SONOMA, CALIF. — Strategic Storage Trust II has purchased a 340-unit self-storage facility in Sonoma for an undisclosed sum. The facility is located at 19240 Highway 12. The property contains a total of 37,800 square feet on 1.97 acres. It is about 95 percent occupied. The space was built in 1984. Strategic Storage Trust II is sponsored by SmartStop Asset Management LLC.
SAN LEANDRO, CALIF. — Arbor Lodging Partners has purchased a 119-room Hilton Garden Inn Oakland/San Leandro for an undisclosed sum. The hotel is located at 510 Lewelling Blvd. The hotel features one food and beverage outlet, 1,100 square feet of flexible meeting space, a fitness center and an indoor pool. Arbor Lodging plans to invest more than $4 million to update the property. NVN Hotels will manage the asset. JLL’s Mark Fraioli and Melvin Chu represented the seller, a consortium between Cypress Hospitality, KYD and Cornerstone Hotel Group, in this transaction.
LIVERMORE, CALIF. — Align Real Estate has acquired Comcast Office Center, 219,631-square-foot office campus in Livermore, for $59 million. The three-building campus serves as the regional headquarters for Comcast. The space is located at 3011, 3055 and 3077 Comcast Place in the Tri-Valley region of the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Comcast Office Center features outdoor seating, and volleyball and basketball courts. HFF’s Michael Leggett, Scott Pertel and Gerry Rohm represented the buyer and seller, Gramercy Property Trust, in this transaction.
LONG BEACH, CALIF. — Jaison Robinson has purchased the 127-unit Patio Gardens in Long Beach for $35.3 million. The community is located at 4874 E. Los Coyotes Diagonal in the Traffic Circle neighborhood. Patio Gardens is situated on nearly six acres that front Los Coyotes Diagonal. It is also less than two miles from California State University of Long Beach, and three miles from the Belmont Shore neighborhood. The property was built in 1958. It contains 19 two-story buildings. The purchase allowed Robinson to complete a 1031 exchange. Robert Stepp of Stepp Commercial represented Robinson in both transactions. Gregory Harris of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, Patio Gardens LLC, in this transaction.
LOS ANGELES — Goodman Birtcher has purchased a 130-acre logistics portfolio that spans two infill sites in the Los Angeles submarkets of Santa Fe Springs and El Monte. The sites were purchased for a reported $240 million. The Santa Fe Springs site contains a six-building logistics campus that totals about 1 million square feet of space over 75 acres. The facility includes 18 acres of trailer parking and ambient refrigerated and freezer facilities suitable for food users, last-mile logistics and ecommerce companies. The transaction also includes a 55-acre site in El Monte that will be developed into a 1.2 million-square-foot, Class A logistics facility. It will be constructed with a flexible and sustainable design for logistics and ecommerce customers. The redevelopment efforts will commence once the sites’ current leases expire. JLL’s Louis Tomaselli, Zach Niles and Mark Detmer executed the transaction.
LOS ANGELES — Bridge Development Partners has announced plans to build a 429,840-square-foot warehouse and office facility in the City of Industry, a submarket of Los Angeles. The facility will be located near the 60 Freeway. The Class A property is scheduled for completion on Dec. 1. A 260,000-square-foot warehouse on the site will be demolished to make way for the new facility. Bridge Development is targeting high-tech tenants. Premier Design + Build will build the facility. HSA & Associates will provide engineering services, while HPA will deliver architectural services. Stuart Milligan of Cushman & Wakefield and Tony Phu of Colliers International will act as the building’s leasing agents. JP Morgan Chase Bank provided financing.
SIMI VALLEY, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of the Shops at Target Center, a retail center in Simi Valley. A 1031 exchange investor acquired the 22,812-square-foot property for $10.1 million, or $445 per square foot. Located at 2931-2941 Cochran St., the retail center features a mix of 12 tenants, including restaurants, a private gym and service-oriented shops. Aria Pournazarian, Mike Malick and Carol Song of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a development firm based in Los Angeles, and procured the buyer.
GLENDORA, CALIF. — Champion Real Estate Co. has acquired a grocery-anchored neighborhood retail center in Glendora for an undisclosed price. Located at 655 S. Grand Ave., the existing 85,615-square-foot property is a vacant grocery building. Champion plans to reconfigure and reposition the property as a smaller 70,500-square-foot, grocery-anchored neighborhood shopping center that will include several national credit tenants. Additionally, the center will include two retail pads in the existing parking field, plus additional supporting retail to expand the tenant base and meet community needs. The name of the seller was not released.
VICTORVILLE, CALIF. — Faris Lee Investments has arranged the sale of a freestanding, single-tenant property located at 13615 Bear Valley Road in Victorville. Newport Beach, Calif.-based Giavictor Investments acquired the 8,930-square-foot property from OPT Bear Valley VV for $4.6 million. Built in 2008, KinderCare Learning Centers occupies the property. Shaun Riley of Faris Lee Investments represented the seller, while Diana Kaplan of ReMax FH Commercial represented the buyer in the deal.
LOS ANGELES AND SAN DIEGO — Savills Studley has arranged the sale of a pair of shopping centers in Southern California for a combined sales price of $352 million. In the first transaction, ROIC California purchased North Ranch Shopping Center, a 146,625-square-foot neighborhood shopping center in the Los Angeles submarket of Westlake Village, for $122.8 million. Ralphs Fresh Fare, Rite Aid, Trader Joes and Petco anchor North Ranch. It is located at 3815-3963 Thousand Oaks Blvd., one block from the 101 Freeway. In the second transaction, Stockbridge Capital Group purchased Mira Mesa Marketplace, a 487,807-square-foot regional shopping center in San Diego, for $229 million. Smart & Final Extra, CVS, Home Depot, Edwards Theatre, Ross, Old Navy and Barnes & Noble anchor Mira Mesa. It is located off Interstate 15 on Mira Mesa Boulevard. Bill Bauman and Kyle Miller of Savills Studley’s National Retail Services Group represented the unidentified seller of the two properties. ROIC California is an entity of the Retail Opportunity Investment Corp., a publicly traded REIT. Stockbridge Capital Group is a real estate investment firm headquartered in San Francisco. — Nellie Day
