RANDALLSTOWN, MD. — Klein Enterprises has sold Deer Park Center, a 170,000-square-foot flex office park located at 9631-9637 Liberty Road in Randallstown. Fernau LeBlanc Investment Partners (FLB), a commercial real estate owner and operator based in Bethesda, Md., purchased the four-building campus for an undisclosed price. Bill Prutting, Jay Wellschlager and Craig Childs of JLL represented Klein Enterprises, which has owned the property since 2010, in the transaction. Situated about five miles from I-695 and I-795, Deer Park Center’s tenant roster includes Island Quizine, N’Ferno Performing Arts Center, Center for Social Change Inc. and Greater Baltimore Insurance Agency.
FREDERICK, MD. — Diamond Point Development and The Ardent Cos. have opened a 100,000-square-foot self-storage facility located at 1845 Brookfield Court in Frederick. Formerly the Frederick Indoor Sports Center, the two-story facility comprises 700 climate-controlled units across 74,000 rentable square feet. The property is also fully solar powered, marking the first environmentally friendly self-storage facility in the city, according to the developers. Buffalo, N.Y.-based Life Storage operates the property.
ELLICOTT CITY, MD. — Giant Food has partnered with Maryland-based Nalley Fresh to open a restaurant within the grocer’s Ellicott City store, roughly 13 miles outside Baltimore. Offering customizable salads, wraps and bowls and the ability to fulfill third-party delivery orders, the restaurant marks the 10th location for Nalley Fresh and the first in-store fast-casual restaurant for Giant Food, which currently operates 165 grocery stores.
CALIFORNIA, MD. — A joint venture between AmCap Inc. and Encore Enterprises has acquired First Colony Center, a 98,179-square-foot shopping center in the Washington, D.C., suburb of California. The grocery-anchored center is leased to tenants including Giant, Michaels and Advance Auto Parts. Shadow anchors include Target, Lowe’s Home Improvement and BJ’s Wholesale Club. The seller and sales price of First Colony Center were not disclosed. The center represents the third joint venture acquisition between AmCap and Encore.
GAITHERSBURG, MD. — KLNB’s new multifamily team has arranged the sale of Governor Square Apartments, a 238-unit community located in Gaithersburg, approximately 26 miles northwest of Washington, D.C. The property features units in one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts, ranging in size from 720 to 1,290 square feet. Rawles Wilcox, Jared Emery and Dutch Seitz, part of a group of 18 brokers who joined KLNB through the firm’s acquisition of Edge Commercial Real Estate, represented the buyer, Acento Real Estate Partners, in the transaction. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
BALTIMORE — Harbor Stone Advisors has brokered the $5 million sale of Astor Court, a mixed-use property located at 2440 St. Paul St. in Baltimore’s Old Goucher neighborhood. Built in 1930 and renovated in 2006, the property features 26 one-bedroom apartments, 10 two-bedroom units and four commercial spaces on the ground level leased to Subway, State of the Art Hair Studio, Maryland Healthcare Clinics and Charles Village Community Benefits District. Community amenities include controlled building access, an elevator, 24-hour fitness center, community multipurpose room with kitchen, shared workspace, private courtyard, bicycle storage and a laundry facility. A small parking lot adjacent to Astor Court was included in the sale. Justin Verner, Brooks Healy and Tom Wohlgemuth of Harbor Stone represented the seller, an entity doing business as Astor Court LLC that is led by investor Michael Rock, in the transaction. The buyer was not disclosed.
WALDORF, MD. — First National Realty Partners (FNRP) has purchased Waldorf Marketplace, a 359,484-square-foot, grocery-anchored shopping center in Waldorf, about 28 miles south of Washington, D.C. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. The center is anchored by a 58,092-square-foot Safeway grocery store, which has been a tenant at Waldorf Marketplace since 2005. Other tenants include Hobby Lobby, Jared, Petco, Starbucks Coffee, Wells Fargo, Red Robin, TGI Fridays, Bath & Body Works and Famous Dave’s. FNRP’s other acquisitions in the Mid-Atlantic region include Brandywine Crossing in Maryland and Haymarket Village Center and Promenade at Manassas in Virginia.
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Signs 90,473 SF Warehouse Lease in Landover, Maryland
LANDOVER, MD. — The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) has signed a lease for 90,473 square feet of warehouse space at 6304 Sheriff Road in Landover, about nine miles east of Washington, D.C. Kenneth Fellows, Robert Pugh and Keiry Martinez of Edge represented the tenant in the lease transaction. Nuveen Real Estate is the landlord of the 540,000-square-foot facility, which is situated on a 22-acre site near I-495 and MD Routes 50 and 295. WMATA, the transit authority behind the Metrorail and Metrobus services, expects to occupy the warehouse beginning in the second or third quarter.
BALTIMORE — Greysteel has arranged the sale of Apartments at Park, an 11-unit apartment building in Baltimore’s Midtown district. The undisclosed buyer plans to complete approved plans for the addition of a five-story multifamily building at the site, located at 814 Park Ave., as well as make renovations to existing apartments. Aaron Inman, Kyle Tangney and Herb Schwat of Greysteel brokered the sale on behalf of the undisclosed seller.
OWINGS MILLS, MD. — Element Fleet Management Inc., a global fleet management firm for the automotive industry, has signed a 64,000-square-foot office lease at Metro Centre at Owings Mills, a mixed-use development in the Baltimore County city of Owings Mills. Kevin Keane of David S. Brown Enterprises negotiated the lease transaction. Element Fleet expects to occupy the space by the end of the year with 250 employees onsite. The new office is a relocation of the firm’s East Coast headquarters. In addition to Class A office space, Metro Centre features the Owings Mills Metro station, shops, restaurants, apartments and the newly opened Marriott Owings Mills Metro Centre Hotel & Conference Center. Other tenants at Metro Centre include The Tillery Restaurant and Bar, Baltimore County Public Library, World of Beer, Bee Inspired Honey House, Club Pilates, Eggspectation, Gannett Fleming, BDO, Myers & Stauffer and SB & Co.