SAN BERNARDINO, CALIF. — Westcore Properties has purchased Northgate Industrial Portfolio, a more than 1 million-square-foot industrial portfolio in San Bernardino, for an undisclosed sum. The fully leased, two-building, Class A industrial portfolio is located at 927 E. 9th St. and 7776 E. Tippecanoe Ave. The distribution buildings are situated on more than 44 acres. They were built in 2009. Each of the buildings provides cross-dock loading, ESFR sprinkler systems, secured concrete truck courts, 30-foot clear heights and T-5 lighting. The properties also provide immediate access to the Southern California freeway system via Interstates 215 and 10, as well as nearby State Route 210. Westcore represented itself in the transaction. Jeff Chiate, Jeffrey Cole, Ed Hernandez, Mike Adey, Nico Napolitano and Bryce Aberg of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Bentall Kennedy, in this transaction. Bentall Kennedy acted on behalf of an institutional client.
California
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — PCCP has provided a $63.8 million senior loan to Hudson Cos. for the development of Vespaio, a mixed-use project located at 138 Stockton Ave. in San Jose. The seven-story property will feature 162 residential units and 39,042 square feet of retail and commercial space. Slated for completion in 2019, the project will consist of three floors of commercial space fronting Stockton Avenue and two levels of structured parking. Amenities include a business center, fitness center, resident lounge, test kitchen, gaming area, pool, spa, outdoor cabanas, and rooftop deck with grills and a fire pit.
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — A joint venture between Western National Group, Anchor Real Estate Capital and Fantasia Holding Group has started construction of a 551-unit apartment complex within the master-planned community of Market Park in San Jose. The mixed-use development is situated near major freeways like Highway 87, 101, I-680 and I-880. The new community has been dubbed The Platform. It will include 37,500 square feet of retail. The new development will be the closest apartment community to the new Berryessa BART transit station, scheduled to open in June 2018. The Platform will offer two resort-style pools, two fitness centers with indoor-outdoor convertible space, multiple high-end outdoor kitchen areas, a dog salon, two bike stations for maintenance and storage, and two clubhouses with indoor entertainment and gaming facilities. The community is scheduled to open in the third quarter of 2019.
SAN FRANCISCO — Faris Lee Investments has arranged the sale of a freestanding retail property located at 1900 19th Ave. in San Francisco. Guilfoyl-Greenspan Trust sold the single-tenant property to First and Mission Properties for $16.8 million in a 1031 exchange. CVS/pharmacy will occupy the 17,920-square-foot building, which is undergoing a major renovation. Jeff Conover and Thomas Chichester of Faris Lee represented the seller, while Dan Lem of LemRx Realty Advisors represented the buyer in the deal.
SHAFTER, CALIF. — Essendant Co. has leased 405,299 square feet of industrial space at Wonderful Industrial Park (WIP) in Shafter. The facility is located at 4805 Centennial Plaza Way near Bakersfield. Essendant will use this facility for local and regional fulfilment, e-commerce and distribution. The company will occupy the space in the second quarter of 2018. Wonderful Industrial Park is a 1,625-acre, rail-served, master-planned, entitled industrial development able to accommodate requirements ranging from 100,000 square feet to 2 million square feet. Wonderful Real Estate started construction on a speculative 1 million-square-foot, 40-foot-clear industrial building at WIP in September with an expected delivery date of March 2018. WIP is home to several corporate users including Target, Ross Stores, American Tire Distributors, FedEx, Formica, State Farm, DMSI, MRC Global and Baker Hughes. JLL’s Mike McCrary, Peter McWilliams and Hewett are leading the leasing efforts at Wonderful Industrial Park.
Progressive Real Estate Arranges $3.2M Sale of Retail Building in Riverside, California
by Nellie Day
RIVERSIDE, CALIF. — Progressive Real Estate Partners has brokered the sale of a retail building located at 10000 Magnolia Ave. in Riverside. A San Bernardino-based private investor sold the property to a Laguna Beach-based development firm for $3.2 million. A portion of the 22,000-square-foot building is being renovated for the new tenant, the Social Security Administration, which is slated to open in 2018. Greg Bedell and Pablo Velasco of Progressive Real Estate represented the buyer and seller in the transaction.
LOS ANGELES — OnlyRoses, a specialty rose gift brand, will open its first U.S. retail location and second non-franchise store in the Los Angeles submarket of Beverly Hills. The Beverly Hills location will be the company’s second non-franchise boutique in the world and home base in the U.S. for nationwide shipments, which will come from the company’s new warehouse in Hollywood. Italian architecture firm Baciocchi Associati designed the store. Roses are ethically sourced directly from farms in the Andes mountains near Quito, Ecuador. Originally founded by husband-and-wife team Anian and Sabine Schmitt in 2007, the original London-based OnlyRoses store is located in London’s Knightsbridge neighborhood on the block adjacent to Harrod’s. In the last decade, the business has expanded with franchise locations in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Riyadh and Kuwait City.
COSTA MESA, CALIF. — A joint venture between SteelWave and Invesco Real Estate has purchased The Press, a 249,075-square-foot printing press warehouse in Costa Mesa, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition also includes an attached 112,408-square-foot office building and an adjacent four-acre parcel of land. The asset formerly served as the printing facility for the Los Angeles Times, while the office building served as the Times’ Orange County press room. The JV plans to develop about 420,000 square feet of creative office and retail space. The site is entitled for up to 650,000 square feet, leaving 230,000 square feet of remaining entitlements for future development. The project is directly adjacent to SteelWave’s Hive project, a 180,000-square-foot creative office development that serves as the headquarters and training facility for the Los Angeles Chargers. HFF’s John Rose, Todd Sugimoto, Patrick Burger and Olga Walsh arranged acquisition financing for the development.
LOS ANGELES — Lineage Logistics has purchased eight temperature-controlled warehouses in the Los Angeles area for an undisclosed sum. The eight locations encompass more than 12 million cubic feet of capacity in the Los Angeles area. The properties are accessible to Southern California’s major freeways, rail facilities and ocean container terminals, including the 250,000-square-foot transload facility Lineage operates in the Port of Long Beach’s overweight corridor. The seller was U.S. Growers Cold Storage.
FAIR OAKS, CALIF. — NewMark Merrill Cos. has acquired Madison Marketplace, a 258,981-square-foot retail center in Fair Oaks, located 18 miles east of Sacramento. Raley’s Supermarket and TJ Maxx anchor the center, which was 93 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Petco, Dollar Tree, O’Reilly Auto Parts, Chipotle Mexican Grill, GameStop, Leslie Pool Supplies, McDonalds and Starbucks Coffee. Sandy Sigal, Jim Patton, Brad Pearl, Sandra Kist and Susan Rorison of NewMark Merrill represented the company internally in the transaction. Roman Benvenuti and Bill Palmer of Palmer Capital Inc. represented the seller, TA Realty. The price was not disclosed. Kostas Kavayiotidis of Pacific Southwest Realty Services arranged a 10-year, fixed-rate loan through John Hancock Insurance on behalf of NewMark Merrill.