DENVER — A fund advised by CBRE Global Investors has acquired Viridian at the Gardens on Havana near Denver for an undisclosed sum. The 227-unit garden-style community is located at 10901 E. Garden Drive in Aurora. Viridian is two miles from a light rail station that is scheduled to open later this year. It sits adjacent to the 500,000-square-foot Gardens on Havana Shopping Center. The Class A community is nearly 95 percent occupied. ARA represented the seller.
MORGAN HILL, CALIF. — Nazareth Enterprises has purchased the 180,000-square-foot Madrone Business Park in Morgan Hill, just south of San Jose, for $15.6 million. The two-building asset is located at 18705 and 18715 Madrone Parkway. Nazareth Enterprises also purchased the Paramit Building late last year, making the company one of the single-largest landlords in Morgan Hill. Sterling Bank & Trust provided financing for the project. Abe Matar with Landmark Real Estate Services represented Nazareth. Stan Johnson Co. represented the seller, a private equity firm, in this transaction.
STOCKTON, CALIF. — Westcore Properties has purchased a 158,400-square-foot industrial building in Stockton for $9.1 million. The building is located at 3834 Duck Creek Drive. It is a freestanding, cross-load building. Mike Goldstein and Ryan McShane of Colliers International represented the undisclosed seller in this transaction.
LOS ANGELES — UCLA Extension is relocating its administrative headquarters in Los Angeles. The school has leased a 51,452-square-foot space at 10960 Wilshire Blvd. The new facilities are just four blocks from its current location at 10955 Le Conte Ave. in Westwood Village. The extension signed a long-term lease for floors 16 and 17, which are joined by an interconnecting staircase. Craig Jablin of Savills Studley represented UCLA.
LOS ANGELES — Rexford Industrial Realty has purchased a 1.2 million-square-foot industrial facility in the South Bay submarket of Los Angeles for an undisclosed sum. The facility is located at 20001-20021 Rancho Way and 2301-2399 E. Pacifica Place in Rancho Dominguez. The master-planned park was built between 1987 and 1989. It includes five industrial buildings and one flex building, each residing on its own parcel. Known as Rancho Pacifica Park, the facility was 99 percent leased at the time of sale. Jeff Chiate, Jeffrey Cole, Ed Hernandez, Mike Adey and Nico Napolitano of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in this transaction.
SAN FRANCISCO — Bridgeton Holdings has sold The Pioneer Building, a 37,104-square-foot office building in San Francisco’s Mission District, to American Realty Advisors for $34 million. The building is fully leased to Musk Industries, a venture backed by Elon Musk. The new lease with Musk Industries is for a 10-year term with space delivered in “as-is” condition. NKF’s Kyle Kovac, Michael Taquino and Daniel Cressman represented Bridgeton Holdings in this transaction.
LA MESA, CALIF. — Anchor Health Properties has purchased Fletcher Parkway Medical Center, an 82,024-square-foot medical office building in the San Diego suburb of La Mesa, for an undisclosed sum. The building is situated adjacent to Sharp Grossmont Hospital, just north of the Interstate 8/California 125 interchange. Sharp HealthCare anchors the center. The asset features services like Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA) surgery center, radiology, laboratory, diagnostics, cardiology, pediatrics, ophthalmology, rehabilitation and hospice. HFF’s Evan Kovac, Andrew Milne and Trent Jemmett represented the seller, The Abbey Company, in this transaction.
GRESHAM, ORE. — Capital One has provided a $12 million fixed-rate HUD 232/223(f) loan to refinance Regency Gresham, a 128-bed skilled nursing facility in the Portland suburb of Gresham. Regency Gresham was built in 1960 and expanded in 1976. The owners recently converted four-person rooms and semi-private rooms to private ones. The sponsors will use proceeds of the loan to extend their renovation program to other areas of the facility, modernize the building’s infrastructure, improve common area appearance, and enable additional therapy services. Joshua Rosen originated the transaction.
SAN DIEGO — An undisclosed buyer has acquired the 63-room Rodeway Inn San Diego for $7.5 million. The hotel is located at 5399 Adobe Falls Road, near Qualcomm Stadium. Joshua Yammer, Sarhan Mheni and Walter Brauer of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a partnership, in this transaction.
From the hottest commercial submarkets, such as Downtown Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, to far-flung suburbs like Lynnwood, the Puget Sound multifamily market has been firing on all cylinders lately. A major reason for this is the huge growth in tech employment throughout the Puget Sound region. Tech employment in the region has grown almost 87 percent since 2001, and more than 80 tech-based companies have opened engineering offices in Seattle in the past five years. Demand for engineering and creative talent has pushed salaries up. Salaries for tech workers in Seattle are 9 percent higher than the national average. Seattle offers the highest salaries in the nation for positions like vice president of engineering ($253,488) and director of product ($228,482). Demand for talent is also having a major impact on demand for apartments. In South Lake Union, where vacancy is 3.5 percent, demand among renters for apartment units continues to be strong. This is driving tremendous interest among multifamily investors. Newly built, high-quality properties like the 282-unit Radius apartment community lease up very quickly. A joint venture between Kennedy Wilson and Lefrak purchased the just-completed asset in February for $141 million. Radius is a prime example of the quality …