SAN FRANCISCO — A majority of U.S. restaurants and cafés that closed their doors in response to the COVID-19 pandemic will remain closed for good, according to crowd-source review giant Yelp. In its September economic impact report, the San Francisco-based firm tallied 32,109 restaurants that were open and operating on March 1 were closed on Aug. 31. Of that total, 19,590 (61 percent) indicated they were permanently closed. Yelp tracks business closures via business owners marking their business as closed, including by changing their hours or through a COVID-19 banner on its Yelp page. The tech firm concedes that closure counts are likely an estimate as businesses not included in the report include those that remain open with curtailed hours and staffing, or because they have not yet updated their Yelp business pages to reflect closures. Yelp only counts closures that have been vetted by its User Ops team or have been updated directly by a business owner. According to Yelp’s findings, breakfast and brunch restaurants, burger joints, sandwich shops, dessert places and Mexican restaurants are among the types of restaurants with the highest rate of business closures. Restaurants that work well for delivery and takeout — such as pizza …
MORENO VALLEY, CALIF. — Avison Young has arranged the purchase of Moreno Corporate Center, an industrial park located in Moreno Valley. A Southern California-based private investor acquired the property from a Bay Area-based investment company for an undisclosed price. Built in 1989 on nine acres, the five-building, 139,150-square-foot Moreno Corporate Center features 17-foot clear heights and a 2.85 parking ratio. The buildings are located at 14300, 14320 and 14340 Elsworth St. and 22620 and 22640 Goldencrest Drive. At the time of sale, the property was 95 percent occupied by more than 45 tenants. Alan Pekarcik and Chris Smith of Avison Young represented the buyer, while CBRE represented the seller in the transaction.
LOMPOC, CALIF. — Fort Worth, Texas-based MAG Capital Partners has completed the disposition of a single-story retail property located at 1600 N. H St. in Lompoc. Jinushi USA Inc., a real estate investment trust listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as Nippon Commercial Development Co., acquired the 62,500-square-foot end-cap property for an undisclosed price. The separately parceled property is situated on 5.3 acres within Mission Plaza, a shopping center with 26 tenants including Starbucks Coffee, Chase, Albertsons, Big 5, Ross Dress for Less and GNC. Judd Dunning of DWG Capital Group represented the seller, while Jeff Wiggins of Coldwell Banker Commercial NRT represented the buyer in the transaction. MAG Capital Partners, led by Principals Dax Mitchell and Andrew Gi, purchased 1600 North H Street in December 2019. The property was then short-term leased to Walmart prior to the sale to Jinushi USA.
CHINO HILLS, CALIF. — Wood Investments Cos. has purchased a single-tenant retail investment property located at 4050 Chino Hills Parkway in Chino Hills. An undisclosed seller sold the asset for $2.5 million. Situated within Chino Hills Parkway Center, 99 Cents Only occupies the 28,240-square-foot property, which was originally built in 1974 for Alpha Beta. Other tenants at the shopping center include 7-Eleven, Jack in the Box, AutoZone and H&R Block. Wood Investments plans to hold the asset for cash flow until the end of the 99 Cents Only lease and will either negotiate a new lease with 99 Cents Only or another essential needs or grocery tenant at market rates. The business plans will take approximately three to five years to complete. Patrick Wade, Alex Kozakov and Jake Hayutin of CBRE’s South Bay office in El Segundo, Calif., represented the seller, while Wood Investments Cos. was self-represented in the deal. Chicago-based JDI Realty is the lender in the deal.
RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CALIF. — Rockefeller Group has purchased 30 acres of land in Riverside County for the development of a total of 623,109 square feet of Class A industrial distribution space. Newcastle sold the parcels for $20 million. The first project — Val Verde Logistics Center — is located on 13 acres and will include a 289,556-square-foot speculative distribution building. The second project — Harvill Avenue Logistics Center — is located on 16.9 acres and will include a 333,553-square-foot speculative distribution facility. The developer expects to break ground on both projects in October. Newport Beach, Calif.-based RM Dalton is serving as general contractor, Herdman Architecture + Design is serving as architect and Kimley-Horn as civil engineer for both projects. Bill Heim, Alex Heim and Nesha Ritchie of Lee & Associates are the exclusive leasing agents for both logistics centers.
IRVINE, CALIF. — A joint venture between Meridian and Harrison Street has purchased a Class A office building located at 114 Pacifica Court in Irvine. The joint venture plans to invest additional capital in building improvements to convert the property into medical office space. Situated on 4.8 acres, the property features 110,400 square feet. At the time of sale, the property was 60 percent occupied. Constructed in 1999, the building is currently named Pacifica Court, but will be renamed to Pacifica Medical Plaza once conversion is complete. Anthony DeLorenzo and Todd Tydlaska of CBRE represented the seller, an institutional owner, while the joint venture represented itself in the deal. John Wadsworth and Aaron Phillips of Colliers International will handle leasing for the property following the medical office conversion.
SAN DIEGO — San Diego-based Sudberry Properties has completed the development of Purl at Civita, the third apartment property within the sustainable, transit-oriented Civita community in San Diego’s Mission Valley submarket. Located at 7901 Civita Blvd., the property features two mid-rise, podium-style buildings offering a total of 434 apartments and 18,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. The 434-unit property features two saltwater pools with hot tubs; a day-spa area with adjoining sauna; a Sky Terrace roof deck with outdoor media center and barbecues; game room with golf simulator; club room with demonstration kitchen; karaoke stage; and a “makers studio” for do-it-yourself projects. Additionally, Purl offers co-working offices, conference rooms, secure parcel lockers, electric car charging stations and a smoke-free environment. Apartments at Purl range from 530-square-foot junior, one-bedroom units to 1,347-square-foot three-bedroom layouts. Interior amenities include in-home washers/dryers, gourmet kitchens with farmhouse-style sinks, quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances, hardwood-style flooring in the main areas, carpeting in all bedrooms and LED lighting. Monthly lease rates range from approximately $2,155 to $3,620 per month. Purl is the third apartment community in Civita developed by Sudberry Propertires. All three — Circa 37, West Park and Purl — are situated in a campus …
SAN DIEGO — Newport Beach, Calif.-based Buchanan Street Partners has completed the disposition of an office building located at 6059 Cornerstone Court West in San Diego. A private buyer acquired the asset for $20.6 million, or $398 per square foot. Verimatrix, a San Diego-based company that specializes in content security for digital television services, occupies the 51,690-square-foot building, which is located within Cornerstone Heights Corporate Center. Matt Pourcho, Gary Stache, Anthony DeLorenzo and Bryan Johnson of CBRE represented the seller, whiel Joe Winkelmann of Colliers International represented the buyer in the transaction.
Someone once remarked that eighty percent of success in life is just showing up. Human experience verifies that being in the right place at the right time often is the intangible ingredient that leads to triumph. The strong performance this year of the Inland Empire multifamily market is a variation on this theme. During the pandemic, many renters sought refuge from the high density and high costs associated with big city life, and the work-from-home phenomenon made this objective feasible. For many Angelinos, Empire living was the best solution — close enough to Los Angeles to maintain contact with family and friends or to go into the office when necessary but substantially less densely settled and more affordable than most L.A. neighborhoods. By way of quantification, the average Riverside and San Bernardino County monthly rent in July was about $1,578 — and that is 28 percent less than the L.A. County average. The percentage savings for Class A space were about 1 percent greater, and parking, an omnipresent issue for Southern Californians, is typically free. The cost economies found in the Empire are more than trivial. Moreover, renters are more likely than in the past to find the unit and …
NEWARK, CALIF. — Colliers International has arranged the sale of an industrial building located at 8484 Central Ave. in Newark. QQE Properties sold the asset to Atum Biotechnology for $8.8 million. Atum Biotechnology plans to convert the 40,136-square-foot building into lab and office space. The buyer is a provider of tools and solutions to life sciences researchers including gene design; optimization and synthesis; expression vectors; and platforms for protein and cellular engineering and production. Todd Severson of Colliers International represented the seller, while Brian Mason of Avison Young and Jeff Powers of Cushman & Wakefield represented the buyer in the transaction.