Industrial

LOS ANGELES – Local developer Izek Shomof has acquired a 1.8-million-square-foot building in Los Angeles that previously served as a Sears mail-order distribution center for $29 million. The Art Deco building is located at the intersection of Olympic Boulevard and Soto Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood. The property still contains a 185,000-square-foot Sears retail store on the ground floor, though the majority of space has been vacant since the early ‘90s. Sears closed its distribution component in 1992. The 23-acre site features a 48,000-square-foot warehouse and a 15,000-square-foot Sears Auto Store. The buyer plans to redevelop the building into a mix of creative office space and leasable residential units. It also intends to develop the retail space on the site’s outlying parcels. The building was completed in 1927 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The seller was MJW Investments. The transaction was executed by Jeff Adkison, Brendan McArthur and Paul Sablock of Jones Lang LaSalle.

REDMOND, WASH. – A 210,321-square-foot FedEx industrial property in Redmond has received $39 million in acquisition financing. The ground distribution facility is the largest industrial building in Redmond. It is leased to a subsidiary of FedEx Corporation. The loan boasts a 20-year term, a 20-year amortization schedule and a sub-4 percent interest rate. It was provided by State Farm Life Insurance. Financing was arranged by Mike Wood of NBS Financial Services.

REDMOND, WASH. – A 210,321-square-foot FedEx industrial property in Redmond has received $39 million in acquisition financing. The ground distribution facility is the largest industrial building in Redmond. It is leased to a subsidiary of FedEx Corporation. The loan boasts a 20-year term, a 20-year amortization schedule and a sub-4 percent interest rate. It was provided by State Farm Life Insurance. Financing was arranged by Mike Wood of NBS Financial Services.

SUNNVALE, SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — Invesco Real Estate has acquired the Central Silicon Valley Industrial Portfolio for an undisclosed sum. The portfolio contains four Class A warehouse and manufacturing buildings totaling 312,110 square feet in Sunnyvale and Santa Clara. The acquisition includes 2940-2990 Mead Ave., 2855-2865 Uranium Drive and 3000-3008 Kifer Road in Santa Clara, as well as 123-127 Uranium Drive in Sunnyvale. The two multi-suite manufacturing buildings and two distribution warehouse buildings are situated on the border of Santa Clara and Sunnyvale. They are located one block from Bowers Avenue near the Lawrence Expressway. All four fully leased buildings have direct access to US Highway 101, the Central Expressway and Interstate 280. The seller, AEW Capital Management, was represented by CBRE’s Joseph Moriarty, Russell Ingrum, Sean Sullivan, Tyler Meyerdirk, Darla Longo, Barbara Emmons, Rebecca Perlmutter and Brian Matteoni. AEW sold the property on behalf of an institutional client.