SACRAMENTO — San Diego-based MG Properties Group has purchased Landing at College Square, an apartment community in Sacramento. The acquisition price was not released. Built in 2016, Landing at College Square features 270 apartments. Marc Ross of CBRE represented the undisclosed seller in the deal. MG Properties Group assumed the existing Freddie Mac loan, which Brian Eisendrath and Cameron Chalfant of CBRE coordinated.
ROSEVILLE, CALIF. — Harbor Group International (HGI) and its affiliates have purchased 630 Roseville Parkway, a single-tenant office building in Roseville, a suburb of Sacramento. An undisclosed seller sold the property for $39.4 million. Penumbra, a global healthcare company, fully occupies the 157,518-square-foot facility. The office property also includes a campus-like outdoor recreation space with an amphitheater, barbecue area and bocce ball courts. This acquisition is HGI’s fourth office investment in the California market as the firm continues to expand its footprint on the West Coast.
MOORPARK, CALIF. — Avison Young has arranged the sale of The Village at Moorpark, a community shopping center located at 706 W. Los Angeles Ave. in Moorpark. London Reo Retail-CA, a Delaware limited liability company, sold the asset to California-based Chesser Group for $20 million. Built in 2007 on 11.5 acres, the 129,374-square-foot property was 76.3 percent occupied at the time of sale. Current tenants include Petco, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Verizon, Bank of America and Leslie’s Pool Supply. Chris Maling and David Maling of Avison Young represented the seller and buyer in the deal.
CALIFORNIA — JCH Senior Housing Investment Brokerage has arranged the sale of two assisted living communities in California. The first community totals 49 beds in Riverside County. A local owner seeking to grow its portfolio paid $5 million for the property. The second property was a 15-unit boutique community in Orange County. A local buyer interested in entering the seniors housing market paid $3.3 million for the asset. Both sellers were family owner-operators looking to retire. Jim Hazzard, and Cindy Hazzard handled the transaction process in both sales. The specific names and locations of the communities were not disclosed.
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) has opened a 500,000-square-foot expansion of Westfield Valley Fair, the French developer’s $1.1 billion retail destination in San Jose. The retail center is part of a redevelopment project that replaced two 1950s-era shopping centers. The project now encompasses 2.2 million square feet in total, with more restaurant and store openings planned for 2021. A three-level flagship Bloomingdale’s luxury apparel department store anchors the new expansion, alongside other apparel retailers including Anthropologie, Club Monaco, Fabletics, Indochino, Jimmy Choo, John Varvatos, Longchamp, Rodd and Gunn, Urban Outfitters, UNTUCKit and Zadig & Voltaire. “We envisioned Westfield Valley Fair as a place where prestigious luxury brands, digitally native start-up retailers, and best-in-class dining and entertainment all come together to create a true lifestyle destination and the perfect place to shop, dine and play,” says Larry Green, executive vice president of development at URW. The developer recently partnered with the San José Museum of Art to curate and commission artwork for the property, starting with an outdoor sculpture at the new grand entrance on Stevens Creek Boulevard, which will be unveiled this fall. Entertainment offerings include the recently opened ShowPlace ICON Theatre and the soon-to-open PLAYlive Nation social gaming lounge. Future additions to the retail center this year and into …
LA MESA, CALIF. — Universe Holdings has purchased Serena Vista, an apartment property located in La Mesa, a city nine miles east of downtown San Diego. 5810 Amaya LLC, an affiliate of Cirrus Asset Management, sold the community for $34.4 million, or $313,181 per unit. Built in 1971 on 5.1 acres, Serena Vista features 110 apartments in a mix of three floor plans, a pool and sundeck, two laundry facilities and private fenced backyards. Christopher Zorbas and Alexander Garcia Jr. of Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.
MORGAN HILL, CALIF. — Artis Senior Living has acquired 176,269 square feet within the Evergreen Village mixed-use development in Morgan Hill, a city at the southern tip of Silicon Valley. Artis plans to build a memory care community on the four-acre site, though details and a timeline have not yet been released. Frans Construction Inc. is the general contractor on the site and MH Engineering Co. is the civil engineer. Evergreen Devco Inc., a retail and multifamily development company in the West, is building Evergreen Village on 20.4 acres. The project will include a hotel, restaurant, the memory care development, and a public art component. Site improvements for the development are scheduled for completion in April 2020. “Having Artis Senior Living pick up the four-acre housing parcel so quickly, it’s incredibly encouraging and affirms that Evergreen Village is well underway with the site improvement work,” says Rogg Collins, principal of Evergreen Devco. Gary Hansen of Cushman & Wakefield represented Evergreen in the site sale, and Robert Clifford of Lee & Associates represented Artis. McLean, Va.-based Artis’ nationwide portfolio includes 25 assisted living communities in operation or under construction, and more than 20 communities in various stages of planning and development.
FRENCH VALLEY, CALIF. — Southlake, Texas-based United Development Co., in partnership with Pasadena, Calif.-based Halferty Development Co., has started construction of French Valley Marketplace, a shopping center in French Valley, approximately seven miles northeast of Temecula. Situated on 22 acres, French Valley Marketplace will offer 132,500 square feet of leaseable space in 16 buildings, with 44,300 square feet of retail space still available, four drive-thru pads for ground lease or build-to-suit and 5,000 square feet of grocery store and planned pharmacy space. Pre-leased tenants include Grocery Outlet, LA Fitness, McDonald’s, 7-Eleven and AutoZone, all of which are slated to open later this year. Romspen provided the construction financing, which Dallas-based Metropolitan Capital Advisors sourced. Nick Wirick and Miranda Fifield of Lee & Associates are handling leasing for the property.
FONTANA, CALIF. — Faris Lee Investments has arranged the $9.1 million sale of two freestanding outparcel properties located at 17151-17171 W. Foothill Blvd. in Fontana. Shaun Riley and Nick Miller of Faris Lee represented the undisclosed seller and procured the Los Angeles-based buyer. Totaling 34,377 square feet, the properties are situated within a Walmart-anchored shopping center.
CARMEL, CALIF. — Optimus Properties has completed the disposition of a two-property portfolio in downtown Carmel. Wheat LLC acquired the mixed-use portfolio for $11 million. The sale consists of the 4,345-square-foot Block 71: Lot 5 building, with ground-floor retail and office space and second-floor residential space, and Block 76: Lot 11, a 2,763-square-foot retail property. Michael Schoeder of Cushman & Wakefield’s Central Coast Operations, in collaboration with Dan Wald and Don LeBuhn of the firm’s Retail Investment Advisors Group in San Francisco, represented the seller in the deal.
