Mid-Atlantic
Savanna Fund II REIT Sells Manhattan’s 5 Hanover Sq. for $104M
CIM Group has acquired 5 Hanover Square, a 25-story building in Manhattan’s Financial District, from Savanna Fund II REIT for $104 million.
Northwood Investors Buys Landmark Building in Lower Manhattan
Northwood Investors has purchased 100 Broadway, a 117-year-old, 24-story, 360,000-square-foot office building at Broadway and Pine Street in Lower Manhattan.
JLL to Manage 640 KSF at Suburban DC Headquarters Campus
Jones Lang LaSalle’s management responsibilities in suburban Washington, D.C., just grew by 640,000 square feet. The commercial real estate services firm has been tapped by The Meridian Group to manage three buildings at the 18-acre Solutions Plaza corporate headquarters campus in Tysons, Va.
What Vornado’s 655 Fifth Ave. Buy Means for Manhattan’s CRE
Vornado Realty Trust has grabbed another prime Fifth Avenue location just as the retail rents there are passing $3,000 per square foot, paying $278 million for a majority stake in 655 Fifth Ave., a retail and office property with 50 feet of frontage on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue.
Winthrop Snaps Up 4 Class A Apartment Buildings for $246M
Winthrop Realty Trust has agreed to buy four Class A luxury apartment buildings from ST Residential for an aggregate price of $246 million.
Fairway Market to be Anchor Food Market at Hudson Yards
Fairway Market has become the latest company to lease space in the South Tower of the Hudson Yards project, taking nearly 46,000 square feet on the ground floor of the first office high-rise to be built in the 28-acre mixed-use development on Manhattan’s West Side.
Morgan Stanley Fund Grabs 50% of Boston Trophy Building
In a deal that was first reported by Bisnow, a Morgan Stanley real estate fund has acquired the Blackstone Group’s 50 percent share of One Post Office Square, a 40-story office building in Boston’s financial district, for a reported $550 million.
Skanska USA Develops Office Tower for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Boston’s Seaport Square
Skanska USA Commercial Development Inc. is investing $265 million in a 440,000-square-foot office building in the Seaport District of Boston that will be occupied primarily by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Clarion Sells One Metro Center in DC to Jamestown for $307M
Clarion Partners has completed the sale of One Metro Center, a seven-story, 415,300-square-foot, trophy Class A building in the East End submarket of Washington, D.C., for $307 million to Jamestown Properties.
Hudson’s Bay’s Saks Buy More About RE or Retailing?
When it raised the possibility of creating a REIT, assuming its proposed $2.9 billion merger with Saks Inc. goes through, Hudson’s Bay Co. also raised the question of whether the acquisition is more about the retailing or more about the real estate?