CHULA VISTA, CALIF. — Mike Dobbins of NorthMarq Capital’s San Diego office has arranged $44.5 million in financing on behalf of Sudberry Properties. The borrower is using the capital to build Millenia Town Center, a 128,177-square-foot retail property located at the southeast corner of Highway 125 and Birch Road in Chula Vista. The capital consisted of a construction loan from a bank and preferred equity from a life insurance company for whom NorthMarq is a correspondent. Major tenants on the property will include Buy Buy Baby, Ross Dress for Less, Homegoods and Cost Plus.
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BELLEVUE, WASH. — Lake Washington Partners has purchased Commons 90 Office Park in Bellevue for an undisclosed sum. The two-building park is located at 15800 and 15900 S.E. Eastgate Way. Lake Washington Partners will manage Commons 90 through its property management division and a partnership with Urban Renaissance Group. CBRE’s Jeff Jochums will take over the leasing assignment. The seller was a joint venture between Clarion Partners and Tennessee Consolidation Retirement System.
FONTANA, CALIF. — Construction has commenced on the 598,000-square-foot Sierra Lakes Commerce Center in Fontana. A joint venture between Trammell Crow Co. and Clarion Partners is developing the Class A speculative logistics center. The space is scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2018. Fullmer Construction will build the property, which RGA Architecture designed. JP Morgan Chase provided financing for the project. Bill Heim and Michael Chavez of Lee & Associates will lease and market the building.
LAKEWOOD, WASH. — A joint venture between PCCP and Panattoni Development Co. has announced plans to develop a 467,526-square-foot warehouse distribution facility in Lakewood. The project is fully approved and construction has commenced. The facility should be completed in February 2018. Tacoma Gateway will be situated less than a mile from Interstate 5, 35 miles south of Seattle’s CBD and 12 miles south of the Port of Tacoma.
EL PASO AND PLANO, TEXAS — Dallas-based healthcare real estate firm Caddis has acquired two medical office properties in El Paso and Plano. The company has purchased George Dieter Medical Plaza, a 15,005-square-foot property located at 1393 George Dieter Drive in El Paso, a transaction for which Capital One provided the acquisition financing. Caddis has also acquired a 21,246-square-foot building located at 5228 W. Plano Parkway in Plano, which is currently leased to Plano Orthopedic Sports Medicine & Spine Center.
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS — Dougherty Mortgage LLC has closed a $5.5 million Fannie Mae loan for the acquisition of Millennium on Post, a 51-unit student housing property in the San Antonio suburb of San Marcos. The property is located at 1651 Post Road, roughly 2.5 miles from Texas State University. Dougherty arranged the 12-year loan through a partnership with Old Capital Lending on behalf of the borrower, 1651 Millennium Post Road LLC.
DALLAS — Biel Partners has arranged the sale of a 14,000-square-foot office property located at 13748 Neutron Road in Dallas’ Northwest Business District. NoPiers.com, a company that provides home foundation maintenance services, purchased the property and will establish its headquarters within a 5,000-square-foot space beginning this summer.
CHANNELVIEW, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $1.6 million sale of an 86-room La Quinta hotel located at 16211 E. Freeway in the eastern Houston suburb of Channelview. Skyler Cooper, Chris Gomes and Allan Miller of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company and procured the buyer, a partnership. Both parties requested confidentiality.
Transwestern Corporate Properties to Acquire State Farm Office Tower in Atlanta in Sale-Leaseback Deal
by John Nelson
DUNWOODY, GA. — Transwestern Corporate Properties I has reached an agreement to purchase Park Center I, a 13-story office tower in Atlanta’s Central Perimeter submarket. Situated on four acres adjacent to the Dunwoody MARTA station, the 602,000-square-foot asset is fully occupied by State Farm Auto Insurance. KDC developed Park Center I, the first office building delivered within State Farm’s three-building, 2.2 million-square-foot campus. Transwestern will purchase the asset for an undisclosed price in a sale-leaseback transaction with State Farm. Transwestern also recently acquired the 2.2 million-square-foot State Farm campus in Richardson, Texas, which was also developed recently by KDC.
STOCKBRIDGE, GA. — CBRE has brokered the $47 million sale of a multifamily portfolio in Stockbridge, about 20 miles south of Atlanta. The two adjacent properties, Carrington Ridge and The Retreat at Eagles Landing, total 490 units. Mesa Capital Partners purchased the communities from TIC Properties Management. Shea Campbell, Kevin Geiger and Ashish Cholia of CBRE’s Southeast Multifamily Group represented TIC Properties Management in the sale. Richard Jordan and Matt Forgione of CBRE’s Debt and Structured Finance team arranged acquisition financing on behalf of Mesa Capital Partners.