DALLAS — Bluebeam Inc., a California-based software developer for the construction industry, has inked a 20,000-square-foot office lease at One McKinney, a 15-story office building in Uptown Dallas. Robbie Baty, Shannon Nehrig, Shaun Stiles and Katie Cowan of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Elliot Prieur and Allison Johnston Frizzo represented the landlord, Gaedeke Group, on an internal basis.
DENVER — Estero, Fla.-based TerraCap Management, a privately held investment firm, has purchased Denver Corporate Center II & III, two eleven-story office buildings located within the Denver Tech Center in Denver. A joint venture between Bridge Investment Group Partners and DPC Cos. sold the assets for $71.7 million. Situated along Interstates 25 and 225 and Belleview Light Rail Station, the property offers a total of 381,466 rentable square feet. TerraCap plans to continue the capital upgrade program that is currently underway at the asset. Tim Richey and Charley Will of CBRE represented the seller. Citizens Bank provided debt financing for the buyer.
HUNTINGTON BEACH AND CULVER CITY, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sales of two multifamily properties located in Southern California. The assets sold for a total of $41.6 million in two separate transactions. Undisclosed buyers acquired The Lamplighter, a 63-unit property located at 16102 Springdale St. in Huntington Beach, for $20 million, and The Sheffield Apartments, a 57-unit asset located at 5800 Green Valley Circle in Culver City, for $21.6 million. Tyler Leeson, Matt Zeigler and Matthew Kipp of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyers in both transactions.
SEATTLE — Knighthead Funding has originated two separate loans totaling $29.8 million in first mortgage debt structured by a micro-unit apartment asset and a student housing property in Seattle. In the first financing, Knighthead provided an affiliate of Barcelo Homes with a $25.2 million loan secured by a 178-unit micro studio apartment project in Seattle’s Roosevelt neighborhood. Community amenities include a courtyard, lounge, fitness center, rooftop deck, bike storage, common laundry area and controlled access entry. The financing takes out the existing construction loan. Additionally, Knighthead provided a $4.6 million loan to Vekst Development. The loan was secured by a new 28-unit studio apartment development located four blocks from the University of Washington. The financing will allow the sponsor to complete a rooftop deck and list items on the newly constructed four-story building.
GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. — Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors has brokered the purchase of a single-tenant retail property, located at 2742 U.S. Highway 50 in Grand Junction. A Denver-based investor acquired the property for $1.6 million in a 1031 exchange transaction. The seller was a Denver-based developer. Built this year, the asset consists of a 10,038-square-foot building on a 1.3-acre lot. Dollar Tree occupies the building on a net-lease basis. Justin Krieger of Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors represented the buyer in the deal.
HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. — Avison Young has brokered the sale of a two-building retail property located in Hollywood. A New York-based family office sold the asset to a Los Angeles-based family-owned company for $8.1 million. Located at 7611-7623 Sunset Blvd., the property features a 3,725-square-foot building that was built in 1934 and an 8,843-square-foot building, which includes an outdoor patio space. At the time of sale, the asset was 63 percent occupied by five retail tenants. Chris Maling and David Maling of Avison Young represented the seller, while South Park Group represented the buyer in the all-cash transaction.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Broadstone Net Lease (BNL) has acquired 23 industrial properties in 14 states and British Columbia, Canada for $735.7 million. The portfolio was fully leased at the time of sale and comprises a mix of warehouse, distribution, cold-storage, manufacturing and flex properties. The 23 buildings total 6.9 million square feet and are leased to 19 tenants. When the sale closes, Rochester-based BNL’s portfolio will consist of 41 percent industrial properties, 27 percent retail and 18 percent healthcare. The company will own 668 net-leased commercial properties totaling approximately 27.2 million rentable square feet of operational space. The seller and a list of the properties were not disclosed. “This portfolio benefits from attractive real estate and tenant fundamentals and represents a diverse and accretive addition to our net lease real estate portfolio,” says Chris Czarnecki, BNL’s chief executive officer. The new portfolio has a weighted average remaining lease term of 11.5 years and weighted average annual rent increases of about 2.2 percent. The acquisition was funded through a combination of proceeds from BNL’s ongoing private offering of shares of common stock; $150 million from BNL’s $450 million, seven-year, unsecured term loan that matures in February 2026; $300 million from a new …
DALLAS — The Dallas industrial market is on fire, as a number of industry professionals repeatedly pointed out during the InterFace DFW Industrial conference. Held on Sept. 4 at the Westin Galleria Hotel in Dallas, the event drew more than 200 people in its inaugural year. Demand for industrial real estate from tenants, investors and lenders is strong enough to insulate the Dallas market from capitulation, even if the U.S. economy enters a recession, which some economists think may still be a ways off. During the event’s lenders and investors panel, speakers credited strong job and population growth in Dallas for this market insulation. Annually, the metroplex has added roughly 100,000 people and 75,000 jobs for the past several years. The market boasts a vacancy rate of 6 percent even with more than 30 million square feet of space under construction, according to CoStar Group. And tenant demand in Dallas continues to surge as well, fueling 12-month rent growth of 5.6 percent. Nikki Gibson, senior counsel at Bell Nunnally, moderated the panel. Market Evolution Central to the panel’s discussion as to why the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) industrial market is likely to weather severe economic storms was the notion that the …
As a team, we work heavily in mixed-use leasing and development sourcing. Our team handles the commercial leasing on many mixed-use projects within the Twin Cities market, where we also source and find locations for mixed-use apartment developers. This article will give a current snapshot of the mixed-use retail and apartment market within the Twin Cities. What types of projects? There are many three- to six-story, podium-style apartment buildings popping up all over the urban areas of Minneapolis-St. Paul. This product type can also be found in the suburbs. The first floor, or the podium, is constructed out of concrete and allows for up to five additional floors. This is very prevalent in our market and we don’t see this changing soon. However, advanced timber construction is just starting to show itself in the Twin Cities. The mid-rise and high-rise multifamily buildings are mostly contained to the urban core areas. These projects are all concrete construction. It took up until the last five years or so to see major grocers occupy the first floor. We have observed many examples of this and have worked with some of the large nationals as well as larger, local grocers. Mixed-use does not appear …
A strong, vibrant urban core is vital to the success of the entire metropolitan region, and although currently struggling to regain its footing in some critical areas, Baltimore City will eventually return to prominence in the eyes of international investors, CEOs and the general public. Local stakeholders retain confidence in the city based on its strong fundamentals, including nationally renown hospitals, an impressive labor force (a recent CBRE survey ranked Baltimore City as the No. 11 U.S. market for tech talent) and proximity to the Nation’s Capital and continued federal government spending. The city’s infrastructure, led by Interstate 95, the Port of Baltimore and Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI), is among the most highly regarded across the country. There is an overall uptick in leasing and development activity in 2019, with an emphasis on mixed-use communities with an “engaging story to tell” based on the projects design, location or both. Baltimore City inches forward Ground was officially broken on the first phase of Port Covington, the $5.5 billion mega-project planned on a 235-acre waterfront parcel in south Baltimore that is expected to be anchored by the new Under Armour headquarters. This inaugural section will include 1.3 million square feet …
