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Golub Refinances Block 37 Office for $100M+

CHICAGO-Construction is complete on the 440,000-sf building, which houses tenants including Morningstar Inc. and CBS Channel 2 Chicago.

By Cari Brokamp | Updated on November 05, 2008

CHICAGO-Developer Golub & Co. has refinanced the completed 440,000-sf Block 37 office tower, at 22 W. Washington, moving from a $115 million construction loan to a longer-term loan. The 17-story tower has now reached 90% occupied, according to Michael Newman, CEO of Golub. The amount of the new loan is more than $100 million.

The company built the tower in recent years on a construction loan, and always planned to refinance following the building’s completion in June, Newman says. “In our normal program and plan we would have refinanced, and it was really time to get off the construction loan and move into more of a regular loan,” Newman tells GlobeSt.com. “It’s a really tough time refinancing, but we thought the time was right to get a good loan for a longer period that helps stabilize the loan. We had some time left on our construction loan, but we didn’t want to wait closer to the maturity date of the construction loan because of the instability of the market.”

Newman says rates are higher than the company originally expected when planning for the eventual refinancing, but it was able to negotiate with ING Real Estate Finance US to what they consider a successful refinancing of the mortgage nevertheless. The original mortgage on the property was issued by Bank of America.

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