ROCKVILLE, MD. — Scheer Partners has arranged a full-building, 33,800-square-foot lease at 9708 Medical Center Center Drive in the Center for Life Science | Shady Grove campus in Rockville. GlycoMimetics signed the lease with the building’s owner and operator, BioMed Realty Trust Inc. The property recently underwent extensive renovations, including the addition of a fitness center, shared conferencing facilities, covered walkway, upgraded landscaping, campus lighting, exterior finishes and campus signage. Henry Bernstein and Nathan Crowe of Scheer Partners represented BioMed Realty Trust in the lease transaction.
CAMPBELL, CALIF. – Ellis Partners has acquired The Pruneyard, a 27-acre, mixed-use property in Campbell. Though the sales price was not released, reports put it as high as $300 million. The Pruneyard contains more than 365,000 square feet of office space, more than 250,000 square feet of retail space and a 171-room Doubletree hotel. It is located at the intersection of Campbell and Bascom avenues in Silicon Valley. The property initially opened in 1969. An 18-story office tower was added in 1970, while a second made its debut in 1972. The hotel component, which was formerly known as the Pruneyard Inn, opened in 1989. It was renovated and expanded in 1998. Ellis plans to complete the hotel’s most recent renovation. Seller Equity Office Properties began those renovations in 2013 when the hotel was being converted into the Hilton DoubleTree. Notable retail tenants at The Pruneyard include Marshall’s, Sports Basement, Trader Joe’s and Camera Cinemas.
SEATTLE – A pair of apartment communities in Washington State has received a total of $52.7 million in refinancing. The communities include the 379-unit Riverside Park Apartments in Puyallup and the 145-unit Boxcar Apartments in Seattle. Riverside Park is located at 3107 E. Main Ave. It received a $32-million refinance. The loan featured a 10-year term and 30-year amortization schedule. Boxcar Apartments is located at 975 John Street. It received a $20-million refinance. The loan contained the same finance structure as the former community. Financing was arranged by Bob Spiro and Chris Pohlad of NorthMarq Capital’s Seattle regional office through the firm’s affiliate AmeriSphere Multifamily Finance LLC, a Fannie Mae DUS lender.
LAS VEGAS, PHOENIX AND PORTLAND, ORE. – BKM Capital Partners has acquired three industrial parks out West for $42.8 million. The acquisitions were completed on behalf of BKM Industrial Value Fund I LP. The transaction includes the 98,516-square-foot Hayden Island Business Park in Portland for $5.9 million; the 223,009-square-foot Patrick Commerce Center in Las Vegas for $15.1 million; and the 219,410-square-foot Black Canyon Business Park in Phoenix for $13.1 million. These are the first three assets to be included in the commingled fund. BKM Industrial Value Fund LP intends to acquire about $300 million of industrial assets by the end of next year. Irvine, Calif.-based BKM Capital Partners is a fund manager and operator platform targeting value-add, multi-tenant industrial real estate in the Western United States. It was formed in 2013 as the real estate branch of The Niru Group.
GLENDALE, CALIF. – Cypress West Partners has acquired a 76,758-square-foot medical office building in Glendale for $29 million. The four-story building is located at 1500 E. Chevy Chase Drive. The facility was built in 2008. It sits on the Glendale Adventist Medical Center campus. Cypress West was represented by DAUM Commercial Real Estate Services.
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, CALIF. – Mission Health Center, a 23,289-square-foot medical office building in the Orange County submarket of Rancho Santa Margarita has sold to Cypress West Realty Partners LLC for $7.8 million. The center is located at 22032 El Paseo within the Rancho Santa Margarita Town Center. Mission Health Center was built in 2001. It was 77 percent leased to six medical and dental tenants. The largest tenant is Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center. Dan Vittone and Alan Pekarcik of Avison Young represented both the buyer and the unnamed seller in this transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Meridian Capital Group has arranged a $50.6 million mortgage to refinance a multifamily portfolio of properties located throughout Brooklyn and New York City. The borrower is Manhattan-based Fine Times Inc. The 17-property multifamily building portfolio totals 281 units located on West 68th Street, West 69th Street, West 70th Street, West 71st Street, West 73rd Street on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and on Columbia Heights, Pierrepont Street and Montague Terrance in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. The seven-year loan, provided by a regional balance sheet lender, features a 3.38 percent fixed rate, three years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule. Shamir Seidman of Meridian Capital’s New York City headquarters negotiated the transaction.
PARSIPPANY, N.J. — One Liberty Properties has sold an office building, located at 45 Waterview Blvd., for $40 million. The 106,680-square-foot building is 100 percent leased on a long-term basis by Royal DSM, a global life science and material science company, for its North American headquarters. Jeffrey Dunne, Kevin Welsh, Brian Schulz and Frank Maresca of CBRE Group’s Institutional Properties team represented the seller and procured the buyer, a fund invested in by an offshore entity and first-time U.S. buyer, in the deal. The fund is managed by JM Capital LLC and advised by Nadlan Advisors LLC.
BOSTON — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a four-property, net-leased drugstore portfolio. The portfolio sold for $38.6 million. The portfolio consists of a 14,320-square-foot Walgreens in Worchester, Mass., which sold for $9.4 million; a 15,013-square-foot CVS in Foxborough, Mass., which sold for $10.5 million; a 13,612-square-foot Walgreens in Merrimack, N.H., which sold for $7.4 million; and a 14,593-square-foot CVS in Clearwater, Fla., which sold for $11.4 million. Robert Horvath and Todd Tremblay of Marcus & Millichap’s Boston office represented the seller, a private New England-based real estate family, and the buyer, a private family completing a 1031 exchange, in the transaction. Kirk Felici of Marcus & Millichap’s Miami office is the firm’s broker of record in Florida.
NEWTON, MASS. — Skanska USA has completed a $6.7 million, 30,000-square-foot fit-out of the new Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Urgent Care facility at Chestnut Hill Square in Newton. The new 30,000-square-foot center offers a variety of modern medical services and technologies, including orthopedics, sports medicine, physical/occupational therapy, radiology, gynecology, urgent care, surgical specialties and phlebotomy labs. For the fit-out, Skanska worked with BIDMC architect Linea 5 and RDK engineers to apply lean construction techniques to the project, which allowed the team to complete the project in seven months. Lean construction is a production management-based approach to product delivery that streamlines processes to maximize value and reduce waste throughout a project. Extensive off-site prefabrication included prefabricating plumbing fixtures, sink units and in-wall electrical and lighting units, reducing the need for on-site storage.