TEMPE, ARIZ. — San Diego-based B2 Holdings has purchased a 10-acre property located at 1800 and 1818 E. Baseline Road in Tempe. A Florida-based seller sold the asset for $14.4 million. The property is located less than half-a-mile from US Route 60 and in proximity to Dobson Ranch and Arizona State University. At the time of sale, Target and US Bank leased portions of the site. Joseph Compagno of CBRE’s Net Lease Property Group in Phoenix represented the buyer and seller in the transaction.
BALTIMORE — A joint venture between Armada Hoffler Properties and Beatty Development Group has unveiled plans for T. Rowe Price’s new office headquarters in Baltimore’s Harbor Point for $250 million. Plans call for the property to span 450,000 square feet and include ground-level retail space, parking and expanded green spaces. T. Rowe Price expects to move its 1,700 employees into the space in the first half of 2024. The initial lease is for 15 years. T. Rowe Price was founded in Baltimore in 1963 and has been headquartered at 100 E. Pratt St. in downtown Baltimore since 1975. According to the Baltimore Sun, T. Rowe Price signed a 10-year lease renewal at 100 E. Pratt in 2017. The newspaper cited T. Rowe Price’s concerns over safety and traffic as the main reasons for the global investment management firm’s move away from downtown. Harbor Point is situated along Patapsco River, two miles south of T. Rowe Price’s current headquarters. Other Armada Hoffler projects within Harbor Point include office buildings Wills Wharf and Thames Street Wharf, and 1405 Point Apartments. “T. Rowe Price further validates Harbor Point as a top-tier destination for world-class companies,” says Lou Haddad, president & CEO of Armada …
Daniel Taub is a well-known name in the retail real estate world. He spent most of his career with DLC Management, one of the nation’s largest open-air center owners, heading up leasing and eventually becoming president and chief operating officer of the company. In October, Taub joined Marcus & Millichap as senior vice president and national director of the firm’s retail division. In his new role, Taub will be helping the firm’s retail brokers with deals, as well as advising clients. He recently spoke to Shopping Center Business editor Randall Shearin about his new role, and about the challenges ahead for the retail sector. Shopping Center Business: Why is now the right time for you to take on the challenge of this role at Marcus & Millichap? Daniel Taub: Timing. As has been the case during other cyclical moments that have impacted the commercial real estate sector, while the pandemic is horrific and unfortunate for everyone, firms that are focused and well positioned to be proactive, go on the offensive and identify opportunities across the platform where it can build on its successes, including in the retail space. The headlines in retail were challenging before the pandemic; there was obviously …
WEST POINT, GA. — Hyundai Transys will develop a $240 million advanced manufacturing facility in West Point. The building will span 620,000 square feet and is expected to bring 678 full-time jobs to the area. Hyundai Transys specializes in transmissions and the new facility will produce eight-speed transmissions for Kia. The exact location of the new plant was not disclosed, though Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s office says it is near the company’s existing plant within the Kia campus. A timeline for construction was not disclosed.
ANNAPOLIS JUNCTION, MD. — Walker & Dunlop has provided an $84.4 million Freddie Mac refinancing loan for The Residences at Annapolis Junction. Armada Hoffler, which delivered the asset in 2017, received the 10-year, non-recourse loan with three years of interest-only payments. Proceeds will replace existing construction debt that Walker & Dunlop also provided in 2018. The property offers studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans. Communal amenities include a saltwater pool, sundeck, fitness center, movie theater, 24-hour business center and car charging stations. The complex is situated at 10125 Junction Drive in Annapolis Junction, 18 miles southwest of downtown Baltimore. Dee McClure and Katie Runyan of Walker & Dunlop originated the loan on behalf of the Virginia Beach, Va.-based borrower.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Marx Realty has broken ground on The Herald, a 114,000-square-foot office building in Washington, D.C. The New York-based developer is investing $41 million to redevelop the property into a hospitality-themed office building. The lobby will feature 22-foot ceilings, a doorman, European-style café, 8,800-square-foot lounge, a fitness center, historical art and several seating areas, similar to a hotel lobby. The asset was originally built in 1923 as the printing press and offices for the Washington Herald Examiner. Marx Realty will update the entrance to the lobby to include floor-to-ceiling copper and glass walls inspired by linotype printing machines. Marx Realty expects construction to be completed in the spring. David Burns of Studios Architecture designed the asset.
BATON ROUGE, LA. — EdgePWR has acquired Bon Carre Technology Center, a 712,000-square-foot office and technology park in Baton Rouge. The property is situated at 7337 Florida Blvd., five miles east of downtown Baton Rouge. Tenants at the time of sale included Cox Media, software firm CRIF ACTion, Pixel Dash Studios and data company Venyu. Bon Carre was originally developed in the 1960s as Bon Marche Mall before being redeveloped into an office park more than 20 years ago. Bill Sanders and Jessie Babcock of Beau Box Commercial Real Estate, along with JLL, represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. South Carolina-based EdgePWR has retained Sanders and Babcock to handle leasing at Bon Carré and Beau Box Property Management to manage the property.
FAYETTEVILLE, GA. — Faris Lee has arranged the $7 million sale of Satterfield Marketplace, a 12,277-square-foot retail strip center in Fayetteville. Tenants at the time of sale included Chipotle, My EyeLab and Aspen Dental. The property is situated at 1135 Ga. Highway 85 N., 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta, and includes a drive thru for Chipotle. Hunter Steffien, Jeff Conover and Scott DeYoung of Faris Lee represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The team also procured the buyer, an undisclosed firm based in Mexico City.
TEMPE, ARIZ. — Lincoln Property Co. (LPC) has completed the disposition of Grand2, an office building located at 1033 W. Roosevelt Way in Tempe. Apex Capital Investments Corp. acquired the property for a reported $187.5 million. Developed in late 2019 by LPC Desert West and Goldman Sachs MBD Real Estate, the nine-story building features 358,000 square feet of Class AA office space. Grand2 offers a 13,000-square-foot indoor/outdoor lobby and amenity lounge with a television viewing area, collaborative spaces, conference facilities and an on-site fitness facility with Peloton and Mirror equipment. Additionally, the building features a 13,000-square-foot rooftop deck with shaded seating and subterranean and structured parking. The development team included DAVIS as architect and Whiting-Turner as general contractor. San Francisco-based food delivery app DoorDash has occupied the property with a full-building, long-term commitment since its completion. CJ Osbrink, Kevin Shannon, Ken White, Brunson Howard, Paul Jones and Rick Stumm of Newmark represented LPC, while Apex Capital was self-represented in the sale. Grand2 is part of the 1.8 million square feet slated for development by LPC at The Grand at Papago Park Center, which is master planned for 3.2 million square feet of office, multifamily, hotel, retail and restaurant space within …
SAN FRANCISCO — On Tuesday, Dec. 1, San Francisco-based Airbnb filed an updated S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of its planned initial public offering (IPO) filing on Dec. 9. The home-rental platform, along with some shareholders, plans to offer 51.9 million shares at $44 to $50 in its IPO, creating a valuation of up to $35 billion, an $4 billion increase from its private valuation of $31 billion. The 13-year-old company has experienced growth since its founding with gross booking value (GBV) topping $38 billion in 2019, representing a 29 percent growth from $29.4 billion in 2018. However, during the first nine months of 2020, Airbnb was impacted by the global COVID-19 pandemic with GBV falling to $18 billion, down 39 percent year over year, and $2.5 billion in revenue, down 32 percent year over year. Through the combination of consolidating its workforce and a surge in rentals, the company has begun to see a 1 percent uptick in bookings between second- and third-quarter 2020, resulting $1.3 billion in third-quarter revenue, down 18 percent from the same period in 2019. Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group, Allen & Co., Bank of America Corp., Barclays Plc and Citigroup …
