ALHAMBRA, CALIF. — Shea Properties has signed two new restaurants to Alhambra Place in Alhambra. Slated to open in late summer, the two restaurants will be located on the corner of Main and Garfield. Big Catch Seafood House specializes in Cajun-style cooking, and Tokyo Table is a contemporary Japenese restaurant. Sprouts Farmers Market anchors the 140,000-square-foot Alhambra Place.
KATY, TEXAS — Lowe’s Cos. will build a 100,000-square-foot Lowe’s Home Improvement store at The Shoppes at Cinco Ranch in Katy. Thor Equities is developing retail stores and restaurant spaces throughout the remainder of the 35-acre property. Current tenants at The Shoppes at Cinco Ranch include Walgreens, with Kroger and Academy Sports + Outdoors located across the street. The Shoppes at Cinco Ranch is accessible via the Westpark Tollway and bisected by Spring Green Boulevard, with parking and sidewalks throughout the property. Nearby amenities include several golf courses, more than 100 neighborhood parks, a beach club, water park and more than 100 miles of hiking and biking trails.
PROSPER, TEXAS — Kirkwood Holdings LLC has purchased 50 acres in Prosper. Wayne Burgdorf of Coldwell Banker Commercial Alliance DFW in Arlington represented the Tarrant County-based buyer that plans to hold the land until neighboring developments start to take shape, then market individual tracts or the entire parcel to mixed-use commercial or residential developers. The 50-acre site is situated in the Tollway District overlay and includes 1,500 feet of frontage along West First Street. The acreage is directly across the road from Jerry Jones’ Blue Star Land Co.’s proposed 1,000-acre Star Trails’ community, and adjacent to Matthews Southwest’s planned 157-acre business park. Just to the south, Lincoln Property Co. is under construction on the 300,000-square-foot Gates of Prosper shopping center, the first phase of a 500-acre mixed-use project, and United Commercial Development is planning a 43-acre shopping center nearby. Phil Darland, an independent broker from McKinney, represented the seller, Bell 2005 Trust.
ORANGE, TEXAS — Tony Talamas of BMC Capital’s Houston office has arranged a $2.1 million non-recourse loan for the purchase of Cypress Cove Apartments, a 104-unit apartment property built in 1975 in Orange. The loan featured a five-year term with a 4.2 percent interest rate and a 30-year amortization schedule. The loan was arranged through one of BMC Capital’s correspondent agency relationships.
DALLAS — Lee & Associates has negotiated the sale of a 6,498-square-foot freezer/cooler warehouse located at 210 Oregon Ave. in Dallas. Matthew Thompson and Phil Rosenfeld of Lee & Associates’ Dallas/Fort Worth office represented the seller, Wang Globalnet. Charlie Perdue of Perdue Equities Co. represented the buyer, JC Goodman Investment Group.
DALLAS — Paul Vernon has been hired as executive vice president and head of Henry S. Miller Brokerage’s retail division. Vernon will oversee the retail division’s brokerage services, including landlord and tenant representation, retail and land development and property disposition, as well as income properties and land sales. Vernon brings over 30 years of commercial real estate experience to the Miller team. He started his career with Evans, Birmingham, Williamson, which later became Cornerstone Commercial Real Estate. Most recently, Vernon was executive vice president at John T. Evans Co. and director of retail development at Crest Commercial Real Estate. He began his career in project leasing and pad site sales, then transitioned to tenant representation, later adding property disposition, income sales and retail development to his responsibilities.
NEW YORK CITY — Multi-Employer Property Trust (MEPT), advised by Bentall Kennedy Limited Partnership, and Cove Property Group have acquired Two Rector Street, a 26-story office property located in Manhattan’s financial district. CIM Group and Kushner Companies sold the 476,000-square-foot property for an undisclosed price. The buyers plan to renovate and reposition the building as a Class A office property. Once renovated, the building is expected to cater to technology, advertising, media and information tenants as well as traditional finance, insurance and real estate tenants.
NEW YORK CITY — Tavros Development Partners, in partnership with Charney Construction & Development and 1 Oak Development, has acquired a development site located at 263-277 S. Fifth St. in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. The Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh sold the property for $80 million. The development offering consists of a combined four properties (263-277 S. 5th St., 262-272 S. 4th St. and 205 Havemeyer St.) and allows for a buildable envelope of approximately 230,000 square feet. The property’s zoning designation permits both mixed-use and commercial development. James Nelson, Brendan Maddigan and Matt Nickerson of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction.
NEWTON, MASS. — A joint venture between Angelo Gordon & Co. and Jumbo Capital Management has acquired two office buildings, located at 7-57 and 75-85-95 Wells Ave. in Newton, a suburb eight miles west of Boston, for $62.3 million. The properties total 332,194 square feet. Coleman Benedict and Ben Sayles of HFF represented the undisclosed seller and buyer in the sale. Additionally, HFF worked on behalf of the new owner to secure a five-year, fixed-rate first mortgage financing for $47.1 million, which included funds for the acquisition and a facility for future tenanting and capital costs. Lauren O’Neil and Brett Paulsrud of HFF arranged the financing for the borrower, while Mike Terry and Jonpaul Sallese, also of HFF, represented East Boston Savings Bank in the mortgage transaction.
ROCKLEIGH, N.J. — CBRE Group Inc. has arranged the sale of an office/life science building located at 8 King Road in Rockleigh. Marcus Partners, on behalf of its Marcus Capital Partners Fund I sold the property to Charter Realty Group for an undisclosed sum in a 1031 exchange. The 204,495-square-foot building is 100 percent net leased to Spectra Laboratories on a long-term basis and guaranteed by its parent company, Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. The facility serves as Spectra’s mission critical testing facility for the eastern half of the United States. Jeffrey Dunne, Kevin Welsh, Brian Schulz, Lee Asher and Chris Bodnar of CBRE represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction.