Swire Properties has sold Two Brickell City Centre and Three Brickell City Centre for a combined $163 million, $630 per square foot, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Each Class A Office building is roughly 130,000 square feet with the pricing broken down by $80.3 million for Two Brickell City Centre and Three Brickell City Centre sold for $82.7 million.
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Goddard Investment Group Moves To Evict WeWork From South of Fifth Location
WeWork’s landlord at 429 Lenox Avenue, Goddard Investment Group, has moved to evict WeWork from their South of Fifth location at 429 Lenox Avenue in South Beach. The 43,500 SF building is fully leased by WeWork who skipped out on rent payments for April, May and June.
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International Materials Signs 20K SF Lease In Delray Beach To Relocate HQ
International Materials, Inc. (IMI), an international trading and logistics provider, has signed a 20,052-square-foot lease with Samuels & Associates to relocate and expand its corporate headquarters from Boca Raton to the Offices at 4th & 5th Delray. Located in Delray Beach’s central business district, IMI’s new headquarters will settle into nearly two-thirds of the mixed-use building’s third-floor Class A office space at 25 SE 4th Ave.
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Rieber Developments Breaks Ground on 12|12 Aventura in the Aventura Health District
Aventura-based Rieber Developments has announced the groundbreaking of 12|12 Aventura, a 10-story complex comprising of a 30,000-square-foot gourmet marketplace and food hall, 25,000 square feet of offices, a 160-residence luxury senior residential component, and a structured parking garage, all with interiors designed by Interiors by Steven G.
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WeWork Lawsuit-Threat By Tenants Requesting Rent Relief Sends Shudders Through $5.5 Billion Of CMBS Debt
A group of WeWork’s members have moved toward suing the co-working giant in a letter sent by Walden Macht & Haran demanding that WeWork cease collecting rental fees. Many tenants have already requested rent relief, cancellation of their leases or stopped paying, which has put over $5.5 billion of CMBS loans backed by WeWork occupied properties at risk,
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How Can Offices Fight Off Viruses? Clean Science Solutions Completes 18 Month Field Study To Purify Indoor Environments & Eliminate Most Viruses
Clean Science Solutions, a New York City-based real estate proptech firm that specializes in commercial solutions to purify air and sanitize surfaces, has completed an 18 month field study demonstrating that the technology effectively sanitizes air and surfaces from bacteria, viruses, mold, VOCs, smoke and odors.
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Galium Capitals Acquires 1333 Main Street Office Assemblage In Downtown Columbia, SC
Galium Capital, LLC, a Miami-based private equity group, has announced the acquisition of 1333 Main St. in Columbia, SC. 1333 Main St. is a premier office building and assemblage in the Downtown CBD of Columbia. The transaction closed for $29,350,000 on February 27, 2020.
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Spotify To Open Headquarters in Wynwood's The Oasis Designed By Urban Robot Associates
Spotify will open a headquarters at The Oasis in Wynwood, which is scheduled for completion later this year (2020). Spotify has agreed to lease 20,000 SF in the urban campus for their Latin American HQ and plans to have up to 100 employees based out of the Wynwood location after they complete their move from Brickell.
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Blue Lagoon Community Gets Much-Needed Rental Development Soleste and A New Name
The Estate Companies, a leading developer of luxury multi-family projects throughout South Florida, has secured its certificate of occupancy (CO) for Soleste Blue Lagoon, a luxury, eight-story development with 330 rental units located at 5375 NW 7th Street in Miami.
The project broke ground in 2017 and move-ins began in October. Because Soleste Blue Lagoon is the only Class A market-rate project in the Blue Lagoon community, home to over 100 multinational companies, it quickly achieved 65 percent lease-up. The Blue Lagoon office community also recently announced a $10 million makeover and name change. The 250-acre office park will rebrand itself as the Waterford Business District, in order to remain competitive with Miami’s growing office market.
Tenants can select from a variety of studios, one, two and three-bedroom units outfitted with sleek, modern kitchens with custom cabinets, quartz countertops and designer lighting, dual master suites, spacious walk-in closets and private balconies overlooking Blue Lagoon Lake. Pricing starts in the $1,500’s for studios, $2,100’s for two-bedrooms, and $2,600’s for three-bedrooms.
“We are proud to deliver this transformative development to the Blue Lagoon area,” stated Robert Suris, managing principal, The Estate Companies. “Our firm is committed to developing beautiful and highly-amenitized communities at a competitive price point. This winning combination makes Soleste Blue Lagoon an attractive and dynamic option for high-quality, professional tenants.”
Like all projects within the Soleste Living brand portfolio, Soleste Blue Lagoon is curated with a vast collection of health and wellness offerings and social components, including a lakeside pool with spa, sundeck and private cabanas, co-ed spa with steam room and sauna, aerial yoga studio, state-of-the-art health and fitness club, spinning room with digital fitness instruction, rooftop garden with life-size chess, hammock and yoga lawn, and an electric car charging station.
This milestone comes on the heels of the firm’s grand opening of Soleste Twenty2, a 338-unit rental community, which is also experiencing high velocities at the current price points.
The Estate Companies is on track to deliver an additional 519 units this year with Soleste Alameda and Soleste Bay Village and has an additional 2,196 units in its pipeline slated for delivery early next year. Notable upcoming projects include Soleste Bay Village, Soleste Grand Central and Soleste Spring Gardens, among others. Its project portfolio features a mix of garden-style, mid-rise and high-rise rental developments in Dade and Broward counties.
By Katya Demina
PEOPLE TO WATCH: Meet Our Panelist Joe Furst, Principal of Place Projects
Join us on March 5th at X Miami for People to Watch: Leaders in South Florida Real Estate, where Joe Furst will be discussing his long-term value creation play in Wynwood and other neighborhoods, how he’s managed to cultivate the right partnership structure in his deals, and why he’s selective about projects that fit his skills, a hybrid between controlled placemaking, development and operations, including hospitality.
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