SANTEE, CALIF. — Faris Lee Investments has arranged the $27.1 million sale of Santee Town Center, a shopping center in Santee. Brixton Capital acquired the asset from a Los Angeles-based private family office. Sean Cox and Alex Moore, Don MacLellan and Gene Ventura of Faris Lee represented the buyer and seller in the deal. At the time of sale, the 106,903-square-foot retail center was fully leased. Current tenants include Ross Dress for Less, Dollar Tree and Michaels.
SEATTLE — RISE Properties Trust and Tokyu Land US Corp. have purchased Park South Apartments, a multifamily community in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood, from Jackson Square Properties for an undisclosed price. Located at 10102 8th Ave. S., the property features 252 units with in-unit washers/dryers, newly renovated interiors, wood-burning fireplaces and modern appliances. Community amenities include a pool, fitness center, business center, clubhouse, games and an outdoor entertainment area. Eli Hanacek, Jon Hallgrimson, Mark Washington and Kyle Yamamoto of CBRE’s multifamily team in Seattle represented the seller in the transaction.
LOS ANGELES — Greenbridge Finance and Deutsche Bank have co-originated a $150 million refinancing for The Reef, a creative flex office property in downtown Los Angeles. Located at 1933 S. Broadway, The Reef offers more than 800,000 rentable square feet of creative space tailored for innovators, entrepreneurs and diverse creators. LA Mart, Maker City LA and Magic Box are tenants at the 12-story building, which also has a basement.
SIMI VALLEY, CALIF. — Meridian Capital Group has arranged a $40 million loan to refinance Varenita of Simi Valley, an assisted living and memory care facility in Simi Valley. The borrower is Griffin Living, which opened the property in April. Proceeds from the transaction repaid an existing construction loan and provided a return of capital to the owners while the community was still in lease-up. A finance company provided the funds. Meridian’s Ari Adlerstein, Josh Simpson and Jesse Rauch negotiated the transaction. Varenita of Simi Valley comprises 75 assisted living and 27 memory care units.
LOS ANGELES — Stan Johnson Co. has arranged the sale of a fitness and sports facility located at 40014 10th St. West in Palmdale. A New York City-based private investor sold the asset to the tenant, Planet Fitness, for $5.5 million. Prior to acquiring the real estate, Planet Fitness occupied the 18,000-square-foot property on a triple-net lease that features rental increases and option periods. Ronnie Givargis of Stan Johnson Co. represented the seller in the deal.
MCKINNEY, TEXAS — Locally based developer KDC has completed Phase II of Independent Financial’s $150 million office headquarters campus in the northern Dallas suburb of McKinney. Construction of the six-story, 198,000-square-foot building, which is located within the Craig Ranch master-planned development, began in early 2021. KDC completed Phase I of the project, which featured a 165,000-square-foot building on a 10-acre site, in summer 2019. Amenities include a fitness center, coffee bar and a grab-and-go dining area. Earlier this year, the project team purchased an additional 17 acres located northwest of the campus for further expansion, bringing the total footprint to 30 acres.
HOUSTON — Arizona-based SB Properties has acquired Vargos on the Lake, a 276-unit apartment community in West Houston. The property offers one- and two-bedroom apartments and three-bedroom townhomes. Amenities include a pool with a sundeck, fitness center with yoga and kickboxing stations, resident lounge with billiards and poker tables, conference lounge and a dog park. Jennifer Ray and Ryan Epstein of Walker & Dunlop represented the seller, Berkshire Group, in the transaction. The sales price was not disclosed.
BAYTOWN, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Cedar Grove Park RV Resort, a 266-site RV park located in the eastern Houston suburb of Baytown. Robert Denninger of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, and the buyer, a limited liability company, in the transaction. Both parties involved in the deal requested anonymity. The property was roughly 90 percent occupied at the time of sale.
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Locally based investment firm 180 Multifamily Properties has purchased a 224-unit complex in Arlington. According to Apartments.com, the property at 834 Timberlake Drive offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units ranging in size from 600 to 1,010 square feet, as well as a business center and a clubhouse. The new ownership plans to implement a value-add program and rebrand the property as Oakmont Apartment Homes. The seller was Florida-based ZMR Capital.
HOUSTON — NAI Partners has arranged the sale of five freestanding industrial buildings totaling approximately 85,000 square feet in northwest Houston. Darren O’Conor of NAI Partners represented the seller and developer, Vault Partners, in the disposition of the buildings, which traded to four different buyers. Buyer representatives included Jeremy Kraus and Jordan Enger of CBRE; Gerrit Stryker of United Real Estate; Jason Gibbons and Jack Gaffney of Finial Group; and Rafael Melara of Hunington Properties
