OLATHE, KAN. — Colliers International has brokered the sale of a 12,000-square-foot industrial building in Olathe for an undisclosed price. The property is located at 15150 South Keeler St. John Stafford of Colliers represented the seller, Fisher Properties LLC. Rob Holland of Cushman & Wakefield represented the buyer, March Properties LLC.
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — An affiliate of Essex Apartment Homes (NYSE: ESS) has purchased 360 Residences, a 24-story, mixed-use residential and retail tower in downtown San Jose. The purchase price was $133.5 million, according to Silicon Valley Business Journal. The mixed-use asset is located at 360 Market St., situated one mile from Google’s proposed office campus as well as the future downtown San Jose and Diridon BART stations. The transit-oriented property also provides access to Interstates 280, 680 and 880, U.S. Highway 101 and State Highway 87. 360 Residences was built in 2010. It features 213 ultra-luxury condominium units with high-end finishes and floor plans that average 1,320 square feet. Community amenities include a resort-style pool, fitness center, community lounge with chef’s kitchen, and executive business center with conference room and concierge services. The asset also contains 10,167 square feet of ground-floor retail that is fully leased. The seller, Capri Capital Partners LLC, purchased 360 Residences from Kennedy Wilson for $118 million in April 2012. HFF’s Scott Bales, Peter Yorck and Miles Kersten represented Capri in this transaction. San Mateo, Calif.-based Essex Apartment Homes is a self-administered and self-managed REIT that owns, operates, manages, acquires, develops and redevelops apartment communities …
The office market in 2017 has rebounded from the slowdown of 2016 — suggesting that Manhattan market conditions remain stronger than some might have imagined at the end of last year. Growth in office-using employment has picked up steam this year, and New York’s Gross City Product expanded at a faster rate than in 2016. Buoyed by large transactions in the financial services and government sectors, leasing activity also expanded in the first half of 2017, outpacing 2016’s mid-year leasing activity by 19 percent. Asking rents continued their trajectory of modest growth, though tenant improvement allowances have grown at a far faster rate, suggesting tenants are paying lower net effective rent; meanwhile, the number of upward repricings on existing listings fell off considerably in the first half of 2017, while downward repricings continue unabated from last year. Despite the increase in both leasing activity and velocity in the first half of 2017, Manhattan continues to see negative net absorption this year, largely due to the delivery of new office product in Midtown South and Downtown. This has pushed up the availability rate to 12.0 percent — suggesting increasingly tenant-favorable conditions in the market. New York City Employment After a relatively …
DENVER — Oak Coast Properties has purchased a majority interest in the 384-unit Villas on 76th apartment community in Denver for $52.5 million. The property is located at 2002 W. 76th Ave. Villas features a playground, pet park, swimming pool and newly renovated clubhouse. The seller, BMC Investments, will maintain a minority interest in the project. BLDG Management, an affiliate of BMC Investments, will continue to operate the property. BMC acquired Villas on 76th in 2013. At that time, the company made investments to complete deferred maintenance and update the look and feel of the community.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — Clarion Partners and Lincoln Property Co. have opened The Pen Factory, a 200,000-square-foot creative office project. The building is located at 2701 Olympic Blvd. in Santa Monica. The property was originally built in 1957 as the Paper Mate plant. The adaptive-reuse project is now a creative office community that encourages a casual, open and flexible work environment for growing companies. The new design separates space into two buildings with mezzanine levels. It features energy-efficient roofing and skylights along with industrially scaled curtain walls. Morley Builders built the project, which Skidmore Owings & Merrill designed.
PULLMAN, WASH. — Love Funding has provided a $29.8 million refinancing for the 361-unit Pimlico Apartments in Pullman. The community is located at 1455 NE Brandi Way. Pimlico Apartments features one- to three-bedroom units with private balconies. It was built in 2013 and 2014. Brian Robertson of Love Funding has secured the loan through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 223(f) loan insurance program. The HUD program provided the development team with long-term, non-recourse financing.
LEHI, UTAH — Gardner Co., Staker Co., WPI, CBC Advisors and L&T have unveiled plans for Lone Peak Plaza, a five-story office building in the North Utah submarket of Lehi. The Class A building is located at 3851 North Thanksgiving Parkway. Lone Peak Plaza will feature floor-to-ceiling glass, basketball courts, lockers and showers. Nature’s Sunshine Products has signed a long-term lease at the project.
BRUSH, COLO. — OZ Architecture has launched its design plan for phases two through four of the Eben Ezer Lutheran Care Center in Brush, located approximately 90 miles northeast of Denver. The new phases are part of a 10-step master plan for redesigning the 100-year-old seniors housing community. Phase II involves designing the new short-term rehabilitation and long-term skilled nursing facility, with the addition of two wings of 14 beds each. There will also be a small amenity node with a living room, dining room, country serving kitchen and physical therapy gym. Phase III includes the addition of a commercial kitchen, receiving areas and staff areas for maintenance and management. Phase IV will add 28 memory care units, each with access to a shared living space. Here, residents with a higher level of acuity will have access to a courtyard wandering garden and spa, with a more robust nursing component. The designs have also eliminated dead-end corridors, and increased security elements throughout. Last year, Eben Ezer selected OZ Architecture to complete the design of its two-story building. Spanning 54,000 square feet, the goal is to increase the overall capacity and elevate the design of the existing campus. The new assisted living …
NEW HAVEN, CONN. — Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged the sale of The Novella, a mixed-use property located in New Haven. 1245 Chapel Street LLC acquired the property from RMS Chapel Street for $39.6 million. The Novella features 136 apartment units above the 1,135-square-foot Chapel Street Pharmacy, 3,380 square feet of available retail space and 85 parking spaces. Victor Nolletti, Steve Witten and Eric Pentore of IPA represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.
CALDWELL, N.J. — Cabot Properties has purchased an industrial facility located at 8 Fairfield Crescent in Caldwell. Tulfra Real Estate sold the 62,200-square-foot property for $7.8 million. Built in 1975, the property was fully renovated in 2014 and features 10,000 square feet of office space and 52,200 square feet of warehouse space. The building is fully leased through 2021 by two companies: Regi USA and Inline Distributing Co. Robert Borny and Jose Cruz of HFF brokered the transaction.
