CARLSBAD, CALIF. — A joint venture between LPC West and Angelo Gordon has purchased a single-story industrial building located at 1695 Faraday Ave. in Carlsbad. Situated on 4.1 acres, the 63,000-square-foot building features 26-foot minimum clear heights and 3,000-amp power. According to LPC West, the property is positioned for a life sciences manufacturing tenant. Chris Roth and Rusty Williams of Lee & Associates represented LPC in the transaction. Dennis Visser and Weston Yahn of Cushman & Wakefield also participated in the deal.
SANTA ANA AND BELLFLOWER, CALIF. — Los Angeles-based Dunleer has acquired two industrial outdoor storage properties for a total consideration of $13 million. The properties are located at 4404 W. First St. in Santa Ana and 10027 Artesia Blvd. in Bellflower. The Santa Ana property features a 2.7-acre outdoor storage yard that includes one 3,826-square-foot office/industrial building. Dunleer purchased the property for $8.6 million. Chad Solomon of JLL represented the buyer in the deal. The name of the seller was not released. The Bellflower property is a 1.1-acre outdoor storage yard that includes improvements totaling 3,792 square feet. Dunleer acquired the asset for $4.1 million. The seller was the current tenant, a pipe and steel fabrication user, which will leaseback the site for six months. John Rendon of INCO Commercial represented the buyer and seller in the deal.
By Nellie Day All of Los Angeles County might have been under the same restrictions throughout the pandemic, but their emergence from this period reveals a lot about the localized retail environments. “Los Angeles’ retail market has weathered COVID better than many other markets around the country,” says Matthew May, founder of May Realty Advisors in the Los Angeles submarket of Sherman Oaks, Calif. “However, the recovery has favored a diverse group of suburban markets.” Certain Suburbs Stand Out Markets like East Hollywood/Silver Lake, Inglewood/South LA and Santa Clarita boasted the highest 12-month rolling net absorptions in the county, according to CoStar — something May doesn’t believe was expected. “LA is known as a melting pot and this is reflected in the geographic and ethnic makeup of the top submarkets based on net absorption,” he says. “Vacancies in many of the suburbs were substantially less than in the Central Business Districts and tony retail areas from Beverly Hills to Abbott Kinney. These emerging markets were quite a surprise.” On the other hand, metro markets like Santa Monica, Downtown LA and Koreatown each had more than 100,000 square feet of negative absorption. Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade has been one of …
PASADENA, CALIF. — CBRE has brokered the sale of Tiffany and Shops, a 28,421-square-foot street-front retail property in Pasadena. Los Angeles-based Blatteis & Schnur and Hayward-based The Felson Cos. acquired the asset for $52.2 million, or approximately $1,838 per square foot. Jimmy Slusher, Philip Voorhees and Trent Steeves of CBRE’s National Retail Partners – West represented the seller, a partnership managed by Los Angeles-based Rockwood Capital, in the transaction. Slusher, Voorhees and Steeves also represented the buyer. Tiffany & Co., Crate & Barrel and House of Hoops anchor the property under corporate-guaranteed leases. The asset is located at 64-68 Colorado Blvd.
WOODLAND, CALIF. — Arriba Capital has closed a $40.5 million ground-up construction loan for two adjacent hotel properties in Woodland. The three-year loan was features an 80 percent loan-to-cost ratio. The two hotel developments include a four-story, 95-room, extended-stay Home2 Suites by Hilton and a five-story, 109-room Courtyard by Marriott. Details of the financing, including the borrower’s name, were not released.
VISTA, CALIF. — Lee & Associates has arranged the sale-leaseback of an industrial asset located at 1280 N. Melrose Drive in Vista. Exeter Property Group acquired the property from an undisclosed seller for $11.5 million. Built in 1982, the 45,214-square-foot property features 12 dock-high doors, two grade-level doors, heavy power and 20-foot clear heights. Rusty Williams, Chris Roth and Jake Rubendall of Lee & Associates – North San Diego County’s Williams Roth Group represented the buyer. Jim Benson of Kidder Mathews represented the seller in the transaction.
BAKERSFIELD, CALIF. — Faris Lee Investments has brokered the sale of a single-tenant retail property located at 1725 Golden State Ave. in Bakersfield. A Southern California-based private investor sold the asset to an undisclosed buyer for $10.8 million. Grocery store Smart & Final occupies the 26,237-square-foot building on a long-term, absolute triple-net lease basis with rental increases. Sean Cox and Alex Moore of Faris Lee represented the seller in the deal.
MORGAN HILL, CALIF. — Trammell Crow Co. and joint-venture partner CBRE Investment Management, on behalf of one of its funds, have sold Butterfield 5 Technology Park in Morgan Hill. Invesco Real Estate acquired the asset for an undisclosed price. Totaling 410,101 square feet, the industrial park was completed earlier this year and features five Class A industrial buildings situated on 24 acres. HPA Inc. served as architect and Lusardi Construction acted as general contractor for the project. Rebecca Perlmutter with CBRE National Partners represented the sellers in the disposition. Rob Shannon, Chip Sutherland and Brian Matteoni of CBRE will continue to handle marketing and leasing for the industrial park.
Madison Capital, Meadow Partners Acquire Ford Point R&D Property in Richmond, California for $103.7M
RICHMOND, CALIF. — New York-based Madison Capital and Meadow Partners have purchased Ford Point, a creative R&D building located at 1414 Harbour Way S. in Richmond. Orton Development sold the asset for $103.7 million. At the time of sale, the 478,761-square-foot property was 83 percent leased to a variety of tenants, including SunPower, Mountain Hardwear and California Closets. Orton Development purchased the long-dormant, 22.9-acre site from the Richmond Redevelopment Agency in 2004 and began a comprehensive $40 million renovation of the entire building, installing new building systems and undertaking an extensive seismic upgrade. Since 2008, the company invested an additional $11.3 million for an ungraded roof, electric vehicle charging stations, asphalt repaving and one mega-watt rooftop solar system. Designed in 1930 by Albert Kahn, Ford Point was built as the Ford Motor Co. Assembly Plant and was the largest assembly plant to be built on the West Coast. Ford Point has been on the National Register of Historical places since 1988, and the site is home to a National Parks Services education center, known as the Rosie the Riveter Visitor Center. Seth Siegel, Steve Hermann, Ryan Venezia, Rick Ryan, Kevin Flemming and Courtney Trunnell of Cushman & Wakefield’s Northern California …
ROCKLIN, CALIF. — Roseville-based USA Properties Fund has started construction of Terracina at Whitney Ranch, an affordable multifamily property in Rocklin. Completion is slated for late 2024. Situated between University Avenue and Wildcat Boulevard, Terracina at Whitney Ranch will feature 288 apartments in a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts. Units will offer energy-efficient appliances, light fixtures and ceiling fans, as well as low-flow faucets, showers and toilets. One-bedroom apartment rents are projected to be $515 to $1,275 per month, while two-bedroom apartments will lease for $606 to $1,518 per month and three-bedroom units will rent for $687 and $1,741 per month. Community amenities will include a 4,000-square-foot clubhouse with a community room and fitness room, a swimming pool, courtyard with seating, a tot-lot play area and laundry facilities.