Top Stories: July 2011

Conrad and McEvoy of The Conrad Group broker 86,000 s/f lease for SSEC, project team includes Roth & Seelen, Inc. and Coler & Colantonio Corkery and Reardon of CBRE/NE rep. The Hampshire Cos. in 55,000 s/f; Burgess Properties and Stubblebine Co. co-broker CBRE sells phase 1 of Northwest Business Park to Danais Realty Group for $2.8m; Danais plans to build 1.2m s/f of office, R&D and whse./dist. space Valentine Group leases 102,798 s/f for Merrimack Valley Wood Products Vear Commercial represents tenant, Total Air Supply Fallon Co. breaks ground at Fan Pier for 1.1 million s/f Vertex Pharmaceuticals HQ, 50 Northern Ave. designed by Tsoi/Kobus Paul McInnis, Inc. sells Mt. Washington 18-hole golf course for $10.5m and Mt. Pleasant 9-hole golf course and 500 acres of development land Shawmut D&C breaks ground on Taco's innovation & development center $18 million expansion/renovation; designed by Baker Design Grp. Luca of Residential Props. reps seller, 144 Wayland Assoc., Moore of Peter M. Scotti & Assoc. sells 16,000 s/f office - $800,000 Clough and Whelan of Fantini & Gorga arrange $25.25m financing for S. Cape Village; 156,000 s/f shopping center developed by C. Talanian Realty Sidel and Sheehan of EagleBridge Capital arrange $10m financing for 9/27 Shopping Center owned by Finard Properties Bernkopf Goodman assists Horizon Beverage Co. in $21 million purchase of 404,000 s/f General Motors Distribution Center and adjoining land Davis of Trevor Davis Commercial Real Estate completes four leases including 31,800 s/f to Alpine Environmental Services, LLC Suffolk celebrates topping off of $32m visual arts center at Dartmouth College; 106,000 s/f designed for LEED Gold by Machado and Silvetti Assoc. ARC and Suffolk celebrate top-off of 500,000 s/f Albert Sherman Center designed to achieve LEED Silver certification Matthews Commercial Props. brokers $2.2m sale to Wellpath, Inc. at 141 East Main St., Waterbury; Moriarty Building Associates is the seller Wettenstein of Vidal/Wettenstein brokers 8,800 s/f whse./dist. lease between Ecologic Energy Solutions and Brentwood R.J. Finlay & Co. acquires 112,000 s/f Indian Head Plaza at 30 Temple St., Nashua, N.H. for $4.3 million brokered by Cushman & Wakefield of N.H. Development Associates completes 22,700 s/f in leases in Mass. and Conn. including Ti-Wire Engineering Solutions Inc. leasing 3,000 s/f Columbia Construction's Martha's Vineyard Hospital, a Partner's Healthcare affiliate, recently celebrated the award of LEED Gold Certification Forsyth Institute's 65,000 s/f new headquarters and research facilities renovation designed by ARC receives LEED Silver Certification Weissman of Boston Realty Advisors sells 2 retail condos on Charles St., Beacon Hill; Silverston of Prudential Real Estate reps tax-exchange buyer Klemmer and Brodigan of Klemmer Assoc. sell 33,000 s/f industrial building; Spinella of Minco reps seller, GEM Group Realty Horvath, Tremblay of Marcus & Millichap sell Mansfield Marketplace for $10.375 million; Hecht Develo. sells 23,840 s/f retail to Davos Family Trust McWeeney of WS Development signs Aldi to 20,075 s/f at the 232,000 s/f Stateline shopping Center in Salem, NH