WESTMONT, ILL. — First National Realty Partners has acquired a 23,164-square-foot Tesla sales and service center located at 50 W. Ogden Ave. in Westmont, about 18 miles west of Chicago. The purchase price and seller were undisclosed. The location is one of five Tesla service centers in the state of Illinois. It is situated near other car dealerships such as Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Lamborghini.
Acquisitions
LANSING, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $2.5 million sale of a 45,000-square-foot industrial building located at 2200 Bernice Road in Lansing, a southern suburb of Chicago. National Express Transit occupies the property on a net-lease basis. The company operates and repairs buses for southern Cook County locally. It also operates public transportation services in North America, Europe and Africa. Peter Doughty of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a private investor. He also secured and represented the buyer, a private investor.
METHUEN, MASS. — CBRE has arranged the sale of two industrial buildings totaling 362,252 square feet in Methuen, located north of Boston near the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border. The sales price was approximately $64.1 million. One of the buildings is a 291,400-square-foot cold storage facility that was built in 1985 and renovated in 1990. The other is a 70,872-square-foot property that was built in 1989. The buildings were fully leased at the time of sale to Shaw’s Supermarkets and McCollister’s Transportation Group, respectively. Scott Dragos, Douglas Jacoby, Chris Skeffington and Daniel Hines of CBRE represented the seller, Equity Industrial Properties, in the transaction.
New Blueprint Partners, Rabina Acquire 700,000 SF Vancouver Technology Center in Washington
by Amy Works
VANCOUVER, WASH. — New Blueprint Partners and Rabina have purchased The Vancouver Technology Center located at 18110 SE 34th St. in East Vancouver. Terms of the transaction were not released. The new owners have renamed the 700,000-square-foot campus Vancouver Innovation Center and plan to implement a multi-million-dollar repositioning program to transform the property into a best-in-class office/industrial flex campus. Built in 1980, the current campus features six buildings with office, flex and light manufacturing space; an exterior courtyard; community garden; park area; and basketball and volleyball courts. The new owners plan to create new building entrances, new common areas, indoor and outdoor amenities and energy-efficient building systems. The partnership’s long-term plan includes the addition of new uses to the campus that will create a live-work-play environment that connects residential, office, manufacturing and retail uses with a network of public pathways, parks and common spaces. Once complete, the campus will be part of a connected community with all components within a 20-minute walk. Evan Pariser, Marko Kazanjian, Nicco Lupo and Casey Davidson of JLL Capital Markets arranged acquisition financing for the buyers.
AMESBURY, MASS. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of two multifamily assets totaling 183 units in the northeastern Massachusetts city of Amesbury. British Colonial Apartments is a 111-unit community located at 164 Whitehall Road that features one- and two-bedroom units and amenities such as a pool and onsite laundry facilities. Amesbury Gardens is a 72-unit complex at 106 Friend St. that offers studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans. Evan Griffith and Tony Pepdjonovic of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction. Both parties requested anonymity. The properties sold for $26.5 million and had a combined occupancy rate of 98 percent at the time of sale.
DENVER — CapRidge Partners has completed the disposition of The DTC Collection, a Class A office portfolio located in southeast Denver. TerraCap Management purchased the property for $28.7 million. Totaling 181,763 square feet, the two-building portfolio includes Terrace at Orchard Station, a three-story, 115,050-square-foot building at 5575 DTC Parkway, and a six-story, 66,713-square-foot building located at 4949 S. Syracuse St. Built in 1982 and renovated in 2008 and 2015, Terrace at Orchard Station features a conference center, locker rooms and showers, a structured parking deck and web-based service request system. The property on South Syracuse Street, which was also built in 1982, features a two-story atrium and an attached parking structure. Tim Richey, Charley Will, Jenny Knowlton and Chad Flynn of CBRE Capital Markets, Institutional Properties, represented the seller in the transaction. C.J. Kelly, Brady O’Donnell and Jeff Halsey of CBRE Capital Markets’ Debt & Structured Finance arranged acquisition financing for the buyer.
AUBURN, WASH. — Harsch Investment Properties has purchased 30th & B Street Business Park in Auburn for $14.7 million. A partnership between Accord Business Park, D&E Enterprises, Green Valley Ridge Partners and LLC & TDW Auburn previously owned the property. Jim Honan of Neil Walter Co. presented the off-market deal to Harsch. The four-building property features 101,460 square feet of rentable space. At the time of acquisition, the property was fully leased to 19 manufacturing tenants in spaces between 1,500 square feet to 18,000 square feet.
FORT COLLINS, COLO. — Fort Collins-based DAKA Properties has completed the sale of a flex/industrial property located at 825 SW Frontage Road in Fort Collins. Front825 acquired the asset for $4.7 million. Situated on 2.7 acres, the 30,012-square-foot property features large product showrooms, warehouse space and light manufacturing space. The property has been remodeled multiple times since originally developed, including 1989, 2004 and 2012. Jared Goodman of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, while Jason Ells of Cushman & Wakefield represented the buyer in the deal.
RENO, NEV. — Dickson Commercial Group (DCG) has negotiated the sale a multifamily property located at 941 S. Virginia St. in Reno’s midtown district. Leah Bader sold the property to JRK Investments LCC for $1.9 million. The 8,080-square-foot asset, Best Bet Motor Lodge, is a multifamily-converted motel asset on 0.33 acres. The number of units were not disclosed. Trevor Richardson and Chris Moton of DCG Multifamily represented the buyer and seller in the deal.
IRVING AND ALLEN, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of the Royal Cornerstone Portfolio, which consists of two buildings in the DFW metroplex totaling 176,645 square feet. One of the properties is located in Irving, and the other is located in the northeastern suburb of Allen. The subject properties are situated on a combined 11.3 acres and were built in 1997 and 2000. Adam Abushagur and Sam Martin of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction. Both parties were private investors that requested anonymity.