OCTOBER 15, 2014 NY Hotel Pitched to Redevelopers, Operators A Rockpoint Group partnership is offering a Times Square hotel that can be oper- 2 Fund Shop Eyes Gain on SF Offices ated as is, expanded or torn down to make way for a mixed-use project with up to 900,000 square feet. 3 Luxury DC Rentals Up for Grabs Assigning a value to the 689-room Manhattan at Times Square is tricky because 3 Duke Deals Pack of Small Warehouses of the multiple potential investment strategies. But market pros expect bids to reach at least $500 million. The offering provides a rare opportunity for ground-up devel- 3 Och-Ziff Vehicle Hits Equity Ceiling opment at a prime Midtown Manhattan site that takes up a city block. Rockpoint, a Boston fund shop, and its partners have given the listing to Eastdil Secured. 4 Expandable Yonkers Rentals Available The property occupies the short block from West 51st to West 52nd Streets, 4 Northern Va. Apartments Offer Upside between Broadway and Seventh Avenue. Rockpoint teamed up with Highgate Hold- ings of Dallas and Goldman Sachs in October 2012 to acquire the hotel for $275 4 Downtown Chicago Offices for Sale million from Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide of Stamford, Conn. A buyer could continue to operate the 22-story property as a hotel. It is being 6 US-Leased Office Portfolio Listed offered unencumbered by both brand and management contracts. Starwood gave 6 Rare Industrial Offering on Tap in DC See HOTEL on Page 9 6 First Potomac Exiting Richmond Blackstone Swoops In, Targets Hotel Portfolio 8 Industrial Bundle Rolled Out in Tampa Blackstone is negotiating to pick up another large portfolio of mostly select-ser- 8 Carr Lists Class-A Virginia Offices vice hotels from OTO Development. The 2,385-room package is valued at roughly $325 million. OTO, a builder based 10 Shopping Center Near LA on Block in Spartanburg, S.C., listed the 19 hotels with JLL, and marketing materials began to 10 Builder Offers Retail Center in Texas circulate last month. But the campaign has been put on hold, with investors being told that a buyer stepped in with a pre-emptive offer. 11 Offices in Portland, Ore., on Block If the talks with Blackstone lead to a deal, it will be the second time this year that the New York fund giant has scooped up a large portfolio from OTO. In March, 11 MARKET SPOTLIGHT the developer sold Blackstone 15 properties totaling 1,856 rooms for $337 million. At the time, market pros said Blackstone’s offer had come early in that marketing campaign, also run by JLL. THE GRAPEVINE The two companies’ relationship goes back a decade. OTO was formed in 2004 by the former leadership at Extended Stay America, shortly after that company sold its Colliers International has hired John See BLACKSTONE on Page 8 Ogburn as a senior vice president in its new investor-services group. The unit will Deutsche Team to Acquire West Loop Tower provide large investors with a single point- of-contact for the firm’s capital markets, A Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management partnership has tentatively agreed to property-management and brokerage buy a Chicago office tower from TIER REIT for just over $300 million, including the services. Ogburn starts next week as the swap of another building. group’s relationship manager. He held a Deutsche and its partner, Lincoln Property of Dallas, would reap an initial annual similar position at CBRE, where he worked yield of just below 6% on the purchase of the 1.2 million-square-foot Fifth Third for more than two decades. Colliers tapped Center, at 222 South Riverside Plaza. HFF is advising TIER, a Dallas nontraded REIT. Karen Whitt, who oversees real estate man- In a twist, the Deutsche team would fund part of the purchase price by transfer- agement services, to take on the additional ring a 196,000-sf Dallas building that it owns to TIER. Market pros estimate that role of president of investor services. property, at 5950 Sherry Lane in the Preston Center area, is worth about $325/sf, or $64 million. CBRE Global Investors has added Jake The Deutsche partnership’s offer pre-empted a marketing campaign for the West Mota to its value-added team. He Loop building, which was slated to go on the block last month. 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That team sold team sold That York. New of Social SecurityAdministration Skout Government Accountability Government (15,000 sf until October until (15,000sf (20,000 sf until 2019), until (20,000sf Rearden Commerce Rearden JLL. JLL. of Chicago sold sold Chicago of Sterling Equi Occupancy Eastdil Eastdil Equity Equity Hines 2 - - - - - October 15, 2014 Real Estate 3 ALERT Luxury DC Rentals Up for Grabs big-box buildings, the offered properties are well-suited for the smaller tenants in the automotive, housing and medical sectors A new luxury apartment complex is on the market in one of that are driving demand in the Midwest. Washington’s up-and-coming neighborhoods. The portfolio has 147 tenants, with a weighted average The 603-unit property, at 151 Q Street NE, is 95% occu- remaining lease term of four years. Some are investment- pied. It could attract bids of about $400,000/unit, or $241 mil- grade companies, such as Cardinal Health, Chicago Title, FedEx, lion. At that price, the capitalization rate would be about 5%. Johnson Controls, Verizon, Walgreens and Xerox. The rent roll HFF is marketing the property for a partnership between Mill also includes Chrysler, Monsanto, T-Mobile and Tribune Media. Creek Residential of Hempstead, N.Y., and Berkshire Property The portfolio’s 2.5 million sf of properties in Indianapolis of Boston. are 96% leased and generate net operating income of $8.5 mil- The marketing campaign touts the complex’s location in the lion. At the other end of the spectrum, the smallest portion is neighborhood called NoMa, or north of Massachusetts Avenue. in Norfolk (466,000 sf) and is just 36% leased. The section, bounded by New Jersey Avenue and North Capitol The St. Louis component totals 888,000 sf, but 58% of that Street to the west and Q and R Streets to the east, has seen sev- is office space, as opposed to 21% for the portfolio overall. The eral billion dollars of retail, office and apartment development remaining properties are spread among Minneapolis (692,000 in recent years, spurred by the opening of a Metro station.