LAS VEGAS — Davlyn Investments has purchased Rancho Destino, a multifamily community in Las Vegas, for $65.5 million. The buyer rebranded the 184-unit property as Aviara. Constructed in 1998 on 9.1 acres, the community features central heating and air conditioning, in-unit laundry, vaulted ceilings, fireplaces, arid landscaping, plentiful parking and an expansive amenity package. Spence Ballif, Adam Schmitt and Jannie Mongkolsakulkit of CBRE represented the undisclosed seller in the deal. Torrey Pines Bank provided acquisition financing for the buyer. The transaction marks Davlyn’s second acquisition in Nevada.
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LAS VEGAS — Davlyn Investments has purchased Rancho Destino, a multifamily community in Las Vegas, for $65.5 million. The buyer rebranded the 184-unit property as Aviara. Constructed in 1998 on 9.1 acres, the community features central heating and air conditioning, in-unit laundry, vaulted ceilings, fireplaces, arid landscaping, plentiful parking and an expansive amenity package. Spence Ballif, Adam Schmitt and Jannie Mongkolsakulkit of CBRE represented the undisclosed seller in the deal. Torrey Pines Bank provided acquisition financing for the buyer. The transaction marks Davlyn’s second acquisition in Nevada.
LAS VEGAS — Greenlite Partners, an affiliate of WG Group, has completed the disposition of an office building located at 9075 W. Diablo Drive in Las Vegas. KB Acquisitions, part of Kingsbarn Realty Capital, acquired the property for $26 million, or $387 per square foot. Originally constructed in 2008, the three-story, multi-tenant property features 67,145 square feet of Class A office space. At the time of sale, the property was 97 percent leased. Marlene Fujita Winkel, Emily Brun and Alex Casingal of Cushman & Wakefield’s Private Capital Group in Las Vegas represented the seller in the deal.
Dornin Investment Group Sells Marnell Corporate Center 3 Office Building in Las Vegas for $23.2M
by Amy Works
LAS VEGAS — Dornin Investment Group has completed the sale of Marnell Corporate Center 3 (MCC3), a three-story, Class A office building in Las Vegas. A private investor acquired the asset for $23.2 million, or $325 per square foot. Located at 6725 Via Austi Parkway, MCC3 features 71,378 square feet of multi-tenant office space. The seller originally purchased the building in early 2014 for $222 per square foot as part of a portfolio that consisted of three multi-tenant office buildings totaling 176,960 square feet, all located within the master-planned Marnell Corporate Center. This is the third and final disposition of the portfolio. Marlene Fujita Winkel, Charles Moore and Alex Casingal of Cushman & Wakefield’s Private Capital Group in Las Vegas represented the seller in the deal. Charles Van Geel, also of Cushman & Wakefield, provided leasing advisory for the property.
By Paul Sweetland, Senior Vice President, Colliers After a record year in 2021, Southern Nevada’s industrial market does not appear to be slowing down. The first-quarter vacancy decreased to 1.7 percent with 2.9 million square feet of net absorption. This is the lowest vacancy rate we have ever recorded in Southern Nevada. For comparison, vacancy only went as low as 3.1 percent during the boom that preceded the Great Recession. Demand was positive for all industrial subtypes for the first quarter, while rents for warehouse and distribution space increased 46 percent year over year. All industrial sectors added jobs on a year-over-year basis, with the largest increase being in logistics, which added 8,100 jobs. The current industrial boom has been driven by the influx of relocations and expansions from all over the U.S., but primarily from California. Southern Nevada’s strategic location, with its ability to service 12 markets within one day, has also made it an ideal location for regional and national distribution. New industrial completions totaled 2.1 million square feet this quarter, almost all of it being warehouse/distribution product. Southern Nevada is in its third major wave of post-Great Recession industrial development, with more than 8 million square feet now under …
By Adam Schmitt, First Vice President, CBRE | Multifamily Investment Properties The multifamily construction pipeline in Las Vegas has ramped up in recent years and continues to be robust. Apartment developers have long capitalized on the growth of the Las Vegas market, and with the vast potential remaining in the city, multifamily builders are continuing to place their bets in Vegas. Our team at CBRE tracked a total of 4,317 multifamily units constructed in 2021, and are projecting more than 8,000 in 2022, with at least 16,000 in 2023 and beyond. For reference, over the past 10 years, the Las Vegas multifamily market has delivered about 3,700 annual units on average. The projects being built in Las Vegas are predominately luxury, Class A developments that tend to cater to the lifestyle renter or renter-by-choice demographic. The locations of these developments are mostly concentrated in the Southwest and Henderson submarkets, comprising 62 percent of the construction pipeline. Developers have historically flocked to these submarkets because of the areas’ respective demographics, perpetual growth and strong multifamily fundamentals. More recently, multifamily developers have found opportunities in the Northwest and North Las Vegas submarkets as those regions have seen years of high rent growth, and the rent …
LAS VEGAS — Shopoff Realty Investments and Contour, in partnership with Dream Hotel Group, have broken ground on Dream Las Vegas, a 20-story lifestyle hotel and casino at the south end of the Las Vegas Strip. Designed by DLR Group within interiors by AvroKo, Rockwell Group and DLR Interior, the $550 million development will feature 531 guest rooms, seven experiential dining and nightlife venues, 12,000 square feet of meeting and event space and a 20,000-square-foot casino. Additional amenities will include a third-level resort pool and day club, two bar and lounge concepts on the gaming floor, a lobby bar, craft coffee café and gelateria on the street level, as well as a sporting club, boutique nightclub, signature restaurant and 24-hour diner on the third floor. The hotel portion’s event and meeting space will include a 5,000-square-foot ballroom, 90-seat live entertainment theatre, a fitness center by TechnoGym and onsite parking. Peninsula Pacific Entertainment will operate the casino and gaming components of the property. The property, located at 5051 S. Las Vegas Blvd., is slated for completion in late 2024. McCarthy Building Cos. is the design-build contractor for the project.
LAS VEGAS — Epic Investments has completed the sale of Las Brisas de Cheyenne, an apartment property located at 3985 E. Cheyenne Ave. in Las Vegas. Tides Equities acquired the asset for $40 million, or $227,272 per unit. Located in Las Vegas’ Sunrise Manor submarket, Las Brisas de Cheyenne features 176 apartments on nine acres. Built in 1999 and renovated in 2020, the two-story, garden-style apartment community offers one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans with an average unit size of 720 square feet. Patrick Sauter, Art Carll-Tangora and Steve Nosrat of Avison Young represented the seller in the deal.
RENO, NEV. — Locus Development Group is constructing McCarran Business Park, a two-building Class A industrial/flex property in Reno. Slated for delivery in second-quarter 2023, McCarran Business Park will feature two 50,450-square-foot buildings with suites divisible to 6,250 square feet. Each building will offer high-visibility showroom and office space. Each suite will include a tenant allowance for a build-to-suit office/showroom and warehouse space with 24-foot clear heights, 12-foot by 14-foot grade-level motorized overhead doors and motion-sensor LED lighting. Construction is scheduled to begin this month, with Metcalf Builders serving as general contractor. Joel Fountain, Nick Knecht and Baker Krukow of Dickson Commercial Group’s industrial team will represent Locus Development on all leasing operations.
LAS VEGAS — CBRE has arranged the $7.9 million sale of two retail assets in Las Vegas. The portfolio spans 17,940 square feet and includes Flamingo Jones Plaza, a 10,712-square-foot, six-tenant retail pad located at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Jones Boulevard; and Tropicana Centre, a 7,228-square-foot, five-tenant retail pad located near the intersection of Tropicana Avenue and Jones Boulevard. Flamingo Jones Plaza was 78 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Subway, Marco’s Pizza, Robert James Salon, B&T Nails and Rapid Cash. Tropicana Centre was fully occupied at the time of sale by tenants including Del Taco, Ethiopian Spice, Planet Vegas Smoke Shop, Trenz Salon and Nail Pro & Training. Roy Fritz, Michael Hsu, Dylan Heroy, Arthur Flores, Mark Latimer, Jay Gomez and James Kaye of CBRE represented the seller, Farmers and Merchants Trust Co. Trustee, in the disposition of the properties to Rand & Miner LLC and Tropicana Centre 22 LLC.