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Newmark has completed the sale of the condominium interest for the Office Unit in Broadway Tower, a newly constructed mixed-use tower comprised of best-in-class office space and a 180-room Radisson RED hotel. The hotel unit was not a part of the transaction. The property is 99% leased to stalwart tenants including Amazon, Markowitz Herbold, Cable Huston and Lawyers’ Title.
Newmark’s Vice Chairman Nick Kucha, Managing Director James Childress and Director Jeff Hodson represented the seller, BDC/Broadway Office LLC, in cooperation with Co-Head of U.S. Capital Markets Kevin Shannon and Senior Financial Analyst James Ikeguchi. The buyer, Principal Real Estate Investors, was self-represented.
“We received a number of offers from qualified foreign and domestic groups who were searching for best-in-class office assets that provided a better yield premium over the west coast gateway markets such as Seattle and San Francisco,” said Childress.
The Broadway Tower Office Unit is a LEED Gold high-rise office tower that offers 11 floors of premium Class A office space with exclusive decks on the top three floors and sweeping views of the city. The 17,000 square-foot floorplates, open design, and floor- to ceiling-window lines enabled the delivery of efficient multi-tenant and single-tenant floors with abundant natural light.
Kucha added, “Broadway Tower is one of the most successful ground-up developments in the city’s history and is a prime example of high-quality real estate attracting high-quality tenancy. BPM Real Estate Group, led by its Founder/Principal Walter Bowen, are the developers of the property and did a phenomenal job with this project, which resulted in the property delivering 94% pre-leased in November of 2018 to a diverse roster of tenants.”
The property’s prominent downtown location on Broadway and SW Columbia is adjacent to Portland’s rapidly expanding Portland State University and within a few blocks of several transit options including the Portland Streetcar, MAX light rail, and the TriMet bus mall. There are a several walkable shopping and dining options nearby and the property is located directly across the street from Amazon’s first and largest presence in Portland at 1320 Broadway.
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