NEWARK, DEL. — CBRE has negotiated the sale of 322 Ruthar Drive in Newark for an undisclosed amount. DuPont Transportation & Advanced Polymers acquired the 120,000-square-foot industrial facility. CBRE represented DuPont in the transaction. The seller was undisclosed. DuPont has committed to invest $45 million in the new facility, which will increase its manufacturing capacity for DuPont Kalrez, a specialized engineered material used in a variety of sealing applications.
NEW YORK CITY — Creative working environment Spaces will open its third location in New York City on May 29 at 230 Park Ave. Spaces 230 Park Avenue will provide a 54,000 square-foot creative co-working environment for businesses and will feature a 4,000-square-foot business club as well as private rooms and dedicated desk space. The location joins Spaces 1740 Broadway and Spaces Long Island City as the third Spaces location in New York City. Additional Spaces locations are planned for Hudson Yards, Brooklyn and Staten Island. The Spaces workspace model lets startups, small business owners and more established entities focus on growing their companies without the distraction of office logistics.
ROWLEY, MASS. — Waltham-based general contracting and construction firm Vantage Builders Inc. has completed the build-out of North Shore Physicians Group’s Rowley office. Rowley is approximately 30 miles north of Boston. The 12,800-square-foot office, which is located at 414 Haverhill St., is North Shore Physicians Group’s 22nd location on the North Shore. The office offers primary and specialty care, as well as X-ray, mammography and bone density testing, for patients in Rowley and the surrounding communities of Ipswich, Boxford and Georgetown.
NEW YORK CITY — The Feil Organization has leased a 1,541-square-foot space to Blue Bottle Coffee on the ground floor of 257 Park Ave. South, a 226,000-square-foot mixed-use building in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. The café, which sells coffee beans less than 48 hours out of the roaster, will have 23 feet of frontage on Park Avenue South. Blue Bottle Coffee joins retail tenants such as Bravo Pizza and FedEx Office Print & Ship Center. Office tenants at the building include the Environmental Defense Fund, OpenSlate and Independence Care System. Drew Weiss, Mark Frankel and Jeff Roseman of Newmark Knight Frank arranged the 10-year lease on behalf of Blue Bottle Coffee, and Randall Briskin of Feil represented the company internally. Blue Bottle Coffee is expected to move into the space in July.
SAN ANTONIO — HPI Horne Storage, a joint venture between Austin-based HPI Real Estate Services & Investments and self-storage industry veteran Hugh Horne, is developing a 979-unit facility located at 10126 Potranco Road in San Antonio. The property will total 134,000 square feet of net rentable space and all its units are climate-controlled. The joint venture will own and operate the facility and a publicly traded self-storage REIT will manage it. Completion is slated for April 2019. SBS Construction is serving as general contractor and Arch-Con Architecture is providing design services. Elsewhere in San Antonio, the joint venture has another development site under contract at 12727 Vista Del Norte and is set to close on a third site near The Pearl in June.
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged the sale of Sendera Baypoint, a 350-unit multifamily community in Corpus Christi. The property was built in 1998 and offers amenities such as two pools, a sports court, business center, putting green, pet park, 24-hour fitness center and outdoor picnic and grilling areas. Will Balthrope, Drew Kile and Jordan Featherston of IPA represented the seller, Austin-based Sendera Investment Group, in the transaction. The trio also procured the buyer, New York-based Castle Lanterra Properties.
EL PASO, TEXAS — ViaWest Group, a Phoenix-based development and management firm, has sold a portfolio of industrial properties in El Paso totaling 245,945 square feet across four assets. The portfolio was 40 percent leased when ViaWest Group acquired it in 2015 and was 94 percent leased at the time of sale. Arturo De La Mora and Jonathan Bryan of CBRE represented ViaWest Group in the sale. Bill Caparis, also with CBRE, represented the buyer, Stonelake Capital Partners.
SAN ANTONIO — Casey Development Ltd. is underway on construction of Sunset Professional Building, a 58,000-square-foot medical office project in north central San Antonio. Construction began in April and two tenants, BHS Physicians Network Inc. and WellMed, have already preleased space. Baxter Contracting LLC, a division of Casey Development, is serving as general contractor and GRG Architecture designed the building, which is scheduled to come on line in March 2019.
HUTTO, TEXAS — Flix Brewhouse, an entertainment concept that combines the movie theater experience with beer brewing, will open a new venue within The Co-Op District, a mixed-use development under construction in the northeastern Austin metro of Hutto. The number of screens has not yet been determined, but the venue will span approximately 39,000 square feet, according to Community Impact Newspaper. The Hutto location will be Flix Brewhouse’s fourth venue in Texas and ninth overall. Developed by MA Partners, the Co-Op District will include residential, retail and civic components upon completion.
CASSELBERRY, FLA. — ARA Newmark has arranged the $72.3 million sale of Bainbridge Crossing, a 336-unit apartment community located in Casselberry, roughly 10 miles north of downtown Orlando. Scott Ramey and Patrick Dufour of ARA Newmark arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller and developer, The Bainbridge Cos. TH Real Estate, an affiliate of Nuveen, acquired the asset. Matthew Williams of NKF Capital Markets secured acquisition financing on behalf of TH Real Estate. Constructed in 2017, Bainbridge Crossing features a clubhouse, resort-style pool, fitness center with a separate yoga room and a dog park. The community was approximately 96 percent occupied at the time of sale.
