PLANO, TEXAS — Houston-based Q10 Kinghorn, Driver, Hough & Co. (Q10 KDH) has arranged the $8.4 million cash-out refinancing for Republic Office Building located in Plano. Goldman Sachs provided the funding, which features a 10-year term and a 30-year amortization schedule. Travis Fite of Q10 KDH arranged the financing for the undisclosed borrower.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Boston-based AEW Capital Management has purchased Carnegie VII and Carnegie Ten, two office buildings located at 5955 and 5605 Carnegie Blvd. in Charlotte’s Southpark office submarket, for $40.2 million. Patrick Gildea, Will Yowell and Jay O’Meara of CBRE represented the sellers, Carnegie Ten LLC, owned by Community Investments Foundation, a supporting organization of Foundation For The Carolinas; and Carnegie VII LLC, in the transaction. The sellers are subsidiaries of Bissell Cos., which developed and managed Carnegie VII and Carnegie Ten. The office properties’ anchor tenants include Citizens Bank, Enpro Industries and Humana Insurance.
DURHAM, N.C. — Gemini Rosemont LLC, a Santa Fe, N.M.-based office real estate investment firm, has purchased SouthCourt, a six-story office building in Durham. The sales price was undisclosed, but the Triangle Business Journal reports that Gemini Rosemont acquired the 131,976-square-foot building for $17.5 million. Torchlight Investors sold the property, which is anchored by Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina’s headquarters. SouthCourt features ground-floor retail space, a fitness center and a salon, and the property is within walking distance of The Fresh Market, Starbucks Coffee, Super Target and Mi Peru. Scot Humphrey and Ryan Clutter of HFF brokered the transaction. Trinity Partners, under the direction of Gemini Rosemont’s Tine Renee McCall, will handle leasing responsibilities and property management services at SouthCourt.
SAN DIEGO — Swift Real Estate Partners has purchased HP’s 782,211-square-foot San Diego campus for an undisclosed sum. The campus is located at 16399 W. Bernardo Drive in the Rancho Bernardo submarket. The property contains seven office/R&D buildings and one Class A office building. HP has owned and occupied the campus since the first building was constructed in 1970. The information technology company will lease back 79 percent of the campus. CBRE’s Louay Alsadek, Alex Somerville, Hunter Rowe and Brad Black represented HP, while Swift represented itself in this transaction.
LOS ANGELES — Tishman Speyer has purchased a 1.7-acre creative office campus in downtown Los Angeles’ Arts District for an undisclosed sum. The campus is situated along the Los Angeles River at Bay and Sacramento streets. The site features the 38,000-square-foot world headquarters of transportation technology company Hyperloop One. The campus is near the new SoHo House location, just two blocks from Warner Music Group’s new West Coast headquarters at the Ford Factory. The seller was Lion Real Estate Group and the Borman Group.
CHICAGO — KIG has brokered an $86 million portfolio sale of six vintage office buildings and three land sites in downtown Chicago. R2 Cos. purchased the properties, located throughout the West Loop, Greektown, River North and Printers Row. Built between 1883 and 1904, the properties are collectively 90.8 percent occupied, with an average of 3.9 years remaining on existing leases. The properties included the Pontiac Building; 118 S. Clinton St.; 130 S. Jefferson St.; 901 W. Jackson Blvd.; 641 W. Lake St. and 445 W. Erie St. The land sites included are Randolph/Desplaines, 708 W. Wayman St. and Peoria/Green. Susan Tjarksen of KIG represented the seller, Chicago-based Loft Development Corp.
DES PLAINES, ILL. — Bradford Allen Realty Services has arranged a 12,096-square-foot office lease renewal at 999 E. Touhy Ave. in Des Plaines, a suburb of Chicago. Precision Research, a data collection company, moved into the building in 2004 and will be occupying the space for three more years. 999 East Touhy is a 145,000-square-foot Class B building. Other tenants include Emergency24 and Sterno Group. Joel Berger of Bradford Allen represented Precision Research in renewing the lease. Janet Mrowka of Siete 7 LLC represented 999 East Touhy.
CHERRY HILL, N.J. — NAI Mertz has arranged two office leases at the 102,591-square-foot Two Executive Campus in Cherry Hill totaling 29,050 square feet. In the first deal, Newspaper Media Group signed a lease for 15,127 square feet of space. The company recently acquired Greater Media Newspapers. In the second transaction, an undisclosed tenant leased 12,923 square feet at the building. Rebecca Ting and Julie Kronfeld of NAI Mertz represented the ownership, 1930 NMT Owner LLC, in the transactions.
NEWTON LOWER FALLS, MASS. — Margulies Perruzzi Architects (MPA) has completed the design and renovation of the headquarters for National Development in Newton Lower Falls. National Development and its construction affiliate, Cranshaw Construction, currently occupy all four floors of 2310 Washington St. MPA provided space planning and interior design services for the 40,000-square-foot property. The project included updating the office design and relocating amenities to create an open, modern and collaborative space for staff. Cranshaw Construction served as construction manager for the project.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Equitable Commercial Realty (ECR) has facilitated four office and retail leases in Austin. In the first transaction, Herbert J. Sims & Co. leased 966 square feet of office space at 815 Brazos. Patrick Ley and Rebecca Zigterman of ECR represented the undisclosed landlord, while Jon Wheless of Aquila Commercial represented the tenant. In the second deal, Timeless Interiors Inc. leased 9,683 of office square feet at 1110 S RR 620. Ley and Haley Smith of ECR represented the undisclosed landlord. In the third transaction, Berserk Games leased 775 square feet of retail space at 800 Brazos from an undisclosed landlord. Jason Steinberg and Matt Levin of ECR represented the landlord, while Steve Gillespie of Texas Office Advisors represented the tenant. In the final deal, Buildfax leased 3,414 square feet of office space at the Heierman Building, located at 115 E. 5th St. Steinberg and Haley Berry Smith of ECR represented the undisclosed landlord, while Gaines Bagby of CBRE represented the tenant.
