IRVINE, CALIF. — Cloudvirga has leased 11,918 square feet of office space in Irvine. The space is located at 2875 Michelle Drive within Jamboree Business Center. The modern fintech company for the home lending industry will use the space as its corporate headquarters. The new office will allow the company room for growth. JLL’s Scott Wetzel represented Cloudvirga, while the landlord, Irvine Co., was represented in-house by Gavin Galey and Mike Santley.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — Muselli Commercial Realtors has brokered the sale of a retail building located at 2914 Main St. in Santa Monica. An undisclosed buyer acquired the property for $3.2 million, or $1,780 per square foot. The buyer plans to occupy the 1,825-square-foot building, which is currently vacant. Evan Pozarny of Muselli Commercial Realtors represented the undisclosed seller in the deal.
LOS ANGELES — Madison Marquette has added three new tenants to District La Brea, the company’s adaptive re-use development in Los Angeles. Interior Define, Best Made and Made Gold will open at the 110,214-square-foot retail, dining and office property this fall. Interior Define is a custom furniture store; Best Made offers a lifestyle line of outdoor gear from graphic designer Peter Buchanan-Smith; and Made Gold is a denim-focused streetwear brand by Marta Goldschmeid.
MESA, ARIZ. — PC Avenue 8 Mesa LLC has acquired the 194-unit Avenue 8 apartment complex in Mesa for $21.2 million. The community is located at 1050 W. Eighth Ave. The asset features two-bedroom units with refrigerators and stackable washers and dryers. Community amenities include two swimming pools, covered parking, fitness center, and a renovated office and clubhouse. Mark Forrester, Ric Holway and Dan Cheyne of Berkadia represented the seller, KMG Village in the Pines LLC, in the transaction.
LONGVIEW, COLO. — A regional private investor has acquired the 130-unit Mountain View Apartments in Longview for $10.5 million. The community is located at 2185 38th Ave. The asset has received recent capital upgrades. Major employers in the area include PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center, Winco Holdings Inc., Lower Columbia College, Pacific Lumber & Shipping Co. and Solvay Chemicals Inc. George Miller of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer. The firm’s Joel Deis represented the seller, a regional private investment partnership, in this transaction.
EVERETT, WASH. — Brixton Capital has purchased Everett Mall, a 490,949-square-foot shopping center located in Everett, 28 miles north of Seattle. Everett Mall is home to a mix of national, regional and local tenants including Regal 16 Cinemas, LA Fitness, Burlington Coat Factory, Sears, Party City and Ulta Beauty. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
ANTIOCH, CALIF. — CBRE has arranged acquisition financing for Cypress Meadows, a 110-unit assisted living and memory care community in Antioch, located approximately 40 miles northeast of San Francisco. The buyer is a joint venture between Agemark Senior Living and Trellis Real Estate Group. The seller was not a local mom-and-pop owner. Agemark will operate the property following the acquisition. Cypress Meadows was built in 1999. The new owners plan to spend $2.6 million in capital upgrades. Aron Will of CBRE National Senior Housing secured a five-year, floating-rate loan with 36 months of interest-only payments from a national bank.
DAVIS, CALIF. — University Student Living and The University of California, Davis have started development of two communities that will total 2,775 on-campus beds. The projects include West Village, a 1,875-bed community primarily targeted towards transfer and continuing students with apartment-style units; and Orchard Park, the redevelopment of an existing complex to offer 900 beds in two-bedroom units for students with families and single graduate students. A timeline for the development has yet to be announced.
CHICAGO — Duke Realty Corp. (NYSE: DRE) has purchased a 10-building industrial portfolio totaling nearly 3.5 million square feet, plus two additional land parcels, for $515 million. The assets are situated in Southern California, Northern New Jersey and South Florida. The two parcels will eventually contain two buildings totaling 852,745 square feet. Construction on these projects will commence later this year. The total value of the portfolio will be approximately $700 million once construction is completed. The seller, Bridge Development Partners, has completed more than $2 billion in developments and acquisitions since its joint venture with Dallas-based Banner Oak Capital Partners in 2013. Bridge’s current pipeline contains more than 10.3 million square feet valued at $1.3 billion in the most supply constrained U.S. core industrial markets, including Chicago, Miami, New Jersey, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. “This portfolio sale is part of the $1.1 billion of new state-of-the-art industrial assets Bridge will sell in 2017,” says Steve Poulos, the company’s founder and CEO. “The portfolio includes a mix of fully stabilized, partially stabilized and completely vacant assets.” Though the exact properties included in this transaction were not disclosed, some of Bridge’s assets include the 306,466-square-foot Bridge Point I-95 in …
SAN DIEGO — Interstate Equities Corporation (IEC) has purchased the 133-unit Verse La Mesa apartment complex in San Diego for $34 million. The value-add community is located at 7400 Parkway Drive in La Mesa. It was built in 1976 and is currently 96 percent occupied. The property will be rebranded as The Cove. It will also undergo renovations, including the installation of washers, dryers and dishwashers, new paint, laminate wood floors and upgraded fixtures throughout the units. Shane Shafer, Ed Rosen, John Chu, and Kyle Pinkalla of Berkadia executed the transaction.