ROUND ROCK, TEXAS — CBRE’s U.S. Healthcare Capital Markets Group has negotiated the sale of Forest Park Medical Center – Austin on behalf of FPMC Austin Realty Partners. St. David’s HealthCare purchased the 146,997-square-foot hospital, along with a 79,708-square-foot medical office building and 508-space parking garage, for $115 million. Scott Herbold, Chris Bodnar, Lee Asher and Greg Greene of CBRE, along with KOA Partners, marketed the asset on behalf of the seller. Forest Park Medical Center – Austin was planned to be a physician majority-owned and governed hospital. The seller filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January, shortly after construction was completed. Built in 2015 on 8.5 acres in the Austin suburb of Round Rock, the hospital includes 40 private inpatient suites with 12 VIP/family suites, 10 operating rooms, two procedure rooms and six intensive care rooms. The common areas and restrooms of the four-story, on-campus medical office building have been completed, along with the parking garage.
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CHICAGO — McDonald’s will relocate its corporate headquarters from Oak Brook to downtown Chicago by the spring of 2018. The fast food giant has signed a lease at 1045 W. Randolph St. in the West Loop neighborhood. McDonald’s was headquartered in Chicago from 1955 to 1971. The new location will provide offices, as well as house Hamburger University, one of seven worldwide training centers. According to Crain’s Chicago, McDonald’s will likely lease over 300,000 square feet at the building, which formerly served as Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios. McDonald’s currently operates over 36,000 locations in over 100 countries.
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS — NewcrestImage has purchased the 125-room, six-floor Hyatt Place hotel in the Dallas suburb of Grapevine. This is the company’s fourth Hyatt Place, joining hotels owned and operated in San Antonio, Lubbock and Plano. The new property features two meeting rooms spanning 1,100 square feet and 400 square feet, a breakfast area, outdoor pool, cocktail and coffee bar, fitness center and a business center. The hotel is located near Legoland Discovery Center and the Grapevine Mills Mall. Dallas-based NewcrestImage now owns and operates 22 properties, with another 11 hotels under construction or in development. The company’s three divisions include real estate development, construction and hotel management.
NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J. — Bergman Real Estate Group has completed the sale of its four-story office building located at 121 Chanlon Road in New Providence. A private entity acquired the property for an undisclosed sum. Situated on 6.5 acres, the 112,260-square-foot office building is 85 percent leased by a variety of companies in industries such as publishing, technology and healthcare. David Bernhaut, Andrew Merin, Gary Gabriel, Brian Whitmer, Andrew Schwartz and Frank DiTommaso of Cushman & Wakefield’s Metropolitan Area Capital Markets Group brokered the transaction.
TUCSON, ARIZ. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $1.97 million sale of SurgCenter of Tucson, a 6,300-square-foot, net-leased property in Tucson. Jamie Medress, Mark Ruble and Chris Lind of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, an undisclosed developer, in the sale of the property to an undisclosed limited liability company.
HENDERSON AND NORTH LAS VEGAS, NEV. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of four grocery-anchored shopping centers located in Henderson and North Las Vegas. The properties, totaling 336,096 square feet, were sold in four transactions to individual buyers. Michael Hackett and Ryan Schubert of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Donahue Schriber Realty Group, in all four transactions. Assets include Smith’s Food and Drug Store-anchored Pebble Marketplace, Paseo Verde Plaza, Eldorado Plaza and Trader Joe’s-anchored Green Valley Plaza. The centers are home to tenants including Chase Bank, Jack in the Box, Starbucks Coffee, Dollar Tree and Big 5 Sporting Goods.
SAVANNAH, GA. — CenterPoint Properties has signed Port Logistics Group Inc. to a long-term, 315,810-square-foot lease at 47 Sonny Perdue Drive in Savannah. The building is located within CenterPoint Intermodal Center near the Georgia Port Authority and the Norfolk Southern Dillard Yard. Situated on 26 acres, the property features 4,785 square feet of office space, 113 trailer parking positions, 50 exterior dock doors, 110 car parking spots, two drive-in doors and reinforced floor slabs. Port Logistics Group is a third-party logistics company that specializes in high-touch distribution for retailers and retail manufacturers through coastal gateway markets. John Simons of NAI Partners and Rex Benton of NAI Mopper Benton represented Port Logistics Group in the lease deal. John Neely and Danny Chase of Colliers International represented CenterPoint.
TOLEDO, OHIO — Reichle Klein Group has brokered the sale of an 87-unit apartment property in Toledo for $1.2 million. Devonshire Apartments is a three-building property that is situated on 4.8 acres at 902 Gribbin Lane. Australia-based First Eleven LLC sold the property to an investor based on the East Coast. Walter Plath and Harlan Reichle of the Reichle Klein Group represented the seller in the transaction.
French Billionaire Buys Manhattan Office, Retail Building from Thor Equities for $525M
by Nellie Day
NEW YORK CITY — French billionaire Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière has purchased a 100,000-square-foot office and retail building in Manhattan for $525 million. The building is located at 693 Fifth Ave. in Midtown’s Plaza District. The 20-story property’s retail component houses the flagship store of international luxury brand Valentino. It includes four full levels of retail space with 50 feet of Fifth Avenue frontage. Notable office tenants include Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Louis Licari and Phillips Auctioneers. Thor Equities acquired the building in 2010 from Japanese department store Takashimaya for $142 million. Thor then restructured the interior to create a multi-level retail space, which Valentino occupied in 2013. The renovation included a modern floor-to-ceiling window façade from the ground level through the eighth floor. Thor also worked with designer David Chipperfield to create a new building lobby. Thor Equities owns a number of other properties on Fifth Avenue including 685 Fifth Ave., the future home of the new Coach global flagship store. “We continue to believe strongly in the retail and office market on Fifth Avenue and throughout New York City,” says Joe Sitt, Thor’s CEO. “However, after successfully implementing our business plan of improving this prime retail and office location …
Cushman & Wakefield Brokers $32M Sale of New York Life Insurance’s Office Campus in Tampa
by John Nelson
TAMPA, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the $32 million sale of Corporate Oaks, a 186,854-square-foot office campus in Tampa’s Westshore District. New York Life Insurance Co. fully occupies Corporate Oaks and houses its AARP program at the campus, which houses about 920 employees. New York Life Insurance’s lease runs through 2024. Built in 1983, Corporate Oaks is situated on an 11.4-acre site at 5405, 5445 and 5505 W. Cypress St. Connecticut-based Next Generation Net Lease Management LLC purchased the asset, which features an on-site deli, fitness center, three-story parking garage and surface parking. New York Life Insurance has invested $2.7 million in interior upgrades, while the previous owner invested $1.5 million for upgrades to the interior finishes, elevators, HVAC systems and the parking garage. Mike Davis, Rick Brugge and Michael Lerner of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction.