DETROIT — Greystone Bel Real Estate Advisors has arranged the sale of the Whitmore Apartments Portfolio in Detroit for $9 million. The multifamily portfolio comprises six properties and 223 units in the Palmer Park district. The assets were built between 1928 and 1953. Nick Kirby and Cary Belovicz of Greystone Bel represented the seller, a family that had owned the portfolio since the 1960s. The duo also procured the undisclosed buyer.
WESTFIELD, IND. — Sealy & Co. has acquired Westfield Business Centre in Westfield, north of Indianapolis. The purchase price was undisclosed. The distribution center spans 133,160 square feet and is located on Oak Ridge Road. The Peterson Co. built the property in 2018. It is fully leased to distribution and manufacturing tenants, with Aptiv occupying 40 percent. Other tenants include Grinds LLC, ETI Fab and 3rd Dimension Industrial Printing. Alex Cantu and Alex Davenport of Colliers International brokered the sale on behalf of the seller, Oak Ridge LLC, which is an affiliate of Carmel-based Jackson Development LLC.
CLEVELAND — ResellerRatings, a Cleveland-based technology company, has signed a 3,500-square-foot office lease at the historic Caxton Building in downtown Cleveland. ResellerRatings, which is a ratings website where consumers submit reviews of online retailers, is scheduled to move into its new space in November. Stephen Morris of CBRE represented the tenant in the lease transaction. Katherine and Bill Bolton own the eight-story property. The Caxton Building opened in 1903 and was named after William Caxton, the first to introduce the printing press to England. The building was designed to house graphic arts and printing businesses.
MARINA, CALIF. — A joint venture between Skya Ventures and Gelt has completed the sale of Marina Dunes RV Resort located at 3330 Dunes Drive in Marina. An undisclosed, publicly traded REIT acquired the asset for $28.5 million in an off-market transaction. Situated on 5.6 acres, the property features 96 sites, as well as upscale camping options with fully furnished tents, private yards and fully equipped campsites. The property features privately fenced patios with landscaping, off-street parking, upgraded utility pedestals and bollard streetlights, as well as individual telephone, cable, Wi-Fi and propane tanks at each site. Common area amenities include a clubhouse with game room, billiards, flat-screen television, fire pit, horseshoes and volleyball. Additionally, the property features a retail store and check-in office with an assortment of convenience store items and other merchandise. Jonathon McClellan, Kyle Baskin, Connor Outcalt and Steve Seligman of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the buyer and seller in the deal.
PHOENIX — Cale Enterprises and Los Angeles-based 36th Street Partners have completed the disposition of Desert Gateway II, a two-building industrial property located at 747 and 777 W. Pinnacle Peak Road in Phoenix. A California-based private investor acquired the asset for $13.4 million in an off-market transaction. Completed in January 2018, the property features 76,874 square feet of Class A industrial space spread across two multi-tenant buildings. The 36,004-square-foot and 40,870-square-foot buildings feature 20-foot clear heights, 12-foot by 14-foot overhead doors, office build-out and air conditioning throughout the office and warehouse space. At the time of sale, the property was 95 percent occupied. Dylan Scott, Mike Ciosek and Eric Bell of Kidder Mathews served as leasing agents prior to the sale.
POMONA, CALIF. — Newport Beach, Calif.-based CapRock Partners has purchased an infill industrial property situated on 12.5 acres at 4200 W. Valley Blvd. in Pomona. Terms of the transaction were not released. The buyer acquired the asset as a sale-leaseback from an owner-tenant that will continue to occupy the existing 230,000-square-foot manufacturing building in the short term. Upon expiration of the lease, CapRock intends to demolish the existing facility and develop a 270,000-square-foot, 36-foot-clear-height building offering up to 10,000 square feet of speculative office space. The property’s location is within minutes of the California State Route 57 and Interstate 605 interchange, Interstate 10 and California State Route 71. Wes Hunnicutt, Matt Moore and Eric Tomchick of Newmark represented the buyer and undisclosed seller in the transaction. Additionally, the Newmark team will serve as leasing agents for the property. Greg Brown, Peter Thompson and San Godfrey of JLL Capital Markets Debt Placement arranged an undisclosed amount of financing on behalf of CapRock Partners.
BOULDER, COLO. — Avison Young has brokered the sales of two flex office assets — 7077 Winchester Circle and 5735 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder. Different private investors acquired the buildings in separate transactions for a combined total of $7.9 million. At the time of sale, five tenants fully occupied the 26,418-square-foot property on Arapahoe Avenue, while a single tenant leased 84.4 percent of the 22,473-square-foot property on Winchester Circle. Jaimee Keene, Rick Egitto and Taylor Doyle of Avison Young’s Capital Markets Group in Denver represented the seller in the transactions.
SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — Despite shelter-in-place mandates and temporary closures due to COVID-19, Westfield US has opened 42 stores and restaurants this year at Westfield Valley Fair, a 2.2 million-square-foot Bay Area shopping and lifestyle destination located at 2855 Stevens Creek Blvd. in Santa Clara. Twenty-two of the new tenants have opened since March, with 15 new retail and restaurant leases signed and foot traffic increasing more than 10 percent week-over-week since the center reopened in for retail operations in June. New tenants and milestones include: The completion of an expanded Luxury Collection that now features more than 45 retailers, including Bvlgari, Golden Goose, Gucci, Jimmy Choo, Montblanc, Tiffany & Co. and Versace. Additionally, Christian Louboutin and Panerai have signed leases to join the collection in the near future. The openings of a flagship Apple store, Lucid Studio from Lucid Motors, Peloton, AESOP, Zadig & Voltaire, Sandro, Maje and Anne Fontaine. New tenants for The Digital District including Tempo and Brik + Clik, Capital One Café, Polestar, Reiss and Dr. Martens. A revitalized Restaurant Collection with expanded outdoor dining options and new restaurants, including the first Northern California location of King’s Fish House, Shake Shack, Silicon Valley’s first Salt & …
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — GCP has sold its Fund I portfolio, which consists of 47 industrial properties totaling 11.6 million square feet, to an undisclosed group of institutional investors for $800 million. The portfolio consists of 11 properties in Alabama totaling 2.9 million square feet; 13 properties in Georgia totaling 2.9 million square feet; seven properties in Florida totaling 2.3 million square feet; seven properties in North Carolina totaling 1.9 million square feet; and nine properties in South Carolina totaling 1.6 million square feet. The properties were 98 percent occupied at the time of sale. John Huguenard of JLL’s Chicago office brokered the transaction on behalf of GCP. “This transaction highlights the investment community’s laser focus on acquiring institutional-quality industrial product from operators in growth markets as a defensive play in response to the changing landscape brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic,” says Huguenard. GCP was under contract to sell its Fund I portfolio prior to the start of the pandemic, but the initial buyer elected not to proceed due to the potential impact of COVID-19 on the industrial market. “In August, GCP was approached by several institutional investors who ultimately made unsolicited offers to acquire the Fund I portfolio,” says …
POMPANO BEACH, FLA. — Moss Construction will expand John Knox Village, a seniors housing community in Pompano Beach, by 150 units and 508,513 square feet of retail, outdoor and event space. The two-phase expansion is expected to cost $120 million to execute. Construction on the first phase has started. The 37,117-square-foot project will consist of a first-level pavilion featuring a performing arts center, pre- and post-event gallery space, two restaurants with indoor and lakeside dining, a bar in between the two restaurants, a lakefront promenade and gathering spaces. A timeline for completion was not disclosed. The second phase is scheduled to start in the first quarter 2022. The 471,396-square-foot project will include two podium-style towers with 150 independent living residences, a 153-space parking garage, three restaurants and other common areas. The expansion will also involve infrastructure improvements and revisions to lakes and roadways in the vicinity.
