LOS ANGELES — CIM Group has purchased a seven-property portfolio that includes Two California Plazain Downtown Los Angeles and the Montclair Plaza shopping mall in Montclair, Calif., for a reported $170 million. The portfolio also includes the Class A Stadium Towers Plaza in Orange County, Calif.; the 126-room Comfort Suites-San Diego/Mission Valley in San Diego; the 262-room DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel-Bakersfieldin Bakersfield, Calif.; the 125,000-square-foot Montvale Center office building in Gaithersburg, Md.; and a non-performing loan secured by a 440,000-square-foot office campus at 270 Technology Park in Frederick, Md. The portfolio’s marquee asset is Two California Plaza, a 52-story, Class A office building in Downtown Los Angeles’ Bunker Hill neighborhood. It contains 1.28 million square feet of office space and 44,000 square feet of retail space. It is part of a two-tower office complex that shares a retail and restaurant pavilion featuring a 1.5-acre water court and performance plaza. The other top asset in this portfolio is Montclair Plaza, a two-story enclosed regional shopping mall about 30 miles east of Los Angeles. The acquisition included 868,000 square feet of the 1.3 million-square-foot mall. Notable anchors include Macy’s, Nordstrom, Sears, JC Penney and Target. This portfolio was acquired as part of …
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SAN DIEGO – Trigild has put its Coldwater/Silvercreek portfolio, which consists of 36 retail strip centers and two office properties throughout the nation, on the market. The San Diego-based firm was appointed the portfolio’s liquidating trustee this past October. It has enlisted Houston-based Allied Advisors to serve as the listing agent. The portfolio has an estimated value of $50 million. The firm is entertaining offers for individual strip centers and groups of properties, as well as the entire portfolio. The properties included in the portfolio are located in 33 cities and 17 states throughout the Southeast, West and Midwest, including Colorado, Utah, Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, Michigan, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Texas and Indiana. They were all built by a sole developer. The portfolio is currently 74 percent leased. Since its involvement, Trigild has renewed or extended leases on nearly 112,000 square feet of space within the portfolio. Properties included range in space from 9,000 square feet to 37,000 square feet. They contain between two and seven tenants. Most are shadow anchored by a Wal-Mart Super Store, and many feature national tenants as well, such as Dollar Tree, Game Stop and Radio Shack.
DENVER – The 189-room Hotel Monaco Denver has received a $41-million balance sheet loan. The hotel is located at 1717 Champa Street in the city’s Lower Downtown region. It includes more than 4,000 square feet of meeting space, Panzano restaurant, a fitness center and a full-service spa. The floating-rate loan was arranged by Mathew Comfort, Mike Huth and Keith Largay of Jones Lang LaSalle’s (JLL) Hotels & Hospitality Group. The team worked on behalf of Inland American Lodging Advisor, Inc. The company also received a $27.5-million, floating-rate, balance sheet loan for its Hotel Monaco Chicago. Inland America purchased both hotels this past November.
ONTARIO, CALIF. — Sedgwick Claims Management, a technology-enabled claims and productivity management solutions provider, has renewed and expanded at Empire Towers in Ontario. The company has leased more than 29,700 square feet at the property, which is located at 3633 Inland Empire Blvd. Sedgwick Claims was represented by Vindar Batoosingh of CBRE's Ontario office. The landlord is CIP Real Estate. It owns the towers in partnership with a fund sponsored by Guggenheim Real Estate.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF. – The 14-unit Idaho Apartments in Santa Monica has sold to a private investor for $3 million. The community is located at 858 Lincoln Blvd. Tony Azzi of Marcus & Millichap’s West Los Angeles office represented both the buyer and the seller, a partnership, in this transaction.
ATLANTA — Origin Capital, a Chicago-based real estate investment manager, has acquired its fourth asset in Atlanta: Centrum at Glenridge. The 186,360 square foot office building is located at 780 Johnson Ferry Road and is LEED Gold certified. Centrum at Glenridge will be part of Origin Capital's second value-add fund — Origin Capital Fund II LLC. Michael McDonald and Kennedy Hicks of Eastdil Secured brokered the transaction. The seller was Atlanta-based Ackerman & Co. and Northwestern Mutual. Located in Atlanta's Central Perimeter submarket, Centrum at Glenridge is currently 84 percent occupied, with the bulk of occupancy leased on a long term basis to Haverty Furniture Cos. Inc. and Cumulus Media. Origin plans to undertake several capital improvement projects, including the modernization of the building’s elevators, parking garage repairs, the creation of a tenant lounge and upgrades to the multi-tenant floor bathrooms. Origin has selected the Atlanta office of Stream Realty Partners to provide property management and leasing services for the asset. Amenities at Centrum at Glenridge include a tenant conference room, an on-site café and an exercise facility.
PORT ST. LUCIE, FLA. — HFF has arranged the sale of Publix at St. Andrews, a 65,271-square-foot neighborhood shopping center in Port St. Lucie. HFF represented the seller, a client portfolio managed by American Realty Advisors, in the transaction. Publix Super Markets Inc. purchased the unencumbered property for an undisclosed amount. The shopping center is located at 5455-5489 N.W. St. James Drive and is the only grocery-anchored center within a two-mile radius. The 11-year-old property is 87.1 percent leased to tenants including Hair Cutlery, Subway, H&R Block and the UPS Store. Danny Finkle and Luis Castillo of HFF led the sales team in the transaction.
ATLANTA — UC Funding LLC has structured and funded a $16.8 million acquisition bridge loan for a 262,000-square-foot office building located in Atlanta's Central Perimeter office submarket. The property is situated with more than 1,000 feet of direct frontage on Interstate 285. Dan Palmier, president and CEO of UC Funding says, “We provided our new sponsor with what they needed to win the deal, a quick commitment and closing in less than 21 days.”
FAYETTEVILLE, ARK. — Bridge Partners, a real estate investment company headquartered near San Francisco, has acquired The Crowne at Razorback apartments, a student housing community near the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville. The 480-bed property offers amenities including a resort-style pool and sundeck, fitness center, business center, dog park and sand volleyball court. The community is located less than one mile from the UA campus and is located along UA's bus route. The financing of The Crowne at Razorback was executed through a Freddie Mac loan assumption.
MIAMI — Construction has begun on Wynwood Central, the first major ground-up, mixed-use real estate development in the Miami neighborhood of Wynwood. The approximately 385,000-square-foot development will include 69 residences integrated with 40,000 square feet of retail space specifically curated to fit the needs of the community, which is known as an arts hub. It will also provide approximately 50,000 square feet of mixed-use, showroom, office and commercial space for Miami's arts, technology and design sectors. The eight-story atrium building will consist of three floors of retail and commercial space, a parking garage with 420 covered spaces, and a rooftop pool and bar. Marc Kovens and Shawn Chemtov are developing the project. Other parties to the development are Amicon Construction Management and Chariff Realty Group. The project is expected to be completed by mid-2015.