DENVER — HFF has arranged the $20 million sale of Tamarac Shopping Center, a 68,534-square-foot retail center in Denver. Chad Murray, Mark Williford and Bryan Ley of HFF arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, DDR Corp. Tamarac Shopping Center 17 A LLC acquired the property, which was fully leased at the time of sale. Target shadow-anchors the center, which includes three single-tenant buildings triple-net-leased to Chick-fil-A, Benihana and Bank of the West, as well as a 33,099-square-foot strip center with 12 tenants including anchor Ace Hardware.
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LOS ANGELES — Gaw Capital Partners has purchased the 107,875-square-foot studio campus in the Los Angeles submarket of Atwater Village formerly occupied by Playboy. The space is located at 3030 Studios. The price was not disclosed. The studio features studio, production and creative office space located on nearly four acres of land. The private studio campus offers a full-service production and broadcast facility with three soundstages. JLL’s Nicole Mihalka, Carl Muhlstein and Hayley Blockley represented the seller, World Class Capital Group, in this transaction.
IRVINE, CALIF. — Taco Bell Corp. has expanded its executive team and leadership capabilities with three new positions as the brand inches toward its goal of being a $15 billion company with 9,000 restaurants globally by 2022. Taco Bell is bringing on Julie Felss Masino as brand president, where she will be responsible for ensuring the brand continues to deliver same-store sales growth by driving innovation, new store development and customer experience. She will also continue the brand’s partnership with its franchisees. This addition will allow CEO Brian Niccol the opportunity to focus on the company’s growth as a global brand while continuing to oversee the U.S. business. Masino comes to Taco Bell from Mattel Inc., where she led the Fisher Price division. Prior to that, she had extensive experience in the restaurant industry. Masino spent 12 years at Starbucks in leadership positions across numerous functions including in marketing, operations and strategic growth — both domestically and globally. She also has experience building newer brands, having served as CEO of Sprinkles Cupcakes Inc., where she grew store count and diversified retail product offerings, successfully launching its newest concept of cupcakes and ice cream. As part of the company’s structuring for …
ORANGE, CALIF. — Chapman University has received approval for the adaptive reuse of a historic packing house. The university will develop a 402-bed student housing community adjacent to its campus in Orange. The historic Villa Park Orchards Association Packing House will be converted into a museum, student services center and classrooms or offices for the university. The new student housing development will target upperclassmen, and is being designed to reflect the character of the packing house and the surrounding community. The project’s designers are Togawa Smith Martin Inc. and AC Martin. KTGY Architecture + Planning is the university’s design advisor and project representative, and has helped to ensure project consistency, coordinate with various design firms, provide design recommendations and shepherd the project through the approval process. Additional details and a planned completion date have yet to be announced.
GARDEN GROVE, CALIF. — Khanna Enterprises has purchased the 376-room Wyndham Anaheim Garden Grove hotel in Orange County for an undisclosed sum. The hotel is located at 12021 Harbor Blvd. The property includes more than 30,000 square feet of meeting space, three food and beverage outlets, a fitness center and an outdoor pool. Pacific Hospitality Group developed the Wyndham Anaheim as the Crowne Plaza Anaheim Resort in 1999. The hotel was rebranded under the Wyndham flag in May 2014 and, since then, PHG has invested more than $5 million in capital improvements to the hotel. Renovations included including a transformation of the lobby and food and beverage outlets. Following the sale, the purchaser plans to renovate, reposition and reflag the hotel as a Delta by Marriott.
CASHMERE, WASH. — Senior Living Investment Brokerage has arranged the sale of Cashmere Convalescent Center, a 65-bed skilled nursing facility in Cashmere, located between Seattle and Spokane. The price was not disclosed. A regional owner-operator based in Idaho purchased the property, seeking to expand its footprint beyond the northern Rocky Mountain region. The 21,820-square-foot facility sits on four acres of land, leaving room for future expansion. Jason Punzel, Brad Goodsell and Nick Cacciabando of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the transaction.
OCEANSIDE, CALIF. — Quarry Creek Investors has completed the disposition of Quarry Creek Plaza, a retail center located at 3460 and 3480 Marron Road in Oceanside. Completed in 2003, the 15,690-square-foot property is 92.6 percent leased to a variety of tenants, including Jamba Juice, Subway, Los Tacos, Poki Poki, Supercuts, American Dry Clean, Happiness Nails and Smashburger. Gleb Lvovich of HFF, along with Mike Moser of Retail Insite, represented the seller. Terms of the transaction and the name of the buyer were not released.
OCEANSIDE, CALIF. — Kellermeyer Bergensons Services LLC (KBS), a provider of property services to multi-site and multi-region customers in North America, has completed the acquisition of Empire Services, an independently owned commercial facility maintenance company headquartered in New Orleans. Empire provides commercial janitorial, pressure washing, porter services, truck-mounted regenerative air sweeper truck operations, general contracting, painting, sheetrock, demolition services, electrical services, construction cleanup, special event services, emergency services, water extraction and dehumidification, landscape maintenance, trash removal, engineering services, HVAC, mechanical and facility maintenance services. Based in Oceanside, Calif., KBS is majority owned by GI Partners.
CHANDLER, ARIZ. — Avesta Communities has purchased the 320-unit Coronado Crossings in Chandler for an undisclosed sum. The community is located at 700 N. Coronado St. in the Price Corridor. Avesta plans to fully renovate the property, upgrading all interior units and community amenities. Intel announced plans last year to invest $7 billion in a new facility in Chandler, which would create 3,000 jobs. Avesta deployed more than $119 million of equity into eight communities across four states in 2017. The company now operates in Arizona, Colorado, Florida and Texas.
Sabra Health Care REIT Completes $103.3M Sale of 20 Skilled Nursing Facilities Leased to Genesis
by Nellie Day
IRVINE, CALIF — Sabra Health Care REIT Inc. (NASDAQ: SBRA) has completed the previously announced sale of 20 skilled nursing facilities leased to Genesis Healthcare Inc. in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana for $103.3 million. The 20 facilities are part of the original 35 facilities marketed for sale under the previously announced memoranda of understanding with Genesis. Under the terms of the deal, Genesis’s annual rent obligations to Irvine-based Sabra will be reduced by $9.3 million as a result of the sale of these facilities. Sabra expects to use the proceeds from the sale to repay borrowings under its revolving credit facility. The dispositions are part of the REIT’s “Sabra 3.0” plan to have more scale and diversification within the company’s portfolio as far as continuum of care, operator and geography. Sabra plans to sell its entire portfolio of Genesis-operated skilled nursing facilities for aggregate sales proceeds of $425 million to $475 million.