LYNWOOD, CALIF. — An unnamed buyer has acquired a 23-acre industrial land site called Alameda Distribution Center for $31.4 million. The site is located at 11840 and 11852 Alameda St. and 2800 Lynwood Road in the South Bay submarket of Lynwood. Travelers Insurance and Cargill occupy the space. CBRE’s Robert Flores and Andrew Briner represented the seller, Lynwood-Alameda Corp., in this transaction.
SAN DIEGO — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $15 million sale of Rosecrans Shopping Center, a 43,108-square-foot retail center located in San Diego. The property is home to tenants including Rubio’s, CorePower Yoga, UPS, Allstate Insurance and Verizon. Mark Thiel of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, an undisclosed private investor, in the transaction. Nick Totah and Ben Tashakorian, also of Marcus & Millichap, procured the buyer, Capital Asset Management. The new owner plans to renovate and reposition the center to attract health and fitness, lifestyle-oriented tenants.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — GLL Real Estate Partners, a Germany-based investment firm, has purchased Capital Ridge, a seven-story, 216,511-square-foot office complex in Austin that is currently 100 percent leased to Apple, for approximately $96 million. A joint venture between Denver-based investment firm Miller Global Properties LLC and Austin-based Riverside Resources sold the Class A property, which is situated on 38 acres at 320 S. Capital of Texas Highway in the West Lake Hills area. Apple has leased space at Capital Ridge since early 2015, the year the complex was built.
LOS ANGELES — Dickens SO LLC has acquired the 11-unit Dickens Apartments in the Los Angeles submarket of Sherman Oaks for $3.1 million. The community is located at 15114 Dickens St. Jeff Louks and Brett Sanson of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer and seller, an LLC, in this transaction.
SAN DIEGO — Azusa Pacific University (APU) has leased 48,000 square feet of office space at Mission Center in San Diego. The space is located at 5333 and 5353 Mission Center Road. It will continue to serve as the university’s San Diego regional campus. CBRE’s Greg Nassir and Scott Kincaid represented APU. JLL’s Richard Gonor, Tony Russell and Brandt Riedman represented the landlord, Kearny Real Estate, in this transaction.
MIAMI — Boston-based Rockpoint Group has purchased 1221 Brickell, a 408,423-square-foot office building located at Brickell Avenue and Coral Way in Miami’s Brickell Financial District. The sales price was undisclosed, but the South Florida Business Journal reports that the property traded for $155 million. The 26-story tower’s tenant roster includes Lydecker Diaz, Regus, Banco Do Brasil, Safra National Bank of New York and Clyde & Co. Tenant amenities include various restaurants, a conference facility, 24-hour security, dry cleaning services, a 5,000-square-foot daycare center, parking and a car wash facility. Hermen Rodriguez, Manny de Zarraga, Ike Ojala, Tracey Good and Christina Kong of HFF represented the seller, The Blackstone Group. HFF also brokered the sale of the office tower in 2006 on behalf of the previous owner, Equity Office Properties Trust, prior to Blackstone’s acquisition of the REIT later that year.
CORAL SPRINGS, FLA. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has brokered the $68.2 million sale of Forest Apartments, a 400-unit luxury multifamily community in Coral Springs. Built in 1989, the recently renovated property is surrounded by the 29-acre Sherwood Forest Park and features a lake with fountains, two resort-style swimming pools and a 24-hour fitness center. Steve Witten and Victor Nolletti of IPA, along with Evan Kristol of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller, a Canadian limited partnership. The team also procured the buyer, a value-add institutional investor based in Manhattan.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — Berger Commercial Realty/CORFAC International has brokered the $14.8 million sale of East Port Center, a 108,500-square-foot industrial park located at 1881-1887 State Road 84 in Fort Lauderdale near Interstate 95. The property features 20-foot clear heights, parking, frontage on State Road 84, a glass façade on the storefront and rear dock-high loading. St. George Guardabassi and Judy Dolan of Berger Commercial represented the seller, EJP East Port LLC, in the transaction. The buyer, East Port Center LLC, has retained Berger Commercial to market East Port Center, which was fully leased at the time of sale.
LEXINGTON, S.C. — The Shopping Center Group, on behalf of developer Columbia Development, has signed three anchor leases at Lexington Marketplace, a 143,850-square-foot shopping center in Lexington. The Fresh Market, Hobby Lobby and Ulta Beauty have signed on at the shopping center, which will be situated at U.S. Highway 378 and Saluda Springs Road. This will be the second location in the metro Columbia area for The Fresh Market. Darrell Palasciano of The Shopping Center Group is seeking additional retail and restaurant tenants at the property, which is currently 70 preleased.
ATLANTA — SRS Real Estate Partners has formalized leadership in the Southeast for its Investment Properties Group, which focuses on multi-tenant investment sales. Managing principal Kyle Stonis and principal Pierce Mayson out of Atlanta will lead the multi-tenant investment sale activity, recruiting and expansion efforts in the region. Since joining in 2011, Stonis and Mayson have established their group as one of the top investment sales teams in the Southeast. The duo has completed over $1 billion in sales transactions across 15 states since joining SRS. SRS’ Investment Properties Group and National Net Lease Group have recently welcomed two more investment sales experts with the addition of Rob Whitmire, as senior vice president in north and central Florida, and Giles Stevens, as vice president in Atlanta.