Fort Lauderdale's One Financial Plaza just traded for $82 million, at least the fourth trophy office asset Crocker Partners LLC has sold in recent years.

Crocker and its One Financial Plaza ownership partner Walton Street Capital LLC sold the 28-story building to Alliance HSP LLC, a Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania-based boutique real estate investor. Alliance also bought the 4-acre lot on which One Financial Plaza sits for $35 million in a separate transaction Friday.

The 263,250-square-foot tower is on the southeast corner of Broward Boulevard and Southeast Third Avenue at 100 SE Third Ave. It opened in 1972 as the tallest building in Fort Lauderdale at  374 feet but has been surpassed by newer construction.

Crocker and Walton Street Capital, a Chicago-based private equity company, bought One Financial Plaza for $87 million in February 2017.

Alliance HSP focuses on growing markets in the Eastern and Central U.S. It was founded in 2009 by real estate investors Clay Hamlin III, Jay Shidler and Richard Previdi. Alliance is an affiliate of the Honolulu-based Shidler Group Inc., which provides equity and capital to owners of institutional-grade properties.

Crocker Partners, based in Boca Raton, is a value-add investor that buys underperforming properties with upside potential and renovates them to increase their turnaround value.

Over the past two years, Crocker has disposed of its downtown office towers in South Florida.

The company started with the $127 million sale of Miami's SunTrust International Center in May 2018. As part of a joint venture, Crocker sold the 33-story Brickell City Tower for $117 million last September. In July, it sold the 21-story Northbridge Centre in West Palm Beach for $98 million.

Crocker executed its renovate-and-resell strategy at all four properties. One Financial Plaza is a Class A tower following a multimillion-dollar renovation, according to its website.

Crocker also turned around the 17-story Esperante in West Palm Beach for a 17 percent return on a five-year hold ending in 2016.

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