MONROVIA, CALIF. — Huntington Oaks Center, a 328,711-square-foot community shopping center in the Los Angeles submarket of Monrovia, has received a $71 million loan. The center is located at the southeast corner of Interstate 210 and Huntington Drive. Huntington Oaks is currently 98 percent leased to tenants such as Kohl’s, Trader Joe’s, Toys ‘R’ Us, Marshalls, Bed Bath & Beyond, Petco, Party City, Black Angus, LensCrafters, Mimi’s Café, Chili’s, Kirklands, Chase Bank and Applebees. The financing package includes a $60.5 million senior mortgage loan and a $10.5 million mezzanine loan. Those funds replaced a $51 million mortgage provided by Wachovia Bank. The borrower, Huntington Oaks Delaware Partners LLC, was represented by Lucescu Realty, which also procured the lender, Bank of America N.A.
FULLERTON, CHINO AND SANTA ANA, CALIF. — Yokohama Tire Corp. has sold its 439,567-square-foot warehouse facility in Fullerton for $42.7 million. The facility, located at 601 South Acacia Ave., served as the company’s U.S. headquarters. KTR DC III LLC acquired Yokohama’s former facility. CBRE’s Michael Kendall, Darla Longo, Barbara Emmons, Ben Seybold and Andrew Morrow represented Yokohama in the transaction. The tire company has signed a new 15-year lease for a 658,756-square-foot distribution center in Chino. That space is located at 16388 Fern Ave. The landlord is Invesco. Morrow and Seybold once again represented Yokohama, along with David Consani and Joey Sugar of CBRE. Yokohama has also signed a 10-year lease for 57,624 square feet in Santa Ana that will serve as the company’s U.S. headquarters. That space is located at 1 MacArthur Blvd. in Santa Ana. CBRE’s Dean Chandler and John Weiner represented the landlord, Equity Office. Morrow and Seybold, along with Scott Kenny and Garrett Ellis of CBRE, represented Yokohama.
CAMARILLO, CALIF. — Marcus Adams Properties has acquired an eight-property industrial portfolio in Camarillo for $23.4 million. The portfolio contains a total of 205,669 square feet within the Flynn Road Industrial Park. The transaction includes six multi-tenant and two single-tenant industrial buildings. The portfolio is 96 percent leased to 28 tenants. The properties were all built between 1986 and 1999 by a local developer. The same family had owned and managed the properties since completion. Sam Wagner of Told Partners represented the family, and Mitch Conlee of Daum Commercial represented Marcus Adams Properties.
LA MIRADA, CALIF. — All-Ways Pacific LLC has leased a Class A, 254,718-square-foot industrial building located at 15300 Desman Road in the Los Angeles submarket of La Mirada. The warehouse and distribution building has direct access to Interstate 5 and the 91 Freeway. It is 30 minutes from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Daum Commercial represented the third-party logistics firm in the lease transaction. JLL’s Luke McDaniel and Cameron Driscoll represented the landlord, TA Associates Realty.
INGLEWOOD, CALIF. — Inglewood Plaza, a 101,329-square-foot community shopping center in the Los Angeles submarket of Inglewood, has sold to two buyers for a total of $27.4 million. The four-building center is located at 3100 – 3180 W. Imperial Highway. Three of the plaza’s four buildings sold to CCPT IV for $25.1 million. These buildings contain a total of 96,874 square feet. The remaining 4,455-square-foot building sold to G3H Investments LLC for $2.3 million. The seller, Howard Building LLC, was represented by Darrell Levonian, Justin D. Mendelson and Fred A. Sheriff of Charles Dunn Company. The team also worked directly with the two buyers. The center was built in 2008. It is situated near the Hollywood Park redevelopment project. That site will eventually include a hotel, renovated casino, offices, residences and two lakes.
SAN DIEGO – A 12-unit apartment building in the San Diego submarket of La Mesa has sold to Ginsburg Family Trust for $1.9 million. The community is located at 4345 Lowell Street. The trust was represented by Aaron Bove of Marcus & Millichap’s San Diego office. The seller was Wahl Property Group LLC & Wahl Parker LLC.
ONTARIO, CALIF. — A new retail duo has joined CBRE’s Ontario office. Ryan Gast and Dan Samulski will focus on projects of more than 100,000 square feet throughout the Inland Empire. The team has represented a variety of landlords in shopping centers throughout Southern California.
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Lowe Enterprises Investors (LEI) has acquired the 100-room Hotel De Anza in San Jose for an undisclosed sum. The hotel is located at 233 W. Santa Clara Street in the city’s downtown area. The hotel originally opened in 1931. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Hotel De Anza was designed by famed architect H.H. Weeks. Notable guests have included Eleanor Roosevelt, The DuPonts, Henry Kaiser, Jack Dempsey, Susan Hayward, Paulette Goddard and Fred MacMurray. The AAA-Four Diamond hotel was last renovated in 1990. LEI plans to further renovate the property next year. De Anza LLC has owned and operated the property for the past 24 years. The current iteration features La Pastaia Italian restaurant, Caffe La Pastaia grab-and-go concept, and the Hedley Club, which offers live jazz music and 5,800 square feet of meeting/function space. LEI acquired the hotel on behalf of an investment client. Destination Hotels, an LEI affiliate, will continue to operate the property as an independent, boutique hotel. De Anza LLC was represented by CBRE Hotels.
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Shorenstein Properties LLC has acquired Champion Station, a 426,000-square-foot office and R&D campus in North San Jose, for an undisclosed sum. The low-rise campus is located at 110-180 West Tasman Drive. The acquisition includes the first phase of the station, which contains four buildings that are fully leased to Cisco on a short-term basis. The property is located less than two miles from Levi’s Stadium, the new home of the San Francisco 49ers. The seller was TMG Partners. Champion Station is the first investment completed by Shorenstein Realty Investors Eleven, a closed-end investment fund formed earlier this year with $1.22 billion in committed capital from Shorenstein and its investors.
It should come as no surprise at this point that Orange County is on course with a robust economic recovery. Furthermore, there are favorable indicators for a steady increase in value over the next few years. Even though industrial product is limited in the county, development is picking up now that vacancy rates have been on a downward slope and rental rates continue their course on a gradual upturn. While all sectors in Orange County are seeing movement in a desirable direction, quality industrial space is becoming even more of a premium. The larger industrial spaces are drying up in Orange County. Most of the industrial spaces available today are smaller than 20,000 square feet. Meanwhile, many older buildings are being converted or remodeled to invite a variety of other property uses like residential, creative office and self-storage. The average asking price for investment-grade industrial properties of more than 20,000 square feet in Orange County is at $147 per square foot, as of the halfway point through the second quarter of 2014. This number has been on the rise year-over-year since the drop at the end of 2010 when the average asking price dipped to $120 per square foot. The …