AUSTIN, TEXAS —Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Star Center, a 20,000-square-foot retail property located in Austin. Michael Buckner and Richard Mireles, investment specialists in Marcus & Millichap’s Austin office, marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a partnership. Buckner and Mireles also secured the buyer, The Blood & Tissue Center of Central Texas. Star Center is located at 3110 W. Slaughter Lane.
PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. – The 121-unit Whispering Palms apartments in Palm Springs has sold to Latitude 33 LLC for $6.8 million. The community is located at 449 E. Arenas Road. The buyer was represented by Milburn Stevens of Lee & Associates Palm Desert. The seller, Metropolitan Management Company and City Center Real Estate, was also represented by Stevens.
LOS ANGELES – A 143,000-square-foot office park in the Los Angeles submarket of Northridge has sold to a local developer for $6.1 million. The building is located at 8350–8454 Reseda Blvd. It is currently occupied by three tenants in six buildings. The buyer, Harridge Capital Group, was represented by Lynwood Fields of Madison Partners. The seller, Lehr Properties, was represented by David Young and Chad Gahr of NAI Capital.
SAN DIEGO – A 9,157-square-foot retail portfolio in the San Diego submarket of Pacific Beach has sold to Dayani Partners for $4.6 million. The property is located at 1036-1038, 1757-1765 and 1775 Garnet. It includes five bungalows adjacent to the PB Fish Shop and an additional parcel several blocks to the west. Kipp Gstettenbauer and Ryan King represented both the buyer and seller in this transaction.
SANTA CLARA, CALIF. – Admiral Capital Group has sold a 74,276-square-foot office property in Santa Clara for an undisclosed sum. The buyer was not named. The building is located at 4500 Great America Parkway. It was built in 1983. Admiral’s joint venture partner in this transaction was South Bay Development Company.
CINCINNATI — Gilbane Development Co. has begun development on The Verge, a student housing project near the University of Cincinnati. Located at the corner of West McMillan St. and West Clifton Ave., The Verge is located one block from the university’s main campus. The 245,000-square-foot building is expected to be completed for August 2016 occupancy, and will feature 495 beds within 178 apartment units and 380 parking spaces. Residents will have access to amenities including a clubhouse, gaming tables, cyber cafe, media room, fitness center with tanning room, seating areas, group study rooms and a private landscaped courtyard featuring a barbecue grill and fire pit with seating areas. High-speed Internet and Wi-Fi will be available throughout the building. The project is eco-friendly, and will attain LEED Silver certification. Additionally, 7,500 square feet of commercial space will be located along the prominent commercial corridor along West McMillan and Clifton.
PHOENIX – A 61,729-square-foot industrial building in Phoenix has sold to MLCY Investment for $3.1 million. The property is located at 3000 E. Chambers Street. It was built in 1987. The space was previously occupied by Fluoresco. The seller, WE Valoroso Holding Corporation, was represented by DTZ’s Paul Boyle, Rick Danis and Pete Klees. The firm’s Andy Cloud represented the buyer.
CLEVELAND — Asset Campus Housing has purchased the 140-dorm facility and YMCA in Cleveland’s downtown campus district for $4.5 million. Euclid Avenue Development Corp. sold the facility, built in 1912, after purchasing it in 2009 to eliminate a troubled loan. Asset Campus will convert the facility into private student housing. Newmark Grubb Knight Frank represented the seller in the transaction. The 152,390-square-foot, nine-story building is situated on three acres, includes 175 parking spaces and has been the longtime home of the Downtown Cleveland YMCA, which will relocate in March 2016. Asset has renamed Heritage Hall as The Domain at Cleveland and plans to revamp the property with a clubhouse featuring group fitness classes, a computer lab with dedicated study rooms and a resident lounge with free coffee. The studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units will be renovated with new appliances, cabinets and countertops in the kitchenettes, upgraded bathrooms and new A/C and heating systems. The company is leasing apartments for the fall 2015 academic year.
NEW YORK CITY — New York City-based NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. has closed the acquisition of a €1.1 billion ($1.2 billion U.S.) pan-European office portfolio that the company entered into an agreement to purchase in 2014. The approximately 186,000-square-meter (2 million-square-foot) portfolio comprises 11 Class A office properties located in seven of Europe’s top markets: London, UK; Paris, France; Hamburg, Germany; Milan, Italy; Brussels, Belgium; Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Netherlands; and Gothenburg, Sweden. NorthStar Realty financed the acquisition with €530 million of the seven year senior mortgages, denominated primarily in the local currencies of the respective properties, with a current weighted average interest rate of approximately 1.8 percent. NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. is a diversified commercial real estate company that is organized as a REIT. NorthStar Realty is managed by an affiliate of NorthStar Asset Management Group Inc. (NYSE: NSAM), a global asset management firm.
CRANFORD, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Cranford Square, a retail property located on South Avenue in Cranford. Situated on 2.2 acres, the two-building asset features 34,573 square feet of retail space. Michael Lombardi, Robert Angus and Julienne Pape of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, while Lombardi and Angus represented the undisclosed buyer in the transaction.
