SIMI VALLEY, CALIF. — A 1031 exchange buyer has acquired Rand Medical Building, a 19,833-square foot office property in Simi Valley, for $3 million in an all-cash transaction. The property is located at 1633 Erringer Road. It was 75 percent leased at the time of closing. The buyer plans to occupy a portion of the building. Gregory Mills of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, an individual/personal trust, in this transaction.
IRVINE, CALIF. — SendGrid has leased 22,000 square feet of office space at 400 Spectrum Drive in the Irvine Spectrum. The customer communications platform designer will occupy the entire fourth floor of the new, 21-story campus in the heart of Irvine Spectrum early next year. The lease brings the new tower to 36 percent pre-leased. It comes just weeks after Irvine Company announced that 200 Spectrum Center, its year-old sister building, is 93 percent leased.
DES PLAINES, ILL. — Cawley Chicago has been selected as the leasing agent for the O’Hare Offices, a three-building, 450,000-square-foot office portfolio in Des Plaines near the Chicago O’Hare International Airport. The portfolio consists of 999, 1011 and 1111 Touhy Ave. Affiliates of Siete 7 LLC, a private investment group that occupies space in one of the buildings, own the portfolio. The three buildings were developed from 1973 to 1979 and acquired in separate transactions in 2008 and 2009. The buildings are currently 50 percent leased and offer spaces ranging from 933 square feet to 60,000 square feet. Amenities include executive conference and training rooms as well as a fitness center. The owners of the building are undertaking several initiatives to help market and position the buildings, such as creating move-in ready suites, general cleanup and refreshing of available space and improved property signage.
NEW YORK CITY — Houlihan-Parnes Realtors has arranged a $52.5 million first mortgage loan for a 285,000-square-foot office and retail property located at 2501 Grand Concourse in the Bronx. The 10-year loan features interest-only payments. The former Alexander’s/Caldor’s department store was converted into a multi-tenant office and retail property in 2001. PC Richard & Son, Marshalls, Children’s Place, Capital One Bank, the City University of New York, the U.S. Social Security Administration and 1199 SEIU Health Care Training and Child Care Center are current tenants. Christie Houlihan, Bryan Houlihan and James Houlihan of Houlihan-Parnes Realtors arranged the loan for the borrowers, which include Samuel Jemal, members of the Jemal family, James Houlihan and members of Houlihan Partners.
NEW YORK CITY — HFF has arranged $28 million in refinancing for a mixed-use building located at 110 Fourth Ave. in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill neighborhood. Scott Aiese of HFF secured the 10-year, fixed-rate, interest-only loan for the undisclosed borrower. The property features 49 residential units in a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom layouts, and 5,197 square feet of retail and medical office space on the ground level. On-site amenities include a concierge, common room and fitness center. Additionally, most units feature balconies and/or in-unit washers and dryers. Built in 2007, the property was 100 percent leased at the time of financing.
Kansas City is in the midst of an aggressive expansion of capital investment in medical office space that is consistent with national activity. A variety of factors drive these developments, including patients’ expectations for medical care, a change in how large-scale healthcare operators view their networks and the growth of specialty practitioners. The evolution of medical space created by these forces leads to an entirely new development approach. The most obvious evidence of this change in the Kansas City market is located along the Interstate 435 corridor between State Line Road and Metcalf Avenue. Every major healthcare operator in the metro area either has an established presence there, is in the midst of an expansion project, or both. Within that area, the new medical office building for St. Luke’s Health System at Mission Farms was completed in the second half of 2016. Further west, the 76,000-square-foot Quad Six medical office building, located at 6650 W. 110th St., delivered in June of this year. To the south, at 159th Street and Antioch Road, the first phase of the BluHawk project recently delivered for Shawnee Mission Health – Overland Park. The project includes a 75,000-square-foot medical office building, along with a separate …
A growing concentration of households in suburban areas throughout the country is sparking renewed interest in office properties located outside urban centers, according to a recent report from Marcus & Millichap. Millennials’ general preference to work in amenity-rich office buildings with walkable retail and dining options heightened demand for urban office space for much of the post-recession era, notes the report. Overall vacancy for urban office properties declined by 250 basis points during this period and clocked in around 14 percent as of the first quarter of 2017. This activity spurred a 7 percent increase in asking rents across America’s urban office markets, but demand for these properties is beginning to slow. The suburbs, where rents for stabilized properties land for new properties are cheaper, are currently poised to benefit from rising rents in urban sectors, according to the report. Compounding the opportunities for suburban office properties are the general demographics of those markets. According to the report, as of 2015, 64 percent of America’s households resided in the suburbs. That figure is projected to rise as high as 75 percent by 2025. Particularly in smaller areas with tighter labor markets, this proportion is an important consideration. In addition, the …
LOS ANGELES — UCLA Extension is relocating its administrative headquarters in Los Angeles. The school has leased a 51,452-square-foot space at 10960 Wilshire Blvd. The new facilities are just four blocks from its current location at 10955 Le Conte Ave. in Westwood Village. The extension signed a long-term lease for floors 16 and 17, which are joined by an interconnecting staircase. Craig Jablin of Savills Studley represented UCLA.
PHILADELPHIA — CBRE Capital Markets has brokered the sale of Centre Square, a two-building, 1.8 million-square-foot office complex located at 1500 Market St. in Philadelphia. An affiliate of Nightingale Properties acquired the complex for an undisclosed price. Robert Fahey, Jerry Kranzel, Erin Hannan and Jack Corcoran of CBRE represented the seller, Chicago-based Equity Commonwealth, in the transaction. Built in 1974, the complex consists of a 36-story East Tower, a 43-story West Tower, a 450-vehicle parking garage and 41,000 square feet of retail space. The University of Pennsylvania Health System, Towers Watson, PHMC, Saul Ewing, Dilworth Paxson and Radian are tenants at the complex.
HOUSTON — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 9,417-square-foot office lease renewal at 3700 Buffalo Speedway in Houston on behalf of Chicago Title of Texas LLC. Chris Nash and Travis Taylor of Lee & Associates represented the tenant. The landlord, Moody National Buffalo Speedway MT LP, was represented internally.