SAN DIEGO — CalAtlantic Homes has purchased a 170-acre master-planned community site in the San Diego submarket of Del Sur for $24.5 million. The site is located at the intersection of Carmel Valley and Dove Canyon roads. David Santistevan and Gunder Creager of Colliers International represented both the buyer and seller, Mountain Glen Family LLC, in this transaction.
BERKELEY CALIF. — American Campus Communities and the University of California, Berkeley have broken ground on a 781-bed residence hall located on the south side of the university’s main campus in Berkeley. The development, expected to house first-year students, will feature eight stories of residential and amenity space, 7,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and an 11,000-square-foot community center. The community center will include an “academic success center,” fitness center and student and gaming lounges. The project will also be home to 5,000 square feet of integrated space owned by Stiles Hall, a nonprofit student service group associated with the university. The public-private partnership transaction was structured under the American Campus Equity (ACE) program, which gives universities the opportunity to expand and modernize their student housing portfolio without the use of university financial resources. The development will seek LEED Gold certification. The project will include outdoor courtyards for student gathering that incorporate sustainable landscaping to treat rainwater runoff, reducing water usage by 50 percent and heat island effect by 50 percent. An expected completion date has not been announced.
NEWARK, CALIF. — SAS Automotive Systems has pre-leased OMP Eureka Landing, a 142,188-square-foot advanced manufacturing property in Newark. The project will be located at 39888 Eureka Drive. It is situated two blocks west of Interstate-880 and less than five miles from Tesla’s Fremont plant. OMP Eureka Landing represents SAS’s first West Coast outpost where it will bring new manufacturing jobs to the Bay Area. Colliers International’s Mark Triska and Sanjiv Chadha represented SAS.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Alliance Residential Co. has purchased a 30,000-square-foot development site in Portland’s Pearl District for $5.8 million. The site is located at 1400 N.W. Raleigh St. It previously housed a 28,000-square-foot industrial building that has since been demolished. Alliance has already broken ground on a new 147-unit, six-story apartment building known as Broadstone Reveal. The project will also feature ground-floor retail. Gary Griff, Jim Lewis and Paul Carlson of Cushman & Wakefield’s Capital Markets team represented the seller, Diller Properties LLC.
TAOS, N.M. — Jayjala LLC has acquired a 49-room Super 8 Taos motel for $1.5 million. The property is located at 1347 Paseo Del Pueblo Sur in Taos. Leilani Tedeski and Bruce Barnhard of Marcus & Millichap represented both the buyer and seller, another LLC, in this transaction.
SEATTLE — A joint venture between Tristar Capital and RFR Holding has purchased Amazon Phase VII, a 12-story office building with ground-floor retail in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle, for $244 million. The building is located at 400 Ninth Ave. N. Amazon Phase VII features 313,000 square feet of office space fully leased to Amazon, 5,700 square feet of ground-floor retail space fully leased to Sam’s Tavern and a four-level subterranean garage. The development also includes a public plaza and a landscaped rooftop terrace with sweeping views of the city. “Nebulous,” a public art installation by local artist Dan Corson, is suspended above the public plaza. The building was completed in 2015 and is LEED-Gold certified. NBBJ designed the project, which Turner Construction built. The Washington State Chapter of NAIOP honored the building’s seller, Vulcan Real Estate, with the 2015 Office Development of the Year award for its 1 million-square-foot expansion of Amazon’s South Lake Union headquarters. This expansion included Amazon Phase VI, Phase VII and VIII. Kevin Shannon, Ken White, Michael Moll and David Milestone of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, along with CBRE’s Tom Pehl, Lou Senini and Owen Rice, negotiated the transaction. “Core, best-in-class office product in …
DAVIS, CALIF. — Fulcrum Properties has acquired University Research Park, a 304,912-square-foot campus in Davis, for $70 million. The 17-building park is located at 1440-1590 Drew Ave., 1850-2020 Research Park Drive and 1947 Galileo Court, less than one mile from the University of California, Davis. The property was 92 percent occupied at the time of sale. Major tenants include Novozymes, Marrone Bio Inovations and UC Regents. CBRE’s Russell Ingrum, Joe Moriarty, Tyler Meyerdirk, Sean Sullivan, Stuart Wright and Matt Post represented the seller, Interland LLC. The firm’s Mike Stassi and Daniel Baker provided leasing market expertise .
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Ridge Capital Investors has purchased One Eleven Market Square, a 320,559-square-foot office property in San Jose, for an undisclosed sum. The property is composed of two towers. A 163,775-square-foot building is located at 111 W. St. John St., while a 156,784-square-foot building is located at 111 N. Market St. The property is 78 percent leased to tenants like Pacific Business Centers, Rockwell Automation, Kerio Technologies, BAM Labs Opportunity Fund and Diamanti. Ridge Capital Investors purchased the property in partnership with an undisclosed commingled discretionary equity fund. The seller was Swift Real Estate Partners, which made capital improvements during its two years of ownership.
MONTCLAIR, CALIF. — JCH Consulting Group has arranged the $15.5 million sale of a 119-unit assisted living and memory care community in the Los Angeles suburb of Montclair. The community was built in 1990 and was 67 percent occupied at the time of sale. An investment company sold the community to a regional owner-operator as a value-add opportunity. The name of the facility was not disclosed. Nick Stahler and Jim Hazzard of JCH arranged the transaction.
LOS ANGELES — AEG, Regal and Barco have converted all auditoriums at Regal L.A. LIVE: A Barco Innovation Center to 100 percent laser projection. This final phase of installations and upgrades makes the cinema the first all-laser multiplex on the West Coast. AEG owns the theater, which opened in 2009. Regal operates the property, and Barco installed the laser projectors. In addition to improving image quality, Barco’s laser technology reduces costs via lowered energy costs. Additionally, the theater has reduced its carbon footprint by no longer using cardboard standees from movie studios and instead plays the content directly on digital displays in the lobby. Headquartered in Los Angeles, AEG is a sports and live entertainment company.
