SAN DIEGO — PSRS has arranged a $10 million loan for the refinancing of Mercy Medical, a medical office building in San Diego. Built in 1979 and renovated in 2017, the seven-story, multi-tenant building features 86,288 rentable square feet. James Mulvihill, Kevin Mulvihill and Alexander Santulis of PSRS secured a nonrecourse, interest-only loan with flexible prepayment terms through one of PSRS’ correspondent life insurance company lenders for the undisclosed borrower.
ROSEVILLE AND ELK GROVE, CALIF. — Two new retail centers designed by Los Angeles-based Nadel Architects have opened in the metro Sacramento area. The properties are West Roseville Marketplace in Roseville and Laguna Reserve Marketplace in Elk Grove. West Roseville Marketplace totals 74,000 square feet and is anchored by a 55,592-square-foot Safeway store. Additional tenants at the center include McDonald’s, Starbucks Coffee, Bank of America and Mountain Mike’s Pizza. Laguna Reserve Marketplace, which comprises 57,000 square feet, is also anchored by Safeway.
SAN FRANCISCO — Bridges Capital has acquired 1045 Sansome, an office property located in the Jackson Square submarket of San Francisco, for an undisclosed price. Kyle Kovac and Mike Taquino of CBRE represented the undisclosed seller in the deal. The four-story building offers 83,871 square feet of creative office space. The property was built in 1926 and has been substantially renovated with new windows, interior upgrades, a top-floor lounge and a roof deck. At the time of sale, the building was 64 percent leased to tenants in architecture, design and e-commerce industries.
SAN DIEGO — Parallel Capital Partners has purchased two industrial properties — Rose Canyon Business Park and The 5 & 52 Business Park — in the Sorrento Valley district of San Diego in two separate transactions, representing an investment of more than $100 million across 300,000 square feet of industrial space. Acquired in April, Rose Canyon Business Park is a 15-building, multi-tenant industrial park totaling 234,000 square feet across two parcels spanning 38 acres. The project is currently 85 percent leased, with an average tenant size of 1,700 square feet. Parallel plans to invest more than $5 million in improvements, including landscaping, exterior upgrades, signage enhancements and a speculative suite program. Additionally, the firm plans to convert approximately 13,000 square feet of office space into additional industrial units. The asset is located at 4901-4907 Morena Blvd. Located at 5965 and 5975 Santa Fe St., the 5 & 52 Business Park offers 71,597 square feet of industrial space spread across two buildings on 4 acres. The property was fully vacant when Parallel acquired it in November 2024. The firm plans to rebrand the property as a multi-tenant industrial park. Renovations will include demising the project into smaller units, delivering move-in-ready speculative suites …
FRESNO, CALIF. — A partnership between CenterCal Properties and DRA Advisors has acquired Fig Garden Village, a 300,000-square-foot lifestyle center located in Fresno. Originally developed in 1956 as part of the historic Fig Garden residential area, the center serves as a retail anchor for the broader Central California market. Tenants at the property include Pottery Barn, Williams-Sonoma, Banana Republic, lululemon, Whole Foods Market, Anthropologie, Madewell and Paper Source. The center was previously owned by Brookfield Properties.
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Slatt Capital has arranged a $19.7 million loan for the refinancing of Sun Garden Retail Center, a 107,899-square-foot retail property located in San Jose. Slatt Capital secured the fixed-rate, 12-year loan through a life insurance company on behalf of the borrower. Walmart anchors Sun Garden Retail Center, which occupies the former site of the Sun Garden Packing Co., a legacy cannery connected to San Jose’s agricultural roots. Other tenants at the property include Big 5 Sporting Goods, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Starbucks Coffee, Chevron and Jack in the Box.
WEST COVINA, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Fernwood Terrace Apartments in West Covina. A private investor acquired the asset from Fernwood Terrace Apartments LLC for $9.5 million. Gordon Reese of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, while Tyler Leeson and Drew Holden of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer in the deal. Located at 712 S. Fernwood St., Fernwood Terrace Apartments features 30 studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans with 24 of the units fully renovated. The community offers a swimming pool, onsite laundry, controlled access and 43 parking spaces.
— By Caleb Hodge of KWP Real Estate — The Los Angeles office market is undergoing a transformation. Finally. Downtown LA and most of the submarkets were decimated following the pandemic, but leasing activity is increasing. In fact, the fourth quarter of last year saw the highest annual leasing activity since the pandemic was officially declared “over,” according to Savills Research and Data Services. How is this possible? The answer lies in the evolving identity of office spaces, which is driven by the demand for creative office. Despite increased asking rates in certain submarkets, Los Angeles is still a tenant-driven office market. The rub is that hybrid-working models continue to, at times, complicate leasing decisions. Fortunately, highly sought-out creative office space in Los Angeles offers two key incentives: premium amenities and functional, innovative office designs. Creative office space may still be considered niche, but the amenities and design layouts are critical when bringing employees back to the office. In fact, those attributes are highly desired by most modern office workers, whether their industry or physical space is considered “creative” or not. With traffic being a constant factor in LA, centrally located offices with easy commutes for a majority of workers …
LOS ANGELES — SF Capital has secured $56.2 million in life insurance company financing for a mixed-use retail and office portfolio located in Southern California. The 368,000-square-foot portfolio includes 215,000 square feet of office space and 153,000 square feet of retail space. The financing was arranged through SF Capital’s life company correspondent loan program. Additional terms of the financing were not released.
SAN DIEGO — JLL Capital Markets has arranged a $27.6 million loan to refinance Torrey Hills Center, an 86,467-square-foot retail center located in the Carmel Valley neighborhood of San Diego. Vons Market anchors the center. Originally built in 2005, the property is 98.4 percent leased to a mix of 26 tenants including Orangetheory Fitness, Starbucks Coffee, Wells Fargo and JETSET Pilates. Greg Brown, John Marshall, Spencer Seibring and Allie Black of JLL’s Debt Advisory team represented the borrower, a national real estate investment and management firm, in arranging the 10-year, fixed-rate loan through a correspondent insurance company.
