REDONDO BEACH, CALIF. — CBRE has arranged the sale of a retail property located at 2525 Artesia Blvd. in Redondo Beach. El Indio Property LLC sold the property to MattKarr Properties LLC for $4.2 million. A drive-through Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, which signed a 15-year lease in 2017, occupies the property. Alex Kozakov and Patrick Wade of CBRE represented the seller, while Sanjo Investments represented the buyer in the deal.
CORVALIS, ORE. — Contemporary Healthcare Capital (CHC) has arranged a $1.2 million mezzanine loan to refinance a 32-unit memory care community in Corvalis, approximately 80 miles south of Portland. The borrower is Benicia Senior Living. Millennium Bank of Chattanooga provided the capital. The combined loans totaling approximately $5.45 million will be used for a bridge-to-HUD loan for Conifer House. The 24,640-square-foot, single-story facility was originally constructed in 1989, with substantial renovations completed by the borrower in 2015.
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. — Newmark Knight Frank has added Daniel Samulski as a senior managing director with the firm’s Newport Beach office. Samulski has almost two decades of retail expertise in Southern California. Previously, he served as a senior vice president at CBRE.
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — PCCP has provided a $44.5 million senior loan to S&P Co. and Basin Street Properties for the acquisition of Prospect Green, a 518,156-square-foot office campus in the Sacramento submarket of Rancho Cordova. The campus is located at 10877 to 10951 White Rock Road and 10850 and 10860 Gold Center Drive. The property is 73 percent occupied. Notable tenants include the State of California, Liberty Financial Home Equity, Allstate Insurance and NEC Solutions. The five buildings were developed in phases between 1990 and 2001 and range from 70,000 square feet to 124,000 square feet. The campus also features a workout facility, showers and cafe.
ENGLEWOOD, COLO. — Lincoln Property Co. has acquired Highfield Building 5, a 101,000-square-foot industrial building in Englewood, for $13.5 million. The building is located at 14150 Grasslands Drive within the Highfield Business Park. The Class A industrial distribution facility is fully leased to two tenants, Charter Communications and Gateway Classic Cars. Building 5 was initially launched as a speculative project but reached full occupancy within 12 months of breaking ground. CBRE’s Jim Bolt, Tyler Carner and Jeremy Ballenger represented the seller, a partnership between Confluent Development and Bradbury Properties, in this transaction.
RIVERSIDE AND CHINO HILLS, CALIF. — Newcastle Partners has completed construction of the 503,592-square-foot Meridian Distribution Center II in Riverside. It is situated on a 26.9-acre land parcel at 22000 Opportunity Way. Phil Lombardo, Chuck Belden and Andrew Starnes of Cushman & Wakefield’s Ontario office are responsible for marketing the project. Newcastle also started construction of a 100,326-square-foot building in the Chino Hills Commerce Center in Chino Hills. The center is located at 15291 Fairfield Ranch Road and is situated on approximately 5 acres of land. David Consani, Jim Koenig and Jason Chao of CBRE are responsible for marketing the asset for sale or lease. Newcastle Partners has developed more than 5 million square feet of industrial product in the Inland Empire region over the past eight years.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Ready Capital has closed a $7.5 million acquisition loan for a 26,000-square-foot creative office property in Portland. The asset is situated in the Pearl District. The non-recourse, floating-rate bridge loan will fund the acquisition, renovation and stabilization of the asset. Further details were not disclosed.
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Demmon Partners has acquired The Falls at Arden apartments in Sacramento for an undisclosed sum. The 272-unit community is located at 2345 Northrop Ave. The Falls at Arden was built in 1986. It includes studio to two-bedroom units that are currently 95 percent occupied. The asset has received $3.6 million in improvements since March 2016. Jason Parr of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, FPA Multifamily, in this transaction.
CALGARY, ALBERTA AND SAN DIEGO — Brookfield Residential Properties Inc., the residential development arm of private equity firm Brookfield Asset Management, has closed on its acquisition of OliverMcMillan, a San Diego-based developer of large-scale mixed-use properties. Details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but on a conference call Wednesday (Feb. 7), Brookfield Residential chairman and CEO Alan Norris stated that the acquisition encompasses “certain assets” of OliverMcMillan. According to a release from Brookfield Residential, OliverMcMillan will continue to design and build mixed-use developments and will also continue to manage its existing real estate assets. “We simply could not have found a better long-term home,” says Dene Oliver, CEO of OliverMcMillan, in a prepared statement about the merger with Brookfield Residential. OliverMcMillan has several mixed-use projects under development across the country, including the second phases of River Oaks District in Houston and Buckhead Atlanta in Atlanta’s Buckhead district. As part of the merger, Brookfield Residential is acquiring the future pipeline of these two projects but not the operations of the existing assets, according to a source familiar with the acquisition. The second phase of Buckhead Atlanta includes 315,000 square feet of office space, according to the OliverMcMillan website. The project’s first …
CARLSBAD, CALIF. — A majority of commercial real estate investors indicate that they are in a buying mode in 2018 and are particularly focused on properties in the value-add space, according to a survey conducted by Real Capital Markets (RCM). The National Investor Sentiment Report and follow-up interviews were completed in early January by RCM, a Carlsbad-based online technology platform for buying and selling commercial real estate. RCM surveyed more than 250 investors active in all property types across the United States to gauge their investment strategies and outlook for the year ahead. More than 75 percent of respondents classified their investment strategy as buy, or buy but trending toward hold, according to the survey. “Investors across the country continue to see great opportunity and benefit in commercial real estate investing,” says Steve Shanahan, executive managing director of RCM. “Regardless of the product type or whether the strategy is core or value-add, the focus is on finding assets that can deliver strong yields that outpace other investment options.” Of the respondents, a majority (58 percent) characterized themselves as value-add investors. In other words, they are looking for growth through renovation or repositioning properties to enhance value. These types of properties are …