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106-W-56th-St-NYC

NEW YORK CITY — Savanna has received $100 million in construction financing for an office building development at 106 W. 56th St. in Manhattan. When completed, the 26-story property will feature 90,000 square feet of high-end office space. Designed by Perkins Eastman, the tower is slated for completion in the third quarter of 2018. Kellogg Gaines, Aaron Niedermayer and Douglas Baillie of JLL arranged the financing, which includes a senior construction loan from United Overseas Bank and mezzanine financing from Canyon Partners Real Estate.

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Worldwide-Plaza-NYC

NEW YORK CITY — SL Green Realty Corp. has partnered with RXR Realty to acquire a 48.7 percent interest in Worldwide Plaza, a Class A mixed-use property in Midtown Manhattan. New York REIT is selling the interest and will continue to own the remaining equity with WWP Sponsor, its existing partner. Slated to close in the fourth quarter, the transaction values the asset at $1.7 billion. Developed in 1989, Worldwide Plaza consists of a 49-story, 1.8 million-square-foot office tower, a 252,000-square-foot retail building with parking garage and a large open-air plaza. Tenants at the office tower include Nomura Holdings, Cravath Swaine and Moore LLP, WebMD, WNet.org, Rubenstein and CBS Broadcasting. The retail building features a five-stage off-Broadway theater, a 475-space parking garage and TMPL, a state-of-the-art fitness gym. At the time of sale, the property was 100 percent leased.

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75-S-Broadway-White-Plains-NY

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — KABR Group has completed the sale of an office building located at 75 S. Broadway in downtown White Plains. Zef Perlleshi acquired the fully renovated building for $13.7 million. New York Department of Education, General Services Administration and New York Worker’s Compensation Board are tenants at the four-story building, which was 96 percent occupied at the time of sale. Multiple offers were made for the building on Ten-X Commercial’s Offer Select transaction platform. Dan Lessing of DSR Group brokered the transaction.

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FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Tarrant County has purchased a 40,075-square-foot tract of land located at 401 E. Weatherford St. in downtown Fort Worth, on which it will build a multi-level parking garage with ground-floor office space. The site encompasses nearly one acre and is situated adjacent to Sundance Square. Eddie Liebman and Matthew Rosenfeld of Weitzman represented the seller in the transaction. Todd Burnette of JLL represented the county.

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The Kansas City office market is poised for increasing rental rates and decreasing vacancy rates for the remainder of 2017 and into 2018. Kansas City has realized its 14th consecutive quarter of increased rental rates (through March 2017), while vacancy has decreased in the overall metro area due to lack of new office construction and a steady pace of absorption. Several factors contribute to the complexity of why the market is good but not great, steady but not dynamic, with no one factor driving the steady upward climb. It has been like a plane taking off but never reaching full altitude. A contradiction of sorts is contributing to the rental rate increases and vacancy decline, while there is still a lack of newly constructed space. Bread-and-butter leasing absorption and a lack of new speculative development have been the main ingredients in the overall solid market for office activity. The velocity in the market is doing its job of generating positive absorption each quarter while rates inch up. The lack of large blocks of space has created a few new construction projects, but not as many as experts had predicted and hoped for. Costs on the rise Higher construction costs and …

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MESA, ARIZ. — Barker Pacific Group (BPG) has acquired Mesa Financial Plaza, a 311,132-square-foot Class A office building in Mesa, for an undisclosed sum. The 16-story building is located at 1201 Alma Road. BPG plans to increase the building’s occupancy and upgrade common areas through renovations to the lobby and corridors. Updated monument signage and lighting will also be added to further enhance the building’s prominence on the skyline. BPG team secured debt financing from NXT Capital with the help of Palmer Capital. Matt Nebeker of Cushman & Wakefield will lead the building’s leasing efforts.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — CBRE has brokered the $28.1 million sale of Tower at 1301 Gervais, a 298,926-square-foot office building in Columbia. Greenville, S.C.-based RealOp Investments acquired the property from Florida-based Morning Calm Management. Patrick Gildea, Aaron Dupree, Martin Moore and Matt Smith of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction. The 20-story Tower at 1301 Gervais recently underwent a $2 million renovation, including upgrades to the fitness center, common areas, restrooms and tenant spaces offering open floor plans. At the time of sale, the building was 80 percent leased to tenants including the University of South Carolina, South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, Cumulus Media, TM Floyd & Co., IT-oLogy and Merrill Lynch.

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WHITE BEAR LAKE, MINN. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a 55,784-square-foot office and warehouse property in White Bear Lake, about 20 miles northeast of Minneapolis, for $3.7 million. The 55,784-square-foot building serves as the SmarteCarte headquarters and is located at 4455 White Bear Parkway. SmarteCarte provides luggage courts and electronic lockers. Michael Ahles of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a family partnership, and the buyer, a local investment firm.

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SAN DIEGO — Anchor Health Properties has obtained a $68 million loan to purchase a San Diego medical office building portfolio. The portfolio contains a total of 206,000 square feet in the La Jolla/UTC submarket. The acquisition includes the two-building Chancellor Park Medical Campus, which is situated near the UC San Diego Jacobs Medical Center and Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla. The properties were built in 1988 as traditional office buildings before they were converted into medical uses. The properties are 94 percent occupied. UC San Diego Health currently leases 44 percent of the buildings, which form the largest outpatient medical campus in UTC and one of the larger outpatient medical campuses in Southern California. The funding will also support future tenant improvements and leasing commissions for the properties. Capital One provided the funds.

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SAN DIEGO — Berkadia has secured $29 million in financing for Pinnacle Medical Office in San Diego. The office is located at 10670-10672 Wexford St. in the Scripps Ranch submarket. The property provides services like primary care, wellness exams, treadmill stress testing, annual physicals, sports and camp physicals, full laboratory testing, vaccinations and pre-operative clearance. The 10-year, fixed-rate loan features interest-only payments for the full term and features a 4.3 percent interest rate through Wells Fargo. The borrower was LP Scripps Lot 1 LLC.

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