YORBA LINDA, CALIF. — A Beverly Hills-based investment group has acquired Home Ranch Center, a 54,169-square-foot shopping center located in the Orange County community of Yorba Linda. The property — located roughly 35 miles outside of Los Angeles — comprises three buildings that are home to tenants including Blue Agave, Edible Arrangements, Crepe Maker, State Farm and Papa John’s. CJ Osbrink and Gleb Lvovich of HFF marketed the property on behalf of the seller, YL Friends Church.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — Kennedy Wilson has arranged the $16 million sale of a 23,500-square-foot retail and multifamily property located at the corner of 11th Street and Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica. The multifamily component of the property consists of five units. All of the property’s buildings were fully leased at the time of sale. Ed Sachse, Fred Cordova and Christine Deschaine of Kennedy Wilson represented both the buyer, 11th and Wilshire LLC, and the seller, Paragon Properties, in the transaction.
LIVERMORE, CALIF. — RedMill Capital has secured a $38.6 million construction loan that will allow it to break ground this fall on The Shoppes at Livermore, a mixed-use retail development in Livermore, approximately 40 miles east of San Francisco. American National Insurance Co. was the lender. Slated for completion in 2017, the development will feature 120,000 square feet. Terms of the financing were not disclosed.
LOS ANGELES — Thorofare Capital has arranged a $23 million, floating-rate commercial mortgage for a retail property located in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles. The borrower was not disclosed. The property offers 50,000 square feet of retail space. Kevin Miller and Felix Gutnikov of Thorofare Capital secured the financing.
LOS ANGELES — SCG America has acquired a 34,000-square-foot land parcel at 400 S. Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. The company will develop a 34-story high-rise condominium on the site featuring 7,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and commercial space. The property is slated for groundbreaking in October and completion in 2020.
SAN FRANCISCO — Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts — Hilton’s (NYSE: HLT) luxury hotel arm — has unveiled plans for the new Waldorf Astoria San Francisco, which will anchor a 2 million-square-foot, mixed-use complex located on Mission Street in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood. The hotel will occupy the first 21 stories of a mixed-use tower designed by architecture firm Foster + Partners. Hirsch Bedner Associates will be in charge of designing the interior. Amenities at the Waldorf Astoria San Francisco will include a spa and “Peacock Alley” restaurant offering San Francisco-inspired cuisine and libations. Development costs and a completion date for the project have yet to be announced. The new development will be located at the center of a vast redevelopment project surrounding the Transbay Transit Center. The Transbay Center District and Redevelopment Plans include more than 6 million square feet of new downtown office space; 4,400 units of new housing, 1,200 of which will be affordable; approximately 100,000 square feet of new retail space; and nearly 1,000 new hotel rooms. The redevelopment of the Transbay area will also incorporate more than 11 acres of new public parks and open space, including a 5.4-acre rooftop park at the Transit Center …
CARMICHAEL, CALIF. — Greystone, a real estate advisory firm, has provided $25.2 million loan Oakmont Senior Living to refinance Oakmont Carmichael, a 71-unit assisted living and memory care community in the Sacramento submarket of Carmichael. The loan carries a 10-year, fixed-rate term with a 30-year amortization. The property is newly constructed and includes a two-story building located on 2.4 acres. Greystone’s Scott Kavel and Cary Tremper originated the loan.
REDDING, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $13.6 million sale of a 94,418-square-foot Shopko located in Redding. The property is located at 55 Lake Blvd., less than a half-mile from Interstate 5. Glen Kunofsky and Mike James of Marcus & Millichap represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
LOS ANGELES — High Street Residential, in partnership with Principal Real Estate Investors and the Cesar Chavez Foundation, has broken ground on LA Plaza Village, a 425,000-square-foot mixed-use project in downtown Los Angeles. The development will feature 355 multifamily units and 43,700 square feet of retail across four buildings, ranging from five to seven stories. The multifamily portion of the property will feature one-, two- and three-bedroom units, 20 percent of which will be affordable housing. The development will also feature 720 parking spaces, and a “historic paseo” that will link LA Plaza Village to Olvera Street and Union Station through a landscaped walkway which features signage describing the history of the area. The project — which is seeking LEED Certification — is scheduled for completion in 2018. Johnson Fain is the architect for the project and Benchmark Contractors Inc. is the general contractor.
UPLAND, CALIF. — Faris Lee Investments has arranged the sale of a single-tenant retail property located at 685 W. Foothill Blvd. in Upland. Sunrz Holdings acquired the 33,350-square-foot property from Mission Plaza Properties for $6 million, or $180 per square foot. The freestanding building is occupied by 24 Hour Fitness. Jeff Conover of Faris Lee represented the seller in the deal.
