PETALUMA, CALIF. — Paragon Commercial Group and Canyon Partners Real Estate have purchased Washington Square, a multi-tenant, grocery-anchored shopping center in Petaluma. This acquisition is the ninth investment completed by Paragon and its joint venture with Canyon Catalyst Fund, and Paragon’s fifth retail acquisition in 2021. Terms of the transaction were not released. Situated on the corner of South McDowell Boulevard and East Washington Street, Washington Square features 215,761 square feet of retail space. Current tenants include Bank of America, Wells Fargo, WestAmerica Bank, Planet Fitness, Party City and Pet Food Express. The center was developed in 1971 and owned by the same company for 35 years.
BERKELEY, CALIF. — San Francisco-based City Center Realty Partners (CCRP), in joint venture with Contrarian Capital Management, has purchased Parker Innovation Hub, a three-building office/R&D/life sciences complex in Berkeley. The buildings, located at 2067 7th St, 918 Parker St. and 2612 8th St., comprise 40,580 square feet of office space. Scott Prosser, Mark Kol, Mike Raffetto and Jack DePuy of CBRE represented the undisclosed seller and buyer in the deal. CCRP plans to convert the office property into life sciences space. Huue, a venture-backed biotechnology company that creates environmentally sustainable dyes, recently leased space at the property.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Whitestone REIT has acquired the inline retail space at Anderson Arbor, located in northwest Austin, in a deal that adds 89,746 square feet to the Houston-based investment firm’s holdings. The property was built in three phases beginning in 2003 and is part of a larger, 268,000-square-foot retail development. The inline space was roughly 91 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Bank of America, Kerbey Lane Café, Austin Emergency Center, SalonRepublic, Great Clips, GNC, The Melting Pot and Double Dave’s Pizzaworks. Additional tenants in the portion of the center not owned by Whitestone include Gold’s Gym, Walgreens and Main Event Entertainment. Whitestone also has the option to purchase an additional undeveloped parcel and an existing multi-tenant pad site at Anderson Arbor. If exercised, these options would boost Whitestone’s owned square footage within the development to approximately 100,000 square feet. David Disney and Adam Crockett of Dallas-based Disney Investment Group represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction and procured Whitestone REIT as the buyer.
NEW YORK CITY — SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE: SLG) has agreed to sell its ownership interest in the office condos and parking garage at 110 East 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan for $117 million. SL Green is selling its stake, the size of which was not disclosed, to Meadow Partners in a deal that is expected to close before the end of the year. The office condos, which comprise a portion of the ground floor and the sixth through 18th floors, were originally built in 1923. The property is located across from Grand Central Station and One Vanderbilt, SL Green’s 1.7 million-square-foot office skyscraper. The locally based investment and development firm previously sold the office condos in 2007 and regained control of that component of the site in 2011. SL Green acquired the garage in 2013.
EVANSTON, ILL. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged the sale of 1717, a 175-unit apartment complex in Evanston. The sales price of $71 million represented the biggest multifamily deal in the northern suburbs in nearly two years, according to Crain’s Chicago Business. Built in 2013, the property features amenities such as a pool, sundeck, picnic area, fitness center, resident lounge, business center and cybercafé. Located at 1717 Ridge Ave., the complex is situated just south of the convergence of Green Bay Road and Ridge Avenue. Kevin Girard, Matthew Lawton and Mark Stern of JLL represented the seller, Invesco Real Estate. CBRE Investment Management acquired the asset on behalf of the CBRE Strategic Partners U.S. Value 9 fund.
BLUE ASH, OHIO — OA Development has sold Hawthorne Center in the Cincinnati suburb of Blue Ash for $26.5 million. Acquired in 2012, Hawthorne Center is a five-story, Class A office building totaling 135,413 square feet. Belcan LLC, a global supplier of engineering, supply chain, technical recruiting and IT services, fully occupies the property. Cushman & Wakefield represented OA in the sale. The buyer was undisclosed.
AURORA, ILL. — The Laramar Group has purchased Covey at Fox Valley in Aurora for an undisclosed price. Built in 1988, the 216-unit apartment community is located at 2160 Walcott Road. Laramar plans to make interior and exterior renovations to the property, which is located adjacent to Rush Copley Medical Center. The seller was not provided.
CHICAGO — Interra Realty has brokered the $16.9 million sale of a two-building multifamily portfolio totaling 50 units in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. The properties are located at 4714 N. Sheridan Road and 843 W. Agatite Ave. Combined, the two buildings were 96 percent occupied at the time of sale. Jon Morgan, David Goss and Joe Smazal of Interra represented the seller, Chicago-based Mavrek Development, which developed the properties in 2019 and 2021. Colin O’Malley of Interra represented the private buyer.
PHILADELPHIA — Wharton Industrial, an investment arm of New York-based Wharton Equity Partners, has acquired a portfolio of seven industrial properties totaling roughly 450,000 square feet in the Philadelphia area. Four of the properties are located in the Pennsylvania markets of Croydon, Boothwyn and Reading. The other three are located in the Southern New Jersey communities of Marlton, Moorestown and Pennsauken. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
EASTON, MASS. — Atlantic Capital Partners has arranged the sale of Highland Plaza, a 112,869-square-foot shopping center in Easton, located about 30 miles south of Boston. Regional grocer Big Y anchors the property, which was 96 percent leased at the time of sale, with a 56,519-square-foot store. Other tenants include T.J. Maxx and Liberty Mutual. Justin Smith, Chris Peterson, Sam Koonce, Molly Lynch and Ben Starr of Atlantic Capital Partners represented the seller, Cincinnati-based shopping center REIT Phillips Edison & Co. (NASDAQ: PECO), in the deal. The team also procured the undisclosed buyer.