ALBUQUERQUE — NorthMarq has arranged the sale of a three-property apartment portfolio located in Northeast Albuquerque. Orange County, Calif.-based Laguna Point acquired the assets from Portland, Ore.-based PacifiCap Properties Group for an undisclosed price. Totaling 735 apartments, the portfolio includes Jefferson Crossing, Aztec Village and Arioso. The acquisition is the buyer’s seventh purchase in the market. Cynthia Meister of NorthMarq’s Albuquerque office and Trevor Koskovich, Bill Hahn, Jesse Hudson of NorthMarq’s Phoenix office brokered the sale. Brandon Harrington, Bryan Mummaw and Tyler Woodard of NorthMarq’s Phoenix debt/equity team financed each acquisition for the buyer with Freddie Mac loans.
ENGLEWOOD, COLO., COMPTON AND STOCKTON, CALIF., AND PHOENIX — CBRE has secured a $46.7 million loan on behalf of San Diego-based Westcore Properties for the acquisition of a four-property industrial portfolio in Colorado, California and Arizona. Totaling 704,065 square feet, the assets are 14101 E. Otero Avenue in Englewood, 19515 S. Susana Road in Compton, 1551 S. Fresno Avenue in Stockton and 4455 W. Camelback Road in Phoenix. The properties have a combined vacancy rate of more than 50 percent, providing a value-add opportunity to reposition the space for new tenants. Mark McGovern, Brian Cruz and Colby Matzke of CBRE’s Debt and Structured Finance team in San Diego arranged the loan for the buyer.
NORTH LAS VEGAS — SunCap Property Group, along with Diamond Realty Investments, has closed on a 39-acre land parcel in North Las Vegas for the development of SunPoint West, a speculative industrial project. Bounded by West Cheyenne and Brooks avenues and Coleman and Clayton streets, the six-building property will offer buildings ranging in size from 55,473 square feet to 238,057 square feet for single or multi-tenant users. Site work is slated to begin in April, with the first building shell scheduled for delivery by the end of the year. Chris Lane, Jerry Doty, Paul Sweetland and Dan Doherty of Colliers International’s Doherty Industrial Team represented the buyers in the land acquisition.
SAN DIEGO — JPI, a Texas-based multifamily investment and development firm, has received a $69.7 million loan for the refinancing of Jefferson Pacific Beach, a recently constructed apartment community in San Diego’s Pacific Beach neighborhood. Located at 4275 Mission Bay Drive, Jefferson Pacific Beach features 169,571 square feet of residential space, including 172 apartments, and 14,000 square feet of commercial space. On-site amenities include a business center, resort-style saltwater pool and spa, fitness center and surfboard repair station. Additionally, the bayfront community is adjacent to Interstate 5 and less than three miles from the Pacific Beach Pier. Troy Tegeler, Scott Peterson, Bill Chiles and Trevor Breaux of CBRE’s debt and structured finance team in San Diego arranged the loan for the borrower.
SAN FRANCISCO — ACORE Capital, a global credit manager focused on commercial real estate lending, has raised $1 billion to launch ACORE Hospitality Partners (AHP). Backed by a group of institutions, AHP is an investment strategy focused on providing North American hotel operators with rescue capital to navigate the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. AHP’s strategy is to originate and acquire structured hotel debt investments, including senior and mezzanine loans, B-notes and preferred equity. The investment strategy will invest across the entire spectrum of hotel types, ranging from high-end luxury resorts to smaller limited-service hotels, focusing on assets in high-barrier markets with compelling rebound characteristics. “The pandemic has had a disproportionate and historic impact on the lodging industry leading to unprecedented distress and liquidity issues for hotel owners,” says Warren de Haan, managing partner at ACORE. “We formed ACORE Hospitality Partners to solve this liquidity crisis by providing hotel owners with the capital they require to continue operations and keep people working.” AHP will benefit from ACORE’s extensive experience originating and managing debt investments. Since its inception in 2015, ACORE has originated more than $4.2 billion of hospitality investments. The ACORE team includes more than 80 commercial real estate finance professionals that …
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. — New Jersey-based developer The Connell Company is underway on The Park, a $400 million mixed-use redevelopment project in the Northern New Jersey community of Berkeley Heights. The development spans 185 acres and will feature office, hospitality, residential and retail uses, as well as a network of jogging and nature trails, upon completion in 2023. Connell is set to begin construction this year on The District, a phase that will include some 300 apartments, as well as retail and entertainment space. The previous phase featured office space that opened last summer.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has submitted plans for a 690-bed residence hall for graduate students at 269-301 Vassar St. on the university’s campus in Cambridge, according to reports by development tracking platform Bldup. The university will develop the project with American Campus Communities, according to reports, in order to “allow MIT the financial flexibility and resources necessary to expand bed capacity and expedite capital renewal improvements.” Further details on the development were not announced.
WILLOW GROVE, PA. — College Town Communities will develop a 132-unit student housing development near the Penn State Abington campus in Willow Grove, a northern suburb of Philadelphia. The developer recently acquired the four-acre development site from Fairhill Properties for $2.5 million. Chris Pennington of Binswanger Commercial Real Estate Services brokered the land deal. The new development will offer fully furnished two-bedroom units alongside communal amenities including a clubhouse, fitness center, business center, café, media lounge and a resort-style pool. The groundbreaking is scheduled for spring.
WATERTOWN, MASS. — A joint venture between Harrison Street Real Estate Capital and LCB Senior Living has acquired The Residence at Watertown Square, a 90-apartment senior living community located in the western Boston suburb of Watertown. Developed in 2014, the community features 19 independent living units, 46 assisted living units and 25 memory care units. Newmark’s Sarah Anderson, Ryan Maconachy, Chad Lavender, Ross Sanders and David Fasano arranged an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing for the transaction. The seller was also undisclosed.
WAYNE, N.J. — Discount hardware and equipment retailer Harbor Freight Tools has opened a 16,000-square-foot store in Wayne, located outside of New York City. Lew Finkelstein, C.J. Huter and Roy Paret of The Goldstein Group represented the Landlord, Glen Eagle Shopping Center LLC, in the lease negotiations. Marcus Bourn and Andrew Connolly of Newmark represented the tenant.