IRVING, TEXAS — HREC Investment Advisors has brokered the sale of the Ramada DFW Airport North Hotel in Irving. The 140-room property is located on Ester Road directly off Highway 114 and is in close proximity to the new Irving Convention Center, Gaylord Convention Center Hotel and the Grapevine Mills Mall, besides Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Hank Wolpert of HREC represented the seller in the transaction. Buyer Pramukhraj Irving LLC plans to rebrand the hotel.
HOUSTON — NAI Houston has brokered the sale of a 75,000-square-foot warehouse property in Houston’s Far Northwest industrial submarket. The asset is situated on 10.6 acres at 13813 FM 529. Buyer Deepwater Corrosion Services, a full-service offshore corrosion-control company serving the oil and gas industry, plans to use the building as its new headquarters. John Ferruzzo and Chris Kugle of NAI Houston represented Deepwater in the transaction. Mac Process LLC was the seller.
SAN ANTONIO — Constellation Brands Inc., a global alcoholic beverage company and the No. 1 importer of beer in the U.S., has signed a lease at Eilan, a mixed-use development in San Antonio. Constellation will occupy 13,077 square feet in one of the development’s two four-story office buildings, which feature concrete construction for sound dampening, enclosed loading docks and covered-structure parking. Eilan also includes residential and retail space as well as a hotel, spa and restaurant. Lindsey Tucker and Steve Thomas of CBRE San Antonio, who handle all office leasing at Eilan, represented the development in the negotiations.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Kierland One, a 175,441-square-foot, Class A office building in Scottsdale, has sold to Hines and joint venture equity partner Pacific Coast Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum. The building is located at 16430 N. Scottsdale Road in the Scottsdale Airpark submarket. The building was vacant at the time of sale. The seller, Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers LLC, acted on behalf of an institutional investor. It was represented by Barry Gabel, Mindy Korth and Chris Marchildon of CBRE’s Phoenix office. The JV represented itself in this transaction.
CERRITOS, CALIF. — Cerritos Corporate Center, a 460,356-square-foot industrial business park, has sold to Angelo Gordon for $42.5 million. Gordon worked in partnership with Crowsnest Properties. The center is located at 13810-13950 Cerritos Corporate Drive in Cerritos. The institutional-quality business park is composed of seven free-standing buildings on three parcels. It is currently 95 percent leased. The seller, The Abbey Company, was represented by CBRE’s Kevin Shannon, Darla Longo, Barbara Emmons, Scott Schumacher, Rick McGeagh and John Biven.
PORTLAND, ORE. – The 165-unit Cathedral Apartments development in Portland has received $21.4 million in construction/permanent financing. The community will be located at 8680 North Ivanhoe Street. The 42-year loan features a 4.76 percent fixed rate. It was arranged by HFF’s Thomas Wilson on behalf of St. Johns Ivanhoe LLC. Financing was provided by Greystone, an FHA multifamily lender. The project is hoping to achieve LEED-Platinum certification. If successful, Cathedral Apartments will be the first LEED-Platinum-certified construction project in the nation that was completed by HUD. The project is being developed by W&K Development.
PHOENIX — Velocity Retail Group has completed the disposition of six Phoenix-area properties that were formerly home to Albertson’s grocery stores. The properties were all owned by a partnership that was looking to sell in 2012 when the Phoenix market seemed to be “saturated with big boxes,” according to Velocity’s press release. The release also notes that four of these buildings were in the Southeast Valley, “which had been hardest hit by big box vacancy.” The final building, a 50,394-square-foot property located at 409 N. Litchfield Road in Goodyear, recently closed escrow. The six buildings contained a total of 350,000 square feet. All have closed escrow over the past few months. Velocity notes the buildings sold to investors, retailers and even to a charter school.The seller, ACC Retail Associates, LLC, is an entity controlled in a joint venture by Praedium Group and ScanlanKemperBard Companies.
SANTA ANA, CALIF. — The Arbors, a 160-unit apartment complex in Santa Ana, has sold to CW Investment Group LLC for $28 million. The community is located at 1100-1200 East Fairhaven Ave. The buyer was represented by Daniel Blackwell of Marcus & Millichap. The unnamed seller was represented by Stewart I. Weston and W. Michael Cavner of Institutional Property Advisors (IPA).
GRESHAM, ORE. – The 264-unit Columbia Trails Apartments inGresham has received $20.3 million in first-mortgage refinancing. The community is located at 1112 NW 15th Street just east of Portland. The low-leveraged loan was based on a 10-year, interest-only term. Financing was arranged by Ron Peterson of NorthMarq Capital’s Seattle regional office through the firm’s seller-servicer relationship with Freddie Mac.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — MAC Realty Advisors has arranged the sale of the Flats at Blagden Alley development sites in Washington, D.C., to a local developer. Flats at Blagden Alley will be a mid-rise, transit-oriented community located at 917 M St. and 1212 9th St., across the street from the Mount Vernon Square/Convention Center Metro Station. MAC Realty Advisors represented the seller, Self Help Ventures Fund, in the transaction. Bruce Levin, Andrew McAllister and Ben Lazarus of MCA led the marketing effort for the transaction.