Warren Office Space

WALTHAM, MA-Comcast Inc. has signed one of the bigger leases of 2007 in suburban Boston, with the telecommunications services provider committing to more than 60,000 sf at 309 Waverly Oaks Rd.

BOSTON-The Charlestown lease comes after a sluggish start to 2007 for Boston’s smallest office submarket.

COLLEYVILLE, TX-An investment group from San Francisco has outrun six other would-be buyers for the bulk of Colleyville Square by stepping up for the whole shebang instead of cherry-picking the five-building package.

BOSTON-Lexington Realty Trust has completed its purchase of 147 Milk St. in the city’s Financial District. The 10-story, 52,000-sf medical office building was sold by JER Partners for $20 million.

CANTON, MA-The APCA Property Fund I will purchase 110 Shawmut Rd., a 70,000-sf flex/industrial building here for $6.7 million. The fund was created by Paradigm Properties and the Ashforth Co. to be divested at the institutional level once $150 million in product is acquired and positioned to attract such capital.

CAMBRIDGE, MA-A lease pending in Kendall Square is offering further proof that the office market here has recovered from a prolonged--and atypical--slump, with technology firm ChoiceStream Inc. said to be taking upward of 40,000 sf at Two Cambridge Place.

BOSTON-The mystery buyer of 268 Summer St. has stepped forward, and the real estate investment group is already looking beyond the doorway of that eight-story, 68,000-sf office building. “We like Boston a lot,” says Costa Alexakos, who formed Aegean Capital LLC just weeks before grabbing the Summer Street asset for $16.3 million. “Its fair to say that is our core market right now.”

MALDEN, MA-Stag Capital Partners has completed its acquisition of 219 and 243 Medford St., a pair of office/manufacturing buildings fully leased to Palmer Manufacturing Co.

FOXBOROUGH, MA-There wasn't too much activity in the Interstate 495 South market in the opening days of 2007, but two deals aggregating 50,000 sf are getting the spring leasing season off on a positive note.

WORCESTER, MA-Capmark Finance Inc. has secured $16.9 million in financing to facilitate the purchase and repositioning of the Worcester Business Center.