LOS ANGELES – Matura Farrington has signed a 65-month lease for 5,696 square feet of office space in Downtown Los Angeles. The space is located at 617 West Seventh Street. Matura Farrington is a staffing services agency. The building is owned by the Swig Company.
SANTA ANA, CALIF. — Avison Young has arranged the sale of the Pacific Building, an historic 16,274-square-foot, mixed-use property located in the Artist Village District of Santa Ana for $5.3 million. Dan Vittone and Alan Pekarcik of Avison Young, along with Gil Marrero of Voit Real Estate Services, represented the seller, Gumm Investments. Red Rock Capital Advisors LLC represented the buyer, Red Rock Management. The property is 100 percent leased to 11 tenants, including Chapter One, a metropolitan-style restaurant and bar, Downtown Sugar, a spa, and the Copper Door, a nightclub. The transaction closed at a capitalization rate of 6 percent.
PASADENA, CALIF. – Congress Management Associates has purchased a 17,632-square-foot medical office building in Pasadena for $10.7 million. The building is located at 39 Congress Street, next to the 625-bed Huntington Memorial Hospital. The facility was built in 1984. Some of the local physicians who acted as investors in this purchase plan to occupy a portion of the building in the near future. The building is currently 95 percent occupied. The buyer was represented by Michael Dettling of Avison Young. The seller, 39 Congress Partnership, was represented by Carver Associates.
LOS ANGELES – Officia Imaging has signed a 63-month lease for 3,150 square feet of office space in Downtown Los Angeles. The space is located at 617 West Seventh Street. Officia Imaging is an office equipment and document management software solutions provider. The building is owned by the Swig Company.
LOS ANGELES — Laurus Corporation is set to begin a $30 million renovation of Promenade at Howard Hughes Center, a 250,000-square-foot retail center located just off Interstate 405 in Los Angeles. Renovation plans call for an exterior facelift, a new outdoor screening area and fire pit, new restaurants, enhanced landscaping and interior design, and an outdoor dining area with casual lounge space. A new pedestrian-friendly layout will be included in the renovation, adding more indoor-outdoor connections and courtyards. Jerde Partnership will act as lead architect in the renovation. Laurus recently acquired Promenade at Howard Hughes Center for $111 million.
MONROVIA, CALIF. — Charles Dunn Company has arranged the sale of a single-tenant, 7,327-square-foot property located in Monrovia for $5.15 million. Citibank occupies the triple-net leased property. Kyle Gulock and Jason Cope of Charles Dunn led the effort in representing the seller, a Los Angeles-based private investor. Other Charles Dunn team members involved in the transaction include Darrell Levonian, Fred Sheriff, Tanel Harunzade and Justin Mendelson. Kathy Quach of Treeline Realty represented the buyer, Evan & MC LLC, in the transaction, which closed at a capitalization rate of 4.3 percent.
LOS ANGELES – The 34-unit Vista Modern apartment complex in the Los Angeles submarket of Sherman Oaks has sold to a Japanese construction company for $16.5 million. The community is located at 4632-4646 Vista Del Monte Ave. It was built in 2014. Jeff Louks and Janette Monfared of Marcus & Millichap’s Encino office represented both the buyer and seller in this transaction.
MANTECA, CALIF. – Mission Ridge, a 96,393-square-foot shopping center in Manteca, has sold to Argonaut Investments for an undisclosed sum. The center is located off Highway 120. It is anchored by Safeway and shadow-anchored by Burlington Coat Factory and Walmart. John DuBois, Mark Denholm and Jon Gianulias of Core Commercial represented both the buyer and seller in this transaction.
FREMONT, CALIF. – Rooflifters USA has just completed a 30,000-square-foot roof raising on a building near San Jose. The building, newly owned and occupied by ProExhibits, will be the location of its new main office and manufacturing operation. Originally constructed with a 16-square-foot clear height, the roof was raised fully intact to a 27-square-foot clear. The renovation process added more than 300,000 usable cubic feet to the structure. Toeniskoetter Construction served as the general contractor.
Improvement in apartment fundamentals has remained strong and is expected to continue over the next two quarters. The unemployment rate in Los Angeles County was 7.6 percent in March 2015, which represents a 100 basis point decrease from the same period last year. Supported by steady job growth, more than 108,000 new jobs are forecast for Los Angeles County in 2015, representing a 2.6 percent improvement over last year’s performance. A significant amount of units are currently under development and more are expected to come on line later this year. Issuance for about 7,446 multifamily units is forecast for 2015, and issuance is expected to rise to more than 17,000 units in 2016 and 2017 with the anticipated absorption of about 11,800 units over that same period. That said, developers are likely to relax their efforts to obtain new permits into the latter half of 2015 based on an expected modest uptick in vacancy. Currently standing at 3.2 percent, the overall vacancy rate will likely increase to 3.5 percent by year-end. The average year-over-year rent increased about 2.5 percent depending on the individual submarket. The greatest level of appreciation was represented in the South Glendale/Highland Park submarket where asking rents …