NEW YORK CITY — Locally based brokerage firm Ariel Capital Advisors has arranged the $3.6 million sale of a six-unit apartment building located at 151 Smith St. in the Boerum Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. The four-story building consists of five market-rate apartments and one rent-stabilized apartment, as well as two retail spaces. Sean Kelly, Nicole Daniggelis and Stephen Vorvolakos of Ariel represented the seller, Doreen DeLeon, in the transaction. The buyer was Faisal Kassim.
SPARKS, NEVADA — EQT Exeter has acquired USA Parkway Distribution Center I and II, an industrial park totaling 1.1 million square feet within Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center in Sparks, from an institutional investor for an undisclosed price. Situated on 45.9 acres at 3300 Waltham Way and 201 Ireland Drive, USA Parkway Distribution Center I and II are cross-dock distribution buildings that offer a total of 135 dock-high doors, nine grade-level doors and 120- to 130-foot truck courts with four 60-foot concrete dock aprons. The asset was fully leased to five tenants at the time of sale, including Tesla and The Tire Rack, which occupy 70 percent of the property. Brett Hartzell, Rebecca Perlmutter and Paige Morgan of CBRE National Partners represented the seller in the deal. Erick Bennett, also with CBRE, served as the local market expert.
IRVINE, CALIF. — TP-Link Systems, as an owner-user, has purchased 5 Peter Canyon Road in Irvine from a joint venture led by Pendulum Property Partners for $40.6 million, or $258 per square foot. Situated on 9.5 acres, the 157,455-square-foot office building offers an onsite café, outdoor patio, a renovated lobby and more than 700 parking spaces. At the time of sale, the three-story building was 87.9 percent leased to a variety of tenants. Anthony DeLorenzo, Sammy Cemo, Bryan Johnson, Matt Didier, Jennifer Whittington and David Dowd of CBRE represented the seller, while Eric Purmort, also with CBRE, represented the buyer in the transaction.
PHOENIX — Westwood Financial has acquired Paradise Hills Shopping Center, a retail property in Phoenix, from Abbington Emmerson Investments for an undisclosed price. Located on 7.5 acres at 10604-10622 N. 32nd St. and 3110-3116 E. Shea Blvd., Paradise Hills Shopping Center offers 83,787 square feet of retail space occupied by 16 tenants, including Ace Hardware, Pet Supplies Plus and Uptown Jungle, along with an artisan bread shop, memorabilia store, home entertainment studio, salons, barber shop and five restaurants and bars. Mindy Korth and J.K. Jackson of Colliers’ Phoenix office, along with El Warner and Caitlin Zirpolo of Colliers in Irvine, Calif., represented the seller in the deal.
SAN DIEGO — GID Industrial Acquisition has purchased Trolley Industrial Center, a multi-tenant, light industrial property in the San Ysidro submarket of San Diego, for $27.2 million. Bryce Aberg, Jeff Chiate, Jeffrey Cole, Matthew Leupold and Ryan Demerest of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Washington Capital Management, in the deal. Originally built in the mid-1980s, Trolley Industrial Center has since been renovated and now offers 105,469 square feet of industrial space that is fully leased to three tenants. The building features a variety of bay sizes, 24-foot clear heights and grade-level and dock-high doors. The property is situated on 5 acres at 1330 30th St.
Marcus & Millichap Facilitates Purchase of 3,500 SF Starbucks-Occupied Retail Property in Sacramento
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the acquisition of a restaurant property located at 9660 Kiefer Blvd. in Sacramento. An individual/personal trust acquired the asset from an undisclosed seller for $2.6 million. Starbucks Coffee occupies the 3,500-square-foot property on a 15-year, corporate net-lease basis. Yuri Sergunin and J.J. Taughinbaugh of Marcus & Millichap’s Palo Alto, Calif., office represented the buyer, while Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the deal. The transaction included a 1031 exchange for the buyer.
CHICAGO — Interra Realty has arranged the sales of two multifamily properties in Chicago for a total of $7.3 million. A 10-unit building at 4540 N. Ravenswood Ave. in the Ravenswood neighborhood sold for $4.2 million. Brad Feldman of Interra represented the buyer, a local private investor, and the seller, Vassil Bayraktarov, whom Feldman represented on the original acquisition in 2021. The property was built in 2019. In the second transaction, a 16-unit asset at 5408-5414 N. Campbell Ave. in the Lincoln Square neighborhood sold for $3.1 million. Feldman procured the local private buyer and represented the confidential seller. All of the units received renovations in 2009. The buyer plans to make cosmetic upgrades to increase the rent roll. The property sold for 99 percent of the list price.
DERBY, KAN. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $5.3 million sale of Spring Creek Center, a 31,557-square-foot retail strip center in the Wichita suburb of Derby. Built in 2007, the property is situated on 3.3 acres at 1821 E. Madison Ave. There are 12 fully leased suites spread across three buildings featuring a mix of medical, dining and service-oriented tenants. Alex Perez and Chris Garavaglia of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private equity group. An all-cash private investor from the East Coast was the buyer. Colby Haugness, broker of record in Kansas, assisted in closing the transaction.
BOSTON — Carmel Partners, a San Francisco-based multifamily investor, has purchased LUKA on the Common, a 30-story apartment high-rise in downtown Boston. Northern Virginia-based AvalonBay Communities sold the 398-unit property, which was formerly known as the AVA Theater District. Carmel Partners utilized a $137.3 million Fannie Mae acquisition loan to fund the purchase. Jeff Burns, senior managing director of multifamily finance at Walker & Dunlop, originated the five-year, interest-only loan on behalf of the buyer. The agency loan features an early rate lock. “Boston’s multifamily fundamentals are among the strongest in the nation, driven by limited existing and future supply,” says Burns. “The housing scarcity has impacted both rent growth and the for-sale condominium market [in Boston] and has enabled us to refinance successfully alongside the team at Carmel.” The sales price was not disclosed, but the Boston Business Journal reported that the property traded for $212 million. Walker & Dunlop’s investment sales team in Boston, which brokered the transaction, disclosed it was the highest price paid for an apartment complex in the city in more than a year. Lee Bloch, partner at Carmel Partners, says that LUKA on the Common has an “enviable location” as it is about a 10-minute …
SUGAR LAND, TEXAS — CBRE has brokered the sale of First Colony Commons, a 379,829-square-foot retail center located in the southwestern Houston suburb of Sugar Land. Seafood City anchors the property, which was 97 percent leased at the time of sale. Mark Witcher, Chris Cozby, Jim Batjer, Harrison Tye and Jolie Duhon of CBRE represented the seller, TriGate Capital, which bought the property seven years ago, in the transaction. Ryan Watson of CBRE arranged acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer, Dhanani Private Equity Group.