STERLING HEIGHTS, MICH. — Nitto Seiko America has signed a lease for 9,558 square feet of hi-tech space located at 44425 Phoenix Drive in Sterling Heights, about 25 miles north of Detroit. Clint Confer of Signature Associates represented Nitto Seiko in the deal. Nitto Seiko manufactures and sells industrial fasteners and tools and industrial and precision machinery.
PITTSBURGH — AdVenture Development LLC has begun site grading and clearing for the 500,000-square-foot town center portion of the McCandless Crossing development in the North Hills submarket of Pittsburgh. McCandless Crossing is a 1.2 million-square-foot, multi-phased project that will feature retail, multifamily units, office space and two hotels. McCandless Town Center, which will be complete in 2014, is the fourth phase of the overall development. Tenants at the center will include a 12-screen Cinemark theater, specialty grocery store, Bonefish Grill, LongHorn Steakhouse and HomeGoods. The town center will also house 50 townhomes. The Dollar Bank of Pittsburgh is financing McCandless Town Center.
NEW YORK CITY — Brookfield Office Properties Inc. has secured leases with eight restaurants to operate casual concepts in the new waterfront-dining terrace the company is building at Brookfield Place in Lower Manhattan. The 600-seat terrace is part of Brookfield's $250 million redevelopment of the Brookfield Place complex, formerly known as the World Financial Center. The dining area is currently under construction and is scheduled to open in January 2014. Brookfield has partnered with AvroKO and BCV Architects to design the terrace, which will be located above a European-style marketplace.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of three apartment buildings, located at 602 44th St. and 4405-4409 6th Ave. in Brooklyn, for $3.8 million. The buildings include a total of 28 apartment units. Peter Von Der Ahe, Matthew Fotis and Jeb Hollingsworth of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor and the buyer, also a private investor, in the deal.
ALLSTON, MASS. — RODE Architects has completed the renovation and new construction of a multifamily property in Allston, Mass., a Boston neighborhood. The development, called Allston Proper, is a 12,300-square-foot project at the corner of Glenville Avenue and Greylock Road. It includes three floors of new residential units and an extensive renovation of the existing two-family structures on the site. The new building, contemporary in form and texture, includes eight residential units with on-site parking and exterior landscaped surfaces. Boxford-based Fishbrook Builders was the general contractor, and Boston-based Studio 2112 provided landscape architecture services. The James Hardie Co. manufactured the cement fiber siding panels used in the project.
WILMINGTON, DEL. — Law firm Fox Rothschild LLP has signed an 11-year lease for 20,184 square feet on the second and third floors at Citizens Bank Center, an 18-story office building, in Wilmington. The building, which is located at 919 N. Market St., is a Class A office property that spans 221,686 square feet. A tenant of the building for 15 years, Fox Rothschild had previously occupied approximately 17,000 square feet on two non-contiguous floors. With the new lease, the firm will have contiguous space on two floors with an interconnecting staircase, as well as a private lobby and elevator off the building’s main lobby on the first floor. Doug Simon of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank represented Fox Rothschild in the deal. Keystone Property Group is the owner of the building.
DALLAS — Dallas-based 7-Eleven Inc. has achieved record store growth in 2012 and is expecting the number of 7-Eleven stores worldwide to pass the 50,000-store mark in March. The company added close to 5,000 stores to its portfolio in 2012 alone. The company's growth strategy in the U.S. is to build market concentration in the major metropolitan areas. By the end of 2012, the company had more than 10,000 North American stores and 39,000 stores in 13 countries throughout Europe and Asia.
PLANO, TEXAS — KDC, a commercial real estate development and investment firm, has sold its remaining interest in The Campus at Legacy to its equity partners Spear Street Capital. The Campus at Legacy, a 107-acre, multi-tenant corporate campus in Plano, is currently 98 percent leased to tenants such as Denbury Resources, PepsiCo, St. Jude Medical, Bear Transportation, Futurewei Technologies, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Inc., Lifecare, North American Coal Corp., World Ventures and Rent-A-Center.
GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — Stream Realty Partners has negotiated a 50,000-square-foot lease renewal of industrial space, located at 2510 W. Main St. in Grand Prairie. Cannon Green and Matt Dornak of Stream Realty represented the landlord in the transaction. Patrick Johnson, also of Stream Realty, represented the tenant, Complete Line Glass.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Bigcommerce, an e-commerce platform for small- and medium-sized businesses founded in Sydney, Australia, has signed a 33,000-square-foot office lease at 11305 Four Points Drive at FM 2222 and RM 620 in Austin. The company plans to move its 120 employees into the office space in April. Bigcommerce is working with lauckgroup, an architecture firm, and general contractor Balfour Beatty to renovate the office building, which is LEED Gold certified. The new office will feature indoor swings, an espresso bar, casual meeting spaces, a games room, built-in kegerators and two functional interior garage doors to expand meeting/office space. The Austin office is the company's North American headquarters.