LONG BEACH, CALIF. — Killefer Flammang Architects (KFA) has completed Immanuel Place, an affordable seniors housing community in the Bluff Heights Historic District of Long Beach. The $12 million project converted the 90-year-old Immanuel Church into a 31,000-square-foot, 25-unit community. Thomas Safran & Associates developed the property. The adaptive reuse project preserved the church’s stained-glass windows, pipe organ and three-story sanctuary. The development also moved an adjacent home to another area of Long Beach, making room for a parking lot. Immanuel Place was financed through a combination of Low Income Housing Tax Credit equity from Union Bank, an Infill Grant from the California State Department of Housing and Community Development, a loan from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), HOME Investment Partnership Program funds from the City of Long Beach/The Long Beach Community Investment Co., a loan from the Community Development Commission of the County of Los Angeles and funds from the Federal Home Loan Bank. KFA is an architecture and design firm specializing in urban infill and adaptive reuse projects. The company is based in Santa Monica, Calif.
SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — CBRE Global Investors has acquired The Campus @ 3333 – Phase III, a 940,564-square-foot, four-building office campus located at 3333 Scott Blvd. in Santa Clara. Situated within the prestigious Silicon Valley district, the property was acquired on behalf of a joint venture between Korea Post and another undisclosed client. The sales price and seller were undisclosed, but media outlets are reporting that Menlo Equities and Beacon Capital Partners, co-developers of The Campus, sold Phase III for $610 million. The newly constructed LEED Silver-certified campus is fully leased to Palo Alto Networks, a cybersecurity firm, and serves as its headquarters. The property features a dedicated 30,485-square-foot amenity building with a full-service cafeteria, conference center, outdoor amphitheater, dedicated open space, outdoor dining and collaborative meeting space, 200 electric vehicle charging stations, bicycle storage, a grass picnic area and access to a fitness center. “The San Jose market has experienced broad-based growth primarily driven by the rapid and sustained technology boom in Silicon Valley,” says Gardner Ellner, senior director of Commercial Acquisitions-Americas at CBRE. “As a result, vacancy rates have dramatically declined to the lowest levels since 2000, and tenants are actively moving to submarkets such as Santa Clara …
VACAVILLE, CALIF. — A joint venture between PCCP and LDK Ventures has purchased a vacant 843,248-square-foot cross‐docked industrial building in Vacaville for an undisclosed sum. The asset is situated on 75 acres at 700 Crocker Drive in the Bay Area’s northern most city. The facility was built in the late 1970s. Features include 30-foot clear heights, a secured gated site with guard shack, excess yard area, a three-bay truck maintenance facility and a 30,000-square-foot cross-dock sorting facility with 32 dock-high doors. Brooks Pedder, John McManus and Tony Binswanger of Cushman & Wakefield represented both the buyer and seller in this transaction.
LYNWOOD, CALIF. — Charles Dunn Co. has arranged the sale of retail property located at 3645 E. Imperial Highway in Lynwood. A Los Angeles-based private investor sold the property to a private international investor for $5 million, or $538 per square foot. U.S. Bank anchors the 9,375-square-foot two-tenant retail property. Kyle Gulock and Matt Kramer of Charles Dunn Co. represented the seller, while Industry Partners represented the buyer in the deal.
RANCHO SAN DIEGO, CALIF. — Alpha Brothers has purchased a single-tenant retail property located at 3777 Willow Glen Drive in Rancho San Diego. Rancho San Diego 111 Partners sold the property for $4.8 million. BevMo occupies the 6,200-square-foot property. Don Mose of Retail insite and Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, while Sereno Group represented the buyer in the transaction.
POMONA, CALIF. — Capital Realty Solutions has arranged the sale of a restaurant property located at 2098 S. Garey Ave. in Pomona. 6814 Lankershim Associates sold the property to an undisclosed private investor for $3.5 million. Jack in the Box occupies the 2,612-square-foot property on a 15-year triple-net lease term, which includes four five-year extension options for the tenant. Ash Joshi of Capital Realty Solutions represented the seller in the deal.
LONG BEACH, CALIF. — Burnham-Ward Properties, together with Burnham USA and Rockwell Capital, has signed three new fitness concepts at Long Beach Exchange, a retail and dining destination center in Long Beach. GritCycle, Ra Yoga and Orangetheory Fitness are joining the 266,000-square-foot property. Slated to open in spring 2018 and situated on 26 acres, the center will feature stores, shops, restaurants and two acres of communal open space. GritCycle will open a 3,000-square-foot indoor cycling studio; Ra Yoga will feature 3,400 square feet of yoga space; and Orangetheory Fitness will feature 3,200 square feet of boutique fitness space.
SAN MATEO, CALIF. — Bridge Investment Group has received a $54.5 million loan to acquire an office property in San Mateo. The loan includes a future funding component for planned capital improvements and leasing costs. The new owner plans to modernize the property. The loan was funded under KeyBank’s non-recourse bridge lending program. The program offers high-leverage, non-recourse loans for cash flowing properties.
LOS ANGELES — Westfield Corp., a mixed-use developer based in Sydney, Australia, is opening its $1 billion redevelopment of Westfield Century City mall in the Century City district of Los Angeles on Tuesday, Oct. 3. Westfield expects the open-air development to have the majority of its more than 200 shops and restaurants open for the event, including a new three-level Nordstrom. The 1.3 million-square-foot development will also feature a remodeled, three-level Bloomingdale’s, a new two-level Macy’s and an Equinox fitness club and spa. The center’s new and existing dining options include Bibigo, California Pizza Kitchen, Chick-fil-A, Chipotle, Everytable, Lifehouse Tonics + Elixirs, Panda Express, Randy’s Donuts, See’s Candies, Shake Shack, Wexler’s Deli and the West Coast’s first Eataly, an Italian market concept that will open later in the month. Eataly will feature multiple restaurants, food and beverage counters, retail items and cooking classes. In addition to the department store anchors and existing AMC movie theater, new and existing retailers include Apple Store, Banana Republic, Disney Store, J. Crew, Kate Spade New York, Madewell, Microsoft, SUITSUPPLY, Tory Burch and Warby Parker. Westfield’s in-house design studio worked with Los Angeles-based designer Kelly Wearstler to redesign the project’s outdoor plazas, landscaped terraces and …
IRVINE, CALIF. — Sabra Health Care REIT (NASDAQ: SBRA) has acquired 21 skilled nursing facilities in a sale-leaseback transaction with an undisclosed West Coast operator for $378 million. The Irvine-based, publicly traded REIT plans to buy the operator’s three remaining facilities before the end of the year for $52 million, for an expected total purchase price of $430 million. The acquisitions are one of several mega-deals for Sabra this year. In August, the company completed its acquisition of skilled nursing owner and former Ventas spinoff Care Capital Properties. Just last week, Sabra also announced it had agreed to buy minority interest in a 183-property portfolio of Enlivant-operated seniors housing communities for $371 million. Sabra plans to eventually acquire 100 percent interest in the portfolio. Sabra was the 21st largest owner of seniors housing in the U.S. with 74 communities and 7,624 units as of June 1, according to the American Seniors Housing Association’s 2017 tally. However, that ranking was before any of these three major acquisitions. Concurrent with the new sale-leaseback transaction, Sabra also announced that it has begun the process of marketing for sale the remaining 43 facilities that the company leases to Genesis Healthcare Inc. Sabra predicts the sales …