WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — Salazar Jackson LLP has arranged the $12.5 million sale of a vacant apartment complex situated on 11 acres at 719 Executive Center Drive in West Palm Beach. Jeff Greene, a Palm Beach County-based real estate developer, purchased the parcel and shuttered apartment community from WPB Clearlake SPE LLC, a limited liability company based in Nevada. WPB Clearlake purchased the property from a Chapter 7 bankruptcy earlier this year. Linda Worton Jackson of Salazar Jackson represented the seller in the transaction. Matthew Rotolante and Mark King of SVN South brokered the deal. The buyer has not publicly announced his plans for the parcel.
CARY, N.C. — CBRE | Raleigh has brokered the sale of One Harrison Park, a three-story, 56,933-square-foot office building located in Cary, a suburb of Raleigh. Houston-based Griffin Partners purchased the property from Rosemont Realty LLC for an undisclosed price. Ben Kilgore of CBRE | Raleigh represented the seller in the transaction. The office building’s tenant roster includes Biosignia Inc.; Keyes, Fox & Wiedman LLP; and Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Ed Pulliam and John Brewer of CBRE | Raleigh will continue leasing services for the building.
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Boston Properties has sold Innovation Place, a 574,000-square-foot office campus in San Jose, for $207 million. The campus is located at 3100-3130 Zanker Road. The buyer was Broadcom. The 26-acre property includes four buildings, three of which are vacant. The property also includes land that supports an additional 537,000 square feet of office/R&D development and two parking structures with a total of 3,000 parking spaces.
LAS VEGAS — Sterling Organization has acquired Smith’s Shopping Center, a 108,731-square-foot, grocery-anchored retail plaza in Las Vegas, for $20 million. The asset was acquired from a subsidiary of Kirkorian Enterprises via Sterling Organization’s institutional stabilized fund Sterling United Properties I LP. The center is fully occupied by tenants including Subway, The UPS Store, Verizon and H&R Block.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Caliber, along with the Caliber Distressed Real Estate Income Fund and its investment partners via GC Square, have acquired a four-building, 164-unit apartment complex near Grand Canyon University (GCU) in Scottsdale for $6.5 million. The property will be renamed GC Square, Caliber Realty Group, a subsidiary of Caliber, will manage the property. Located within walking distance to the GCU campus, Caliber is now evaluating its redevelopment and repositioning opportunities. GCU is a private, for-profit Christian university purchased by Grand Canyon Education in 2004.
SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. — Lee & Associates has arranged the over $15 million sale of a 48,813-square-foot Saks Off 5th Avenue building located in downtown Santa Barbara. Stephen Leider and Clarice Clarke of Lee & Associates represented the seller, State Street Properties LLC, in the transaction.
LOS ANGELES — Forever 21 continues its expansion of its new concept, F21 RED, with three new stores in Brooklyn, N.Y., San Diego, and Kendall, Fla. F21 RED is a new concept store for Forever 21, which launched the first location in first quarter 2014, and currently operates more than 20 locations in the U.S. The Fulton Street store, located in the heart of Brooklyn, is 35,000 square feet, while the San Diego and Kendall locations are more than 20,000 square feet. F21 RED, headquartered in Los Angeles, is a fashion retailer of women’s, men’s and children’s clothing and accessories.
PATERSON, N.J. — Greentree Development Group has broken ground for Vistas at Great Falls, an apartment complex located at on Jasper Drive in the Great Falls section of Paterson. Slated to open summer 2016, Vistas at Great Falls will feature 156 one-, two- and three-bedroom market-rate apartments spread across 13 buildings. The gated community will also feature a clubhouse with flex space and a fitness center. The property will be situated within the Great Falls Redevelopment Area which includes the revitalization of Hinchcliffe Stadium, a park, restaurants, an outdoor amphitheater and riverside walking paths.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Hanover, Mass.-based Linchris Hotel Corp. has acquired Hotel Providence, an 80-room boutique hotel in Providence, for an undisclosed price. Located at 139 Mathewson St., the hotel was originally built in 1882 and is listed on the National Register for Historic Places. The new ownership plans to reposition the hotel’s 96-seat restaurant in January when restaurateurs Alethia and Massimiliano Mariotta transform the restaurant into a chef-drive European brasserie concept. A recipient of AAA’s Four Diamond Award for 10 consecutive years, the hotel features more than 5,000 square feet of meeting and event space, including a tented rooftop and courtyard.
BLOOMFIELD, CONN. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has brokered the sale of Mallory Ridge Apartments, a multifamily community in Bloomfield. The 78-unit apartment property sold for $17.1 million, or more than $220,000 per unit. Situated on 19.8 acres at 95 Filley St., the property features four three-story residential buildings with 20 one-bedroom apartments, 55 two-bedroom units and three three-bedroom apartments plus one clubhouse/amenity building. Each apartment features nine-foot ceilings, full-size washers/dryers and either a patio with private entry or balcony. Community amenities include a resort-style pool, a fitness center and a nature preserve with walking paths. Victor Nolletti, Steve Witten, Still Hunter, Eric Pentore, Craig Fuller, Erin Patton, Scott Wiles and Josephine Zupan of IPA represented the seller, Mallory Ridge Apartments LLC, while IPA Northeast-Florida procured the buyer, Delaware-based 1881 and Fawn Industrial LLC.