SEATTLE — LPC West has partnered with Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. to acquire a development site for a nine-story life sciences building near Seattle’s Space Needle. Located on the border of the South Lake Union and Uptown neighborhoods, the building will total approximately 195,000 square feet and will cater to the needs of the city’s flourishing life sciences sector. Currently in the early design stages, the Class A building will feature views of the Space Needle, Climate Pledge Arena and the Puget Sound. Additionally, the site offers full transit accessibility with access to the Seattle Center Monorail, metro transit routes and Highway 99.
SAN DIEGO — Hines, in partnership with USAA Real Estate, has started construction on the first phase of the 200-acre Riverwalk San Diego, a transit-oriented, mixed-use property in San Diego. The first phase will include 900 residential rental units, ranging from studios to townhomes, in five buildings along Friars Road; a neighborhood-serving retail space; village green; and traffic, sidewalk and bike lane improvements along Friars Road. Completion is slated for early 2025. The Riverwalk plan that was established through a partnership between Hines and the Levi-Cushman family landowners will transform Mission Valley West neighborhood, according to the development partnership.
SALT LAKE CITY — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has arranged a $68.3 million permanent loan through Freddie Mac for The Woodbury Corp., Colmena Group and Western States Lodging. The loan refinances existing debt on Legacy Village of Sugar House, a seniors housing property in Salt Lake City. The 10-story Legacy Village of Sugar House features independent living, assisted living and memory care units. The property also offers retail space, parking and commercial space. Morgin Morris of KeyBank structured the 10-year, fixed-rate loan with an initial five years of interest-only payments. The property is within the master-planned Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City.
TACOMA, WASH. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Tanara Village, a multifamily community in Tacoma. A private seller in a 1031 exchange sold the property to a limited liability company for $24.1 million, or $185,769 per unit. Built in 1969, Tanara Village features 130 apartments spread across five buildings. The community offers four laundry rooms, a recreation room, dog park and 113 parking stalls. The apartments are all one-bedroom/one-bath, 114 of which are 550 square feet and 16 are 600 square feet. Kellan Moll and Scott Morasch of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction.
SAN DIEGO — HIW Associates has selected Pacific Building Group as general contractor for Harbor Island West Marina, a project including the demolition and renovation of the current marina located at 2040 Harbor Island Drive in San Diego. Estimated to cost $16 million, the 16,000-square-foot project’s scope includes the construction of two new buildings: a two-story, 9,980-square-foot retail building connected to a two-story, 5,000-square-foot marina building. The project will also include an 800-square-foot boater restroom building and recreation areas featuring a pool, picnic area and site landscaping. The marina will be renovated to include its full-service fuel dock, deli, hot tub and 620 boat slips, as well as its sailing academy. Construction on the project is slated to begin in January 2024, with completion scheduled for January 2025. Orange-based firm AO is serving as architect for the project. HIW has owned and managed the marina since 1982,
By Dave Cheatham, President, Velocity Retail Group For decades, Arizona’s housing and commercial real estate industry have benefitted and fed the state’s robust gains as population grew. Even during the pandemic, Phoenix welcomed more than 140,000 new residents fleeing more expensive, crowded coastal cities for what many deemed an improved quality of life. As we know, retail follows housing. Phoenix’s housing market has restarted, and these new markets will need retail to serve them. It has taken 15 years for retail vacancy rates to return to pre-recession levels in Phoenix. In the second quarter of 2022, the direct vacancy rate for retail properties declined to 6.7 percent. West Phoenix, Northwest Phoenix and Scottsdale are currently the strongest submarkets, drawing residents to fast growing cities and towns. I see retail expanding as residential development at the edges of the city continue, and agricultural land is transformed into subdivisions. With inflation shrinking household budgets, consumers are making intentional choices on where they drive and what they buy. Those retailers who are large-space occupiers will continue to focus on delivering value and lower prices to their customers. Shopping center development has been anemic in Phoenix in the past decade, as those that lease big …
SAN ANTONIO — Hospitality development and management firm Winston Hotels is nearing completion of a project in downtown San Antonio that will convert an office building into a 343-room dual-branded hotel. The AC by Marriott component will total 181 rooms and is scheduled to launch in early October, and the Element by Westin brand will comprise 162 rooms that are slated to come on line before the end of the year. Guests of both hotels will have access to multiple bars and lounges, a fitness center, business center and 4,000 square feet of meeting space.
HOUSTON — Lineage Logistics, a third-party provider specializing in cold storage real estate, has signed a 315,111-square-foot lease at Houston ColdPort, a newly built facility located near Port Houston. The facility sits on 22.5 acres and features 50-foot clear heights, 200-foot truck court depths and the capacity to support 40,000 pallet positions. The developer, a partnership between CenterSquare Investment Management and Boomerang Interests, broke ground on the facility in April 2021.
HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS — Colorado-based Spartan Investment Group has begun a 303-unit expansion project at the FreeUp Storage facility in Huntsville, about 70 miles north of Houston. The facility currently comprises 45,000 net rentable square feet of climate- and non-climate-controlled space across 320 units. On a net rentable basis, the expansion will add 31,700 square feet of climate-controlled space and 12,940 square feet of non-climate-controlled space. Spartan Investment Group expects to complete the project before the end of the year.
HOUSTON — Colliers has negotiated a 127,046-square-foot, full-building industrial lease at 2425 Turning Basin Drive in East Houston. The property features 23-foot clear heights, 12 dock-high doors and 20,292 square feet of office space. John Nicholson, Zack Taylor and Trey Horne of Colliers represented the landlord, Macey Family Properties, in the lease negotiations. John Garza of Windsor Hill Real Estate Group represented the tenant, an entity doing business as LTR Intermediate Holdings Inc.