SAN DIEGO — Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. has acquired Torrey Hills Corporate Center, a 23,595-square-foot office property in the San Diego submarket of Del Mar Heights, for $9.8 million. The property is located at 11250 El Camino Real. It was about two-thirds vacant at the time of sale. Peter Curry and Duncan Dodd of Cushman & Wakefield represented both the buyer and seller, HighBrook Investors, in this transaction.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Moovel has relocated its North American headquarters from downtown Portland to the Historic Overland Building in Old Town. The mobility solutions provider has leased 17,176 square feet within the building, located at 213 N.W. 4th Ave. The property was originally built as a warehouse in 1889. CBRE’s Ajay Malhotra and Kristin Hammond represented Moovel. The landlord is Urban Development Partners.
DUNWOODY, GA. — KDC has demolished the 10-story Hammond Exchange Building to make way for Phase II of Park Center, State Farm’s 2.2 million-square-foot office campus within Atlanta’s Central Perimeter submarket in Dunwoody. Park Center will also feature 100,000 square-feet of retail, restaurants and entertainment space. Phase II of Park Center comprises two office towers totaling 1.2 million square feet and will feature a pedestrian bridge over Perimeter Center Parkway that will connect the two office towers to the Phase I tower and the Dunwoody MARTA station. Park Center will also link up to a multiuse trail, new pedestrian plaza, a connector road between Perimeter Center Parkway and Peachtree-Dunwoody Road and street-level retail space. The design team includes architect Cooper Carry & Associates for the shell building and interiors and general contractor Holder Construction. KDC expects to deliver the 22- and 19-story office towers in 2020.
COCONUT GROVE, FLA. — Federal Realty Investment Trust, Grass River Property and Comras Co., owners of the CocoWalk development in the Miami urban district of Coconut Grove, plan to develop a 73,000-square-foot office building within the project. The ownership group plans to break ground on the five-story asset, known as One CocoWalk, in early 2018 for a mid-2019 target delivery. Situated at Main Highway, McFarlane Road and Grand Avenue, One CocoWalk will be Coconut Grove’s first new office building since 1989. Beame Architectural Partnership designed the property to include four levels of Class A offices atop street-level retail space, as well as a rooftop terrace. The ownership group has selected Blanca Commercial Real Estate to lease One CocoWalk.
SAN ANTONIO — Drake Commercial Group and Transwestern have arranged a new lease for the Vista Corporate Center, a 157,472-square-foot, Class A office property located at 13805 Interstate 10 Frontage Road in San Antonio. Dan Pollard of JLL represented the tenant, San Antonio-based financial advisor USAA, which will occupy the entire building. Deborah Bauer of Drake Commercial Group and Russell Noll of Transwestern represented the landlord, sn15000IH Ltd.
ALLEN, TEXAS — BMC Capital has secured an $18 million construction loan on behalf of an unspecified developer for a 125,000-square-foot, five-story office property in Allen, a city slightly north of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The three-year loan has a floating interest rate and a 70 percent loan-to-cost ratio. Delivery of the Class A building is slated for the first quarter of 2018.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — CBRE has brokered the $131.6 million sale of 3535 Colonnade, a 669,438-square-foot, Class A office campus in Birmingham. Griffin Capital Corp. purchased the property from Zurich Alternative Asset Management. Southern Co. Services Inc. fully leased the office campus in 2016 on a long-term basis with plans to take occupancy in 2019. Guy Ponticiello, Bruce Westwood-Booth, Jeff Shell, Maury Vanden Eykel and Kyle Sals of CBRE’s Chicago office represented Zurich in the transaction.
PHOENIX — Southwest Network has leased 18,000 square feet of office space at West 101 Business Center in Phoenix. The center is located at 1840 N. 95th Ave. The Arizona nonprofit organization will relocate from the Garden Lakes area in the Southwest Valley, a smaller space than in the new lease. Michael Waxman of Levrose Commercial Real Estate represented Southwest. Tyler Smith of NAI Horizon represented the landlord, ViaWest Group, in this transaction.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — AutoAlert has signed a 48,839-square-foot office lease for its new headquarters in downtown Kansas City. AutoAlert will occupy four floors in the former Kansas City Railway building, which was built in 1935 and is located at 114 W. 11th St. The new location for the California-based tech firm and software provider for auto dealers will bring 300 jobs to the area. Bill Maas and Larry Larsen of Block & Co. Inc. Realtors negotiated the lease transaction on behalf of AutoAlert.
LEE’S SUMMIT, MO. — National American University has entered into a 7,235-square-foot lease in Lee’s Summit, about 20 miles southwest of Kansas City. The university will occupy the space in the Murray Road I Building located at 401 NW Murray Road for additional classroom space. John DeHardt of Kessinger/Hunter negotiated the lease.
