NEWARK, CALIF. – HealthyPets has purchased a 70,000-square-foot e-commerce facility in Newark for more than $10 million. The facility is located at 7000 Gateway Blvd. The property will serve as the pet industry wholesaler’s corporate headquarters and as its third warehouse. It will be situated near Google and Facebook, adjacent to the former Sun Micro Campus. HealthyPets was represented by Dan Bergen of Colliers International and Bob Ferraro of CBRE.
OAKLAND, CALIF. – Coasters Company of America has signed a 10-year lease for a 232,881-square-foot warehouse building in Oakland. The Class A building is located at 8350 Pardee Drive. The furniture importer and distributor was represented by Tim Cronin and Craig Hagglund of Lee & Associates. The developer and landlord, Goodman Birtcher, was represented by JLL’s Jason Ovadia.
LONG BEACH, CALIF. – The 40-unit Bixby Park Apartments in Long Beach has sold to a local private investor for $6.2 million. The community is located at 1132 San Antonio Drive and 4481 Orange Ave., in the Bixby Knolls submarket. Robert Stepp of Stepp Commercial represented both the buyer and sellers, Pathfinder Partners and Ryanik, in this transaction.
LONG BEACH, CALIF. – City Logistics and Transport has leased a 104,453-square-foot industrial building in Long Beach. The building is located at 2888 E. El Presidio Street. City Logistics will utilize the space as its new headquarters on March 1. It will be relocating from nearby Rancho Dominguez. The 64-month lease is valued at $3.9 million. The transportation and warehousing company was represented by Frank Schulz, Todd Taugner and David Prior of Klabin Co. The landlord, Invesco Realty Advisors, was represented by CBRE’s John Schumacher and Brett Quinlan.
LAGUNA HILLS, CALIF. – A Chevron gas station and convenience store in Laguna Hills has sold to a Southern California-based buyer for $4.5 million. The property is located at 23991 El Toro Road. It was built in 1973 and renovated in 2012. The buyer is also the current operator. The investor was represented by C-Store Realty. The seller, also a private investor, was represented by Donald MacLellan and Tom Chichester of Faris Lee Investments.
LOS ANGELES — A 28-story office tower in the Los Angeles submarket of Century City has received $125 million in financing. The Class A tower was built in 1969. The 596,856-square-foot tower contains a mixture of FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate) and legal tenants. The non-recourse, fixed-rate loan features a 10-year, interest-only term. It was arranged by George Mitsanas and Doug Tisdale of Newmark Realty Capital’s Los Angeles office through the firm’s correspondent life insurance company lenders. Mitsanas has previously financed this property twice for the borrower.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Transwestern Strategic Partners has acquired Lincoln Towne Centre, a 226,112-square-foot office property in downtown Scottsdale, for $58.8 million. The two-building property is located at 4150-4250 N. Drinkwater Blvd. Lincoln Towne Centre is situated directly across from the Scottsdale City Hall, near the Loop 101. Nearly half of the property is occupied by investment-grade tenants, including CAN, Catlin and EMC2. The seller, Equus Capital Partners, was represented by Chris Toci, Chad Littell, Jerry Noble, Pat Devine and Greg Mayer of Cushman & Wakefield of Arizona. Equus had acquired the asset on behalf of its value-add fund, BPG Investment Partnership IX, L.P. Transwestern acquired the asset on behalf of its TSP Value and Income Fund. Transwestern Strategic Partners is the discretionary investment management arm of Dallas-based Transwestern Investment Group.
FOLSOM, CALIF. — Sequoia Equities has acquired the 280-unit Iron Point at Prairie Oaks in the Sacramento Valley submarket of Folsom for $58.2 million. The community is located at 1550 Iron Point Road. Iron Point was built in 2000. It is situated near Prairie City Crossing neighborhood shopping center, the Palladio at Broadstone lifestyle center, Folsom Premium Outlets, Broadstone Marketplace and Plaza, the Folsom Historic District and the central Folsom shopping district. Community amenities include a fitness center, resort-style swimming pool and hydrotherapy spa, a business center and a clubhouse. Sequoia Equities was represented by Kenneth Blomsterberg of Marcus & Millichap. The seller, Interland LLC, was represented by IPA’s Stanford Jones, Philip Saglimbeni and Salvatore Saglimbeni.
DENVER AND ALBUQUERQUE — Gary Hines and Ray Ubieta have sold their 19 Twisters restaurants, the Twisters concept and its intellectual property to Rajiv Grover of VKC Group. The Southwestern fast-casual concept is located throughout Denver and Albuquerque. The restaurant gained notoriety when one of its locations served as the setting for “Los Pollos Hermanos,” a fictional Mexican restaurant in AMC’s Breaking Bad. The transaction was brokered by National Restaurant Brokers and its affiliate National Convenience Store Brokers.
MONROVIA, CALIF. – A 17,000-square-foot building in Monrovia that is triple-net leased to 24 Hour Fitness has sold to HREH LLC for $5.5 million. The building is located at 715 East Huntington Drive, within the East Huntington Drive technology corridor. It was built in 1995. 24 Hour Fitness has occupied the property for 19 years. The gym recently signed a 10-year lease extension. The seller, Monrovia Fitness LLC, was represented by Jeff Conover of Faris Lee Investments. The all-cash buyer represented itself.
