| Cassidy Turley's Jon Carpenter (with MCB Real Estate co-founder David Bramble at a Bisnow event last year) tells us Goldman Sachs affiliate Archon's purchase of a 216k SF Columbia office portfolio is a contrarian play for the buyer. That's because it's suburban, but Archon has a DC office that gets the unique demand drivers (we're talking about federal cybersecurity spending) in the DC-Baltimore tweener 'burbs. Jon and colleague Jay Wellschlager repped the seller, Goldstar Group, closing out its fund with this last asset. Jon also says Archon is developing a BWI-area property, partially leased to Ciena, which will complement its '08-vintage Station Ridge there. |
Archon's four new buildings, known as Lakeview I and II, sold for $30.2M, or $139k/SF, low on the price-per-SF spectrum of recent Columbia deals. But Lakeview is older (built in the '80s) and needs capital—something Archon has and is willing to part with—for both improvements and TIs as lease-up gets under way, not to mention several leases rolling within three years. Other recent Columbia deals, all facilitated by Cassidy Turley (note the higher prices):
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