ISSAQUAH, WASH. — Kennedy Wilson has acquired 90 East, a three-building, 573,000-square-foot office campus in greater Bellevue, for $153 million. Located in Issaquah, the campus was built between 1999 and 2001 and is fully leased to Microsoft and Costco. During the last 12 months, the property produced approximately $13 million in net operating income. Kennedy Wilson financed the purchase using a 10-year, interest-only, $77 million loan that features a fixed interest rate of 3.85 percent.
ATLANTA — CBRE’s Debt & Structured team in Atlanta has secured $61.9 million in financing for 715 Peachtree, a 10-story, 318,450-square-foot office building in Midtown Atlanta. The property is leased to office tenants including Honeywell and Spaces and retail tenants including Land of a Thousand Hills, Stone Summit and Bareburger. Jonathan Rice and Jeff Ackemann of CBRE arranged the three-year bridge loan through KKR & Co. LP on behalf of the borrowers, Carter and PCCP LLC. The loan will enable Carter to pay an existing loan used for renovations and refurbishment to the property, and provides for tenant improvements and leasing capital. Eric Ross, Clark Gore and Sabrina Gibson of CBRE manage leasing for 715 Peachtree on behalf of Carter, and CBRE’s Asset Services team manages the building.
CHICAGO — Snapsheet has signed a 52,000-square-foot office lease at 1 N. Dearborn St. in Chicago. The company provides auto insurance carriers with a virtual claims technology that streamlines the claims process for customers. Snapsheet will be moving from 55 W. Monroe St., where it currently occupies 21,000 square feet. Snapsheet will occupy the new facility starting in January 2018. Brad Serot, Paul Reaumond and Todd Lippman of CBRE represented Snapsheet in the lease transaction. Jack O’Brien and Caroline Colnon of Telos Group represented the landlord, Beacon Capital Partners.
BOSTON — Rockpoint Group has completed the disposition of Tower Point, an office building located in the Upper Seaport District of Boston. Germany-based Universal-Investment and an institutional account managed by Northwood Investors acquired the 157,067-square-foot asset for an undisclosed price. The sellers rehabilitated the historic manufacturing facility into a first-class office building, which is 100 percent leased. Robert Griffin, Edward Maher, Matthew Pullen and James Tribble of NKF Capital Markets, along with Timothy Bianchi of Newmark Knight Frank, represented the seller in the transaction.
ATLANTA — The Dilweg Cos. has acquired The Pointe, a two-building office development located in Atlanta’s Central Perimeter submarket. The seller and sales price were not released, but the Atlanta Business Chronicle reports that Dilweg purchased the project for $46 million. The buildings total 418,000 square feet and were built in 1981 and 1985. The Pointe was 66 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Cisco, Compass Group and Ecova. Dilweg plans to invest more than $3 million to improve the building’s operating systems, common areas and tenant amenities. The purchase of The Pointe brings Dilweg’s Atlanta office holdings to nearly 2 million square feet. CBRE represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
COLLIERVILLE, TENN. — Kevin Hyneman Cos. plans to build a new 55,000-square-foot headquarters facility for Mueller Industries, a plumbing and HVAC parts manufacturer. The new headquarters building, which will house 125 Mueller employees, will cost approximately $11.4 million to develop. The facility will be situated within the 450-acre Boyle Schilling Farms mixed-use development, which is home to companies such as Helena Chemical, MCR Safety and Juice Plus. Mueller, a Fortune 1000 firm, expects to occupy the new office space in late 2018.
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. — Cress Capital has purchased the 300,000-square-foot Sandpointe office campus in Orange County. Sandpointe features two, eight-story office buildings situated on 8.2 acres less than one mile from John Wayne Airport. The seller was TA Realty.
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Onward Investors, a Minnesota-based investment and development firm, has sold Arbors at Brookhollow, a 114,421-square-foot office property located at 2201 E. Lamar Blvd. in Arlington. Built in 1999, the two-story building currently houses tenants such as Farmers Insurance Group, Ascension Capital and Weir & Associates. Mike Hardage and Matthew Otte of Transwestern represented Onward Investors in the transaction. Arbor Hui LLC purchased the property for an undisclosed price.
FORT COLLINS, COLO. — Cress Capital has purchased a 500,000-square-foot office and flex industrial portfolio in Fort Collins. The property is known as the Prospect Portfolio. It was built between 1984 and 2004. Prospect Portfolio is situated near the intersection of Prospect and Timberline, one mile west of I-25.
WALTHAM, MASS. — Blackstone Mortgage Trust has provided $135 million in financing for 830 and 828 Winter St., an existing lab building and a planned lab facility in the Boston suburb of Waltham. HFF worked on behalf of the borrower, King Street Properties, in securing the financing through Blackstone. Loan proceeds will be used to refinance 830 Winter St., which spans 185,000 square feet, and to construct 828 Winter St. Completed in 2001, 828 Winter St. is home to tenants including Praecis Pharmaceuticals, ImmunoGen, GlaxoSmithKline and Histogenics Corp. The new property at 828 Winter St. will include 144,910 square feet across three stories along with a four-level parking garage. King Street broke ground on the project in October 2016 and is planning for a delivery date of July 2018. The HFF debt placement team representing the borrower included Greg LaBine and Porter Terry.
