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Toymaker Buys 214,000-SF Office Building

CHICAGO-A JV between US Equities Realty and Prudential Real Estate Investors reportedly sold 600 W. Fulton St. to Tiger Electronics founder Randy Rissman.

By Gina Kenny | Updated on February 08, 2007

CHICAGO-A joint venture of US Equities Realty and Prudential Real Estate Investors has sold the 214,000 sf office building at 600 W. Fulton St. to a private investor. The property was reportedly sold for nearly $32 million to Capital Holdings LLC, based in Northbrook. The private equity company is led by Randy Rissman, founder of Tiger Electronics Inc., which made Furby’s, and was sold to Hasbro in 1998.

Jim Whittington, managing director of investments at US Equities, along with Jason Gill and Keith Gray, with US Equities, brokered the sale and assisted the owner with acquiring acquisition financing. Whittington would not disclose the owner or the sales price, and a spokesperson for US Equities Realty would not confirm or deny the buyer or the price. The buyer is a “high net worth investor that is looking for capital appreciation but also a current return,” Whittington says.

The nine-story timber loft building consists of about 200,000 sf of office space and about 14,000 sf of storage. The building has a “high stable occupancy” of 96% with architectural firm Epstein and Sons International as one of major tenants in the building, Whittington says. “The current market rate is about $22 [per sf] gross and the average rate is probably a couple of dollars less than that,” Whittington tells GlobeSt.com.

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