TAMPA, FLA. — RealOp Investments has sold Bay West Commerce Park, an eight-building, 195,558-square-foot office campus in Tampa’s Westshore submarket, for $26.7 million. RealOp acquired the property in 2017 and invested $1.5 million in renovations during its ownership. The campus, located six miles west of downtown Tampa, was 86 percent leased at the time of sale. Dale Peterson of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction. The buyer was not disclosed.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — Stag Industrial has acquired a 232,488-square-foot warehouse and distribution facility in Jacksonville’s Westside submarket for $14.8 million. The seller, Johnson Development Associates Inc., built the property on a speculative basis. Boston-based Stag Industrial will name the property STAG Westlake. The 32-foot clear height warehouse features 42 truck doors, two drive-in doors, 159 regular parking spots and a large truck court. The property is located at 9779 Pritchard Road, 16 miles southwest of Jacksonville International Airport and 12 miles west of downtown Jacksonville. Tyler Newman and Jacob Horsley of Cushman & Wakefield represented the buyer in the transaction. The team will also oversee leasing of the facility.
MIAMI — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged a 120,590-square-foot lease for Apollo Export within Airport North Logistics Park in Miami. Apollo Export Warehouse Inc. will begin occupying the space in early 2020 and will join tenants such as Nestlé Waters North America, Marine Harvest, Neutralogistics and ECO Window Systems in the now-90 percent leased industrial park. Apollo Export will occupy space in Building 2, located at 8503 NW 80th St., 15 miles northwest of downtown Miami. Airport North Logistics Park comprises four buildings totaling 900,000 square feet. Wayne Ramoski, Gian Rodriguez and Skylar Stein of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, Dallas-based L&B Realty Advisors LLP, in the lease transaction. Chris Spear of ComReal Miami-Doral represented Apollo Export.
WORCESTER, MASS. — Kelleher & Sadowsky Associates Inc. has brokered the sale of Worcester Plaza Tower, a 244,000-square-foot office tower in central Massachusetts. The sales price was $16.5 million. The 24-story tower is the tallest office building in Worcester. Kelleher & Sadowsky represented the seller, S-BNK Worcester Main, an entity registered to the Casey Brothers Trust of Boston. The firm also procured the buyer, Synergy Investments, which plans to make capital improvements to the property.
NEW YORK CITY — SL Green Realty Corp., a publicly traded office investment firm, has acquired 603 West 50th Street, a 160,000-square-foot office building in Manhattan. KCP Holdco Inc., an affiliate of the seller that currently occupies the property, will lease approximately 40,000-square-feet of office space to serve as its headquarters. SL Green will undertake a full-building repositioning to elevate the profile of this asset, which was originally built in 1940. Woody Heller and David Heller of Savills Studley represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
BOSTON — Alduwaliya, a Qatar-based investment firm, has purchased 99 Chauncy Street and 101 Summer Street, two office buildings totaling 159,781 square feet in Boston’s Financial District. Both properties include ground-floor retail space and were fully leased at the time of sale to tenants with an average weighted lease term of 7.2 years. Scott Dragos, Doug Jacoby, Chris Skeffington, Roy Sandeman, Anthony Hayes, Timothy Mulhall and Daniel Hines of CBRE represented the seller, Nuveen Real Estate, in the transaction. The price was not disclosed.
SAN BERNARDINO, CALIF. — A joint venture between Harbor Associates and Taconic Capital Advisors has acquired a five-building office portfolio located within the 153-acre Tri City Corporate Center office park in San Bernardino. An undisclosed seller sold the assets for $41.7 million in an off-market transaction. Totaling 368,000 square feet, the buildings range from 70,000 square feet to 115,000 square feet. The portfolio, which is collectively 55 percent leased to 28 tenants, represents the only block of contiguous office space of more than 75,000 square feet in the Inland Empire. The joint venture plans to re-position and lease-up the assets through a renovation program across the portfolio that includes upgraded building entries and lobby experiences, elevator improvements, new roofs and replacement of the original HVAC units. Upon completion, the portfolio will feature rent-ready speculative suites, electric vehicle charging stations, LED lighting retrofit, as well as new building and project signage. Anthony Delorenzo, Todd Tydlaska and Sammy Cemo of CBRE represented the seller in the deal. The acquisition was leveraged with short-term financing from a subsidiary of Granite Point Mortgage Trust, which is externally managed by Pine River Capital Management.
HILLSIDE, N.J. — Dallas-based design-build firm ARCO/Murray has completed a 1,200-unit self-storage facility for CubeSmart in Hillside, located just west of Newark Liberty International Airport. The six-story facility spans 145,800 square feet, features climate-controlled space and includes a 1,200-square-foot office.
PHOENIX — CA Residential and Diamond Realty Investments have opened the first phase of The LINK PHX, a 30-story mixed-use development located in downtown Phoenix. Shepley Bulfinch served as architect, and Katerra served as general contractor for the project. Located at 330 E. Pierce St., the first phase of The LINK PHX features 257 apartments in a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom layouts ranging in size from 450 square feet to 1,450 square feet, as well as 7,000 square feet of retail space. Each apartment features nine-foot ceilings; kitchen with European-style, soft-close cabinetry; quartz countertops; stainless steel appliances and designer fixtures; and full-size washers and dryers. At complete build-out, the three-phase development will bring more than 600 rental residences and 21,000 square feet of retail space to the Roosevelt Row Arts District over the next decade.
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIF. — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has arranged the sale of Sunlit Gardens, an 86-unit assisted living and memory care community in the San Bernardino County city of Rancho Cucamonga. A joint venture between Meridian Senior Living and a Chicago-based private equity firm sold the property to an Orange County-based equity group for an undisclosed price. The Blueprint transaction team consisted of Jacob Gehl, Humair Sabir and Scott Frazier.