LAGUNA NIGUEL, CALIF. — Faris Lee Investments has negotiated the sale of La Paz Shopping Center in the Orange County city of Laguna Niguel. Carson Cos. sold the asset to an Orange County-based private investor for $14.1 million. Scott DeYoung, Jeff Conover and Chris DePierro of Faris Lee Investments represented the seller and the buyer in the deal. Located at 460 S. Lake Ave., the property features 35,302 square feet of retail space. Current tenants include Walgreens and Wild Fork Foods, a meat and seafood market. The multi-tenant asset also had vacant suites at the time of sale.
Acquisitions
Marcus & Millichap Negotiates Sale-Leaseback of 46,000 SF Great Floors-Occupied Property in Spokane Valley, Washington
by Amy Works
SPOKANE VALLEY, WASH. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale-leaseback of a retail property located at 13708 E. Indiana Ave. in Spokane Valley. A limited liability company sold the asset to a California-based 1031 exchange buyer for $8 million. Great Floors occupies the 46,000-square-foot property on a net-leased basis. This is the fourth Great Floors property to close in a series of five sale-leaseback transactions in Washington and Idaho. Clayton Brown, Christopher Edwards and Ruthanne Romero of Brown Retail Group in Marcus & Millichap’s Seattle office represented the seller in the deal.
Welltower Acquires 33-Property Seniors Housing Portfolio for $548M, Plans Two Developments in Silicon Valley
by Jeff Shaw
TOLEDO, OHIO — Welltower Inc. (NYSE: WELL), a Toledo-based healthcare REIT, has agreed to acquire 33 seniors housing communities totaling 2,787 units in Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. The purchase price is $548 million. The communities will be acquired as three separate portfolios from undisclosed sellers. The communities were available for purchase because the lease-up process was heavily damaged by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. With occupancy at only 63 percent, Welltower expects the communities will greatly improve their performance in 2023 and beyond. Welltower will install Michigan-based senior living operator StoryPoint to manage the communities under a RIDEA agreement. The acquisition is expected to be funded through the issuance of partnership units, assumed debt and cash on-hand. Simultaneously with the acquisition announcement, Welltower unveiled a development partnership with a joint venture between Related Cos. and Atria Senior Living to develop two seniors housing communities in Silicon Valley. One will be located in Santa Clara and the other in Cupertino. Welltower suggests these developments are just the first projects of many for the partnership. The Santa Clara development will consist of 191 units next to a fully entitled, 9.2 million-square-foot urban development that Related began building in 2015. The larger project, …
LOUISVILLE, KY. — Kansas City-based Hunt Midwest has sold Blankenbaker Logistics Center, a 322,831-square-foot, cross-dock industrial facility, for $43 million. Newport Beach, Calif.-based Bixby Land Co. purchased the property. Piston Automotive signed a lease for the whole building prior to construction completion. Chris Riley and Kevin Grove of CBRE represented Hunt Midwest, and Bixby Land Co. was unrepresented in the transaction. Blankenbaker Logistics Center is located within Blankenbaker Station, a Class A, mixed-use business park in eastern Jefferson County. The property offers access to Interstates 64 and 265, UPS Worldport, Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant, GE Appliance Park, Ford’s Kentucky Assembly Plant and an adjacent 300,000-square-foot FedEx Ground terminal.
GRENADA, MISS. — Stan Johnson Co. has arranged the sale of a single-tenant, 288,000-square-foot industrial facility in Grenada. Mike Sladich and Maggie Holmes of Stan Johnson Co. represented the seller, an Illinois-based industrial developer, Agracel Inc. The buyer, a Dallas, Texas-based REIT, purchased the property for approximately $21.3 million. The property is leased to Advanced Distributors Products (ADP), a producer of residential evaporator coils. The industrial facility serves as the distribution center for the tenant’s manufacturing plant, which is located less than one mile east of the property. Originally built in 2017 as an 84,000-square-foot warehouse, the property was expanded by 70 percent to its current size. Prior to leasing the property, ADP was using part of its neighboring 379,000-square-foot manufacturing facility for warehouse and distribution space. The tenant spent approximately $20 million moving into the new distribution center and repurposing the existing facility into a full manufacturing plant. Adjacent industrial park tenants include Novipax, Resolute Forest Products, Ice Industries and Averitt. Located at 445 American Way, the property has access to Interstate 55, the Grenada Municipal Airport and the Grenada Railroad.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Newmark Zimmer has arranged the sale of a 340,000-square-foot office building in Kansas City’s central business district for an undisclosed price. AT&T formerly occupied the property, which is located at 500 E. 8th St. and now sits vacant. Michael VanBuskirk, Chris Robertson, John Hoefer and Raegen Root of Newmark represented the seller, Maxus Properties. The buyer, Washington, D.C.-based The Bernstein Cos., plans to convert the building into apartments.
ST. CHARLES, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Fox Run Apartments in St. Charles, about 40 miles west of Chicago. The sales price was undisclosed. The 220-unit apartment complex was built in 1971 and underwent a renovation program in 2008. Amenities include a pool, 342 parking spaces and four laundry facilities. Roughly 95 percent of the units feature updated kitchens, bathrooms and flooring. Ryan Engle, Andrean Angelov and Zack Mahoney of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer, neither of which were disclosed.
CRESTWOOD, ILL. — A joint venture between Clear Height Properties and Harbert US Real Estate, an investment fund sponsored by Harbert Management Corp., has acquired a four-building industrial portfolio in the Chicago suburb of Crestwood for an undisclosed price. The portfolio spans 131,733 square feet and is 88 percent leased to 19 tenants. The buildings were constructed between 1989 and 1991. Walter Murphy of Lee & Associates represented the undisclosed seller.
DENTON, TEXAS — Illinois-based investment firm ML Realty Partners has acquired a 153,150-square-foot industrial building located at 2340 I-35 W. Service Road in the North Texas city of Denton. According to commercialcafé.com, the freestanding property was built on a 36.3-acre site in 2006. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. ML Realty Partners has tapped CBRE to lease the building.
HOUSTON — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Studio 6 Houston, a 134-room hotel that is located on a three-acre site at 220 Bammel Westfield Road in North Houston. Gordon Allred and Tulsee Nathu of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, Dallas-based Prosper Hospitality, in the transaction. The buyer, Salt Lake City-based investment firm MCRE, plans to convert the property into a residential community.