LAS VEGAS — SR Construction, as design-build contractor, has completed a five-story patient tower at Centennial Hills Hospital in Las Vegas. The new tower features 72 patient beds, plus two floors of shell for additional intensive care, intermediate and medical surgical units. Centennial Hills Hospital opened The Birthplace within the new tower, adding two labor and delivery suites along with 36 mother-baby suites. Additionally, the hospital opened its new 36-bed nursing unit at the tower. SR Construction broke ground on the tower in October 2019 and completed all construction phases for the project in November, four months ahead of the scheduled delivery date.
By Mike Mixer, Colliers International – Las Vegas At the beginning of 2020, Las Vegas was anything but ugly. Nevada’s economy was one of the fastest growing in the country. Unemployment was the lowest ever at 3.6 percent, while casinos reported three straight months of $1 billion in winnings. Then COVID came along and things got real ugly, real quick. The entire Las Vegas Strip was shut down, closed…on less than a day’s notice. The Las Vegas unemployment rate hit a staggering 34.2 percent. One out of three people in Las Vegas became unemployed in April 2020. Meanwhile, the last time the Strip was shut down was after the JFK assassination in 1963. The bad doesn’t look so bad compared to the ugly. As the year comes to a close, the Las Vegas Strip has reopened, but with fewer visitors. Low visitor demand hits hard in a city with more than 150,000 rooms. Las Vegas hotel occupancy has dropped from 90 percent down to 44 percent. Room rates have seen a milder drop this year, down only 6.77 percent (from $133 a night to $124 a night). The Las Vegas Gaming Market was also unlucky, especially without a robust convention …
LAS VEGAS — CapRock Partners has completed the acquisition of a 12.9-acre parcel at the junction of South Riley Street and West Hacienda Avenue in Southwest Las Vegas. Additionally, the company has successfully petitioned to rezone of the site to allow for the development of a three-building industrial park. The speculative industrial park will include: A 132,450-square-foot facility with 28-foot clear heights, five grade-level doors and 26 dock-high doors A 75,836-square-foot building with 24-foot clear heights, five grade-level doors and 22 dock-high doors A 21,976-square-foot property with 24-foot clear heights, one grade-level door and two dock-high doors The industrial park will also feature a 180-foot shared truck court, more than 200 parking spaces and ESFR sprinklers. Each building is also divisible down to approximately 10,000-square-foot units. Constructed is slated to begin in early summer, with completion scheduled for early spring 2022. The project team includes Lee & Sakahara as architect, Fulcrum Construction as general contractor and Kimley Horn as civil engineer. Brendan Keating and Amy Ogden of Logic Commercial Real Estate represented the undisclosed seller, while Rob Lujan, Xavier Wasiak and Jason Simon of JLL represented CapRock in the land acquisition. Additionally, JLL is overseeing leasing of the property.
LAS VEGAS — Colliers International has arranged the sale of an industrial building located at 6676 Escondido St. in Las Vegas. Green Bean Battery acquired the property for $1.3 million. The asset features 6,059 square feet of industrial space. Brian Riffel and Tyler Jones of Colliers International represented the seller, Escondido Investments, in the transaction.
NORTH LAS VEGAS, NEV. — Panattoni Development has completed North 15 Logistics, a 550,601-square-foot industrial project on 30 acres at the intersection of Interstate 15 and Speedway Boulevard in North Las Vegas. North 15 Logistics features two buildings with up to 36-foot clear heights, ESFR sprinkler systems, R-30 roof batt insulation and concrete truck courts. The tenant improvements are now complete, and Ruby Has occupies 373,363 square feet at the project. With six warehouse locations across the United States and Canada, Ruby Has offers third-party logistics using technology and integration to allow for faster shipping and a reduction in freight costs. A comingled fund managed by Clarion Partners owns the project, with Panattoni Development serving as developer. Alston Construction served as contractor and HPA Architecture served as architect.
LAS VEGAS — Cincinnati-based Phillips Edison & Co. has completed the sale of Sunrise Marketplace, a wholly owned neighborhood shopping center in Las Vegas. A Los Angeles-based private investment firm purchased the property for an undisclosed amount to complete a 1031 exchange. Situated on 15.1 acres at the southeast corner of NE Nellis Boulevard and Steward Avenue, Sunrise Marketplace features 191,345 square feet of retail space. At the time of sale, the property was 99 percent leased to Smith’s Food & Drug Store, Chase, Dotty’s, Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar, Wingstop, Verizon, Southwest Medical and Southern Nevada Health District. The shopping center was built in 1988 and renovated in 2006. Preston Fetrow of CBRE, along with the firm’s National Retail Partners-West team, represented the seller, while the buyer was represented by a cooperating broker.
BELLEVUE, WASH. AND BOSTON — Aegis Living, a seniors housing owner and operator based in Bellevue, has acquired 10 properties from Healthpeak Properties Inc. (NYSE: PEAK). Aegis already operated the communities under a lease agreement with Healthpeak Properties, a Denver-based real estate investment trust (REIT). Aegis’ joint venture partner on the $350 million acquisition is Blue Moon Capital Partners LP, a Boston-based private equity investor in the seniors housing sector. The portfolio is located in Washington, California and Nevada, totaling 702 units of assisted living and memory care. The acquired communities include: • Aegis Living Callahan House (Shoreline, Wash.) • Aegis Living Shoreline (Shoreline, Wash.) • Aegis Living Kirkland (Kirkland, Wash.) • Aegis Living Las Vegas (Las Vegas) • Aegis Living Dana Point (Dana Point, Calif.) • Aegis Gardens Fremont (Fremont, Calif.) • Aegis Living Granada Hills (Granada Hills, Calif.) • Aegis Living San Francisco (San Francisco) • Aegis Living Pleasant Hill (Pleasant Hill, Calif.) • Aegis Living Ventura (Ventura, Calif.) The transaction is the largest in Aegis’ history. The acquisition is the next step in the company’s growth strategy, which includes doubling its ownership portfolio by 2030, according to Aegis’ founder and CEO Dwayne Clark. “At a time when …
LOS ANGELES — CBRE Capital Markets’ Debt & Structured Finance team has arranged $69 million for the recapitalization of a four-property industrial portfolio totaling 991,634 square feet across the southwestern United States. Shaun Moothart, Bruce Francis, Jennifer Ansari, Dana Summers, Bob Ybarra and Doug Birrell of CBRE secured the 20-year, 2.13 percent loan on behalf of the borrower, Moulton Co., a family-owned and operated private equity asset management firm based in Southern California. The portfolio consists of four core industrial assets: Harbor Gateway, located at 20100 S. Western Ave. in Torrance, Calif. Longley Commerce Center at 6550 Longley Lane in Reno, Nev. The Landing at PMG, located at 7613-7753 E. Ray Road in Mesa, Ariz. Northgate Distribution Center at 4800 E. Tropical Parkway in Las Vegas At the time of sale, all four facilities were fully leased.
RENO, NEV. — GPR Ventures has acquired an industrial warehouse property located at 4910 Longley Lane in Reno. Details of the transaction were not released. The purchase is GPR’s first acquisition in the Reno market. Situated near Reno-Tahoe International Airport, the 331,632-square-foot facility features dedicated office space; 21 dock-high doors, with potential for 16 more; two grade-level doors illuminated with T5 high-output fluorescent lamps for increased visibility; and new roofing that represented a $1.5 million investment. At the time of acquisition, the property was 80 percent occupied by two tenants: Hamilton Co., a global manufacturer of precision measurement devices, and Powertrain Industries, which offers a line of unique products used by mechanics to repair vehicle driveshafts.
RENO, NEV. — Panattoni Development, serving as developer, has completed northern Nevada’s first Amazon last-mile facility, located at the intersection of Virginia Street and Stead Boulevard in Reno. Constructed in five months, the 145,602-square-foot building will enable Amazon to be fully operational for the holiday season. A last-mile facility serves as the final distribution hub prior to delivery to end-users, enabling shipments to be delivered as quickly as possible. The project team included Alston Construction, Architects Orange and Odyssey Engineering Inc.