BALTIMORE — DTZ has brokered the $7.4 million sale of a 61,655-square-foot office building located at 300 W. Pratt St. in Baltimore’s central business district (CBD). Baltimore-based Valstone Partners purchased the property from Guggenheim Real Estate LLC. The office building was 55 percent leased at the time of sale. Jonathan Carpenter, Nicole Keelty and Graham Savage of DTZ’s Baltimore capital markets team represented the seller in the transaction.
SAN DIEGO — The McGrath Family has completed the disposition of a retail portfolio encompassing 294,428 square feet along Clairemont Mesa Boulevard and Shawline Drive in San Diego’s Kearny Mesa submarket. New York-based Clarion Partners and San Diego-based HP Investors acquired the portfolio on behalf of one of the partnership’s commingled funds for $107.1 million. Situated on 29 acres, the portfolio consists of six single-tenant retail properties and one retail strip center. Tenants at the fully leased portfolio include Walmart, LA Fitness, McDonald’s, Food 4 Less, Starbucks Coffee, Verizon and Chipotle, among others. Randy LaChance and Mark Caston of Voit Real Estate Services represented the seller in the transaction. The buyer was self-represented in the deal.
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIF. — KCI Warner has acquired a 45,597-square-foot office building in Huntington Beach for $7.5 million. The building is located at 4552 Warner Ave. Rob Rader of Wind Water Investment Co. represented KCI. David Romero of Lee & Associates – Newport Beach represented the seller, Twomey/Ezzell/Balfour.
TUCSON, ARIZ. — Capital Forsight has purchased a 15,413-square-foot building in Tucson that is triple-net leased to Walgreens for $9.7 million. The building is located at 7111 East Golf Links Road. It is an outparcel to the 99 Cent Only-anchored Desert Square Shopping Center. Walgreens is corporate-guaranteed and has 23 years remaining on its 25-year initial term. CAPRE Real Estate Investments represented Capital Forsight. Nick Coo, Matt Mousavi and Patrick Luther of Faris Lee Investments represented the seller, Sierra Industrial.
CITY OF INDUSTRY, CALIF. — Lee & Associates has arranged the sale of Puente Hills East, a 195,063-square-foot shopping center located in City of Industry, for $36.7 million. The Target-anchored center was 100 percent occupied at the time of sale by tenants including Ross Dress for Less, PetSmart, Old Navy, Ulta Beauty, Wells Fargo and Macaroni Grill. Ryan Swanson and Kurt Bruggeman of Lee & Associates represented the buyer, a private investor, and Dixie Walker, Charley Simpson and Andrew Milne of DTZ represented the seller, The James Campbell Company, in the transaction.
CALABASAS, CALIF. — Calabasas-based Marcus & Millichap has named nine senior vice presidents of investments and one executive vice president of investments. Alvin Mansour was named executive vice president. Senior vice president promotions include Eduardo Cerna, a multifamily specialist in Palo Alto, California; Jerry Goldstein, a retail specialist in Houston, Texas; Douglas Mandel, an office and industrial specialist in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Richard Ringer, a multifamily specialist in Los Angeles; Steven Siegel, an institutional retail and net-lease specialist in New York City; Mark Taylor, an institutional retail and net-lease specialist in Philadelphia; Dean Zang, an institutional and retail net-lease specialist in Washington, D.C.; Christopher Zorbas, an institutional and multifamily specialist in San Diego; and Alex Zylberglait, an office and industrial specialist in Miami.
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Holliday Fenoglio Fowler’s Florham Park office has arranged $81.3 million in refinancing for a 15-property industrial portfolio. HFF secured the 10-year, fixed-rate loan through Principal Commercial Capital for the borrower, Heritage Capital Group. The 2.58 million-square-foot portfolio includes a mix of warehouse, distribution and cold storage facilities in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The properties feature clear heights ranging from 20 to 40 feet and include office space. Additionally, eight buildings have rail service access. At the time of closing, the portfolio was 92 percent leased to 31 tenants, including Staples Inc., Storage Mobility, McLane Food Service Inc., Victory Packaging LP, McGrann Paper, Scholastic Book Fairs Inc., Packaging Corporation of America and Global Foundries. Four properties are located near Syracuse, N.Y.; three near Rochester and Albany, N.Y.; three near Harrisburg, Pa.; and two near Columbus, Ohio. Jon Mikula of HFF led the team that represented the borrower in the transaction.
PHILADELPHIA — CBRE Group Inc. has arranged $49.7 million in acquisition and renovation financing for the Public Ledger Building in Philadelphia. The borrower, Purchase, N.Y.-based Carlyle Development Group, received short-term acquisition financing for a three-year term with two one-year extensions for the purpose of acquiring and improving the property. (The Public Ledger was a daily newspaper in Philadelphia published from 1836 to 1942.) The bridge financing allows the borrower to receive additional proceeds for future lease-up and general building renovations, as well as the flexibility to operate and dispose of the asset as needed. Located at 600 Chestnut St., the 534,004-square-foot property is 65 percent occupied, with The United States of America General Services Administration as the largest tenant. James Gunning, Donna Falzarano and Evan Kleppe of CBRE arranged the financing with a national debt fund.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of a development site located at 71 Fourth Ave., also known as 71 Park Ave. South, in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. A joint venture between NAVA Cos., Savitar Realty Advisors, Williams & Sons Group and LePera Equities Inc. acquired the site for $19.9 million, or $780 per buildable square foot. Zoned C6-2A, the site consists of two buildings suitable for approximately 25,573 square feet of as-of-right development. The joint venture plans to develop a 10-story, 22,507-square-foot mixed-use property on the site, with eight floor-through apartments (units which occupy an entire floor), a duplex penthouse and a retail space with 14-foot ceiling heights.
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has brokered the sale of Beechstone Luxury Apartments in Portsmouth. TGM Associates sold the 428-unit apartment community to Forest Properties for an undisclosed price. The buyer plans to launch a value-add strategy of interior unit renovations at the property. Built in three phases between 1973 and 1986, the property consists of 71 two-and-a-half story buildings situated on 54 acres. The property offers six two- and three-bedroom floor plans, ranging from 800 to 1,600 square feet, and totaling 430,142 square feet of rentable area. Richard Robinson, Jennifer Athas and Philip Lamere of IPA Boston represented the seller in the transaction.
