LOS ANGELES – 1320 North Sierra Bonita Apartments LLC has purchased a 52-unit apartment building in the Los Angeles submarket of West Hollywood for $18.5 million. The community is located at 1320 N. Sierra Bonita Ave. The LLC plans to renovate the units to bring them to market rate. Travis Greene of Charles Dunn Company represented the buyer, while Hamid Soroudi of the same firm represented the seller, 27th/Pico Boulevard LP.
YUMA, ARIZ. – A California-based hotel investor has purchased the 150-room Hilton Garden Inn and Convention Center Pivot Point in Yuma for an undisclosed sum. The hotel is located at 310 N. Madison Ave. The transaction includes a 20,000-square-foot convention center. The new owner is in the process of completing Hilton-required upgrades to the hotel. The buyer owns and operates a hotel portfolio under major brands including Marriott and Hilton. The seller is a private equity fund that acquired the hotel in 2012. HREC Investment Advisors executed the transaction.
PASADENA, CALIF. — Huntington Orthopedics Institute has acquired a 22,000-square-foot medical office building in Pasadena for $9.2 million. The space is located at 837 S. Fair Oaks Ave., one block from Huntington Hospital. The building was constructed in 1962. It was fully leased at the time of sale. Michael Dettling of Avison Young’s Healthcare Practice represented Huntington Orthopedics. Bill Ukropina of Coldwell Banker represented the seller, Hollis Cotton, in this off-market transaction.
LOS ANGELES — Sunrise Senior Living is set to open Sunrise at Palos Verdes in Los Angeles in March, marking the operator’s 42nd community in California. The community will include 80 units of assisted living and memory care, each of which will have flexible uses depending on the resident’s needs. The community is four stories and 67,000 square feet. Marguerite Crockem, formerly executive director of Sunrise of Fullerton, will be executive director of the new community. Based in McLean, Va., Sunrise is the fourth-largest operator of seniors housing in the U.S., according to June 2015 numbers from the American Seniors Housing Association.
PHOENIX — Carlisle Cos. has leased 46,503 square feet at Kierland One, a 175,441-square-foot office building in Phoenix. The property is located at 16430 N. Scottsdale Road. The Fortune 1000 company is relocating its corporate headquarters from North Carolina to Arizona by year-end. CBRE’s Tom Adelson represented Carlisle. Jeff Hartland and Scott Boardman of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, Hines, in this transaction.
TEMECULA, CALIF. — The Pechanga Development Corp., the economic development branch of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, has selected Tutor Perini Building Corp. to expand the Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, roughly 60 miles north of San Diego. The contract is valued at $285 million. “Perini was the general contractor for the original Pechanga resort that opened in 2002. This development will complement our current offerings, enhance the resort experience for guests, and cement Pechanga Resort & Casino as the preeminent luxury gaming destination in California,” says Patrick Murphy, president of the Pechanga Development Corp. The resort expansion project involves adding a AAA Four Diamond, 568-room hotel wing; a standalone luxury two-story spa and salon with 17 treatment rooms, a fitness center and hydrotherapy pool terrace; a resort-style pool complex with eight pool areas; two new restaurants; and an additional 67,000 square feet of event space. Tutor Perini previously completed multiple phases of the Pechanga Resort & Casino over the past 13 years. Tutor Perini expects the expansion to be “substantially completed” by the end of 2017. Pechanga Resort & Casino is the largest resort/casino in California and employs roughly 4,000 team members, according to the casino’s website. …
DANIEL ISLAND, S.C. — Crossman & Co. has brokered the sale of Daniel Island Town Center, a Publix-anchored, 68,688-square-foot shopping center located on Seven Farms Drive in Daniel Island in metro Charleston. The property was 98 percent occupied at the time of sale. Publix Super Markets Inc. purchased the shopping center from an unnamed institutional group based in the Northeast for nearly $14 million.
Metropolitan Milwaukee has experienced a robust industrial real estate market for the past several years. This strength should continue in 2016 and for the foreseeable future. Like many other metro areas, Milwaukee’s industrial sector experienced slow but steady economic growth as it emerged from the Great Recession. However, unlike many other metro areas, Milwaukee has not yet exhibited a strong uptick in new industrial development. Minimal speculative construction has occurred during the past few years. Consequently, while demand for industrial space has continued to increase, supply has remained fairly flat. This phenomenon of increased absorption without a corresponding increase in new product coming to market has driven down the overall vacancy rate to slightly under 5 percent, near a record low, according to Xceligent. Moreover, the new industrial development that has occurred has been primarily driven by users expanding, relocating or consolidating existing facilities, or by new build-to-suit or speculative developments undertaken by Milwaukee-based firms such as Zilber Property Group, Luterbach Properties, Briohn Building and Wangard Partners. Larger regional and national industrial developers such as Centerpoint Properties and First Industrial Realty Trust, which once drove industrial development in Milwaukee, ceased construction in Milwaukee during the Great Recession and have not …
DALLAS — KDC plans to develop a multi-story office building within the $200 million West Love mixed-use project near Dallas Love Field Airport. Located at 2345 W. Mockingbird Lane, KDC’s 150,000-square-foot office building will include structured parking along with views of Love Field and downtown Dallas. The office building is a key element in the mixed-use plan for West Love, located on 37 acres between Maple Avenue and Forest Park Road. In addition to the office building, West Love’s initial phase includes two Starwood hotels, 368 apartment homes and 65,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space. A later phase will include an additional 750 apartments. West Love will be a pedestrian-friendly community with extensive landscaping. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Atlantic Hotels Group and Civitas Capital Group are developing the 224-room, dual-branded Aloft and Element hotel project, now under construction and slated for completion in December. Highridge Partners and affiliates will develop the apartments and retail spaces, which are expected to be completed in mid-2017.
LEAGUE CITY, TEXAS — 29th Street Capital (29SC), a privately held real estate investment and advisory firm, has acquired a 314-unit multifamily real estate portfolio in League City. The two apartment communities are located within 1.5 miles of each other in the Clear Lake submarket of Houston. The deal closed Feb. 19 and includes: Crow’s Nest Apartments, a 176-unit complex built in 1984 with mostly one- and two-bedroom units; Harbor Walk Apartments, a 138-unit complex built in 1987 and made exclusively of two- and three-bedroom units. 29SC purchased the assets on an off-market basis from a regional owner. The firm plans $1.6 million worth of renovations, which include a new appliance package, microwaves, better kitchen lights and accent walls. Exterior improvements are planned as well.