HOUSTON — Avison Young has arranged the sale of a 40,000-square-foot industrial building located at 1690 North Loop West in Houston. Situated on 6.2 acres, the facility formerly served as a printing complex for local firm Greensheet Media. Todd Mason, Jeff Lindenberger, Richard Mason and Taylor Wilson of Avison Young represented the seller, Helen Gordon Interests Ltd., in the transaction. The buyer, GSD North Loop 610 LLC, plans to develop a self-storage facility on a portion of the property.
BIG SPRING, TEXAS — Quorum Health Corp. (NYSE: QHC), an operator of general acute care and outpatient facilities across the country, has sold Scenic Mountain Medical Center, a 146-bed healthcare facility in Big Spring, about 40 miles east of Midland in West Texas. Total proceeds from the sale were approximately $22 million. The buyer was not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — SL Green Realty Corp. has signed First Republic Bank to a 211,521-square-foot lease at 460 W. 34th St. in the Hudson Yards neighborhood on Manhattan’s west side. First Republic Bank will occupy a portion of the ground and mezzanine floors with two new retail bank branches, as well as the entire second through sixth floors for its corporate office space. The lease term is 15 years. SL Green, which is self-described as the largest office landlord in New York City, had previously entered into a contract to purchase a majority and controlling interest in the building and is scheduled to close on the acquisition in May. Media outlets reported at the time that the acquisition values the 20-story office building at $440 million. SL Green plans to redevelop the 638,000-square-foot, Class A office tower with work to commence immediately following the acquisition. According to SL Green, the transaction marks the company’s first major investment in the Hudson Yards neighborhood. The building, located at the intersection of Hudson Yards and Manhattan West, was once known as the Master Printers Building. The redevelopment plans will honor that industrial heritage, according to SL Green. The project will include relocation …
ATLANTA AND SIOUX CITY, IOWA — Americold Realty Trust has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cloverleaf Cold Storage from the company’s management and an investor group led by private equity funds managed by Blackstone. The purchase price was $1.24 billion. Atlanta-based Americold will acquire 22 cold storage facilities in nine states in the Midwest and Southeast, 21 of which are owned by Cloverleaf and one is managed by the company, totaling 5.2 million refrigerated square feet. Sioux City, Iowa-based Cloverleaf is the fifth largest cold storage provider in the United States. The company acquired competitor Zero Mountain in January. Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC are Americold’s financial advisors in the transaction, and King & Spalding LLP is its legal advisor. Wells Fargo Securities and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. are Cloverleaf and Blackstone’s financial advisors, and Kirkland & Ellis LLP is their legal advisor.
ATLANTA — Columbia Property Trust has sold One and Three Glenlake Parkway, a 711,000-square-foot office campus in Atlanta’s Central Perimeter submarket, for $227.5 million. Columbia recently completed renovations to the campus, which led to the leasing of 460,000 square feet since 2017. Columbia purchased One and Three Glenlake in 2003 and 2008, respectively. The campus is situated 15 miles north of downtown Atlanta. The buyer was an affiliate of Starwood Capital.
NASHVILLE, TENN. — GBT Realty has unveiled plans for 1221 Broadway, an office building in downtown Nashville. Brentwood, Tenn.-based GBT completed the demolition of the former Firestone at the site. The new Class A office building will range from 365,000 to 500,000 square feet depending on the needs of potential tenants. The building will rise between 23 and 27 stories. The asset will also include 7,000 square feet of ground-level retail space, a 10th floor amenity deck and café, and parking on the property. The design team includes architect Gresham Smith & Partners and general contractor Brasfield & Gorrie. Taylor Hillenmeyer, Janelle Gallagher, Frank Thomasson and Bryan Fort of CBRE will market handle leasing efforts for the property. A timeline for construction was not disclosed.
LOS ANGELES — CBRE has arranged the $90 million sale of 22 medical buildings in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Illinois. The sale includes the Dermatology Solutions Group portfolio, an eight-building portfolio totaling 51,505 square feet in Alabama and Florida. The portfolio is fully occupied by Dermatology Solutions Group, which signed 10-year leases at each site at closing. Physician Group sold the properties to a public single-tenant REIT. A 47,936-square-foot building situated at 2061 Peachtree St. in Atlanta’s Buckhead district was included in the sale as well. The asset was built in 2013 and fully occupied by tenants including Georgia Hand, Shoulder & Elbow (GHSE), the largest hand and upper extremity practice in Georgia. Physician Group sold the building to a public healthcare REIT. The other 13 buildings total 197,385 square feet and are located in Chicago. The undisclosed developer sold the assets to Institutional Fund.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — Becovic Management Group (BMG) has acquired Lost Lake Resort Apartments, a 280-unit community, for $48.5 million. The property was built in 2014 and offers one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Community amenities include an indoor sports court, swimming pool, spa, clubhouse, fitness center, coffee bar, theater room, pet park and a car wash. HFF represented the Indiana-based buyer and the seller, Illinois-based Inland Investments.
HOUSTON, AUSTIN, IRVING AND SAN ANTONIO — Tampa-based American Landmark has acquired a portfolio of six multifamily properties totaling 2,284 units located throughout the Big Four Texas markets. The sales price was $311 million. The properties include: Hyde Park at Wells Branch and Hyde Park at Ribelin Ranch in Austin; Hyde Park at Lake Wyndemere and Hyde Park at Enclave in Houston; Lakepointe at Las Colinas in Irving; and Manor at Castle Hills in San Antonio. All properties will be rebranded, and a $14.7 million capital improvement program will be implemented across the portfolio, which was about 96 percent occupied at the time of sale. The seller was not disclosed. The acquisition brings the size of American Landmark’s Texas portfolio to 33 properties and its total volume of holdings to more than 25,000 units across Texas and the Southeast.
DALLAS — Industrial development and investment firm Logistics Property Co. LLC has negotiated a 1.1 million-square-foot industrial lease at Southport Logistics Park, the Chicago-based company’s 252-acre development in south Dallas. The tenant is an undisclosed manufacturer of consumer-packaged goods. Kacy Jones and John Hendricks of CBRE represented Logistics Property Co. in the lease negotiations. Allen Gump, Lynn Reich and Suzanne Serino of Colliers International represented the tenant. At full buildout, Southport Logistics Park will house more than 3.55 million square feet of Class A space across four buildings.