Bill Barrack

JLL’s Bill Barrack was named winner of the Broker of the Year Leadership Award at the Boston-based Commercial Brokers Association’s 2015 Achievement Awards gala Thursday at the InterContinental Boston hotel.

Barrack’s team represented BNY Mellon in its 15-year lease extension for 250,000 square feet at One Boston Place, which was named the Boston office deal of the year. CBRE/New England represented owners TIAA-CREF and Ivanhoe Cambridge. Barrack, head of JLL’s New England leasing group, also took part in other major transactions in 2015 involving Prince Lobel Tye LLP and John Hancock Financial.

JLL’s Jordan Yarboro was named Rising Star of the Year. Yarboro, 28, has served as a senior research analyst, brokerage operations associate and associate broker on JLL’s North Suburban Leasing team. Yarboro took part in recent deals including Microsoft’s lease of 54,000 square feet at 5-15 Wayside Road in Burlington.

The annual event recognizes top transactions and leaders in the region’s commercial real estate industry. Other 2015 award winners were:

• Office deal of the year, Greater Cambridge: Sanofi/Genzyme. Sanofi/Genzyme signed a new build-to-suit lease with Alexandria Real Estate Equities for 263,000 square feet at 50 Binney St. in Kendall Square. The new 10-story building is expected to house up to 1,300 employees. Alexandria Real Estate Equities was represented by CBRE/New England; Sanofi/Genzyme was represented by J.M. Zell.
• Office deal of the year, suburban: EMD Millipore, Burlington. EMD Millipore signed a 15-year lease for 280,000 square feet of build-to-suit space at the Gutierrez Co.’s Burlington Summit. The Gutierrez Co. was represented by Cushman & Wakefield; EMD Millipore was represented by JLL.
• Retail deal of the year: Primark, Boston. Dublin-based apparel chain Primark leased 112,000 square feet in the Burnham Building in Boston’s Downtown Crossing from Millennium Partners. Millennium Partners and Primark were both represented by Cushman & Wakefield.
• Industrial deal of the year: Martignetti Warehouse, Taunton. Martignetti Cos. closed on an $11.5 million purchase of 115 acres in Taunton’s Myles Standish Industrial Park, where the beverage distributor plans to invest $100 million in a new 680,000-square-foot headquarters and distribution facility. Taunton Development/MassDevelopment Corp. was represented by NAI Hunneman; Martignetti was represented by CBRE/New England.
• Life science deal of the year: Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals leased 295,030 square feet at 675 West Kendall in Cambridge, the largest laboratory lease in Greater Boston in 2015. Brokered by Transwestern/RBJ, the 675 West Kendall deal between Alnylam and owner BioMed Realty Trust was an off-market transaction.
• Most creative deal of the year: Boston Landing, Brighton. The Boston Bruins signed a 25,000-square-foot lease at a planned 225,000-square-foot practice facility at 80 Guest St. being developed by NB Development Group and HYM Investments. The agreement provides the Bruins with 300 hours of ice time at the Warrior Rink, part of the 1.8-million-square-foot Boston Landing mixed-use project. NB Development Group and HYM Investments were represented by Transwestern/RBJ; the Bruins were represented by The Dartmouth Co.
• Investment sale: 222 Berkeley and 500 Boylston St., Boston. Eastdil Secured represented sellers Blackstone Group and Equity Office Properties and procured buyers Oxford Properties and JP Morgan for the $1.3 billion purchase, the largest single-asset investment sale in Boston history.
• Community impact: Amazon Distribution Facility, Fall River. NAI Hunneman represented the Fall River Redevelopment Authority in its sale of 77 acres in SouthCoast Life Science & Technology Park to Amazon for a 1.1-million-square-foot distribution center that will create more than 500 full-time jobs.
• Landlord of the Year: Samuels & Assoc. Samuels opened its new mixed-use office, residential and retail Van Ness complex last summer at 1325 Boylston St. in the Fenway, anchored by a 170,000-square-foot City Target. The development firm, which has transformed the Fenway over the last decade, also broke ground on its new Pierce residential tower at 188 Brookline Ave.
• Collaborating Professional of the Year: Calnan & Assoc. The Quincy company provided construction management and services on recent projects including the new U.S. headquarters for Schneider Electric in Andover, redevelopment of the Marlborough Hills complex for Atlantic Management and Constant Contact’s offices in Waltham.