BREA, CALIF. — Lee & Associates Orange has brokered the sale of a freestanding industrial property located at 760 Challenger St. in Brea, an eastern suburb of Los Angeles. The asset traded for $12.5 million, approximately 20 percent over asking price. The 27,734-square-foot building features two dock-high doors and 24-foot minimum warehouse clearance. Mark Hintergardt of Lee & Associates represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The name of the buyer was also not released.
BELMONT, CALIF. — CBRE has arranged a $75 million loan for the acquisition and redevelopment of Shoreway Innovation Center in Belmont. The property will be redeveloped into a new life sciences campus. The borrower is Four Corners Properties. Mike Walker and Brad Zampa with CBRE Capital Markets’ Debt & Structured Finance group arranged and secured the three-year, floating-rate financing through a private equity firm. The nonrecourse loan carried two extension options. Four Corners Properties will use the financing to fund a portion of the predevelopment costs for 1301 Shoreway Road, which was acquired in December 2021 for $90.2 million. The future redevelopment will likely include construction of two Class A life sciences buildings totaling approximately 500,000 to 600,000 square feet. The new development will also include a multi-story parking structure with approximately 1,500 parking stalls.
SAN DIEGO — Clarion Partners and HP Investors have sold a collection of three single-tenant net-leased retail properties within Gateway at Kearny Mesa in San Diego. An undisclosed private investor acquired the asset for $89.8 million. Totaling 194,303 square feet, the property is fully occupied to three national tenants, including a global discount department store, Food 4 Less and Prime Car Wash/Jiffy Lube. The properties were constructed in 2001 on 18.8 acres as part of a 30-acre Gateway at Kearny Mesa retail destination. Gleb Lvovivh, Geoff Tranchina, Darcy Miramontes, Kip Malo and Bob Prendergast of JLL Capital Markets represented the sellers in the deal.
ROSEVILLE, CALIF. — Schnitzer Properties has purchased Highland Reserve Marketplace, a 191,416-square-foot retail center in Roseville, a suburb of Sacramento. Tenants at the center, which is situated on 21.5 acres, include Kohl’s, Ashley HomeStore, BevMo!, PetSmart, In-N-Out, Krispy Kreme, Freebird’s World Burrito, Yummy Cookie and Nurtishop. The seller and sales price were not released.
BALDWIN PARK, CALIF. — Kidder Mathews has arranged the sale a retail property located at 13822 Garvey Ave. in Baldwin Park, an eastern suburb of Los Angeles. A private family investor sold the asset to an undisclosed buyer for $18.1 million in a 1031 exchange transaction. LA Fitness occupies the 45,000-square-foot facility, which is located at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Garver Avenue. Tanel Harunzade, Darrell Levonian and Brittney McCarthy of Kidder Mathews represented the seller in the deal., while Janet Neman and Angelica Gotzev of Kidder Mathews represented the buyer.
MONTEREY PARK, CALIF. — BH Properties has acquired a 120,191-square-foot suburban commercial office campus in Monterey Park from Blue Shield of California in a $15 million sale/leaseback transaction. Andrew Harper, Will Poulsen, Matt McRoskey and Owen Muller of JLL marketed the property on behalf of Blue Shield. Situated on 7.9 acres, the asset features a 91,363-square-foot building and a 28,828-square-foot property, both of which serve as the headquarters of Blue Shield’s Promise Health Plan, a managed care organization. Blue Shield will continue to occupy the asset through July 2023.
LOS ANGELES — Cushman & Wakefield has acquired Cresa Partners of Los Angeles Inc., whose operations comprise three Los Angeles County offices located in West Los Angeles, Woodland Hills and Westlake Village. Representing tenants, the Cresa team provides commercial real estate services to clients in diverse industries, including entertainment, technology, interactive entertainment, professional services, biotech and transportation. The team comprises 40 professionals, made up of tenant representatives and project managers.
CALIFORNIA, OREGON AND WASHINGTON — Gantry has arranged $130 million in permanent financing for a six-property, Trojan Storage-owned self-storage portfolio spread across California, Oregon and Washington. Totaling 600,000 square feet, the portfolio includes three newly completed, pre-stabilized facilities and three recently acquired facilities. Andy Bratt and Amit Tyagi of Gantry secured the financing for Trojan Storage. The loan features a 10-year term at a fixed rate and a significant interest-only period later transitioning to a 30-year amortization schedule. The newly constructed facilities are in Commerce, Glendale and San Jose, Calif., and the recently acquired assets are in Salinas, Calif., Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, Wash.
By Jerry Holdner, Southern California Region Lead, Avison Young The Greater Los Angeles office sector is experiencing a fragmented and slow recovery post-pandemic as the fallout is being addressed in various ways by office tenants, investors and owners. The first quarter of 2022 ended with a 15.4 percent office vacancy rate, which was up from 15 percent at the end of 2021. It is also up from the previous high of 13.1 percent that was recorded in 2010. We started to see several companies require their employees to return to work at least in some capacity in the first quarter, which typically included a hybrid schedule. With gas prices soaring and an extremely competitive job market, hybrid situations have been significant bargaining chips for employers to attract and retain employees. That said, we don’t see leasing demand returning to pre-COVID levels for at least 12 to 24 months or longer. Office occupiers have and will continue to evaluate both their short- and long-term occupancy strategies. With all indicators pointing to hybrid work remaining indefinitely, office users are seeking to reduce their footprints. This typically involves a flight to quality as office rents are low and concessions are consistently on the table for new leases …
ELK GROVE, CALIF. — Pacific Castle Management has completed the disposition of Waterman Grove Plaza, a retail strip center located at 9304-9332 Elk Grove Road in Elk Grove. CenterSquare Investment Management acquired the property for $17.2 million. Situated on 4.2 acres, Waterman Grove Plaza features 44,090 square feet of retail space. At the time of sale, the property was 89.2 percent occupied. Current tenants include Pets to Go, Panda Express, Jamba Juice, Mountain Mike’s Pizza, 9Round, Subway and Envy Day Spa. Eric Kathrein, Gleb Lvovich, Bryan Ley and Warren McClean of JLL Retail Capital Markets represented the seller in the deal.
