LA JOLLA, CALIF. — Belmont Village Senior Living has opened Belmont Village Senior Living La Jolla. The property rises 17 stories along the Pacific Coast just north of San Diego, featuring 180 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. It is Belmont’s 15th community in California and 33rd overall. Partners on the project include Greystar, UC San Diego Center for Healthy Aging and the Stein Institute for Research on Aging. James Arp is the executive director.
LOS ANGELES — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of Sherman Way Industrial Center, a fully leased industrial park located on 5.4 acres in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles. The Ben B. and Joyce E. Eisenberg Foundation, a charitable organization, sold the asset to a joint venture between affiliates of Captiva Partners and Westbrook Partners for $37 million. The seller is donating 100 percent of the proceeds from the sale to multiple charitable organizations that it supports. Totaling 139,567 square feet, Sherman Way Industrial Center consists of five buildings that were fully leased to 20 tenants at the time of sale. David Hasbrouck, Lars Platt, Benjamin Cooper and Mitchell Neff of Cushman & Wakefield’s Capital Markets team represented the seller in the deal. Paul Sims, also of Cushman & Wakefield, provided leasing advisory for the property.
SAN DIEGO — Dalfen Industrial has acquired a freestanding industrial building, located at 7615 Siempre Viva Road in San Diego’s Otay Mesa submarket. A partnership between Alcion Ventures and Lincoln Property Co. West sold the asset for $24.8 million. Mark Lewkowitz and Chris Holder of Colliers represented the buyer and seller in the deal. Totaling 86,680 square feet, the building is divisible by 45,180 square feet and features 20 dock-high doors, two grade-level roll-up doors, a sprinkler system, 27- to 28-foot clear heights, 1,500 amps, a 180-foot truck court and 6,950 square feet of office space.
LONG BEACH AND FONTANA, CALIF. — The Southern California office of Duke Realty has completed four industrial facilities, totaling 335,984 square feet in Long Beach and Fontana. The properties include: A newly leased, 173,121-square-foot facility at 10905 Beech Ave. in Fontana. A pre-leased, 40,850-square-foot asset at 1180 Spring St. in Long Beach. A 72,526-square-foot building at 2861 Orange Ave. in Long Beach. A 49,487-square-foot property at 2851 Orange Ave. in Long Beach. Zac Sakowski of JLL and Mike Condon Jr. of Cushman & Wakefield are listing brokers for the Long Beach properties, while Clyde Stauff and Jace Gan of Colliers International are listing brokers for the Fontana development. Duke Realty is currently constructing nine additional properties, totaling 2 million square feet and a 4.6-acre trailer yard, in Irwindale, Perris, Redlands, Fontana, Anaheim and Lynwood.
LOS ANGELES — Bolour Associates has purchased a two-story, mixed-use building located at 6432 Santa Monica Blvd. in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles for $13.7 million, or $421 per square foot. Totaling 32,500 square feet, the property features 17,500 square feet of ground-floor retail space and 15,000 square feet of second-story office space. At the time of sale, the property was 100 percent occupied by tenants ranging from creative management and casting to production equipment rentals and photography studios. Brandon Michaels, Matthew Luchs and Andrew Leff of Marcush & Millichap represented the buyer and undisclosed seller in the deal.
VISTA, CALIF. — A joint venture between CenterSquare and RAF Pacifica Group has completed the disposition of 1 Viper Way, an industrial property located in Vista. BLT Enterprises acquired the asset for an undisclosed price. Totaling 202,822 square feet, the facility features 28-foot clear heights, 20 dock-high doors, 16 grade-level doors, heavy power and ample skylights to provide natural light and energy efficiencies. At the time of sale, the property was fully leased to two tenants. Cushman & Wakefield advised CenterSquare and RAF Pacifica Group in the initial acquisition in 2021, as well as the lease-up and sale of the property.
By Chad Iafrate, Executive Director, and Phil Lyons, Managing Director, Cushman & Wakefield Retail leasing and investment sales transaction volumes continue to increase in 2022. This growth trend began to surge in the second part of 2021 following the pandemic recovery. Retail vacancy rates in San Diego County have decreased quarter over quarter to 5.9 percent, with vacancy lowest among power centers and strip centers. Asking rental rates, meanwhile, have increased across the county. This is primarily driven by significant rent growth at lifestyle centers (+5 percent from the previous quarter) and neighborhood centers (+2.8 percent). All major retail use categories seem to be back in expansion mode after four consecutive quarters of positive absorption. Pent-up consumer demand, stimulus and liquidity have all helped fuel growth plans in the retail sector with tenants continuing to try to make up for the lost year during the 2020 pandemic-related lockdowns. Suburban shopping centers have been the beneficiary of the work-from-home model as employees who would typically frequent retailers near their offices have pivoted to restaurants and shops closer to their residences. Investor confidence in retail centers also continues to increase, most notably from rising REIT activity and exchange buyers. Local retail investment …
LA QUINTA, CALIF. — SRS Real Estate Partners has arranged the sale of a 154,383-square-foot portion of One Eleven La Quinta Center, a community retail center located at 78959 CA-11 in La Quinta. A Coachella Valley-based private family office sold the asset to Anaheim-based Milan Capital Management for $35 million. Chris Tramontano and John Redfield of SRS’ Investment Properties Group represented the seller, while the buyer was self-represented in the deal. Terrison Quinn and Casey Mahony of SRS Real Estate Partners are the exclusive leasing agents for the property. Tenants include Ross Dress for Less, Staples, Petco and Big 5 Sporting Goods. The property was 79 percent occupied at the close of escrow. The center is shadow anchored by Stater Bros, Hobby Lobby and Kohl’s. Built in phases between 1992 and 2002, One Eleven La Quinta Center totals 852,465 square feet and is situated on 19.7 acres. This transaction marks the first sale of a portion of the center since development.
DALLAS — Dallas-based NewcrestImage has agreed to purchase four La Quinta by Wyndham-branded hotels, totaling 696 rooms. A joint venture between Highgate and Cerberus sold the properties for an undisclosed price. The hotels include La Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham LAX in Los Angeles; La Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham Anaheim in Anaheim, Calif.; La Quinta Inn by Wyndham Phoenix North in Phoenix; and La Quinta Inn & Suites DFW Airport South/Irving in Irving, Texas. The acquisition of the LAX property marks NewcrestImage’s first gateway location in California.
TARZANA, CALIF. — Instil Bio Inc. has received an $85 million construction loan for the development of Instil Bio Life Sciences Campus in Tarzana. Greg Grant of CBRE arranged the five-year, floating-rate, interest-only, non-recourse loan for the borrower. CBRE’s Andrew Riley and Jeff Pion facilitated Instil Bio’s original acquisition of the site in October 2020. Located at 18404-18412 Oxnard St., the campus will feature 102,000 square feet of lab, office and good manufacturing practice space. Instil Bio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative cell therapies in the fight against cancer.
