JLL has been selected as the leasing partner for Bridge Investment Group’s subsidiary Bridge Office Fund Manager’s entire Minneapolis office portfolio, which includes eight office properties across the city—six buildings at West End Office Park and two buildings at Excelsior Crossings.
JLL’s leasing agents include Managing Director Brent Karkula, Vice President Andrea Leon and Senior Associate Laura Farrell. Bridge Commercial Real Estate LLC, Bridge Office’s operating company, oversees management of the portfolio.
West End Office Park features six Class-A creative office buildings totaling 560,000 square feet that have undergone a multi-million-dollar renovation, bringing the properties into a new light with modern finishes and amenities that tenants have embraced. The properties are located near the intersection of Interstate 394 and Highway 100, offering great visibility to tenants and proximity to many local amenities, while also being nestled within the heart of the West End neighborhood near biking and running trails, upscale living, and a walkable main street featuring shops, bars and restaurants.
West End Office Park, which is about 90 percent leased, offers an onsite fitness center, meeting rooms, expansive outdoor plaza and gaming areas for tenants. Those who are looking to venture offsite are within walking distance of restaurants, premium retail and upscale entertainment options at the open-air shopping center, The Shops at West End, including Punch Bowl Social, Icon Theatre, The Loop, Yard House, Lifetime Fitness and Cedar Point Retail.
JLL was also hired to market Bridge’s most recent Twin Cities acquisition, Excelsior Crossings. Excelsior Crossings is a three-building complex at the intersection of Highway 169 and Excelsior Boulevard and features high-profile tenants such as US Bank, Digi, Element and Michaels Foods. Bridge owns two of the three buildings in the complex and is in the planning stage for upgrading the building’s common areas and adding to the project’s extensive amenity package. Bridge plans to release more information on these upgrades in 2022. The buildings are currently 98 percent leased.
