BELLEVUE, WASH. – Newmark has arranged $15 million in acquisition financing for Mercer Pointe, a single-tenant office building located within the Bellevue Office Park in Bellevue. The borrower is Spire Real Estate, a subsidiary of Vancouver-based Nicola Crosby Wealth Management. OfferUp.com occupies the 71,329-square-foot, Class A building. OfferUp is an online, mobile marketplace that gives consumers a platform to buy and sell products locally. Brian Bonipart, Michael Taylor and Skip Slavin of Newmark secured the 25-year, fully amortizing, full-recourse loan, which will be serviced by Newmark.
TUKWILA AND KENT, WASH. – Colliers International has arranged the sale of a two-building industrial portfolio located in Tukwila and Kent, two southern suburbs of Seattle. LBA Realty purchased the portfolio from a private investor for $14.5 million. The portfolio includes the 72,882-square-foot Andover Park East, located at 720-790 Andover Park E. in Tukwila, and the 30,000-square-foot Allied Building, located at 19130 84th Ave. S. in Kent. Bill Condon and Matt McGregor of Colliers represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.
DENVER – Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors has arranged the sale of Zuma Lofts, a mixed-use building located at 3455 W. 38th Ave. in Denver. Zuma Lofts LLC sold the property to RLC Zuma LLC for $6.9 million. The 22,236-square-foot building features 18 multifamily units and two ground-level retail units. Matt Lewallen of Pinnacle represented the buyer and seller in the deal.
FEDERAL WAY, WASH. – Hunt Mortgage Group has arranged a $5.1 million loan for the refinancing of Cedar Gardens Apartments, a multifamily property located at 2110 S.W. 337th Place in Federal Way. The borrower is Robert LaFountaine, a local real estate owner/operator. Built in 1980, the property comprises five two-story buildings totaling 49 apartment units. Glenn Gioseffi of Kidder Mathews arranged the Freddie Mac Small Balance loan, which features a five-year term, 30-year amortization schedule and a hybrid-adjustable interest rate. A hybrid-adjustable rate mortgage (hybrid ARM) is where a loan’s interest rate is fixed for an established amount of time and then transitions to an adjustable rate. Cedar Gardens was 98 percent occupied at the time of financing.
SAN FRANCISCO – CIM Group, in partnership with fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547), has commenced construction for its 240,000-square-foot data center campus on 7.3 acres at 400 Paul Ave. in San Francisco. The first phase of development will include the renovation of two existing 1930s-era buildings. Totaling 54,225 square feet, the buildings will be modernized to provide creative office and support space for data center tenants. Additionally, construction will start immediately for the campus, including a 187,000-square-foot purpose-built data center. The two-story building will feature a secure and scalable data center with 24 MW of power capacity.
SAN DIEGO – JLL Capital Markets has brokered the sale of 1450 Frazee, an office building located in San Diego’s Mission Valley district. A joint venture between Hill Properties and a fund managed by DRA Advisors acquired the property from an affiliate of Menlo Equities for $33 million. At the time of sale, the seven-story, 140,477-square-foot building was 90.6 percent leased to 27 tenants. Lynn LaChapelle, Bob Prendergast and Sach Kirpalani of JLL arranged the transaction.
SAN LEANDRO, CALIF. – Colony Industrial has purchased the two-building East Bay industrial portfolio in San Leandro for an undisclosed price. Totaling 587,051 square feet, the portfolio includes two light industrial buildings located at 2380-2388 Williams St. and 1717 Doolittle Drive. The portfolio is leased to five tenants. This is Colony Industrial’s first investment in the Oakland/East Bay area. Darla Longo, Barbara Perrier, Rebecca Perlmutter Finkel and Michael Kendall of CBRE brokered the transaction.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. – Culver City, Calif.-based Goldrich Kest has purchased Infinity West, an apartment building located at the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and La Brea Avenue in West Hollywood. Bolour Associates sold the property to Goldrich Kest for $23.6 million. Built in 2012, the 43-unit property features a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom layouts, a fitness center, conference room and secured parking. Blake Rodgers of HFF represented the seller in the deal.
CHANDLER, ARIZ. – Alliant Credit Union has arranged a $14.6 million loan for the refinancing of an industrial property located in Chandler. The property features 162,714 square feet of distribution space. The undisclosed sponsor had recently closed with a higher interest rate bridge loan and was seeking a low-leverage transaction to replace that debt. Alliant structured the 10-year loan with a 30-year amortization schedule and two years of interest-only payments.
SAN MATEO, CALIF. — HFF has arranged $132.9 million in refinancing for a three-property apartment portfolio located within Bay Meadows, a master-planned community in San Mateo. The borrower, an affiliate of Stockbridge Capital Group, used the loan proceeds to retire existing construction financing. Totaling 336 units, the portfolio includes the 108-unit Field House located at 282 Pony Lane; the 158-unit The Russell located at 3098 Kyne St. West; and the 70-unit Quimby located at 3068 Kyne St. West. The portfolio also features 9,960 square feet of ground-floor retail space leased to Blue Bottle, Tin Pot Creamery and Roam Burger. Bruce Ganong, Chris Gandy and Bercut Smith of HFF arranged the fixed-rate loan through TH Real Estate.