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TEMPE, ARIZ. — MJW Investments has acquired ReNUE on Orange, a 110-unit student housing community located near Arizona State University in Tempe. The price was not disclosed. The property offers one- and two-bedroom units with shared amenities including a swimming pool, sundeck and courtyard. The company plans to make improvements to the property, including upgrading unit interiors and common areas, addressing deferred maintenance issues and rebranding the property as “Thrive Tempe,” according to Mark Weinstein, president of MJW Investments. This investment increases MJW Investment’s student housing portfolio to over 5,500 beds.

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SAN DIEGO — Location Matters has arranged the $1.9 million sale of a restaurant building located at 5351 Adobe Falls Road in San Diego. Davles LLC, an affiliate of Cohn Restaurant Group, acquired the 5,485-square-foot building, which was vacant at the time of sale. Mike Spilky of Location Matters arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, L&L Acquisitions LLC. The building was constructed in the 1950s and originally housed Nicolosi’s Italian Restaurant. The former owners renovated the building and operated the Junk House Restaurant there for several years.

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CANOGA PARK, CALIF. — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has arranged an 85,653-square-foot lease with Vallarta Supermarkets at a shopping center in Canoga Park. The grocer will backfill the space formerly occupied by Vons. Mark Baziak and Geoff Foley of NKF arranged the 20-year lease on behalf of the landlord, Auburndale Properties. Springstead Associates represented Vallarta. The grocer is expected to move into the 150,000-square-foot center later this year. Additional tenants include T-Mobile, McDonald’s and El Pollo Loco.

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GLENDALE, ARIZ. — Lee & Associates has arranged the $21.9 million sale of Talavi Towne Center, a 118,377-square-foot shopping center in Glendale. Jay Fincham and Patrick Dempsey of Lee & Associates arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, Kimco Towne Center LLC, and the buyer, Talavi Bell LLC. Talavi Towne Center is home to tenants such as Wal-Mart, MOR Furniture, Dollar Tree, Leslie’s Pool Mart and Cricket Wireless.

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BOISE — L M Construction Co. has broken ground on a 119,200-square-foot industrial building in Boise. The facility will be located at 8485 Federal Way. The cross-dock, multi-tenant building is a design-build project for Brass Cap Development. The project is currently 50 percent pre-leased. The future tenant, Teffco, is currently headquartered in nearby Nampa. Teff is an ancient grain and the staple of Ethiopian and Eritrean diets. Teffco hires local Idaho farmers to raise Teff for these communities, supplying them with American-grown teff. The concrete tilt-up building boasts a clear height of 30 feet and includes an ESFR fire sprinkler system. The balance of the project’s divisibility can be as small as 14,900 square feet or as large as 59,600 square feet. The facility is scheduled for completion this October. It is situated directly across the street from Micron Technology and is visible from Interstate 84.

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OAKLAND, CALIF. — Un[CO]mmon, a coworking space company, has launched a new location in Oakland. The flexible office solution for high-growth companies is located at 1750 Broadway. Un[CO]mmon was created by Rubicon in 2017. It is aimed at teams and companies wanting the flexibility of a coworking experience with the branding, privacy and scalability of a more traditional office environment. The 10,000-square-foot, flexible, full-floor space has direct access to the 19th Street BART station. The office features three conference rooms, two phone booths, an open kitchen stocked with food and coffee, common lounge areas, and social meeting spaces. The first Un[CO]mmon space launched in San Francisco and reached capacity soon after its grand opening was announced. The company’s third location will open in the mid-market neighborhood of San Francisco later this year.

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PORTLAND, ORE. — Restoration Hardware (RH) has opened a 46,000-square-foot location in Portland’s historic Alphabet District. The four-story building features installations of home furnishings in a galley setting, with entire floors dedicated to RH Interiors, RH Modern and RH Outdoor. RH Portland also includes professional design services in a studio environment. Design elements include a 40-foot skylight, 21 crystal helix chandeliers and a landscaped rooftop park with panoramic views of downtown Portland.

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PHOENIX — NorthMarq Capital has debuted the new NorthMarq Multifamily business, which debuted with a 10-person multifamily investment sales team headquartered in Phoenix. This new team marks the beginning of NorthMarq Capital’s selective geographic expansion of multifamily and manufactured housing investment sales services across the country The team was formerly known as the HSK team and led by Trevor Koskovich, who will now serve as president of NorthMarq Multifamily. Koskovich will retain his current production team. In addition to Koskovich, five other brokers have joined NorthMarq Capital this month, including Bill Hahn, executive vice president; and vice presidents Jesse Hudson, Cynthia Meister, Thomas Olivetti and Don Vedeen. Affiliated brokers Meister and Olivetti are based in Albuquerque and Las Vegas, respectively. The rest of the team is based in NorthMarq Capital’s Phoenix office at 3200 E. Camelback Road. James DuMars continues to lead the debt and equity business for NorthMarq Capital in Phoenix.

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TEMPE, ARIZ. — Lincoln Property Co. has broken ground on the second building at Grand at Papago Park Center in Tempe. The 352,000-square-foot building will be located at 1027 W. Roosevelt Way. The Grand Building Two is one of Arizona’s largest office buildings to break ground as a purely speculative endeavor, according to Lincoln. It is scheduled for completion in the second quarter of 2019. The building will be the second of eight Class A office buildings scheduled to be built by Lincoln within the 60-acre mixed-use Grand at Papago Park Center. The newest office building will provide creative office space with a two-story lobby, modern and flexible floorplates and an open office concept highlighted by 12-foot floor-to-ceiling windows. Among the project’s features are a 10,000-square-foot amenity lounge with a full-service restaurant, indoor/outdoor seating, TV viewing area and two conference facilities with full audio-visual technology. Other amenities include a private fitness facility and a modern rooftop lounge designed for tenant events and collaboration, with seating areas, an architectural shade element, catering conveniences and sweeping views of the Papago Buttes, Hole in the Rock and Camelback Mountain. Lincoln also serves as the property manager. Jerry Roberts and Patrick Boyle of Cushman & Wakefield …

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