THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — NorthStar Midstream, a midstream crude and natural gas service, storage and transportation company, has relocated its corporate headquarters from Minneapolis to The Woodlands, a northern suburb of Houston. The new office occupies 7,500 square feet on the top floor of Parkwood I, an office complex at 10077 Grogan’s Mill Road. Terms of the lease were not disclosed. Rob Banzhaf, managing principal of Newcor Commercial Real Estate, represented NorthStar in the office lease transaction. Lisa Hughes with The J Beard Company represented the landlord, Parkwood Holdings.
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LOS ANGELES — The ConAm Group has acquired the 137-unit TownCentre Commons apartments in the Los Angeles submarket of Brentwood for $26.4 million. The community is located at 1275 Central Blvd. TownCentre Commons is currently 98.5 percent leased. ConAm plans to implement a series of interior and exterior upgrades at the property, including the common area amenities. Seth Siegel and Jason Parr of Cushman & Wakefield represented both ConAm and the seller, Ridge Capital Investors, in this transaction.
LOS ANGELES — The Herald Examiner Building in downtown Los Angeles will soon undergo redevelopment. to turn the historic space into a mix of creative office space, retail and restaurants. The Herald Examiner Building was originally constructed in 1914 between South Park and the Broadway Corridor. The two-story lobby will also undergo a restoration as part of the renovation. The Georgetown Company has partnered with the Hearst Corporation on this project. The Herald Examiner Building was initially designed by Julia Morgan, the same architect who designed Hearst Castle. Carl Muhlstein of Jones Lang LaSalle will lead the leasing efforts.
LOS ANGELES — Newmark Grubb Knight Frank has arranged a $27 million loan for a 151,013-square-foot office building in downtown Los Angeles. The Class A building is located at 626 Wilshire Blvd. The property features ground-floor retail atop two below-grade parking levels. It was originally built in 1966 as the headquarters for State Mutual Savings & Loan, one of Southern California’s leading financial institutions at the time. The borrowers, Barker Pacific Group and Golden Boy Enterprises, will use these funds to retire existing debt. The financing will also be used for property upgrades. Jordan Roeschlaub, Daniel Fromm and Scott Selke of NGKF Capital Markets team arranged and restructured the loan.
BERKELEY, CALIF. — Landmark Properties has acquired The Bancroft Center, a mixed-use site that sits adjacent to UC Berkeley, for $18.5 million. The property is located at 2580 Bancroft Way. The center currently houses nine retail tenants. It also contains the Fred Turner Building, a city-designated landmark that will be preserved in any future development. Frank Wheeler, Brandon Geraldo, Tony Crossley and Tim Maas of Colliers represented the seller, Bancroft Center Company.
PHOENIX — Liv Biltmore LLC has purchased Willowick Square, a 53,417-square-foot office building in Phoenix, for $5.9 million. The Class B complex was built in 1974. The seller was Presson Advisory LLC. Brad and Cindy Cooke of Colliers International executed the transaction.
DENVER — Laramie Energy Company has subleased 19,592 square feet of office space in downtown Denver. The space is located at the former offices of Pioneer Natural Resources Company in the Lower Downtown (LoDo) district. The address is 1401 17th St. Laramie Energy has outgrown its space at nearby Writer Square. CBRE’s Greg Holm represented the natural gas exploration and production company.
Since 2011, Austin’s multifamily market has become one of the strongest in the state and nation. With stable job growth, demand is projected to remain strong. Marketwide occupancy hovered around 94 percent at the end of the second quarter of 2015, with rents increasing at a 6 percent year-over-year clip. Austin and Travis County continue to rack up the rankings, with Thumbtack naming the area a top environment for small businesses and WalletHub naming it the best large U.S. city to live in. Headlight Data ranked Travis County the second fastest-growing financial services sector in 2014 and Austin came in as the number one city for startup activity on the 2015 Kaufmann Index. Generally, the first question on everyone’s minds is how long this bullish cycle will last. With the development pipeline running at historically high levels, what is the impact on today’s market and how does the future look? Apartment construction dropped off dramatically in 2010 and remained compressed until 2014. However, population grew incredibly fast during the construction trough, resulting in heightened demand. Today, there are 16,000 units in some stage of development with just over 10,000 expected to deliver in 2015. The difference between today and the …
IRVINGTON, MONTCLAIR AND EAST ORANGE, N.J. — Gebroe-Hammer Associates has arranged the sales of four multifamily properties, totaling 176 units, across Essex County, N.J. The Livingston-based firm represented the sellers, private investors, in each transaction. In the first transaction, David Oropeza of Gebroe-Hammer arranged the $5.6 million sale of a two-property multifamily package in Irvington. Located at 336 and 505-515 Stuyvesant Ave., the six-building portfolio features 120 units, on-premise parking, garages, on-site laundry and balconies. Oropeza represented the seller and secured the buyer in the deal. Also in Irvington, David Jarvis of Gebroe-Hammer brokered the sale of a three-story walk-up at 649 Chancellor Ave. The property features 14 renovated studio apartments and two ground-floor retail units. Terms of the sale, including buyer, seller and price, were not released. In the third transaction, a two-building portfolio, located at 97 and 101 Pine St. in Montclair, sold for $4 million. The 28-unit portfolio features a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans with modern kitchen and baths, as well as hardwood flooring. Ken Uranowitz and Nicholas Nicolaou of Gebroe-Hammer handled the transaction. The names of the seller and buyer were not disclosed. In the final transaction, Oropeza and Jarvis negotiated the …
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of a mixed-use building located at 1260 Broadway in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Situated between Green and Lexington avenues, the 7,000-square-foot property sold for $2.2 million, or $314 per square foot, in an all-cash transaction. The four-story walk-up building consists of three two-bedroom apartments, three one-bedroom apartments and one retail unit. Renovated in 2000, the property is fully free market with preferential rents. A preferential rent is a rent that an owner agrees to charge that is lower than the legal regulated rent that the owner could lawfully collect. Michael Amirkhanian of Cushman & Wakefield brokered the transaction. The names of the buyer and seller were not released.