SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — Telenav has relocated its office space from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara. The wireless, location-based services company has sublet 54,635 square feet from Avaya. It signed a five-year lease that will commence April 1. The new space is located at 4655 Great America Parkway. It is situated within a 318,000-square-foot, Class A office building that sits adjacent to the new Levi’s Stadium. Doug Sugimoto and Scott Dever of Cushman & Wakefield represented Avaya, a global provider of business collaboration and communications solutions.
AUBURN, WASH. — CenterPoint Properties has acquired a 152,155-square-foot distribution facility in Auburn for an undisclosed sum. The facility is located at 3702 C St. NE. It will be leased to FedEx Ground and will serve as one of the firm’s primary Western Washington distribution and sorting facilities. Matt Wood, Andy Miller and Todd Battison of Kidder Mathews represented both CenterPoint and the unnamed seller in this transaction.
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — Computer Science Corp. has signed a five-year lease for 4,948 square feet of space at Platte Airpark Center in Colorado Springs. The 137,900-square-foot, Class A office complex is located at 320-480 N. Wooten Road. The center is now 95 percent leased. CBRE’s Brad Bird, Martin Johnson and Jared May serve as the center’s leasing agents. The landlord is Fairbridge Properties.
NEW YORK CITY — Greystar Equity Partners VIII has completed the acquisitions of two multifamily properties in New York City for an aggregate purchase price of $336.3 million. The two transactions mark the full investment of Greystar Equity Partners VIII LP, an $800 million vehicle that is part of Greystar Real Estate Partners’ flagship value-add series. In the first transaction, Greystar acquired The Chelsea, a 204-unit multifamily property located at 160 W. 24th St. in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, for $211.3 million. The Chelsea features a variety of floor plans, a 5,200-square-foot parking garage, 11,000 square feet of prime retail space on the ground floor, a fitness center, media room, two rooftop decks and a resident lounge. In the second deal, Greystar purchased a 169-unit multifamily property comprising two buildings located at 247 N. 7th St. and 248 N. 8th St. in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood for $125 million. The property features an 85-space parking garage, two rooftop decks, a fitness center and resident lounge. Greystar will serve as property manager for both multifamily properties.
RYE, N.Y. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged $15 million in refinancing for a medical office building located at One Theall Road in Rye. Net leased to Westmed Medical Group, the 65,000-square-foot building features an on-site urgent care unit, an ambulatory surgery suite, a pharmacy and a tomography unit. Robert Ranieri of NorthMarq secured the 10-year loan for the undisclosed borrowers, which were represented by Jesse Krasnow and Mark Cohen of Riverbed Realty Advisors in the transaction.
DEDHAM, MASS. — Colliers International has arranged the acquisition of an office building located at 910 Washington St. in Dedham. Whelan Associates purchased the 22,388-square-foot property from Middlesex Savings Bank for an undisclosed price. Additionally, Colliers brokered the building’s lease by Greater Boston Urology. Steven Woelfel, David Goodhue and Caleb Hudak of Colliers represented the buyer and tenant in the transactions. Garry Holmes and Dean Blackey of R.W. Holmes represented the seller in the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — Ariel Property Advisors has arranged the sale of a mixed-use property located at 273 Lenox Ave. in Central Harlem. The four-story building sold for $3 million, or $811 per square foot. The approximately 3,699-square-foot property features two residential units and two commercial spaces. Jesse Deutch, Victor Sozio, Josh Berkowitz, Matthew Gillis and Josh Kwilecki of Ariel Property Advisors represented the seller, a private investor, while POG Real Estate Inc. procured the buyer, a private investor, in the deal.
AUBURN, MASS. — Fantini & Gorga has arranged a $1.1 million loan for the refinancing of a multi-tenant office property located at 7 Midstate Road in Auburn. Situated on 1.4 acres, the 14,944-square-foot property is located at the entrance of the six-building, 141,000-square-foot Mid State Office Park. Derek Coulombe and Chris Miller of Fantini & Gorga represented the undisclosed borrower in the transaction.
The collapse of oil and natural gas prices has reduced the value of commercial, industrial and residential properties across Texas, and threatens to reduce those values even further. This market collapse greatly impacts property tax appraisals and related tax revenue, especially as it relates to upstream, midstream and downstream properties, and to a lesser extent, commercial properties in general. Now more than ever, owners need to ensure they’re paying their share of property taxes — and nothing more. Judicial challenges are becoming increasingly popular due to their effectiveness in reducing appraisals to align with fair market values. The Houston Chronicle reported that there were 2,541 active lawsuits over commercial property valuations for the 2015 tax year in Harris County alone. The owners of 33 of the 34 high-rise commercial properties in downtown Houston have filed a judicial property tax challenge, as reported by the Houston Business Journal, and Exxon Mobil is suing the Harris County Appraisal District for its $1 billion appraisal of Exxon’s newly constructed campus. To file a judicial appeal, an owner must first file an administrative appeal with the Appraisal Review Board (ARB). These protests are common and typically yield a modest reduction in the appraised value. …
JACKSON, MISS. — BankPlus, a Mississippi-based bank with more than 60 locations and total assets exceeding $2.6 billion, will join The District at Eastover, a $125 million, 21-acre mixed-use development in Jackson. BankPlus will anchor a 67,000-square-foot office building that features traditional office space and a drive-thru banking facility on the ground floor. The ground floor of the BankPlus building will feature 17,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space with frontage on I-55 and The District Plaza. The District Land Development Co. is the master developer of the mixed-use project, which will feature loft apartments, office space, retail and restaurant tenants, a high-end movie theater and a Marriott Residence Inn. This month, Baker Donelson and Cosmich Simmons & Brown will move into their new office spaces in One Eastover Center, a 125,000-square-foot office building at The District that was completed in late 2015. The District Land Development plans to complete construction on the BankPlus project by April 2017. The new BankPlus office will house commercial lending, commercial real estate, cash management, private banking, wealth management, wealthplus and business development services.