DENVER — Pearlmark has received a $55.1 million loan to refinance the 202-room Ritz-Carlton in Denver. The full-service, AAA Five-Diamond hotel is located at 1881 Curtis St. The Ritz-Carlton originally opened in 2008. It underwent $9.3 million in capital improvements between 2013 and 2015. The property includes a Ritz-Carlton Club Level, Elway’s Restaurant, the Ritz-Carlton Spa, a recently renovated fitness center with adjacent salon, and an adjacent TruFit Athletic club with lap pool, Olympic weights and an indoor climbing wall. The hotel also offers 12,383 square feet of meeting and event space. HFF’s Eric Tupler and John Bourret arranged the floating-rate loan with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
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SAN BERNARDINO, CALIF. — Hillwood has announced a new tenant has signed a 1.1 million-square-foot lease to fully occupy AllianceCalifornia Gateway South Building 3 in San Bernardino. The distribution building is located at 555 E. Orange Show Road. The new tenant has not been named. Gateway South Building 3 is currently the largest speculative building in Southern California, according to Hillwood. The building sits on 50 acres just north of Interstate 10. AllianceCalifornia is a 2,000-acre trade and logistics center. It is one of Hillwood’s largest developments to date, totaling more than 13 million square feet. The property has another 414,000 square feet under construction that should be delivered in the second quarter of 2016.
FARGO, N.D. — A locally based private real estate investor has acquired a two-property hospitality portfolio in Fargo for $30 million. The portfolio includes the Holiday Inn and a Holiday Inn Express that contain a total of 387 units. The hotels are situated at the intersection of Interstate 29 and 13th Avenue South, directly across from West Acres Mall, the state’s largest regional mall. The Holiday Inn has undergone more than $10 million in renovations since 2000, including a complete guest room remodel in 2006. Both hotels come with 15-year licenses that expire in 2030. Shane Skubis of Marcus & Millichap represented both the buyer and seller, a Los Angeles-based private equity group, in this transaction. Craig Patterson is Marcus & Millichap’s broker of record in North Dakota.
ELK GROVE, CALIF. — NRC Manufacturing is expanding its presence in Elk Grove by building a 230,000-square-foot manufacturing facility. This will be the electronic components prototype manufacturer’s second facility within the Sacramento submarket. The facility will eventually employ up to 2,500 manufacturing and management personnel for the Fremont-based company. Phase I is slated for completion by the end of 2017. NRC partnered with the Kamilos Cos. on this project. It will be the first major employer within the City of Elk Grove’s Southeast Policy Area, a 1,200-acre, master-planned area that includes more than 400 acres of fully entitled, development-ready corporate office and manufacturing land.
HILLSBORO, ORE. — Majestic Realty Co. has broken ground on a 303,000-square-foot spec industrial warehouse in Hillsboro. The project will be situated at the southeast quadrant of Highway 26 and Brookwood Parkway, 18 miles west of Portland. It is scheduled for completion in the third quarter of 2016. The new development will be the third building at the Majestic Brookwood Business Park. It will neighbor a 200,000-square-foot ViaWest data center, which opened its first phase in September 2015, as well as a 65,000-square-foot Top Golf entertainment complex scheduled to open this June.
It is difficult to find one aspect of the Omaha industrial market to highlight when recapping 2015. Quite frankly, about every single facet of the market improved last year: sale prices ticked up, land prices rose, absorption was positive, the vacancy rate was low, asking rental rates climbed, and there was plenty of new construction. There are no signs of this momentum slowing. What is even more telling is the steady trend in the same direction — the market has shown signs of improvement each of the last five years. There have not been one or two transactions skewing the metric. Sales prices of existing industrial property averaged $56 per square foot in 2015, and over 2 million square feet of inventory was sold. This is quite a jump over the average of $47 per square foot in 2014. We believe this uptick in sales prices is due to a number of factors, but most notably a combination of high demand, low inventory of platted industrial lots and high construction costs. Users have been forced to make a choice — build new product or rehab existing buildings. This dilemma has created a bit of an odd and possibly concerning scenario: …
Alden Torch Financial Claims No. 1 Spot in NMHC’s Ranking of 50 Largest U.S. Apartment Owners
by Jeff Shaw
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Alden Torch Financial, which spun off from Hunt Cos. last year in a management buyout deal, has burst onto the multifamily scene to become the largest multifamily housing owner in the United States. As of Jan. 1, 2016, Alden Torch owned 191,759 multifamily units, topping the next largest owner by more than 57,000 units, according to the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC). The Washington, D.C-based organization this week released the 2016 edition of the NMHC 50, which ranks the top owners, managers, developers and contractors in the U.S. multifamily sector. The rankings are based on the number of units owned and managed at the start of 2016, or units of new construction started in 2015 for developers and contractors. “The apartment industry continued its bull run in 2015, as demand for both apartment homes and apartment properties intensified,” says Mark Obrinsky, NMHC’s senior vice president of research and chief economist. “Big transactions were more common than usual, causing some noteworthy changes in the NMHC 50 rankings.” Hunt Cos. was the top multifamily owner for two years running before spinning off its multifamily portfolio, so it’s no surprise that Alden Torch leads owners despite being a brand-new company. …
NEW YORK CITY — Anbau Enterprises has acquired three contiguous multifamily buildings located at 50-58 E. Third St. in Manhattan’s East Village for $58 million. The three-building portfolio features 71 rental units and totals more than 52,000 gross square feet. The name of the seller was not released.
Griffith Properties, Artemis Receive $30.3M in Refinancing for Cambridge Office Building
by Amy Works
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Griffith Properties and Artemis Real Estate Partners have received $30.3 million in refinancing for an office building located at 10 Fawcett St. in Cambridge. Greg LaBine and Porter Terry of HFF arranged the three-year, floating-rate loan through Eastern Bank for the borrowers. Renovated in 2011, the six-story 134,561-square-foot building is fully leased to multiple tenants, including General Services Administration, Raytheon BBN Technologies and Accion International.
LOWELL, MASS. — CBRE/New England has secured a $23.5 million first mortgage loan to refinance the existing debt on Cabot Crossing, a multifamily property located in Lowell. The borrower is Taurus CD 165 Bowden Street MA LP, an affiliate of Taurus Investment Holdings and PhilMor Real Estate Investments. The owner originally acquired the property in 2013 and implemented a successful unit upgrade and capital improvement plan. Located at 130 Bowden St., the multifamily community features 252 apartment units in a mix of 28 studio units, 168 one-bedroom layouts and 56 two-bedroom units. On-site amenities include a clubhouse with multi-station exercise room, TV lounge, saunas, Jacuzzi, locker rooms, outdoor swimming pool and picnic areas. John Kelly and Sam Dylag of CBRE/NE Multifamily Debt & Structured Finance arranged the financing for the borrower.