Top Stories: September 2011

Lee and Lawrence of Colliers signs E Link Corp. to 139,180 s/f lease; Gutierrez Co. is landlord, Fainelli and Denoncourt rep. Biette and Giunta of Grubb & Ellis rep. Textile Building Trust in $12.8 million sale of 96,000 s/f to Synergy Investment & Development Abbot Building Restoration completes project at 12 Comm. Ave.; exterior renovations were preformed in two phases McKenzie, Lashar and Byrne of RBJ&P rep KBS in 110,194 s/f lease extension; Frisoli and McDonald of Cushman & Wakefield rep. tenant O'Brien of O'Brien Commercial Properties secures 5,700 s/f lease Concord Lumber to relocate to 1190 Liberty Square Rd. Hoxsie Props. sells 6,400 s/f Starbucks Plaza for $481.25 per s/f to Dover Street Garage; tenants include Papa Gino's, Verizon and Starbucks RPL Commercial leases 2,500 s/f at the renovated Design Exchange; former mill provides space for design entrepreneurs Sheehan and Sidel of EagleBridge Capital arrange $11.6 million mortgage financing for 1285 Beacon St. in Coolidge Corner MassHousing honors NE Moves Mortgage with top retail producer originating 150 first mortgages totaling $34.5 million Brady Sullivan Props. sells 60,000 s/f One Wall St. to 1100 Elm St., LLC for $6.2 million - 20,000 s/f to be occupied by Cross Insurance Aho of O'Brien Comm'l. Properties reps Vestas in purchase and lease; purchased 8.8 acres for $1.825 million from first Colony Realty Heery Int'l. celebrates topping off of $67.7 million Tewksbury High School; project team includes SMMA and CTA Ventures Peebles, Langlais, Pizzichemi, Cali and Myers join BKA Architects Peebles to serve as project architect Boyle and Perkoski of Chozick Realty broker $4.4m sale of Courtview Sq. Apts. 96-unit complex sold to Courtview Apartments LLC McMahon and Brimberg of O, R&L negotiate 24,100 s/f $1.5 million sale Easter Seals Goodwill Ind. buys 432 Washington Ave. Witten and Nolletti of Marcus & Millichap broker $4.1 million sale of Cooper Hill Apts.; Kaiman and Gruen of Wiggin and Dana rep buyer Glickman Kovago & Co. broker $1.575m sale and 7,500 s/f lease arranged by Johns, Cohen, Carl Burwick and David Burwick Unison Realty Partners buys Hannaford anchored Uxbridge Center for $11.25m Woodgreen Management Inc. sells 75,985 s/f shopping center Regazzini of Combined Properties renews nine leases totalling 21,903 s/f retail leases in malden's central business district Cathartes Private Investments and Nexamp to build $23m, 4.5 megawatt solar panel power field on 22- acre site in Westford, Mass. MIT's $142 million Sloan School of Management labeled greenest building on Cambridge campus; project team includes Bruner/Cott and VanZelm Alvarado, Parsons, Berger and Galvani of Parsons broker 2 leases - 11,602 s/f to Intercall Inc. and 20,000 s/f to Father and Son Moving McKenzie and Lipscomb of RBJ&P broker 4 leases totaling 35,940 s/f on behalf of the owners, AEW Capital Mgmt. & Griffith Props. Dagle Electrical provides services for Mass. Clean Energy Center's $1.2 million wind technology testing facility for turbine blade testing