CHICAGO AND NEW YORK CITY — Brennan Investment Group and Arch Street Capital Advisors have sold a four-building industrial portfolio with a combined square footage of 2.3 million square feet. The properties in the portfolio are located in Bellingham, Mass.; Lawrenceville, Ga.; Butner, N.C.; and Frederick, Md. The buyers, two unnamed, privately held institutional real estate investment firms, purchased the properties for an undisclosed price. BlueLinx Corp., a distributor of building and industrial products in the United States, is the sole occupant of all four facilities. The company operates through a broad network of distribution centers and is based in Atlanta. Brennan Investment and Arch Street originally acquired the portfolio in a joint venture in 2018. The firms stated they are seeking net-leased properties in their joint investment vehicle USIPA III. Brennan Investment is a Chicago-based, private real estate investment firm that acquires, develops and operates industrial properties. Arch Street Capital Advisors is a full-service real estate investment and advisory firm based in New York City.
Acquisitions
SAN DIEGO — CBRE has arranged the sale of Presidio View, a 350-unit apartment community located in the Mission Valley area of San Diego. Griffis Residential LLC acquired the asset from AEW Capital Management for $155.7 million. Presidio View is situated on approximately 6.9 acres at 1440 Hotel Circle North and includes a variety of one-, two- and three-bedroom floorplans with an average unit size of 928 square feet. Archstone built the property in 2007. (Archstone was acquired by AvalonBay Communities Inc. and Equity Residential in 2013.) Features include 9-foot ceilings, walk-in closets, in-unit washer/dryers, storage and private balconies. Community amenities include a swimming pool, resident lounge, fitness center, clubhouse, business center and electric car charging stations. “It’s very rare to be able to acquire a well-maintained, 2007-vintage asset of this scale in a primary San Diego location like Mission Valley,” says Kevin Mulhern, a broker with CBRE. “There were more than 40 investor tours and 25 offers, and the competition to acquire the property was very intense.” Mulhern, Stewart Weston and Dean Zander of CBRE’s San Diego office represented the seller in the transaction. Presidio View is located on the western end of Mission Valley and has access to …
HOUSTON — Philadelphia-based Equus Capital Partners has purchased a 757,325-square-foot industrial park located near the junction of Interstate 45 and Beltway 8 in Houston. The development consists of three rear-load buildings and two cross-dock buildings that were constructed between 2008 and 2014. The buildings were 62 percent leased to 11 tenants at the time of sale. Equus plans to implement a capital improvement program and to rebrand the properties as Park 845 Crossing. Rusty Tamlyn, Trent Agnew, Charlie Strauss, Katherine Miller and Jack Moody of JLL represented the seller, a joint venture between IDI Logistics and Heitman, in the transaction. John Ream, Michael Johnson and Stuart Hepler of JLL arranged $55 million in floating-rate acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer.
RICHMOND, TEXAS — Texas-based HPI Real Estate has acquired a 745-unit self-storage facility at 10535 Mason Road in Richmond, a southwestern suburb of Houston. Extra Space Storage manages and operates the facility, which spans 93,630 net rentable square feet and was more then 95 percent occupied at the time of sale. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. HPI acquired the asset in conjunction with another Extra Space Storage facility in Naples, Fla.
HOUSTON — Colliers International has brokered the sale of a 112,867-square-foot office building located at 1220 Augusta Drive in the San Felipe/Voss submarket of West Houston. Christopher Winters and Jay Kyle of Colliers represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyer is a locally based investment firm doing business as 1220 Augusta LLC.
CAROL STREAM, ILL. — Golub & Co. and Petiole Asset Management have acquired Lakehaven Apartments in Carol Stream, a western suburb of Chicago. The purchase price was undisclosed. Built in 1984, the 492-unit apartment community consists of 41 buildings. Units range in size from 700 to 1,100 square feet. Amenities include a clubhouse, pool, fitness center and dog park. Adam Short, Ania Najder and Kristin Nason of Golub & Co. and Chris Lord of Petiole led the acquisition. Marty O’Connell, Danny Kaufman, Wick Kirby and Kevin Girard of JLL represented the seller, Lakehaven Apartments LLC.
GRAFTON, WIS. — Yamato Corp., a provider of automatic, commercial and industrial weighing solutions, has purchased a 96,500-square-foot industrial property located at 1272 Dakota Drive in Grafton, about 20 miles north of Milwaukee. The purchase price was undisclosed. Yamato is relocating from a 35,347-square-foot space at 6303 Eastwood Court in Mequon, Wis. Mitchell Starczynski and Curt Pitzen of Newmark represented Yamato in the transaction. Rexnord Industries LLC was the seller.
HARTFORD, WIS. — Blue West Capital has arranged the sale of Hartford Centre for $4.9 million. The Aldi-anchored shopping center is located at 1591 E. Summer St. in Hartford, about 37 miles northwest of downtown Milwaukee. Other tenants at the 34,577-square-foot property include Dunkin’, H&R Block, Shopko Optical and Papa Murphy’s. Carly Gallagher Kelly of Blue West Capital represented the seller, Green Bay-based Midwest Expansion LLC. She also procured the buyer, a Dallas-based commercial real estate company.
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CALIF. — Faris Lee Investments has brokered the sale of a five-acre mixed-use redevelopment site known as Brookhurst & Warner in Fountain Valley, in the heart of Orange County. An undisclosed buyer acquired the site for $17.5 million. Rick Chichester, Tom Chichester and Nick D’Argenzio of Faris Lee Investments represented the undisclosed seller in the deal.
TUCSON, ARIZ. — An affiliate of Los Angeles-based Portal Investment Management has purchased Rolling Hills Square, a grocery-anchored shopping center located in Tucson. Cincinnati-based Phillips Edison & Co. sold the property for an undisclosed price. Situated on 12.3 acres at the southwest corner of Kolb and Golf Links roads, Rolling Hills Square features 114,102 square feet of retail space. At the time of sale, the property was 96.2 percent occupied with Fry’s Food & Drug as the anchor tenant. Michael Hackett and Run Schubert of Cushman & Wakefield in Phoenix represented the seller and worked with the buyer to obtain acquisition financing for the asset.