McKINNEY, TEXAS —Service First Mortgage, a full-service mortgage lending company, has leased 25,000 square feet of office space in McKinney Corporate Center I, a Class A office building located at 6800 Weiskopf Ave. in McKinney. The deal will relocate the company’s corporate headquarters from Richardson. Cushman & Wakefield’s Craig Wilson, Dan Harris and Randy Cooper arranged the lease. Located within the 2,200-acre Craig Ranch community between the Dallas North Tollway and U.S. Highway 75, the office complex provides access to the cities of Plano, Allen and Frisco. Craig Ranch is also within a 30-minute drive of DFW International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
DALLAS — Byrne Investment Co. brokered the sale of a medical office building to a partnership controlled by Roger Gault of Gault Co. and Robert Gunby of RTG Capital LLC. The property is located at 4844 Greenville Ave. in Dallas. The 4,000-square-foot building is under a long-term lease by urgent care clinic MedSpring. The building sits on a 9,500-square-foot site located between Lovers Lane and University Avenue.
ARLINGTON, VA. — Carr Properties has begun construction on a 175,000-square-foot, eight-story trophy office building located at 2311 Wilson Blvd. in Arlington’s Clarendon-Court House neighborhood. The LEED Gold-certified building will be anchored by OPower’s corporate headquarters. The project will feature a two-story glass lobby, conference facility, childcare center with an outdoor play area, health club, 5,900-square-foot rooftop terrace with a bocce court, urban park, bicycle center and on-site retail space. The office building will also be situated one block from the Metro’s Orange and Silver transit lines. The design team includes architect MTFA Architecture and general contractor Clark Construction. Carr Properties plans to deliver the asset by the end of 2017.
MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of an office building located at 85 Crystal Run Road in Middletown. A private equity group acquired the 164,070-square-foot Class A property from an affiliate of Madison International Realty and its operating partner for an undisclosed price. Situated on 21 acres, the four-story property serves as the corporate accounts services location for Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield. The building features ample parking, multiple on-grade entryways, a naturally-lit atrium lobby, cafeteria and fitness center infrastructure. Andrew Merin, David Bernhaut, Gary Gabriel, Brian Whitmer, Frank DiTommaso and Andrew Schwartz of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller and procured the buyer.
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIF. — Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) has purchased Empire Lakes Corporate Center, a 241,292-square-foot office building in Rancho Cucamonga, for $44.3 million. The Class A building is located at 9500 Cleveland Ave. IEHP also owns the neighboring property, a 400,000-square-foot building at 10801 Sixth St. The new building will allow the nonprofit public health organization to expand. Southern California Edison and State Farm Insurance also occupy the space. Andrew Peake and Tom Pierik of Lee & Associates represented the seller, Utah State Retirement Fund, in this transaction.
MORRIS TOWNSHIP AND PINE BROOK, N.J. — Colliers International has arranged the sales of two former headquarters assets in Morris County. In the first transaction, Onyx Equities acquired Kemble Plaza I, located at 340 Mount Kemble Ave. in Morris Township, for $7.6 million. Situated on 40 acres, the 370,000-square-foot property is the former headquarters of AT&T. Jackie Chesler, Richard Madison and Jonathan Schlussel of Colliers represented the undisclosed seller in the deal. In the second deal, a New Jersey-based private buyer acquired 34 Corporate Plaza, an office building located at 34 Maple Ave. in Pine Brook, for $2.5 million. At the time of sale, the 130,000-square-foot building was 14 percent occupied. Chesler, Madison and Schlussel negotiated the transaction. The name of the seller was not released.
PLEASANTON, CALIF. — An unnamed buyer has acquired Diablo Technology Center, a 191,009-square-foot office and R&D property in the Silicon Valley submarket of Pleasanton, for an undisclosed sum. The Class A facility is situated within the Hacienda Business Park. The three-building center is occupied by tenants like PulteGroup, Sunbelt Controls and CooperVision. NGKF Capital Markets’ Steve Golubchik, Mike Zylstra, Grant Lammersen, Forrest Gherlone, and Tim Walling executed the transaction.
CARROLLTON, TEXAS — AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group has completed negotiations for a 300,000-square-foot office lease in Carrollton. The corporate campus will be the largest build-to-suit office campus at the Offices of Austin Ranch and will serve as AmerisourceBergen’s regional headquarters. JLL’s Jeff Staubach, Greg Biggs, Torrey Littlejohn and Chase Monroe negotiated the lease on behalf of AmerisourceBergen, an American drug wholesale company. Billingsley’s Marijke Lantz represented the landlord. AmerisourceBergen joins Freddie Mac, Quest, Sanyo, Orthofix and Edward Don at the 1,700-acre master-planned development.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the $113 million sale of 110 Tower, a 394,830-square-foot trophy office tower located at 110 S.E. 6th St. in Fort Lauderdale’s CBD. Built in 1988, the 30-story, Class A office tower features 22 stories of office space, five stories of structured parking, two levels of mechanical space and ground-floor retail space. Mike Davis, Rick Brugge, Michael Lerner, Scott O’Donnell and Dominic Montazemi of Cushman & Wakefield’s Capital Markets team represented the seller, Dallas-based Genesis Capital Partners XI Ltd., a GenCap Partners Inc. investment fund. Boca Raton-based IP Capital Partners LLC purchased 110 Tower for $286 per square foot. Amenities at 110 Tower include Subway, 110 Fitness, That’s A Wrap, Dunkin’ Donuts, Sabadell Bank, a car wash, wraparound outdoor terrace, ballroom and conference facilities. The previous owner invested $15 million in capital improvements at 110 Tower in 2011.
FRISCO, TEXAS — PlainsCapital Bank has leased a 5,083-square-foot office facility and a 4,000-square-foot retail space at The Star in Frisco. JLL’s Paul Whitman negotiated both leases on behalf of the tenant. Worthey Wiles of Lincoln Property Co. represented the landlord in the office transaction, and Robert Dozier, also of Lincoln, represented the landlord in the retail transaction. Founded in 1988, PlainsCapital Bank provides commercial banking, commercial lending, commercial real estate lending, treasury management, private banking, residential mortgages and trust and asset management services. The Dallas-based institution operates nine locations in the Dallas area.