LOS ANGELES — JH Real Estate Partners has acquired the 60,930-square-foot retail portion of NoHo Commons in the Los Angeles submarket of North Hollywood for $43 million. The center is located at 5300 Lankershim Blvd. The retail space is almost fully leased. Notable tenants include 24 Hour Fitness, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Daphne’s California Greek, Panera Bread, Panda Express, Wells Fargo, Fish Dish and Big Wangs. NoHo Commons also includes apartment units and lofts that were developed by JH Snyder Co. in 2004. How’s Grocery was the anchor at this time. It was later replaced with 24 Hour Fitness. The property is situated across the street from the Magnolia/Lankershim Red Line Metro Station. JH Real Estate Partners was represented by Jim Fisher, Mike Smith and Cory Stehr of Lee & Associates. The seller, Redrock Noho Retail LLC, was represented by CBRE’s Curtis Palmer. Fisher and Smith also recently assisted the buyer with the $481.2 million disposition of a 14-building Southern California multifamily portfolio. The Noho Commons acquisition is part of JH Real Estate’s ongoing portfolio repositioning that has the firm transitioning into retail holdings.
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LOS ANGELES – Health and fitness company Beachbody has opened a new technology center in Westlake North Business Park, which is located in the Westlake Village submarket of Los Angeles. The park’s address is 30699 Russell Ranch Road. The new 16,000-square-foot space will house the company’s Beachbody On Demand offering, which provides streaming access to the company’s world-class fitness programs. The Westlake Village location is Beachbody’s third outpost in Southern California. Its world headquarters are located in Santa Monica, with additional operations based out of El Segundo. The company was represented by JLL’s Jordan Kissel, Tony Acerra and Tom Turley. The landlord was represented by the firm’s Jim Lindvall and Dan Sanchez, along with David Saeta and David Smith of IDS Real Estate.
CORONA, CALIF. – Magnolia Point, a 201,345-square-foot industrial building in Corona, has sold to Padma Laxmi LLC for $20 million. The facility is located at 1560 E. 6th Street. It was built in 2014. The buyer plans to occupy most of the building. It will lease the remaining space. The LLC was represented by Ted Sawyer and Jim deRegt of Lee & Associates-Newport Beach. The seller, CT Corona Partners I LLC, was represented by Jeff Ruscigno of Lee & Associates-Riverside and CBRE’s Ben Seybold.
TEMPE, ARIZ. – ViaWest Group has sold Crossroads of Tempe, a 96,691-square-foot office complex, to Held Properties for $17.2 million. The property is located at 303 & 309 W. Elliot Road in Tempe. It is 96 percent occupied. Notable employers in the area include Go Daddy, AVNET, Qualcomm, Iridium Satellite, Intel, Motorola, Honeywell, Xerox, Microsoft, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, eBay/PayPal and AT&T. Held Properties was represented by Chris Toci and Chad Littell of Cushman & Wakefield of Arizona, and by Mark Gustin, Karsten Petersen and Dave Seeger of Jones Lang LaSalle. ViaWest will continue to manage the property. The Jones Lang LaSalle team will serve as the leasing agents.
PHOENIX – The 96-unit Aura Apartments in Phoenix has sold to Capital Real Estate for $8.7 million. The community is located at 3623 N. 5th Ave. It was built in 1959 and 1962. The space underwent a $1.3 million renovation program to modernize, rebrand and reposition it. The seller was Pathfinder Partners.
TEMECULA, CALIF. – SR Commercial has purchased a 100,600-square-foot industrial property in the Riverside submarket of Temecula for $6.9 million. The facility is located at 26201 Ynez Road. It is fully occupied by Get Air of Temecula and Mountain View Community Church. SR Commercial will make exterior improvements to the property, including roof repairs and exterior paint. It will also update the landscaping and freeway façade. CBRE’s Rob Guiness and Scott Stewart represented both the buyer and seller, Liberty Advisors LLC, in this transaction.
LOS ANGELES – A 16-unit apartment building in Los Angeles has sold to a private local investor for $5 million. The community is located at 1263 and 1267 Barry Ave. It was built in 1959. The buyer represented itself, while the seller, another local private investor, was represented by Hamid Soroudi of Charles Dunn Company.
SAN DIEGO — Strategic Hotels & Resorts and its joint venture partner have sold the 417-room Hyatt Regency La Jolla for $118 million. The hotel was purchased by affiliates of Walton Street Capital LLC and JMA Ventures LLC. The hotel is located at 3777 La Jolla Village Drive. It is situated near a variety of healthcare, retail and dining services. Hyatt Regency La Jolla is located directly across the street from the UCSD Radiology at La Jolla center, the University Ambulatory Surgery Center and Pacific Lipo. Strategic Hotels formerly owned a 53.5 percent stake in the asset. The joint venture retired $89.2 million of debt secured by the hotel at closing. The company will use the proceeds from the sale to reduce outstanding debt on its revolving credit facility.
MONTCLAIR, CALIF. — GH Palmer Associates has received an $81-million bridge loan to purchase The Paseos at Montclair North, a 385-unit luxury multifamily community near Ontario. The community is located at 4914 Olive Street. The Paseos is situated directly across from Montclair Plaza regional mall. It is one block south of the Metro link commuter rail. The property features one-, two- and three- bedroom units with amenities like gas fireplaces, hardwood-style flooring, modern quartz countertops, stainless-steel GE appliances and walk-in closets. Community amenities include two resort-style pools, spas with cabanas and pool beds, a central park with a concert amphitheater and fountain, outdoor living areas with fireplaces and gas barbeques, a resident entertainment lounge and a fitness facility. The bridge financing includes a 3.23 percent rate, a five-year term and a 75 percent loan-to-value. Financing was secured by George Smith Partners (GSP). It was one of the last financings completed by GE Capital before its sale this past April. GSP previously secured $25 million in joint venture equity for the land acquisition, as well as $53.7 million in financing for the construction of the multifamily property for the original developer back in 2012.
LOS ANGELES — The City of Los Angeles is set to receive its first Hotel Indigo. The 350-room Hotel Indigo Downtown Los Angeles will be the flagship hotel at Metropolis, a more than $1 billion mixed-use development. Hotel Indigo is currently under construction and scheduled for completion in winter 2016. It will be located at 899 Francisco Street. The hotel was designed by Gensler. Its décor will feature narratives from Downtown LA’s past, including Fiesta De Las Flores, the glamorous pre-Hollywood nightlife scene and the underground speakeasies of the roaring ‘20s. Metropolis, which is also under construction, will feature three residential towers and a curated retail experience. It is owned by Greenland USA. The Hotel Indigo Downtown Los Angeles is owned by Greenland LA Metropolis Hotel Development LLC. It will be managed by an affiliate of IHG. The hotel is being developed by IHG and Greenland USA, a subsidiary of Shanghai-based Greenland Group. Though this will be the eighth IHG-branded hotel for Greenland Group, this will be the first time the companies have partnered together in the U.S. The Hotel Indigo brand also recently announced it will open its first Denver-area hotel inside Union Tower West, a 212,000-square-foot development, in …