DENVER — Bradbury Properties and Confluent Development have broken ground on three additional buildings at HighField Business Park, an industrial park located at the intersection of E-470 and Peoria Street southeast of Centennial Airport in metro Denver. Upon completion, the three projects will bring the 100-acre near to full build-out, spanning approximately 10 years and totaling 1.25 million square feet of industrial space. Only 12 acres on the park’s north end will remain undeveloped. The new buildings include a 202,000-square-foot, single-story facility, slated for completion in second-quarter 2020; and 160,000-square-foot and 130,000-square-foot speculative buildings, slated for completion in first-quarter 2020. Brinkman Construction and Ware Malcomb are serving as general contractor and architect, respectively, for the FedEx property. Murray & Stafford and Intergroup Architects comprise the project team for the spec buildings. The spec facilities will feature front-park, rear-load design with shared truck courts. HighField Business Park currently features 750,000 square feet of fully leased industrial space. Upon completion of this phase of development, the park will consist of six buildings totaling 800,000 square feet of space. Current tenants at the park include Charter Communications, Gateway Classic Cars, EdgeConneX, Linn Star Transfer and Liteye Systems. Jim Bolt of CBRE leads the …
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Stanton Road Capital Acquires 211,916 SF Office Building in Orange County, Plans Upgrades
by Amy Works
ORANGE, CALIF. — Los Angeles-based Stanton Road Capital (SRC) has acquired TriCentre, a Class A office tower located in Orange, for an undisclosed price. The name of the seller was not released. Completed in 1986, the 10-story TriCentre features 211,916 square feet of office space. The property is situated within the “Platinum Triangle” at the convergence of Interstate 5, California State Route 57 and California State Route 55. At the time of sale, the building was 78 percent leased to a variety of high-profile tenants, including Farmers Insurance, Children’s Home Society of California, MegaMex Foods and Lockheed Martin. The buyer has plans to invest significant post-acquisition capital to improve the tenant experience, including a fully overhauled lobby and courtyard, as well as building upgrades. SRC has retained Cushman & Wakefield to handle leasing and property management of TriCentre.
Pollack Shores Real Estate Group to Develop 201-Unit Residential Village in North Boulder
by Amy Works
BOULDER, COLO. — Pollack Shores Real Estate Group plans to develop The Armory, a 201-unit residential village in North Boulder. Situated on the grounds of a former Colorado National Guard post, The Armory marks Pollack Shores’ entry into the Colorado market. Located at 4750 Broadway in the NoBo Art District, The Armory will feature a mix of two-story apartment buildings, 18 three-story townhomes, 8,400 square feet of retail storefronts along Broadway and two public pocket parks. Additionally, as part of the project, the historic, 9,500-square-foot armory mess hall and smokestack will be preserved as an activity center for residents. Originally built in 1949, the repurposed landmark will feature yoga and fitness classes, a kitchen and bar area, clubroom, outdoor pool deck and leasing office. The project team includes The Mulhern Group, Martines Palmeiro Construction and JVA. Construction is scheduled to begin this fall, with delivery slated for 2021. Matrix Residential, the developer’s fully integrated property management firm, will oversee operations of the community. Armory Community LLC, a local investment group led by Bruce Dierking and Jim Loftus, the original visionaries behind the project, will retain a minority interest in the development.
PHILADELPHIA — CBRE has brokered the sale of a 283,500-square-foot industrial facility in Philadelphia. The buyer, a partnership between Wharton Industrial Partners and Walton Street Capital, plans to invest $10 million in an extensive repositioning of the site, which will be rebranded SoPhi Logistics Center. Improvements will include installation of a new roof and lights, as well as leveling the interior floors, expanding and upgrading the loading docks and repaving and repainting the entire site. Construction is expected to be complete in early 2020. CBRE’s Patrick Green and Michael Mullen represented the seller, an individual investor based in Switzerland who purchased the property in 2006. The sales price was undisclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — JLL has negotiated a 27,811-square-foot office lease for Marquee Brands LLC at 330 West 34th. Street in New York City. Designed by Schulze & Weaver, the 682,000-square-foot building was completed in 1926. Mitchell Konsker, Alexander Chudnoff, Benjamin Bass and Harrison Potter of JLL represented Marquee in the transaction. Josh Glick and Jared Silverman represented the landlord, Vornado Realty Trust, in-house.
ESCONDIDO, CALIF. — Healthcare Trust Inc., a New York-based public, non-traded REIT, has acquired Felicita Vida, a seniors housing community located in Escondido, for an undisclosed price. The seller was Torrey Pines Development Group. Built in 2015 on 4.3 acres, Felicita Vida features 91 units, totaling 117 beds, in a mix of 53 assisted living units and 38 memory care units. Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig, Dan Baker, Tim Hosmer and Bailey Nygard of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction.
SPRING LAKE, N.J., and NEW YORK CITY — M&T Realty Capital Corp. has provided two loans totaling $56.2 million for seniors housing communities in Spring Lake, New Jersey, and New York City. In the first transaction, Paula Quigley, Aaron Anglad and Matthew Pipitone of M&T provided a $16.1 million Fannie Mae Seniors Housing loan to refinance a 106-unit seniors housing property in Spring Lake. The 15-year loan was structured with a 4.66 percent fixed interest rate loan and four years of interest-only payments followed by a 30-year amortization schedule. In the second transaction, M&T provided a $40.5 million FHA-insured loan to refinance a 300-bed skilled nursing facility in Staten Island. The fully amortizing loan features a 35-year term, 3.9 percent fixed rate and 60 percent loan-to-value ratio. Quigley and Pipitone, along with Jennifer Kooney of M&T, secured the debt.
SUMMIT, N.J. — A joint venture of Saxum Real Estate and The Becker Organization has purchased a 42,000-square-foot office building in Summit, a western suburb of New York City. The property was built in 2001 and was fully leased to three tenants at the time of sale. Cushman & Wakefield’s Gary Gabriel, Frank DiTommaso, David Bernhaut, Andy Merin and Brian Whitmer represented the seller, The Silverman Group, in the transaction. The Cushman & Wakefield team also procured the buyer.
NEW YORK CITY — The Feil Organization has leased 9,389 square feet of retail space to three restaurants at 7 Penn Plaza, a 357,000-square-foot building in Manhattan. Sticky’s Finger Joint, Sweetgreen and Naya Express will join Starbucks and The Juice Shop on the ground floor of the building, with all three restaurants expecting to open within the next few months. Randall Briskin represented The Feil Organization internally in all three transactions. Jacqueline Klinger of The Shopping Center Group represented Sweetgreen, and Adam Langer of SRS Real Estate Partners represented Sticky’s Finger Joint and Naya Express.
GARDEN GROVE, CALIF. — Valore Ventures has completed the disposition of an Oggi’s Pizza & Brewery location at 12362 Chapman Ave. in Garden City. The restaurant’s franchisee, a local private investor, acquired the property for an undisclosed sum. The 6,500-square-foot restaurant is part of a four-property, fee-simple restaurant portfolio that Valore Ventures acquired in January. Built between 2001 and 2008, the restaurants are part of a larger development that includes three high-rise hotels and a 2.8-acre parking lot owned by the hotels, but reserved exclusively for restaurant use. Matthew Mousavi and Patrick Luther of SRS Real Estate Partners’ National Net Lease Group represented the seller in the deal.