BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. — StarPoint Properties has purchased an office building, located at 433 N. Camden Drive in Beverly Hills. The original owner sold the 12-story asset for $193 million. StarPoint plans to renovate the property, which was built in 1972 and is known as Wells Fargo Building due to the banking tenant’s rooftop signage. The 207,432-square-foot building has not been renovated in 15 years and falls 25 percent below the market’s average rent of $48.24 per square foot — creating an opportunity for StarPoint, which specializes in acquiring and repositioning undervalued properties. Renovation plans, although not finalized, include transforming a 6,500-square-foot deck on the fourth floor into an open-air lobby that emphasizes natural light and features sculpture gardens and an improved façade.
VACAVILLE, CALIF. — Dermody Properties has purchased a 14-acre land parcel on Icon Way in Vacaville for an undisclosed price. The company plans to develop LogistiCenter at Vacaville on the site, with construction scheduled to begin in October and finish in June 2019. The facility will feature 252,160 square feet of Class A space for industrial and logistics tenants, featuring 36-foot clear heights, and extra trailer and car parking to accommodate e-commerce companies. LogistiCenter at Vacaville will be located midway between the San Francisco Bay area and the Sacramento markets, offering access to interstates 550 and 80. Jason Ovadia of JLL represented Dermody in the land transaction, which was facilitated by Tom Schaal of Schaal Realty Advisors. The name of the seller was not released.
ST. GEORGE, UTAH — Vintage Capital Partners, an investment affiliate of Redstone Residential, has sold Vintage Tabernacle, a 265-bed student housing community located near Dixie State University in St. George. The property opened in 2018 and offers two-, four- and five-bedroom units with shared amenities including a swimming pool and fitness center. An investor based in California acquired the community for an undisclosed price. Brock Zylstra and Danny Shin of Marcus & Millichap brokered the transaction. Redstone Residential will continue to manage the project for the new owner. “We are proud of what we have built at Dixie and look forward to our continued association with the property in a management role,” says Grant Collard, CEO at Redstone Residential. “We had contemplated holding the property for many years, but received an attractive, unsolicited offer at our year-eight pro-forma price.”
NORTHRIDGE, CALIF. — PacWest Management has purchased Northridge Promenade, a neighborhood shopping center located at 19510-19530 Nordhoff St. in Northridge. The buyer acquired the property for $16.4 million through the Ten-X online auction platform. The seller was LNR Partners. Situated on 4.9 acres, the 89,473-square-foot property was 82 percent occupied by 25 tenants at the time of sale. Guitar Center is the anchor tenant. Additionally, the property sold as a “covered land play,” which provides the opportunity for potential residential and/or mixed-use development while receiving a definable income stream in the interim. Dixie Walker and Charley Simpson of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, while the buyer was self-represented in the deal.
DENVER — Unico Properties, with Confluent Development as construction manager, has delivered The Circa Building, a 96,000-square-foot mixed-use building located at 1615 Platte St. in Denver. The four-story building features 80,000 square feet of office space on the top three levels, 10,000 square feet of Class A retail and restaurant space on the ground level, and three levels of underground parking. Xero, an online accounting software provider, has leased 30,000 square feet of space at the property and will occupy the entire top floor of the building. Unico Properties is the owner and developer of the project, with Confluent Development managing the project’s entitlement and construction. Swinerton Builders served as general contractor and Open Studio Architecture served as architect. JLL is the broker for the office space, and Cushman & Wakefield serves as the retail lease broker.
PLANO, TEXAS — A partnership between Lincoln Rackhouse, the data center division of Lincoln Property Co., and Principal Real Estate Investors has acquired a 454,421-square-foot data center located at 1000 Coit Road in Plano, a northern suburb of Dallas. The seller was an undisclosed Fortune 500 financial institution. The property has 8 megawatts immediately available for lease with the capacity to expand to 16 megawatts. The facility was acquired as part of a 1 million square-foot portfolio of data centers that includes properties in Kansas City and Phoenix.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — California-based private equity firm KBS Realty Advisors has sold Stonebridge Plaza I and II, a 388,024-square-foot office complex located at 9600 and 9606 N. MoPac Expressway in Austin. The Class A property, which was fully leased at the time of sale, consists of two nine-story office towers adjoined by a seven-story parking garage. Michael McDonald and Evan August of Eastdil Secured represented KBS in the transaction. The buyer was Intercontinental Real Estate Corp., which acquired the property for an undisclosed price on behalf of one of its managed funds.
ADDISON, TEXAS — CBRE has negotiated the sale of The Addison, a 213,585-square-foot office building in Addison, a northern suburb of Dallas. The 11-story, Class A property was built in 1981, renovated in 2016 and was 83 percent leased at the time of sale. The Addison is located off the Dallas North Tollway north of LBJ Freeway and includes structured parking, a fitness center, conference center and a tenant lounge. Gary Carr, Evan Stone, John Alvarado, Eric Mackey, Robert Hill and Jared Chua of CBRE represented the seller, a joint venture between Frontier Equity and Artemis Real Estate Partners, in the transaction. CBRE also arranged acquisition financing through Chicago-based NXT Capital. The buyer was Florida-based TerraCap Management LLC.
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — The Howard Hughes Corp. (NYSE: HHC) has acquired two office buildings totaling 257,025 square feet in The Woodlands, located about 30 miles north of Houston, for $53 million. The sale includes a parcel of land for additional office development. The existing office buildings, which were completed in 2002 and 2012, are currently vacant. HHC intends to re-tenant the properties as soon as possible. The seller was not disclosed.
CARROLLTON, TEXAS — Product Innovations Research, a Texas-based consumer goods company, has signed a 98,257-square-foot industrial lease at 1103-1215 Trend Drive in Carrollton, a northern suburb of Dallas. According to LoopNet Inc., the property was built in 1979 and is tailored to distribution users. Josh Barnes, Andrew Gilbert and Ben Wallace of Holt Lunsford Commercial represented the landlord, Stonelake Capital, in the lease negotiations.