LOS ANGELES — Summit Financial Consultants has renewed its lease and expanded its footprint at Westlake Park Place in the Westlake Village submarket of Los Angeles. The wealth management firm has leased 6,090 square feet at the final building that was constructed at Westlake Park Place. The new space is located at 3075 Townsgate Road. Mike Foxworthy of DAUM Commercial represented Summit Financial. Craig Cahow and Mike Foxworthy of DAUM Commercial represented the landlord, Westlake Plaza Center East – II LLC.
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GRAPEVINE, TEXAS — EDGE Realty Capital Markets has arranged the sale of 2301 Ira E. Woods, an 11,544-square-foot office property located at the intersection of Ira E. Woods Ave. and State Highway 114 in Grapevine, a northwestern suburb of Dallas. Brandon Crow and Wilson Stafford of EDGE represented the seller, Georgia-based DayStar Management LLC, in the transaction. Michelle Hudson of Hudson Peters Commercial represented the unspecified buyer.
RICHMOND, VA. — The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has leased 81,553 square feet of office space in downtown Richmond. The agency will occupy four floors at Bank of America Center, an office building located at 1111 E. Main St. With the Virginia DEQ lease, the office building is 88 percent leased to tenants including the Virginia Cable Telecommunications Association, Haneberg Hurlbert PLC and the Virginia Bar Association. Malcolm Randolph and Scott Durham of CBRE | Richmond represented the owner, a joint venture between District Bay Realty Advisors and developer Joe Ersek, in the lease transaction.
ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. — BBS Architects, Landscape Architects and Engineers has completed the renovation and expansion of South Side High School for the Rockville Centre Union Free School District located on Long Island. BBS served as the architect; interior designer; technology designer; and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineer for the project. The school is located at 140 Shepherd St. in Rockville Centre. The $26.6 million South Side High redevelopment was a part of a $45.9 million school improvement bond issue that was approved by local voters in 2013. BBS’s project team included architect Roger P. Smith, project manager Kenneth Schupner, designer Tracy Hansen and construction administrator Peter Dawkins. Park East Construction served as construction manager.
NEW HAVEN, CONN. — Northeast Private Client Group has arranged the $6.4 million sale of a 40,000-square-foot office property known as Exchange Place in New Haven. The property is located at 123-127 Church St. Edward Jordan and Bradley Balletto of the firm’s Connecticut office represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction. William Jekiel Forbes built the Exchange Place property in 1832 and it was renovated in 2003. The seller, Connecticut-based 123-127 Church Street Associates LLC, purchased the property in 2013 shortly after its primary tenant The Annie E. Casey Foundation ceased activities. The company signed a lease for the upper floors with a rapidly growing technology company, and signed a net lease for the ground-floor retail space with a national pharmacy. The property was 100 percent leased at the time of sale. The buyer, Boston-based New England Investment Partners, purchased the property for roughly $160 per square foot.
BILLERICA and MARLBOROUGH, MASS. — Colliers International has secured acquisition financing for a two-building portfolio purchase consisting of 734 Forest St. in Marlborough and 35 Dunham Road in Billerica. The 120,000-square-foot flex/industrial portfolio sold to a New England-based real estate investment firm. Colliers secured the acquisition financing from Belmont Savings. Adam Coppola, Tom Welch, John Poole and Tonia Jenkins of Colliers arranged financing.
LOS ANGELES, DALLAS, CHICAGO AND WASHINGTON, D.C. — Boston-based investment management firm TA Realty, acting on behalf of The Realty Associates Fund IX LP, has sold a 45-property industrial and office portfolio for $854.5 million to Brookfield-managed real estate funds. The industrial and office properties in the portfolio total 8.6 million square feet across 12 states. The majority of the properties are leased to investment-grade tenants in Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago and Washington, D.C. The full list of properties was not released. The Realty Associates Fund IX LP is a commingled fund with $1.49 billion in equity capital. According to CoStar Group, among the Brookfield funds reported to be the buyers is its core real estate investment fund, Brookfield Premier Real Estate Partners, which launched last November. By the end of 2016, Brookfield had raised more than $1 billion for the fund. TA Realty is still pursuing sales of the fund’s remaining assets through individual and pooled transactions, according to managing partner Tom Landry. “We believe the outcome of this transaction represents an attractive risk-adjusted return on invested capital, and we look forward to distributing the proceeds to our investors,” says Landry. JLL represented TA Realty in the transaction. Nicole Dutra …
ALLEN, TEXAS — Kaizen Development Partners has broken ground on Phase I of One Bethany at Watters Creek, a Class A office park located at the corner of Bethany Drive and Watters Creek Boulevard in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro of Allen. Texas-based architecture firm BOKA Powell designed the initial phase of the project, which includes a 125,000-square-foot office building with a 570-space parking garage. Delivery of the building, which will feature a conference room, fitness center and tenant lounge, is expected within 12 months.
ALPHARETTA, GA. — Hines and Cousins Properties have executed a 34,000-square-foot, 11-year lease transaction with Spaces, a co-working office space provider owned by Regus. Spaces will occupy the first two floors of 8000 Avalon, a nine-story, 224,000-square-foot office building underway within Boulevard East, the second phase of the Avalon mixed-use development in Alpharetta. Hines and Cousins entered into a joint venture to develop the $73 million office building, which will also be home to Microsoft. David Demarest, Brannan Moss and Jennifer Ziegler of JLL represented Spaces in the lease deal. In other Avalon news, Apple has confirmed plans to relocate the Apple Store at nearby North Point Mall to Boulevard East. The new store will open at 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 13.
The Davis Companies Acquires Leasehold Interest in 88 Black Falcon Avenue in Boston’s Seaport District
by Jaime Lackey
BOSTON — Following a long-term ground lease with the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), The Davis Companies (TDC) plans to significantly update 88 Black Falcon Avenue in Boston’s Seaport District. The property, which consists of two three-story interconnected buildings totaling 376,000 square feet, is located within the Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park, which is also home to Cruiseport Boston and the 1.4 million-square-foot Innovation and Design Building. The location offers views of the Boston Harbor as well as direct access to Route 93 and the Massachusetts Turnpike, 550 onsite parking spaces, and its own Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Silver Line Stop. The buildings at 88 Black Falcon Ave. feature ceiling heights ranging from 14 to 20 feet, as well as efficient office and industrial/R&D infrastructure. Optimus Ride Inc., which develops autonomous vehicle technologies, occupies 19,000 square feet on the building’s first floor. As part of the property’s redevelopment, TDC will improve a portion of the Boston Harborwalk, a public promenade that follows the edge of piers, wharves, beaches, and the shoreline around the Harbor. Completion is scheduled for second quarter 2018. “We are undertaking a thorough re-envisioning of this highly flexible, high-quality historic asset as a premier mixed-use development that …