STRATFORD, CONN. — Avison Young has brokered the sale of Temple Court Medical Building, an office building located at 2590 Main St. in Stratford. Catherine J. Gong sold the three-story, 16,000-square-foot property to TimberRidge Associates for an undisclosed price. Neurological Specialists occupies the entire second floor of the property on a long-term lease. Eva Kornreich of Avison Young represented the seller, while the buyer had in-house representation.
SAN ANTONIO — Stream Realty Partners has brokered the sale of an office and warehouse building located at 5300 S.E. Loop 410 in south San Antonio. LBL 5300 LLC acquired the 17,229-square-foot property from CLN/WWMK LP for an undisclosed price. Jason Schnittger and Michael Kent of Stream Realty Partners – Central Texas represented the seller, while Nick Prater of 4M Realty represented the buyer in the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of a commercial building located at 92-94 Ludlow St. in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The property sold in an all-cash transaction for $9 million, or $442 per buildable square foot. The site offers up to 20,342 buildable square feet and currently includes a 3,390-square-foot single-story commercial building. Zoned C6-1, the site allows for the development of commercial, residential or community facility spaces. The existing building is currently leased to Hotel Chantelle, a restaurant and club. Michael DeCheser, Darragh Clarke and Mei Ling Wong of Cushman & Wakefield brokered the transaction. The names of the seller and buyer were not released.
IRVINE, CALIF. — Cavium has leased a four-story building within Irvine Co.’s new NextGen campus at Sand Canyon Business Center in Irvine Spectrum. The semiconductor product provider recently acquired networking and storage provider QLogic Corp., which will occupy the new space next summer. QLogic will join AutoGravity, an automotive financing firm that has leased 40,000 square feet in the project’s other four-story building. With these two leases, the NextGen campus is now 70 percent pre-leased. Jeff Hoffman and Tracey Solari of Newmark Cornish & Carey and Greg Tippin, Stacy Garcia and Byron Foss of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank represented Cavium in the transaction.
FORT MILL, S.C. — LPL Financial has opened its new Carolinas campus in Fort Mill, a suburb of Charlotte in South Carolina. Designed by tvsdesign, the 27-acre campus includes 450,000 square feet of office space in two buildings and features net-zero water design strategies, tree save areas, efficient HVAC systems and natural light. The Atlanta-based architect expects the campus to receive LEED Gold certification. The campus consolidates LPL Financial’s 1,400 employees previously working in four separate locations in metro Charlotte. Situated within the Kingsley Park mixed-use development, LPL’s campus includes sit-to-stand adjustable work stations, a fitness center, health clinic, cafeteria, two miles of walking trails, community garden, outdoor sports court, game room, waterfront plaza, 12 EV charging stations, bicycle storage and a bicycle sharing program.
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — The Kane Company represented A&A Search Staffing in a lease for 1,367 square feet of office space at 2 International Drive in Portsmouth. The information technology staffing company took occupancy of the space on Dec. 1. Catie Medeiros of The Kane Company represented the tenant, while Russell Doyle provided in-house representation for the landlord, Two International Group, in the deal.
PHILADELPHIA — Arrow Real Estate Services has joined TCN Worldwide Real Estate Services as the newest member of the international real estate services organization. Founded in 2012 with four people, Arrow Real Estate Services has grown to a more than 40-person company with more than 3 million square feet of listings and over 20 local, regional and national retail clients. Serving the greater Philadelphia area, the firm provides real estate brokerage and consulting services, including retailer representation, project leasing, site selection, property dispositions, consultation, property management, and office, medical and industrial representation.
DALLAS AND CARROLLTON, TEXAS — Stream Realty Partners has brokered two sales totaling 163,420 square feet in Dallas and Carrollton. In the first deal, MOFAM LLC sold a 43,140-square-foot industrial and office building located at 8400 Ambassador Row in Dallas to 8400 Ambassador Row LLC for an undisclosed price. Jason Moser of Stream Realty Partners represented the seller, while Altschuler and Co. represented the buyer. In the second transaction, WRF Investments acquired a 120,280-square-foot industrial property within Prologis Trinity Mills 3 at 2425 Camp Ave. in Carrollton. Lightning PropCo I LLC sold the building for an undisclosed price. Ryan Boozer and Todd Poticny of Stream Realty Partners represented the buyer, while Nathan Denton of Lee & Associates represented the seller.
ITASCA, ILL. — Captive Resources LLC has purchased 1100 N. Arlington Heights Road in Itasca, about 27 miles northwest of Chicago, for its new headquarters. The independent consulting company, which provides advisory services to captive insurance or self-insured companies, will relocate from its current headquarters in Schaumburg, Ill. Two properties in Schaumburg will be consolidated, and all employees will be relocated to the Itasca location in the third quarter of 2017. CRI will occupy approximately 100,000 square feet on the first four floors, with third-party tenants occupying the remainder of the 150,000-square-foot building. Originally constructed in 1999, the building is a six-story, Class A office property located on the northwest corner of Thorndale and Arlington Heights roads. Colliers International represented Captive Resources in the transaction.
REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. — Equinix Inc. (NASDAQ: EQIX) has agreed to acquire a portfolio of 24 data center sites and their operations from Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, NASDAQ: VZ) for $3.6 billion. The portfolio consists of 29 buildings across 24 sites in North and South America, including Atlanta and Norcross, Ga.; Bogotá, Columbia; Boston; Chicago; Culpeper, Va.; Dallas, Houston and Richardson, Texas; Denver; Los Angeles, Santa Clara and San Jose, Calif.; Miami and Doral, Fla.; New York City; São Paulo, Brazil; Seattle; and Washington, D.C. The NAP of the Americas facility in Miami was formerly a flagship facility for Verizon, and will become a strategic hub and gateway for Equinix customer deployments servicing Latin America. Approximately 250 Verizon employees, primarily in the operations functions of the acquired data centers, will become Equinix employees. The all-cash transaction is expected to close by mid-2017. Evercore, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP advised Equinix in the acquisition. At the close of the transaction, Redwood City, Calif.-based Equinix’s total global footprint will be 175 data centers in 43 markets with approximately 17 million gross square feet across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Equinix’s stock price closed at $332.08 per share …
