BURLINGAME, CALIF. — A joint venture between New York Life Real Estate Investors and Harvest Properties has acquired One Bay Plaza, a 196,139-square-foot office property in Burlingame, for a reported $53.4 million. The Class A plaza is located at 1350 Bayshore Highway. The nine-story building has frontage along the San Francisco Bay with unobstructed water views. It also has an on-site café, fitness center and access to waterfront jogging trails. The property is among the newest vintage buildings in the submarket. The seller was Hudson Pacific.
LOS ANGELES — Berkshire Group has acquired the 438-unit One Santa Fe apartment complex in Los Angeles for an undisclosed sum. The community is located at 214 S. Santa Fe Ave. in downtown’s Arts District. One Santa Fe also contains more than 80,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial and retail space. The property spans about a quarter mile over four city blocks. It features two buildings situated around the retail paseo. Berkshire Communities, the property management division of Berkshire Group, will manage the space.
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corp. has purchased a 225,362-square-foot industrial building in Colorado Springs for $28.8 million. The facility is located at 125 N. Troy Hill Road. It is net leased to FedEx Ground Packaging System for the next 10 years. The property is situated directly across from the Colorado Springs Airport and is in close proximity to Interstate 25.
HENDERSON, NEV. — LBG Real Estate Cos. LLC, in partnership with Aviva Investors Real Estate Capital Partners I-A LP, has sold a single-tenant, net-leased Home Depot location in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson for $23 million. Chris Kostanecki and Dave Lucas of Capital Pacific brokered the sale of the property, located within the Sunset Plaza Shopping Center at 1030 W. Sunset Road. The buyer of the 102,370-square-foot Home Depot was undisclosed.
SEATTLE — A partnership between L5 Real Estate Investments and Shuler Architecture has acquired the 31-unit Innsbruck Apartments in Seattle for $2.6 million. The community is located at 3223 S. 160th St. Innsbruck was built in 1967 and renovated in 2007. It will undergo a significant further renovations, according to the buyers. David Massa of Madison Partners Real Estate represented the buyers. The sellers were local private investors. Grandbridge Capital provided the debt.
RENTON, WASH. — New Standard Equities has purchased The Venue, a 284-unit apartment complex in Renton, for $41.5 million. The community is located at 4455 N.E. 12th St. The Venue will undergo a $2.8 million repositioning that will include improvements to its fitness center and additional carports on the low-density site. This is the third Pacific Northwest acquisition for New Standard since August 2015. The seller was Fowler Property Acquisitions. Regis Metro Associates provided equity, while Freddie Mac provided the financing.
DENVER — A joint venture between United Properties and Principal Real Estate Investors have announced the second phase of Inova Dry Creek, a 650,000-square-foot, mixed-use campus in Denver. Phase II will contain a second speculative Class A office building containing 235,800 square feet. Construction will commence in the coming weeks, with an expected delivery date in the third quarter of 2017. Development plans call for three additional buildings on the 58-acre site. The developers broke ground on Inova 1, the first phase of the campus, in September. It is slated for completion in November, with Comcast taking occupancy in the first quarter of 2017. The JV will also soon break ground on Inova Flex, a 70,632-square-foot flex property at the campus. Power Home Remodeling Group has recently signed a lease at this space. Powers Brown Architecture has designed the project, while Adolfson & Peterson Construction is serving as the general contractor for Inova 1.
IRVINE, CALIF. — BLT Enterprises has purchased a four-building portfolio that contains a mix of office, flex and industrial buildings for $28 million. The portfolio contains a total of 170,447 square feet. The assets encompass 11.1 acres and are fully leased. Notable tenants at the facilities include Securitas Security Services USA, Ambry Genetics, Compass Group USA and Exhibitree. The portfolio includes a 73,066-square-foot industrial building at 9700 Toledo Way in Irvine; a 47,662-square-foot industrial building at 12640 Knott St. in Garden Grove; a 41,519-square-foot office/flex building at 15 Argonaut in Aliso Viejo; and an 8,200-square-foot office building in Anaheim. Kurt Bruggeman and Ryan Swanson of Lee & Associates represented BLT. Jeff Chiate and Jeff Cole of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Cordia Capital Management, in this transaction.
SANTA ROSA, CALIF. — Arroyo & Co. has arranged the sale of a 90,348-square-foot retail building connected to Santa Rosa Plaza in downtown Santa Rosa. The deal was through Ten-X, and terms of the transaction were not released. Pedro Arroyo and David Kram of San Francisco-based Arroyo & Co. represented the undisclosed buyer. Situated on 3.4 acres, the building is partially leased to Forever 21 and has 47,289 square feet of retail space available for lease. The connected Santa Rosa Plaza is occupied by 120 specialty stores, including Apple, Abercrombie & Fitch, Forever 21, Macy’s, Sears, Eddie Bauer, Gap, Gymboree and Victoria’s Secret, as well as 16 eateries.
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — REI, a specialty outdoor retailer, has teamed with Blue Oak Energy to complete a 2.2 megawatt rooftop solar installation atop REI’s new distribution center in Goodyear, a western suburb of Phoenix. The system is expected to offset all of the facility’s annual electricity consumption. REI and Blue Oak have worked together on solar projects for eight years. The partnership has resulted in a 5.4 megawatt solar portfolio for REI. Blue Oak Energy was founded in 2003 in Davis, Calif. In 2015, Panasonic Enterprise Solutions Company and Coronal Group LLC invested in the company. REI is headquartered near Seattle and has 144 stores in 35 states.