NORTH BERGEN, NJ-CBRE has accomplished the sale of Liz Claiborne Inc.'s 20-year-old headquarters office building here to a Colorado company that will be looking to reposition it as a multi-tenant property. GlobeSt.com has learned the building sold for approximately $9.5 million.
CBRE's Institutional Group collaborated with its Midtown Manhattan and Saddle Brook offices to represent Fifth & Pacific Companies Inc. (the name for Liz Claiborne Inc. since last year) on the sale of 5901 West Side Avenue in North Bergen. The team also found the buyer, an affiliate of Real Capital Solutions of Louisville, CO.
The team of Jeffrey Dunne, Kevin Welsh and Brian Schulz partnered with with Amanda Bokman in Midtown and David Opper of CBRE's Saddle Brook office to sell the 296,554-square-foot building, developed to suit Liz Claiborne in 1993. The retail company was merged with JC Penney, becoming FNPC last year.
FNPC has renovated 100,000 square feet of space for itself at the West Side Avenue building, and will lease it back from Real Capital on a long-term basis, CBRE's Welsh tells GlobeSt.com. The company – which houses its legal, finance, logistics, IT and other support functions at the building – is the parent of clothing design labels that include Juicy Couture and Kate Spade.
Real Capital Solutions has made a name for itself investing in workout and distressed properties, but CBRE brokers say this is a different type of move for the company.
“The acquisition provided Real Capital Solutions with the unique opportunity to acquire a well-located, corporate headquarters-quality office building with excellent access to Midtown Manhattan and major highways,” Welsh says. The company saw a “substantial upside” in the opportunity to keep FNPC as a tenant and lease the vacant space is the way he put it.
The property is one of the newer buildings in the Meadowlands market, CBRE said while marketing it, and it possesses above-standard infrastructure.
Located just on the other side of the Lincoln Tunnel from Manhattan and two miles from the four-way interchange of the New Jersey Turnpike and Route 3, the building has highly divisible space suited for multiple tenants. It is also equipped with redundant electrical power and excess cooling and electrical capacity.
The headquarters-quality complex has a five-story lobby, conference center, full-service cafeteria, fitness center with locker rooms and showers, and ample parking – most of it covered.
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