BAKER CITY, ORE. — ValueRock Realty Partners has acquired a 48,239-square-foot building in Baker City for an undisclosed sum. The property is net leased to an Albertsons grocery store. The building is located at 1120 Campbell St. Nick Foster, Mark West and Nick Kassab of HFF represented the seller in this transaction.
PORTLAND, ORE. — BPM Real Estate Group has started construction of the Broadway Tower office and hotel project in downtown Portland. The 19-story project will include a 180-room Radisson RED hotel, 175,000 square feet of office space and more than 2,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Radisson RED will occupy Broadway Tower’s first eight floors, with Class A office space occupying the top 11 floors. The project is scheduled for completion in the third quarter of 2018. Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty company, is building the project, which GBD Architects designed. Broadway Tower is Howard S. Wright’s second project for BPM Real Estate Group in Portland. The firm delivered the Pearl West office building for the developer earlier this year.
MCMINNVILLE, ORE. — National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI) has purchased the entire portfolio of FirCrest Community Living for $36.6 million. The transaction included three seniors housing communities, all located in McMinnville, approximately 35 miles southwest of Portland. The three facilities are located within four miles of each other and feature a total of 134 units and 181 beds. The facilities were constructed in 2008, 2014 and 2015, and offer memory care, assisted living and independent living care services. Evans Senior Investments represented the seller the transaction, which included FirCrest Community, Maple Valley and Cherrywood Memory Care. The purchase price equates to $272,388 per unit. NHI immediately leased all three communities to Chancellor Health Care. The lease term is for 15 years with an annual lease rate of 7.5 percent plus annual fixed escalators. With the three new communities, NHI now leases seven seniors housing communities to Chancellor. NHI, a publicly traded healthcare REIT based in Tennessee, funded the acquisition with its revolving credit facility.
GRESHAM, ORE. — Madison-Specht Vista Logistics LLC, a partnership between Specht Development and New York Life Real Estate Investors, has started construction of a 732,824-square-foot spec industrial building in Gresham. The 37.4-acre site is located at SE 223rd and Stark streets. The new facility will be called Vista Logistics Park. The site was purchased from the Port of Portland for $9.2 million. The project should be completed this fall. Don Ossey and David Ellis of the Capacity Commercial Group will lead the facility’s leasing efforts. Perlo Construction is building the project, which Mackenzie architects designed.
BEND, ORE. — A private investor from Louisiana has acquired the 168-unit Sienna Pointe apartment community in Bend for $23.7 million. The community is located at 1855 NE Lotus Drive. It was built in phases between 1990 and 1993. Cody Hagerman, Greg Frick, Rob Marton and Tyler Johnson of HFO Investment Real Estate represented the seller, Oregon Pacific, in this transaction.
PORTLAND, ORE. — A joint venture between PCCP and Capstone Partners has commenced construction of PDX Logistics Center III, a 257,120-square-foot industrial complex in Portland. The two-building property will be situated approximately half a mile from the air cargo entrance at Portland International Airport and three miles from Interstate 205. DX Logistics Center III is designed to attract smaller, local distribution users with space needs averaging about 45,000 square feet and requiring office build-outs. Construction is scheduled for completion next August.
MEDFORD, ORE. — LBG Real Estate Cos. LLC is set to begin a $12 million redevelopment of Medford Center, a 420,000-square-foot entertainment and lifestyle center located in Medford. The redevelopment will include a complete redesign and remerchandising of the central pedestrian promenade; the addition of 30,000 square feet of leasable space, designed particularly for restaurants, wine bars and breweries with most spaces offering significant outdoor seating; and the addition of a freeway-visible tower and new hardscape and signage. Additional seating and a water/fire feature will also be added during renovations. Construction is expected to begin in late August, with completion scheduled for late 2017.
SEASIDE, ORE. — An unnamed buyer has acquired the 18-room Inn at the Shore hotel for $3.1 million. The hotel is located at 2275 S. Prom in Seaside, approximately 80 miles northwest of metro Portland. Joseph Kennedy of Crystal Investment Property, a member of Hotel Brokers International, represented the unnamed seller in the transaction.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Hilton Worldwide and the Buccini/Pollin Group have announced plans to build a Canopy by Hilton hotel in Portland. The 153-room hotel will be located at 425 NW 9th Ave. in the Pearl District’s Gallery Row. Portland and Washington, D.C., are the first two U.S. cities to receive hotels under the new Canopy by Hilton brand. Both are slated for opening in 2017. Phillips Realty Capital arranged a $27.7 million construction loan, while EB5 Capital provided $15.5 million in preferred equity raised from 31 foreign investors seeking U.S. residency under the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program.
PORTLAND, ORE. — KBS Capital Advisors has purchased the Commonwealth Building, a 216,099-square-foot, creative-tech office tower in Portland, for $69 million. The building is located at 421 S.W. 6th Ave. The space was originally built in 1948. The Commonwealth Building was renovated between 2013 and 2015 when the mid-century building was converted into a creative-tech office tower. HFF secured a $47.4 million, five-year, floating-rate acquisition loan through an insurance company for the buyer. The firm also assisted the seller, Unico Properties LLC, in this transaction.