MINNEAPOLIS — Ryan Cos. Real Estate Management is undertaking a $3 million renovation of City Center, which is comprised of nearly two city blocks in the center of Minneapolis. It includes the 51-story skyscraper, 33 South Sixth Street; a 381,630-square-foot mall; a 687-stall parking garage; and the Minneapolis Marriott. Renovation plans call for the replacement of precast concrete panels with updated structural materials, additional lighting, new signage and a second-floor covered patio space. Sussner has undertaken the brand repositioning of the property, which will include a new City Center logo and colorful graphics. Ryan Cos. will oversee the construction, which will be completed by RJM Construction.
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TOLEDO, OHIO — Dakkota Integrated Systems has signed a 66,603-square-foot industrial lease in Toledo. The supplier of Jeep parts is expanding and doubling its size at the facility, which spans 1.1 million square feet and is situated on 46 acres at 315 Matzinger Road. The lease term is for five years and five months. Ron Jurgenson of Reichle Klein Group and Rob Hughes of Newmark Knight Frank negotiated the lease. I.B.C. Inc. is the landlord.
CHICAGO — PerkSpot has signed a 14,020-square-foot office expansion at 320 W. Ohio St. in Chicago. The customized employee discount firm now occupies more than 27,000 square feet at the building. It is the company’s second expansion in the last 13 months. Allen Rogoway of Cresa Chicago represented the tenant in the lease transaction. PerkSpot offers a perk program where employees can gain rewards and exclusive discounts for their performance. PerkSpot also offers discounted merchandise and services and receives a commission on the value of items sold through its platform by merchants.
WEST DES MOINES, IOWA — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Country Club Village Townhomes in Des Moines for $1.9 million. The 16-unit multifamily property is located at 1220 Office Park Road. Built in 1972, the rental property features two-bedroom units spanning 1,500 square feet. Ryan Spengler, Chris Collins and Evan Miller of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller and procured the buyer.
CHANDLER, ARIZ. — CBRE Global Investors has purchased a data center, located at 2500 W. Frye Road in Chandler, an eastern suburb of Phoenix, for $72.7 million. The seller was Lincoln Rackhouse, the data center division of Lincoln Property Co., in partnership with Principal Real Estate Investors. Kristina Metzger and James McCarthy of CBRE Data Center Capital Markets represented the seller in the deal. Lincoln Rackhouse and Principal Real Estate Investors originally purchased the data center in 2018 as part of a three-property portfolio. A global data center services provider fully occupies the 191,000-square-foot facility.
PORTLAND, ORE. — A joint venture between Holland Partner Group and Pacific Life Insurance Co. has acquired Tupelo Alley, a mixed-use community located in Portland’s North Mississippi Avenue neighborhood. Institutional investors advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management sold the property for $58 million. Situated on 1.4 acres at 3850 N. Mississippi Ave., the three-building Tupelo Alley features 188 apartments in a mix of studio, one- and three-bedroom layouts, averaging 770 square feet, and 10,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. On-site amenities include indoor and outdoor gathering spaces for residents. Ira Virden and Carrie Kahn of JLL Capital Markets represented the seller, while Charles Halladay, Rick Salinas and Charlie Watson, also of JLL Capital Markets, represented the buyer in the transaction. Additionally, JLL arranged $37.7 million in acquisition financing for the buyer.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Colliers International has arranged the purchase of 6Y, a 11-story creative office building located at 811 SW Sixth Ave. in Portland’s Central Business District (CBD). Deka Immobilien acquired the asset from a joint venture between KBS and True North Management Group for $47.5 million. The transaction marks Frankfurt, Germany-based Deka’s third U.S. purchase in the last nine months and its entry into the Oregon market. Overlooking Pioneer Square, the 116,224-square-foot property was repositioned to include upgraded creative office suites, a tenant lounge and a contemporary lobby. Robert Stamm and Andres Roldan of Colliers’ Investment Advisory Group, in coordination with Chris Johnson of Colliers’ Portland office, represented the buyer, while Nick Kucha, James Childress and Bill DeLacy of Newmark Knight Frank represented the seller in the deal.
KeyBank Provides $29M HUD Refinancing for Skilled Nursing Facility in Northern California
by Amy Works
SALINAS, CALIF. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has provided a $29 million loan to refinance Pacific Coast Care Center, a 149-bed skilled nursing facility in Salinas, just south of the Bay Area proper. The facility was built in 1979. The borrower is an investor group led by BM Eagle Holdings and BlueMountain Capital Management. Financing for the property was closed using the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 232/223(f) mortgage insurance program. Proceeds from the FHA loan were used to pay down a portion of an interim bridge loan. A KeyBank-led bank syndicate originally provided the acquisition financing in mid-2017 as part of a multi-asset skilled nursing portfolio. The deal team consisted of John Randolph of Key Bank’s FHA Healthcare team and Grant Saunders and Peter Trazzaera from Key Bank’s Healthcare Group.
Voit Real Estate Services Brokers $11.2M Sale of Three-Building Office Asset in San Diego
by Amy Works
SAN DIEGO — Voit Real Estate Services has arranged the sale of Futura Business Park, a three-building office park located in San Diego’s Kearny Mesa submarket. Otay Terminal – Farnham St. LLC sold the asset to La Jolla, Calif.-based Hill Properties for $11.2 million. The buyer plans to implement a capital improvement program at the 51,229-square-foot, multi-tenant asset. Planned renovations will include exterior and interior improvements and repositioning the property as creative office space. Futura Business Park is located at 9445, 9455 and 9465 Farnham St. Randy LaChance, Ryan Bracker and Arthur Bleier of Voit’s San Diego office represented both parties in the transaction.
A decade ago, the Seattle office market was still reeling from the effects of the global recession. Total downtown vacancy had reached 14.9 percent with nearly every submarket from the Central Business District (CBD) to Lake Union experiencing some form of negative absorption. Total vacancy today is slightly more than half of what it was back then, hovering at around 7.7 percent. This is despite the total net rentable area growing by more than 11 million square feet. Seattle has also shifted from largely being considered a secondary market to one of the leading real estate hubs in the nation, thanks to consistent talent and demand from the engineering, aerospace and technology industries. Seattle currently ranks second behind San Francisco in our annual Scoring Tech Talent report. And yet, while our extensive growth has been a benefit to the office market, a new problem has cropped up in the face of this progress: availability. The rise of coworking, as well as the surplus of partial floor spaces, has been a benefit to smaller companies in the midst of early stage growth and expansion. In fact, there are more than 700 options in Downtown Seattle for smaller tenants, primarily under 15,000 …