Market Moves There is so much fascinating discussion happening around the Las Vegas office market: what is the future of the suburban office? How does layout truly affect the culture of a company? Is parking a dying amenity? For the Las Vegas office market, it is just as easy to be captivated by imagining the possibilities of tomorrow. The post-recession recovery has seen office as the last product type to get healthy. The resort corridor led the way with a few new developments, like the T-Mobile Arena and Lucky Dragon Hotel, but there were many significant rehabs and upgrades as well. Multifamily and industrial followed closely behind, not surprisingly. What is interesting is that multifamily developers, as well as industrial, have been delivering product classes the valley has not experienced in any previous cycles. These include integrated apartment communities with over-the-top lifestyle amenities, and big bomber industrial buildings with the latest fixings of the day. Office development completions, however, have been limited to niche plays like the 140,000-square-foot Federal Justice Tower, and relic projects like Downtown’s 200,000-square-foot One Summerlin. Some of these projects were carried out by new owners, some with a lower basis. These buildings filled up and are …
SAN DIEGO — Gemini Rosemont has received a $33 million loan to refinance a 177,400-square-foot office tower in San Diego’s Little Italy submarket. The 19-story tower is located at 610 West Ash St. It is 97 percent occupied with 13 tenants that include an international cyber security firm and the General Services Administration. A10 Capital is refinancing a short-term loan that funded the building’s acquisition in 2016. A10 structured its financing with a 10-year maturity that included a $2 million rollover reserve for tenant improvements.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chicago-based Pearlmark Real Estate and Lincoln Property Co. are teaming up to develop an 11-story trophy office building at 699 14th St. N.W. in Washington, D.C.’s East End, less than two blocks from the White House. Situated at the corner of 14th and G streets, the development will connect to the existing historic banking hall, which was last occupied by the National Bank of Washington. Designed by Shalom Baranes Associates, the 160,000-square-foot property will feature 135,000 square feet of office space and 25,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. The office space will feature 9-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling glass, multiple common rooms and private outdoor terraces. As part of the joint venture agreement, Lincoln Property Co. will develop, lease and manage the office building. Matt Haley and Ryan Kruzel were the lead executives on the transaction for Pearlmark. Stephen Conley, Susan Carras and Andrew Weir of HFF arranged the joint venture between Pearlmark and Lincoln.
PORTAGE, MICH. — NAI Wisinski of West Michigan has arranged the sale of a 19,188-square-foot office building in Portage, near Kalamazoo, for $2 million. The fully leased building is located at 5136 Lovers Lane. Bill Tyson of NAI arranged the sale on behalf of the buyer, Jay Kim Enterprises LLC. Marc Tourangeau and Kara Schroer of NAI leased up the property to full occupancy in 2016.
Robust population and job growth are fueling a resurgence across all sectors of Nashville’s commercial real estate market, pushing vacancies lower, boosting rental rates and attracting strong interest from investors. With increasing demand for office space in the central business district (CBD), a rush of both in- and out-of-state developers and equity have descended on Nashville to deliver Class A product. That delivery timeline has subsequently pushed the demand for existing space to the adjacent Midtown, Wedgewood-Houston and MetroCenter submarkets. These satellite areas are benefiting from the positive absorption with existing space back-filled in record time, and some deliveries of conversions of older warehouses to hip office and retail space. CBD Construction Perhaps predictably, after the city climbed higher among the nation’s top job markets, (ranking third on NerdWallet’s list based on top cities’ unemployment rates and increase in working-age population between 2010- 2015), Nashville ranked sixth among the nation’s top cities for real estate investing in 2017, one spot higher than last year, in the annual Emerging Trends in Real Estate report put together by PricewaterhouseCooper and the Urban Land Institute. These accolades are a testament to Nashville’s crane-filled skyline, confirming that new construction is the dominant force in …
NEW CARROLLTON, MD. — Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States plans to open a new 176,000-square-foot administrative and IT building in New Carrollton, roughly 12 miles east of Washington, D.C., in Prince George’s County. The facility will have room for approximately 850 employees. The office building will anchor a mixed-use development adjacent to the New Carrollton Transit Center, a transit station that services the Washington Metro, MARC and Amtrak lines. Other components of the transit-oriented development, which is being developed by Urban Atlantic and Forest City Realty Trust, will include retail, residential and a community park. Construction of the Kaiser Permanente building will be complete in November 2018.
ALPHARETTA, GA. — Lincoln Property Co. Southeast has arranged the sale of a four-story, 106,561-square-foot office building located within Brookside Office Park at 3925 Brookside Parkway in Alpharetta. The property is situated near Ga. 400 via Old Milton Parkway. Built in 1998, the asset is currently leased to NCR Corp., an Atlanta-based financial technology firm, through the end of the year. Cousins Properties is currently developing a new office campus in Midtown Atlanta for NCR. Hunter Henritze of Lincoln Property Co. Southeast represented the seller, Equity Office, in the transaction. Jay Dowlen and Charles Beard of CBRE represented the buyer, AmTrust Group, which has retained Lincoln Property Co. Southeast to manage the office building. The sales price was not disclosed.
PLANO, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of 18th Street Office, an office property situated on 2.5 acres at 651-671 E. 18th St. in Plano. Built in 1972, the property consists of three suites totaling 28,363 square feet. Ron Hebert and Joe Santelli of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller in the transaction. Both the buyer and the seller were private investors.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — JLL has negotiated the sale of Oak Creek Plaza, a two-story, 50,502-square-foot office building located at 3107 Oak Creek Drive on Austin’s north side. The sale includes the 7.6 acres on which the property is situated. Jeff Coddington and Kevin Kimbrough of JLL represented the seller, Toronto-based Eastbourne Investments. TMF Health Quality, an Austin-based healthcare consulting firm, purchased the property.
NEW YORK CITY — Tishman Speyer has unveiled plans for development of The Wheeler, a 10-story office hub to be located above the Macy’s department store in downtown Brooklyn. The Wheeler, named for 19th century Brooklyn developer Andrew Wheeler, will include 620,000 square feet of office space. Features will include 16-foot ceilings on each floor, an acre of outdoor space, a dedicated amenity floor and views of the New York skyline. The project is scheduled for completion in mid-2019. Construction financing, which was arranged by HFF, is being provided by Bank of the Ozarks.