NOVATO, CALIF. — Sundt Construction Inc. has started construction of Avesta Residences at Hamilton Hill, a seniors housing community in the Bay Area city of Novato. The four-story building will sit on four acres and total 68,000 square feet. The community will offer 80 units of assisted living and memory care. The architect on the project is LPAS. The project is scheduled for completion by fall 2020.
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Verizon will co-develop and lease-to-purchase a new ground-up campus for its Verizon Media workforce at the Coleman Highline campus in San Jose. Co-developed by Hunter Properties, the new campus will support 3,400 employees, including 2,400 from Verizon Media’s current Sunnyvale, Calif., location. Verizon signed a long-term lease for approximately 640,000 square feet in multiple buildings, including a welcome pavilion and workplace amenities such as a fitness center and cafeteria. Verizon’s new campus will be part of the larger Coleman Highline mixed-use development that includes a hotel and retail and residential space, as well as communal gathering and collaboration spaces. Groundbreaking for the Verizon asset is slated for this fall, with completion scheduled for 2021. At build-out, Coleman Highline will feature more than 7,500 square feet of on-site retail options; a public market; a diverse collection of cuisine, caterers and food trucks; two dedicated retail pavilions anchored by a main plaza and promenade; an on-site hotel; more than 2,500 new housing units; and 11 acres of urban parkland. The transit-oriented project will also offer access to the Santa Clara Caltrain and Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority stations. Gensler, a global design and architecture firm, is designing the …
INGLEWOOD, CALIF. — The NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers have unveiled plans for a $1.1 billion arena and team headquarters in Inglewood, located just southwest of downtown Los Angeles. The Inglewood Basketball & Entertainment Center will be located along Prairie Avenue and West Century Boulevard and offer seating for approximately 18,500 fans. In addition, the building will house the Clippers’ team offices, training facility and a sports medicine clinic, essentially making Inglewood the team’s full-time home. The project will also feature retail, restaurants and educational facilities, as well as public basketball courts and an event plaza. A developer and general contractor have not yet been named, but the project will be entirely privately financed. The proposed site does not house any homes or churches and includes many buildings that have been vacant for decades, according to the developers. It is unclear how many new jobs that the project will create, but the Clippers have pledged to make 35 percent of those jobs local hires. A construction timeline is still being negotiated, but the team’s lease at the Staples Center, which it shares with the Lakers, expires in 2024. In addition, Curbed Los Angeles reports that a lawsuit filed by Madison Square Garden …
MORENO VALLEY, CALIF. — CBRE has arranged the sale of a multifamily property located at 15700 Lasselle St. in Moreno Valley. Irvine, Calif.-based 4GVentures sold the 304-unit asset to a New York-based real estate investment firm for an undisclosed price. Dean Zander, Stew Weston and John Montakab of CBRE represented the seller, while Brian Eisendrath and Annie Rice of CBRE facilitated an acquisition loan on behalf of the borrower in the transaction. The property features a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, a pool, jacuzzi, built-in fire pits, barbecues, guard gates and a fitness center. Additionally, the property is centrally located and in close proximity to Kaiser Medical Center and Riverside University Hospital.
MILPITAS, CALIF. — Embarcadero Capital Partners and PCCP have purchased Park Point, a recently renamed office/R&D campus located at 115-155 N. McCarty Blvd. in Milpitas. Los Angeles-based Hudson Pacific Properties sold the asset for an undisclosed price. Situated on 30 acres, the campus features three buildings totaling approximately 472,000 square feet. The buyers retained HOK, a global design, architecture, engineering and planning firm, to revitalize the property into a contemporary, creative workplace. Jeff Arrillaga, Shawn Kellenberger and Michael Saign of Newmark Knight Frank’s Silicon Valley offices represented the seller in the transaction.
JURUPA VALLEY, CALIF. — Davis Partners has completed the sale of Mira Loma Industrial Center South, an industrial park located in the Riverside County city of Jurupa Valley. An undisclosed buyer acquired the 172,898-square-foot asset for nearly $30 million. Part of a master-planned, 269,195-square-foot development by Davis Partners, Mira Loma Industrial Center South consists of five freestanding buildings on De Forest Circle and Nobel Court: Building 7 (31,093 square feet), Building 8 (30,684 square feet), Building 9 (39,722 square feet), Building 10 (33,773 square feet) and Building 11 (37,626 square feet). The property was completed in June and is the only new construction completion in the Jurupa Valley/Eastvale area this year, according to Cushman & Wakefield Research. Milo Lipon, Tal Siglar, Ryan Velasquez and Andrew Starnes of Cushman & Wakefield’s Ontario, Calif., office represented the seller in the deal.
SAN FRANCISCO — For the second time in a week, the San Francisco Planning Commission has approved a significant mixed-use development in the city’s SoMa (South of Market) district. Following its approval of the Flower Mart redevelopment project, the commission has approved a 1.1 million-square-foot mixed-use development located at 88 Bluxome St. The project, led by developers Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. (NYSE: ARE) and TMG Partners, is nearly 60 percent preleased. The co-developers describe 88 Bluxome as a “high-tech office and laboratory project.” Social media giant Pinterest has signed on to anchor the development with a 490,000-square-foot office lease. The Bay Club, a fitness and social club offering events and a wide range of sports classes, will also anchor the project. The 88 Bluxome campus will feature a technology and life science facility with ground-floor retail space and outdoor deck space on multiple levels of the building. The project also includes an expansion of the neighborhood’s existing Gene Friend Recreation Center, adding two swimming pools and a public activity space. Other features of 88 Bluxome will be a childcare center, a pedestrian “art walk” with commissioned pieces from internationally renowned and local artists, light industrial space available for use …
OROVILLE AND AUBURN, CALIF. — Lucescu Realty has arranged the sales of two shopping centers located in Northern California. Community Centers of America sold the properties for a total of $24.6 million. A Sacramento, Calif.-based private development/investment company acquired Currier Square, a 131,017-square-foot, open-air community shopping center in Oroville, for $14.8 million. At the time of sale, the property was 88.5 percent leased to a variety of tenants, including Raley’s Grocery, Marshalls and Petco. The asset also includes four out-pad parcels positioned for redevelopment/buildout. A Los Angeles-based private investor purchased Crossroads Shopping Center, a 125,791-square-foot, open-air community shopping center in Auburn, for $9.8 million. Built in 1994, the property was 91.9 percent leased at the time of sale. Current tenants includes Safeway, Ross Dress for Less, CACFit, AutoZone and Famous Footwear. Mark Lucescu, Samer Khalil and Greg Wendelkin of Lucescu Realty represented the seller and procured the buyers in the deal.
LAKE ELSINORE, CALIF. — Faris Lee Investments has brokered $11.5 million in sales of three different properties to three different buyers within the Central Plaza Shopping Center in Lake Elsinore. The sales include a Marshalls, Panera Bread and a two-tenant sale of Pieology and Ono Hawaiian BBQ. HFC/PRP Elsinore LLC sold the properties to undisclosed buyers. Situated on 7.3 acres, the 66,000-square-foot property was completed earlier this year and was 100 percent pre-leased to national tenants upon commencement of construction. Jeff Conover and Chris DePierro of Faris Lee Investments represented the seller in the transaction.
HIGHLAND, CALIF. — Developer Evergreen Devco has completed the sale of its newly developed retail project, a Jack in the Box restaurant, located at 27734 Base Line St. in Highland. An unnamed buyer acquired the 2,756-square-foot property for an undisclosed price with a signed a lease to a Jack in the Box franchisee. Jimmy Slusher of CBRE represented the developer and seller, Evergreen Devco, in the deal.
