LOS ANGELES – The 20-unit Echo Ten Thirty Lofts in the Los Angeles submarket of Echo Park has sold to a family office investment firm headed by Shaw Shahery for $9 million. The community is located at 1030 North Alvarado Street. It was fully leased at the time of sale. The property also includes three ground-floor retail spaces, which are all occupied by a single, high-end retailer. The seller, Sunset Alvarado Venture, LLC, was led by Aaron Weinberg of Rock Ridge Investment Group. Adrienne Barr of Hendricks-Berkadia’s West Los Angeles office served as the listing agent.
VISTA, CALIF. – The 26-unit Rancho de Cortez Apartments in Vista has sold to an unnamed buyer for $2 million. The community is located at 1260 Calle Jules. The seller, a private investor, was represented by Christopher J. Zorbas of Marcus & Millichap’s San Diego office.
GLENDALE, CALIF. – A 105,848-square-foot cold-storage warehouse that is occupied by Sprouts Farmers Market’s Southwest U.S. Distribution Warehouse has sold to WAM Glendale L.P. for $9.2 million. The warehouse is located at 5445 W. Missouri Ave. Sprouts is the only tenant at the facility. The grocer had been at the facility for 10 years. It recently renewed for an additional 10-year term. Marc Bonilla of Colliers International in Greater Phoenix represented both the buyer and the seller, FBL LLC, in this transaction.
LOS ANGELES – The 20-unit Echo Ten Thirty Lofts in the Los Angeles submarket of Echo Park has sold to a family office investment firm headed by Shaw Shahery for $9 million. The community is located at 1030 North Alvarado Street. It was fully leased at the time of sale. The property also includes three ground-floor retail spaces, which are all occupied by a single, high-end retailer. The seller, Sunset Alvarado Venture, LLC, was led by Aaron Weinberg of Rock Ridge Investment Group. Adrienne Barr of Hendricks-Berkadia’s West Los Angeles office served as the listing agent.
VISTA, CALIF. – The 26-unit Rancho de Cortez Apartments in Vista has sold to an unnamed buyer for $2 million. The community is located at 1260 Calle Jules. The seller, a private investor, was represented by Christopher J. Zorbas of Marcus & Millichap’s San Diego office.
YULEE, FLA. — Canadian real estate investment trust H&R REIT has purchased a 175,000-square-foot shopping center located on northeast Florida’s Amelia Island for $20.9 million. The Village of Amelia is situated on State Road 200 in Yulee. Its anchors include Publix, Kohl’s, TJ Maxx, Ross Dress for Less and JoAnn Fabrics. The CB Richard Ellis team of Donald Jennewein, Michael Strober and Amanda Valenti represented H&R as well as the undisclosed seller in the deal.
COLUMBIA MD. — The Universities Space Research Association, a nonprofit organization charged with advancing space science and technology, has acquired an office building in Columbia to expand its national headquarters. The 90,000-square-foot building, which is almost double the size of its current, leased headquarters, is located at 7178 Columbia Gateway Drive. The seller was South Norwalk, Conn.-based Greenfield Partners. Rich Rhodes, Dan Shapiro and Megan Hixon of Cresa Washington DC represented the buyer in the transaction. Cresa’s Project Management Services division will manage the building’s interior build-out.
ALPHARETTA, GA. — Atlanta-based Prudential Real Estate Investors has purchased a seniors housing property in the Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta from Boston-based REIT AEW Capital Management. Arbor Terrace at Crabapple was constructed in 2009. It contains 67 assisted living units and 26 memory care units in a two-story building. Mike Garbers of Atlanta-based ARA represented the seller. The purchase price was not disclosed.
ALPHARETTA, GA. — Choate Construction Co. has completed a $7.8 million expansion of King’s Ridge Christian School in the Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta. The project featured the construction of the 41,407-square-foot High School building, which contains more than 19 classrooms including science labs, an art room, ceramics room and music room. It can serve approximately 300 students and is the first of a two-phase expansion. The project also included the construction of the 4,015-square-foot Kendrick Center for Life Impact, which contains gathering space, counseling and guidance facilities and multipurpose space. The project architect was Chapman Griffin Lanler Sussenbach Architects.
REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. — A joint venture between Lennar Apartment Communities and Resmark Apartment Living has announced plans to develop a 196-unit apartment building in downtown Redwood City. It will be located at the intersection of Main and Marshall streets. The development calls for seven stories of apartments atop 3,500 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Construction is set to commence in the first quarter of 2014 and is scheduled for completion in early 2016. The joint venture also recently broke ground on an apartment community in Tempe.