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260-E-161st-St-NYC

NEW YORK CITY — Acadia Realty Trust has completed the disposition of an office and retail building located at 260 E. 161st St. in the Bronx. Jamestown acquired the 276,622-square-foot property for an undisclosed price. Originally built in 1930, the property was renovated in 2016 and features 245,470 square feet of office space and 20,572 square feet of retail space. The 10-story property is leased to office tenants, including The City of New York, The Legal Aid Society, and Montefiore Medical Center, as well as retail tenants, Walgreens, Starbucks Coffee and Chipotle Mexican Grill. Michael Tepedino, Andrew Scandalios, Graham Stephens, David Giancola and David Fowler of HFF represented the seller in the deal. Additionally, Christopher Peck and Peter Rotchford of HFF are working on behalf of the buyer to arrange financing for the asset.

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COLUMBIA, MD. — Avison Young has arranged the sale of an 84,025-square-foot office building located at 6350 Stevens Forest Road in Columbia, roughly 20 miles southwest of Baltimore. The sales price was not disclosed, but sources familiar with the transaction report the building sold for $10.6 million. Chip Ryan, Jim Kornick and Bob Wrighton of Avison Young arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, New Boston Fund. Pratt Street Capital acquired the asset. Johns Hopkins Community Physicians anchors the building, which was 77 percent leased at the time of sale. Medical- and healthcare-related tenants occupy 43 percent of the building, which is located roughly three miles from Johns Hopkins Howard County General Hospital and two miles from Columbia Town Center.

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BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. — Douglas Emmett Inc. (NYSE: DEI) has acquired the Beverly Hills Financial Center, a 146,300-square-foot, Class A office property located at 9401 Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills. Located at the corner of Wilshire and Canon Drive in Beverly Hills’ Golden Triangle, the property was initially constructed in 1972 and renovated in 1999. The building is home to tenants including Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP, Citibank, Bank of the West, Momentum Talent Agency and Mozaic LLC. As part of the transaction, Douglas Emmett received an acquisition loan with a principal balance of approximately $32.3 million and a 4.55 percent interest rate, which matures on June 1, 2038. The provider was undisclosed. To fund the remainder of the purchase price, Douglas Emmett used cash and issued approximately 2.6 million units in its operating partnership to the undisclosed seller at an equivalent price of $40.60 per common share. Paul Hastings LLP represented the seller, a partnership between Cando Partners and Wilshire-Canon Properties LLC, in the transaction. The company’s portfolio now consists of 71 office properties totaling approximately 18.4 million square feet, along with 10 apartment communities. The company is also developing residential buildings in Los Angeles and Honolulu. Douglas Emmett’s stock price closed on Wednesday, …

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NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. — J.H. Snyder Company has obtained $68 million in bridge financing for a Class A office building in North Hollywood in the NoHo Arts District. The 179,000-square-foot property is located at 5250 Lankershim Plaza. The asset has been fully occupied for nearly 10 years, though the majority of the tenants are expected to roll over in the next several years. The transaction includes an adjacent six-story, 723-space parking garage. J.H. Snyder developed the property in 2009. Seth Grossman, Steve Edelstein and Jackie Tran of Meridian Capital Group executed the transaction.

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MCCIII-Parsippany-NJ

PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of Morris Corporate Center III (MCCIII), an office property in Parsippany. P3 Properties acquired the 541,466-square-foot Class A asset from institutional investors advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management for an undisclosed price. The property includes four interconnected buildings on a 27-acre, amenity-rich campus at 400 Interpace Parkway. The park is 62 percent leased to four occupants, including TEVA Pharmaceuticals and Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide. Gary Gabriel, Andrew Morin, David Bernhaut, Kevin Donner, Brian Whitmer and Andrew MacDonald of Cushman & Wakefield brokered the sales transaction. John Alascio and Sridhar Vankayala of Cushman & Wakefield’s Equity Debt and Structured Finance Group arranged $58.8 million in acquisition financing, including approximately $15 million of future funding earmarked for property upgrades.

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545-Sackett-St-NYC

NEW YORK CITY — The Domain Cos. has acquired a development site located at 545 Sackett St. in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn for $26.5 million. The site, which includes an existing 42,000-square-foot building, is zoned for up to 80,000 square feet of development. The site is a part of the area covered by the Bridging Gowanus community planning and land use process, an initiative to create a sustainable, livable and inclusive future for the Gowanus area. Dan Marks, Ofer Cohen and Mike Hernandez of TerraCRG represented the seller, ATS Realty Inc., in the deal.

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HOUSTON — Colvill Office Properties has secured two leases totaling 43,864 square feet at Galleria Office Tower 1, a 493,456-square-foot, Class A building in Houston. Accounting firm BKD LLP leased 29,960 square feet and recruiting firm Lucas Associates Inc. leased 14,174 square feet. Brad Beasley and Win Haggard of Colvill Office Properties represented the landlord, a partnership between Azrelli Group and Unilev Capital Corp., in both lease negotiations. Lucian Bukowski and Nicholas Bockhorn of CBRE represented BKD; Bill Boyer and Collin Grimes, also of CBRE, represented Lucas Associates.  

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HURST, TEXAS — SVN Trinity Advisors has brokered the sale of a 40,288-square-foot office building located at 1550 Norwood Drive in Hurst, a northeastern suburb of Fort Worth. Steve Fithian and Clint Montgomery of SVN Trinity represented the seller, AREI LLC, in the transaction. John Fegan of Compass Realty represented the buyer, 1550 Norwood LLC. The multi-tenant building was constructed in 1985.  

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PEMBROKE PINES, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of Pembroke Pointe 880, a 143,535-square-foot office building in Pembroke Pines, a city in Broward County. Public records show the building sold for $42 million. Scott O’Donnell, Mike Davis, Michael Lerner, Dominic Montazemi, Miguel Alcivar, Greg Miller and Rick Brugge of Cushman & Wakefield arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, Duke Realty. Jason Hochman of Cushman & Wakefield arranged a $22.7 million, long-term acquisition loan on behalf of the buyer, Pembroke Pointe Office LLC, an affiliate of Miami-based Midtown Capital Partners LLC. Pembroke Pointe 880 was constructed in 2015 and features 36,111-square-foot floor plates, a parking ratio of 5.5 per 1,000 square feet and Interstate 75 frontage. In addition, the property is located adjacent to the 400,000-square-foot Shops at Pembroke Gardens, an open-air retail center. At the time of sale, the building was 86 percent leased to tenants including Global Medical Management, Elizabeth Arden, CES Consultants Inc., Boxy Charm, Kronos Inc., Corestaff, Devry Education Group and Evolution Lighting LLC.

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HOOVER, ALA. — SDM Partners has acquired Meadow Brook North, a three-building, 365,000-square-foot office portfolio located on Corporate Parkway in Hoover, roughly 11 miles south of Birmingham. Patterson Real Estate Advisory Group arranged acquisition financing for the transaction, which included a joint venture equity partnership with Blue Vista and bridge loans from Hamilton State Bank and State Bank & Trust Co. Other terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The portfolio originally included a fourth building, which SDM negotiated the sale of to a local user that closed simultaneously with SDM. Of the three buildings in SDM’s acquisition, one is fully leased to BlueCross BlueShield of Alabama, one is a multi-tenant building currently 87 percent leased and the third is vacant. Joe Sandner III and Joe Sandner IV of Colliers International will handle the portfolio’s leasing assignment.

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