KING OF PRUSSIA, PA. — CBRE has brokered the sale of a retail property located at 611 W. Dekalb Pike in King of Prussia. Matrix Real Estate Holdings acquired the building from OneCorp for $11.7 million, or $652 per square foot. Bassett Furniture occupies the 18,000-square-foot property, which was constructed earlier this year. Matthew Gorman and Michael Shover of CBRE represented the seller in the deal.
BRANCHBURG, N.J. — Larken Associates has acquired Branchburg Centre, a two-story office building located at 3040 U.S. 22 West in Branchburg, for an undisclosed price. At the time of sale, the 90,000-square-foot Class B property was 74 percent leased. Kronus, Pure Technologies and Tri-County Care Management are tenants at the building. Larken is renovating and updating the property, including the commons areas, lobby and hallways. Additionally, the company will install new tenant signage, refresh the landscaping and renovate the entrance-facing employee parking lot. The name of the seller was not released.
NEWARK, N.J. — Terreno Realty Corp. has purchased two industrial land parcels in Newark for an undisclosed price. The transactions include a 7.2-acre improved land parcel located at 178 Stockton St. and a 10.6-acre improved land parcel at 422-470 Frelinghuysen Ave. Alex Conte, Jason Crimmins, Kenneth Crimmins and Peter Murano of The Blau & Berg Co. represented the buyer and undisclosed seller in the transactions. The properties, which offer easy access to U.S. highways, ports and Newark Liberty International Airport, are currently available for lease.
OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — JLL has secured $221.3 million in acquisition financing for the majority of Corporate Woods, a 2.2 million-square-foot office campus located roughly 11 miles outside Kansas City in Overland Park. The borrower was an affiliate of Group RMC Corp. The acquisition includes 22 of the 29 buildings that make up Corporate Woods. Seven buildings on the property, including the Doubletree Hotel, are under separate ownership and were not included in the sale. Adam Schwartz, Jonathan Schwartz and Mark Fisher of JLL secured the 10-year, fixed-rate loan through an institutional lender. A joint venture between CenterSquare Investment Management and Stoltz Real Estate Partners sold the property, according to reports by the Kansas City Business Journal. The office campus offers 2.17 million square feet of rentable space, and was over 90 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including symplr, Affinis Corp., Kansas City Vision Performance Center and KBP Foods. Amenities at Corporate Woods include a wooded park with jogging trails, streams and wildlife; a PGA regulation-sized putting green; restaurants; free parking; and on-site banking facilities. Group RMC Corp. is a real estate co-investment group based in New York and Montreal. The company invests in and sponsors income-producing office properties …
Hawaii’s office market is dominated by Honolulu, which is home to 70 percent of the state’s population and commerce. More than 90 percent of the state’s 12 million square feet of multi-tenant Class A and B office space is located in Honolulu, with nearly 80 percent of Honolulu’s inventory situated in the four-mile stretch between the Central Business District and Waikiki. Hawaii’s office tenants are primarily in industries that support tourism, military, construction and government – Hawaii’s economic drivers. These include FIRE (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate), plus legal, CPAs, architects, engineers and contractors. Hawaii also has a small but growing innovation economy that has spawned several co-working centers, incubators and impact investment firms backed by the University of Hawaii. These names include Lauren Powell Jobs (widow of Steve Jobs), Pierre Omidyar (founder of eBay) and Henk Rogers (Tetris). Larry Ellison purchased 97 percent of the Island of Lanai in 2012 for $300 million and could join the list of tech billionaires interested in supporting Hawaii’s innovation economy. Hawaii has seen slow but steady job growth in office-using businesses, but the drive to reduce square feet per office worker and the related cost savings has resulted in a net loss of …
The data center industry is stepping up to meet escalating demand for storage, according to a new report from JLL, which reveals that data center construction in North America is up 43 percent in 2017 compared to 2016. In addition, industry consolidation powered a $10 billion surge in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the first half of 2017. Data center users identified the biggest industry changes projected for the next two years in JLL’s report. Among the predictions: Efficiency programs will install automation to make data center operations more valuable to the core business; Artificial intelligence will help reduce human intervention in data centers and significantly cut time to restore operations in the event of a failure; Artificial intelligence will make greater use of predictive analytics on-site; Processor technology investments will improve cooling and reduce energy usage. Data center markets across the country experienced significant shifts in the first half of 2017. Northern Virginia maintained its status as the top market in the data center industry, and supply is growing at a historic rate, according to JLL. However, a shortage of available big-block spaces is leaving providers scrambling to bring new inventory on line as quickly as possible to capitalize on the …
IRVINE, CALIF. — A subsidiary of Five Point Holdings has obtained $339 million in financing for Five Point Gateway, a four-building office/R&D campus in Irvine. The campus is located at 15101, 15131, 15161 and 15191 Alton Parkway. It is part of the larger 72-acre Great Park Neighborhoods master-planned community in the Irvine Spectrum submarket. The borrower is acquiring the assets through a partial sale-leaseback transaction with Broadcom Corp., the project’s developer. Broadcom plans to lease 15101 and 15191 Alton Parkway, which total 640,944 square feet (64 percent of the total portfolio) on a triple-net basis. Tenants at the other two buildings include Lennar Corp. and Five Point. There is still 232,223 square feet available for lease. The campus will feature open park space with landscaping and extensive amenities. HFF’s Kevin MacKenzie, Lee Redmond and Peter Thompson arranged the financing. Starwood Property Trust provided the five-year, floating-rate loan.
SHELTON, CONN. — Sun Equity Partners has purchased a flex building located at 710 Bridgeport Ave. in Shelton. RA 710 Bridgeport Avenue LLC, an entity controlled by RNY Property Trust, sold the property for $26.2 million. At the time of sale, the 452,414-square-foot property was 72 percent leased by a variety of tenants, including PerkinElmer Health Sciences and Panolam Industries International. The property is approximately 30 percent office and R&D space, with the remainder warehouse and distribution space. Additionally, the facility features 16 loading docks and nearly 870 parking spaces. Jeffrey Dunne and Steven Bardsley of CBRE represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.
BRUNSWICK AND TOPSHAM, MAINE — A joint venture between Presidium Group and Portland, Maine-based Helios has acquired a 407-unit multifamily portfolio in the Mid-Coast area of Maine for an undisclosed price. The portfolio includes five assets located adjacent to the former Brunswick Naval Air Base in Brunswick and a sixth property located in the neighboring town of Topsham. The portfolio consists of a combination of townhouses, garden-style apartments, single-family homes and land for future development. The Mid-Coast area consists of approximately 95,000 people within a 15-mile radius. The name of the seller was not released.
SAN DIEGO — A joint venture between Allstate and TruAmerica Multifamily has acquired the 519-unit Eagles Point Apartment Community in the San Diego submarket of Escondido for $90 million. The community is located at 1501 E. Grand Ave. Eagles Point includes studio to three-bedroom apartments. The asset has not been updated since it was built in 1985. The JV plans to refurbish all interior units and upgrade the property’s two pools and spas, tennis courts and clubhouse. Plans also call for a new fitness center to be built into the existing clubhouse. CBRE’s Troy Tegeler arranged the project financing through Fannie Mae. The firm’s Kevin Mulhern, Rachel Parsons and Dixie Hall represented the seller in this transaction.
