VISTA, CALIF. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of an industrial facility, located at 2710 Progress St. in Vista. A global real estate investment firm acquired the property from 2710 Progress Street LLC for $24.7 million. Captek Softgel International occupies the 135,000-square-foot, single-tenant facility on a long-standing lease basis. Aric Starck and Barry Hendler of Cushman & Wakefield’s San Diego office represented the seller, while the buyer was self-represented in the deal.
LOS ANGELES — South Bay Partners Inc., through a joint venture with LAMB Properties LLC, has acquired two parcels totaling 2.7 acres in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. Plans call for an eight-story midrise seniors housing community on the property. Named The Variel, the Class A community will feature 215 independent living units, 94 assisted living units and 29 memory care units. Construction is slated to begin in early 2019. The development will be located within a mile of a variety of dining and shopping options, plus the 264-bed Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center. Pre-leasing will begin in fourth-quarter 2019 in advance of a planned opening in fourth-quarter 2020. Los Angeles-based West Bay Senior Living will operate the community upon opening.
TULARE, CALIF. — Faris Lee Investments has arranged the sale of a three-tenant net-leased investment asset located within Tulare Pavilion Shopping Center in Tulare. Hillman Tulare LLC sold the property to an undisclosed buyer for $6.8 million. Totaling 62,500 square feet, Big Lots, Dollar Tree and Harbor Freight Tools occupy the property. Additional tenants at Tulare Pavilion Shopping Center include Ross Dress for Less and dd’s Discounts. Jeff Conover and Donald MacLellan of Faris Lee Investments represented the seller in the transaction.
SANTA ANA, CALIF. — NAI Capital’s Irvine, Calif., office has arranged a 99-year ground lease for a 6.8-acre affordable housing development project in Santa Ana. David Knowlton and Kirby Greenlee of NAI Capital represented the lessor, Broomell Commercial Properties, and lessee, Alexis Gevorgian of AMG & Associates, The Pacific Cos. and Jamboree Housing. Valued at $287 million, the ground lease includes three parcels located at 2110, 2114 and 2020 E. First St. in Santa Ana. The buyer plans to develop two six-story buildings featuring 552 workforce housing units and approximately 10,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Once complete, the development will be one of the largest affordable housing projects in the state of California. Construction is slated to begin in early 2019.
PASADENA, CALIF. — A joint venture between Barker Pacific Group and Rockwood Capital has purchased a Class A office building, located at 301 N. Lake Ave. in Pasadena. The price was not disclosed. Washington Capital Management previously operated the asset on behalf of an unidentified seller. Built in 1989, the 11-story building features 227,019 square feet of office space. The buyers plan to improve the asset by modernizing the property. CBRE’s Mike Longo and Sean Sullivan brokered the sale. JP Morgan provided debt financing for the buyers.
The Orange County office market continues to remain healthy with an unemployment rate of 2.6 percent in the second quarter of 2018. This is down from 3.2 percent 12 months prior. The driving industry sectors for Orange County that occupy a large portion of office space include financial services, information technology, logistics and healthcare. We are currently seeing vacancy rates around 11.7 percent, which is about a 10 basis point increase from the second quarter of this year. The main reason for this increase has been momentum in completed construction projects with more than 2.2 million square feet that has been delivered over the past 12 months. At the mid-year point of 2018, more than 808,000 square feet of office space was under construction — the majority of which was speculative. The largest office projects under construction right now include Flight at Tustin Legacy in Tustin and the Quad at Discovery Business Center in Irvine Spectrum. There are four Class A, institutional-quality office projects currently under construction in the county that total nearly 1.3 million square feet — 75 percent of which is pre-leased to tenants. All this bodes well for the continued confidence in the Orange County market. We …
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CALIF. — Lancaster Pollard has provided $36 million in fixed-rate, HUD-insured financing for the construction of Park View Estates. The 145-unit seniors housing community will be located in Fountain Valley, approximately 35 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Welbrook Senior Living and Sunshine Retirement Living are developing the property, which is adjacent to Fountain Valley Regional Hospital. Once completed, the community will offer 106 assisted living units and 39 memory care units. The project is scheduled for completion in 2020. Jason Dopoulos led the transaction for Lancaster Pollard.
COMMERCE, CALIF. — Rexford Industrial Realty has purchased a multi-tenant industrial property in Southern California for $18.2 million, or $245 per square foot. Located at 6100 Sheila St. in Commerce, the 74,527-square-foot freezer/cooler building sits on 4.3 acres. The 22-foot clear height building features 40 dock positions with units from 6,000 square feet to 18,000 square feet. At the time of sale, the property was 100 percent leased to seven tenants. Rexford plans to improve the building’s functionality and energy efficiency with the potential to roll in-place leases to higher market rates. The name of the seller was not disclosed.
UPLAND, CALIF. — SRS Real Estate Partners has signed three additional tenants to Mountain Green Shopping Center, located at 357 S. Mountain Ave. in Upland. A 20,390-square-foot ALDI will anchor the retail center under a 15-year lease. Optima Salons and Pathway Vet Alliance signed 10-year leases for 3,800 square feet and 2,100 square feet, respectively. Additional tenants at Mountain Green include Dunkin’ Donuts, GNC, CVS/pharmacy, Michaels, Sprint, Sally Beauty and Jersey Mike’s Subs, among others. Terrison Quinn, Casey Mahony and Adam Handfield of SRS represented the landlord, DMP Properties, while Jason Gordon of Epsteen & Associates represented ALDI. Karen Sunday represented Optima Salons and Ryan Gast of CBRE represented Pathway Vet Alliance in the lease transactions.
OXNARD, CALIF. — Investec Real Estate Cos., in partnership with DRA Advisors, has purchased The Esplanade Shopping Center. The retail center is situated on 31.4 acres on the southeast corner of North Oxnard Boulevard and the 101 Freeway in Oxnard. The acquisition price was not released. Redeveloped in 2002 from an enclosed mall into an open-air center, the regional power center features 356,864 square feet of retail space. Tenants include Dick’s Sporting Goods, Walmart Neighborhood Market, Bob’s Discount Furniture, Nordstrom Rack, TJ Maxx, Cost Plus World Market, Party City, Staples, Starbucks Coffee and In & Out Burger. At the time of sale, the property was 93 percent occupied with only one vacancy, a 25,000-square-foot end-cap anchor space. The buyers were self-represented, while Bill Bauman, Kyle Miller and Matthew Schwartz of NKF Capital Markets of Los Angeles advised the undisclosed seller in deal.
