California

LOS ANGELES – Vinci Academy has leased 10,127 square feet in Century City. It will occupy the entire third floor of a 46,247-square-foot office building. The four-story building is located at 1940 Century Park East in the Los Angeles submarket. The daycare center will also construct a 4,000-square-foot outdoor play area on the roof of the building’s parking garage, which is connected to the property. Construction is scheduled for completion next March. Vinci was represented by CBRE’s Matt Perlmutter. The landlord is the Gillis Family Partnership.

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BURBANK, CALIF. – A 30-unit apartment building in Burbank has sold to a private investor for $8.4 million. The community is located at 1735 Peyton Ave. It was built in 1988. Warren Berzack of Berzack Investment Property Advisors and Lee & Associates-LA North/Ventura represented the buyer. He also represented the seller, another private investor, along with fellow Lee principals George Yessaie and Stephen Geiger.

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LOS ALTOS, CALIF. – Barre3 has leased 1,460 square feet of ground-floor retail space at the Colonnade apartment community in Los Altos. The exercise studio, which blends ballet with yoga and pilates, will open early next year. Other retail tenants at Colonnade include the Vitamin Shoppe and Jos. A. Bank. The community’s retail space is now 85 percent leased. Colonnade also features 167 luxury apartment units that will begin leasing early next year. Barre3 was represented by Ryan Warner of Meacham/Oppenheimer. The landlord and developer, a joint venture between Pritzker Realty Group and Sares Regis Group of Northern California, was represented by Randol Mackley and Steve Gazzera of SRS Real Estate Partners.

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LOS GATOS, CALIF. — The Grove, a 485,000-square-foot office campus in Los Gatos that will soon to be home to Netflix’s world headquarters, has received a $100-million construction loan. The Class A campus will be located on Winchester Boulevard, alongside Highway 85, in Silicon Valley. The first phase will contain 242,000 square feet in two office buildings that are pre-leased to Netflix. Construction is already underway, with an anticipated completion date of next May. John Nelson of CBRE’s San Francisco office arranged the financing on behalf of the borrower/developer, a joint venture between Sand Hill Property Company and the Carlyle Group. It was provided by a syndicate of lenders headed up by SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. SunTrust Bank also acted as administrative agent. The interest rate was a variable, LIBOR-based rate.

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MILPITAS, CALIF. — Tasman Technology Park, a 610,000-square-foot office and R&D campus in Milpitas, has received an $84-million acquisition loan. The institutional-quality property is located at 1371 McCarthy Blvd., just north of San Jose. The 14-building campus is situated in the center of Silicon Valley’s “Innovation Triangle,” which is home to more than 7,000 technology companies. These include Array Networks, Fire Eye Inc., KLA Tencor, Lifescan, SanDisk and Touchstone Semiconductor. The seven-year, non-recourse, fixed-rate loan was arranged by Brad Zampa, Michael Walker and Megan Woodring of CBRE’s San Francisco office on behalf of the borrower, an entity owned by Lionstone Investments and Orchard Partners. The partial interest-only financing features a rate in the low 4 percent range. It was provided by an East Coast-based life insurance company. The seller, Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, was represented by Russell Ingrum, Joe Moriarty, Sean Sullivan and Tyler Meyerdirk of CBRE Capital Markets’ Institutional Properties team.

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CONCORD, CALIF. – The 48-unit Diablo Villas Apartments in Concord has sold to WaveCrest Capital Management for $8.8 million. The community is located at 4265 Clayton Road. It is fully occupied. The community will be rebranded as CityPlace Apartments. It was originally built in 1964. The seller, a local Bay Area lender affiliate, foreclosed on the property in late 2010. Acquisition financing was provided by American West Bank. WaveCrest was represented by Patrick Nash and Chris Sparacino of Bay Apartment Advisors.

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LOS ANGELES – An 8,900-square-foot industrial building in Los Angeles has sold to E.R. Mehr-Grand LLC for $3 million. The building is located at 1314-1320 S. Grand Ave. E.R. Mehr-Grand was represented by William O. Morrison and Thomas M. Williams of Heger Industrial. The seller, South Grand LLC, was represented by Mollie Dietsch, Jim Halferty and Mike Smith of Lee & Associates-Commerce.

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CORONA, CALIF. – A 31,068-square-foot industrial building in Corona has sold to CFA LLC for $3.7 million. The building is located at 369 Meyer Circle. The property was purchased by the existing tenant, which has occupied the building since 2010. CFA was represented by Larry Null of Lee & Associates. The seller, Maddie LLC, was represented by Scott Smith of the same firm.

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San Francisco is a veritable boom town that has already surpassed the market roar of 1999. It can even conceivably be compared to 1849, when gold was discovered 100 miles east. In fact, this year is so utterly off the charts that most of us in the commercial real estate industry have never seen an upcycle like this in our entire careers. Witness the fact that through the first three quarters of 2014, San Francisco’s gross office absorption reached 7.6 million square feet. Net absorption in this same period was 2.4 million square feet. This compares with 1999, the record year, when gross absorption was 7.4 million square feet – and that was for the entire year! It is quite possible we’ll hit 10 million square feet of gross absorption by the time 2014 closes out. Incidentally, net absorption for 1999 was “only” 526,000 square feet. Not surprisingly, three out of the four biggest leases in the third quarter were completed by tech companies. The tech frenzy in San Francisco has been well documented. Most of the Silicon Valley companies want, or need, to have a presence in the city. The trend is employment-driven. Young techies don’t want to commute …

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LOS ANGELES – Selective Real Estate Investments has acquired an 82,660-square-foot industrial complex in North Hollywood for an undisclosed sum. The three-building complex is located at 11605 & 11611 Hart Street. The seller, Bobrick Washroom Equipment, has occupied the space since 1965. Selective Real Estate was represented by David Young and Chad Gahr of NAI Capital’s Encino office.

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