TOWSON TIME

Wow—Tuesday was our first day over 80 degrees since last summer, and yesterday saw 2011?s first Towson office sale over $10M. Are we on a hot streak or what?
LaSalle Investment Management sold 100 West Rd for $18.7M to TA Associates Realty in an all-cash deal. CBRE's Bo Cashman (who repped the seller with Jonathan Beard) tells us the deal?s a sign that we're headed back to normal yearly volume in office sales ($400M to $500M a year). Bo says the 88% leased, 121k SF building got 10 bids; its biggest tenants include KLNB and JP Morgan. LaSalle owned the building for 10 years, Bo says, and felt it was a good time to sell the LEED Gold asset.
More good news for Towson: yesterday the Maryland Dept. of Business & Economic Development offered Stanley Black & Decker a $1M conditional loan for its $12M renovation of 701 East Joppa Rd. What's the condition? DBED?s Tim Doyle says SB&D has to keep the Towson building's 1,100 employees and 200 workers in other locations across the state, among other requirements. Tim says the state's motivation is to preserve jobs. Wondering about the picture? That's SB&D exec Jeffery Ansell, DBED secretaryChristian Johansson, and Baltimore County exec Kevin Kamenetzchecking out a SB&D drill used on the Apollo moon landings.

Continue reading this story with a free account

Log in or register
Sign up for more articles like this
Subscribe to Bisnow's Baltimore Newsletters
Related Stories

Federal Government To Sell Nearly 31K SF In Five Points: The Denver Deal Sheet

Avison Young Had Assets Frozen By Bank Over Unpaid Taxes

270-Unit Manassas Gated Community Sells: The D.C. Deal Sheet

Artificial Intelligence Companies Reshaping Dublin Office Demand As OpenAI Confirms HQ

Mars Factory Overhaul Stalls As Candymaker's Chicago Expansion Accelerates

Camden Property Trust Sells West Coast Portfolio, Clears $1.5B Target

Empire State Building Observation Deck Hemorrhaging Visitors, Value

Cortland, Pulte, INVH, Walker & Dunlop Execs Talk Changing Demographics, AI

BXP Closes In On Next D.C. Office Development As It Shrinks Assets

America's War Machine Is Growing, Sparking A Defense Real Estate Boom

Boca Raton's New Leaders Throwing 'All Kinds Of Curveballs' At Developers

CBRE Posts 16% Revenue Growth In Q2 As Data Center Business Shines