{"id":11037,"date":"2017-07-07T07:41:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T07:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/?p=11037"},"modified":"2017-07-07T10:00:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T10:00:44","slug":"lingerfelt-52mil-houston-office-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/lingerfelt-52mil-houston-office-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Lingerfelt Buys Houston Office Building for $52M"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11042\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/YM_1700_Loop02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11042\" class=\"wp-image-11042 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/YM_1700_Loop02-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Burns&amp;McDonnell Plaza (courtesy of Yardi Matrix)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/commercial-real-estate\/us\/va\/richmond\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richmond, Va.<\/a>-based commercial real estate investment firm Lingerfelt Commonwealth Partners announced it has purchased the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/commercial-property\/us\/tx\/houston\/burns-mcdonnell-plaza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Burns &amp; McDonnell Plaza<\/a> in Houston, for $52 million.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/office\/us\/tx\/houston\/greater-uptown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Uptown Houston office<\/a> building is located at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/commercial-property\/us\/tx\/houston\/burns-mcdonnell-plaza\/\">1700 West Loop South<\/a> and includes an adjacent 786-space parking garage.<\/p>\n<p>Anchored by international engineering, architectural and consulting firm Burns &amp; McDonnell, the 272,941-square-foot office property is currently 81% occupied.<\/p>\n<p>Lingerfelt will operate the building through its vertically integrated operating platform. Commonwealth Commercial Partners will handle property management and Avison Young will be in charge of marketing and leasing.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Kraft, senior VP with Lingerfelt, stated: &#8220;Our company is excited to enter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/office\/us\/tx\/houston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Houston<\/a> at this time. We have been tracking the market and believe the basic fundamentals are strengthening. We look forward to exploring other opportunities and expanding our presence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richmond, Va.-based commercial real estate investment firm Lingerfelt Commonwealth Partners announced it has purchased the Burns &amp; McDonnell Plaza in Houston, for $52 million. The 15-story Uptown Houston office building is located at 1700 West Loop South and includes an adjacent 786-space parking garage. Anchored by international engineering, architectural and consulting firm Burns &amp; McDonnell,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":11041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[37,38,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial-real-estate-news","category-deals","category-office","wpautop"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lingerfelt Buys Houston Office Building for $52M - 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