WEST SACRAMENTO, CALIF., AND SALT LAKE CITY — A joint venture between PCCP and The Koll Co. has purchased an eight-building industrial portfolio in West Sacramento and Salt Lake City. A private family trust sold the portfolio for $41.3 million. Totaling 510,7070 square feet, the assets were fully leased at the time of sale. The three California properties, totaling 226,000 square feet, are located within the Port of Sacramento Industrial Park. Built in 1987, the buildings feature 22- to 26-foot clear heights, dock-high doors, grade-level doors, wet sprinklers, reinforced concrete loading areas and ample parking. The remaining five properties, totaling 214,000 square feet, are located within Centennial Industrial Park in Salt Lake City. The buildings feature 24- to 27-foot clear heights, dock-high doors and grade-level doors. Bret Hardy and Kevin Shannon of Newmark Knight Frank represented the seller, while David Milestone of Newmark Knight Frank sourced acquisition debt from California Bank & Trust for the buyer.
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Nome Ventures Purchases 170,977 SF Cerritos Center Court Office Building Near Los Angeles
by Amy Works
CERRITOS, CALIF. — Nome Ventures, a Bay Area-based real estate investment firm, has acquired Cerritos Center Court, a Class A office building in Cerritos, for an undisclosed price. Located at 17777 Center Court Drive within the 125-acre master-planned Cerritos Central Business District, the eight-story building features 170,977 square feet of office space. At the time of sale, the property was 98 percent leased. Built in 2002, a 2018 renovation fully upgraded the lobbies, corridors, restrooms, electric vehicle charging stations and 680 parking spaces. The transaction is a leasehold sale as the building sits on a long-term ground lease owned by the City of Cerritos with more than 66 years remaining on the term. Todd Tydlaska, Sean Sullivan, Mike Longo, Anthony DeLorenzo and Mark Shaffer of CBRE represented the seller, an undisclosed institutional investor, while Nome Ventures was self-represented in the deal. Greg Grant of CBRE’s Debt & Structured Finance team secured a $26.7 million loan on behalf of the buyer.
Berkadia Arranges $8M Preferred Equity Investment in Amber Ridge Apartments Near Los Angeles
by Amy Works
LA VERNE, CALIF. — Berkadia has has arranged $8 million preferred equity investment for Silver Star Real Estate’s purchase of Amber Ridge Apartments, a garden-style multifamily property located in La Verne, 30 miles east of Los Angeles. Orange County, Calif.-based Silver Star Real Estate acquired the property through its affiliated purchasing entity, Amber Property Investments, for $49.7 million, or $338,000 per unit. Chinmay Bhatt, Noam Franklin and Cody Kirkpatrick of Berkadia’s Joint Venture Equity and Structured Capital Group delivered Harbor Group International as the preferred equity partner. Built in 1973 and renovated in 2006, Amber Ridge features 147 units spread across 25 two-story residential buildings. On-site amenities include a swimming pool with spa; clubhouse with full kitchen and fireplace; business center; outdoor picnic area with barbecue; pet grooming salon; and fitness center.
OCEANSIDE, CALIF. — Duhs Commercial has arranged the sales of two retail buildings located in Oceanside for a total of $8 million. In the first transaction, an undisclosed buyer acquired a 3,000-square-foot retail space at 1888 Oceanside Blvd. for $2.6 million. Austin Dias and Rick Wu of Duhs Commercial represented the buyer in the acquisition and lease to 7-Eleven, while Henry Lee of Autowash Brokers represented the undisclosed seller in the deal. Andrew Pierson of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant in the lease transaction. In the second deal, Dias and Wu arranged the $5.4 million sale of a 2,450-square-foot retail space at 1990 Oceanside Blvd. Henry Lee of Autowash Brokers represented the undisclosed lessee of the property.
By Chandler A. Larsen, Principal, Avison Young This year started off where 2019 finished for the Los Angeles office property sector – and that’s red hot! During the first two and a half months of the year, office space absorption was on pace to beat 2019. Rents were steadily increasing past $39.84 per square foot on an annual gross basis, record-high (psf) sales prices were recorded across product types and rising construction costs were complemented by a construction pipeline of more than 8 million square feet of office space. Suddenly, by mid-March, COVID-19 had taken hold in the U.S. and abruptly halted all the momentum the Los Angeles office sector had built up. However, the emergency interest rate cuts proposed by central banks across the globe have flooded markets with liquidity, helping to avoid contagion throughout the financial sector. This, in conjunction with the $170 billion in commercial investor relief included in the current stimulus package, points to the potential for a short downturn. Nevertheless, the jury is still out on just how long and how deep this slowdown will be as previously unimaginable unemployment numbers continue to be reported and economic forecasts are trending in the wrong direction. In …
RANCHO BERNARDO, CALIF. — Ryan Cos. has completed construction of Silvergate Rancho Bernardo, an 11-acre seniors housing campus in Rancho Bernardo, approximately 25 miles north of San Diego. AmeriCare Health & Retirement developed the community, which Ryan Cos. built. The development features of 20 cottages, 108 apartments, six penthouse units and 48 memory care units, and was 90 percent pre-leased. The apartments range from 400 square feet to 1,200 square feet, while the cottages run between 1,400 square feet and 1,600 square feet. Silvergate Rancho Bernardo is AmeriCare’s third development of its kind and is considered the company’s flagship community. Warner Design Associates handled interior design.
MAG Capital Partners Buys 28,500 SF Baby Food Manufacturing Facility in Sanger, California
by Amy Works
SANGER, CALIF. — Fort Worth, Texas-based MAG Capital Partners has completed the acquisition and 20-year leaseback of a baby food manufacturing facility in California’s Central Valley. Led by Principals Dax Mitchell and Andrew Gi, MAG Capital purchased the fully leased property from Initiative Foods, a private label baby food manufacturer, for an undisclosed price. Located at 1945 Industrial Way in Sanger, the 28,500-square-foot property was built to suit for the tenant-seller, which produces more than 50 varieties of organic products made from locally sourced fruits and vegetables. The facility was completed in November 2019. Mary Garnett and Jim Tuesley of Barnes & Thornburg represented the buyer, while Chelsea Mandel of Stream Capital Partners represented the seller in the transaction.
Parent Company of Men’s Wearhouse, Jos. A. Bank to Shutter Up to 500 Stores, Cut Staff by 20 Percent
by John Nelson
FREMONT, CALIF. — Tailored Brands, the parent company of professional menswear retailers Men’s Wearhouse and Jos. A. Bank, has announced a corporate restructuring that entails closing up to 500 stores. The Fremont-based firm says the “unprecedented and industry-wide” disruption caused by the COVID-19 outbreak was the catalyst behind the move. Tailored Brands has identified the 500 stores but did not disclose the retailers, locations or timing of those closures. Other brands in Tailored’s umbrella include K&G and Moores Clothing for Men. The company had 1,445 U.S. stores as of May 2, 2020 totaling 9.1 million square feet. Additionally, Tailored Brands (NYSE: TLRD) plans to cut expenses by reducing its staff by 20 percent by early August. The company expects severance payments and other termination costs to total $6 million. The economic harm stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic is having an outsized impact on the company’s revenue stream. In its first-quarter fiscal business update, Tailored Brands reported that for the period between Feb. 1 and May 2, net sales were down 60.4 percent year-over-year. Its e-commerce revenue, which includes rental services, was down 31.9 percent during the same period. Going forward the company will focus on its e-commerce platform and revised …
PSRS Secures $19M Refinancing for Manufactured Housing Community in Riverside, California
by Amy Works
RIVERSIDE, CALIF. — PSRS has secured $19 million in refinancing for Riverside Meadows, a 358-unit manufactured home community in Riverside. Michael Tanner and Jonny Soleimani of PSRS’ Los Angeles office arranged the non-recourse loan that features a 10-year term and 30-year amortization schedule. Situated among the 15, 60 and 215 freeways, Riverside Meadows features mostly double-wide lots and an array of amenities.
SANTA FE SPRINGS, CALIF. — Valore Ventures has completed the disposition of a flex industrial property located at 15511 Carmenita Road in Santa Fe Springs. An Orange County, Calif.-based private investor acquired the asset for an undisclosed price. Built in 1998, the 28,542-square-foot property features 11,437 square feet of office space spanning two floors and 17,105 square feet of one-story industrial warehouse space with 22-foor clear heights at the rear of the building. Additionally, the asset offers a gated parking lot, two drive-in doors and two grade-level doors. At the time of sale, the property was fully leased. Peter Bauman of Marcus & Millichap Phoenix represented the seller, Kenny De Angelis of Valore Ventures, in the deal.