DENVER — Nexus Commercial Realty has arranged the sale of Wise Harris Arms, a multifamily building located in Denver. An undisclosed buyer acquired the property from 605 26th Street LLC for $3 million. Located at 605 26th St., the Wise Harris Arms features 22 apartment units. Jason Koch of Nexus represented the seller in the transaction.
AURORA, COLO. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a two-property apartment portfolio located in Aurora. A private investor acquired the assets for $2.5 million. Totaling 12,300 square feet, the two properties — 1643 Clinton Street and 1680 Akron Street — feature a total of 24 units. Each building has one studio unit and 11 one-bedroom/one-bath units. Portfolio amenities include off-street parking, on-site laundry and hard-surface flooring in the units. Clayton Primm of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer, while Boomer Beatty and Peter Standley, also of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller, a private investor, in the deal.
DENVER, BOULDER AND COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — HFF has secured $124.3 million in financing for the acquisition of a 41-property industrial portfolio across Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs. Kevin MacKenzie, Jeff Sause, Leon McBroom and Spencer Richley arranged the 10-year, fixed-rate acquisition loan through Nuveen Real Estate for the borrower, Berkeley Partners. Spread across 19 properties, the portfolio features a total of 1.95 million square feet of industrial space. Situated on a total of 126.3 acres, the portfolio comprises 14 industrial facilities in Denver, three in Colorado Springs and two in Boulder. The properties were built between 1973 and 1996 and are 93 percent leased to 178 tenants.
DENVER — SteelWave LLC and Rialto Capital Management have received $54.6 million in bridge financing for the acquisition and repositioning of a vacant office/data center property in downtown Denver. Leon McBroom and Eric Tupler of HFF arranged the four-year, floating-rate loan through Square Mile Capital Management for the borrowers. Loan proceeds will be used to acquire and reposition the asset into a state-of-the-art office building. Located at 930 15th St., the 12-story building features 223,000 square feet of vacant office/data center space. The buyers plan to renovate the property with floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall on two facades and the installation of executive parking stalls, a collaborative lounge area, café and wine bar, rooftop fitness center, bike lab, rooftop event area and lounge, and conference center. Renovated office suites will features 1,345-foot slab-to-slab ceilings, fiber connectivity and modernized mechanical systems.
LONE TREE, COLO. — Golden, Colo.-based The Bailey Co. has acquired Park Meadows Corporate Center I, located at 10004 Park Meadows Drive in Lone Tree. LRS Bay Road Investment Group sold the property for $10 million. Monica Wiley and Jeff Wood of CBRE represented the seller, while Mitch Bradley, Joe Serieno and Chad Alexander, also of CBRE, served as leasing advisors on the transaction. Constructed in 2000, the three-story multi-tenant asset features 60,144 square feet of office space. Lone Tree is located in metro Denver, approximately 15 miles south of downtown.
DENVER — Concord HQ LLC has purchased an office property in Denver from Unico BOP 1406 Wazee LLC/Unico BOP 1408 Wazee for $4.5 million. Located at 1408 Wazee in Denver, the asset features 9,009 square feet of office space. Andrew Blaustein and Josh Pons of Newmark Knight Frank represented the buyer, while JLL represented the seller in the deal. First American Title Insurance Co. also participated in the transaction.
GLENDALE, COLO. — Centre Point Properties LLC has purchased The Forum at Cherry Creek, a multi-tenant office building located at 425 S. Cherry St. in Glendale, a suburb of Denver. 425 LLC sold the property for $13.6 million, or $165 per square foot. Aaron Johnson and Jon Hendrickson of Cushman & Wakefield Denver’s Capital Markets Group listed the property to sell on behalf of Denver-based Millice Group. The Forum at Cherry Creek is a 10-story, 83,268-square-foot office property. At the time of sale, the property was 88 percent leased to a tenant roster of office and medical office users, with approximately 40 percent of the existing tenants having some medical use.
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — Crescent Real Estate LLC has received $102.5 million in acquisition financing for a suburban office portfolio in Colorado Springs. Trey Morsbach, Jim Curtin and Leon McBroom of HFF secured the five-year, floating-rate acquisition loan through Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The 13-building portfolio features more than 1 million square feet of office space. At the time of acquisition, the portfolio was 75 percent occupied by a variety of industry sectors, including aerospace, government and military/defense contractors, technology and healthcare. Major tenants include Northrop Grumman, Army National Guard, GSA, The Spectranetics Corp., Booz Allen Hamilton and United Healthcare.
DENVER — Etkin Johnson Real Estate Partners, a Denver-based investment and development firm, has sold its portfolio of industrial assets in Colorado to San Francisco-based Berkeley Partners for $247.5 million. The deal represents the largest industrial portfolio sale ever closed in Colorado. The portfolio, which was 93 percent leased at the time of sale, comprises 19 properties totaling approximately 1.95 million square feet of industrial space. The facilities range in size from 26,078 to 293,510 square feet. Etkin Johnson acquired the properties between 1990 and 1998. All 19 assets are located in cities within Colorado’s Front Range, including Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Aurora and Golden. “This was a very well-constructed portfolio of infill industrial,” says Matt Novak, partner at Berkeley Partners, which has more than $625 million in assets under management. “The Denver metro has been experiencing rapid growth, and this acquisition provides us a critical mass of properties in the market. Our goal is to hold these assets for 10- to 20-plus years, benefiting from the favorable long-term industrial supply-demand fundamentals.” Jim Bolt, Jeremy Ballenger, Tyler Carner and Mike Winn of CBRE represented Etkin Johnson in the transaction, which marks Berkeley Partners’ first acquisition in Colorado. — Taylor Williams
BOULDER, COLO. — KeyBank has arranged $50.4 million in total combined financing for a tax-exempt bond transaction to support Koelbel & Co.’s construction of Diagonal Crossing. Located in Boulder, Diagonal Crossing will feature 105 garden-style apartments for families earning at or below 60 percent of area median income. KeyBank’s Community Development Lending & Investment (CDLI) team provided a $24.7 million construction loan and $10.4 million in Low-Income Housing Tax Credit equity. Additionally, KeyBank Real Estate Capital arranged a $15.3 million permanent loan through a forward commitment for Fannie Mae to issue a mortgage-backed security. Diagonal Crossing will be developed on two parcesl: Lot 3 and Lot 6. Lot 3 will feature 85 affordable housing units in two three-story buildings and one two-story building, while Lot 6 will feature 20 affordable housing units across four buildings. Sarah Geis and Beth Palmer Wirtz of KeyBank’s CDLI team collaborated with Jeff Rodman of KeyBank’s Commercial Mortgage Group on the financing for the project.
