BOULDER, COLO. — PGIM Real Estate has provided a $77 million loan to the joint venture of The John Buck Co., Kinship Capital and Element Properties for the refinancing of two newly constructed properties in Boulder. Both properties are part of the brand new S’PARK community located 30 miles northeast of Denver. The first property, Timber, features 150 luxury multifamily units and 2,000 square feet of ground-level retail. The second property, Market, features 42,000 square feet of office space and 11,000 square feet of ground-level retail. Market’s office space is fully leased to Splunk, a global technology firm. JLL advised the borrower in the transaction. PGIM Real Estate is the real estate investment and financing business of PGIM, the $1.5 trillion global investment management business of Prudential Financial Inc.
DENVER —IG Logistics LLC has acquired the Lipan Street Industrial Park in Denver from EP Investments LLC for $21 million. The 34-acre industrial site includes outside storage, trailer parking, a fueling station and a truck maintenance facility. Freeman Expositions, an event services provider, and System Transport, a West Coast-based flatbed trucking company, recently signed long-term leases to occupy the property. Existing tenant Mesilla Valley Transportation, a New Mexico-based transportation fleet, extended its lease for 3.5 acres. All Fleet Services, a Denver-based transport company, also leased the 22,000-square-foot shop and diesel station on the property. Each transaction was completed prior to the sale but were all contingent upon IG Logistics acquiring the property. Cushman & Wakefield negotiated the leases, excluding the Mesilla deal, and was retained to handle leasing following the acquisition. Lipan Industrial Street Park is located at 6045 Lipan Street, providing access to I-25 and I-76, Colorado’s main freeways. The property currently has a 14,000-square-foot freestanding office building available for lease and an additional 11-acre parcel to be used for trailer parking or as a potential industrial build-to-suit. IG Logistics is the industrial platform for Imperium Capital.
THORNTON, COLO. — The Opus Group has broken ground on two speculative industrial buildings in Thornton, 10 miles north of Denver. The buildings, totaling 282,108 square feet, are the second phase of North Washington Commerce Center. The multi-tenant park offers a variety of sizes, clear heights and loading options. The 163,686-square-foot building will offer 35 dock positions, 270 parking stalls, 15 trailer parking spots and four drive-in doors. The 118,422-square-foot building will offer 28 dock positions, 196 parking stalls and four drive-in doors. Opus is the design-builder, architect and project developer. Both buildings are slated for completion in January 2022.
DENVER — NorthMarq has secured nearly $60.1 million in acquisition financing through a credit union for a two-property office portfolio in the Denver Tech Center submarket. The office portfolio includes the 273,963-square-foot Stanford Place I, financed for nearly $37. 7 million, and the 202,158-square-foot Yosemite, financed for $22.4 million. Stanford Place I, located at 8055 E. Tufts Ave., is a 14-story building that is approximately a quarter mile from I-25 and I-225. Yosemite, located at 6455 S. Yosemite St., is a 10-story office building within walking distance of a light rail system and several retail amenities. The 10-year, fixed-rate loan includes three years of interest-only payments followed by a 30-year amortization schedule. NorthMarq secured the loan for the borrower, Alturas Capital Partners LLC.
AURORA, COLO. — JAG Logistics Center @ Den, a 265-acre industrial park being developed south of Denver International Airport in Aurora, has added three new tenants to the recently completed Trade 2 building. The 188,000-square-foot asset is owned, managed and developed by JAGreen Development. The warehouse space features mezzanine level office space, on-site trailer parking and cross dock design. MAI Mechanical, a mechanical and plumbing subtractor, leased 16,390 square feet of space at the Trade 2 building. TruTeam, an installer of insulation and building products, leased 24,830 square feet. General Logistics Systems US Inc., a logistics and delivery company, leased 25,480 square feet. Cushman & Wakefield’s Aaron Valdez, Alec Rhodes and Tyler Smith represented the landlord in each transaction. Trade 1, also totaling 188,000 square feet, is already 100 percent leased.
CHICAGO AND DENVER — NexCore Group, a national healthcare real estate developer and owner, has teamed up with global investment management firm Nuveen Real Estate to acquire a portfolio of 27 medical office and two life sciences buildings spanning nearly 1.2 million square feet. IRA Capital, a private equity firm based in Southern California, sold the portfolio in two transactions totaling $620.4 million. The portfolio spans 13 states: Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin. The medical office properties comprise ambulatory surgery centers, micro-hospitals, freestanding emergency departments and single- and multi-tenant clinics. The properties were 99 percent leased at the time of sale to 38 tenants, the vast majority of which are well-established healthcare systems. The medical office buildings sold for about $463 million, according to NexCore, which will manage the facilities moving forward. Allianz Real Estate provided $234 million in acquisition financing on behalf of NexCore and Nuveen for the medical office portfolio. The financing is structured on a seven-year term with both a fixed-rate tranche totaling $163.8 million and a floating-rate tranche totaling $70.2 million. Chicago-based Nuveen is using equity for the medical office assets via its newly launched U.S. Cities …
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, COLO. — Private equity real estate firm KBS has sold Peakview Tower in Greenwood Village, about 12 miles southeast of Denver, for $66 million. The nine-story, 264,149-square-foot office tower is situated in Fiddler’s Green Circle, a suburban micro market that historically has had low office vacancy rates. JLL’s Mark Katz and Peter Merrion represented KBS in the sale. The buyer was a joint partnership led by Vanderbilt Office Properties. Peakview Tower, which KBS acquired in August 2012, features 27,600-square-foot floor plates, 9-foot ceilings, covered and attached parking, and a two-story lobby atrium. KBS recently completed additions to the asset built in 2001, including a fitness center and tenant lounge with barista-staffed coffee service. “In addition to top-tier onsite amenities, Peakview Tower offers access to amenities typically only found in urban locations, such as a food hall, Starbucks, grocery store, movie theater, over 200 hotels rooms, Denver’s light rail system, and a variety of shopping, dining and entertainment options — all within a five-minute walk from the building,” says Tim Helgeson, asset manager for Peakview Tower. “This optimal location gives the property a distinct advantage in the market and made it especially attractive to buyers.”
DENVER — JLL Capital Markets has arranged $49 million in financing for the acquisition of Aspire 7th & Grant, an apartment property located at 670 N. Grant St. in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Leon McBroom led the JLL team that represented the borrower, an unnamed institutional fund, to secure the seven-year, fixed-rate loan through Northwest Mutual Real Estate Investments. Built in 2020, Aspire 7th & Grant features 178 studio, one- and two-bedroom units that average 882 square feet. Community amenities include a sky terrace with an outdoor fireplace, chef-inspired kitchen with a dining area, eighth-floor club area, rooftop business center, second-floor garden deck with a resort-style pool, fitness center, yoga studio, indoor pet spa and grilling lounge.
LOVELAND, COLO. — Hunt Midwest has broken ground on The Capstone at Centerra, a 78,000-square-foot assisted living and memory care community in Loveland. Located within the 3,000-acre, master-planned Centerra development, the community is projected to open in late 2022. Integral Senior Living (ISL) will be the operator of the 102-unit property.
DENVER — TerraCap Management has purchased Denver Corporate Center I, formerly known as The Office at DTC, in Denver. Origin Investments and Hamilton-Titan Partners sold the asset for $31.1 million. Situated within the Denver Tech Center submarket, the 11-story building features 193,000 rentable square feet of Class A office space. The property was built in 1980. TerraCap acquired two sister buildings at this location in August 2019 for $71 million and holds the three buildings under one ownership. Tim Richey, Charley Will, Chad Flynn and Jenny Knowlton of CBRE represented the sellers in the deal. Brightspire Capital provided debt financing for TerraCap with assistance from C.J. Kelly and Jeff Halsey of CBRE’s debt team. TerraCap hired JLL to handle leasing of the property and DPC as property manager.