TORRANCE, CALIF. — Rexford Industrial Realty has acquired a single-tenant industrial property located at 3100 Fujita St. in Torrance. An undisclosed seller sold the property for $14 million, or $153 per square foot. Situated on 3.7 acres, the property features 91,516 square feet and features a single tenant, which has occupied the property since 1992.
SAN JOSE, CALIF. —Levin Johnston, a division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged the sale of First Street Manor, a multifamily property located 523-530 N. First St. in downtown San Jose. A private investor acquired the property for $12.5 million. Situated near Google’s newest proposed tech campus, Google Village, the property features 39 apartment units. The buyer plans to perform full façade upgrades to the asset in order to rebrand the property and improve its overall value. Adam Levin and Robert Johnston of Levin Johnston represented the buyer and the seller, a private investor, in the transaction.
PHOENIX — BKM Capital Partners has acquired Diablo Business Center, a nine-building industrial business park located at 3610-3660 E. Wier Ave. and 4663-4645 S. 36th St. in Phoenix. An undisclosed seller sold the property for $8.1 million. The multi-tenant property features 150,000 square feet of light industrial space. BKM plans to implement a $1.8 million capital improvement program at the property. Planned renovations include creative speculative tenant buildouts, reviving dead units, the addition of private fenced yards and upgrades to the exterior including a modern, multi-tone paint scheme, drought-resistant landscaping, upgraded monument signage and standardized tenant signage. The company will also address structural improvements including a new roof, new parking lot and an improved HVAC system. Bob Buckley of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction.
CHICAGO — Avison Young has brokered the sale of Kennelly Square in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood for $78 million. The buyer, Strategic Properties of North America, plans to convert the 268-unit condominium building into rental apartment units. James Hanson, Richard Hanson and Paul Cohen of Avison Young represented the seller, Kennelly Square Condominium Association. Meridian Capital Group arranged the financing. More than 75 percent of the owners at Kennelly Square voted to approve the sale, a threshold required by the Illinois Condominium Property Act. This strategy reflects a growing trend in Chicago’s multifamily market as investors and developers identify opportunities to meet strong demand for rental units, according to Avison Young.
MERIDIAN HILLS, IND. — The RADCO Companies has acquired a portfolio of multifamily properties totaling 1,426 units near Meridian Hills, a northwest suburb of Indianapolis, for $64 million. The Class B and C properties have been reorganized into three properties known as Ashford Georgetown, Ashford Meridian Hills and Creekside at Meridian Hills. RADCO plans to spend over $27 million in capital improvements at the properties, which were built from 1968 to 1972. Units average 944 square feet. Community amenities include swimming pools, clubhouses, playgrounds, laundry centers and sport courts. RADCO Residential will manage the properties. The seller was not disclosed.
YONKERS, N.Y. — MGM Resorts International and MGM Growth Properties LLC have announced plans to acquire the property and operations associated with the Empire City Casino’s race track and casino for $850 million. MGM Resorts will buy the property, then transfer it to its real estate subsidiary, MGM Growth Properties, and execute a sale-leaseback transaction to make MGM Resorts the tenant on the 97-acre site. The transactions are expected to close in the first quarter. MGM Resorts will pay $850 million, including the refinancing of Empire City’s outstanding debt, which is expected to be $245 million. MGM Resorts has also agreed to pay an additional $50 million if Empire City is awarded a license for live table games on or prior to Dec. 31, 2022 and MGM Resorts accepts such license by Dec. 31, 2024. Empire City serves approximately 16 million eligible gaming customers in southern New York and is located only 15 miles from Times Square in Manhattan. The casino offers gaming, dining, and entertainment as well as slots, electronic table games and live horse racing.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Colliers International has negotiated the $10 million partial sale-leaseback of 1 Corporate Place South, a multi-tenant office building in Piscataway that spans 88,780 rentable square feet. Jacklene Chesler, Patrick Norris, Matthew Brown and Angelo Vitale of Colliers represented the seller, Princeton Equities LLC, in the transaction. The buyer was a private New Jersey-based investor. The property, which is situated on a 5.5-acre site, was built in 1981 and upgraded in 1997. Additional lobby and façade renovations were completed in 2009. The building is fully occupied by four tenants including Marlabs, a technology firm that is the properties’ anchor tenant.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of 1975 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd, a 20-unit apartment community located in Harlem. The property sold for $5.2 million at a cap rate of 3.7 percent. Peter Von Der Ahe, Joe Koicim, Seth Glasser and Jacob Kahn of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, in the transaction. The buyer was Le Vian Properties. The 13,943-square-foot building features 37 feet of frontage on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd.
MCKINNEY, TEXAS — Virginia-based development and management firm Weinstein Properties has acquired Bexley Lake Forest, a 334-unit multifamily community located in the northern Dallas metro of McKinney. The Class A property was formerly branded Century Lake Forest. Amenities include a pool, coffee bar, fitness center, outdoor grilling areas, business center and both trash valet and dry cleaning services. Charles DuBose of Phillips Realty Capital arranged a $40 million fixed-rate loan through New York Life Insurance Co. on behalf of Weinstein Properties for the acquisition.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — AQUILA Commercial has negotiated the sale of Quarry Lake Business Center, a 117,000-square-foot office building in northwest Austin. The Class A space will serve as the new corporate headquarters for the buyer, Velocity Credit Union. The Florida-based not-for-profit financial institution plans to move into the building by May 2019. Michael Murphy, Jay Lamy and Andrew Reue of AQUILA represented Velocity Credit Union in the transaction. Jeremy Smitheal and Win Smith internally represented the seller, Riverside Resources.