ENCINITAS, CALIF. — Property West Residential has purchased the 120-unit Encinitas Heights apartment building just north of San Diego for $53 million. The community is located at 1100 Garden View Road in Encinitas. Encinitas Heights was built in 2002. The property features one- to three-bedroom apartments with washers and dryers, central air conditioning and gourmet kitchens. Community amenities include a 24-hour fitness center, a solar heated pool and a rentable clubhouse. Ed Rosen, John Chu, Kyle Pinkalla and Erin Dammen of Berkadia represented the seller in this transaction.
CITY OF INDUSTRY, CALIF. — Dedeaux Properties has broken ground on Echelon Business Park, a 246,543-square-foot warehouse facility in the City of Industry. The $38 million development will be located at 821 Echelon Court. Echelon Business Park’s seven free-standing buildings range between 27,438 square feet and 43,166 square feet. They include two-story office space, ample dock-height loading and configurations for loading shipping containers, all inside a modern, secured campus. Construction is scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2018.
BREA, CALIF. — CBRE has arranged the sale of Williams Senior Apartments, a 28-unit age-restricted community in the Los Angeles suburb of Brea, for $6.8 million. Restoration Enhancement acquired the property from a private seller in a 1031-exchange transaction. The property was recently upgraded and is located near the Brea Downtown entertainment center, which features 350,000 square feet of retail, shops, restaurants, entertainment and nightlife.
LOS ANGELES — Westwood Financial, a shopping center investment firm based in Los Angeles, has received $171 million in financing in two separate loan transactions. The company will use the debt to refinance or fund acquisitions for 13 retail properties totaling nearly 1.1 million square feet in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina and Texas. Nationwide Life Insurance Co. provided a $94 million loan for Westwood Financial to refinance or acquire seven multi-tenant retail shopping centers, including: • the 77,043 square-foot Camelback Village anchored by AJ’s Fine Foods in Phoenix; • the 116,707-square-foot Elk Crossing anchored by Jewel-Osco in Elk Grove, Ill., near Chicago; • the 97,229-square-foot Atascocita Center anchored by Kroger in Humble, Texas, near Houston; • the 101,791-square-foot Market at Lake Houston anchored by H-E-B in Atascocita, Texas, near Houston; • the 87,632-square-foot Lynwood Collection anchored by Kroger in Raleigh, N.C.; • the 55,323-square-foot, Trader Joe’s-anchored Arbors at Mallard Creek in Charlotte, N.C.; and • the 47,518-square-foot Village at Preston Hollow shadow-anchored by Central Market in Dallas. Additionally, an undisclosed, major life insurance firm provided a $77 million loan for the refinancing of six properties, including: • the 89,506-square-foot Mercado del Rancho anchored by Sprouts Farmers Market …
SAN FRANCISCO — James Investment Partners has acquired The Terraces, a 72-unit, condominium-quality development in the East Bay community of El Sobrante, for $21.1 million. The community is located at 6000 Sunhill Circle. The Terraces was built in phases beginning in 1991. It was expanded in 2003. All units are about 1,000 square feet and feature two-bedroom floor plans with private garages. Community amenities include a swimming pool, Jacuzzi spa and a playground. There is an opportunity to convert the existing leasing office into a fitness center. Brandon Geraldo and Ryan Wagner of Colliers International represented both the buyer and seller, an affiliate of Abacus Capital Group, in this transaction.
LOS ANGELES — Walker & Dunlop has closed $289 million in loans for 21 multifamily properties across California. The portfolio contains a total of 2,189 units in major metropolitan areas like San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego and Los Angeles. More than half of the communities contain project-based Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Contracts. The other 10 assets qualify for Fannie Mae’s Green Rewards Program, where new investments in water and electrical systems will reduce the properties’ environmental impact. Peggy Griffith, a Walker & Dunlop preferred correspondent, sourced the transaction.
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — OpenPath Investments has obtained a $52 million loan for the 565-unit Eleven Hundred Apartments in Sacramento. The financing is part of Freddie Mac’s Green Up program, which supports environmental improvements to properties. The Class B community is located at 1100 Howe Ave. and was first constructed in 1961. Since 2015, the property has undergone renovations including more than $6.5 million in improvements and repairs to common areas and the interiors of 535 units. The borrower plans to invest an additional $400,000 into the property, half of which will be allocated to green upgrades. The 10-year Freddie Mac loan was structured with five years of interest-only payments and a 75 percent loan to value. Walker & Dunlop structured the financing.
RANCHO CORDOVA, CALIF. — Capital One has provided a $47.2 million refinancing for the 600-unit Chesapeake Commons apartment complex in the Sacramento submarket of Rancho Cordova. The Wasatch Group has owned the property since February 1997. It has invested in upgrading exteriors, community amenities and individual units. The seven-year, Fannie Mae fixed-rate loan features full-term, interest-only payments.
SAN FRANCISCO — Sprint continues to expand its presence and investment in Northern California with plans to add 43 new retail locations throughout the area by the end of 2017. Currently, Sprint operates more than 170 branded retail locations throughout the Northern California region. Of the 43 new store locations, Sprint has already opened 13 new stores in Antioch, Bakersfield, Castro Valley, Delano, Freedom, Fresno, Gilroy, Hayward, Manteca, Napa, Pittsburg and Reno (two stores) — with the remaining 30 stores in various stages of leasing and design. Sprint is adding more network capacity in cities across the Northern California region, including rural locations. Sprint has used this spectrum to optimize and enhance coverage at the LinkedIn headquarters in Sunnyvale, the Four Seasons hotel in Palo Alto, and will soon complete upgrades at the Newpark Mall in Newark and the Southland Mall in Hayward.
A wave of high-density mixed-use development has swept across the country within the past decade. A number of forces have contributed to this activity, including demographic trends, shifts in housing demand, environmental concerns, as well as governmental forces and municipalities seeking to create sustainable, pedestrian-oriented communities that incorporate a mix of uses. As a result, developers are building ground-up mixed-use projects or converting older hotels or apartment and office buildings into residential developments featuring apartments or condominiums. The street-level retail portion of the development is, in most cases, also converted into a condominium. This process has created a specialized real estate product known as the retail condominium or commercial condominium. The retail condominium has now emerged as a popular, alternative real estate investment platform. Retail condominiums were traditionally in major metropolitan cities like New York or Chicago, but are now debuting in suburban markets throughout the country. Pasadena, long thought of as a suburban neighbor to downtown Los Angeles, now boasts mixed-use developments like the Pasadena Collection and 482 Arroyo. These projects offer a mix of residential, office and retail condominiums. The Harbor Lofts development in downtown Anaheim, Calif., also includes residential loft condominiums above ground-floor retail condominiums. The sale …