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LAGUNA HILLS, CALIF. — Newport Beach-based Buchanan Street Partners has purchased Oakbrook Plaza, an office building located at 24422 Avenida De La Carlota in Laguna Hills. A New York City-based fund manager sold the property for $28.1 million in an off-market transaction. The four-story building features 120,354 square feet of space. Currently, the property is 66 percent occupied, with 30 percent of the existing space leased to medical tenants. The asset is located less than one mile from MemorialCare Sadddleback Medical Center and several retirement communities. Kevin Shannon, Paul Jones and Brandon White of Newmark represented the seller in the transaction.

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VISTA, CALIF. — Rockwood Capital has purchased The Rylan, a multifamily property in downtown Vista, from StreetLights Residential for an undisclosed price. The Rylan offers 126 units, resort-style amenities and five ground-floor retail spaces. Hunter Combs of Walker & Dunlop represented the seller and buyer in the transaction.

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LOVELAND, COLO. — BH Developers, with Evergreen Industrial as general contractor, has broken ground on Airpark North, a freestanding industrial building located adjacent to the Fort Collins/Loveland Airport in Loveland. Situated on four acres, the building features 30,000 square feet of warehouse space and two 3,000-square-foot mezzanines. The property also features 21-foot clear heights, six loading doors, a 1.5-acre laydown yard behind the building and retention pond. Completion is slated for June 2023. Travis Ackerman of Cushman & Wakefield and Matt Haskell of URealty are handling marketing efforts for the project.

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ORANGEBURG, N.Y. — CBRE has brokered the $12 million sale of a 38,400-square-foot life sciences facility located at 25 Corporate Drive in Orangeburg, about 25 miles north of Manhattan. Charles Berger, Elli Klapper, Mark Silverman and Jeremy Wernick of CBRE represented the seller, an entity doing business as 25 Corporate Drive LLC, in the transaction. The team also procured the buyer, Solomon Builders, which acquired the property via a 1031 exchange. At the time of sale, the property was fully leased on a triple-net basis to Scapa North America, a subsidiary of global engineering firm Schweitzer-Mauduit International.

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NEW YORK CITY — Locally based financial intermediary ERG Commercial Real Estate has arranged a $5 million loan for the refinancing of a 13,300-square-foot retail property in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood. The property at 29 Wyckoff Ave. was originally built as a warehouse in 1931, but the undisclosed borrower recently converted the structure into a retail property with five spaces. Ryan Lewis and Mary Guarino of ERG Commercial originated the loan, which carried a 4 percent fixed interest rate and a 25-year amortization schedule.

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NEW YORK CITY — Whole Foods Market will open a 42,000-square-foot store at 66 Broadway in Manhattan’s Financial District, on Wednesday, Jan 11. The store will feature full-service meat and seafood counters, a coffee bar, bakery, prepared foods section, a selection of more than 200 craft beers and a section devoted to cosmetics and body care products.

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NEW YORK CITY — Fintech services firm WorkFusion has signed a 13,327-square-foot office lease at 1450 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan. The tenant will relocate from 48 Wall Street to the entire 19th floor of the 42-story building, which features a fitness center, conference facility  and tenant lounges. Val Stobetsky, William McGarry and Michael Pallas of JLL represented WorkFusion in the lease negotiations. Mitchell Konsker, Barbara Winter, Greg Wang, Simon Landmann and Thomas Swart, also with JLL, represented the landlord, ZG Capital. The building is now 90 percent leased.

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SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Real estate development firm Optima has received city approval for Optima McDowell Mountain Village, a $1 billion apartment and condominium project in North Scottsdale. Plans call for six buildings comprising 1,330 luxury units as well as 36,000 square feet of commercial and retail space. Construction is scheduled to begin in spring or summer 2023. Each of the six buildings within the development will contain its own amenity offering, including a rooftop deck with Olympic-length pool, sauna, spa, running track, outdoor kitchen and lounge seating. Each rooftop will offer views of the McDowell Mountains. The ground floor of each building will be outfitted with a lobby, fitness center, yoga studio, steam room, game room, theater, indoor basketball and pickleball court, golf simulator, massage room, business center and dog park. The project will be the largest private rainwater harvesting site in the U.S., according to the developer. The residences are expected to use half as much water as the average Scottsdale multifamily residence and a quarter as much water as the average Scottsdale single-family home. Optima is also providing the city with 2,750 acre-feet of water that will be deposited into the Scottsdale water system. The community will also …

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By Ken Colao, president and CEO, CNY Group Whether you’re on the Jersey Parkway or the Turnpike, you’ve undoubtedly driven past commercial buildings and office parks that have stood in the Garden State for decades. But the age of many of these structures is starting to cause problems. Earlier this year, JLL released a report in which the real estate firm estimated that 57 percent of suburban office space nationwide is old enough to be considered functionally obsolete. In New Jersey, specifically, that figure rises to 72 percent, among the highest in the nation. Based on two decades worth of construction experience in New Jersey and New York, CNY Group believes the two most likely outcomes for these structures involve upgrades to true Class A offices or conversion to life sciences facilities. Keeping Offices Intact With a growing number of people migrating out of urban cores, suburban office developers are revitalizing their properties to attract new tenants. When employees began moving away from city centers, employers didn’t particularly follow them, but that trend could change. Businesses will decrease their real estate footprints in urban areas unless costs of occupancy are reduced, safety is maintained and environmental standards and practices are …

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ATLANTA — A joint venture between developers Middle Street Partners and AECOM-Canyon Partners has obtained $245 million in construction financing for its two-tower multifamily project situated a block from Piedmont Park in Midtown Atlanta. Eastdil Secured arranged the financing through Bank OZK and Related Fund Management on behalf of the developers. Cody Kirkpatrick, Noam Franklin and Chinmay Bhatt of Berkadia advised Middle Street in the transaction. The unnamed development will occupy a full city block on Juniper Street between 11th and 12th streets. The project will include a north tower and south tower totaling 487 apartments, and each tower will feature an undisclosed amount of ground-floor retail space. The developers plan to break ground immediately. The project team includes general contractor Brasfield & Gorrie, architect Brock Hudgins and interior designer CID Design Group.

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