MENIFEE, CALIF. — Consolidated Contracting has completed construction of WellQuest of Menifee Lakes, senior living community in Menifee, located between Los Angeles and San Diego. The 134,641-square-foot, three-story property features 92 independent living and assisted living units ranging from 470 to 1,017 square feet, as well as 30 memory care units ranging from 386 to 578 square feet. Jonetta Eads, executive director of the facility, predicts the community will be fully occupied by mid-summer. Project consultants included Greg Irwin of Irwin Partners Architects as the architect; Conley360, space planner; Nelson Structural Engineers, structural engineer; Bam Consulting Engineers, civil engineer; United Brothers Concrete, sitework contractor; A Good Plumbing, plumbing; Edge Mechanical, mechanical engineer; Cattrac, grading; Hondo Framing, framing; AME Design Group, mechanical engineer; and Wilson Associates Landscape Architecture, landscape architect. FJ Management was the developer.
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JLL Negotiates $23.5M Sale of Goldenwest & Bolsa Shopping Center in Huntington Beach, California
by Amy Works
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIF. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged the sale of Goldenwest & Bolsa, a retail center located at 15031 Goldenwest St. in Huntington Beach. A private equity fund sold the property to a local private investor for $23.5 million. Constructed in 1974 on six acres, Goldenwest & Bolsa features 63,269 square feet of retail space. At the time of sale, the property was 95.4 percent leased to a mix of daily needs and internet-resistant tenants. Gleb Lvovich, Geoff Tranchina and Daniel Tyner of JLL Retail Capital Markets represented the seller in the transaction.
Matthews Real Estate Brokers $8.2M Sale of DaVita-Occupied Healthcare Property in Lacey, Washington
by Amy Works
LACEY, WASH. — Matthews Real Estate Investment Services has arranged the sale of a healthcare building located at 5180 Yelm Highway in Lacey. An undisclosed seller sold the property to an undisclosed buyer for $8.2 million. DaVita occupies the property. Melanie Selleck and Devon Dykstra of Matthews Real Estate Investment Services represented the seller, while Lee & Associates represented the buyer in the deal.
SAN DIEGO, CALIF. — Oxford Properties Group has acquired a nine-property, 13-building life sciences portfolio in San Diego. Oxford acquired the portfolio for $464 million. The seller was San Diego-based BioMed Realty, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune. The portfolio includes 650,000 square feet of space, with 12 of the 13 buildings centrally located within San Diego’s Sorrento Valley and Sorrento Mesa submarkets. The properties are 98 percent leased. The portfolio features mainly one- to two-story buildings and a 60/40 life sciences-to-office ratio. The buildings’ features include modern mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) systems and ample tenant parking. According to Oxford Properties, Sorrento Valley and Sorrento Mesa have emerged as epicenters of life sciences growth within San Diego. The firm reports that San Diego recorded over 4 million square feet of leasing volume in 2021, which is an all-time high and 80 percent higher than in 2020. Because of record high demand and limited vacancy, asking rents in San Diego’s life sciences market have increased by 34 percent. The life sciences market in the area is anchored by research institutions and non-profits including San Diego State University, UC San Diego, Scripps Research and the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. …
By Pat Harlan, Managing Director, JLL Labor, geography, population growth and a steady stream of cost-effective, “speed to market” solutions make Phoenix one of the most dynamic industrial markets in the country. Based on existing fundamentals, 2022 is on track to be another record year. As of third-quarter 2021, Phoenix had landed just under 16 million square feet of net leasing year-to-date. Absorption had improved by more than 28.5 percent in the same 12-month period, to total 8.5 million square feet. Nearly 94 percent of that activity was generated from ecommerce and food and beverage users. Vacancy had also dipped to pre-pandemic levels, falling by 100 basis points year-over-year to just 6.8 percent as of the end of the third quarter of 2021. Construction continues to ramp up, trying to meet a seemingly unending stream of demand. As of the end of the third quarter, there was 16.6 million square feet of metro Phoenix industrial space under development. The West Valley accounts for about 11.3 million square feet of this activity. The Southeast Valley represents an additional 3.4 million square feet. Two of the largest buildings underway in the market right now are the Cubes Glendale, totaling 1.2 million square feet, and Building …
EL PASO, TEXAS — Kansas City-based developer VanTrust Real Estate has completed Phase I of El Paso Logistics Park, a speculative project that consisted of four industrial buildings totaling 514,135 square feet. VanTrust has also executed three new leases at these buildings totaling roughly 187,000 square feet. David Hingst of PIRES International represented OLA Logistics LLC, which leased 76,848 square feet at Building 3; Steve Berger and Chad McCleskey of CBRE represented Interceramic Inc., which inked a deal for 44,410 square feet at Building 3; and Andres Sandoval of CBRE represented Buckland Global Trade Services Inc, which committed to 66,065 square feet at Building 4. Bill Caparis and Arturo De La Mora of CBRE El Paso represented VanTrust in each of those deals.
SAN ANTONIO — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has brokered the sale of Verandas at Shavano, a 288-unit apartment community on the north side of San Antonio. Built on 16 acres in 2014, the property offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units with an average size of 829 square feet. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, outdoor grilling areas, a resident clubhouse and multiple dog parks. Will Balthrope and Drew Garza of IPA represented the seller, Tampa-based American Landmark, in the transaction and procured the buyer, Wisconsin-based MLG Capital.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — A partnership between Dallas-based Trammell Crow Co. and New York-based Clarion Partners has broken ground on the final phase of Park 183, a 950,000-square-foot industrial development in southeast Austin. The fourth and final phase of the project will add two buildings totaling 308,484 square feet to the local supply. The buildings will span 160,327 and 148,157 square feet and will feature 32-foot clear heights. STG Design is the architect for Phase IV, and Tribble & Stephens is the general contractor. Comerica Bank provided construction financing. CBRE has been tapped as the leasing agent and recently secured a 154,786-square-foot expansion for American Canning at Park 183. Completion of Phase IV is slated for the fourth quarter.
MCKINNEY, TEXAS — Tower Capital, a Phoenix-based finance and advisory firm, has arranged a $27.8 million construction loan for a 128-unit build-to-rent community in the northern Dallas suburb of McKinney. The development will span 13.2 acres and offer one-, two- and three-bedroom residences. The amenity package will consist of a pool, spa, fitness center, dog park and outdoor grilling and dining stations. The borrower and direct lender were not disclosed.
CEDAR PARK, TEXAS — California-based brokerage firm Matthews Real Estate Investment Services has negotiated the sale of a 21,061-square-foot retail strip center located at 1201 N. Lakeline Blvd. in the northern Austin suburb of Cedar Park. DeWitt Goss and Jeff Miller of Matthews represented the seller, Saadeh Properties, in the transaction. The buyer was Legacy Properties. The center was 94 percent leased at the time of sale.