IRVINE, CALIF. — Irvine Co. has opened 400 Spectrum Center, a 21-story office tower within the Irvine Spectrum. The tower’s sister property, 200 Spectrum Center Drive, debuted a year ago. The newest addition is 40 percent pre-leased. Notable tenants include communications platform company SendGrid, cybersecurity artificial intelligence company Cylance, Kieckhafer Schiffer & Co. and CrossCountry Mortgage.
SAN DIEGO — A joint venture between Olympus Property and Artemis Real Estate Partners has purchased the 360-unit Broadstone Corsair in San Diego for an undisclosed sum. The community is located at 8583 Aero Drive in the Kearny Mesa neighborhood. The asset is being rebranded as Olympus Corsair. On-site amenities include a resort-style pool with poolside cabanas inset with outdoor TVs, an indoor golf simulator room, a fitness center, yoga/dance studio, a clubhouse with demonstration kitchen, library and wet bar, green living wall, and seven outdoor courtyard social spaces.
WHITTIER, CALIF. — HFF has arranged the $12.6 million sale of a 24,866-square-foot building triple-net-leased to Sprouts Farmers Market in Whittier, about 20 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Gleb Lvovich and Nicholas Foster of HFF marketed the property on behalf of the seller, CVK Street LLC. A private, 1031 exchange investor purchased the asset free and clear of existing debt. Additionally, Greg Brown of HFF secured a 10-year, fixed-rate, interest-only loan with a CMBS lender on behalf of the new owner.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ., AND NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. — Cadence Senior Living, a Scottsdale-based owner, developer and operator, and Emerald Real Estate Partners LLC, an investment management firm based in Newport Beach, have formed a strategic partnership for investing in seniors housing. According to the companies, the partnership will allow Cadence to expand its portfolio of boutique senior living. Emerald will provide additional acquisition capital, working capital and expertise in increasing scale, due to the company’s experience in other real estate sectors. Emerald principal Josh Martin stated that Emerald “had been searching for a senior living operator with which to grow a platform in this sector.” The Cadence and Emerald partnership is seeking opportunities to acquire existing senior housing communities, develop new communities and leverage Cadence’s management team by operating senior living communities for third-party owners.
SAN DIEGO — Anchor Health Properties has obtained a $68 million loan to purchase a San Diego medical office building portfolio. The portfolio contains a total of 206,000 square feet in the La Jolla/UTC submarket. The acquisition includes the two-building Chancellor Park Medical Campus, which is situated near the UC San Diego Jacobs Medical Center and Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla. The properties were built in 1988 as traditional office buildings before they were converted into medical uses. The properties are 94 percent occupied. UC San Diego Health currently leases 44 percent of the buildings, which form the largest outpatient medical campus in UTC and one of the larger outpatient medical campuses in Southern California. The funding will also support future tenant improvements and leasing commissions for the properties. Capital One provided the funds.
ANTIOCH, CALIF. — Westcore Properties has purchased Antioch Distribution Center, a 665,775-square-foot manufacturing/distribution project in Antioch, for $32.4 million. The two-building center is located at 2200 to 2300 and 2110 Wilbur St. Westcore represented itself, while Steve Hermann, Scott Bertrand and Brooks Pedder of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, The Covington Group, in this transaction.
SAN DIEGO — Berkadia has secured $29 million in financing for Pinnacle Medical Office in San Diego. The office is located at 10670-10672 Wexford St. in the Scripps Ranch submarket. The property provides services like primary care, wellness exams, treadmill stress testing, annual physicals, sports and camp physicals, full laboratory testing, vaccinations and pre-operative clearance. The 10-year, fixed-rate loan features interest-only payments for the full term and features a 4.3 percent interest rate through Wells Fargo. The borrower was LP Scripps Lot 1 LLC.
SAN FRANCISCO — Shorenstein Co. has purchased an 89,904-square-foot creative office building in the San Francisco submarket of North Waterfront-Jackson Square for an undisclosed sum. The building is located at 901 Battery St. The Swig Company and Medley Partners purchased the asset in December 2012. The JV immediately executed a capital investment program designed to reposition the four-story building as an institutional-quality asset in a submarket growing in popularity with creative tenants. The team recently completed lobby and façade renovations, and upgrades to each tenant floor. The renovated building features large, open floorplates, natural light and high ceilings. NKF’s Kyle Kovac, Michael Taquino, Daniel Cressman and Mandy Lee represented the sellers in this transaction.
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Insight Realty Co. has purchased Park Plaza, a 73,000-square-foot office building in downtown Sacramento, for an undisclosed amount. The Class A building is located at 1303 J St. The firm partnered with local developer and investor Patrick Molloy, along with his firm Gavden Investments, to acquire the asset.
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. — A joint venture between The Picerne Group and Shopoff Realty Investments has broken ground on Phase I of Uptown Newport, a 25-acre mixed-use development located in Newport Beach. The first phase of development will include 462 residential units, 218 for-sale condominiums, 6,500 square feet of restaurants and a one-acre public park. Leasing will begin for the residential units in 2019. At completion, the project will feature 1,244 residential units, up to 11,500 square feet of retail and restaurants and two one-acre parks.
