SEATTLE — Kennedy Wilson (KW) has purchased four multifamily properties in the Pacific Northwest. The portfolio contains a total of 996 units. Prices were not disclosed. The transaction includes the 210-unit Latitude in Happy Valley, Ore., and the 264-unit Heatherwood in Gresham, Ore. It also includes two multifamily assets in the greater Seattle and Portland areas containing a total of 522 units. KW purchased the assets through a 1031 exchange. The firm recently sold the 615-unit Summer House in Alameda, Calif., for $231 million and Gardner House, a 75,600-square-foot office building in Dublin, Ireland, for $73 million. The sales are expected to generate a profit of $130 million for KW.
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RENO, NEV. — The Wolff Company has started construction on Revel Rancharrah, a 146-unit independent living community within Reno’s Rancharrah master-planned community. The development is scheduled for completion in 2018. The four-story property will be Wolff’s fifth seniors housing community. Wolff plans to invest $300 million to $400 million annually in new independent living development, in addition to seeking acquisition opportunities.
SEATTLE — Greenbridge Investment Partners has completed the renovation of Georgetown Squared (G2), a five-story office building in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle. The building is located at 5601 Sixth Ave. South. G2 is currently 76 percent occupied. Notable tenants include Iridio Studios, Builders Capital, Andersen Construction, Archbright, Darigold, Girl Scouts of Western Washington, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and Netfortris. The American Lung Association will soon move into G2. G2 was originally built as a showroom for the adjacent Seattle Design Center. The renovations include new floor-to-ceiling windows, bringing natural light and panoramic views of the Seattle skyline and Mt. Rainier into the building. It also includes a new exterior monument sign, refreshed concrete and tile flooring, new and refurbished elevators, and atrium seating. Tenant amenities include a gym, contemporary conference center, on-site parking and new restaurant concepts that will open in 2018.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Welbrook Senior Living has completed construction of Welbrook Santa Monica, a 50-unit memory care facility in Santa Monica. The units are all single-occupancy studios. Welbrook partnered with Urban Green Investments, a San Francisco-based real estate investment and development company, on the project.
MONTVILLE, N.J. — Natixis has originated a $40 million floating-rate loan to a joint venture between Camber Real Estate Partners, Advance Realty and an institutional investor for the acquisition of 19 Chapin Road, an industrial campus located in Montville. The four-building campus features 529,110 square feet of light industrial space. Current tenants include Pitney Bowes, Doosan, Trane and Samsung. The loan includes an initial funding of $35 million plus an additional $5 million that is earmarked for future leasing and capital improvement work. Greg Nalbandian of HFF arranged the financing for the borrower.
SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT. — KeyPoint Partners has negotiated a lease with Target Corp. to open a location at University Mall (UMall) in South Burlington. The new Target store will occupy the 60,000-square-foot anchor space, which is currently occupied by The Bon-Ton. Construction for the new Target is slated to begin in February with the opening planned for October. Located on Dorset Street, UMall features more than 610,000 square feet of retail space. Current retailers and restaurants include Kohl’s, JCPenney, Sears, Charlotte Russe, American Eagle, Zumiez, Christopher & Banks and Applebee’s. Don Mace of KeyPoint Partners arranged the lease on behalf of the landlord.
Stillman Property Management Acquires Three Multifamily Properties in New York Totaling 406 Units
by Amy Works
YONKERS, RYE AND LARCHMONT, N.Y. — Harrison, N.Y.-based Stillman Property Management has acquired three multifamily properties in the greater New York City metropolitan area totaling 406 units for an undisclosed price. The properties are Hudson View Owners Corp., a 249-unit cooperative located at 632, 650 and 678 Warburton Ave. in Yonkers; Milton Harbor House, an 88-unit cooperative located at 720 Milton Road in Rye; and Larchmont Hills Owners Corp., a 69-unit cooperative located at 17 N. Chatsworth Ave. in Larchmont. Terms of the transactions were not disclosed.
COLLEGEVILLE, PA. — HFF has arranged $32.9 million in financing for Global Data Center, a purpose-built, Tier III+ data center facility located at 1000 Black Rock Road in Collegeville. The borrower, GI Partners, will use the financing to acquire the property. Kevin MacKenzie, Ryan Ade, Jamie Kline and Christian Tober of HFF arranged the three-year, floating-rate loan through Wells Fargo Bank for the borrower. Completed in 2009, the 203,702-square-foot facility features an available power load of 4.6 MW and the capacity to be expanded to 7 MW with additional capital investment.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a development site located at 2433 Pitkin Ave. in Brooklyn. A private investor acquired the site for $1.1 million. The buyer plans to develop a mixed-use property featuring 32 residential units and ground-floor retail space on the site. Jakub Nowak, Jim McGuckin and Thomas Brennan of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, and the buyer in the deal.
MADISON, WIS. — Reich Brothers Holdings LLC and Rabin Worldwide have partnered to redevelop the former Oscar Mayer plant in Madison. The partnership will sell the equipment within the facility at a live and online public auction onsite on Dec. 6-8. Oscar Mayer, a producer of hot dogs, bacon and cold cuts, had occupied the property since 1919, with the site serving as its headquarters from 1957 to 2016. Kraft Heinz announced the closure in 2015 and officially ceased production this summer. The campus features 1.7 million square feet on a 72-acre site. The plan is to redevelop the campus, including repurposing several existing buildings, with a balanced mix of light manufacturing, warehouse, distribution and office space.