SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — Acento Advertising has signed a seven-year lease for 19,042 square feet at 2001 Wilshire Blvd. in Santa Monica. The new space will allow the company to expand and hire about 60 new employees. The lease is valued at $4.36 million. Acento will occupy the new space in March. The firm was represented by Roger Beck and Gelena Skya-Wasserman of Charles Dunn Company. The landlord, Douglas Emmett, represented itself in this lease transaction.
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SACRAMENTO, CALIF. – A joint venture between Westcore Properties and a fund managed by DRA Advisors LLC has purchased an 11.1-million-square-foot industrial portfolio for $600 million. The 110-building portfolio is composed of 8 million square feet in Sacramento, along with nearly 3 million square feet throughout the Midwest. According to Jones Lang LaSalle, this was California’s largest industrial acquisition in 2012. It was also the second largest industrial acquisition in the U.S. over the same period. Mark Demetre, Bill Niethammer, Matt Lofrano and Mike Zimmermanof the firm’s Sacramento office represented both the buyer and the seller, JB Properties, in this transaction.
LAS VEGAS – CityCenter has sold 427 units at Veer Towers in Las Vegas to LVT Owner, LLC for $119 million. Before the sale, 438 of Veer’s 670 total units had been held as developer inventory. Now, only 11 penthouses remain, which CityCenter intends to sell. CityCenter is a joint venture between MGM Resorts International and a subsidiary of Dubai World.
SAN FRANCISCO – A partnership between DivcoWest and affiliates of TPG Real Estate has purchased the majority of assets within Mission West Properties’ Silicon Valley portfolio. The purchase price was not disclosed. The 73-building portfolio contains 6.4 million square feet. Eastdil Secured, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Merrill Lynch served as the partnership’s financial advisors, while Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom acted as legal advisors.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. — The Sunset, a 177,949-square-foot, mixed-use development in West Hollywood, has received $78 million in financing that was used to refinance existing debt. It is located along Hollywood’s Sunset Strip near Sunset Plaza. The Sunset, which includes a 71,119-square-foot office tower and a 106,830-square-foot retail and office plaza, is 95 percent leased. Notable tenants include 19 Entertainment, Talpa Media Group, Apple, Equinox Fitness and H&M. The loan was secured by HFF’s Todd Sugimoto, Andrew Harper, Richard Plummer, Michael Ross and Michael Leggett on behalf of the sponsor, Broadreach Capital Partners. The three-year, floating-rate loan was provided by AIG Asset Management Group.
LEXINGTON, LOUISVILLE AND FRANKFORT, KY.; AND NASHVILLE, TENN. — Irvine, Calif.-based Steadfast Income REIT Inc. has recently acquired five apartment communities for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $115 million. The properties were acquired in five separate transactions and include multifamily complexes in Lexington, Louisville, Frankfort and Nashville as well as Austin, Texas. Steadfast purchased Forty57 in Lexington for $52.5 million. It was 88 percent occupied at the time of the transaction, and it was built in phases between 2008 and 2012. South Pointe at Valley Farms was acquired for $5.2 million in Louisville. It is a 26-acre site that includes 32 apartment units and a clubhouse community building. Riverford Crossing was purchased for $30 million in Frankfort. It was built in 2011 and has 300 one- and two-bedroom apartments and townhomes. Keystone Farms was acquired for an unlisted price. It is a 90-unit apartment community located near Nashville. It was built in 1998 and was fully occupied at the time of the transaction.
BRANDON AND LAKELAND, FLA. — Tampa, Fla.-based Blue Rock Partners LLC, in partnership with Deerfield Beach, Fla.-based Konover South LLC, has acquired a multifamily portfolio totaling 1,218 units in three communities in Brandon and Lakeland for $66 million. Blue Rock Partners will invest another $9 million in improvements into its newly acquired portfolio. The 712-unit Plantation Key Apartments and adjacent 270-unit Providence Park Apartments are being rebranded and marketed as Park at Siena in Brandon. Additionally, the 236-unit Martin’s Landing Apartments, located at 3520 Cleveland Heights Blvd. in Lakeland, will undergo improvements and be marketed as Park at Verona.
LOUISVILLE, KY. — A Kentucky-based developer has sold the 689-unit Park at Hurstbourne apartment complex in Louisville for $39.2 million. The buyer, Louisville Property LLC, is planning to upgrade the community. Craig Collins of Commercial Kentucky Inc. and Mike Kemether of Cushman & Wakefield of Georgia represented the seller.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Centennial Holdings has purchased the 37-building, 336-unit Citrus Tower in suburban Orlando for $32 million. The multifamily complex was built in 2006 and is situated on nearly 30 acres. Jubeen Vaghefi, Denny St. Romain and Jeff Morris of Jones Lang LaSalle’s Capital Markets team represented the institutional seller.
MIAMI — MMG Equity Partners, a privately owned real estate company, has acquired two grocery-anchored shopping centers in Miami-Dade County in two separate transactions for undisclosed prices. MMG Equity Partners acquired the 64,000-square-foot Colonial Shopping Center, located at 450 N.E. 125th St. in North Miami. It is anchored by a Presidente Supermarket. The firm also acquired Tropical Shopping Center, which is located at 8100 N. Miami Ave. and anchored by a Tropical Supermarket.