SAN JOSE, CALIF. — A joint venture between BISON Partners and PCCP has received $29 million in acquisition financing for Bernal Plaza, an open-air retail center in San Jose. Alex Olson, Todd Sugimoto, Lauren Sackler and Danny Ryan of JLL Capital Markets secured the floating-rate acquisition loan through Forbright Bank for the borrower. The joint venture acquired the asset from a private seller, which had owned the property for 20 years, in an off-market transaction. Situated on 16 acres at 101-125 Bernal Road, Bernal Plaza offers 139,559 square feet of retail space that was 94 percent leased at the time of sale. Current tenants include Ross Dress for Less, McDonalds, Shell and a Tesla charging station.
Acquisitions
LAS VEGAS — CBRE has arranged the sale of a 24,362-square-foot office property located at 9501 Hillwood Drive in Las Vegas. A local owner-user acquired the asset from Hillwood Properties LLC for $6.4 million. The property features an outdoor amphitheater, rotunda entrance and an auditorium. Marc Magliarditi of CBRE represented the seller in the deal.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Berkadia has arranged the sale of Ashton Court, a 41-unit multifamily property built in 1960, and Ashton Place, a 37-unit community constructed in 1961, in Kansas City. Michael Spero, Niko Vrentas and Simon Rodewald of Berkadia represented the seller, Shawnee, Kan.-based Landmark Realty. Kansas City-based G1 Real Estate was the buyer. Additionally, the Berkadia team negotiated the sale of The Marseilles Apartments, a 28-unit property in Fairway, Kan. A private Missouri-based partnership sold the asset to Northfield, Ill.-based QMR Partners LLC. Built in 1971, the community offers a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom units as well as a swimming pool and structured parking garage.
BROOKLYN PARK, MINN. — CBRE has negotiated the sale and acquisition financing for 610 Business Center, a 78,215-square-foot warehouse in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park. Water Street Partners sold the asset to i3 Investors. Located at 9300 Winnetka Ave., 610 Business Center offers convenient access to I-94 via Highway 610. The facility was fully leased to Southern Graphics Systems and Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity at the time of sale. CBRE’s Bentley Smith, Judd Welliver, Zach Graham, Ryan Bain, Joe Horrigan and Michael Caprile represented the seller. CBRE’s Billy Mork, Mike Vannelli and Joel Torborg arranged a fixed-rate loan with interest-only payments for the full term on behalf of the buyer.
BATAVIA, ILL. — The Boulder Group has brokered the $4.8 million sale of a single-tenant retail property occupied by Slumberland Furniture in the Chicago suburb of Batavia. The 42,676-square-foot building is located at 165 N. Randall Road. Randy Blankstein and Jimmy Goodman of Boulder Group represented the seller, a Northeast-based real estate investor. The buyer was an investor based in the Midwest. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Little Canada, Minn., Slumberland has grown to one of the largest furniture retailers in the Midwest with more than 120 stores in 12 states.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Lee & Associates has brokered the $19.4 million sale of two industrial buildings totaling 101,454 square feet in the Northern New Jersey community of Piscataway. The buildings at 121 and 131 Ethel Road W. were fully leased at the time of sale to tenants in the distribution, food production and research-and-development sectors. Drew Maffey and Joseph Komitor represented the buyer, national investment firm Longpoint, in the transaction. The seller was not disclosed.
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. — Aucta Pharmaceuticals, which specializes in the development and commercialization of branded specialty products, has purchased a 52,000-square-foot office building in Basking Ridge, about 35 miles west of New York City, for its new headquarters. Local brokerage firm The Kislak Co. represented Aucta Pharmaceuticals in the $4.6 million acquisition. The seller was not disclosed.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Newmark has brokered the sale of Veranda, a 362-unit apartment community located at 7205 E. Ben White Blvd. in downtown Austin. Completed in 2024, the garden-style property offers one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments and townhomes with an average size of 802 square feet. Amenities include a pool, outdoor grilling and dining areas, a game room and a fitness center. Patton Jones and Andrew Dickson represented the seller, Wayfinder Real Estate, in the transaction. Adam Randall and John Westby-Gibson, also with Newmark, arranged acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer, a partnership between Missio Capital and Bow River Capital.
MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. — JLL has brokered the sale of a 598-unit self-storage facility in Mount Kisco, about 45 miles north of Manhattan. CubeSmart operates the facility at 140 Radio Circle, which was completed in 2024 and spans 64,130 net rentable square feet, the majority of which (92 percent) is climate-controlled space. Guthrie Garvin led the JLL team that represented the seller, DHIP Group, in the transaction and procured the buyer, an affiliate of New York City-based investment firm Andover Properties. The facility was 57 percent occupied at the time of sale. The sales price was not disclosed.
SRS Brokers $7M Sale of New Store in Castle Hayne, North Carolina Leased to Tractor Supply
by John Nelson
CASTLE HAYNE, N.C. — SRS Real Estate Partners has completed the $7 million sale of a newly built, 21,930-square-foot store in Castle Hayne leased to Tractor Supply. The store is situated on 11.5 acres at 3400 Castle Hayne Road, roughly 11 miles north of Wilmington, N.C. Tractor Supply had 14 years remaining on its corporate-guaranteed lease at the time of sale. Calvin Short of SRS represented the seller, a developer based in Pine Hurst, N.C., in the transaction. Pierce Mayson of Matthews Real Estate Investment Services represented the buyer, an unnamed investor based in Conyers, Ga., that was completing the second leg of a 1031 exchange.