HERSHEY, PA. — Pennsylvania-based owner-operator Shaner Hotels has acquired the Hampton Inn & Suites by Hilton Hershey, and 86-room property located about 100 miles west of Philadelphia. All guestrooms and suites feature microwaves and refrigerators, and the hotel offers amenities such as an indoor pool, fitness center and complimentary breakfast. Shaner plans to invest $1.2 million to remodel guestrooms. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
GUILFORD, CONN. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $8.2 million sale of Innovation Park, a 56,564-square-foot office building in Guilford, located in New Haven County. Thermo Fisher Scientific serves as the building’s anchor tenant. Ani Paulson and C.J. Wilson of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller in the transaction. Paulson also procured the buyer. Both parties were private investors that requested anonymity. John Krueger of Marcus & Millichap assisted in closing the deal as the broker of record.
SEATTLE — Green Leaf Capital Partners has acquired the 96-unit Encore apartments in Seattle for $35.3 million. The community is located in the Columbia City neighborhood, adjacent to the Columbia City Link light rail stop. It also contains 6,100 square feet of street-level retail. Originally developed as high-end condominiums, the mixed-use building was completed in 2022. Giovanni Napoli, Philip Assouad, Ryan Harmon, Nicholas Ruggiero and Anthony Palladino of Institutional Property Advisors represented the seller, BDR Holdings LLC, and procured the buyer in this transaction.
SAN DIMAS, CALIF. — San Dimas CA LLC has purchased a 79,036-square-foot R&D/flex facility in San Dimas. The facility is located at 960 Overland Court. The two-story property sits on 4.2 acres and is fully occupied by Collins Aerospace, a Charlotte, N.C.-based aerospace and defense product supplier and subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies. The facility is a mission-critical location for Collins and houses the company’s research and development operations. Originally built in 1987, the property recently underwent significant landlord renovations and tenant improvements. It features a mix of open-plan offices and private offices, conference rooms, multiple kitchenettes, and 7,600 square feet of warehouse space with two dock-high positions and two truck wells. Mark Shaffer, Anthony DeLorenzo, Gerard Poutier, Bryan Johnson and Nick Williams with CBRE’s Investment Properties—California/Arizona/Nevada, along with Todd Tydlaska, Mike Longo, Melissa May Moock and Sean Sullivan with CBRE’s Institutional Capital Partners, represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — Avison Young has brokered the sale of a medical office building in downtown Santa Monica. US 528 Arizona Owner LLC acquired the property for $5 million. The 3,049-square-foot medical office building is located at 520 Arizona Ave. It was acquired as part of a land assemblage for the development of a mixed-use project. Mitch Stokes of Avison Young was the sole broker in the transaction.
LAS VEGAS — Next Century Rebar LLC has acquired a 19,512-squre-foot industrial warehouse in Las Vegas for $3.7 million. The facility is located at 3020 S. Valley View Blvd. within the West Central submarket. The two-story building features 18-foot clear heights, concrete tilt-up construction, four drive-in doors and Valley View frontage. CBRE’s Tyler Ecklund represented the seller, MSC Valley LLC, in the transaction.
ENGLEWOOD, COLO. — A local buyer has purchased a 14,200-square-foot industrial building in Englewood for $1.9 million. The facility is located at 2622 S. Raritan Circle. The seller, which was in a 1031 exchange, secured a higher price than what traditional financing would have offered due to a high interest rate environment, according to NorthPeak Commercial Advisors, which represented both parties. Meanwhile, the purchase allowed the buyer to continue purchasing triple-net industrial properties within the same business park as its other holdings. The transaction also allowed the company to simultaneously complete a 1031 exchange into a more passive investment than a previous building.
MIAMI BEACH, FLA. — Walker & Dunlop Inc. has arranged a $140 million loan for the refinancing of Soho Beach House, a private members club and hotel in Miami Beach. Located along Collins Avenue, the property includes a seven-story main building with 35 suites and amenities and a 16-story beachfront tower comprising 15 full-floor suites. JPMorgan Chase Bank NA and Citi Real Estate Funding Inc. provided the 10-year, fixed-rate, interest-only loan. The borrower, an affiliate of global private members social club Soho House & Co. (SHCO), is using the proceeds to repay existing debt, repatriate equity and cover financing and closing costs. Jonathan Schwartz, Aaron Appel, Adam Schwartz, Keith Kurland, Ari Hirt, Triston Stegall and David Kasten of Walker & Dunlop arranged the loan. The team brought in numerous financing options for the borrower, an entity doing business as Beach House Owner LLC, which ultimately chose the loan package from JPMorgan Chase and Citi. “We were able to differentiate Soho Beach House as a marquee asset given the sustainability of its highly recurring membership revenue model and the impressive profitability of the asset through the cycle,” says Hirt, managing director at Walker & Dunlop. “In this challenging capital markets environment, …
By Wes Snow, co-founder and CEO, Ascendix Technologies For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, offices are 50 percent occupied nationally as companies push harder for returns to their buildings — which is good news. Still, amid this encouraging development, inflation, interest rate hikes and general fears of recession might impede businesses planning to align their office rent expenses with the pre-pandemic rates. Can businesses optimize the space they’re already utilizing without renting more? At Ascendix Technologies, a company that has been specializing in custom real estate software development for two decades, we’ve seen a variety of space extension practices applied by office owners and managers. Here are some methods that users can employ too maximize efficiency within their existing footprints. Implement Open Floor Plans Not only do wall-less spaces encourage collaboration among teams and reduce the need for spacious individual offices, they also increase flexibility in terms of how space is utilized. Reconfiguring spaces is easy with movable walls and modular furniture and represents an option that helps growing businesses align their changing needs with the spaces they’ve got. Upgrading open-floor space management with automation is another viable option. With a technology like floor management software or …
Like most of the country, the metro Atlanta multifamily market has experienced a dramatic storyline over the past three years. While the continuing plot twists are difficult to predict, important cues suggest Atlanta’s multifamily market will reestablish a solid upward path quicker than many other cities in the country. Economic strength Atlanta’s economic fundamentals make it a favored market for investors, lenders, new residents, and business relocations. Today, metro Atlanta’s population stands at approximately 6 million, growing by 64,940 in 2022. Atlanta also added 126,400 new jobs in 2022. Georgia’s unemployment rate of 3.1 percent is below the national average of 3.6 percent. These figures are a key part of Atlanta’s desirability as an investment market and an indicator of the region’s ability to rebound quickly from cyclical economic disruptions. Record volume Atlanta is a top 10 U.S. market for multifamily inventory and investment. As the nation experienced an 11-year economic expansion after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), Atlanta’s multifamily sales volume averaged between $7 billion and $9 billion annually. When the pandemic hit in March 2020, most industry participants expected a major transaction pullback. The reality proved different. Sales volume dropped initially but rebounded sharply for a full-year 2020 …
