SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — Montana Avenue Capital Partners has acquired a 118,394-square-foot office campus in Santa Monica. The property was originally listed for $32.5 million, though the final sales price was not disclosed. The campus is located at 6303-6309 Carpinteria Ave. It is situated on nine acres that overlook the Pacific Ocean. The property serves as the headquarters for CKE Restaurant Holdings, which owns Carl’s Jr, Hardee’s and Green Burrito. Cloud-based construction management software firm Procore Technologies recently signed a lease at the campus as well. Procore occupies two buildings on the campus, while CKE occupies the third building. The campus will soon undergo a renovation in the hopes of leasing up its remaining space. The renovation will add indoor-outdoor collaborative space and patio areas, glass roll-up doors, new signage and architectural features and EV charging stations. The property will also expose existing 15-foot ceiling heights, among other creative improvements.
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LOS ANGELES – Matura Farrington has signed a 65-month lease for 5,696 square feet of office space in Downtown Los Angeles. The space is located at 617 West Seventh Street. Matura Farrington is a staffing services agency. The building is owned by the Swig Company.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – A 41,348-square-foot office building in Scottsdale has sold to EDU3 Ventures and SHOP LLC for $4.2 million. The Class B building is located at 13430 North Scottsdale Road. The structure, formerly known as Scottsdale Airpark Plaza, was built in 1985. It is being redesigned, renovated and renamed Habitat-X, or “Hab-X.” The buyers were represented by Marc Bonilla of Colliers’ Scottsdale office. Bonilla is also the president of EDU3 Ventures. The seller, Charles Meyer, was represented by Mike Milic and Tyler Bush of Colliers International.
PLANO, TEXAS — Toyota Motor North America has unveiled architectural renderings of its future North American headquarters, providing new details of the site layout and exterior design of its corporate campus. Designed by Corgan Associates, the architectural renderings offer a number of different perspectives and details of the proposed Toyota campus. The complex will include seven buildings, up to five stories tall, arranged around a central plaza that serves social and business functions such as dining, fitness and conferencing. Building facades are predominantly glass, with roof overhangs along the southern exposures to cast shade. The design utilizes local and regional materials and low-water plants that reflect the native landscapes of north-central Texas, along with water features for catching and storing water for irrigation and parking structures and office buildings that can support solar panels for renewable energy production. Toyota intends to pursue LEED Platinum certification for the campus.
HARTFORD, CONN. — Westport Capital Partners has acquired Goodwin Square, which includes a 30-story office tower and the Goodwin Hotel, in downtown Hartford for an undisclosed price. Bordered by Asylum Street, Ann Street, Pearl Street and Haynes Street, the 330,901-square-foot office tower is built over an eight-story, 302-car garage. The property was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and built in 1989. The 124-room Goodwin Hotel, which has been closed since 2009, totals 110,000 square feet and includes 24 suites, conference areas, a restaurant and a bar. The office tower and hotel are connected by a multi-story atrium. The name of the seller and the acquisition price were not disclosed.
PASADENA, CALIF. – Congress Management Associates has purchased a 17,632-square-foot medical office building in Pasadena for $10.7 million. The building is located at 39 Congress Street, next to the 625-bed Huntington Memorial Hospital. The facility was built in 1984. Some of the local physicians who acted as investors in this purchase plan to occupy a portion of the building in the near future. The building is currently 95 percent occupied. The buyer was represented by Michael Dettling of Avison Young. The seller, 39 Congress Partnership, was represented by Carver Associates.
TEMPE, ARIZ. – Western Refining has expanded its lease at Papago Buttes Corporate Plaza in Tempe. The independent refining and marketing company will lease an additional 17,723 square feet at the office plaza, which is located at 1250 W. Washington Street. The company will take occupancy of the additional space this summer. Western Refining was represented by Larry Downey of Cushman & Wakefield of Arizona. The landlord was represented by Tony Hepner and Janet Ehrlich of Metro Commercial.
LOS ANGELES – Officia Imaging has signed a 63-month lease for 3,150 square feet of office space in Downtown Los Angeles. The space is located at 617 West Seventh Street. Officia Imaging is an office equipment and document management software solutions provider. The building is owned by the Swig Company.
ELMHURST AND MUNDELEIN, ILL. — Transwestern has brokered the sale of three commercial properties in three separate transactions totaling 82,285 square feet in Elmhurst and Mundelein. In the first transaction, Justin Lerner and Joe Karmin of Transwestern represented Venture One in the disposition of a 33,000-square-foot property at 899 Larch in Elmhurst. Craftwood Inc. acquired the building for an undisclosed price. In the second deal, Lerner and Karmin represented Terrence Sherman in the sale of a 29,000-square-foot building at 877 S. Route 83 in Elmhurst. U Store It LLC purchased the property for an undisclosed sum. In the final transaction, Tom Boyle and Jared Paff represented International Equipment Trading Inc. in the acquisition of a 19,295-square-foot property at 955 Campus Drive in Mundelein from G&M Enterprises for an undisclosed price.
You can hardly open the local paper lately without reading that “Downtown is hot right now; urban living is great.” Yes, downtown is booming. The suburbs are also riding the wave of new mixed-use development and could see more success. It may surprise some, but office vacancy rates and rental rates along I-394 and I-494 rival, and sometimes trump, downtown Minneapolis. The message is clear: convenience has value. The idea of a mixed-use neighborhood where people are living, working, shopping and having fun in one place is a relatively new concept to the Twin Cities. Minneapolis no longer turns into a ghost town after 6 p.m., but many people don’t want to live downtown. They find it too congested and far from work, with little green space and few parking options. If only there was a way to have the vitality of a mixed-use neighborhood without the drawbacks of the concrete jungle, right? Today that question is answered all around the metro area. West End’s Advantages In particular, the West End region of the Twin Cities shares that same long-term vision. With a strong office market long in place, Duke Realty’s addition in 2009 of The Shops at West End, …