ALEXANDRIA, VA. — Arlington, Va.-based Turner Construction has completed two office buildings totaling 128,000 square feet for the Washington, D.C., office of LCOR. The $58 million Class A buildings are located at 1920 and 2050 Ballenger Ave. in Alexandria. The buildings contain 91,000 square feet of office space and 37,000 square feet of retail space. Construction began in June 2007.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — ProLogis has signed leases with Total Warehousing Services and Innovative Food Technology for Greenville warehouse space totaling 90,000 square feet. Total Warehousing will occupy 60,000 square feet of space in the Augusta Distribution Center, located at the intersection of White Horse Road and Augusta Road. The warehouse will serve as the company’s regional packaging and distribution center. Innovative Food has signed a 30,000-square-foot lease at the White Horse Industrial Park near the intersection of White Horse Road and Interstate 85. Further details about the leases were not disclosed.
AVE MARIA, FLA. — Orlando, Fla.-based Keene Construction Co. has broken ground on the 39,392-square-foot La Piazza. Located in Ave Maria, the retail center is anchored by a 30,907-square-foot Publix. The property was designed by Memphis, Tenn.-based Looney Ricks Kiss, Architects and is expected to deliver in June.
CLEARWATER, FLA. — Wisco 1 has purchased the 184-unit Long Branch Apartments from Denver-based New South Properties for $6.99 million. The Clearwater property is 30 percent vacant, and Wisco plans on spending $1 million to renovate the complex. NAI Tampa Bay’s John Burpee brokered the purchase, and John Stone of Colliers Arnold’s Clearwater office represented the seller.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — Jenkintown, Penn.-based Scully Co. has purchased the 302-unit Pembroke Cove Apartments from a private investor based in South Florida for $38.1 million. The property, located on Pines Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, encompasses 31 two-story apartment buildings. The complex features a fitness room, an indoor racquetball court, two tennis courts, a pool and garages for each unit. Rosendo Caveiro and Brad Capas of Cushman & Wakefield’s Miami and Fort Lauderdale offices, respectively, brokered the transaction.
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — A private investor based in the Midwest has purchased the 127,426-square-foot CH2M Hill building from an undisclosed institutional investor for $14.65 million. The office building, located at 1500 International Dr. in Spartanburg, is 100 percent leased to the engineering firm CH2M Hill. Tulsa, Okla.-based Stan Johnson Co.’s Craig Tomlinson brokered the purchase, and Doug Connell and Doug Webster of Grubb & Ellis’s Atlanta and Greenville, S.C., offices, respectively, represented the seller.
CONWAY, ARK. — Houston-based Southwestern Energy Co. will break ground on a 100,000-square-foot facility to process Fayetteville Shale early next year. The property, which will be operational by the middle of 2010, is located at TND Partners’ Village at Hendrix in Conway. Southwestern will initially employ 220 workers at the facility with an aim to increase the workforce to more than 400 people.
FORT MYERS, FLA. — Fort Myers-based J.L. Wallace has completed the 30,000-square-foot Park Center medical office complex. The two-building property is located at 8255 and 8267 College Parkway in Fort Myers. Advance Pain Management and Spine Specialist, Southwest Florida Oral and Facial Surgery Center and Center for Surgical Procedures are tenants in the property. Fred Barry, Dennis Tyeryar and Robbyn Spears formed the J.L. Wallace construction team.
LAND O’ LAKES, FLA. — An affiliate of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Stiles Corp. has purchased the 80,000-square-foot Arbor Square at Connerton from an affiliate of Tatone Properties for $17.75 million. The retail center, located on U.S. Highway 41 in Land O’ Lakes, is anchored by a 45,600-square-foot Publix and houses SunTrust Bank. Mark Shellabarger and Dennis Carson of the Tampa, Fla., and Miami offices of CB Richard Ellis, respectively, represented the seller.
ATLANTA — Brasfield & Gorrie has broken ground on a 130,000-square-foot Class A office building in Grove Street Partners’ Gateway Center development near the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The office, which represents the first phase in the airport project, will be built to LEED standards. Rule Joy Trammell + Rubio designed the building, and Valdosta, Ga.-based Park Avenue Bank provided financing. Delivery is expected in August. A joint venture between Grove Street and Boston-based Fidelity Investments, the 1 million-square-foot Gateway Center will encompass 400,000 square feet of office space, 60,000 square feet of retail space and two hotels.