ADDISON, ILL. — Clear Height Properties has sold a 31,385-square-foot industrial building in Addison for $3.1 million. Clear Height purchased the property at 345 S. Fairbank St. in November and completed improvements such as roof repair, interior renovations, dock repairs, masonry repair and new LED lighting. Justin Lerner, Joe Karmin and Ross Lehrman of Transwestern represented Clear Height. Brent DeNoble and Doug Altenberger of Lee & Associates represented the undisclosed buyer.
TEMPE, ARIZ. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged the sale of Hudson on Farmer, an apartment community in downtown Tempe. Ideal Capital Group purchased the property from 8th & Farmer Owner LLC for $96 million, or $561,404 per unit. Completed in 2021, Hudson on Farmer features 171 apartments with full-size washers/dryers, walk-in showers and private balconies. Community amenities include a heated swimming pool, spa and second-story resident lounge with social space, a conference room and workspaces. The landscaped courtyard offers a covered outdoor dining area, barbecue grills, a firepit, desert vegetation and misting systems. The property also features a fitness center, bike parking room and electric vehicle charging stations. Steve Gebing and Cliff David of IPA represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.
MONTEREY PARK, CALIF. — BH Properties has acquired a 120,191-square-foot suburban commercial office campus in Monterey Park from Blue Shield of California in a $15 million sale/leaseback transaction. Andrew Harper, Will Poulsen, Matt McRoskey and Owen Muller of JLL marketed the property on behalf of Blue Shield. Situated on 7.9 acres, the asset features a 91,363-square-foot building and a 28,828-square-foot property, both of which serve as the headquarters of Blue Shield’s Promise Health Plan, a managed care organization. Blue Shield will continue to occupy the asset through July 2023.
TEMPE, ARIZ. — CBRE has arranged the sale of Sanctuary on Broadway, an apartment community located at 1330 W. Broadway Road in Tempe. A private, Washington-based company acquired the asset for $75 million. Brian Smuckler, Jeff Seaman, Derek Smigiel and Bryson Fricke of CBRE represented the buyer in the deal. Sanctuary on Broadway features 240 apartments, with 60 percent of the units as two-bedroom floor plans averaging 700 square feet. The two-building, two-story property offers renovated interiors, including stainless steel appliances, Shaker-style cabinetry, subway-tile backsplashes, modern bathroom vanities and in-suite washers/dryers in select units. Community amenities include a swimming pool, clubhouse, picnic areas with barbecues and a fitness center.
LOVELAND, COLO. — Roaring Fork Real Estate has completed the sale of a warehouse cold storage building located at 7311 E. Highway 34 in Loveland. WS Properties Loveland acquired the asset for $6 million. Situated on four acres, the 31,612-square-foot facility features more than 20,000 square feet of cold storage and dry storage. The asset also includes a shipping/receiving area, locker rooms and office space. The buyer plans to convert the single-tenant facility property into a third-party logistics facility. The existing tenant, Canyon Bakehouse, is scheduled to vacate the premises in June. Jared Goodman of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction.
SEATTLE — Barings and Schnitzer West LLC have sold Madison Centre, a 37-story office tower in downtown Seattle, for $730 million. The buyer was Boston Properties Inc. (NYSE: BXP). Completed in September 2017 and currently 93 percent leased, Madison Centre spans 760,971 rentable square feet and features 480 parking stalls. Amenities include a rooftop terrace, great room, conference center, boardroom, library and a fitness center operated by the Washington Athletic Club. Certified LEED Platinum, the building features HVAC purification systems and touchless entry. “The property is positioned to compete post-COVID with exactly what tenants are looking for and has performed extremely well throughout our hold period,” says Ben Green, managing director with Barings, which developed Madison Centre in partnership with Schnitzer West. Located at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Madison Street, the office tower is located five blocks south of Seattle’s retail core, one block west of the Interstate 5 freeway and four blocks southeast of a Link light rail station. Kevin Shannon, Nick Kucha, Ken White and Mike Moll of Newmark brokered the sale. “This is the largest multi-tenant office sale in the nation year to date, and the asset garnered significant investor interest globally,” says Shannon, co-head, …
By Randy Summers, vice president, CCIM, CPM, Davis Equity Realty “Y’all come” is the message being sent to developers, retailers, franchisees, quick-service restaurants, corporations and manufacturers from the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) region of Texas — and all these users seem to be heeding the call. The local economy seems to be hitting on all cylinders, albeit with constraints on labor and supplies, as well as rising costs. The four counties that statistically make up the RGV — Hidalgo, Cameron, Starr and Willacy — combine to produce a regional population of over 1.4 million and a workforce population of over 485,000. While COVID-19 continues to have lasting effects on labor, the Small Business Administration reported that the Lower Rio Grande Valley District, which serves 14 counties, had 44,471 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans approved totaling $2.4 billion. Of that, 71 percent were loans for the RGV’s four counties representing 59 percent of the dollar amount, or $1.4 billion. That is a considerable amount of money that was pumped into the local economy and doesn’t include the $64.6 million in grants provided to restaurants through the Restaurant Revitalization Fund out of the American Rescue Plan Act. Year-to-date sales tax revenue provided …
By Taylor Williams As a subcategory of multifamily that is currently experiencing record rent growth, student housing is increasingly becoming a sought-after commodity in the world of institutional investment, according to a panel of industry experts. More institutional love for student housing is also arriving at a time in which concerns about COVID-19’s impact on enrollment and on-campus learning at the nation’s colleges and universities are largely being laid to rest. The verdict is in on whether students overwhelmingly prefer to live and learn on campus — they do. Capital sources are responding accordingly. At France Media’s 14th annual InterFace Student Housing conference, held May 3-4 at the J.W. Marriott Hotel Austin (Texas) Hotel, a group of industry veterans laid out the drivers behind the sector’s growth on institutional radars. As an affirmation of this trend, the “state of the industry” panel pointed to the $12.8 billion acquisition of Austin-based student housing developer and operator American Campus Communities (NYSE: ACC) by real estate giant Blackstone (NYSE: BX). Panelists implied that that deal, which was announced in April and will take ACC private, serves as a watershed moment for the asset class to institutional investors. As such, the transaction, which is …
CALIFORNIA, OREGON AND WASHINGTON — Gantry has arranged $130 million in permanent financing for a six-property, Trojan Storage-owned self-storage portfolio spread across California, Oregon and Washington. Totaling 600,000 square feet, the portfolio includes three newly completed, pre-stabilized facilities and three recently acquired facilities. Andy Bratt and Amit Tyagi of Gantry secured the financing for Trojan Storage. The loan features a 10-year term at a fixed rate and a significant interest-only period later transitioning to a 30-year amortization schedule. The newly constructed facilities are in Commerce, Glendale and San Jose, Calif., and the recently acquired assets are in Salinas, Calif., Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, Wash.
WESTMINSTER, COLO. — Certus has completed the sale of Church Ranch Corporate Center, a Class A office property located along the US-30/Denver-Boulder corridor in Westminster. Lotus Co. acquired the building for $25.4 million. Built in 2001 and renovated in 2020, the four-story, multi-tenant asset features 124,500 square feet of office space. At the time of sale, the property was 90 percent leased to 14 tenants. The building is located at 10170 Church Ranch Way. Cushman & Wakefield’s Aaron Johnson, Jon Hendrickson and Mitch Veremeychik represented the seller in the deal. Additionally, Baxter Fain, Rob Cronenberg and Sarah Dinning of Cushman & Wakefield’s Denver Equity, Debt & Structured Finance Group arranged the debt financing for the buyer. A CMBS lender provided the $16.5 million, 10-year, full-term, interest-only loan.