ANKENY, IOWA — JLL’s Des Moines commercial real estate leasing team is expanding its presence in central Iowa by opening an additional office in Ankeny. JLL Des Moines will occupy new office space at The District at Prairie Trail, which is owned by DRA Properties. JLL handles the commercial leasing and sales for The District at Prairie Trail. The brokerage firm will continue to maintain its office in downtown Des Moines.
SEATTLE — Alexandria Real Estate Equities, through an affiliate, has completed the sale of 1165 Eastlake Avenue East in Seattle’s Lake Union submarket to long-standing tenant Fred Hutch Cancer Center for $150 million. Alexandria developed and delivered the 100,086-square-foot, single-tenant, Class A life sciences building in 2021. Proceeds from the disposition of 1165 Eastlake will be reinvested into Alexandria’s leased development and redevelopment pipeline, which consists of research-and-development centers for top life sciences companies, including Bristol Myers Squibb and Novo Nordisk. As part of the transaction, Alexandria, through an affiliate, entered into a strategic joint venture partnership with Fred Hutch for nearby 1201 and 1208 Eastlake Avenue East, aggregating 206,031 rentable square feet, through a transfer of partial interests from the prior joint venture partner to Fred Hutch. Alexandria’s ownership interest in each 1201 and 1208 Eastlake remains unchanged at 30 percent. Fred Hutch executed early renewals at both properties, including a 15-year lease extension at 1201 Eastlake, where it occupies the entire building. These two life sciences facilities support the cancer center in its efforts to translate cancer and infectious disease discoveries into treatments and cures.
PHOENIX — ViaWest Group has completed the disposition of Canyon Corporate Plaza, a Class A office campus located on 11.6 acres in Phoenix, for an undisclosed price. The buyer is CaliberCos Inc., a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based financial services company in the alternative asset management space. Steve Lindley and Alexandra Loye of Cushman & Wakefield’s Capital Markets team represented the seller in the deal. Canyon Corporate Center offers 311,706 square feet of office space within a transit-oriented location in Phoenix’s I-17 Corridor and close to two stops on the newly opened light rail extension. At the time of sale, the property was nearly vacant.
SAN DIEGO — Lee & Associates has arranged the acquisition of 37.9 acres of industrial land at 5761 Airway Road in San Diego’s Otay Mesa neighborhood. Hyundai Translead purchased the asset for $58 million in an off-market transaction. The site will support Hyundai Translead’s operations in San Diego, which will allow the company to continue to utilize the location of Otay Mesa as a thoroughfare for its cross-border operations. Rusty Williams, Chris Roth, Jake Rubendall and Andrew Kenny of Lee & Associates – NSDC, as well as Eugene Kim of Lee & Associates LA North/Ventura, represented the buyer in the transaction.
SEATTLE — Gantry has secured a total of $34.3 million of loans to refinance four Seattle-area assets owned by different and unaffiliated entities. Each transaction was placed with one of Gantry’s life company correspondent lenders and each structure provided the borrowers with non-recourse, fixed-rate loans. Mike Wood of Gantry represented three of the borrowers. The financings included:
OCEANSIDE, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of 1210 South Nevada Street, an apartment property in Oceanside. Matt Vessell sold the asset to Matt Pace for $3.3 million. The apartment building features eight two-bedroom/one-bath units and three one bedroom/one-bath units. Community amenities include 11 single-car garages and 12 offsite parking spaces. Adrian Grobelny and Conor Brennan of Marcus & Millichap’s San Diego Del Mar office represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — Global investment management firm AllianceBernstein LP (NYSE: AB) has opened its new office at The Spiral, a 66-story office tower in New York City’s Hudson Yards district. The office spans 189,000 square feet across four floors and houses two business lines for the tenant: AllianceBernstein and Bernstein Private Wealth Management. Tishman Speyer delivered The Spiral last year at 66 Hudson Blvd. E, which is situated on the west side of Midtown Manhattan. The tower sits at the north end of the High Line trail and houses office, healthcare and retail locations for tenants including HSBC, New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Pfizer, among others. AllianceBernstein’s new office features open floor plans, advanced technology, collaborative meeting and events spaces and outdoor terraces on every level. “This transition marks a special moment for our firm,” says Onur Erzan, head of AB Global Client Group and Bernstein Private Wealth Management. “Our brand-new, state-of-the-art space in the heart of New York City presents significant opportunities to our clients and colleagues.” AllianceBernstein struck the 20-year lease agreement with Tishman Speyer in 2019. The firm’s previous New York headquarters was located at the AllianceBernstein Building at 1345 Avenue of the Americas. The New York …
Orlando’s multifamily market has experienced softened conditions lately due to a record amount of new supply being built, as well as economic challenges impacting commercial real estate as a whole. Yet, green shoots have emerged as insurance costs continue to ease and interest rates remain steady with downward pressure. Both overall sentiment and renter demand have steadily improved as well. Properties in the multifamily space seeing the most interest these days are those that are high-quality and well-located. Two key multifamily sale transactions that occurred in the second quarter of 2024 were in the Southwest Orlando submarket. This includes the 424-unit Osprey Links at Hunter’s Creek property that sold for $100.6 million, which marked Orlando’s largest multifamily sale this year, and the 296-unit Sonceto Apartments property that sold for $71 million. Investors are flooding back into the market with increasingly more aggressive offers and heightened competition as a result of the still limited available multifamily inventory and notion that supply levels have peaked. However, additional supply will still enter the market in the years to come as developers maintain a positive outlook on Orlando with just over 2,000 units across six buildings delivered by the end of the second quarter …
SUNNYVALE, TEXAS — California-based CapRock Partners has acquired 32.5 acres in Sunnyvale, an eastern suburb of Dallas, for the development of a 518,000-square-foot industrial project that will be known as Clay Road Business Park. The development will consist of three shallow-bay buildings with 32-foot clear heights, dock-high and ramp loading doors, ESFR sprinklers and trailer parking. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2025 and be compete in 2026. Kurt Griffin, Nathan Orbin, Dalton Knipe and Weston King of JLL represented CapRock in the land acquisition.
HOUSTON — Bel Air Lighting has purchased a 112,667-square-foot industrial building in North Houston. According to showcase.com, the building at 16622 Hafer Road was constructed in 2023 and features 32-foot clear heights, 22 dock doors, two drive-in doors and 130 car parking spaces. Jeremy Lumbreras and Garret Geaccone of Stream Realty Partners represented the seller, locally based firm Alliance Industrial Co., in the transaction. The sales price was not disclosed.