QUINCY, MASS. — Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) has signed a long-term lease for office space at Heritage Landing in Quincy. MTA will utilize the top two floors, totaling 46,000 square feet, as its new headquarters. The space is being designed to meet the needs of MTA. Project partners include Spagnolo Gisness & Associates Inc. and WB Engineers Consultants. MTA is slated to take occupancy of the space in November. Sean Lynch of JLL represented the tenant in the deal. Peter Brown of Campanelli along with Mike Frisoli, Matthew Morgan, Dave Martel and Molly Davis of Cushman & Wakefield represented the owner, Campanelli, in the transaction. Additional terms of the transaction were not released.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — Berger Commercial Realty has brokered the $22.1 million purchase of 4.3 acres of land located at 1701 S.E. 17th St. in Fort Lauderdale. Alliance Residential Co. purchased the former Ocean World site from Art Institute Investments LLC. Alliance plans to develop a 394-unit, eight-story apartment community named Broadstone Harbor Beach at the site. The complex will feature a club room, swimming pool, putting green, fitness center, 2,700 square feet of retail space and a 4,600-square-foot retail outparcel. Alliance will break ground on Broadstone Harbor Beach in the second quarter. Steve Hyatt of Berger Commercial Realty represented Alliance in the land acquisition.
MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. — Palmetto Park has broken ground on the inline space at Palmetto Gardens Plaza, a 63,000-square-foot shopping center located at 3799 N.W. 167th St. in Miami Gardens. The shopping center is anchored by Walmart Neighborhood Market. The owners of Palmetto Gardens Plaza have secured T-Mobile, Cell Phone Repair and Lee Nails as tenants. Palmetto Park expects to wrap up construction in the third quarter. Palmetto Park is a joint venture between DZD Palmetto, owned by Zvi and Daniel Shiff of DZD Holdings and Alan Macken and Andrew Verzura of VCM Builders to develop the commercial property. VCM Builders is one of several affiliates of Macken Cos.
COLUMBIA AND GREENVILLE, S.C. — Berkadia has brokered the sale of two multifamily communities in Columbia and Greenville totaling $7.3 million. The transactions include the $5.5 million sale of the 152-unit Shandon Crossing in Columbia and the $1.8 million sale of the 37-unit Hampton Harbor in Greenville. Warrendale, Pa.-based DBC Shandon Crossing LP purchased Shandon Crossing from Atlanta-based Varden Capital Properties LLC. Mark Boyce, Andrew Mays and Paul Vetter of Berkadia brokered both transactions.
LINTHICUM, MD. — DTZ has brokered the $6.5 million sale of a Class A office building located at 999 Corporate Blvd. within the Airport Square Business Park in Linthicum, a city in the Baltimore-Washington Corridor. Heritage Properties purchased the 67,384-square-foot property from LNR Partners LLC. Jonathan Carpenter, Nicole Keelty and Graham Savage of DTZ’s capital markets team in Baltimore represented LNR in the transaction.
BRADENTON, FLA. — Walker & Dunlop Inc. has originated $9 million in financing for Ranch Lake Plaza, an 85,656-square-foot retail property in Bradenton. The center is anchored by Goodwill Industries Manasota Inc., which recently signed a 15-year lease and will open its store this month. Ranch Lake Plaza was 95 percent leased at the time of the transaction. Alison Williams of Walker & Dunlop’s Tampa office led the team that structured the 10-year loan with a 30-year amortization schedule through an unnamed CMBS lender. The loan also featured two years of interest-only payments.
POMONA, CALIF. – Buchanan Street Partners has purchased University Tech Center, a 100,360-square-foot suburban office complex in Pomona, for an undisclosed sum. The building is located at 3179 and 3191 West Temple Ave. Buchanan plans to complete significant improvements to the property over the next year. The building is 91 percent leased, with the County of Los Angeles occupying one of the buildings. Buchanan represented itself, while the seller, Invesco, was represented by CBRE’s Kevin Shannon and Mike Kendall.
LOS ANGELES – A 40,738-square-foot building in the Los Angeles submarket of La Mirada that is leased to 24 Hour Fitness has sold to a local private investor for $13.9 million. The building is located at 13395 Beach Blvd. It is occupied by a 24 Hour Fitness Sport facility. The space was built in 2002. It is the anchor tenant in a shopping center that also contains CVS, Jack in the Box, Max Muscle and Electric Tan. The gym has eight years remaining on its double-net lease. The buyer is expected to hold the asset long term for passive income. It also assumed existing CMBS debt that was in place at the property. The unnamed seller was represented by Ryan Barr and Ryan Bennett of Lee & Associates – North San Diego County.
LOS ANGELES – Bellflower Plaza, a 41,720-square-foot neighborhood retail center in the Los Angeles submarket of Bellflower, has sold to local private investment group for $9.2 million. The center is located at 17600 – 17620 Bellflower Blvd. It was built in 1991. Bellflower Plaza is anchored by Jack in the Box and 7-Eleven. This acquisition marks the fifth highest shopping center purchase per square foot in the Mid-Cities submarket since 2009, according to Joe Penich of Sperry Van Ness Rich Investment Real Estate Partners, who represented the buyer. The unnamed seller was represented by Andrew Awaida of Remax Optima.
LOS ANGELES – A private investor has purchased the 30-unit Trojan Palms Apartments near the University of Southern California (USC) campus in Los Angeles for $8.9 million. The community is located at 1115 W. 30th Street, half a block from USC. It was built in 1957 and remodeled in 2007. The 67-bedroom student housing property is generally fully occupied. Ron Harris, Michael DiSimone and Garrett Nichols of Marcus & Millichap’s Los Angles office represented both the buyer and seller, another private investor, in this transaction.