ASHLAND, MASS. — SVN | Parsons Commercial Group | BOSTON has arranged the sale of a 5,728-square-foot office building at 54-58 Union St. in Ashland. Victor Galvani and Garrett Quinn of SVN | Parsons represented the seller, Euroland Real Estate, and procured the buyer, Martel HVAC Corp. Martel, a heating and cooling solutions company, will move its corporate headquarters from Holliston to the property. Eurobrew Inc., a specialty beer importer, formerly owned and occupied the building. The property consists of office space, basement storage and a parking lot.
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LAREDO, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $4.7 million sale of Walker Plaza, a 63,714-square-foot office building located at 5810 Bernardo Ave. in the south Texas city of Laredo. James Bell and Keith Lloyd of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, an undisclosed partnership. The name and representative of the buyer were not released.
GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — Altaquip LLC, an Ohio-based equipment services provider, has leased 15,000 square feet of office/warehouse space at 923 Avenue N in Grand Prairie. Michael Stanzel and Patrick Embry of NAI Robert Lynn represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations. Corby Hodgkiss of Mercer & Co. represented Altaquip.
SOUTHFIELD, MICH. — Dembs Development has acquired the former Federal-Mogul Corp. headquarters in Southfield, a northern suburb of Detroit. The purchase price was not disclosed. The 360,000-square-foot office building, located on Northwestern Highway, has been vacant for over a year. The property was built in the early 1970s. Amenities include an underground parking garage, collaborative workspaces, auditorium, restaurant and outdoor seating. The property most recently sold for $12.7 million in July 2004, according to CoStar Group. Dembs Development purchased the property in a joint venture with Pitt Investments.
FORT MITCHELL, KY. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged the $4.1 million refinancing for Chamber Office Park, a 67,552-square-foot office park located at 2101-2181 and 2500 Chamber Center Drive in Fort Mitchell, a Kentucky city located about six miles south of Cincinnati. Susan Branscome of NorthMarq’s Cincinnati office arranged the fully amortizing, 10-year loan through an undisclosed life insurance company.
HOUSTON — Grandbridge Real Estate Capital has arranged $7.8 million in refinancing for a 138,633-square-foot office building located at 2224 Bay Area Blvd. in the Clearlake area of Houston. Adam Lipkin of Grandbridge arranged the refinancing for the six-story property on behalf of a sovereign wealth fund operated by the Republic of Nauru, a South Pacific island nation. The property is primarily leased to a subsidiary of Jacobs Engineering Group, a publicly traded NASA contractor.
SUGAR LAND, TEXAS — E Contractors, a Houston-based construction firm, has broken ground on Egrets Landing Sugar Land, a 22,000-square-foot, Class A office property. The building will be situated on 1.5 acres at the corner of U.S Highway 59 and State Highway 6 in the Houston metro of Sugar Land. E Contractors expects to complete the two-story building in January 2018.
TEMPE, ARIZ. — A partnership between Gramercy Property Trust and TPG has acquired Nexus at ASU Research Park, a 123,864-square-foot office building in Phoenix, for $27.6 million. The Class A building is situated just off Loop 101 in the ASU Research Park. The building is fully leased to an online retailer. Amenities at the park include a day care center, six miles of jogging and bike trails, lakes, a helipad and security patrol. JLL’s Mark Detmer, Bo Mills, Mark Gustin and Ryan Sitov executed the sale. The seller was a joint venture between ViaWest Group and Blue Vista Capital.
DEARBORN, MICH. — Ford Land Development Corp., the real estate arm of Ford Motor Co., has begun transformation of the Dearborn campus with the groundbreaking of Wagner Place, a development featuring office and retail space. The $60 million Ford investment will provide Ford employees and nearby residents with new retail and restaurant options, complemented by green space, outdoor seating and enhanced walkability. Ford is transforming about two blocks of largely vacant buildings into the 150,000-square-foot development. Wagner Place will feature two floors of workspace and a rooftop patio in addition to first-floor retail and restaurant space. Approximately 600 Ford global data insights and analytics employees will occupy the property. The development is part of the 10-year transformation of the company’s more than 60-year-old Dearborn facilities, which will relocate 30,000 employees from 70 buildings into primarily two sites: a product campus and a world headquarters campus. Wagner Place is scheduled for completion in mid-2018. With $3 million in support from the Michigan Strategic Fund, the city of Dearborn will construct a 373-spot public parking structure near the development at West Village Drive and Monroe Street for consumer and Ford employee parking. Dearborn is overseeing an $18 million investment for the west downtown area …
CHICAGO — Accesso Partners LLC has completed a pocket park with seating for 50 between the office towers at 200 and 230 W. Monroe St. in Chicago’s West Loop. The 1.2 million-square-foot property has been renamed Monroe Plaza and is entering a second phase of upgrades. The new 3,000-square-foot park is open to employees and the public. Phase II renovations of the property will include enhancements to the lobbies, entrances, corridors and common areas of both buildings. Accesso has also named Cushman & Wakefield as the leasing broker for the office property. The leasing team consists of Andrea Saewitz, Ben Cleveland and Mark Baby.