GLENDALE, CALIF. — Stevenson Real Estate Services has arranged the sale of a retail building located at 601 S. Glendale Ave. in Glendale. Emad and Caroline Salama acquired the property from Robert Morris for $1.4 million. Built in 1961, the 1,568-square-foot building is situated on 11,500 square feet of land. Michael Maniscalchi and Tony Maniscalchi of Stevenson Real Estate Services represented the seller, while Sameh Nicola of California Prime Realty represented the buyer in the transaction.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Urban Renaissance Group (URG) has purchased a four-asset office portfolio based in Portland for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition brings URG’s portfolio to more than 10 million square feet throughout the Portland, Seattle and Colorado areas. The new assets include the 522,000-square-foot Pacwest Center; the 277,000-square-foot Liberty Centre; the 398,000-square-foot Moda Tower; and the 240,000-square-foot One Pacific Square. The seller was Langley Investment Properties (LIP). LIP plans to refocus its efforts on new investment and development opportunities, in addition to related portfolio asset management.
SAN DIEGO — Swift Real Estate Partners has purchased a three-property office portfolio in the San Diego submarket of Carlsbad for $30.4 million. The acquisition includes the 61,578-square-foot Carlsbad Airport Plaza; the 53,982-square-foot Camino West Corporate Park; and the 80,506-square-foot La Place Court. The portfolio was about 65 percent leased at the time of sale. Swift represented itself in this transaction, while CBRE’s Louay Alsadek, Hunter Rowe, Andrew Taylor, Roger Carlson and Larry Cambra represented the seller, Brandywine Realty Trust. Carlson and Cambra were retained by Swift to handle the leasing for Camino West Corporate Park.
PHOENIX — The Biltmore Financial Center, a 635,000-square-foot office campus in Phoenix, is set to undergo a multi-million-dollar renovation. The Class A campus is located at the northwest corner of 24th Street and Camelback. Owner ViaWest Group plans to add eight new speculative suites to the campus, in addition to a new 3,500-square-foot tenant lounge. It will also renovate Biltmore’s one-acre plaza and gym. The café’s offerings will be upgraded, as will elements of the lobby, corridors, bathrooms and elevators. The renovation commences this month. It is scheduled for completion in July. ViaWest purchased the Biltmore Financial Center this past summer for $163.1 million. At the time, the transaction was the largest multi-tenant office sale in the Phoenix area since 2007, and was the third largest sale ever in the metropolitan area, according to CoStar.
DENVER — HFF has arranged $23.7 million in financing for Market Center, a mixed-use office and retail property totaling 120,736 square feet in downtown Denver. Leon McBroom and Eric Tupler of HFF worked on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture between Urban Renaissance Group, Stars Investments and City Street Investors, to secure the floating-rate financing through First National Denver. The 36-month loan has two 12-month extension options and was used to acquire the asset.
LOS ANGELES — Newmark Grubb Knight Frank (NGKF) has added eight professionals to the firm’s retail brokerage team specializing in the sale and leasing of suburban retail product in Southern California and the western region. Additions include Pete Bethea, executive managing director; Rob Ippolito, senior managing director; and Glenn Rudy, managing director, who will continue their capital markets focus on selling shopping centers for institutional clients and public and private investment companies in key western markets; John Jennings and Chris Walton, senior managing directors; Aaron Hill, managing director; and Justin Wessel and Kevin Hanson; associates. The combined leasing portfolio consists of over 9.3 million square feet covering a large portion of the region and throughout Southern California including San Diego, Orange County, Los Angeles and Inland Empire.
LOS ANGELES — TruAmerica Multifamily has acquired the 395-unit Millennium apartment community in the Los Angeles submarket of Woodland Hills for $163 million. The luxury community is located at 21021 W. Erwin St. within the Warner Center district. The property will be rebranded as the Motif. This is the sixth multifamily acquisition in Los Angeles County for TruAmerica, and the second-largest single-asset purchase for the Los Angeles-based real estate investment firm. CBRE’s Brian Eisendrath and Cameron Chalfant arranged acquisition financing with a 10-year, fixed-rate loan.
PHOENIX — BH Properties has received a $97 million credit facility to refinance a multifamily portfolio in the Phoenix area. The portfolio contains 12 properties and about 3,000 apartment units. The Bank of America Merrill Lynch credit facility replaces multiple existing loans with various lenders. The properties average a 93 percent occupancy rate.
EUGENE, ORE. — Avago Technologies has purchased the Eugene Technology Center, a 1.1-million-square-foot industrial and manufacturing campus, for an undisclosed sum. The Class A campus is located at 1830 Willow Creek Circle in Eugene. Avago plans to manufacture semiconductor chips at the facility, which was built in 1997. The three-story property represents the largest advanced manufacturing space available in the Western U.S., according to Binswanger, which represented the buyer. The seller was Hynix Semiconductor America. Chuck Pawlak and Eric Dienstbach of Binswanger represented Avago.
COSTA MESA, CALIF. — A joint venture between Prudential Real Estate Investors and McCarthy Cook & Co. has purchased MetroCenter at South Coast, an 800,826-square-foot office campus in Costa Mesa, for an undisclosed sum. The campus is located at 535 Anton Blvd. MetroCenter includes three 12-story office buildings and a three-story healthclub facility. The JV plans to renovate the property by adding on-site amenities to develop a creative office environment. The property will undergo a plaza renovation with collaborative outdoor space, as well as updated lobbies and corridors. It will also add conference center, tenant lounge and rooftop decks.