NORTH BERGEN, N.J. — Palisades Medical Center and Duke Realty have broken ground for a 57,000-square-foot ambulatory service building on Palisades’ campus at 7600 River Road in North Bergen, about 12 miles northeast of Newark. The three-story building will provide ambulatory and specialty care services, including a dialysis center and cancer center, as well as endoscopy, cardiology, gastroenterology, orthopedics and multi-specialty physician practices. AMB Development Group was the architect for the project, and Structure Tone was the general contractor. The facility is slated for completion in fall 2014.
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NEW YORK CITY — Savanna, a New York-based real estate private equity and asset management firm, has added a new tenant at 100 Wall Street, its 518,405-square-foot, Class A building in Manhattan. Lester Schwab Katz & Dwyer (LSK&D), a litigation law firm, will occupy 39,293 square feet on the 26th and 27th floors, making the space its new Manhattan headquarters. Marc Shapses, Joe Messina and Oliver Petrovic of Studley represented LSK&D in the transaction. Mitchell Konsker, Scott Cahaly and Kyle Young of Jones Lang LaSalle represented Savanna.?
FAIRVIEW, N.J. — NAI James E. Hanson has arranged a 13,100-square-foot lease at 815 Fairview Avenue, a 318,413-square-foot industrial building in Fairview, located about 25 miles north of Newark. The tenant, Paramount Services Inc., is relocating to 815 Fairview Ave. from Secaucus, N.J. Paramount, a construction company specializing in multifamily interior renovations, will use the space for storage of materials and light assembly. The space features 1,000 square feet of office space, a loading dock, 17-foot clear ceiling heights and ample parking. Thomas Vetter, Jeffrey DeMagistris and Nicholas Herrick at NAI Hanson represented the property’s landlord, Fairview Industrial Park Inc., in the transaction.
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — The Howard Hughes Corporation and its subsidiary The Woodlands Development Company will break ground this quarter on a new 303-room full-service luxury hotel in The Woodlands. Located on Waterway Square, a one-acre plaza with water feature, the as-of-yet unnamed project will overlook the Woodlands Waterway district, which connects The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion and The Woodlands Mall. The hotel will feature a fine dining restaurant, pool deck with connected bar and 24,000 square feet of meeting space. Completion of the property is slated for mid-2015.
MESQUITE, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Meadowcreek Shopping Center, a 22,812-square-foot retail property in the Dallas suburb of Mesquite. Constructed in 1986 on 2.82 acres at 1515 E. Kearney St., the center was 73 percent occupied at the time of the sale, with 65 percent of the leasable area under triple-net leases. Tenants include Convenient Food Mart, Curves, Centerstage Dance, Ebenezer Home Health and L. Karen Wilde DDS. Philip Levy of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a private investor. Lisa Estrada, also of Marcus & Millichap, secured and represented the buyer, another private investor.
HOUSTON — NAI Houston has arranged a 38,070-square-foot warehouse lease in southwest Houston for Tool Mart Inc., a distributor of mechanical, plumbing and electrical tools for contractors. The facility, located at 13721 S. Gessner Road, is within the Beltway Crossing Business Park. John Ferruzzo and Chris Kugle of NAI Houston represented the tenant in the negotiations. Justin Robinson of Stream Realty represented the undisclosed landlord.
HOUSTON — Full-service commercial real estate company Levey Group has leased 18,300 square feet of warehouse space in Houston to RIEX Co. LP, a manufacturer of fasteners, sealing products and construction supplies. Located at 8850 N. Sam Houston Parkway West, the facility is part of the Sam Houston Business Park, which includes three tiltwall facilities. Joseph Smith of CBRE represented the Levey Group in the negotiations, while Nick Peterson of NAI Houston represented tenant.
LOS ANGELES — CIM Group has purchased a seven-property portfolio that includes Two California Plazain Downtown Los Angeles and the Montclair Plaza shopping mall in Montclair, Calif., for a reported $170 million. The portfolio also includes the Class A Stadium Towers Plaza in Orange County, Calif.; the 126-room Comfort Suites-San Diego/Mission Valley in San Diego; the 262-room DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel-Bakersfieldin Bakersfield, Calif.; the 125,000-square-foot Montvale Center office building in Gaithersburg, Md.; and a non-performing loan secured by a 440,000-square-foot office campus at 270 Technology Park in Frederick, Md. The portfolio’s marquee asset is Two California Plaza, a 52-story, Class A office building in Downtown Los Angeles’ Bunker Hill neighborhood. It contains 1.28 million square feet of office space and 44,000 square feet of retail space. It is part of a two-tower office complex that shares a retail and restaurant pavilion featuring a 1.5-acre water court and performance plaza. The other top asset in this portfolio is Montclair Plaza, a two-story enclosed regional shopping mall about 30 miles east of Los Angeles. The acquisition included 868,000 square feet of the 1.3 million-square-foot mall. Notable anchors include Macy’s, Nordstrom, Sears, JC Penney and Target. This portfolio was acquired as part of …
SAN DIEGO – Trigild has put its Coldwater/Silvercreek portfolio, which consists of 36 retail strip centers and two office properties throughout the nation, on the market. The San Diego-based firm was appointed the portfolio’s liquidating trustee this past October. It has enlisted Houston-based Allied Advisors to serve as the listing agent. The portfolio has an estimated value of $50 million. The firm is entertaining offers for individual strip centers and groups of properties, as well as the entire portfolio. The properties included in the portfolio are located in 33 cities and 17 states throughout the Southeast, West and Midwest, including Colorado, Utah, Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, Michigan, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Texas and Indiana. They were all built by a sole developer. The portfolio is currently 74 percent leased. Since its involvement, Trigild has renewed or extended leases on nearly 112,000 square feet of space within the portfolio. Properties included range in space from 9,000 square feet to 37,000 square feet. They contain between two and seven tenants. Most are shadow anchored by a Wal-Mart Super Store, and many feature national tenants as well, such as Dollar Tree, Game Stop and Radio Shack.
DENVER – The 189-room Hotel Monaco Denver has received a $41-million balance sheet loan. The hotel is located at 1717 Champa Street in the city’s Lower Downtown region. It includes more than 4,000 square feet of meeting space, Panzano restaurant, a fitness center and a full-service spa. The floating-rate loan was arranged by Mathew Comfort, Mike Huth and Keith Largay of Jones Lang LaSalle’s (JLL) Hotels & Hospitality Group. The team worked on behalf of Inland American Lodging Advisor, Inc. The company also received a $27.5-million, floating-rate, balance sheet loan for its Hotel Monaco Chicago. Inland America purchased both hotels this past November.