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Esperanté Corporate Center Lands $145M Refinance As Related Ross Doubles Down On West Palm

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Related Ross and its investment partners have secured a $145 million refinancing for Esperanté Corporate Center, a downtown West Palm Beach office property.

The borrowing group—led by Steve Ross’ West Palm-based Related Ross and joined by JZ Capital Partners and Greenmont Group—obtained the new loan from Hudson Bay Capital Management, according to a company announcement. Eastdil Secured arranged the financing.

The 17-story Esperanté building, located at 222 Lakeview Avenue, totals 256,000 square feet and dates to 1989. The refinancing equates to roughly $566 per square foot.

The ownership team recently completed an $8 million upgrade to the property. The tower is fully leased, with a roster that includes Bank of America, Balyasny Asset Management, and Blue Sea Capital.

Ross first acquired an interest in Esperanté in 2021, early in his broader expansion strategy in downtown West Palm. The property sits next to One Flagler, Related Ross’s newly delivered office tower, and is also close to Phillips Point, the office complex Ross acquired in 2021 for $282 million.

Crocker Partners, Rialto Pay $179M For Boca Raton Innovation Campus

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Crocker Partners and Rialto Capital Management just paid $179.3 million for the Boca Raton Innovation Campus, in the biggest office sale in the tri-county region since 2016.

The joint venture purchased IBM’s former sprawling tech office complex at 4800-5002 T-Rex Avenue from Farallon Capital Management and Next Tier HD, according to Real Capital Analytics.

Eastdil Secured brokered the deal.

The 1.68-million-square-foot office park sits on 123 acres in Boca Raton near I-95. It was developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s by IBM as its North American Research and Development facility. IBM closed it in 1996.

Boca Raton Innovation Campus is about 71 percent occupied to tenants that include Bluegreen Corp., Tyco Integrated Security, TransUnion, and Modernizing Medicine, according to RCA.

Portions of the office campus could be redeveloped. The Palm Beach Post reported last year that Farallon and Next Tier were working with the city of Boca Raton to rezone parts of the property to allow for 720 apartments, 20 townhomes, a 120-room hotel and 81,000 square feet of retail space. A number of office parks in South Florida are being redeveloped to include apartments, retail and hotels, like the Park at Broken Sound in Boca Raton.

The property last sold for $128.7 million in 2015, according to RCA.

In 2017, the largest office sale was Rockpoint Group’s $155 million purchase of 1221 Brickell in Miami.

Boca Raton-based Crocker Partners owns 24 properties with an estimate value of $2.1 billion. The majority of the investment firm’s portfolio is in Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties. Rialto is owned by Lennar Corp.

The Boca Raton Innovation Campus deal is the first partnership for Crocker Partners and Rialto, according to RCA.

 

WPB’s CityPlace Tower Fetches $150M

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About four months after going on the market, CityPlace Tower in West Palm Beach changed hands for $150 million.

KBS REIT II sold the trophy office building in West Palm Beach to  W.R. Berkley Corp., a Connecticut insurer. A spokeswoman said the office tower is the company’s first investment in Florida.

The Newport Beach, Calif.-based non-traded real estate investment trust paid $126.5 million for the 296,000-square-foot Class A tower in April 2011. Palm Beach County has not recorded the transaction.

The 18-story tower is part of the CityPlace mixed-use project, which has 474,000 square feet of retail and entertainment space to go along with 149,000 square feet of restaurants.

“CityPlace Tower is a recently developed asset that benefits from its high-quality construction and its location in an established mixed-use project in West Palm Beach,” KBS senior vice president/market leader Allen Aldridge said. “This was a solid asset in KBS REIT II’s portfolio and we believe it made for an attractive investment to numerous buyers throughout this process.”

Eastdil Secured marketed the building on behalf of KBS

 

Source: The Real Deal