PORTLAND, ORE. — A joint venture between American Realty Advisors (ARA) and Unico Properties LLC has purchased the 23-story Congress Center in Portland for an undisclosed sum. The office tower is located at 1001 S.W. 5th Ave. Congress Center was built in 1980. The JV plans to upgrade the lobby, fitness center and bike parking. It will also add amenities like an outdoor deck to encourage creativity and collaboration among tenants. HFF’s Nick Kucha and Michael Leggett represented the seller. The firm’s Tom Wilson and Erica Christensen assisted the JV in securing a floating-rate acquisition loan through RBC Capital Markets.
DALLAS — Avison Young, in partnership with LiquidSpace, has arranged a lease for office space at The Centrum in Dallas’ Oak Lawn/Turtle Creek submarket for Salesforce. The Fortune 500 company will occupy 18,172 square feet at the office building, which is owned by Quadrant Investment Properties. Charlie Morris of Avison Young brokered the lease transaction.
ORLANDO, FLA. — KPMG LLP, a global tax advisory services firm and one of the Big Four auditing corporations, plans to develop a 55-acre, 800,000-square-foot training and conference complex within Tavistock Group’s Lake Nona, a 14-square-mile master-planned development in Orlando. KPMG didn’t disclose the estimated costs for the new complex, but the Orlando Sentinel reports that the campus will cost roughly $430 million to develop. The facility will feature an “Innovation Center,” as well as 800 guest rooms, fitness and outdoor recreational facilities and multiple food and beverage venues. The facility is expected to serve 50,000 KPMG employees annually, according to the Orlando Sentinel. KPMG expects to create at least 80 positions to work at the facility and that an additional 250 third-party contract operator positions will be created. New York-based Gensler is designing the campus to achieve LEED standards. Construction is expected to kick off this spring and wrap up in late 2019.
CARY, N.C. — The Dilweg Cos. has purchased Regency Lakeview, a two-building, 376,131-square-foot office complex in Cary, a suburb of Raleigh. Boston-based Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. sold the property to Durham, N.C.-based Dilweg for $61 million. The two five-story, Class A buildings were built in 1985 and 1998 and were fully leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Dude Solutions, HCL, Global Knowledge and Black & Veatch. Dilweg plans to invest roughly $4 million to upgrade Regency Lakeview’s operating systems, parking, common areas and tenant amenities. Ben Kilgore, Elliott Brewer and Leslie Holmes of CBRE | Raleigh, along with Patrick Gildea, Matt Smith and Leslie Wooten of CBRE Inc., represented Intercontinental in the transaction.
LAKE FOREST, ILL. — The Missner Group has acquired Cadence at Conway Park in the Chicago suburb of Lake Forest. The sales price was not disclosed. The 138,000-square-foot Class A office building is located at 300 N. Field Drive along I-294. The building was originally constructed in 2007 and was developed by Duke Realty. The property features 34,500-square-foot floor plates with layouts including multiple conference and training spaces, a two-story atrium-style lobby, commercial kitchen, game room and Wi-Fi lounge. The Missner Group purchased the property from Hospira, which was acquired by Pfizer in 2015. Hospira purchased the property for $28.8 million in 2007. Jason Simon and Darryl Silverman of Colliers International will market the property on behalf of The Missner Group. Barry Missner and Ed Adler of The Missner Group led the acquisition for the firm. James Ward, Jonathan Metzl and Adam Showalter of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction.
EDINA, MINN. — Colliers International has negotiated the sale of a 32,799-square-foot office and warehouse facility located at 7625 Cahill Road in Edina, a southern suburb of Minneapolis. Apres Party and Tent Rental sold the facility to Buhl Investors LLC. Apres is relocating to a larger facility in Minnetonka. Buhl plans to redevelop the building into mini-storage and construct a second level of space. Nick Leviton and Brian Netz of Colliers represented Apres in the sale, while Brian Pankratz of CBRE represented Buhl. Leviton also assisted Apres with the acquisition of their new facility in Minnetonka.
SOMERSET, N.J. — HFF has arranged the sale of an office building located at 220 Davidson Ave. in Somerset. A private buyer acquired the four-story, 161,217-square-foot property from an affiliate of NextBridge Group and Two Kings Real Estate Co. for an undisclosed price. Situated on 9.2. acres, the property was 85 percent occupied at the time of sale by a variety of tenants, including McKesson, Berkshire Hathaway and the American Arbitration Association. Renovated in 2007, the property features an atrium lobby with marble finishes, full-service café and fitness center with showers and lockers. Jose Cruz, Kevin O’Hearn, Stephen Simonelli and Michael Oliver of HFF represented the seller in the transaction.
LOWELL, MASS. — Colliers International Boston has arranged $19.7 million in financing for Calare Properties’ acquisition of MACOM Technology Solutions Inc.’s 150,000-square-foot headquarters, located in Lowell. The seller, MACOM Technology Solutions, has leased back the property for a 20-year term. Proceeds of the financing will be used to purchase the manufacturing facility at 100-144 Chelmsford St., as well as construct a connected 58,000-square-foot office addition to serve MACOM’s expanded headquarters. The financing consists of a first mortgage acquisition and construction loan from Boston Private Bank and Rockland Trust as well as subordinate debt from a community loan fund. Tom Welch, Adam Coppola and John Poole of Colliers secured the financing.
TOTOWA, N.J., AND BETHLEHEM, PA. — G.S. Wilcox & Co. has arranged $13.8 million in financing for two separate properties in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Gretchen Wilcox, David Fryer and Al Raymond of G.S. Wilcox & Co. arranged the financing in both transactions. In the first transaction, the firm secured a $7 million loan for a 252,000-square-foot former manufacturing facility in Totowa. The borrower, The Hampshire Cos., will be convert the property into a 383,000-square-foot single-tenant warehouse distribution facility. Provident Bank provided the financing for the borrower. In the second loan, the company arranged $5.8 million in financing for an office call center in Bethlehem. Thrivent Financing provided the financing for the borrower, J.G. Petrucci Co.
LOS ANGELES — Kilroy Realty Corp. has purchased The Sunset, a 179,000-square-foot mixed-use development in the West Hollywood submarket of Los Angeles, for $210 million. The property is located at 8560-8590 Sunset Blvd. on the famous Sunset Strip. The seller, Broadreach Capital Partners, acquired the asset from Apollo Real Estate in 2006 for $105 million. The Sunset occupies 2.2 acres along Sunset Boulevard. It features a 72,000-square-foot office tower and a three-building retail plaza atop a 107,000-square-foot subterranean parking structure. The transaction also includes three billboards atop the retail buildings that were fully leased in December 2016. The complex is 88 percent leased with a large fashion and health/fitness presence, including Equinox, SoulCycle, H&M and Oliver Peoples. The site previously held the headquarters for Playboy Entertainment. The Sunset is adjacent to CIM’s $365 million Sunset La Cienega mixed-use project, which will include residential units, a hotel and ground-floor retail space. HFF’s Ryan Gallagher, Michael Leggett, Bryan Ley, Andrew Harper and Tim Geiman represented Broadreach in the transaction. — Nellie Day