LAS VEGAS — A joint venture between TruAmerica Multifamily and Investcorp have acquired Solis at Flamingo, a 524-unit urban infill apartment community in Las Vegas, for $50.5 million. The community is located at 3275 East Flamingo Road. Solis at Flamingo is situated just five miles from the Las Vegas Strip, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and McCarran International Airport. It was built in1988. The community offers one- and two-bedroom units. Common-area amenities include three resort-style pools and spas, a clubhouse, fitness center, business center, and basketball and tennis courts. TruAmerica will invest an additional $5.5 million in capital improvements that will include full interior renovations and exterior and common-area upgrades. The property will also receive new landscaping, upgraded pool furniture, outdoor kitchens and a pet park. This is TruAmerica’s first acquisition in Nevada. It also recently entered Salt Lake City and Portland, Ore. The seller was Alliance Residential.
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LOS ANGELES — Mortgage broker Berkadia has arranged $93.2 million in financing over two separate transactions for ROC Seniors Housing Fund Manager LLC. In the first transaction, Berkadia arranged an $84 million loan from BBVA Compass Bank for the acquisition of 14 seniors housing communities spread across California, Oklahoma, Texas, North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia. Berkadia contributed $20 million of the overall financing through its Propriety Bridge Lending Program. In total, the facilities consist of 1,038 units: 719 assisted living units, 208 memory care units and 111 independent living units. Christopher Fenton, managing director of Berkadia’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare group, secured the financing for ROC, which is a seniors housing investment fund. In the second transaction, Berkadia arranged a $9.2 million loan for the acquisition of The Landing of Canton, a 76-unit assisted living and memory care facility located in Canton, Ohio.
PHOENIX — East Village at Shea LLC, a company formed by YAM Properties LLC, has purchased Village at Shea, a 117,025-square-foot retail center located in Scottsdale, for $32.5 million. Michael Hackett and Ryan Schubert, executive managing directors at DTZ, brokered the sale on behalf of the seller, Karlin Scottsdale Shea LLC. Village at Shea, anchored by Harkins Shea 14 Theatre, was 85 percent leased at the time of sale.
TEMECULA, CALIF. – A 36,911-square-foot office property in Temecula has sold to the Stewart Group for $3.3 million. The two-building property is located at 28999 and 28991 Old Town Front Street. It is 75 percent occupied by 15 tenants. The space was built in 1986 and 1988. The Stewart Group was represented by Coldwell Banker Commercial. The seller, Plaza Del Rio LLC, was represented by Dan Vittone and Alan Pekarcik of Avison Young.
TEMPE, ARIZ. – Held Properties has acquired Crossroads of Tempe, a 96,691-square-foot office complex, for $17.1 million. The Class A complex is located at 303 and 309 West Elliot Road in Tempe. Both buildings were constructed in 2008. Chris Tocci and Chad Littell of Cushman & Wakefield represented both the buyer and seller, Via West Properties and Southwest Value Partners, in this transaction.
PHOENIX – Olympus Property has purchased Cactus Forty-2, a 200-unit apartment community in Phoenix, for an undisclosed sum. The community is located at 4242 E. Cactus Road. Common-area amenities include a resort-style pool and spa, outdoor kitchen, a social gathering space with an outdoor fireplace, a newly designed clubhouse featuring a “living wall” and a fitness center complete with on-demand fitness classes. Cactus Forty-2 is the sixth property to be added to Olympus Property’s fourth fund, WW Olympus Property IV LLC. The investment structure will provide investors an opportunity to diversify among six to seven Class A, multifamily assets in strong markets throughout the United States.
SAN DIEGO – The 21-unit Casa Verde Apartments in the San Diego submarket of La Mesa has sold to Olasitas LLC for $3.5 million. The community is located at 7629-33 Normal Ave. It was built in 1958. Casa Verde Apartments has undergone extensive interior and exterior renovations over the past two years. Peter Scepanovic and Corey McHenry of Colliers International’s San Diego Multifamily Advisory Group represented both the buyer and seller, 7629 Normal Avenue LLC, in this transaction.
Alhambra, Calif. — Shea Properties has signed four new tenants to open at the 140,000-square-foot Alhambra Place located in downtown Alhambra. Tenants include Blaze Fast Fire’d Pizza, The Habit Burger Grill, Bank of the West and Maido, a stationery store. The center broke ground in fall 2014, and will open in summer 2015.
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — MCP Trimble Campus LLC has purchased The Campus, a 250,000-square-foot office park in San Jose, for $96 million. The Campus is located at Trimble Road and Orchard Parkway. The four-building project received a significant redesign after it was purchased by a joint venture between Bixby Land Co. and Cornerstone in 2012. The building exteriors were reskinned and atrium entryways were installed. The property also received an outdoor living room and amenities area that included an outdoor gourmet kitchen, dining areas, fountains, plush couch seating around a fire table, eco-friendly landscaping and more. The property is occupied by Verizon and ASML US.
LOS ANGELES — HFF has completed the sale-leaseback on two separate Haggen Food & Pharmacy portfolios along the West Coast. The portfolios contain a total of 39 grocery stores in Washington, Oregon and California. HFF’s Mark West, Timothy Hall, Bryan Ley, Brandon Chavoya, Coler Yoakam, Michael George and Campbell Black marketed the portfolios on behalf of Haggen. The Washington-based grocery store chain entered into long-term leases with the purchasers. Haggen purchased 146 stores from Albertson’s as part of a $9.4 billion merger between Safeway and AB Acquisition, the owner of Albertson’s. This expansion grows the Haggen Food & Pharmacy portfolio from 18 stores in Washington and Oregon to 164 stores in five Western states. HFF also arranged the floating-rate financing for the 19 properties.