HAYWARD, CALIF. — BKM Capital Partners has acquired North Cabot Industrial Park, located at 19707-19845 Cabot Blvd. in the East Bay city of Hayward. A non-profit entity sold the asset for $10.5 million, or $206 per square foot. Situated on 3.8 acres, North Cabot Industrial Park consists of two buildings offering a total of 51,038 square feet with 13 units ranging in size from 2,794 square feet to 6,936 square feet. The asset features two dock-high and 15 grade-level doors, 14-foot clear heights, sprinkler systems and ample parking. At the time of sale, the property was 91 percent occupied. BKM plans to invest about $685,000 on capital improvements to bring the asset to its brand standards. Planned improvements include upgrades and/or replacements of the roofs, HVAC systems, parking lot, paint, signage and landscaping. The company will invest $49,000 on speculative tenant improvements to modernize a 4,580-square-foot unit with new carpeting, paint, fixtures, millwork and lighting. BKM was self-represented in the transaction, while Robert Ferraro, Michael Barry and Ken Morris of CBRE represented the seller.
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — The LeClaire-Schlosser Group of Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Astrozon Self Storage, a self-storage facility in Colorado Springs. Terms of the transaction were not released. Located at 3710 Astrozon Blvd., the 53,200-square-foot facility features 668 single-story, drive-up access units. Charles LeClaire and Adam Schlosser of Marcus & Millichap’s Denver office represented the seller, a local limited liability company, and secured the buyer, a New York-based, privately held real estate investment company, in the deal.
EL CAJON, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. (MMCC) has arranged a $5.6 million loan for the refinancing of a retail property located at 13578 Camino Canada in El Cajon, a suburb of San Diego. Tenants at the property include Wells Fargo, Subway, Panda Express, The UPS Store and H&R Block. Chad O’Connor of MMCC’s San Diego office secured the financing with a local credit union on behalf of a private client. Terms of the 10-year loan include a 6.5 percent fixed interest rate with 30-year amortization and a loan-to-value ratio of 65 percent.
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. — Tinder founder Justin Mateen, his brother Tyler Mateen and their brother-in-law Pouya Abdi have acquired Wilshire Rodeo Plaza, a Class A office and retail complex located at the corner of Rodeo Drive and Wilshire Boulevard in the posh Los Angeles suburb of Beverly Hills. Nuveen sold the asset for $211 million. The 300,000-square-foot property includes three six-story office and retail buildings along Wilshire Boulevard and a three-story office building along Rodeo Drive. The buyers plan to rebrand the property as One Rodeo, as well as upgrade and re-program the buildings to cater to luxury retail and office tenants. Current tenants include Merrill Lynch/Bank of America, USB, William Morris Endeavor and Encore Recordings. The Mateen brothers and Abdi view the acquisition as a generational property, and hope to take advantage of the “flight to quality” in a struggling office sector with limited new Class A supply. “Iconic buildings such as One Rodeo will continue to benefit from increased demand as the trend toward high-quality assets continues to unfold in a post-COVID world,” says Tyler Mateen, who is CEO of Cannon TTM, a Los Angeles-based real estate investment firm. “We are grateful to be acquiring these buildings at …
By Jane Adler Post-pandemic, senior living owners and operators are rightfully focused on regaining occupancy and stabilizing their assets. Expansion opportunities have mostly been limited to acquisitions of troubled properties purchased at a discount. Inflation, relatively high interest rates, a tight labor market and even tighter capital markets have largely sidelined ground-up development. But contrarian players believe now is the right time to build. Much of the existing stock of seniors housing is 20-plus years old, and baby boomers are just over the horizon. A development that breaks ground today will be ready to welcome the first wave of boomers who turn 80 in two years. New projects will face less competition too because of today’s difficult development environment. “This is the perfect time to put a shovel in the ground,” says Anders Pesavento, senior vice president of capital markets at Ryan Cos. The Minneapolis-based development and investment firm has four seniors housing projects slated to break ground this year that are valued at approximately $385 million. The lack of new supply and strong demand supports the case for building now, emphasizes Pesavento. “We believe we will be rewarded.” The volume of seniors housing units under construction is at …
By Jeff Bender, Thomas McCormick and Seattle Stein, Cushman & Wakefield We’ve been doing this for a while. Every cycle with gang-busters demand and absorption comes to an end, as does every downturn. So, with the Cincinnati industrial market, we find ourselves in the doldrums since mid-2023, and we may not fully turn the corner until next year. Perspective and context matter, though. We’re coming off record absorption and demand at the end of 2020 and through 2022, when we also closed the year with an unsustainable 1.7 percent vacancy rate. Before the entire world paused for COVID in early and mid-2020, we had a record year in 2019 as well. While vacancy hovers around 6 percent at mid-year, that is basically the Cincinnati industrial market’s historical average. Four consecutive quarters of negative net absorption certainly defines “doldrums,” but that must be weighed against the previous 48 consecutive quarters of positive net absorption through mid-2023. We’ve also seen a slight increase in asking rental rates, up to $6.25 per square foot, despite negative absorption. So, despite a lackluster past 12 months, we have positive momentum, and that’s bolstered by many of the factors that have always made Cincinnati one of …
ROUND ROCK AND TAYLOR, TEXAS — iMarket America, a supplier of industrial raw materials and products, will relocate its U.S. headquarters to the northern Austin suburb of Round Rock, according to a release from the Round Rock Chamber. iMarket America, whose parent company is based in South Korea, is a major vendor of Korean electronics giant Samsung, which is developing a $17 billion semiconductor manufacturing facility in Taylor, another northern suburb of Austin. To facilitate that relationship, iMarket America has proposed a plan to develop a 212-acre campus that would be located northeast of the intersection of Carlos G. Parker Boulevard SE and FM 112 near the Samsung plant. According to the Austin Business Journal, the development would feature about 2.2 million square feet of warehousing, manufacturing, office and research-and-development space. The publication also reports that iMarket America purchased the land after signing a nonbinding memorandum of understanding with the City of Taylor in 2023. Samsung broke ground on its Taylor facility in 2022 and expects to be operational this year.
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS — Austin-based investment firm Palladius Capital Management has sold The Oasis, a 672-bed student housing property in San Marcos, located roughly midway between Austin and San Antonio. The 240-unit property is located about three miles from the Texas State University campus and offers amenities such as a pool, fitness center, clubhouse and study lounges. Palladius acquired the property in spring 2022 and implemented a value-add program prior to the sale. Chris Epp of Walker & Dunlop represented Palladius in the transaction The buyer and sales price were not disclosed.
DENTON, TEXAS — Texas-based private equity firm SPI Advisory has acquired a portfolio of two multifamily properties totaling 248 units in the North Texas city of Denton. Lana is a 116-unit, garden-style property that was originally built in 1981, and Aspire is a 132-unit complex that was constructed in 1970. Both properties offer one- and two-bedroom units and underwent capital improvement programs over the past two years. Mark Allen of GREA represented the seller, Legacy REI, in the transaction. Fritz Waldvogel of Colliers Mortgage originated an undisclosed amount of Fannie Mae acquisition financing for the deal.
HOUSTON — Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. (MMCC) has arranged $5 million in acquisition financing for a 112,700-square-foot industrial building in East Houston. According to LoopNet Inc., the single-tenant facility at 14830 Talcott St. was constructed on seven acres in 1970. Adam Pike of MMCC originated the financing, which carried an 8 percent fixed interest rate and a 20-year amortization schedule, through an undisclosed local bank. The borrower was also not disclosed.