SALT LAKE CITY — PhyNet Dermatology has leased 14,556 square feet of office space at 650 Main in Salt Lake City. The space is located on the corner of Main Street and 600 South in downtown. The 10-story, Class A office building consists of 335,000 square feet that includes retail space. Jordan Wade and Allie McCracken of Transwestern represented the dermatology practice management company. CBRE has the leasing assignment for the building, which Patrinely owns.
SAN FRANCISCO — Nordstrom Inc. will close two stores located near San Francisco’s downtown, reports the Washington Street Journal. Located on Market Street, the first store will close Jul. 1, with the Westfield San Francisco Centre mall location scheduled to close at the end of August. “We can better serve our customers there by focusing on our 16 nearby Nordstrom and Nordstrom Rack locations, as well as online,” says a representative for the company.
NEW YORK CITY — Affinius Capital, which is a partnership between USAA Real Estate and Square Mile Capital Management, has provided a $110 million construction loan for a 193-unit multifamily project in Brooklyn. The transit-served site spans a full city block along Fourth Avenue between Union and Sackett streets where the borough’s Park Slope and Gowanus neighborhoods converge. The borrower and developer, a partnership between New York City-based firms Gindi Capital and Avery Hall Investments, acquired the site in 2019. The building will rise 13 stories and house 14,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space. An undisclosed number of units will be reserved as affordable housing. Information on floor plans was also not disclosed. Amenities will include a rooftop lounge and pool, coworking space, children’s playroom, fitness center, pet washing station, tenant storage and a bike room. Christopher Peck and Peter Rotchford of JLL arranged the financing. Specific loan terms were not disclosed. Sitework on the project began in 2022, and full completion is scheduled for some time in 2024. “By creating high-quality housing at a range of income levels with a full suite of amenities in one of the most exciting parts of Brooklyn, our project will transform …
National headlines report Amazon, arguably the largest warehouse user in the country, curtailing demand and, in some cases returning space back to landlords. This is sandwiched by stories detailing rising interest rates and land prices, stricter entitlement guidelines and NIMBYs working to apply the brakes on new developments. But, in “The Land of Pleasant Living,” (a Baltimore nickname made popular by the smart advertising of a local beer), the industrial revolution continues. And, for good reason. More than 2.3 million square feet of industrial/warehouse space was leased in the greater Baltimore metropolitan region in fourth-quarter 2022, with a net absorption of more than 1.2 million square feet of space, contributing to an overall vacancy rate of 4.5 percent. Additionally, more than 13 million square feet of space is currently under construction and rents have soared more than 50 percent over the past two years, with an average rent of just under $8 per square foot in late 2022. Significant leases signed in fourth-quarter 2022 included Baltimore International Warehousing & Transportation’s 244,304-square-foot lease at 5250-5330 Holabird Ave.; Amazon’s 241,962-square-foot lease at 1713 E. Patapsco Ave. and the 168,655-square-foot lease executed by Transdev at 1610 Wicomico St. Baltimore is contained within …
ATLANTA — Armada Hoffler has entered into a purchase agreement to acquire the commercial portion of The Interlock, a nine-acre mixed-use development in Atlanta’s West Midtown district. The seller and developer, locally based SJC Ventures, has agreed to sell about 311,000 square feet of office and retail space at The Interlock for $215 million. Armada Hoffler served as the general contractor for The Interlock. The acquisition includes offices anchored by Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures, a cooperative organization of nearby Georgia Tech, as well as retail space leased to Puttshack and Velvet Taco, among other tenants. The acquisition also includes an 835-space parking garage and Rooftop L.O.A., a 38,000-square-foot rooftop destination that includes a full-service restaurant, indoor and outdoor bars, an event pavilion and swimming pool. The commercial portion of The Interlock is currently 89 percent leased, with another 6 percent of space spoken for. Not included in the sale is the 161-room Bellyard hotel or the project’s multifamily or student housings components. Armada Hoffler plans to fund the acquisition using $100 million of new fixed-rate financing, the conversion of its existing mezzanine loan into equity and the issuance of units of limited partnership interest in the company’s operating partnership to …
LEBANON, TENN. — Texas-based Griffin Partners is underway on the development of a 2 million-square-foot industrial project in Lebanon, roughly 30 miles east of Nashville. Dubbed Earhart Industrial Park, the property will comprise two large speculative warehouses. The first warehouse will total 863,573 square feet and feature 367 car parking spaces and 196 trailer parking spaces. Totaling nearly 1.2 million square feet, the second building will include 448 car parking spaces and 284 trailer spaces. Both warehouses will have depths of 640 feet and clear heights of 40 feet. Melissa Alexander, W.B. Scoggin, Casey Flannery and Warren Snowdon of Foundry Commercial’s Industrial Services team will handle leasing at the development, which is scheduled for delivery in the third quarter of 2024.
LAWRENCEVILLE AND LILBURN, GA. — CBRE’s Self Storage Advisory Group has brokered the $43.6 million sale of a portfolio comprising three self-storage properties within metro Atlanta’s Gwinnett County. Located at 2600 Lawrenceville Highway and 1475 Grayson Highway in Lawrenceville and 3950 Five Forks Trickum Road in Lilburn, the properties total 242,500 square feet and 1,912 units. The occupancy rate was 94 percent at the time of sale. CBRE represented the seller, Gwinnett Self Storage, in the transaction. Wentworth Property Co. acquired the portfolio.
ROANOKE, VA. — Montecito Medical has acquired a 209,000-square-foot medical office property located in Roanoke. Situated within Tanglewood Center — an 800,000-square-foot mixed-use development that also features retail, dining and entertainment space — the building is leased to Carilion Children’s Clinic. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
ROUND ROCK, TEXAS — Developer IDI Logistics has broken ground on Sunrise Commerce Center, a 465,786-square-foot speculative industrial project in the northern Austin suburb of Round Rock. The development will consist of five buildings that will be constructed in phases on a 37-acre site. Phase I will feature three rear-load buildings that will range in size from 59,274 to 175,170 square feet and are expected to be complete before the end of the year. Other project partners include 5G Studio Collaborative, Pacheco Koch (civil engineer), Adolfson & Peterson Construction and Stream Realty Partners (leasing agent).
HOUSTON — Fluor Corp. (NYSE: FLR) has signed a 308,186-square-foot office lease in Houston’s Energy Corridor. The Texas-based engineering and construction firm will occupy the entirety of Three Eldridge for the next 12 years. Jon Dutton and Andrew Elliott represented the landlord, Granite Properties, in the lease negotiations on an internal basis. Rick Kaplan, David Guion and Chris Oliver of Cushman & Wakefield represented Fluor Corp., which plans to move about 1,600 employees into the 13-story building in the second quarter of 2024.
