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ALISO VIEJO, CALIF. — Belmont Village Senior Living has opened Belmont Village Aliso Viejo, a 149-unit assisted living and memory care community in the Orange County city of Aliso Viejo. A grand opening celebration was held Feb. 9 for the community, which is Belmont’s 29th overall and 13th in California. Van Tilburg, Banvard & Soderbergh Architects designed the project, which W.E. O’Neil constructed. The three-story, Mediterranean-style building offers views of Saddleback Valley and is near Aliso Viejo Town Center and other neighborhood amenities.

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COMMERCE, CALIF. — CapRock Partners has completed the sale of an industrial warehouse in Commerce. The tenant, a packaging solutions supplier, acquired the building and a 4.3-acre property for an undisclosed price. Located at 5331 and 5333 Slauson Ave., the asset features 97,000 square feet of industrial space. Ryan Campbell of NAI Capital and Tony Naples of Lee & Associates represented the seller, while Naples also represented the buyer in the deal.

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PORTLAND, ORE. — Cushman & Wakefield National Senior Housing Capital Markets, exclusively advising seller Focus Healthcare Partners LLC, has arranged the sale of a portfolio of two seniors housing assets in Portland. The portfolio included Vancouver Pointe Senior Village, a 127-unit independent living community, and Hawthorne Gardens, a 58-unit assisted living and memory care community in the Sunnyside/Hawthorne neighborhood. A private equity investor acquired the properties for an undisclosed price. Artegan, the current operator, will continue to manage the communities.  Vancouver Pointe Senior Village was originally built in 2006 and recently underwent renovations to the common areas totaling nearly $1 million.  Hawthorne Gardens was built in 2007 featuring 36 assisted living units and a 22-unit memory care wing. The community also underwent a recent capital improvement program to complete a memory care conversion and a general upgrade of the community. 

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Greater Boston’s industrial market continued its hot streak in 2018. Positive net absorption of 350,000 square feet in 2018 marked the eighth straight year of gains.  Vacancies, which ended the year at 10.1 percent, have halved since peaking at the end of 2010. Over this time, the market absorbed 17.5 million square feet and is now poised for continued growth.  Tenant demand remains strong and some of the larger tenants in the market— Albertsons, Premier Distribution, Trimark, Jofran, Amazon, Wayfair, and Harte Hanks— are seeking a total of 3.5 million square feet of space.  Rents are at record highs, in aggregate topping $9.50 per square foot triple-net, which factors in a space-weighted asking rent on available product. Tenants looking for product in the Urban markets are seeing rents at or above $20 per square foot triple-net, while new product in the South and West is into the $7 per square foot triple-net range. Cheaper space can still be found, but landlords have never seen a stronger rental market. Absorption Slows  Despite the gains, absorption was held back by several large blocks of space coming onto the market throughout 2018. The closing of the Necco factory in Revere opened up more …

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LOS ANGELES — Related Cos. and partner CORE USA have broken ground on The Grand, a $1 billion mixed-use development in downtown Los Angeles.  Located across the street from the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Grand Avenue, world-renowned architect Frank Gehry designed the project. Upon completion, the property will include more than 176,000 square feet of retail space, an Equinox Hotel and more than 400 residences. The retail portion will include chef-driven restaurants and a collection of shops, as well as a movie theater complex. Approximately 20 percent of the residences will be affordable-rate units.  The Grand and the Grand Avenue Redevelopment are the result of a collaborative public-private partnership, guided by the Los Angeles Grand Avenue Authority, a joint organization of the County of Los Angeles, the City of Los Angeles, and the former Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles.  It is estimated that The Grand will generate 10,000 new jobs and $397 million in revenues to the City of Los Angeles and $68 million in revenues to the County of Los Angeles over the next 25 years, according to the developers.  The development will connect multiple areas of downtown and is organized around several key urban …

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Led by surges in financing for healthcare, multifamily and industrial transactions, commercial real estate loan originations increased by 14 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The Washington, D.C.-based firm released the preliminary findings in its Quarterly Survey of Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Bankers Originations, which was showcased at the 2019 Commercial Real Estate Finance/Multifamily Housing Convention & Expo, held at the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego. The four-day conference concludes tomorrow. The fourth quarter saw a 61 percent year-over-year increase in the dollar volume of loans for healthcare properties, 32 percent jump for multifamily properties, 28 percent hike for industrial properties and a slight increase (1 percent) for retail properties. Originations decreased for hotel property loans by 4 percent and office property loans by 3 percent.   With the fourth-quarter estimates, the MBA predicts that origination volumes in 2018 were 3 percent higher than 2017. By property type, originations rose 22 percent for multifamily properties, 12 percent for industrial assets and 5 percent for hotels. Office property originations were down 7 percent, retail properties declined 13 percent and healthcare properties decreased by 16 percent. In late March, MBA will release its …

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CHEVERLY, MD. — New York-based Arbor Management Acquisition Co. (AMAC) has acquired Cheverly Station, a 555-unit multifamily community in Cheverly, for $66 million. Cheverly Station features one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans, a playground, fitness center, dog park and a swimming pool. The asset is situated about eight miles east of downtown Washington, D.C. AMAC purchased the apartment community through its AMAC Fund III investment fund using a 10-year Freddie Mac loan. The acquisition brings AMAC’s portfolio in Prince George’s County, Maryland to approximately 2,500 units.

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MIAMI — Asia Capital Real Estate Management (ACRE) and Miami-based Global City Development have broken ground on MiMo Bay Apartments, a 236-unit multifamily community located at 6445 N.E. 7th Ave. in Miami’s MiMo District. The asset is being built adjacent to Legion Memorial Park, the site of the former American Legion Post No. 29. The new mixed-use community will include a 15,000-square-foot facility that will be owned and operated by Post No. 29 to be used by its military veteran members. The facility will include a gym, areas for physical therapy, wellness center and a swimming pool. Services will include group therapy, acupuncture and post-traumatic stress disorder treatment. MiMo Bay Apartments is a joint venture between ACRE and an unnamed pension fund based in Canada. The developers secured a $51 million construction loan through TD Bank. Miami-based Coastal Construction Group is the general contractor, and Stantec’s Miami office designed the property.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — CBRE has arranged the $29.9 million sale of the Chamber Building, a five-story, 65,444-square-foot office building located at 330 S. Tryon St. in downtown Charlotte. The asset was fully renovated in 2015 and includes a parking garage on a half-acre lot adjacent to the building. Tenants at the time of the sale included the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, Perkins & Will, Compass Bank, Famous Toastery and Progressive AE. Patrick Gildea, Matt Smith and Grayson Hawkins of CBRE represented the seller, Grubb Properties, in the transaction. Ferncroft Capital purchased the property.

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