PASADENA, CALIF. — Federal Realty Investment Trust has completed the disposition of the historic Pottery Barn Building, a mixed-use property located at the intersection of East Colorado Boulevard and North Fair Oaks Avenue in Pasadena. A private investor acquired the property for $16.1 million. Pottery Barn occupies three levels of the five-story, 30,955-square-foot building, which was built in 1905 and renovated in 1997. The property also offers two floors of residential space and one floor of office space leased to other tenants. Pottery Barn has occupied the building for the more than 20 years, and last year executed a lease extension at the property. Carlos Lopez and Lee Csenar of Hanley Investment Group represented the seller, while Rob Ippolito, Glenn Rudy and Pete Bethea of Newmark Knight Frank Capital Markets represented the buyer in the transaction.
Acquisitions
LONGVIEW, TEXAS — JLL has negotiated the sale of Summer Lake, a 252-unit apartment community in Longview, about 100 miles east of Dallas. The property features one- and two-bedroom units averaging 852 square feet and amenities such as two pools, an outdoor grilling area, sports court, fishing lake and a dog park. Greg Toro and Steven Hahn Jr. of JLL represented the seller, Little Rock, Ark.-based BSR REIT, in the transaction. Mark Brandenburg and Chad Russell of JLL arranged acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer, Dallas-based Saxony Capital Management.
CHICAGO — Provender Partners has acquired two food processing facilities in metro Chicago. In the first transaction, Provender purchased a 141,000-square-foot facility located at 5420 St. Charles Road in Berkeley. Preferred Meals Inc., a provider of fresh and frozen prepared snacks and meals to schools, fully leases the property. Jonathan Wolfe and Jordan Shtulman of STREAM Capital Partners LLC brokered the $18 million sale-leaseback. In the second transaction, Provender acquired an 80,000-square-foot meat processing facility located at 525 W. Crossroads Parkway in Bolingbrook. It is currently available for lease. Provender maintains a portfolio of more than 5 million square feet of refrigerated real estate assets throughout the United States.
GENEVA, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Geneva Park Apartments in Geneva, a western suburb of Chicago. The sales price was undisclosed. The 56-unit apartment property is located at 7 Simpson St. All of the community’s units are two-bedroom floor plans. Andrean Angelov and Ryan Engle of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a private investor. The duo also secured and represented the buyer, a limited liability company.
NEW YORK CITY — SL Green Realty Corp. has sold 609 Fifth Avenue, an office and retail condominium in Manhattan, to an affiliate of the Reuben Brothers for $168 million. Beginning in 2018, SL Green undertook an extensive repositioning of the entire building, including vacating the previous tenants in the office condominium portion of the property and relocating the office lobby to increase the retail frontage on Fifth Avenue. Sports apparel brand PUMA has leased a 24,000-square-foot retail space at the building for its three-level flagship store. Luxury apparel retailer Vince has leased a 5,000-square-foot retail space in the building. Darcy Stacom, Doug Middleton and David Fowler of CBRE represented SL Green in the transaction.
Sitex Acquires Two Development Sites Totaling 32 Acres in Meadowlands, Long Island Submarkets
by Alex Patton
HACKENSACK, N.J., AND WESTBURY, N.Y. — Sitex Group, a New Jersey-based developer, has acquired two commercial development sites totaling 32 acres in the Meadowlands (New Jersey) and Long Island submarkets. No sales price was disclosed. The sites include a 10-acre tract located at 514-582 S. River St. in Hackensack and a 22.5-acre parcel in Westbury, a city on Long Island. Specific construction plans were not disclosed. Dan Foley and Chris Marx of Savills negotiated the Hackensack transaction. Mark Walsh of Select Real Equity Advisors, along with Jason Miller and Jeffrey Schwartzberg of Premier Commercial Real Estate, negotiated the Westbury transaction. Both sellers were private investors that requested anonymity.
LAGRANGE, GA. — Capstone Apartment Partners has arranged the $21 million sale of SunRidge Apartment Homes, a 192-unit multifamily community in LaGrange. The property comprises 11 buildings offering one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans there were 96 percent occupied at the time of sale. Communal amenities include a pool, playground, tennis courts, volleyball court, putting greens, grilling area, fitness center, a car washing station and laundry facilities. The property, which was built in 2001, is situated at 1235 Hogansville Road, three miles east of downtown LaGrange. Alex McDermott, Bryse Toothaker, Austin Green, Sean Henry and Dan McBurney of Capstone represented the seller, Sunny Pak, in the transaction. The buyer was Southwood Realty Group.
DUMFRIES, VA. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has brokered the $19.3 million sale of Dumfries Health Center, a 99,718-square-foot, single-tenant medical office building in Dumfries. The property is fully leased to Spectrum Healthcare Resources. The building was delivered in 2009 at 3700 Fettler Park Drive, two miles north of downtown Dumfries and adjacent to Interstate 95. The previous owner, known as 3700 Fettler Park LLC, recently implemented upgrades that included adding urgent care, immunizations, sports medicine with wading pools and expanding the onsite pharmacy. Robert Filley, Randall Heilig, Chandler Pace and Chris Dale of IPA represented the seller in the transaction and procured the buyer, Bethesda, Md.-based Global Medical REIT.
AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO — 37th Parallel Properties has acquired a portfolio of three apartment communities totaling 344 units in Austin and San Antonio. The properties include the 128-unit Bridgehead Apartments in Austin, the 132-unit Melrose Place Apartments in Austin and the 84-unit Tradewinds Apartments in San Antonio. The properties were built in the 1980s and had a collective occupancy of 97.6 percent at the time of sale. Cutt Ableson and Colin Marusak of Berkadia arranged an undisclosed amount of agency financing for the acquisition. Charles Cirar, Michael Wardlaw and Colin Cannata of CBRE represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
TINLEY PARK, ILL. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged the sale of a five-property industrial portfolio totaling 539,109 square feet in the Chicago suburb of Tinley Park. The sales price was undisclosed. A sixth building within the portfolio is set to close later this month. The properties are located within the I-80 industrial corridor and in the northeast portion of Will County. Kurt Sarbaugh, Robin Stolberg, John Hugenard, Ed Halaburt and Sean Devaney of JLL represented the undisclosed seller. High Street Logistics Properties purchased the portfolio via High Street Real Estate Fund VI, the Boston-based company’s sixth investment vehicle.