LONG BEACH, CALIF. — SRS Real Estate Partners has arranged the sale of a restaurant property located in Long Beach. An undisclosed buyer acquired the property for $5 million, or $1,685 per square foot. The newly constructed 2,967-square-foot property is occupied by Carl’s Jr., which opened in July. Matthew Mousavi, Patrick Luther, Garrett Colburn and Townsand Cropsey of SRS represented the undisclosed seller in the deal.
HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. — Avison Young has brokered the sale of a retail and office property located at 6501 Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood. A Los Angeles-based private investor sold the 7,000-square-foot property for $3.7 million. At the time of sale, the two-story property was fully leased. John Tronson and Steven Tronson of Avision Young represented the seller and buyer, a private investor from New York City, in the deal.
CORONA, CALIF. — Progressive Real Estate Partners has arranged 9,776 square feet in retail leases at Metro at Main, a mixed-use community located at the corner of North Main and Rincon streets in Corona. Metro at Main features 60,000 square feet of retail space and 868 luxury high-rise residential units. The new tenants include a 1,845-square-foot Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, a 3,138-square-foot America’s Best Vision, a 1,398-square-foot Poki Cat, an 859-square-foot Organic Junkie, a 1,337-square-foot Meraki Salon and a 1,199-square-foot Union Barber & Beer Lodge. Paul Galmarini and Gretchen Lastra of Progressive Real Estate represented the landlord internally in the lease transactions.
PARAMOUNT, CALIF. — Colliers Retail Foresight has arranged a lease for restaurant space at Clearwater Crossing, a 12,000-square-foot restaurant development in Paramount. Stinkin’ Crawfish will occupy 2,800 square feet of space at the property. James Rodriguez and Michael Bohorquez of Colliers represented the tenant and undisclosed landlord in the deal.
LOS ANGELES — Douglas Emmett has received a total of $550 million in loans to refinance a four-property multifamily portfolio in Los Angeles. The Class A assets are located in Los Angeles and Santa Monica. About 90 percent of the total loan amount, or nearly $500 million, qualified for Fannie Mae’s Delegated Underwriting and Servicing (DUS) Green Rewards program, making it the largest transaction using Fannie Mae’s Green Rewards to date. The Green Rewards program will fund environmental upgrades to three of the four properties. These improvements allowed the borrower to secure competitive loan terms while ensuring more sustainable operations and cost savings for years to come. Walker & Dunlop closed the four interest-only loans.
CORVALLIS, ORE. — An unnamed buyer has acquired the 420-unit Witham Hill Oaks Apartments in Corvallis for $56 million. The community is located at 4275 N.W. Clubhouse Place. The 50-building property was built in three phases in 1968, 1977 and 1998. Witham Hill contains one- to three-bedroom units, with amenities like a fitness center, clubhouse, basketball court, children’s playgrounds, pool, spa, laundry facilities and covered parking. It’s situated less than two miles from the Oregon State University campus, near major employers like Hewlett-Packard and Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center. CBRE’s Phil Oester, Joe Nydahl and Josh McDonald represented the seller, Witham Hill Oaks Apartments LLC, in this transaction.
SAN FRANCISCO — A joint venture between CIM Group and fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) has acquired a 7.3-acre site at 400 Paul Ave. in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco for an undisclosed sum. The site will soon be home to a 187,000-square-foot data center with 24 megawatt power capacity. The acquisition also includes two 1930s-era buildings that total 54,225 square feet. The facilities will undergo improvements to serve as office and support space for data center tenants.
IRVINE, CALIF. — Digital Map Products has leased 22,000 square feet of office space at University Research Park in Irvine. The cloud-based location technology and data solutions provider will occupy an entire floor that was formerly home to chipmaker Broadcom. The research park is situated next to UC Irvine. Digital Map Products is working with local universities like UC Irvine to provide free access to the company’s technology. The campus also houses Irvine Co.’s tech incubator, The Vine, where startups have generated more than $24 million in funding, and UCI Applied Innovation.
LOS ANGELES — Business Finance Capital (BFC) has serviced more than $148 million in SBA 504 funds in Los Angeles so far in 2017. The certified development company has completed a total of 106 SBA loans, which are designed to assist businesses seeking finance mechanisms such as real estate and machinery. The program works by distributing the loan across three parties: a conventional lender (50 percent), a nonprofit certified development company such as BFC (40 percent) and the buyer (10 percent). BFC also services the 504 Refinance Program. BFC services a range of industries, including wholesalers and distributors, manufacturers, assisted living facilities, hotels, law practices, medical and dental offices, car washes, construction companies and more.
PHOENIX — Cathedral Development Group has completed the $33 million conversion of a historic luxury hotel in Phoenix into The Historic Westward Ho Apartments, an affordable seniors housing community. Originally built in 1928, the hotel hosted famed guests such as President John F. Kennedy, President Ronald Reagan, Jackie Gleason and Paul Newman throughout its history. Cathedral purchased the property in 1978 and has spent 40 years trying to preserve and restore the property. Cathedral Development Group utilized public/private programs to help fund three separate renovation projects. The renovations included new energy efficient heating and cooling features, a new plumbing system throughout the property to enhance water efficiency, new features in select units such as kitchen cabinets, floors, bathroom fixtures, energy efficient windows, a lightning protection system for the building and the restoration of the historic courtyard fountain. In a related but separately funded project, the first floor commercial space was remodeled and a long-term lease signed with Arizona State University. The property can now host up to 289 elderly and disabled residents. Based in Providence, R.I., Cathedral Development Group is working on projects in Rhode Island, New York, Maine, Connecticut, Arizona and Delaware.