RICHMOND, VA. — Phillips Realty Capital has secured $36.5 million in permanent financing for the Altria Building at Reynolds Crossing located at 6603 W. Broad St. in Richmond. Phillps Realty Capital’s Charles DuBose arranged the financing on behalf of the borrower, Reynolds Development. The 222,057-square-foot, Class B office building was built in 1968 and renovated in 2007. The Altria Building is fully leased to a single credit tenant, Philip Morris USA, which is headquartered at the property.
HOUSTON — JLL has arranged a $163.5 million loan for the refinancing of 717 Texas Avenue, a 696,000-square-foot, 33-story office tower in downtown Houston. Developed in 2003, the property was fully leased until recently, when a major tenant vacated, bringing the occupancy rate down to 50 percent. Tom Melody and John Ream of JLL arranged the financing through Goldman Sachs on behalf of a partnership between Hines and California-based Prime Asset Management.
ATLANTA — Carter Validus has acquired the 995,728-square-foot American Cancer Society Building in downtown Atlanta for $166 million. Cushman & Wakefield’s Stewart Calhoun, David Meline, Samir Idris and Andy Johns represented the seller, Atlanta-based Cousins Properties, in the transaction. Mike Ryan and Brian Linnihan of Cushman & Wakefield arranged acquisition financing. The American Cancer Society Inc., Digital Realty, InComm and the Georgia Lottery Corp. are among the tenants at the property, located at 250 Williams St. Amenities include a 450-seat business theater, an executive boardroom and Wi-Fi in common areas. Cushman & Wakefield’s Aileen Almassy, John Zintak and Porter Henritze will handle leasing of the office space on behalf of Carter Validus.
KENDALL, FLA. — Keystone Property Group has purchased Dadeland Towers South, a portfolio comprising two office buildings totaling 228,136 square feet and an on-site, 246,319-square-foot parking garage located at 9400-9500 S. Dadeland Blvd. in the Kendall submarket of Miami. Avison Young’s John Crotty and Michael Fay represented Keystone in the $36 million acquisition. Keystone simultaneously completed a 102,000-square-foot lease with the seller, AvMed Inc., a Florida-based health insurance company, which will remain at the property long-term. For more than 10 years, Keystone has owned Dadeland Towers North, the three-building and parking garage portfolio that makes up the northern section of the office campus. With this acquisition, Keystone now owns the entire property, which was 89 percent leased at the time of sale.
ALLENTOWN, BENSALEM AND HORSHAM, PA. — Brookwood Financial Partners has completed the disposition of three office properties totaling $22.7 million. In the first transaction, Infinera Corp., the sole tenant, acquired a 59,910-square-foot office building at 7360 Windsor Drive in Allentown for $12.4 million, or $207 per square foot. In the second deal, Police and Fire Federal Credit Union purchased One Greenwood Square, a 60,700-square-foot office property located in Bensalem, for $6.8 million, or $112 per square foot. In the third transaction, Pliner Properties acquired a 28,894-square-foot property located at 630 Dresher Road in Horsham for $3.5 million, or $122 per square foot. The buildings are part of a 29-building portfolio that Brookwood acquired in 2015 through its affiliates, Brookwood Philadelphia I and Brookwood Philadelphia II.
LOS ANGELES — Harbor Associates has purchased a 30,000-square-foot office property in the Los Angeles submarket of Century City for $14.7 million. The four-story building is located at 10281 West Pico Blvd. It was built in 1981. NKF’s Kevin Shannon, Ken White, Rob Hannan and Brad Feld represented the seller, Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS), in this transaction. SBS owned and occupied the building since 1994.
IRVING, TEXAS — Publicly traded oil and gas firm Pioneer Natural Resources will relocate its headquarters to the 51-acre, $1.5 billion Hidden Ridge development in Irving. KDC developed the 10-story office property at 777 Hidden Ridge that will serve as Pioneer’s new office space. Chicago-based Mesirow Financial purchased the property from Verizon in August 2016 in a sale-leaseback deal for approximately $344 million.
TYSONS, VA. — Lerner Enterprises has received $200 million in permanent financing for 1775 Tysons Boulevard, a 17-story office tower located in Tysons, Virginia. The developer, Lerner, delivered the property in late 2016. The 476,000-square-foot office tower is LEED Platinum certified, and features a state-of-the-art fitness center, conference center, café, indoor and outdoor social areas, and an onsite Fogo de Chão restaurant. Tenants at the property include EY, DXC Technology and WeWork. JLL is handling leasing at the tower. KPF designed the project. Towers Golde was landscape architect, Dewberry handled engineering and Paladino was LEED consultant. The office complex is the newest building in the Tysons II master plan, which features office, retail, dining, hotel and residential space. The 117-acre development is home to Tysons Galleria, an 800,000-square-foot luxury retail center, and a Ritz-Carlton. TH Real Estate — the real estate investment management arm of TIAA — provided the capital for the financing, which John Sieber Jr. of Phillips Realty Capital structured. Rockville, Md.-based Lerner Enterprises is one of the largest development and management companies in metro Washington, D.C. The company’s portfolio includes Dulles Town Center, a 1.4 million-square-foot regional mall in Loudoun County, Va., and Washington Square, a 1 …
The region is creating transformative projects that are substantially elevating the desirability of its office market five years into Denver’s strong development cycle. This trend — strongest in Denver’s Central Business District (CBD) and Southeast Suburban (SES) submarkets — is attracting a new breed of tenants to the Denver landscape. About 1.4 million square feet of Class A office space has been delivered in Denver’s CBD since 2012, with an equal amount under construction. Deliveries in the previous development cycles (1999 to2003 and 2007 to 2010) were on a smaller scale, delivering about 800,000 square feet and more than 1.5 million square feet, respectively. During the 2007 to 2010 development cycle, which had the unfortunate timing of commencing right before the financial crisis, new product struggled with pre-leasing. It took an average of 10 quarters to lease up to stabilized occupancy at 85 percent. Only one project, 1800 Larimer Street, was more than 85 percent leased in the first year. In contrast, the current cycle is much different and much stronger. The amount of square footage being added to the CBD outweighs the previous other two cycles. Leasing activity is white hot as well, with new product averaging 60 percent …
CHARLESTON, S.C. — CBRE has arranged $35.5 million in financing for Half Mile North and Pacific Box & Crate, two mixed-use projects on the Charleston peninsula. CBRE’s Jeff Ackemann and Porter McDonald arranged the permanent mortgage through Nationwide Real Estate Investments on behalf of the borrower, Raven Cliff Co. LLC. In 2016, the CBRE team secured a $35 million construction loan to recapitalize the Half Mile North Development and provide construction financing for the Pacific Box & Crate project. Together, the developments encompass 222,113 square feet of office space and chef-driven food options. The projects were 97 percent leased at the time of sale. SIB, Integral Solutions Group, BoomTown!, Phish Labs and Blue Acorn are among the developments’ current tenants.
