DENVER — Capstone Apartment Partners has completed the sale of a six-community apartment portfolio located in Southwest Denver. Monarch Investment and Management Group acquired the portfolio from a group of investors connected through Abiete Real Estate for $56.5 million. Totaling 325 apartments, the portfolio includes The Amherst, Federal Terrace, Autumn Ridge, Pinecrest Apartments, Elm Creek Apartments and The Hill Apartments. All six properties are located along South Federal Boulevard and were approximately 96 percent occupied at the time of closing. Jason Koch, Adam Riddle, Sean Holamon and Austin Smith of Capstone represented the seller in the deal.
MARTINEZ, CALIF. — San Diego-based MG Properties Group has acquired Maris at Martinez, a multifamily property located at 142 Fig Tree Lane in Martinez. Terms of the transaction were not released. Formerly known as Terra Martinez, the 168-unit community was built in 1985. Salvatore Saglimbeni, Stanford Jones, Philip Saglimbeni and Alexander Tartaglia of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the undisclosed seller. Institutional investors advised by JP Morgan Asset Management provided mortgage financing for the acquisition. Bryan Frazier, Andrew Schoene and Blake Hockenbury of Walker & Dunlop arranged the acquisition financing.
SEATTLE — Colliers has arranged the purchase of The Marco, a multifamily property located in the Roosevelt submarket of North Seattle. An undisclosed seller sold the asset for $7.3 million. Tim McKay, Dan Chhan, Sam Wayne, Matt Kemper and Adam Groberman of Colliers represented the buyers, a local syndication group, in the transaction. Located at 9100 Roosevelt Way NE, The Marco features 25 apartments. The property was originally built in 1970 and is currently renting as market-rate apartments. Fourteen of the 25 units have been renovated over the last two years.
PHOENIX — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a retail building located at 5349 W. Baseline Road in Phoenix. A partnership sold the property to a limited liability company for $2.1 million. O’Reilly Auto Parts occupies the 7,000-square-foot property, which was built in 2006. The tenant recently executed its first five-year renewal option with 10 percent rental increases every five years. Mark Ruble and Chris Lind of Marcus & Millichap’s Phoenix office represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.
AMES, IOWA — Centurion Property Group has acquired Aspen Ames, a 422-bed student housing community located near the Iowa State University campus in Ames, for $25 million. Built in 2017, the property offers a mix of two-, three- and four-bedroom floorplans with bed-to-bath parity across four buildings. Shared amenities include a fitness center, game room, computer lab and study room. Centurion plans to begin renovations on the community and add a pet park and basketball court. Asset Living has been tapped to manage the property, which will be renamed The ONE at Ames. Scott Clifton and Stewart Hayes of JLL represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. Aspen Ames marks the company’s third student housing acquisition in the past 18 months.
RACINE, WIS. — Matthews Real Estate Investment Services has brokered the $10.7 million sale of a Home Depot-occupied retail property in Racine. The asset is located at 2429 S. Green Bay Road near the High Ridge Shopping Center. Rob Goldberg and Ben Snyder of Matthews represented the seller, a national private investor. An unnamed REIT was the buyer.
LINCOLN, NEB. — Quantum Real Estate Advisors Inc. has arranged the sale of a single-tenant property occupied by Perkins Restaurant & Bakery in Lincoln for $2.5 million. The building is located at 7301 Husker Circle. Zack Hilgendorf of Quantum represented the buyer, an Iowa-based private investor. A local developer was the seller.
PHILADELPHIA — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has negotiated the $52 million sale of Penrose Plaza, a 258,494-square-foot shopping center in South Philadelphia. Anchored by Shoprite Supermarket, the center was 94 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Planet Fitness, DD’s Discounts, Citi Trends, Fine Wine & Good Spirits and Chase Bank. Brad Nathanson of IPA represented the seller, a joint venture between Onyx Equities, Abrams Realty & Development and Siguler Guff & Co., in the deal. Nathanson also procured the buyer, United Hampshire US REIT.
EAST HARTFORD AND WINDSOR, CONN. — Colliers has brokered the sale of The David Associates Connecticut Portfolio, a collection of three industrial flex buildings in the Hartford area totaling 200,950 square feet. Ian Hunt, Nick Morizio and John Cafasso of Colliers represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. A New Jersey-based private investor purchased the portfolio, which was 90 percent leased at the time of sale, for $13.2 million.
NORTHBROOK, ILL. — Dermody Properties has agreed to buy the metro Chicago headquarters campus of insurance company Allstate Corp. (NYSE: ALL) for $232 million. The purchase agreement is expected to close in 2022. The buyer, a Nevada-based industrial development and investment firm, plans to redevelop the 186-acre campus, which is located north of Chicago in Northbrook, into a Class A logistics and distribution hub. Doug Kiersey, president of Dermody Properties, said in an interview with REBusinessOnline that the preliminary redevelopment plan, which is subject to change based on tenant demands, currently calls for the delivery of approximately 3.2 million square feet of industrial space and a total capital investment of more than $500 million. Kiersey also discussed at length the aspects of the site that his firm found most appealing, including its location within a major population zone, its scale and its existing onsite and offsite infrastructure. “This particular site fits geographically into an area that can serve a lot of customers in a very short period of time,” he said. “Within a 10-mile radius, there are a lot of rooftops for companies to serve their customers. The site also represents an unusual combination of infill location and scale — …