (DRP) will develop FNB Tower–Charlotte, which will be located at 401 S. Graham St. Greg Broujos of Colliers International and David Thor of JLL represented FNB in the lease negotiations, and DRP was represented internally. The new building will serve as the headquarters for FNB’s Charlotte region. Upon opening, FNB will occupy more than 30,000 square feet of office space with additional options to to accommodate further growth. The new tower will create a central hub expand housing leadership, as well as the bank’s small business administration lending, commercial banking, mortgage banking and builder finance departments. The announcement comes on the heels of FNB’s previously announced plans to occupy a new regional headquarters building, FNB Tower-Raleigh, in Raleigh. DRP will manage FNB Tower-Charlotte upon completion in late 2020.
HOUSTON — Houston-based general contractor Harvey Builders has completed Amegy Bank Tower, an 860,000-square-foot office building located within the Post Oak office development in Houston. Hines developed the 23-story, Class A building, which consists of 15 floors of office space situated atop an eight-story parking garage. Pickard Chilton and Kendall/Heaton Associates both provided architectural services for the project. The building will serve as the new headquarters of Houston-based Amegy Bank.
Office developers in Chicago are thinking outside the box — and outside the central business district — in order to cater to tenants in search of creative office space. While there will always be companies that want the cachet that a business address in the Loop offers, others realize the strategic advantages of urban, non-CBD locations as a recruiting tool. Live/work/play neighborhoods like River North and the West Loop are growing because high-profile employers want to attract a younger workforce that is drawn to the loft-style offices these neighborhoods can provide. This can be achieved either through ground-up development projects like McDonald’s soon-to-open headquarters at 1035 W. Randolph St., or adaptive reuse projects such as 1K Fulton, a former cold-storage facility that now counts Google among its tenants. Yet as rents in these submarkets continue to climb, office users are starting to ask whether they can get the same space for less money in equally desirable locations. For many, the answer is a resounding “yes.” New opportunities While neighborhoods near the CBD such as River West and Pilsen have benefitted from this office “ripple effect,” Chicago’s recently rezoned North Branch Industrial Corridor is perhaps the most alluring and uncharted territory …