ESCONDIDO, CALIF. — Express Dry has acquired a 14,000-square-foot industrial building located at 1449 Simpson Way in Escondido for $4.4 million. The purchase was made under the entity Expressunits1449 LLC. The building will facilitate the company’s expansion plans in the Escondido submarket of North San Diego County. JLL’s Chris Baumgart represented the buyer. San Diego Commercial represented the seller, Marky Sparky Toys.
SAN DIEGO — Phase 3 Real Estate Partners has signed three new leases with life sciences companies at GENESIS-Del Mar, an 86,000-square-foot lab building in the Del Mar Heights submarket of San Diego. The building is located at 12250 El Camino Real. The new biotech companies, Mabwell Therapeutics, Genece Health and Lygos, will occupy spaces ranging from 4,000 square feet to 12,000 square feet. JLL’s Chad Urie, Grant Schoneman and Taylor DeBerry represented Phase 3 Real Estate Partners in the three lease transactions.
— By Jerry Holdner, Avison Young — Southern California Region Lead, Innovation & Insight, AVANT — The San Diego office market is starting to show signs of weakness. Unemployment remains low, but it is important to highlight that job creation has been uneven. The bright spot is that high-value-added jobs in a broad range of sectors, such as scientific research, medical products and pharmaceutical development continue to grow, which bodes well for San Diego. We are still uncertain about a recession. It could be short and shallow like many are predicting, or we could be in for a period of monumental headwinds. Investment sales have retreated as interest rates increased, and office workers have been reluctant to return to the office. This has created an uncertain picture of our office market going forward. The rise and future uncertainty of the pace of inflation has caused many to take a “pencils down” approach. This has caused many to slow, pause or even halt their dealmaking, growth, capital investment and development efforts as the ability to borrow funds has become difficult. San Diego’s office vacancy currently stands at 12.3 percent, and 18.9 percent of the total office market is available (including sublease …
CARLSBAD, CALIF. — CBRE has brokered the $23.5 million sale of three restaurant properties in Carlsbad. Reg Kobzi, Michael Peterson, Joel Wilson, Philip Voorhees, Megan Lanni and Eric Shain of CBRE represented the seller, CPT/SC Title Holding Corp., in the disposition of the properties to separate buyers. Creekside Shops LLC purchased a 10,262-square-foot building leased to King’s Fish House at 5625 Paseo Del Norte for $10.3 million. An undisclosed buyer purchased a 7,166-square-foot P.F Chang’s located at 5621 Paseo Del Norte for $5.7 million. K Ishii Manhattan Ave LLC acquired a 10,470-square-foot B’s Restaurant property located at 5613 Paseo Del Norte for $7.5 million. Shaun Riley with Faris Lee Investments represented the buyer in the transaction.
LOS ANGELES — JLL has arranged an undisclosed amount of financing for USC Expo, a 260-bed student housing development located near the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles. Greg Brown and Zane Sweet of JLL worked on behalf of the borrower, Mosaic Investment Partners, to secure both joint-venture equity and mezzanine financing from HC2 Capital, as well as a senior construction facility from Calmwater Capital. The seven-story community is scheduled for completion in spring 2025 and will offer fully furnished studio, one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom units. Shared amenities will include a rooftop swimming pool, second-floor amenity deck, fitness center, computer room and dog park.
FREMONT, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. has arranged a $4.6 million loan for the acquisition of a single-tenant retail property located in Fremont. Ron Balys of Marcus & Millichap arranged the 10-year financing on behalf of the undisclosed borrower. Red Lobster occupies the property.
ORANGE, CALIF. — CBRE arranged the $1.6 million sale of a four-unit multifamily community located at 224 S. Oak St. in Orange. The fourplex was built in 1957 on a 10,809-square-foot site. The property offers one- and two-bedroom units, as well as four garage parking spaces and four tandem spaces. Dan Blackwell, Sean Farag and Amanda Fielder represented the Orange County-based 1031 exchange seller.
MONTCLAIR, CALIF. — Archway Equities has acquired The Paseos at Montclair, a 385-unit apartment community in the Inland Empire city of Montclair, for $150 million. The Paseos at Montclair was built in 2014. The garden-style community offers studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units. Amenities include two pools with spas and cabanas, a fitness center, yoga room, children’s entertainment suite, conference center and entertainment lounge. Pacific Urban Investors’ structured finance group provided preferred equity to facilitate the transaction. The seller was not disclosed.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — Fitness concept Club Studio has announced plans to open a 48,000-square-foot studio at Santa Monica Place, a Macerich property in Santa Monica. Located on the first level of the property, the space will feature five boutique studio rooms, as well as a recovery space, steam rooms, infrared saunas, a juice bar and retail store. A timeline for the opening was not disclosed.
PASADENA, CALIF. — Pacific Clinics has leased 18,370 square feet of office space at 625 Fair Oaks Ave. in South Pasadena. This lease brings the office building to 98 percent occupancy. It also represents one of the largest direct leases for a Class A office building in the greater Pasadena office market within the past 14 months. NAI Capital’s Tina LaMonica represented the landlord, Greenbridge, in facilitating the lease transaction. Jeff Boucher of Radius represented Pacific Clinics.
