HOLLYWOOD AND PEMBROKE PARK, FLA. — Senior Living Investment Brokerage (SLIB) has arranged the $15.5 million sale of Emerald Park and The Plaza at Pembroke Park, two assisted living communities in South Florida. Emerald Park in Hollywood was built in 1998 and features 73 units. The Plaza at Pembroke Park in Pembroke Park features 79 units, and was remodeled in 2012. The buyer and seller were not disclosed. Bradley Clousing and Jeffrey Binder of SLIB led the transaction.
MIAMI — Ready Capital Structured Finance has closed an $8.1 million loan for the refinancing and renovation of a 66,262-square-foot mixed-use property located at 8300 N.E. 2nd Ave. in Miami’s Little River neighborhood. Originally built in 1951, the property will be renovated to include a food and boutique market on the first and mezzanine floors, office space on the second floor and a roof deck offering 360-degree views of Miami. The two-year loan features interest-only payments, one extension option, flexible prepayments and a facility for future capital expenditures, tenant improvements and leasing commissions.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Land and Houses has acquired the 284-unit Yard Apartment Tower in Portland for $126.7 million. The community is located at 22 N.E. 2nd Ave. in a former industrial neighborhood on Portland’s east side. The 21-story tower is part of the Portland Development Commission’s Burnside Bridgehead Master Plan, an effort to revitalize entrepreneurial development in Portland. Yard was completed in 2016. It was sold pre-stabilization at 50 percent occupancy. Land and Houses is a subsidiary of a Bangkok-based investment firm. This is its first investment in Portland. Philip Saglimbeni and Elizabeth Davis of Institutional Property Advisors represented the buyer. Davis also represented the seller, Block 67 LLC, with assistance from Pete Shelton and Kim Grant.
LOS ANGELES — Encino Corporate Plaza, a 126,275-square-foot office complex in the Los Angeles submarket of Encino, has sold to an undisclosed investor through receivership for $35.5 million. The center is located at 16661 Ventura Blvd. Encino Corporate Center was built in 1968 and fully renovated in 1988. It is currently 76 percent leased, housing a mix of medical and professional services tenants. Trigild will remain on board as property manager. HFF’s Andrew Harper and Evan Kovac brokered the sale.
WALNUT CREEK, CALIF. — Mesa West Capital has originated a $35.7 million first mortgage loan for the refinancing and repositioning of Rossmoor Shopping Center in Walnut Creek. A joint venture between Citivest Commercial and Tallen Capital Partners was the borrower. The borrower acquired the property in 2012 and is implementing a city-approved redevelopment plan for the 108,000-square-foot property. In addition to upgrading the exterior façade, expanding the inline space and adding new retail pads, the plan also includes adding an additional 27,000 square feet of net rentable area to the existing property. Steve Fried and Seth Hall of Mesa West Capital originated the five-year, non-recourse, floating-rate loan for the borrower.
ROSEVILLE, CALIF. — A joint venture between Barker Pacific Group and WHI Real Estate Partners has purchased a Class A office building at the Olympus Corporate Center in Roseville. The center is located at 3001, 3005, 3009, and 3013 Douglas Blvd. The price was not disclosed. Notable tenants at the four-building center include Direct Technology, Granite Bay Development, KB Home, Gallelli Real Estate, Orange Hook and UBS. Chris Lemmon and Zac Collie of Newmark Cornish & Carey are acting as Olympus’s leasing agents. BBVA Compass provided debt financing.
LOS ANGELES — Mission Foods has leased a 50,689-square-foot distribution building in the Los Angeles submarket of Van Nuys. The building is located at 14400 Arminta St. The space was built in 2007. David Young and Chad Gahr of NAI Capital’s Encino office represented Gruma Corp., dba Mission Foods, in the lease.
NEW YORK — Empire State Development Corp. has selected a design-build team led by Lendlease Construction LMB Inc. and Turner Construction to oversee the $1.5 billion expansion of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. The team also includes Atlanta-based architect tvsdesign, which is aiming for the center’s expansion to be certified LEED Silver. Named after a former U.S. Senator from New York, the conference center is located on 11th Avenue in Manhattan’s Westside and bills itself as the busiest convention center in the country. The venue hosted events on 337 days in 2015. The six-block convention center opened in 1986 and spans 2.1 million square feet, of which 840,000 square feet is exhibition space. According to media reports, the Lendlease-Turner team is planning on a 46-month construction schedule for the expansion. The expansion will add 90,000 square feet of permanent space to the center’s current exhibit space, which will create an approximately 500,000-square-foot exhibition hall. Additionally the project will include 45,000 square feet of meeting room space and a 55,000 square-foot ballroom, the largest of its kind in New York City. The expansion will also reroute 20,000 event-related trucks off area streets each year, which is …
At a time when the development of new retail power centers across metro Chicago has been at a record low since chain store proliferation first started back in the early 1980s, south suburban Cook County has suddenly seen a turnaround with the addition of two new freestanding Walmart stores and one new Meijer store. These three openings occurred within months of each other in 2016 and represent approximately 560,000 square feet of the 1.36 million square feet of new retail construction that opened across the greater Chicago market last year. The historical challenges for retailers attempting to operate stores in south suburban Cook County are no secret: out of control property taxes, often double or triple that of locations in DuPage or Will counties; a high sales tax; a shrinking population base; and a shift in retail spending to other markets. The cumulative effect was the January of 2015 closure of the Lincoln Mall in Matteson, located about 30 miles south of downtown Chicago, and increased retail vacancy rates in the area. Full-service grocery stores in the Matteson area also have been on the decline following the closure of Jewel, Dominick’s, Cub Foods and Walmart all within five years starting …
IRVINE AND SILICON VALLEY, CALIF. — The U.S. office real estate sector’s fundamentals appear to be stalling after years of slow recovery, as vacancy rates remain stubbornly high despite a healthy labor market and growing national economy, according to Ten-X’s latest U.S. Office Market Outlook. Ten-X cited Reis data that shows the national vacancy rate for office space has held steady at 16 percent for three consecutive quarters. Vacancies are now 40 basis points lower than a year ago and 160 basis points below their cyclical peak, but they remain well above levels seen during the last economic cycle. Only 70 million square feet of new supply has been occupied during each of the last two quarters. Rent growth has hit a similar slump, with effective rents edging up just 0.4 percent in the third quarter of 2016 and 2.8 percent over the past year — the slowest annual growth since mid-2014. The downturn in office fundamentals comes despite a strong labor market that continues to add jobs and a steadily expanding economy. Low unemployment, consistent payroll gains and rising wages should offer a boost to overall demand for office space, though the national economic picture is marked by stark differences among markets …