MOUNTAINSIDE, N.J. — Delaney Real Estate Holdings has completed the disposition of an office building located at 1139 Spruce Drive in Mountainside. Jiljo Real Estate Holdings acquired the 20,000-square-foot two-story property for an undisclosed price. Eric Demmers and Russ Verducci of NAI James E. Hanson represented the seller in the deal.
FORT MILL, S.C. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the $40 million sale of the Daimler Building, a 150,164-square-foot office building in Fort Mill, roughly 20 miles south of Charlotte in South Carolina. Rob Cochran, Jared Londry and Nolan Ashton of Cushman & Wakefield, along with Campbell Walker and Ridr Knowlton of Lincoln Harris, arranged the transaction on behalf of the undisclosed seller. Cantor Fitzgerald Investors LLC acquired the three-story building, which is fully leased to Daimler Trucks North America, a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler AG. The building serves as the East Coast operations hub for Daimler Trucks North America, which has occupied the building since it was constructed in 2008.
HERNDON, VA. — Harbor Group International LLC (HGI) has purchased One Dulles Tower, a 13-story office building located in Herndon, a northern Virginia suburb roughly 24 miles west of Washington, D.C. Federal Capital Partners (FCP) sold the 403,622-square-foot asset to HGI for $226 million. Following the departure of its anchor tenant, FCP landed another company in early 2017, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The cloud-computing services provider is the sole occupant of One Dulles Tower, according to FCP. “This is a Class A property with a top-tier tenant in an irreplaceable location in the Dulles Technology Corridor,” says Richard Litton Jr., president of HGI. Last summer, former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced that the Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) subsidiary chose the office tower for its East Coast corporate hub, a move that could ultimately bring up to 1,500 jobs to the Fairfax County area. One Dulles Tower is located within the Woodland Park master-planned development, giving AWS staffers convenient access to more than 140,000 square feet of retail and restaurants. Other walkable attractions include a hotel and five-acre park. The property is also situated within a half-mile of both the future Herndon and Innovation Center Silver Line Metro stations, as well as …
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — A Colorado-based, family-owned real estate company has acquired a 92,562-square-foot office building in Scottsdale that is net leased to PayPal. The sale price was $30.5 million. The single-tenant building is located at 9999 N. 90th St. The Class A building serves as one of PayPal’s four global, mission-critical network operations centers. The other three network operations centers are located in Silicon Valley, India and Malaysia. The corporately guaranteed lease has about 10 years remaining and features annual rent escalations. Rob Edwards and Tom Ethington of Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors represented the buyer. The seller was a Los Angeles-based private real estate company.
LAS VEGAS — NS8 has leased 12,890 square feet of office space at the Holsum Design Center (Lofts) in downtown Las Vegas. The online abuse, fraud and user experience protection platform will be the anchor tenant at the 46,000-square-foot center, which was formerly a bread factory. NS8 took occupancy of the space on March 1. The center is located at 241 W. Charleston Blvd. LaPour redeveloped the site in 2004. In addition to NS8, the building is home to architects, designers, real estate firms and financial firms, as well as other professional and creative users. Holsum is also home to Lola’s, A Louisiana Kitchen restaurant.
NEWARK, DEL. — The Chemours Co. is developing Chemours Discovery Hub, a 312,000-square-foot research facility located on the University of Delaware’s Science Technology and Advanced Research Campus in Newark. IMC Construction broke ground on the $150 million project in December 2017. Designed by L2 Patridge, the 15-acre project will consolidate laboratories and offices for approximately 330 scientists, engineers and researchers who will be relocated from Chemours’ New Castle County facilities. The new facility will include more than 100 labs, 50 specialty rooms, cafes, conference rooms and 20 huddle rooms for small group meetings. Project members include Tetra Tech, RDK and O’Donnell & Naccarato. Completion of the four-story building is slated for early 2020. Trammell Crow is representing the owner in the project.
OMAHA, NEB. — The Noddle Cos. has been selected to develop the new corporate headquarters for Kiewit Corp. in north downtown Omaha. The office building will range from 165,000 to 185,000 square feet. HDR designed the project, which also includes a parking garage for 650 cars. Construction costs are estimated at $76 million. The new headquarters for the construction and engineering organization will be situated across the street from Kiewit University. Construction is scheduled to begin in October and finish in 2020.
SKOKIE, ILL. — American Landmark Properties has completed the lease-up of its Illinois Science + Technology Park (ISTP) in Skokie, a northern suburb of Chicago. Vetter Pharma International USA and Charles River Laboratories International recently signed lease expansions. Vetter now occupies a total of 49,000 square feet, and Charles River has expanded to 34,056 square feet. American Landmark acquired the 24-acre research, lab and office campus one year ago when it was 86 percent leased. The real estate investment group plans to redevelop an existing 130,000-square-foot building located within ISTP at 8030 Lamon Ave. Five other build-to-suit sites provide a total development capacity of an additional 1.3 million square feet, according to John Roeser, executive vice president of American Landmark. Scott Brandwein and David Saad of CBRE are the leasing agents for ISTP.
WHITE BEAR LAKE, MINN. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Oak Ridge Centre in White Bear Lake, 20 miles northeast of Minneapolis, for $3.3 million. The 23,641-square-foot office property is located at 4801 Highway 61 N. Tenants were not disclosed. Michael Ahles of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a partnership. Ahles also secured the buyer, a local private investment group.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — JBG Smith has formed a joint venture with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) to develop and own 1900 N Street, a $225 million office development under construction in Washington, D.C.’s central business district. CPPIB will invest approximately $101 million in the 11-story building, giving it a 45 percent stake in the project. JBG Smith will continue to develop, manage and lease the asset. The property was 29.6 percent preleased as of the third quarter of 2017. International law firm Goodwin Procter LLP has preleased 80,329 square feet at the building, according to the Washington Business Journal. JBG Smith’s portfolio comprises more than 20 million square feet of office, multifamily and retail assets in the D.C. area. As of Dec. 31, 2017, the CPP Fund totaled $337.1 billion.