SEATTLE — Capstone Development Partners and Harrison Street Real Estate Capital have opened Cornish Commons, a $49 million, 432-bed student housing development located on the Cornish College campus in downtown Seattle. The property features 16,854 square feet of academic space, with the first and second floors devoted to housing administrative offices, studio movement classrooms and a campus “living room.” The top floor contains amenities including a fitness center, media room, community kitchen, gaming area, lounge, laundry room, music practice rooms and a sky deck. The design and construction team for the project consisted of Ankrom Moisan Architects and Howard S. Wright Construction. Capstone Development Partners, Cornish College and Capstone On-Campus Management will manage the property.
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LAKEWOOD, COLO. — CBRE National Seniors Housing has secured a $36.3 million loan for the construction of The Village at Belmar, a 156-unit continuing care retirement community (CCRC) planned in Lakewood in metro Denver. The project is a joint venture between Blue Moon Capital Partners, providing the institutional equity; GH Phipps Construction Company, the general contractor and co-developer; and Ascent Living Communities, co-developer and future operator of the community. Situated on 7.6 acres, Village at Belmar will include 72 assisted living units and 24 memory care units located within a three-story, 83,000-square-foot building, along with 60 independent living units to be located in 15 buildings that are approximately 107,000 square feet. Aron Will, executive vice president of CBRE National Senior Housing, arranged the five-year, floating-rate loan with limited recourse. The loan features 36 months of interest-only payments.
RENO, NEV. — Cintas Corp. has leased 20,000 square feet of distribution space at the Capital Commerce Center in Reno. The space is located at 1312 Capital Blvd. Cintas supplies corporate identity uniform programs, among other things. J. Michael Hoeck, Dave Simonsen, Steve Kucera and Michael Nevis of the NAI Alliance Industrial Properties Group represented the landlord in the transaction.
PHOENIX — Sagewood, a luxury senior living retirement community in northeast Phoenix, plans to add The Estates at Sagewood, a new neighborhood featuring 24 independent living homes. The new homes have multiple floor plans, including villas and duplexes. Sagewood is also expanding its onsite Acacia Health Center. With the addition of The Estates at Sagewood, the community will have 316 independent living residences.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — A local private investor has purchased a six-unit apartment complex in Santa Monica for $2.9 million. The community is located at 2820 3rd St. It is situated near Third Street Promenade and the Santa Monica Pier. The property was built in 1962 and recently underwent a total renovation. Kimberly Roberts Stepp of Stepp Commercial represented the seller, 2820 3rd Street LLC, in this transaction.
BELLEVUE, WASH. — The Bellevue Collection has received a $526 million construction-to-permanent loan to expand the 4-million-square-foot, mixed-use property in Bellevue. The new 1.5-million-square-foot phase will be known as the Lincoln Square Expansion. The development, which is currently underway, will include a 41-story multifamily/W Hotel tower, a 31-story trophy office tower, and a three-level retail podium, which will be anchored by a luxury theater and chef-driven restaurants. The retail podium and towers will sit above a six-level underground parking garage that is contiguous with more than 4,000 existing subterranean parking spaces. An affiliate of CPPIB Credit Investments Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), provided the financing. The single source of capital was attractive to the borrower because it removed syndication risk and provided a single point of contact. Dave Karson, Alex Hernandez and Chris Moyer of Cushman & Wakefield represented the borrower, Kemper Development Co.
LOS ANGELES — The Abbey Co. has received a $310 million bridge loan to recapitalize a 34-property Southern California portfolio. The assets securing the loan total about 3 million square feet of office, industrial and retail properties. The properties are situated throughout the Inland Empire, San Diego, Los Angeles and Orange counties. The proceeds were used to refinance two maturing CMBS loans and increase cash flow across the portfolio. David Blitz of Nebo Capital arranged the interest-only loan. Sklar Kirsh acted as the firm’s legal advisors.
PHOENIX — Physicians Realty Trust has acquired the Integrated Medical Services portfolio, which contains four Class A medical office buildings in Phoenix, for $141 million. The acquisition set a new record as the highest price paid for an on-campus, multi-tenant medical office portfolio in Metro Phoenix, according to Newmark Grubb Knight Frank’s (NGKF) Phoenix office, which brokered the sale. The portfolio includes a total of 406,894 square feet, which equated to a price tag of $347 per square foot. The sale includes Paradise Valley IMS, North Mountain IMS Medical Building, Palm Valley Medical Office Building and Avondale IMS. The portfolio is currently 96 percent leased on average. It is anchored by physician practice groups. The properties were built between 2004 and 2009. Physicians Realty Trust represented itself in this transaction. NGKF’s Garth Hogan, Todd Perman, Trisha Talbot and Kathleen Morgan, in collaboration with Global Healthcare Services, represented the unnamed sellers.
LOS ANGELES — Sonnenblick-Eichner Company has arranged $153 million in first-mortgage financing for The Pacifica Hotel Portfolio. The mostly California-based portfolio contains 10 hotel properties that total 739 rooms. A majority of the properties are oceanfront hotels situated on California’s central coast. Additional properties are located in the Los Angeles submarkets of Venice, Marina del Rey and Manhattan Beach. One property is also located in Port St. Lucie, Fla. The non-recourse loans were not cross-collateralized and feature 10-year, fixed-rate financing.
GOLD RIVER, CALIF. — Inspire Communities has named David L. Gold as its new CEO. The manufactured housing community owner is located in Gold River, just west of Sacramento. Gold has more than 30 years of institutional experience owning, financing and investing in domestic and international commercial real estate, with a focus on low- and middle-income housing. He co-founded Rockland Capital Partners in 2011, and was a managing director at Los Angeles-based real estate private equity firm Paladin Realty Partners for more than a decade. The firm’s former CEO, Matt Follett, will remain as a board member of Inspire Communities. His focus will be limited to acquiring manufactured housing communities in Washington, Oregon and California. Private investment firm American Infrastructure MLP Funds also recently announced it will invest in Inspire’s infrastructure-related operating businesses that are profitable and can expand quickly with additional capital.