ENGLEWOOD, COLO. — Steadfast Apartment REIT has purchased the 217-unit Fielder’s Creek Apartments in the Denver submarket of Englewood for $32.4 million. The community is located at 3205 W. Floyd Ave., nine miles from downtown Denver. It was built in 1983. Fielder’s Creek is currently 97 percent occupied. The REIT plans to implement a value enhancement program at the property.
DENVER — HFF has arranged $30.5 million in financing for construction of the 216-unit Mountain View at Palisade Park in the Denver submarket of Broomfield. The community will be located at the southwest corner of 169th Avenue and Huron Street. The property will contain eight residential buildings with one-, two- and three-bedroom units averaging 909 square feet once it’s completed in 2017. HFF’s Josh Simon and Kristian Lichtenfels placed the construction loan with a regional bank on behalf of MountainView Capital.
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — Ziegler, a specialty investment bank, has arranged $44.2 million in fixed-rate bonds for Sunny Vista Living Center, a skilled nursing and independent living community in Colorado Springs. Sunny Vista features 110 skilled nursing beds and 50 one-bedroom independent living apartments using Section 8 subsidies through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The bonds will fund the addition of 38 assisted living units and 28 memory care units on a 4.8-acre site. The expansion will comprise 55,500 square feet. In conjunction with the financing, Sunny Vista merged with The Villa at Sunny Vista. The two communities were separate entities previously, but were affiliated and shared a CEO. The two facilities will now be a single, consolidated campus. The financing is composed of $42.3 million of tax-exempt bonds and $1.9 million of taxable bonds.
LAKEWOOD, COLO. — CAM Lakewood LLC has purchased Garrison Business Park, a 49,000-square-foot flex-industrial property in Lakewood, for $7.5 million. The property is located at 9195-9197 W. 6th Ave., about seven miles outside of downtown Denver. The fully leased property is occupied by tenants like Pinkard Construction and Golder Associates. The seller, Pathfinder Partners, purchased the property in December 2012 from a CMBS special servicer’s real estate-owned (REO) department.
DENVER — Sovran Self Storage Inc. has purchased the 521-unit Extra Space Storage self-storage facility in the Denver submarket of Thornton for an undisclosed sum. The sales price equates to $203 per square foot, the highest price paid per square foot for a self-storage facility in Colorado, according to Marcus & Millichap, which represented both the buyer and seller, TRC Companies, in this transaction. The facility is located at 9000 Gale Blvd., about 10 miles north of downtown Denver. It was built in 2011. Adam Schlosser and Chico LeClaire led the Marcus & Millichap team.
DENVER — Jackson Square Properties has acquired the 185-unit Arapahoe Club apartment community for an undisclosed sum. The community is located at 2800 S. Syracuse Way. It was built in 1994. The Class B property is situated near the Denver Technological Corridor, the area’s largest employment hub with more than 423,000 workers. ARA Newmark represented the seller, the Reliant Group, in this transaction.
DENVER — Jackson Square Properties has sold the 345-unit Villas at Parker apartment community in Denver to Advenir for an undisclosed sum. The community is located at 1090 S. Parker Road. It was built in 1972 and renovated in 2008 and 2009. ARA Newmark represented Jackson Square in this transaction.
SEATTLE — Oxford Finance LLC, a Virginia-based specialty finance firm that provides senior debt to life sciences and healthcare services companies, has closed a $27 million term loan to Cascade Capital Group LLC. The funds were used to purchase three skilled nursing facilities in Colorado and Utah. The names of the facilities were not disclosed. Based in Seattle, Cascade Capital is a newly formed private equity firm that invests in long-term care facilities. It leases its facilities to Illinois-based Legacy Healthcare.
LITTLETON, COLO. — Vestar has acquired Bowles Crossing, a 409,457-square-foot regional shopping center in the Denver suburb of Littleton, for $76.1 million. The 53.8-acre Bowles Crossing is one of the area’s top regional shopping destinations in the southwest Denver metro area. Tenants at the center include Trader Joe’s, DSW Warehouse, Ross Dress for Less, Gordmans and a newly renovated AMC Theatre. The center is located at 8055 W. Bowles Ave., at the northeast corner of Wadsworth Boulevard and Bowles Avenue. Vestar plans expand the shopping center, adding new retail, restaurants and a multifamily component. “Over the past 12 months, Vestar has acquired five retail centers valued at $670 million throughout the Western states,” says Clint Marchuk, the firm’s vice president of acquisitions. “Our goal is to continue acquiring strategic centers in key markets with strong demographics.” Vestar also recently acquired the 623,205-square-foot, open-air retail and entertainment portion of The Gateway, a retail, residential and office complex in downtown Salt Lake City. Phoenix-based Vestar is a privately held real estate company that specializes in the acquisition, management and development of commercial real estate, particularly retail. The company owns and manages more than 25 million square feet of retail assets in the …
NORTHGLENN, COLO. — Starlight Investments Acquisition has purchased the 228-unit Carrick Bend apartments for $47.8 million. The community is located at 11525 Community Center Drive, just north of Denver. It was built in 2014. CBRE’s Dave Potarf, Dan Woodward and Matt Barnett represented the seller, Keller Holland Northglenn Investors, in this transaction.