ESCONDIDO, CALIF. — CDC Commercial Inc. has arranged the sale of a 15,600-square-foot, single-story retail space located at 840 W. Mission Ave. in Escondido for $3.9 million. Tenant O’Reilly Auto Parts recently extended their lease for 12 years. The buyer, 6021 Business Center Court LLC, and the seller, LTB Properties LLC, were both represented by Don Zech, Matt Orth and Nick Zeck of CDC Commercial.
YONKERS, N.Y. — Simone Development Cos. is redeveloping the former Boyce Thompson Institute property in northwest Yonkers into an 85,000-square-foot mixed-used complex. The property, which is located at the intersection of North Broadway and Executive Boulevard, will be rebranded as the Boyce Thompson Center and will include office space for business and medical use as well as retail stores, banking and two restaurants. The property — once home to a horticulture research center — was built in the 1920s, and Simone plans to restore the property to its original character. The property has remained abandoned for 40 years, with the main building and greenhouses falling into disrepair. Simone’s redevelopment plan includes construction of a new 18,000-square-foot addition that will resemble the existing 52,000-square- foot structure. A glass “greenhouse” will connect the new building with the existing building and will house an information gallery honoring the Boyce Thompson legacy. A two-level 15,000-square-foot, freestanding building will be built at the corner of Executive Boulevard and Executive Plaza; St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers has signed a lease for this space to be used for medical offices. The entire $35 million project is expected to require 20 months to complete.
PORT CHESTER, N.Y. — New York Life Real Estate Investors originated a $120 million loan for Port Chester Shopping Center, a 507,000-square-foot center anchored by Whole Foods and Kohl’s. The property is located on Boston Post Road in Westchester County. The 15-year loan was made to a joint venture between Depa USA and AVR Realty.
CARTERET, N.J. — The Hampshire Cos. has announced the sale of PortSouth Milik, a 232,134-square-foot industrial building located at 200 Milik St. in Carteret, to TIAA-CREF. Hampshire acquired the former Pathmark office headquarters site in June 2011 and transformed the space into a LEED-certified warehouse and industrial logistical center before signing FedEx Ground as a tenant. The building is located within easy access of the New Jersey Turnpike at exit 12, near Port Newark/Elizabeth and Newark Liberty Airport. Jeffrey Dunne, Kevin Welsh and Brian Schulz of CBRE Institutional Properties represented The Hampshire Companies in the transaction.
FALLS & BRISTOL TOWNSHIP, PA. — Tightline Equities, a subsidiary of Larken Associates, and Red Starr Investments LLC have purchased the 290,678-square-foot grocery-anchored Fairless Hills Shopping Center from the Shooster family. Larken plans a multimillion renovation that will include roof replacements and repairs, HVAC replacements and repairs, restriping of parking lots, new landscaping and signage, as well as aesthetic renovations to the façade and store fronts and interior renovations to the second-floor office suites. An existing auto repair pad site will be demolished, making room for three potential outparcels. The property will also be rebranded as Fairless Hills Towne Center. A new long-term extension has been secured by anchor Giant Foods. CBRE/Fameco will be the exclusive brokers for the property.
HOUSTON — PCCP has provided a $55.2 million senior loan to a joint venture between The Carlyle Group and Pelican Builders for the development of The Wilshire, a 17-story, 96-unit condominium project in the River Oaks submarket of Houston. Construction is underway with completion of the project anticipated for mid-2017. Adam Allen of ARA Houston arranged the financing. The Wilshire is located at 2049 Westcreek Lane and is adjacent to a 650,000-square-foot mixed-use project called The River Oaks District, which is being developed by OliverMcMillan. The Wilshire is located in the Inner Loop of Houston, adjacent to the Galleria/Uptown submarket and the River Oaks neighborhood. Houston-based Pelican will develop The Wilshire. The Carlyle Group is a global alternative asset manager with more than $193 billion of assets under management.
HUMBLE, TEXAS — Brandon Brown of LMI Capital has arranged $9 million in debt for the refinancing of a garden-style apartment complex in Humble. Brown worked on behalf of the borrower to obtain a fixed-rate loan featuring three years of interest-only payments to refinance the existing debt 12 months before the loan comes to term. With the new, 10-year loan, the borrower significantly reduced his interest expense and recaptured the equity injected during the property’s rehab.
DALLAS — Three retail real estate industry veterans have launched Trivanta, a real estate advisory firm specializing in the disposition of net-leased properties. Bob Moorhead, Joe Caputo and Mark Wheeler have joined forces as managing partners, with a collective 60 years of industry experience and sales transactions valued at over $2.4 billion. Trivanta, headquartered in Dallas, specializes in seller representation and works with build-to-suit developers, existing owners of net-leased properties and tenants that want to sell their real estate and lease it back on a long-term basis. Assignments range from marketing single assets to large portfolios nationwide. Moorhead and Caputo came together in 2011 at EXP Realty Advisors, where they built their team and marketing platform. In 2014, the pair closed more than 100 transactions. Prior to Trivanta, Wheeler founded Retail Resource Group, a full-service tenant outsource real estate solution.
PLANO, TEXAS — Dallas-based real estate developers Roger Gault of Gault Co. and Robert Gunby with RTG Capital LLC, along with Shane Shoulders, have broken ground on Phase II of Willow Bend Commons located at 1855 Dallas Parkway in Plano. The 6,000-square-foot retail building is 70 percent pre-leased. Completion is planned for October of this year. The partners purchased 5.2 acres from Costco for the development, which is on the west side of the tollway, south of Park. Phase I is a 14,000-square-foot retail center that was 100 percent leased before construction finished at the end of 2014. The first tenants opened for business in late February.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Concord Hospitality has sold the Renaissance and Hyatt House Raleigh North Hills hotels in Raleigh for a combined $109 million. Companies owned by an unnamed global investment fund acquired the two hotels through cash and an assumption of debt. The two properties anchor North Hills, a 1 million-square-foot mixed-use development that serves as a live-work-play destination for Raleigh residents and businesses. Concord will continue to manage the two assets under a long-term management agreement. Mark Elliott of Hodges Ward Elliott and Tom Ives of CBRE Hotels represented the seller in the transaction.
