REDLANDS, CALIF. — GID has purchased a multi-tenant industrial warehouse in Redlands. The 95,500-square-foot, Class A building includes 12 docks with three drive-ins and 30-foot clear heights. It is fully leased to two tenants. This is GID’s second industrial acquisition in Southern California. The company recently acquired a three-building industrial park in the East San Gabriel Valley.
MISSION VIEJO AND PALM DESERT, CALIF. — SRS Real Estate Partners has brokered the $15 million sale of two single-tenant retail properties in Southern California. Located in Mission Viejo and Palm Desert, Chick-fil-A occupies both buildings on triple-net ground leases. Jimmy Slusher, Eric Shain and John Read of CBRE represented the seller of the 4,800-square-foot Mission Viejo property, a local private investor. The Palm Desert property comprises 4,738 square feet on 1.6 acres within Monterey Crossing Shopping Center. Timothy Genske of CBRE and Bruce Bailey of The Bailey Group represented the seller, UCLA, which received the property as a donation. Matthew Mousavi and Patrick Luther of SRS represented the private, California-based buyer in both transactions.
MORENO VALLEY, CALIF. — Faris Lee Investments has brokered the $4.6 million sale of Woodstock Plaza, a retail strip center in Moreno Valley. The center was 75 percent occupied at the time of sale. Shaun Riley and Nick Miller of Faris Lee represented the undisclosed seller in the all-cash transaction. A private investor acquired the property.
LOS ANGELES — CBRE has hired John Boyett as first vice president and Adam Feldman as a senior associate in the firm’s Woodland Hills office in Los Angeles. Boyett and Feldman will focus on multifamily investment sales in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Boyett previously served as associate vice president at Matthews Real Estate Investment Services. Feldman also worked at Matthews as a senior associate, where he specialized in the acquisition, disposition and analysis of multifamily assets.
TORRANCE, CALIF. — Legacy Partners has purchased Del Amo Village, a development site located in the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance, for $18.3 million. The site comprises 2.8 acres located within Los Angeles County’s South Bay submarket at 1844 Plaza del Amo. The development plan for the project includes entitlements for 200 market-rate apartment units. Kevin Shannon, Ken White, Chris Benton, Michael Moore and Anthony Muhlstein of Newmark represented the sellers, which were PCCP, LaCaze, Muller Co. and Bentall GreenOak.
SAN DIMAS, CALIF. — San Dimas CA LLC has purchased a 79,036-square-foot R&D/flex facility in San Dimas. The facility is located at 960 Overland Court. The two-story property sits on 4.2 acres and is fully occupied by Collins Aerospace, a Charlotte, N.C.-based aerospace and defense product supplier and subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies. The facility is a mission-critical location for Collins and houses the company’s research and development operations. Originally built in 1987, the property recently underwent significant landlord renovations and tenant improvements. It features a mix of open-plan offices and private offices, conference rooms, multiple kitchenettes, and 7,600 square feet of warehouse space with two dock-high positions and two truck wells. Mark Shaffer, Anthony DeLorenzo, Gerard Poutier, Bryan Johnson and Nick Williams with CBRE’s Investment Properties—California/Arizona/Nevada, along with Todd Tydlaska, Mike Longo, Melissa May Moock and Sean Sullivan with CBRE’s Institutional Capital Partners, represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — Avison Young has brokered the sale of a medical office building in downtown Santa Monica. US 528 Arizona Owner LLC acquired the property for $5 million. The 3,049-square-foot medical office building is located at 520 Arizona Ave. It was acquired as part of a land assemblage for the development of a mixed-use project. Mitch Stokes of Avison Young was the sole broker in the transaction.
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — CBRE has arranged the $15.4 million sale of Ranchero Palms, a 61-unit apartment community in San Jose. Keith Manson, Zachary Greenwood and Mac Watson represented both the buyer and seller. Ranchero Palms features one- and two-bedroom floor plans, and was recently renovated with a new entryway, railings, stairways and main electrical service. According to Apartments.com, the property was built in 1969 and offers community amenities such as a pool, a sundeck, on-site laundry facilities and dry-cleaning services.
— By Sean Fulp, Vice Chair & Head of Office Capital Markets, U.S. Southwest, Colliers — Office sales, leasing and development activity are at historic lows for Los Angeles County. With interest rates rapidly increasing, few active developments, and office vacancy and availability at an all-time high, the office market is in discovery mode. One of the major trends in development is creative, state-of-the-art studio/office campuses. These developments have broken ground in West Hollywood, Burbank, Santa Monica and Culver City. Developers in this space have the mindset of “if you build it, they will come.” Office sales activity is down more than 50 percent in the past year due to a high interest rate environment and a divide between buyer and seller pricing expectations. As loans become due, landlords will have decisions to make, and distress will occur in the market. Office availability is at an all-time high in Los Angeles at nearly 30 percent — likely the new norm going forward. Companies have figured out that employees like to have the flexibility of where and even when they work. With that said, companies are downsizing their office space by 25 percent to 50 percent and, in some cases, by …
LAS VEGAS; LOS ANGELES; AND PORTLAND, ORE. — BKM Capital Partners has purchased 10 properties in four recent transactions valued at more than $280 million. The deals involve more than 1.1 million square feet of light industrial space across 35 buildings in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Portland. The bulk of the activity occurred in Las Vegas, where BKM significantly expanded its holdings through two off-market transactions involving eight properties totaling nearly 830,000 square feet. The 22 small-bay industrial buildings consist of 321 units and are located near the Las Vegas Strip and McCarran Airport in Clark County’s Southwest submarket.