EL SEGUNDO, CA—Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT II (GCEAR II) and Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT(GCEAR) have completed their previously-announced merger. Erika Morphy has been writing about commercial real estate at GlobeSt.com for more than ten years, covering the capital markets, the Mid-Atlantic region and national topics. She's a nerd so favorite examples of the former include accounting standards, Basel III and what Congress is brewing. The 500,000-square-foot office development in the West Midtown submarket along the 17th Street corridor, will consist of two distinct buildings.