BELLEVUE, WASH. — Gemini Rosemont has purchased One Twelfth @ Twelfth, a three-building office campus in Bellevue, for an undisclosed sum. The Class A campus is located at 1120 112th Ave. N.E. The property contains a total of 480,389 square feet. It is fully leased. Gemini Rosemont purchased the office campus in partnership with Gemini Investments, an investment company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Jason Flynn, Kayln McClure and Reid Rader of Eastdil Secured executed the transaction.
LOS ANGELES — City National Bank has leased 300,000 square feet across 11 floors at 2Cal, a 52-story office building in downtown Los Angeles. The Class A building is located at 350 S. Grand Ave. in the Bunker Hill area. The building will be rebranded as CityNational@2Cal. The bank will also receive significant signage. The space will be renovated in 2017 to accommodate an open floorplan. The bank will occupy the floors in 2018. CIM Group owns the building.
RICHMOND, VA. — CBRE | Richmond has arranged the $24.1 million sale of a five-building, 228,879-square-foot office portfolio within Forest Office Park in Richmond’s West End submarket. The portfolio includes the Almond, Culpepper, Lee, Ratcliffe and Wythe buildings, which have an average 95 percent occupancy rate. The Commonwealth of Virginia’s Department of General Services recently renovated its 127,694 square feet of office space within the portfolio and extended its lease. CBRE | Richmond managed the renovation and negotiated the lease extension. David Wilkons and Matt Anderson of CBRE | Richmond, along with Scott Adams of CBRE | Hampton Roads and Justin Parsonnett of CBRE’s Atlanta office, represented the seller, NNN Forest Office Park LLC, in the transaction. The buyer, Equitable Real Estate Partners LLC, has retained Wilkins and Anderson to lease the office portfolio.
NEW YORK CITY AND RYE, N.Y., AND SHELTON, CONN. — Windsor Management Corp. has received $58 million in four separate financing transactions for office properties in New York and Connecticut. In the first loan, the company received $25 million in refinancing for a 122,630-square-foot office building located at 37 W. 26th St. in Manhattan. The 98-percent occupied property is leased to The Flatiron Room, Hog Pit BBQ and Grey Bar on the ground floor and a variety of office tenants on the upper floors. In the second deal, Windsor received $8.5 million in refinancing for a 35,916-square-foot office building located at 256 W. 36th St. in Manhattan’s Garment District. The property is fully occupied by a variety of office tenants and a clothing retailer. In the third loan, the company received $16 million in acqusition financing for a 118,658-square-foot office building located at 411 Theodore Fremd Ave. in Rye. The property is fully occupied and leased to Acadia Realty Trust, Regis and USAlliance Financial, among other tenants. In the fourth transaction, Windsor received $8.5 million in refinancing for a 163,287-square-foot office property located on 16 acres in Shelton. The property was 92 percent leased at the time of the transaction. …
IRVING, TEXAS — Rubicon Representation has arranged the acquisition of an office building located at 1125 Executive Circle in Irving’s Las Colinas district. The Patel Law Group acquired the property from 1125 Executive LLC for an undisclosed price. The buyer plans to relocate its law firm to the new office building from Colonial Plaza in Irving. Kyle Jacobs and Daniel Miller of Rubicon represented the buyer, while Bruce Hecht and Ben Goldthorpe of Swearingen Realty Group represented the seller, American College of Emergency Physicians, in the deal.
HOUSTON — Colliers International has arranged the sale of a two-story office building located at 8901 Gaylord Drive in Houston. DNA Interest sold the 25,000-square-foot property, which was developed in 2008, to 8901 Gaylord LLC for an undisclosed price. David Carter and John Parsley of Colliers International represented the seller, while Guy Brown of Poynter Commercial Properties represented the buyer in the deal.
In the office segment there has been plenty of news regarding Class A assets. Companies have been flocking towards upgraded space. Landlords have made significant capital expenditures to their buildings to attract and retain these tenants. We have seen parking decks being built, investments to achieve LEED certification and the addition of upgraded amenities, such as cafés, fitness facilities, day care centers, and shuttles to mass transit. In the midst of these discussions, the Class B building seems to be getting lost. Class B office buildings do not have all of the bells and whistles of their Class A counterparts. However, this has not stopped them from experiencing a resurgence over the last few years. Current vacancy of Class B office space in the Northern New Jersey market is 13.4 percent. The vacancy rate has seen a steady decline from 15 percent at the end of 2014. The asking rents in the market average around $21.50 based on a gross number. The absorption of space over the last two years has been the best we have seen in more than 10 years. According to CoStar, 1.1 million square feet of Class B office space was leased in Northern New Jersey …
BREA, CALIF. — JCR Capital has acquired Brea Corporate Plaza and Brea Park Centre, a four-building office portfolio in Brea, for $55.6 million. The properties contain a total of 290,657 square feet. The portfolio is located at 500 S. Kraemer Blvd., 2601 Saturn St., 2650 Imperial Highway and 3230 E. Imperial Highway. HFF arranged $39 million in acquisition financing. The loan features a three-year term and floating rate through Prime Finance. The financing has two 12-month extensions. HFF also marketed the property on behalf of the sellers, The PRES Companies and Mariner Real Estate Management.
PHOENIX — National Healthcare Realty and Development has announced plans to build McDowell Medical Commons, a 25,000-square-foot medical office building in Phoenix. The project will be located at 10650 W. McDowell Road. The Class A project will be situated at the northeast corner of 107th Avenue and McDowell Road. McDowell Medical Commons is slated for groundbreaking in 2017. Rachel Thompson and Michael Dupuy of Colliers International will serve as the project’s exclusive leasing agents.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Westmount Realty Capital has completed the disposition of a 13-building office portfolio located on Kramer Lane and Metric Avenue within the Braker Center in Austin. The property sold for an undisclosed sum. Originally constructed as light industrial buildings, the 546,984-square-foot complex has evolved into more than 90 percent office finish-out space. Allergan Inc., Cenpatico, Integra Life Sciences and Renewal by Anderson are current tenants at the property. Eastdil Secured represented Westmount Realty Capital in the transaction. The name of the buyer was not released.
