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Amazon-Leased Palo Alto Offices Refinanced for $32M

Gantry secured a $32-million permanent loan to refinance 611 Cowper St., a class A midrise office building in downtown Palo Alto. Principal Jeff Wilcox and associate Andrew Ferguson with Gantry’s San Francisco production office represented the borrower, a private real estate investor. The 8.5-year, non-recourse, fixed rate loan was secured with a national insurance company lender

The LEED Silver-certified property offers a total of 30,000 square feet of leasable office space across three floors, above two subterranean levels of parking. The property is 100% leased to Amazon in a long-term agreement.  In 2022, the City of Palo Alto recognized the project with an Architectural Excellence Award for the project’s unique and sustainable mixed-use design.

Wilcox said, “While office assets continue to face strong headwinds in the current market cycle, conditions are improving. Gantry continues to have success engaging a growing roster of lenders on quality office projects and successfully refinancing maturing office debt for performing assets with stable permanent loans.”

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About Paul Bubny

Paul Bubny serves as Senior Content Director for Connect Commercial Real Estate, a role to which he brings 16-plus years’ experience covering the commercial real estate industry and 30-plus years in business-to-business journalism. In this capacity, he oversees daily operations while also reporting on both local/regional markets and national trends, covering individual transactions across all property types, as well as delving into broader subject matter. He produces 7-10 daily news stories per day and works with the Connect team and clients to develop longer-form content, ranging from Q&As to thought-leadership pieces. Prior to joining Connect, Paul was Managing Editor for both Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com at American Lawyer Media, where he oversaw operations at both publications while also producing daily news and feature-length articles. His tenure in B2B publishing stretches back into the print era, and he has served as Editor in Chief on four national trade publications. Since 1999, Paul has volunteered as the newsletter editor of passenger rail advocacy groups (one national, one local).

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