300 Kimball in Parsippany changes hands for $88M

MORRISTOWN, N.J. – Dec. 27, 2022 – JLL Capital Markets announced today that it has completed the $88 million sale of 300 Kimball, an approximate 430,000-square-foot, trophy office property in Parsippany, New Jersey.

JLL represented the owner, Sovereign Partners, LLC, in the sale of the property to Signature Acquisitions. JLL also handled the prior sale from State Farm to Sovereign Partners in 2019, in addition to having sold Signature Acquisitions the adjacent building (100 Kimball) in 2019.

Completed in 2001 and renovated in 2020 and 2013, 300 Kimball is a five-story office property that is 87% leased to a variety of tenants, including anchors FM Global, Langan Engineering, embecta and Western World Insurance/AIG. The building is LEED Silver-certified, a recipient of the BOMA Building of the Year award and offers tenants an outstanding variety of features and amenities such as an impressive granite façade, dramatic atrium lobbies, state-of-the-art fitness center with locker rooms and golf simulator, full-service cafeteria with expansive seating, tenant lounge/game room with after-hours grab and go food service, modern conference center, outdoor patio with putting green, electric car charging stations, walking trail and ample covered parking including a separate gated executive section.

300 Kimball Drive is situated on 9.29 acres near the intersection of Interstates 80 and 287, within a four-building, 850,000-square-foot office park called The Center of Morris County. The property benefits from strong visibility along I-80 and is widely considered one of the absolute best office assets in the Parsippany submarket.

The JLL Capital Markets team representing the seller was led by Senior Managing Directors Kevin O’Hearn, Jose Cruz and Jeremy Neuer and Analyst Peter Kim.

According to O’Hearn, “We’re thrilled to have assisted two long term, highly valued clients of the firm in a single transaction, Sovereign Partners with the successful execution of their value-add business strategy for the asset, and Signature Acquisitions with the strategic purchase of their second building in the office park. Additionally, this transaction is reflective of the flight-to-quality trend that we’re seeing in office space – generally the top assets in each submarket continue to perform well, and Parsippany is no different.”

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Sovereign Partners is a real estate investment firm that specializes in the acquisition and management of high-quality office assets and opportunistic debt throughout the United States. Sovereign’s real estate team draws on a deep knowledge of real estate fundamentals and capital markets to acquire properties and loans throughout the country, and is currently highly focused on acquiring Class-A office properties in both urban and suburban markets.

Since 2015, Signature Acquisitions has acquired more than $700 million of assets and approximately five million square feet throughout the Northeast. In recent years, the firm shed many of its non-strategic assets and concentrated the majority of its acquisitions on Class-A office buildings, primarily in Suburban New Jersey, and Long Island New York.