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LOS ANGELES — LA Hana OW LLC has acquired DreamWorks Animation’s headquarters and studio campus, a 460,000-square-foot creative office campus in the Los Angeles submarket of Glendale, for $290 million. The five-building campus is located at 1000 Flower St. The property is fully leased on a triple-net basis to DreamWorks Animation SKG, a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast Corp., through 2035. The Mediterranean-style campus features landscaped courtyards, a manmade river, library, fitness center and screening room, among other amenities. The campus was built on 15 acres in 1997. LA Hana OW, an entity of Hana Asset Management and OceanWest, plans to hold the property long-term. The buyer represented itself in the transaction, while NKF’s Kevin Shannon, Ken White and Laura Stumm represented the seller, The GC Net Lease Investors LLC. GC Net Lease is an entity of Griffin Capital Co., which acquired the property in July 2015 for $215 million. Comcast acquired DreamWorks in August 2016. DreamWorks Animation SKG is an animation studio that has released such children’s films as the Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and Madagascar series. The studio is a subsidiary of Universal Studios, which is itself a division of NBCUniversal. The studio’s feature films have grossed $14.5 billion …

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WALNUT CREEK, CALIF. — Lane Partners has purchased Station Plaza, a 49,542-square-foot office building in Walnut Creek, for an undisclosed sum. The building is located at 3100 Oak Road. It is part of the 2.4 million-square-foot Contra Costa Transit Village. Station Plaza is 94.2 percent leased to 16 tenants that span financial, healthcare, legal, consulting and government sectors. Contra Costa Transit Village encompasses office, residential and commercial space with 6,000 employees, 2,700 residential units and two hotels. NKF’s Forrest Gherlone, Mike Zylstra, Grant Lammersen, Tim Walling and Steve Golubchik represented the seller, Thomas Properties, in this transaction.

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LOS ANGELES — CBRE has arranged the $8.2 million sale of a 12,715-square-foot retail property leased to CVS/pharmacy in Los Angeles. Alex Kozakov and Patrick Wade of CBRE arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, Paragon Commercial Group. Millenium Investment LLC acquired the asset. The property is located three miles from downtown Los Angeles.

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LOS ANGELES — Office rents across the United States and Canada are getting a big lift from the influence of tech job creation, according to CBRE. All of the submarkets tracked in the brokerage giant’s annual Tech-30 report have experienced rental growth over the past two years. In 13 of those submarkets, asking rental rates have grown by more than 10 percent in the two years tracked between second-quarter 2015 and second-quarter 2017. On the list of 30 submarkets, office rent growth was led by Orange County, Calif. (23.3 percent), Nashville (21.2 percent), Atlanta (17.6 percent), Charlotte (16.9 percent) and Silicon Valley (16.8 percent). According to CBRE’s Tech-30 report, the willingness of tech companies to pay a premium for office space in the hottest tech submarkets is starting to spill over into neighboring submarkets, as available space in tech “hotspots” is dwindling. Adjacent submarkets and traditional downtowns with skylines — rather than the brick-and-beam buildings tech companies have demonstrated a preference for — are primed to benefit, according to the report. “If tech companies that are used to paying a premium for space in the top tech submarkets are forced to move to adjacent submarkets in order to expand, we …

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LOS ANGELES — George Smith Partners has arranged $50 million in construction and renovation financing for a redevelopment project near Los Angeles International Airport. The 258,000-square-foot, 13-story office tower will be converted into a 129-key Hyatt House and a 272-key Hyatt Place Hotel in Los Angeles. The asset is situated on West Century Boulevard, one block away from LAX. The redeveloped Hyatt House and Hyatt Place Hotel will feature a mid-century-inspired urban design and rooms with 11.5-foot ceiling heights. Amenities include a rooftop bar, pool, and restaurant with unobstructed views from downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Ocean, a variety of dining options and a fitness center. The project is scheduled for completion in 2019. Financing was arranged on behalf of 5959 LLC, an affiliate of California Real Estate Regional Center LLC.

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CARLSBAD, CALIF. — Berdan Holdings has purchased a 109,807-square-foot FedEx shipping facility in Carlsbad for $24.5 million. The facility is located at 2495 Faraday Ave. The property was built in 1999. It is fully leased to FedEx on a net lease basis. Property features include 32-foot clear height, 10,900 square feet of office space, nine dock and nine grade-level doors. Ron Jacobson of SD Realty Partners represented Berdan Holdings, while Aric Starck of Cushman & Wakefield’s San Diego office represented the seller, Leonard Living Trust, in this transaction.

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PLEASANTON, CALIF. — Stoneridge Creek is preparing to open its 151-unit expansion at the seniors housing community in the Bay Area city of Pleasanton. The expansion includes 12 single-story homes, 56 garden homes and 83 apartments, as well as new amenities and common areas. Stoneridge Creek opened in 2013 on a 50-acre campus and currently houses more than 450 seniors. The CreekView health center is located adjacent to Stoneridge Creek, offering long-term care services.

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COSTA MESA, CALIF. — A joint venture that includes SteelWave has acquired a 24-acre site that previously served as a Los Angeles Times printing plant in Costa Mesa for $65 million. The site is located at 1350 South Coast Drive. The 50-foot-tall steel frame building on the property was used by the Los Angeles Times and three of its community newspapers as a printing plant, distribution facility and office until it closed in 2010. The facility is known as The Press. Redevelopment plans include more than three acres of outdoor amenities, as well as a 20,000-square-foot raised patio. SteelWave plans to re-brand the space as the Hive. Rick Kaplan and Rob Lambert of Cushman Wakefield represented the sellers, Tribune Real Estate Holdings, a subsidiary of Tribune Media Co., and Kearny Real Estate. Kearny Real Estate has worked with the City of Costa Mesa to re-entitle and redevelop the property over the past two years.

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MISSION VIEJO, CALIF. — JLL has brokered the sale of La Paz Plaza, a retail and medical office campus located in Mission Viejo in South Orange County. Combined Investments acquired the property from Newport Beach, Calif.-based Flinn West for $32.3 million. At the time of sale, the 51,766-square-foot property was 96 percent occupied. Matt Berres and G. Ryan Smith of JLL Capital Markets represented the seller.

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SAN JACINTO, CALIF. — Coldwell Banker Commercial Advisors has arranged the $6.9 million sale of a 17,272-square-foot building leased to Rite Aid in San Jacinto. John Archibald and Guillermo Olaiz of CBC Advisors arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, and Ernie Farhat of Sanjo Investments represented the buyer. Other terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The single-tenant, net-leased pad anchors Mountain View Plaza, which is home to 7-Eleven, Denny’s and Panda Express.

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