California

SAN DIEGO — Sunrise Management has taken over operations of The Warwick, a newly renovated, Class A apartment community in San Diego’s Hillcrest neighborhood. Spectrum Partners recently acquired the luxury multifamily community for $37.4 million. The Warwick was converted from a hotel into apartments in 2017. The 80-unit community now includes a resort-style pool, sun deck with cabanas, fitness center, technology-enabled package lockers, enclosed dog run, LATCH keyless entry and outdoor social lounge.

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— Scott Wetzel, Executive Vice President, JLL — Tenants and debt remain the most important drivers of the Orange County office ecosystem — both having undergone major evolutions in recent history. Maybe unexpectedly, leasing velocity improved year over year, despite the never-ending drumbeat of a pending recession. Conversely, investment markets were much more cautious as debt cost spiked and investors pumped the brakes. Leasing From Bob Iger to Howard Schultz, prominent executives are voicing frustration over the state of the office market…and rightfully so. We watched the pendulum swing from end to end as office tenants went from fully “in office” pre-pandemic, to 100 percent remote for the better part of 2020 and 2021. Today, the national office usage rate still hovers around 50 percent, according to the most recent Kastle Systems report. Orange County reflects this national trend, meaning it’s stuck in the middle between in-office and in-home. Tenants are also on divergent paths as some seek quality, while others prioritize value. New Orange County office developments like Flight (Lincoln Property Company), Boardwalk (AEW) and Spectrum Terrace (the Irvine Company) are fully leased and have achieved premium rental rates, typically 70 percent-plus above average market lease rates.  Large contiguous …

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RIALTO, CALIF. — Lovett Industrial has received $24.9 million in construction financing to develop Rialto II, a 114,115-square-foot, Class A industrial development in Rialto. Once completed, Rialto II will feature 36-foot clear heights, two grade-level doors, 12 dock-high doors, a 130-foot truck court and 90 parking stalls. The six-acre site is located at 1910 W. Renaissance Parkway. The three-year, fixed-rate loan is through American Realty Advisors. Peter Thompson, Samuel Godfrey and Jordan Leake led the JLL Capital Markets debt advisory team.

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NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. — Buchanan Street Partners has sold a two-building, 42,697-square-foot office property to a private Newport Beach real estate firm for $20.4 million. Buchanan purchased the offices in 2020 for $11.5 million. Located at 1400 and 1420 Bristol St. N., the property was 22 percent leased at the time of sale. Buchanan had initially planned to carry out an adaptive reuse initiative at the property until the buyer, a residential developer, showed interest.

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LOS ANGELES — Keller Williams Commercial has negotiated the sale of The Glendon, a 27-unit apartment building in the Palms submarket of West Los Angeles. Glendon LP acquired the asset for $11.5 million. Built in 1986, the community is located at 3724 Glendon Ave. Matthew Kanner of Keller Williams Commercial and president of the Kanner Group, represented both the buyer and the seller, JEB Properties, in this transaction. The closing cap rate was 3.84 percent, with price per unit of $427,778.

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SAN DIEGO — R.L. Jones Customhouse Brokers has leased a 240,975-square-foot industrial building currently under construction at Landmark at Otay in San Diego. The facility is situated at the intersection of SR-905 and SR-125. Targeted for shell completion in May 2023, R.L. Jones will relocate its corporate headquarters to 1610 Landmark Road as it expands its operations in the park to nearly 400,000 square feet across two new Class A industrial structures. R.L. Jones signed its first lease, totaling more than 150,000 square feet, within the same park in 2021. The new agreement represents the largest non-Amazon industrial lease in Otay Mesa in the past decade, and the largest in San Diego County in the past five years, according to the Colliers San Diego team of Mark Lewkowitz, Chris Holder and Will Holder, which is responsible for marketing and leasing the development. Majestic Realty Co. and Sunroad Enterprises are the developers behind Landmark at Otay.

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MENIFEE, CALIF. — Patrinely Group has purchased Scott Road Commerce Center’s Phase II, a large-scale, fully entitled, 33.8-acre development site in Menifee, for $61 million. The site is entitled for 544,115 square feet of Class A industrial product. Phase II will feature Buildings 3, 4 and 5 at 33520, 33580 and 33540 Zeiders Road. Part of an expansive five-building development totaling 701,262 square feet, Phase II is situated just north of the Murrieta and Temecula submarkets, immediately off the Scott Road and I-215 interchange. The project is the city’s first Class A industrial development since 2018, according to the buyer. The sales team included Michael Kendall, Gian Bruno and Kenny Patricia of Colliers’ Western Region Industrial Capital Markets Group; fellow Colliers industrial experts Joey Jones and Tucker Hohenstein; and Lee & Associates’ Gordon Mize. Kendall also exclusively listed the property and represented the seller, Jupiter Holdings, in the transaction.

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IRVINE, CALIF. — Harbert South Bay Partners has released plans for The James, a 350-unit, eight-story seniors housing community in the Orange County city of Irvine. The site is walkable to Irvine-Tustin’s vibrant shopping area, The District at Tustin Legacy. The leasing office for The James is scheduled to open early 2024, with occupancy planned for summer 2025. The James will feature 210 independent living, 110 assisted living and 30 memory care units. Momentum Senior Living, which is based in Orange County, will be the operator.

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LOS ANGELES — Landmark Properties has announced plans to develop a student housing community near the University of Southern California (USC) campus in Los Angeles. Located at the corner of West 39th and South Figueroa streets, the property will offer 435 units in studio through five-bedroom configurations. The development will also include 87 affordably priced units, which will be reserved for students at the low-income level or below. Landmark is still in the planning phase for the project, which is expected to feature more than 1,500 beds. Shared amenities will include a clubhouse; rooftop resort-style swimming pool and grilling area; computer lab; fitness center; on-site parking; and 20,000 square feet of ground-floor retail. Construction is set to begin by the end of 2023, with completion scheduled for fall 2026. Landmark Urban Construction will serve as general contractor for this project. Kevin Shannon, Ken White, Greg Galusha, Bryan Norcott, Ryan Lang, Jack Brett, Chris Benton and Anthony Muhlstein of Newmark, in collaboration with Eric Bergstrom at Bergstrom Capital Advisors, brokered the acquisition of the development site from Ventus Group for an undisclosed price.

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SAN BERNARDINO, CALIF. — Kidder Mathews has arranged the sale of the seven-building Gifford Business Park in San Bernardino for $26 million. The multi-tenant industrial property is located at 750-760 East Central Ave. and 765-791 South Gifford Ave., 2.5 miles from San Bernardino International Airport. It was built in 1989. The seller, Positive Investments, undertook capital expenditures, including roof replacement on five of the seven buildings, exterior paint on the entire property and parking lot re-slurry. The business park is currently 93 percent leased with more than 50 tenants. In-place rents are nearly 20 percent below market rates. Alan Pekarcik of Kidder Mathews represented the seller, while Christopher Smith of Colliers represented the buyer, MIG RE Investors I LLC, in the transaction.

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