AURORA, COLO. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the $20.1 million sale of City Center Marketplace, a 234,255-square-foot shopping center located in the Denver suburb of Aurora. The center is home to tenants including 24 Hour Fitness, Office Depot, Sherwin Williams, DaVita and Family Dollar. Jon Hendrickson and Aaron Johnson of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, a Colorado-based private partnership, in the transaction.
WESTMINSTER, COLO. — Orchard Town Center, a 914,000-square-foot open-air regional retail center located in Westminster, has added seven new tenants to its roster. Additions include a newly opened Bitto Bistro; a 2,673-square-foot Crushed Red to open in August; a 3,085-square-foot 20/20 EyeVenue to open in September; a 6,644-square-foot Katie Eile to open in October; and a 4,500-square-foot Rusty Bucket Restaurant and Tavern, a 23,000-square-foot Marshalls, and a 5,000-square-foot Maurices, all to open in spring 2016. Other recent openings include a 7,500-square-foot DXL and a 4,346-square-foot Panera Bread. Phoenix-based Vestar, who acquired the property in 2014 in a joint venture with UBS, oversees property management, leasing and marketing at Orchard Town Center.
DENVER — Pine Tree Commercial Realty has acquired Arvada Marketplace-Connection, a 367,510-square-foot shopping center in the Denver submarket of Arvada, for $54.9 million. The center is located at the intersection of Wadsworth Boulevard and interstates 70 and 76. Arvada Marketplace-Connection was built in 1987. A 142,491-square-foot Sam’s Club anchors the center. Other notable tenants include Sports Authority, Dollar Tree and Youfit health club. CBRE’s Brad Lyons executed the transaction. The seller was RPAI. Bank of America provided the financing.
LOUISVILLE, COLO. — The Colorado Technology Center Portfolio, which contains a total of 631,135 square feet of light industrial space, has received $59 million in financing. The seven-building portfolio was fully leased, and all are situated within the Colorado Technology Center in Louisville, northwest of Denver. Steve Bye and Conor McCahill of NorthMarq Capital’s Denver office arranged the financing with an undisclosed investment bank. The non-recourse loan structure involved a 10-year, fixed-rate term with interest-only payments for three years, followed by a 30-year amortization schedule.
DENVER — A local multifamily investor has purchased a 20-unit apartment building in Denver for $2.8 million. The community is located at 833 Dexter St. The new investor also owns a few other properties within the same neighborhood. Matt Lewallan and Kevin Calame of Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors represented the buyer.
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, COLO. – Dayton Office Park, a 90,300-square-foot office park in the Denver submarket of Greenwood Village, has sold to an unnamed buyer for $6.6 million. The three-building complex is located at 6535-6565-6595 S. Dayton Street. The buildings were constructed between 1983 and 1985. The local seller was represented by Brandon Gouker of Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors.
DENVER — LaSalle Investment Management has purchased 16M, a mixed-use project in Downtown Denver’s LoDo (lower downtown) district, for an undisclosed sum. The Class AA property will be located at the southwest corner of the 16th Street Mall and Market Street. The 189,284-square-foot trophy property features ground-floor restaurant space, five stories of office space and 36 luxury apartments on the upper four floors. It also contains a rooftop terrace, fitness center and three levels of underground parking. The new development will serve as the regional headquarters of Morgan Stanley, D.A. Davidson and The ONE Group, which operates upscale restaurants and lounges. It will also be home to the first U.S. location of STK Rebel, an upscale, trendy steakhouse that is sister properties with the popular restaurant STK. 16M will also feature Panera Bread and Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill. This is the third property LaSalle has acquired within the LoDo market. It purchased Millennium Financial Center and Writer Square in September 2013.
PUEBLO, COLO. – A 7,371-square-foot retail strip center in Pueblo has sold to a local private investor for $3 million. The center is located at 1425 US Highway 50 West. It is full occupied by McAlister’s Deli, Papa John’s Pizza and Open MRI. The McAlister’s Deli franchisee has agreed to enter into a new 15-year, triple-net master lease once this transaction has closed. It will contain two, 10-year renewal options. The buyer was represented by Drew Isaac and Howard Stark of Marcus & Millichap’s Denver office. The seller, a private investor, was represented by Barry Higgins and David Lee of the same firm.
DENVER — Holliday Fenoglio Fowler L.P. (HFF) has arranged an $89.5 million construction loan for A Block @ Union Station, a 310,055-square-foot, mixed-use development in Denver’s Union Station Neighborhood. Continuum Partners LLC worked with HFF to arrange the four-year construction loan with Wells Fargo and CrossHarbor Capital Partners. Continuum also raised $14.5 million in equity from more than 20 investors in addition to contributing land to the project, which will contain hotel, office and retail space. New construction will include a 12-story, 200-room hotel managed by Kimpton; a five-story, 45,458-square-foot office building along with approximately 13,000 square feet of retail/restaurant space; and a 197-space subterranean parking garage with 100 spaces dedicated to public parking. Both properties will contain ground floor retail, with Bank of America already under lease for 3,496 square feet of space. Eric Tupler and Leon McBroom of HFF led the debt placement team in the transaction.
DENVER — City Office REIT has acquired Superior Pointe, a 149,006-square-foot office property in Metro Denver, for $25.8 million. The Class A property is located at 7595 E. Technology Way. Superior Pointe is 90 percent occupied. Notable tenants include Microsoft, Quiznos and ProBuild. The acquisition is anticipated to generate an initial full-year cash NOI yield of about 7.5 percent, based on the purchase price and planned capital improvements.
