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FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged the $44.2 million sale of Cypress Financial Center, a 201,305-square-foot, Class A office tower in Fort Lauderdale. JLL represented the seller, a joint venture between funds managed by Apollo Global Management, Square2 Capital and Steelbridge Capital. JLL also procured the buyer, Vision Properties. Cypress Financial Center is located at 5900 N. Andrews Ave. and is 13 miles from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The building has 250 feet of frontage along Interstate 95 and is situated across from the Cypress Creek Tri-Rail station and adjacent to the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport. The 11-story office tower features a six-level, 785-space parking garage. At the time of sale, Cypress Financial Center was approximately 90 percent leased to tenants including Hayes Medical Staffing, which anchors the office tower. Hermen Rodriguez, Ike Ojala and Matthew McCormack of JLL represented the seller, which recently completed a multi-year renovation of the property. Square2 Capital is an investment management company based in Miami that invests and operates throughout Florida and the Southeast, Steelbridge Capital is a Miami-based private equity firm that invests in single- and multi-tenant real estate properties nationwide and Vision Properties is a commercial real estate firm …

SARASOTA, FLA. — Tricera Capital has acquired a nine-story, Class A office building in downtown Sarasota known as BB&T Financial Center. The Miami-based real estate investment firm purchased the office building for $35 million. Tricera Capital partnered with private investor Alex Karakhanian and Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based investment firm Merrimac Ventures on the acquisition. The seller was private real estate investor George Spector. BB&T Financial Center is located at 1800 Second St. The 550,000-square-foot building spans across two towers and features 500 covered parking spaces. Originally developed in the 1980s, the building underwent more than $1 million in capital improvements over the past three years, including upgrades to the roof, lobby and elevator systems. The property spans an entire city block between Links and North Osprey avenues. The building was approximately 70 percent occupied at the time of sale. Douglas Mandel of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, marketed BB&T Financial Center for sale. Scott Wadler of Berkadia’s Miami office arranged acquisition financing through Prime Finance.