TEMPE, ARIZ. — BKM Capital Partners has purchased Tempe Commerce Park, a 535,976-square-foot industrial asset in Tempe, for $58 million. The five-building park is located at 7410-7419 S. Roosevelt. Tempe Commerce Park was purchased at 30 percent below replacement costs. It is currently fully occupied. The asset was acquired through BKM Industrial Value Fund I L.P. JLL’s Mark Detmer and Bo Miles represented the seller, Invesco, which sold the asset on behalf of its client, Ohio Police and Fire.
PHOENIX — Continental Realty Advisors has purchased the 368-unit Courtney Village apartment complex in Phoenix for $45.5 million. The community is located at 4848 E. Roosevelt St. Courtney Village was built in 2002. It includes two resort-style pools, a spa, 24-hour fitness center, gated access and dog park. CBRE’s Tyler Anderson, Sean Cunningham, Asher Gunter and Matt Pesch represented the seller, Passco, in this transaction.
LONG BEACH, CALIF. — Jaison Robinson has purchased the 127-unit Patio Gardens in Long Beach for $35.3 million. The community is located at 4874 E. Los Coyotes Diagonal in the Traffic Circle neighborhood. Patio Gardens is situated on nearly six acres that front Los Coyotes Diagonal. It is also less than two miles from California State University of Long Beach, and three miles from the Belmont Shore neighborhood. The property was built in 1958. It contains 19 two-story buildings. The purchase allowed Robinson to complete a 1031 exchange. Robert Stepp of Stepp Commercial represented Robinson in both transactions. Gregory Harris of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, Patio Gardens LLC, in this transaction.
SEATTLE — Create World America has acquired an 8,748-square-foot residential development site near Pike Place Market in Seattle for $17.1 million. The space is located at 1613 2nd Ave. The acquisition includes air rights that allow for a large floor plate and protected views from the 14th floor and above. Create World America, an international construction management firm based out of Hong Kong, plans to erect a high-rise residential tower on the site. Jim Klinger and Ross Klinger of Kidder Mathews represented the seller, MJA Building, an affiliate of Principal Real Estate Investors, in this transaction.
LOS ANGELES — Goodman Birtcher has purchased a 130-acre logistics portfolio that spans two infill sites in the Los Angeles submarkets of Santa Fe Springs and El Monte. The sites were purchased for a reported $240 million. The Santa Fe Springs site contains a six-building logistics campus that totals about 1 million square feet of space over 75 acres. The facility includes 18 acres of trailer parking and ambient refrigerated and freezer facilities suitable for food users, last-mile logistics and ecommerce companies. The transaction also includes a 55-acre site in El Monte that will be developed into a 1.2 million-square-foot, Class A logistics facility. It will be constructed with a flexible and sustainable design for logistics and ecommerce customers. The redevelopment efforts will commence once the sites’ current leases expire. JLL’s Louis Tomaselli, Zach Niles and Mark Detmer executed the transaction.
LOS ANGELES — Bridge Development Partners has announced plans to build a 429,840-square-foot warehouse and office facility in the City of Industry, a submarket of Los Angeles. The facility will be located near the 60 Freeway. The Class A property is scheduled for completion on Dec. 1. A 260,000-square-foot warehouse on the site will be demolished to make way for the new facility. Bridge Development is targeting high-tech tenants. Premier Design + Build will build the facility. HSA & Associates will provide engineering services, while HPA will deliver architectural services. Stuart Milligan of Cushman & Wakefield and Tony Phu of Colliers International will act as the building’s leasing agents. JP Morgan Chase Bank provided financing.
SIMI VALLEY, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of the Shops at Target Center, a retail center in Simi Valley. A 1031 exchange investor acquired the 22,812-square-foot property for $10.1 million, or $445 per square foot. Located at 2931-2941 Cochran St., the retail center features a mix of 12 tenants, including restaurants, a private gym and service-oriented shops. Aria Pournazarian, Mike Malick and Carol Song of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a development firm based in Los Angeles, and procured the buyer.
GLENDORA, CALIF. — Champion Real Estate Co. has acquired a grocery-anchored neighborhood retail center in Glendora for an undisclosed price. Located at 655 S. Grand Ave., the existing 85,615-square-foot property is a vacant grocery building. Champion plans to reconfigure and reposition the property as a smaller 70,500-square-foot, grocery-anchored neighborhood shopping center that will include several national credit tenants. Additionally, the center will include two retail pads in the existing parking field, plus additional supporting retail to expand the tenant base and meet community needs. The name of the seller was not released.
VICTORVILLE, CALIF. — Faris Lee Investments has arranged the sale of a freestanding, single-tenant property located at 13615 Bear Valley Road in Victorville. Newport Beach, Calif.-based Giavictor Investments acquired the 8,930-square-foot property from OPT Bear Valley VV for $4.6 million. Built in 2008, KinderCare Learning Centers occupies the property. Shaun Riley of Faris Lee Investments represented the seller, while Diana Kaplan of ReMax FH Commercial represented the buyer in the deal.
LOS ANGELES AND SAN DIEGO — Savills Studley has arranged the sale of a pair of shopping centers in Southern California for a combined sales price of $352 million. In the first transaction, ROIC California purchased North Ranch Shopping Center, a 146,625-square-foot neighborhood shopping center in the Los Angeles submarket of Westlake Village, for $122.8 million. Ralphs Fresh Fare, Rite Aid, Trader Joes and Petco anchor North Ranch. It is located at 3815-3963 Thousand Oaks Blvd., one block from the 101 Freeway. In the second transaction, Stockbridge Capital Group purchased Mira Mesa Marketplace, a 487,807-square-foot regional shopping center in San Diego, for $229 million. Smart & Final Extra, CVS, Home Depot, Edwards Theatre, Ross, Old Navy and Barnes & Noble anchor Mira Mesa. It is located off Interstate 15 on Mira Mesa Boulevard. Bill Bauman and Kyle Miller of Savills Studley’s National Retail Services Group represented the unidentified seller of the two properties. ROIC California is an entity of the Retail Opportunity Investment Corp., a publicly traded REIT. Stockbridge Capital Group is a real estate investment firm headquartered in San Francisco. — Nellie Day
