AUSTIN, TEXAS — Brandywine Realty Trust, a Philadelphia-based REIT, has signed a development agreement to develop a 250,000-square-foot office building at the Garza Ranch mixed-use development in Austin. A timeline for construction has not yet been established. At full build-out, Garza Ranch will consist of 400,000 square feet of office space, 370 multifamily units and a 140-room Aloft hotel, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. — SVN Alliance has arranged the $11.5 million sale of a four-building office portfolio in Daytona Beach. Chris Butera, Carl Lentz IV, John Trost and Tim Davis of SVN Alliance arranged the transaction on behalf of the buyer, an undisclosed private investor, and the seller, Consolidated Tomoka Land Co. The portfolio included the two-story Concierge building located at the northeast corner of LPGA Boulevard and Williamson Boulevard, two buildings within Mason Commerce Center and a building within Williamson Business Park. Consolidated Tomoka developed the buildings between 2008 and 2014. The portfolio was fully leased at the time of sale.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Ziff Properties has acquired Garlington Park in Greenville for $5.2 million. The four-building business park comprises office, flex and warehouse space and totals 119,734 square feet. Land Development Inc. sold the property, and The Whitmire Co. and SVN BlackStream arranged the transaction. The buildings were constructed between 2001 and 2008. Garlington Park is home to tenants such as Grey Eagle Traders, Pompeii Motorsports and Fabrico Inc.
Memphis ended 2017 with an overall vacancy rate of 14.8 percent, which is up slightly from where the year started at 14.5 percent — the highest level in three years. As the saying goes, “don’t judge a book by its cover,” and this especially applies to the Memphis office market. In 2017, 600,000 square feet of office space was absorbed. Developers also started 2017 with more than 1.2 million square feet of new office space in the pipeline, with 800,000 square feet delivered last year and the other 400,000 square feet expected to be delivered by the end of the first quarter this year. So within just six months, nearly 6 percent of Memphis’ total office market size was added to the overall available space. That is more new product being delivered than the city has seen in over a decade. Of this 1.2 million square feet, nearly 80 percent will come from adaptive reuse projects, where previously non-functioning properties located in non-core submarkets have undergone significant repurposing. The Sears Crosstown building was erected in 1927 as a 1.5 million-square-foot, mail-order processing warehouse and Sears retail store. The project was the largest building in Memphis at the time of its …
ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. — Colliers International has brokered the sale of a 218,500-square-foot multi-tenant office property, located at 365 West Passaic St. in Rochelle Park, for an undisclosed price. Rochelle Park is about three miles northwest of Hackensack. Colliers represented the seller, Onyx Equities and Garrison Investment Group in the transaction. The buyer was a structured joint venture between TAK Group and Bergman Real Estate Group. The property was 77 percent occupied at the time of sale to a tenant roster that included healthcare, financial services, engineering, retail and transportation.
CONCORD, MASS. — HFF has arranged the $11 million sale and $7.1 million financing of a 104,527-square-foot office property in Concord, about 20 miles northwest of Boston. HFF represented the undisclosed seller and arranged a five-year, fixed-rate acquisition loan through East Boston Savings Bank for the buyer, Azad Legacy Partners. Located at 696 Virginia Road, the property was originally constructed in 1962 and expanded in 1977. In 1997, it was completely rebuilt. The asset consists of two interconnected buildings on 28 acres of land. At the time of sale, the asset was 100 percent leased to the U.S. General Services Administration and is home to the New England District of the Army Corps of Engineers.
FLOWER MOUND, TEXAS — The Flower Mound City Council has approved an agreement with FM 2499 Office Venture LLC, an affiliate of Irving-based Realty Capital, to develop a 120,000-square-foot speculative office building in the northern Dallas suburb. The city will commit $25 million to the four-story, Class A project, which has a target completion date of late 2022. The project will include the development of a 480-space parking structure.
HOUSTON — LMI Capital has closed three acquisition loans totaling $9.5 million for two apartment communities and one office building located throughout the greater Houston area. The properties include a 65-unit apartment asset in Galveston County, an 80-unit apartment community in the Spring Branch submarket and a 23,000-square-foot office building located near The Woodlands. Kurt Dennis of LMI Capital placed the loans for the Galveston and Woodlands properties and Jamie Mullin of LMI Capital placed the loan for the Spring Branch property.
SAN FRANCISCO – HFF has arranged $145 million in construction financing for 633 Folsom, a seven-story office building located in the SOMA submarket of San Francisco. The Swig Co. will use the loan proceeds to complete a full-building renovation and expansion, which will add five floors to the property. Once completed, the 171,632-square-foot building will become a 12-story, 266,053-square-foot Class A office building. Originally built in 1967 by The Swig Co., 633 Folsom has been fully leased for the past 20 years, most recently to California Pacific Medical Center. The project is scheduled to commence this summer. Bruce Ganong and Bercut Smith of HFF secured the financing for Swig.
BELLEVUE, WASH. – Spire Real Estate has purchased Swift Gateway, a multi-tenant office building located in Bellevue. The three-story, 68,766-square-foot building was renovated in 2016. Brian Bonipart, Michael Taylor and Skip Slavin of Newmark secured a five-year, $14.5 million acquisition loan with a 30-year amortization schedule on behalf of Spire. Newmark will service the non-recourse financing.
