SAN DIEGO — Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. has acquired Torrey Hills Corporate Center, a 23,595-square-foot office property in the San Diego submarket of Del Mar Heights, for $9.8 million. The property is located at 11250 El Camino Real. It was about two-thirds vacant at the time of sale. Peter Curry and Duncan Dodd of Cushman & Wakefield represented both the buyer and seller, HighBrook Investors, in this transaction.
EL SOBRANTE, CALIF. — El Sobrante Partners LLC has acquired a 30-unit apartment building near Berkeley for $6.5 million. The community is located at 4350 San Pablo Dam Road in the Contra Costa submarket of El Sobrante. Matt Ziegler, Jeff Louks and David Wolfe of Marcus & Millichap represented both the buyer and seller, another LLC, in this transaction.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Moovel has relocated its North American headquarters from downtown Portland to the Historic Overland Building in Old Town. The mobility solutions provider has leased 17,176 square feet within the building, located at 213 N.W. 4th Ave. The property was originally built as a warehouse in 1889. CBRE’s Ajay Malhotra and Kristin Hammond represented Moovel. The landlord is Urban Development Partners.
DUBLIN, CALIF. — Ross Stores recently opened 23 Ross Dress for Less and five dd’s DISCOUNTS stores across 15 different states in February and March. These new locations are part of the company’s plans to add approximately 70 Ross and 20 dd’s DISCOUNTS locations during 2017. With these recent openings, Ross Stores Inc. now operates 1,561 Ross Dress for Less and dd’s DISCOUNTS stores across 37 states, the District of Columbia and Guam. Looking ahead, Ross hopes to grow to 2,000 locations with dd’s DISCOUNTS becoming a chain of 500 stores.
DUNWOODY, GA. — KDC has demolished the 10-story Hammond Exchange Building to make way for Phase II of Park Center, State Farm’s 2.2 million-square-foot office campus within Atlanta’s Central Perimeter submarket in Dunwoody. Park Center will also feature 100,000 square-feet of retail, restaurants and entertainment space. Phase II of Park Center comprises two office towers totaling 1.2 million square feet and will feature a pedestrian bridge over Perimeter Center Parkway that will connect the two office towers to the Phase I tower and the Dunwoody MARTA station. Park Center will also link up to a multiuse trail, new pedestrian plaza, a connector road between Perimeter Center Parkway and Peachtree-Dunwoody Road and street-level retail space. The design team includes architect Cooper Carry & Associates for the shell building and interiors and general contractor Holder Construction. KDC expects to deliver the 22- and 19-story office towers in 2020.
COCONUT GROVE, FLA. — Federal Realty Investment Trust, Grass River Property and Comras Co., owners of the CocoWalk development in the Miami urban district of Coconut Grove, plan to develop a 73,000-square-foot office building within the project. The ownership group plans to break ground on the five-story asset, known as One CocoWalk, in early 2018 for a mid-2019 target delivery. Situated at Main Highway, McFarlane Road and Grand Avenue, One CocoWalk will be Coconut Grove’s first new office building since 1989. Beame Architectural Partnership designed the property to include four levels of Class A offices atop street-level retail space, as well as a rooftop terrace. The ownership group has selected Blanca Commercial Real Estate to lease One CocoWalk.
CORAL SPRINGS, FLA. — CREC has brokered the $27.4 million sale of Turtle Crossing, a 99,174-square-foot shopping center located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 441 and Wiles Road in Coral Springs. The transaction is the largest shopping center sale in Broward County so far in 2017, according to CREC. Warren Weiser and Harry Blyden of CREC represented the seller, Turtle Run Venture LLC, in the transaction. A joint venture between Ross Realty Investments and SunCap Real Estate Investments known as Turtle Crossing Coral Springs LLC purchased the shopping center for roughly $275 per square foot. Turtle Crossing is shadow-anchored by Super Target and features Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Panda Express, AutoZone, Panera Bread, Buffalo Wild Wings, Vision Works and Chipotle Mexican Grill on its tenant roster. Tuesday Morning recently leased 14,427 square feet of junior anchor space at Turtle Crossing with plans to open this fall. Sabrina Stimming and Steven Henenfeld of CREC led the leasing for the shopping center, which increased in occupancy from 60 percent to 86 percent in the past 24 months.
SNELLVILLE, GA. — Senior Lifestyle Corp. and Griffin Fine Living LLC have unveiled plans for The Sheridan at Eastside, a 197-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in the Atlanta suburb of Snellville. The community will feature 81 independent living apartments, 24 independent living cottages, 60 assisted living units and 32 memory care units. The 190,000-square-foot community will sit on 15 acres. The co-developers plan to start construction this fall, with a projected opening date in late 2018. Senior Lifestyle Corp. operates more than 180 communities across the country. Griffin Fine Living provides design, construction, development, marketing and operational management services for the seniors housing and multifamily sectors.
ATLANTA — Regency Centers has signed 365 by Whole Foods Market to the tenant lineup at Paces Ferry Plaza, a 63,254-square-foot shopping center located at 3520 Northside Parkway in Atlanta. Whole Foods’ new grocer concept will open at the shopping center later this year. Regency Centers is underway on renovating the shopping center with brick facades, stone finishes and metal canopies to give the property an industrial feel, as well as additional parking space. Existing tenants at Paces Ferry Plaza include Woo Cosmetics, West Stride, ACE Hardware, Pero’s, Blue Ridge Grill and Baby Braithwaite. The Paces Ferry Plaza store will be the second location in metro Atlanta for 365 by Whole Foods Market.
NEW YORK CITY — Eastern Consolidated has secured a $210 million debt and equity package to finance the construction of a new, 180,000-square-foot Hyatt Place Hotel in Manhattan’s Garment District. The financing consists of a $95 million first-mortgage loan from Bank of the Ozarks and a $25 million preferred equity investment by Square Mile Capital Management. Adam Hakim and James Murad of Eastern Consolidated arranged the financing on behalf of the McSam Hotel Group, a New York-based hotel development firm. “With a revitalized theater district, thriving hospitality industry and constantly improving retail, the Times Square area is a magnet for tourists,” Hakim said. “New York City hosted a record 60.3 million visitors last year, which boosted the city’s hotel occupancy rate to an average of 90.1 percent, and more visitors are expected this year.” The 25-story, 520-key hotel will be located at 350 W. 39th St., in between Eighth and Ninth avenues in the Hudson Yards submarket. The chairman of McSam Hotel Group, Sam Chang, purchased the site in 2015 for $112 million; terms of sale allow him to develop up to 300,000 square feet of the property, according to The Real Deal. Consequently, plans for a 123,000-square-foot, 21-story, 380-room hotel …
