Sunday, June 19, 2022

BakerHostetler continues impressive growth with real estate team addition in Atlanta

Amy Bridwell

ATLANTA, GA --

  • Josiah Bancroft, Robert Bittner and Amy Bridwell join BakerHostetler’s Real Estate Practice Group team, bringing with them two associates.
Josiah Bancroft
  • Bancroft and Bittner join as partners in the firm’s Business Practice Group and, together with counsel Amy Bridwell, are the latest in a string of strategic transactional partner and counsel additions.
Robert Bittner 
  • Their arrival marks nearly 40 attorneys added since 2020 to the firm’s Atlanta office, which most recently welcomed a team of white-collar attorneys led by partners Brian McEvoy and Brian Rafferty and securities and financial litigation counsel Kurt Lentz.
 Elise Barajas


Why this matters


Bancroft, Bittner and Bridwell are highly regarded real estate attorneys with vast experience, ranging from retail and office to industrial and hospitality. 


Margaret Butler

Joining from an AmLaw 100 firm, this full-service team bolsters BakerHostetler’s real estate capabilities both in Atlanta and across the United States. 

Their arrival follows the addition of several high-profile business attorneys including Elise Barajas in Dallas, Margaret Butler in New York, Michael Cortez in Houston, Brian Mulcahy in Chicago and Stephen Ruscus in Washington, D.C.


Key quotes


Joann Gallagher Jones

“In the past two years, we have greatly expanded our capabilities in Atlanta. The arrival of Josiah, Robert, Amy and their team continues that trend and will help us better serve our clients in the region and nationally,” said Joann Gallagher Jones, managing partner of the firm’s Atlanta office.

Wendy Markham

“Atlanta is an important real estate market, and we are thrilled to welcome experienced practitioners in this team. They will be an asset to our clients and will become an integral part of our multidisciplinary real estate practice,” said Wendy Markham, chair of the firm’s real estate practice.


 

CONTACTS


Courtney B. Smith
202-861-1514

cbsmith@bakerlaw.com

bakerlaw.com


Connect with us on Twitter at @BakerHostetler or on LinkedIn at

@BakerHostetler, @JosiahBancroft, @RobertBittner, @AmyBridwell, @JohnAllotta, @JoannGallagherJones and @WendyMarkham.


https://www.bakerlaw.com/BusinessCorporate. 

Murphy Development sells two industrial buildings at Brown Field Technology Park in Otay Mesa Area of San Diego, CA

  

Kaitlin M. Arduino


SAN DIEGO, CA – Murphy Development Company (MDC) has sold two industrial buildings, Building A, a 105,457-square-foot building, and Building C, a 124,223-square-foot building, at Brown Field Technology Park (BFTP), a 52-acre corporate industrial and office park that flanks SR-905 at the Britannia Boulevard on/off ramp in the Otay Mesa area of San Diego, California. 

Andy Irwin
Hines acquired the buildings on behalf of the Hines U.S. Property Partners Fund (“HUSPP” or the “Fund”), the firm’s flagship commingled U.S. core plus fund.


The Fund is also under contract to acquire an additional two buildings at BFTP, totaling 203,244 square feet, with construction completion scheduled for Q2 2023.

JLL’s Andy Irwin, Joe Anderson and Greg Lewis represented MDC in the sale of the buildings along with Cushman & Wakefield’s Jeff Chiate, Jeffrey Cole and Bryce Aberg.  Irwin, Anderson and Lewis continue to oversee leasing at BFTP’s other buildings.


Joe Anderson
“With continued growth of ecommerce, onshoring and tight industrial markets, we saw very strong demand from users and investors for Brown Field Technology Park,” said Kaitlin M. Arduino, president of MDC. 

“We will continue to deliver premier industrial buildings at BFTP as interest in South San Diego County near the border grows.”

BFTP is ideally located for business, adjacent to Brown Field Airport and positioned within a U.S. Department of Commerce Foreign Trade Zone which offers important tax incentives for companies.


Jeffrey Cole 


Its flexible design allows for industrial, R&D, office, manufacturing and corporate engineering buildings. The SR-905 freeway features a diamond interchange at the entrance to BFTP on Britannia Boulevard and has convenient access to the I-805 and I-5 Freeways, and the South Bay Expressway (SR 125 Toll Road). 

Building A and Building C feature 32-foot clear heights, 4,000 amps of 277/480 volt power, manufacturing sewer and water capacity, ESFR sprinklers, concrete truck courts, wide column spacing, and high dock door ratios designed for distribution users.

Bryce Aberg

"The Otay Mesa industrial submarket was the strongest in the county in the first quarter with over 770,000 square feet of positive absorption and a vacancy of historic low vacancy of 2.3 percent," said Irwin. 

 "Nearshoring to Mexico and a meteoric rise in rents in the adjacent Southern California industrial markets has attracted e-commerce, logistics, warehousing, and manufacturing to this submarket.”

 

 

 

 CONTACT:

 


David Ebeling

Ebeling Communications

949.861.8351

949.278.7851 (Cell)

david@ebelingcomm.com

Member of the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE)

“PR Strategist for the Commercial Real Estate Industry:  I do what I love and love what I do.”

 

Native Realty Expands Agent Roster with Addition of Adam Docktor

 

 Adam Docktor

 FORT LAUDERDALE, FL –– Native Realty, the Jaime Sturgis-led real estate firm that is disrupting the industry and placemaking South Florida’s hottest neighborhoods, added another passionate Fort Lauderdale native with substantial real estate brokerage experience to its growing team.

 

 New Associate Adam Docktor specializes in retail leasing and investment sales in emerging markets.

 

Prior to joining Native, Docktor was a Real Estate Advisor with Compass. His previous affiliations include Re/Max and Mizner Bass Realty.



Docktor has been active in downtown Fort Lauderdale, where he just represented both sides of the $3 million sale of a Flagler Village property and served as a tenant representative in ice cream parlor Razzleberry’s new lease in Fort Lauderdale’s Victoria Park.

 

A graduate of Florida State University’s College of Business, Docktor earned a bachelor's degree in Real Estate.

 

 CONTACT:

 

Eric Kalis

Vice President, BoardroomPR

ekalis@boardroompr.com

O 954-370-8999 

C 305-794-5123

Bank of America Plaza | 1776 N Pine Island Road

Suite 320 | Fort Lauderdale, FL 33322

Web | Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram

www.nativerealty.com.

 

Entertainment company acquires 25,420 SF creative studio and office building in Los Angeles, CA for $8.625 million

 

                                   Nicole Mihalka
LOS ANGELES, CA – JLL announced XTR, a premium global nonfiction entertainment studio, has acquired BelleVarado Studios, a 25,420-square-foot freestanding creative studio and office complex located at 601-611 N. Alvarado Street and 2103-2127 Bellevue Avenue in Los Angeles for $8.625 million. 


                                         Caitlyn Ross

XTR will use the space for its headquarters which includes production and post-production facilities, a sound stage, recording studio and offices.

                                       Craig Ekedahl 

JLL’s Nicole Mihalka and Caitlyn Ross represented the seller, PAME 22, LLC. XTR was represented by Craig Ekedahl and Julie Spiker of Maisonre.

"We continue to see explosive demand for studio space in Los Angeles and content creators looking for places to grow,” said Mihalka, JLL Managing Director. “This was the perfect campus for XTR to expand their content on their own studio lot”

Julie Spiker

BelleVarado Studios is ideally located in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles, adjacent to the US 101 Freeway, providing convenient access to Hollywood, Downtown Los Angeles and neighboring communities.

BelleVarado Studios
 
601-611 North Alvarado Street
 and 2103-2127 Bellevue Avenue
 in Los Angeles, CA
 


 
It features high ceilings, concrete floors, exposed brick, bow-truss ceilings and a freestanding sound Stage with 18-foot clear height.

CONTACT:

David Ebeling

Ebeling Communications

949.861.8351

949.278.7851 (Cell)

david@ebelingcomm.com

Member of the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE)

“PR Strategist for the Commercial Real Estate Industry:  I do what I love and love what I do.”

jll.com.