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310-S-California-Ave-West-Covina-CA

WEST COVINA, CALIF. — Phillips Edison & Co. has acquired Shops at Plaza West Covina, a retail property located at 310 S. California Ave. in West Covina, from an undisclosed seller for $25.8 million. Daniel Tyner, Geoff Tranchina and Gleb Lvovich of JLL Capital Markets represented the seller in the deal. At the time of sale, the 46,406-square-foot property was 88 percent occupied. Current tenants include Bank of America, Jamba, Urbane Café, SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union, California Fish Grill, Gen Korean BBQ House and other specialty retailers.

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SEATTLE — Gantry has secured a $10.2 million permanent loan to refinance the historic Terminal Sales office building in downtown Seattle. Located at 1932 1st Ave., adjacent to Pike Place Market, the 11-story, 92,400-square-foot building was originally delivered in 1925. The property was eventually renovated to serve as modern creative office space and includes street-level retail space. Mike Wood and Tim Brown of Gantry represented the borrower, a private real estate investor. The 10-year, fixed-rate nonrecourse loan was secured by Gantry’s network of insurance company correspondent lenders with 25-year amortization. Gantry will service the loan for the lender.

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NEW YORK CITY — JLL has negotiated the $53 million sale of a mixed-use development site in Lower Manhattan’s Financial District. The site at 75–83 Nassau St. offers approximately 275,000 square feet of permitted zoning floor area, including 225,000 square feet of residential space that could yield as many as 265 units. Andrew Scandalios, Ethan Stanton, Jonathan Hageman and Michael Mazzara of JLL represented the seller, New York-based investment firm Lexin Capital, in the transaction. The buyer, a partnership between Fulltime Management and Montgomery Street Partners, plans to develop a residential building with ground-floor retail and second-floor commercial space.

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OAK BROOK, ILL. — JLL Capital Markets has brokered the $44 million sale of Overlook at Oakbrook, an unanchored retail strip center in Oak Brook that was constructed in 2023 and is located across from Oakbrook Center shopping mall. The property totals 52,876 square feet across seven buildings. The asset is 94 percent occupied by 13 tenants, including Lazy Dog Restaurant and Bar, Panera Bread, Veterinary Emergency Group and Guidepost Montessori. The property features 80 percent national tenancy with no single tenant representing more than 20 percent of income. Michael Nieder, Brian Page and Alex Sharrin of JLL represented the seller, MetLife Investment Management, and procured the buyer, a real estate fund advised by Crow Holdings Capital.

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COLUMBIA, MO. — Core Spaces has acquired The Collective at Columbia, a 972-bed student housing community near the University of Missouri in Columbia. Preiss and a real estate fund advised by Crow Holdings Capital sold the 318-unit property. Located at 3600 Aspen Heights Parkway, The Collective at Columbia offers a mix of two- to four-bedroom floor plans, all in cottage-style layouts. Amenities include a pool, clubhouse, fitness center, sand volleyball court, basketball court, dedicated study lounges and a private shuttle providing direct access to campus. The property is currently fully occupied. The acquisition marks Chicago-based Core’s first investment in Columbia.

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DES MOINES, IOWA — Foth, an engineering services firm, has relocated to the historic Carpenter Building in downtown Des Moines. Savills managed the lease negotiations, project management and office build-out for the 23,500-square-foot space. The project spans the second and third floors with an interconnected stairwell. Constructed in 1918, the Carpenter Building is a 50,000-square-foot property that has recently been transformed into Class A office space. Amenities include a fitness center, game room and conferencing facilities. Ashley Moen and Andrew Yung of Savills managed the lease negotiations for Foth while colleague Jon Theis led the build-out.

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TOPEKA, KAN. — Link Innovation Labs, a 17,000-square-foot hub designed to support startups, researchers, small businesses and industry partners, has opened in Topeka’s Innovation District. Link Innovation Labs offers office space, coworking areas, conference rooms, a dedicated pitch and event space and a flexible lab facility designed for early-stage animal health and bioscience companies. The space includes BSL-1 and BSL-2 laboratories, addressing a growing need for entry-level wet lab capacity for startups advancing alternative proteins, pet therapeutics, herd health technologies and AI-enabled biosecurity solutions. Link Innovation Labs is part of GO Topeka’s broader strategy to strengthen the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, support business formation and expansion and create high-quality jobs throughout Topeka and Shawnee County.

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MIDDLEBOROUGH, MASS. — Premier Fence, a provider of fencing and outdoor home goods, has acquired a 25.8-acre industrial facility in Middleborough, located south of Boston. The property at 370 Wareham St. features four approximately 20,000-square-foot buildings. Two buildings will house uses such as manufacturing, warehousing of raw materials, storage of finished goods and office, showroom and employee training space. Premier Fence will market the other two buildings for lease. The company expects to open its new facility this spring. MassDevelopment provided $11.7 million in bond financing, some of which is tax-exempt, for the purchase and build-out of the facility. Cambridge Savings Bank purchased the bond.

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BEDFORD, MASS. — Locally based investment firm Cummings Properties has purchased a 330,000-square-foot vacant office and life sciences facility in Bedford, located northwest of Boston. Developed in 2001 and known as Bedford Woods, the two-building facility sits on a 56-acre site at 174-176 Middlesex Turnpike; 35 of those acres remain undeveloped. Cummings acquired the property, which last sold for more than $93 million in 2012 to Texas-based Orion REIT LP, via auction.

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VAUXHALL, N.J. — Ameritas Investment Corp. has provided a $13.5 million loan for the refinancing of Millburn Village, a 71,177-square-foot shopping center in the Northern New Jersey community of Vauxhall. Millburn Village is home to 19 tenants, many of which are long-term users, with Walgreens and Staples serving as the anchors. Ryan Carroll, Tyler Caricato and Caleb Henry of JLL arranged the three-year, fixed-rate loan on behalf of the borrower, New York City-based Lightstone, which acquired the center in 2003.

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