BATON ROUGE, LA. — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has brokered the $11.5 million sale of Oakwood Village, a 77-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in Baton Rouge. Blueprint represented the seller, a regional owner-operator divesting its only seniors housing asset. The buyer was a subsidiary of Florida-based specialty insurer Fortegra Financial Corp., an affiliate of Tiptree Financial Inc. New York City-based Care Investment Trust LLC will serve as asset manager of Oakwood Village, and Traditions Senior Management of Clearwater, Fla., will provide management services. Jacob Gehl was the lead Blueprint advisor on the transaction, supported by Michael Segal. Clint Parker and Jeremy Joiner from Brown Gibbons Lang & Co. Real Estate Partners assisted in the transaction.
BARBOURSVILLE, W.VA. — Field & Stream, an outdoors specialty store owned and operated by Dick’s Sporting Goods, plans to open a new store in Huntington Mall in Barboursville. The new store will be situated adjacent to an existing Dick’s Sporting Goods and together the two retailers will occupy 100,000 square feet on the west side of the 1.5 million-square-foot mall, which is located off Route 60 and I-64. Niles, Ohio-based Cafaro Co. owns the mall and inked the lease for the new Field & Stream, which is slated to open in the fall of 2017.
ATLANTA — Legacy Ventures has completed Phase I of the $9 million renovation underway at the Embassy Suites Atlanta by Hilton at Centennial Olympic Park, a 321-room hotel in downtown Atlanta. Phase I of the renovations included an upgrade of all suites, including new case goods, window treatments, lighting, artwork, wall coverings and new bathroom tile and mirrors. The corridors also received new carpet, wall covering, paint and lighting, and the lobby and atrium received new furniture. Additionally, the hotel’s restaurant, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, was updated with a reconfigured bar with more seating, and a new Starbucks Coffee was built at the hotel. Phase II, which will focus on upgrading the hotel’s meeting and pre-function rooms, is slated to begin later this year and will include new carpet, paint, lighting and wall coverings, as well as a new bar in the atrium. Legacy Ventures developed and manages the hotel, which opened in June 1999 as the first new-build hotel in downtown Atlanta in 15 years. Situated adjacent to Centennial Olympic Park, the hotel is within walking distance of the Georgia World Congress Center, the Georgia Aquarium, the World of Coca Cola Museum, the CNN Center, the College Football Hall …
SAN DIEGO — Swift Real Estate Partners has purchased HP’s 782,211-square-foot San Diego campus for an undisclosed sum. The campus is located at 16399 W. Bernardo Drive in the Rancho Bernardo submarket. The property contains seven office/R&D buildings and one Class A office building. HP has owned and occupied the campus since the first building was constructed in 1970. The information technology company will lease back 79 percent of the campus. CBRE’s Louay Alsadek, Alex Somerville, Hunter Rowe and Brad Black represented HP, while Swift represented itself in this transaction.
GRAND TERRACE, CALIF. — TruAmerica Multifamily and Investcorp have acquired The Highlands, a 556-unit garden-style apartment community near Loma Linda, for $92 million. The community is located at 11750 Mt. Vernon Ave. in Grand Terrace, about 60 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. The Highlands was built in two phases between 1986 and 1988. It features a mix of one- and two-bedroom floor plans, each with a patio or balcony. The new owners plan to upgrade the unit interiors, exteriors and common area amenities. HFF’s Charles Halladay and Mike Gigliotti arranged financing.
LOS ANGELES — Tishman Speyer has purchased a 1.7-acre creative office campus in downtown Los Angeles’ Arts District for an undisclosed sum. The campus is situated along the Los Angeles River at Bay and Sacramento streets. The site features the 38,000-square-foot world headquarters of transportation technology company Hyperloop One. The campus is near the new SoHo House location, just two blocks from Warner Music Group’s new West Coast headquarters at the Ford Factory. The seller was Lion Real Estate Group and the Borman Group.
CONCORD, CALIF. — A joint venture between Long Market Property Partners LLC and Paragon Commercial Group LLC has acquired Shops at Todos Santos, a full city block of retail located in downtown Concord, for an undisclosed price. The 40,000-square-foot property is fully occupied by tenants including Peet’s Coffee, The Old Spaghetti Factory, CREAM Inc., Capriotti’s, Bollinger Nail Salon, Naan ’n’ Curry, Half Price Books and Chevron. Forrest Gherlone, Mike Zylstra, Keith Marr and Zachary LeBeouf of Newmark Cornish & Carey handled the disposition on behalf of the seller, an undisclosed private family.
SAN DIEGO — NAI San Diego has arranged the sale of a retail/office property located at 2176-2180 Chatsworth Blvd. in San Diego’s Ocean Beach/Point Loma neighborhood. Fig Tree LLC acquired the 10,000-square-foot property from Wilson Trust for $2.2 million. Built in 1943, the property is currently occupied by a gym/martial arts studio, an English-style tea shop, an acupuncturist, nail and hair salons, a real estate office and a residential unit on the upper floor. Michael Glickstein of NAI San Diego represented the seller in the transaction.
CHICAGO — KIG has brokered an $86 million portfolio sale of six vintage office buildings and three land sites in downtown Chicago. R2 Cos. purchased the properties, located throughout the West Loop, Greektown, River North and Printers Row. Built between 1883 and 1904, the properties are collectively 90.8 percent occupied, with an average of 3.9 years remaining on existing leases. The properties included the Pontiac Building; 118 S. Clinton St.; 130 S. Jefferson St.; 901 W. Jackson Blvd.; 641 W. Lake St. and 445 W. Erie St. The land sites included are Randolph/Desplaines, 708 W. Wayman St. and Peoria/Green. Susan Tjarksen of KIG represented the seller, Chicago-based Loft Development Corp.
CHICAGO — Baker Development Corp. has begun construction on ELEVATE Lincoln Park, a mixed-use luxury apartment building in the heart of Lincoln Park. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on Nov. 1. The former Lincoln Centre complex was demolished for the new project, which consists of 191 apartments on top of 16,300 square feet of retail space located at 2518-36 N. Lincoln Ave. Residents will be able to choose from a wide array of floor plans. The first move-ins are scheduled for late 2017. The project is the first luxury apartment building and transit-oriented development (TOD) on Lincoln Avenue. SCB is the architectural firm and McHugh Construction is the general contractor. Financial partners include USAA, Fifth Third Bank, First Midwest Bank and FirstMerit Bank/Huntington National Bank. Luxury Living Chicago Realty is the exclusive leasing brokerage.