LOS ANGELES — Dignity Health California Hospital Medical Center has broken ground on a $215 million campus expansion and modernization project in downtown Los Angeles. The centerpiece of the project is a 150,000-square-foot patient care tower that will add space, privacy and advanced medical technology, as well as increasing capacity and accessibility for emergency, trauma and maternity services. The first floor of the new tower will house larger, private and state-of-the-art emergency and trauma bays resulting in a 51 percent increase in the number of patient care areas. Additionally, the new tower will feature an enhanced neonatal intensive care unit with private rooms and labor and delivery suites, including midwifery services, antepartum and postpartum services. The expansion will also include a new pediatrics unit on the sixth floor of the existing Tibbitts Tower, an emergency mental health observation center adjacent to the new emergency department and a new multi-level parking structure with meeting and retail space on the ground floor. Completion is slated for 2020, with occupancy in 2021. The campus expansion is being funded through a loan of $165 million from Dignity Health and a capital campaign seeking local philanthropic investment of $50 million.
BOTHELL, WASH. — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has arranged the sale of Canyon Pointe, a single-tenant office campus located at 22309 and 22213 30th Drive SE in Bothell. Terms of the transaction were not released. T-Mobile occupies the 174,546-square-foot Class A office campus under a long-term lease agreement. Built in 2007 on 9.8 acres, the property includes two three-story buildings with private third-floor balconies, abundant on-site parking, 30,000-square-foot floorplates and an outdoor landscaped area. Kevin Shannon, Nick Kucha, Ken White, Michael Moll and Bill DeLacy of NKF represented the undisclosed seller in the deal.
GARDEN GROVE, CALIF. — Beverly Hills, Calif.-based Valore Ventures has closed on fee simple interest in four brand-name restaurants in Garden Grove for $13.1 million. The restaurants include Oggi’s Pizza & Brewery, Outback Steakhouse, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Brews, and Joe’s Crab Shack. The assets are all subject to ground leases and were built between 2001 and 2008 in conjunction with surrounding development that includes three high-rise hotels in Garden Grove. The properties also feature a 2.8-acre parking lot, which is owned by the nearby Sheraton, Marriott and Delta hotels, but is exclusively for restaurant use. Valore Ventures purchased the site as one large parcel, which the company plans to spilt into four individual parcels for sale. Tom Fazekas of Fazekas Retail Group in San Francisco represented the seller in the transaction.
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. — CBRE has arranged the sale of a retail and showroom property, located at 2510-2530 West Coast Highway in Newport Beach. A high-net-worth investor acquired the asset from Shafer Family Trust for $6.4 million. Anthony DeLorenzo, Gary Stache, Doug Mack and Ross Bourne of CBRE represented the seller and buyer in the transaction. Bayport Yachts occupies the two single-story buildings, which total 4,452 square feet. The property currently serves as the retail building and showroom for a yacht dealership, a tenant since 2001.
TIJUANA, MEXICO — Atisa Industrial has signed a lease with Dynasty Golf to occupy the Coral Building at Pacifico Industrial Park in Tijuana. Dynasty Golf will utilize the 28,690-square-foot property to house golfing equipment manufacturing. This is the company’s first operation in Mexico. Octavio McFarland of NAI represented Atisa Industrial in the transaction.
My mind wandered recently on a long drive, as it often does. I had the music going and, in typical Maine fashion, cell phone coverage was spotty. It was nice to effortlessly jump from thoughts of the upcoming holiday season with my young kids, to my 20-year high school reunion and old friends, to the promise of another long playoff run by my beloved Patriots. But as I passed commercial buildings and warehouses, my attention drifted to the bricks and mortar of the metro Portland industrial market. Here is what I thought as I hummed along to the hits: The Times They Are a-Changin’ Bob Dylan said it simply, and the statistics in our market suggest the same. The nearly eight-year run of a clear landlord’s market has finally shown indicators (albeit slight) that the pendulum is swinging the other way. While the year-end numbers are not yet complete, I am predicting vacancy rates will increase 200 to 300 basis points from our historically low 2017 rate of 1.25 percent. Let’s say, conservatively, our market increases to 3 percent overall vacancy. That is still what I would call a landlord’s market. However, what concerns me is that our added industrial …
OAHU, HAWAII — Industrial Logistics Properties Trust (NASDAQ: ILPT) has secured a $650 million mortgage loan secured by an industrial portfolio in Oahu. The portfolio includes 186 properties, which total approximately 9.6 million square feet. The 10-year loan applies to approximately 57 percent of ILPT’s total owned square footage in Hawaii. As of Dec. 31, 2018, the average remaining lease term for these properties was more than 14 years and the occupancy was nearly 100 percent. “We are pleased to term out our floating rate debt with attractive, long-term, fixed-rate debt and to demonstrate the tremendous value of these unique Hawaiian assets,” says John Murray, CEO of Industrial Logistics Properties Trust. “While the underlying assets had a net book value of less than $500 million at year end 2018, this loan provides us with $650 million of capital to fund value-enhancing external growth opportunities.” Terms of the non-amortizing financing included a fixed interest rate of 4.3 percent. Morgan Stanley, Citi, UBS and J.P. Morgan provided the capital. Sullivan & Worcester LLP provided legal counsel to Industrial Logistics Properties Trust in the transaction. ILPT stock closed at $20.79 per share on Tuesday, Jan. 29, down from $22.47 one year ago. — David …
MIAMI — A joint venture between Mast Capital and AEW Capital Management LP has secured a $59.7 million construction loan for its Miami River Walk project. The 688-unit multifamily development will be built in two phases on 6.3 acres of land, situated less than two miles from downtown Miami. The first phase is expected to break ground in the first quarter of this year and will comprise 346 residential units. Corwil Architects is the designer. PNC Bank provided the construction loan.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — The Opus Group, in partnership with The McKinney Fund & Co., has broken ground on a 522-bed student housing community near the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The 17-story mixed-use development will offer floor plans ranging from studios to four-bedroom units. Shared amenities will include a fitness center, spa, study rooms and lounges, an outdoor amenity deck with fitness areas, fire pits, a coffee bar, club room, rooftop pool and grilling stations. Myefski Architects designed the community. Auburn, Ala.-based Rabren General Contractors will serve as general contractor, and Creative License International will design the interiors for the project. The community is scheduled to open in fall 2020.
ATLANTA — WeWork has signed a multi-floor, 100,300-square-foot lease at Centennial Tower, an approximately 665,000-square-foot office tower located at 101 Marietta St. in downtown Atlanta. WeWork’s long-term lease deal includes building-top signage. WeWork, one of the world’s largest coworking space providers, plans to add 1,300 members to the new space. This is WeWork’s largest space of it six Atlanta locations and its first in downtown. Katherine Lynch and Chris Port of CBRE represented the landlord, The Dilweg Cos., in the lease agreement. Clinton McKellar and Sam Hollis of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant. Southeast Real Estate Business reported earlier this month that Dilweg signed tech startup company Steady to a full-floor lease within Centennial Tower.