General News
Weingarten Realty Investors Adds to Portfolio
January 11, 2001 HOUSTON – Weingarten Realty Investors (NYSE:WRI ) purchased five properties in the last two weeks of 2000, investing about $80 million and adding over 1 million square feet to its portfolio.The purchases and new developments bring WRI's...
SiteStuff Buys RexOffice.com
January 11, 2001 AUSTIN, Texas – SiteStuff Inc. has acquired RexOffice.com in a stock-for-stock exchange transaction. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Through the acquisition, Austin, Texas-based SiteStuff, a procurement site for owners and operators of commercial and multifamily...
Station Casinos Paid $170 Mln in Cash for Fiesta Casino in Vegas
January 10, 2001 (NewsTraders.com) – Gaming concern Station Casinos (NYSE:STN), which recently closed on its purchase of Fiesta Casino Hotel, revealed in a Tuesday filing that it paid $170 million in cash for the North Las Vegas, Nev., property, $15...
Southern Calif. Carrier Hotel Leased
January 10, 2001 By Brad Berton, Commercial Real Estate Direct Contributing WriterSBC Services has leased a 150,000-square-foot industrial telecom property in Irvine, Calif., for 10 years in a deal valued at $27 million, or $18/sf annually.SBC, a San Antonio-based telecom...
GMAC Snags B-piece of Year’s First Large Life Deal
January 10, 2001 By Thomas J. Walsh, Commercial Real Estate Direct Senior WriterGMAC Commercial Mortgage Corp. seems to be picking up where it left off last year, when it comes to buying subordinate commercial mortgage-backed securities. Word has it that...
Fitch Rates BRE Properties’ $250M Sr Note Offering
January 10, 2001 NEW YORK – Fitch has assigned its triple-B-plus rating to BRE Properties Inc.'s (NYSE:BRE) recent offering of $250 million, 7.45 percent senior unsecured notes due 2011.The San Francisco-based equity REIT plans to use proceeds to reduce bank...
Aventis Signs for More Space in Bridgewater, N.J.
January 10, 2001 PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Aventis Pharmaceuticals has signed a lease for more than 400,000 square feet of office space comprising two-thirds of Bridgewater Crossing, a to-be-built office complex in Somerset County, N.J.Terms of the long-term lease were not...
Pyramid Realty Hires Property Broker
January 10, 2001 Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportPyramid Realty Capital Corp., a boutique real estate advisory firm in Coral Gables, Fla., has hired a property broker to broaden its scope into the brokerage field.Pyramid, which was formed by former...
Partners Pay $151/sf for Irvine Office Complex
January 10, 2001 IRVINE, Calif. – CMG Real Estate and WCB Properties have paid Voit Cal Portfolio Partners I $9.2 million, or about $151/sf, for a two-building office complex at 2400/2402 Michelson Plaza.The new owners, both of Newport Beach, Calif.,...
Suburban Dallas Office Building Fetches $152/sf
January 10, 2001 FRISCO, Texas – A Canadian firm has paid about $16.5 million, or $152/sf, for a 108,340-square-foot office building.The Western Group bought the Comstock Tower at Stonebriar from Town & Country Development LLC.The Class-A office building was built...
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