DANA POINT, CALIF. — Zephyr has purchased a nine-acre parcel in the Orange County suburb of Dana Point for $50 million. The parcel is located at 34202 Del Obispo Street. The project will include 168 high-end townhomes and seven mixed-use structures adjacent to Doheny State Beach and Dana Point Harbor. The site is walking distance to the beach, with the harbor, golf, shopping and dining options just minutes away. Construction will commence next year. The project is slated for completion in 2019. The fully entitled site previously featured a mobile home park. The seller was AG/A&M Doheny LLC.
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LOS ANGELES — A private investor has purchased the 20-unit Villa Montana apartment community in the Los Angeles submarket of Brentwood for $20 million. This equates to a price-per-unit of more than $1 million, the highest price per unit ever paid for a Los Angeles apartment building that was not adjacent to the ocean, according to Marcus & Millichap, which executed the sale. Villa Montana is located at 11611 Montana Ave. It is within walking distance of Brentwood Village. The new owner exchanged into Villa Montana after selling a property in New York City. The seller was Ken Kahan of California Landmark. Both parties were represented by Ron Harris, Greg Harris and Paul Darrow of Marcus & Millichap. Darrow notes that the sale points toward a larger trend in affluent submarkets like Brentwood.
LOS ANGELES – A 30-unit apartment community in Los Angeles has received a $3.9 million acquisition loan. The community is located at 1135 Grand View Street in the Westlake submarket. It was purchased by the Armor Family Trust. The five-year loan features a fixed interest rate of 3.2 percent. The loan was arranged by Dan Litman of Marcus & Millichap Capital Corporation’s West Los Angeles office. It was provided by Wayne D. McCoy of OneUnited Bank.
LOGAN, UTAH – A Maverik gas station and convenience store has opened on a 1.1-acre pad in Logan. The new spot is located at 300 South Main Street. Maverik is currently expanding in Logan. It has also secured stadium naming rights for Utah State University. Maverik contains more than 270 locations across 10 Western states.
LAS VEGAS – Las Palmas Village, a 109,838-square-foot retail center in Las Vegas, has sold to Citywest Investments Joint Venture for $23.4 million. The center is located at 415-535 E. Windmill Lane. It is anchored by Vons. The Australian-based real estate company was represented by Chris Emanuel and Jeff Mitchell of Virtus Commercial. The seller, Donahue Schriber Realty was represented by DTZ’s Michael Hackett and Ryan Schubert.
SANTA CLARITA, CALIF. — JSB Development has broken ground on the first phase of Vista Canyon, a 185-acre mixed-use development comprising close to 1 million square feet of retail, office, residential and hospitality space in Santa Clarita, 30 miles from Los Angeles. Phase I of development will be centered around the main retail street, and will include a Gensler-designed 56,000-square-foot office/retail building, an 18,000-square-foot retail store, a 614-space parking structure and 480 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartment homes. Internal bike and pedestrian paths will connect the community and link to trails throughout Santa Clarita Valley.
VICTORVILLE, CALIF. — Cambridge Realty Capital Companies has arranged a $12.3 million HUD Lean loan to refinance Knolls West Post Acute, a skilled care nursing facility located in Victorville. The fully amortized, 30-year loan was arranged for the owner, a California limited liability company, using the HUD Section 232 funding program. Cambridge Realty Capital Ltd. of Illinois underwrote the transaction.
VANCOUVER, WASH. — Evans Senior Investments has arranged the sale of a three-property seniors housing community, all located on the same campus in Vancouver, to a publicly traded REIT for $18 million. The three properties are Fort Vancouver Convalescent Center, a skilled nursing facility; Caretique, a memory care community; and Park Lido, an assisted living facility. With 136 total beds, the sale price represents $132,353 per unit. Opened in 1982, additions and buildings were added on to the facility in 1985 and 1992. At the time of the transaction, occupancy ran between 70 percent and 80 percent for the facilities. The capitalization rate was 11.7 percent based on the trailing 12 months of net operating income.
Hawaii is one of – if not the – top-performing industrial market in the country. The city and county of Honolulu, which contains Hawaii’s main shipping port, had a low vacancy rate of 2.05 percent at the end of the first quarter. This vacancy rate peaked at 4.8 percent in 2009. Significant gains have been made since then. The direct weighted average asking net rental rate for industrial users in Honolulu was $13.80 per square foot (NNN) at the end of the first quarter, while operating expenses ran an additional $5.16 per square foot, per year on top of that. Having bottomed out after the downturn in 2009 at $11.20 per square foot, the Honolulu market has gained almost 24 percent since then. Land values have also followed suit. Hawaii is definitely not Chicago or Los Angeles. In fact, both of those markets have individual industrial parks greater in size than the entire Hawaii marketplace, at 39 million square feet. Having said this, Hawaii is in the midst of a construction and tourism boom, with billions of dollars being allocated to urban core renewal projects, light rail, resort renovations and new residential developments. Up until recently, this renewal had occurred …
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — DTZ has arranged the sale of The Summit at Scottsdale, a 190,408-square-foot shopping center located in Scottsdale, for $54.1 million. Safeway and Target anchor the center. Ryan Schubert, Michael Hackett and Dan Wald of DTZ worked on behalf of the seller. The center was 97 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including CVS/pharmacy, Office Max, PetSmart, Starbucks Coffee, Bath & Body Works, Verizon Wireless and Chico’s.