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ROLLING MEADOWS, ILL. — GlenStar and Rubenstein Partners LP have launched a $15 million capital improvement plan for Continental Towers, a 910,796-square-foot office complex in Rolling Meadows, about 30 miles northwest of Chicago. This is the second of a two-phase renovation project initiated in 2015. Plans call for a reimagined outdoor terrace with a lounge, grilling areas, fire pits and lawn area. The property’s café and amenity center, which are currently undergoing renovations, will be connected to the new terrace. Project completion is scheduled for second-quarter 2020. Phase I was a $30 million project that included the construction of a new 734-stall parking garage and a full renovation of the 22,000-square-foot fitness center run by Midtown Health Club. Continental Towers is a three-tower property situated on 34 acres at 1701 Golf Road. GlenStar originally acquired the property in 2013 and recapitalized the asset in 2018 with Rubenstein.

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KANSAS CITY, MO. — Newmark Grubb Zimmer (NGZ) has brokered the sale of a 275,162-square-foot industrial building located at 2095-2383 Front St. in Kansas City. The sales price was not disclosed. The multi-tenant property was 58 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Cargill, Suburban Industrial Packaging and Grupo Antolin. David Zimmer, Michael VanBuskirk and Chris Robertson of NGZ represented the institutional seller. California-based Industrial Realty Group purchased the building.

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NORFOLK, NEB. — Darland Construction Co. is nearing completion of a four-story, 130,000-square-foot medical office building in Norfolk in eastern Nebraska. The facility will be known as the Faith Regional Health Services South Medical Office. The first floor will include an outpatient surgery center with six operating rooms and more than 20 patient rooms. The orthopedics department will be housed on the second floor and feature 40 specialized exam rooms, multiple X-Ray rooms and staff offices. The third floor will include the women’s health and pediatrics departments. The fourth floor will be home to surgical specialties, including ear, nose and throat, gastroenterology, general surgery, pain management, rheumatology and urology. The building is connected by a skywalk to the main hospital campus. Completion is slated for later this year. Avant Architects is the project architect.

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KENT AND AUBURN, WASH. — Colliers International has arranged the sale of two industrial parks in southern King County. TA Realty acquired the assets from a local Puget Sound private investor for $22 million. Totaling four buildings on 6.3 acres, the properties are Pacific West Business Center in Kent and White River Corporate Park in Auburn. Built in 1979 and located at 18852-18872 72nd Ave. South, Pacific West Business Center features 60,530 square feet of industrial space on a 3.3-acre campus. At the time of sale, the asset was fully leased to nine tenants. Located at 2200-2222 W. Valley Highway North, White River Corporate Park offers a total of 60,852 square feet of warehouse space spread across two buildings. Built in 2004, the property was fully leased to five tenants at the time of sale. Bill Condon and Matt McGregor of Colliers International handled the transaction.

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LAS VEGAS — Haven Realty Capital has completed the disposition of Mountain Vista, an apartment community located in Las Vegas. An undisclosed buyer acquired the property for $17.7 million. Located at 3950 S. Mountain Vista St., the community features 178 apartments in a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts. Units offer walk-in closets, balconies, storage space and high-speed internet access. The two-story property was built in 1979. Community amenities include a business center, breakfast/coffee concierge, grills, fitness center, laundry facilities, pool and a picnic area. Taylor Smith and Carl Sims of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the deal.

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CASPER, WYO. — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has arranged the sale of a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in the Central Wyoming city of Casper. A New York-based owner of more than 150 facilities sold the property to a national owner-operator. The price and name of the facility were not disclosed. The asset was positioned as a value-add opportunity. At the time of sale, in-place cash flow was negative, with occupancy in multiple year-over-year decline. However, the facility was well maintained with strong historical operational performance. Christopher Hyldahl, Gideon Orion and Kendra Gonzalez of Blueprint handled the transaction.

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PHOENIX — Fore Property has purchased of the former O’Neil Printing facility, located at 366 N. Second Ave. in downtown Phoenix, for $9.3 million. The development site consists of 2.6 acres with three sides of street frontage. The buyer plans to develop a high-end, mixed-use project on the site. Totaling 285,000 square feet, the seven-story development will feature 323 apartments in a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom layouts, as well as ground-floor retail and restaurant space, a rooftop deck with views of Phoenix, a pool and fitness center. Construction is slated to begin the first quarter of 2020, with completion scheduled for mid-2022. Justin Horwitz and Paul Borgesen III of SVN Desert Commercial Advisors represented the buyer in the deal. The name of the seller was not released.

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BOULDER, COLO. — JLL has arranged $8.7 million in bridge financing for the acquisition of two flex buildings in Boulder. The borrower is Ivy Realty. Leon McBroom of JLL Capital Markets team secured the three-year, floating-rate loan with two one-year extensions. A regional lender provided the funds. Located at 5300 and 5305 Sterling Drive, the properties total 46,702 square feet. Beginning in the summer of 2020, Ivy Realty plans to start converting the buildings into creative office space for use by large single tenants. The borrower previously repositioned the adjacent building at 5360 Sterling Drive with a similar strategy. Built in 1983, 5300 Sterling Drive is currently a two-story industrial warehouse consisting of 19,904 square feet. 5305 Sterling Drive, which was constructed in 1996, is a two-story, 26,798-square-foot, Class B flex building.

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ATLANTA — Piedmont Office Realty Trust Inc. (NYSE: PDM) has purchased the remainder of Atlanta Galleria Office Park in northwest Atlanta. The $231 million acquisition consolidates Atlanta Galleria’s multi-tenant office buildings and 6,000-space structured parking facilities under a single owner for the first time. Situated in the city’s Cumberland-Galleria submarket near SunTrust Park and The Battery Atlanta, the acquisition comprises Galleria 400 and Galleria 600, two office towers totaling approximately 860,000 square feet. The purchase also included an adjacent 10.2-acre parcel entitled for 1 million square feet of additional development. The seller was undisclosed. “When we acquired Galleria 300 in 2015, we boldly imagined the environment a single owner could create adjacent to the unique amenity set evolving in The Battery,” says Brent Smith, president and CEO of Piedmont Office Realty Trust. “Today, the first step of that vision becomes a reality and marks the beginning of Piedmont’s transformation of this prominent Atlanta mixed-use development.” Piedmont Office Realty Trust purchased Galleria 100 and an additional 1.5-acre parcel in May for $95.1 million. The company’s total investment in The Galleria is just under $500 million. The 2.1 million square feet of office space within the master-planned development is spread across five …

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While Austin is the Texas city that has become most synonymous with a tech-heavy office market over the last decade, the remarkable amount of overall job growth in the metroplex is allowing Dallas to slowly grab a larger piece of the tech pie. While some of the fastest-growing tech firms in the market right now — Google, Facebook, Indeed — have committed to larger office footprints in Austin, many of these firms still retain offices in Dallas due to its strong supply of qualified labor and relatively cheaper cost of doing business. However, in addition to having offices in Dallas, these firms have contributed to commercial real estate growth in the metroplex through build-to-suit data center developments and large colocation leases with established data center operators in the market. Facebook’s $1 billion data center development in Fort Worth is among the largest in the country, and construction recently began on Google’s $600 million data center campus in the southern suburb of Midlothian. IBM SoftLayer, Rackspace, and LinkedIn are other examples of technology firms taking large data center leases in the Dallas metroplex, North America’s third-largest data center market, according to 2019 figures from DataCenter Hawk. Outside of the context of …

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