RICHARDSON, TEXAS — NAI Robert Lynn has negotiated a 19,100-square-foot office lease at 1101 E. Arapaho Road in Richardson. Kent Smith of NAI Robert Lynn represented the tenant. L&S Mechanical, a Texas-based utilities service firm. The landlord, Sooner Management, was represented internally by Mark Jordan and Scot Florsheim.
DOWNERS GROVE, ILL. — Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp. has opened a new 23,000-square-foot headquarters in Downers Grove, about 20 miles west of Chicago. Over 125 employees, area business professionals and government officials were in attendance for the grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony on Aug. 22. Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp. has moved to the office, located at 1431 Opus Place, from nearby Lombard, Ill. Staffed by over 100 employees, the Downers Grove headquarters features private and team offices, an open-concept kitchen and dining/gathering area, two conference rooms and a dedicated training room. Occupying the new office are the company’s loan processing, underwriting, closing, training, information technology, secondary shipping, accounting and human resources departments. Staff members were transitioned into the new space from the company’s previous location beginning this spring. Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp. is a division of Draper and Kramer Inc., which is still based in Chicago.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Intercontinental Real Estate Corp., a Boston-based real estate investment and development firm, has purchased 5th + Colorado, a newly built, 18-story office tower in Austin’s central business district. The company acquired the property from the developer, a joint venture between Lincoln Property Co. and Goldman Sachs, for $119 million, according to the Austin Business Journal. Located at the corner of 5th and Colorado streets within Austin’s Warehouse District, the 179,000-square-foot office tower comprises eight levels of structured parking, nine floors of Class A office space and a lobby level with 5,822 square feet of retail space. Built in 2016, 5th + Colorado is home to companies including Indeed.com, an online job search forum; Industrious, a co-working office concept; SoftServe Inc., a Ukranian software firm; Plains Capital Bank; and Sherri Hill, an Austin-based fashion brand relocating from 9011 Tuscany Way, according to the Journal. Amenities at the office tower include on-site management and security and a fitness center with showers and locker rooms. Located at 201 W. 5th St., the office building is within walking distance of Lady Bird Lake Hike and Bike Trail, the State Capitol, Austin City Hall, the Austin Convention Center and Republic Square Park. …
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — NKF has arranged the sale of an office and retail building located at 515 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge. S-BNK Cambridge LLC sold the asset to an undisclosed buyer for $30.1 million, or $649 per square foot. Santander Bank currently fully leases the 46,350-square-foot property. Geoffrey Millerd, Justin Smith, Paul Penman and Christian Brannelly of NKF represented the seller in the deal.
BOSTON — Valencia Realty Capital has arranged $6.5 million in refinancing for a two-story, mixed-use building located at 580 Chelsea St. in Boston’s East Boston neighborhood. The 90,000-square-foot property features clear heights as high as 30 feet and is the closest warehouse and office facility to Boston Logan International Airport’s tarmac. Boston-based Valencia Realty secured the financing, which features a 30-year amortization schedule, for the undisclosed borrower.
LINCOLN, NEB. — Nebraska Innovation Campus Development Corp. (NICDC) and Tetrad Property Group have broken ground on an 80,000-square-foot office building at Nebraska Innovation Campus in Lincoln. The three-story building will feature a business incubator and common spaces designed for collaboration. Completion is slated for the third quarter of 2018. Richard Meginnis and Sally DeLair of NAI FMA Realty are marketing the building for lease. Nebraska Innovation Campus is a research campus designed to facilitate partnerships between the University of Nebraska and private sector businesses.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Alexandria Real Estate Equities is developing an office and laboratory project at 100 Binney St. in Cambridge. Slated for delivery in the fourth quarter, the property will feature 431,000 rentable square feet of office and laboratory space. The project is 100 percent pre-leased. The tenant roster includes Facebook, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Foghorn Therapeutics, Sigilon Therapeutics, Tango Therapeutics and TCR2 Therapeutics. Additionally, the company is pre-leasing for 399 Binney Street, a 164,000-square-foot ground-up development at Alexandria Center at One Kendall Square. Alexandria Real Estate acquired One Kendall Square, a 645,000-square-foot, nine-building life science and technology campus in Cambridge, in 2016.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of a mixed-use building located at 219 E. 60th St. in Manhattan’s Midtown East section for $5.2 million. Vacant at the time of sale, the five-story building features retail space on the ground and second floors and open-floorplan offices on the remaining floors, which leaves options available for a residential conversion. Clint Olsen, Alex Woodlief and Will Conrad of Cushman & Wakefield represented the undisclosed seller, while Leslie Wang of Essential New York Real Estate represented the buyer, Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society, in the deal.
JOHNS CREEK, GA. — Sealy & Co. has acquired the Johns Creek Value & Income Portfolio, a 277,201-square-foot, single-story office portfolio in Johns Creek, roughly 30 miles north of Atlanta. The acquisition was made on behalf of Sealy Strategic Equity Partners. The sales price was not disclosed. At the time of sale, the portfolio was 89 percent leased and home to three company headquarters: ARRIS International, Femasys and Alpha Advanced Materials.
NOBLESVILLE, IND. — Engineering Facility Solutions (EFS) has completed installation of a design/build HVAC project at the new headquarters of BlueSky Technology Partners in Noblesville, about 20 miles north of Indianapolis. BlueSky, an e-commerce consultancy, and BlueSky Digital, a digital marketing agency, will occupy the top two floors of the four-story, 42,000-square-foot building. The first level is set for use as a tenant restaurant space with outdoor seating. The second level is an open office space available for lease. EFS completed the project within a four-month design phase and a five-month installation. American Structurepoint + Interiors Group was the architect and Meyer Najem was the general contractor.
