NATIONAL CITY, CALIF. — Sperry Van Ness has arranged the $2.75 million sale of a 6,000-square-foot retail building located in National City. The property is an outparcel to South Bay Plaza Shopping Center. Chris Rink of CCIM and Katja Rada of Sperry Van Ness | Finest City Commercial represented the seller, Laundry Land Realty LLC, and the buyer, Plaza Boulevard 111 Partners LLC, in the transaction.
ANAHEIM, CALIF. — JCH Senior Housing Group has arranged the sale of Country Villa Health Service’s entire portfolio, which comprises 18 skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living community across Southern California, at bankruptcy auction for $65 million. JCH’s Shep Roylance, Jim Hazzard and Nick Stahler oversaw the auction in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Orange County. Shlomo Rechnitz, the founder of medical supply company Twin Med LLC and owner of Bruis & Rockport Services, the largest nursing home provider in California, entered the winning bid. Covenant Care and Kaiser submitted a larger bid — $73 million — but Judge Catherine E. Bauer rejected the proposal because it didn’t comply with bid rules. Ron Bender of Levene, Neale, Bender, Yoo & Brill L.L.P. served as bankruptcy counselor to Country Villa, and Hamid Rafatjoo from Venable LLP served as creditor committee counsel. JCH is a consulting firm based in Anaheim Hills.
VANCOUVER, WASH. – The 147-unit Addison apartment complex in Seattle has sold to Jackson Square Properties for $21.7 million. The community is located at 7531 NE 18th Street. It was built in 2009. The Addison is currently 99 percent leased. The seller, JB Matteson, was represented by HFF’s Ira Virden and Kerry Hughes.
PHOENIX – The 80-unit Greenbrook apartments in Phoenix has sold to Greenbrook B and L LLC for $4.1 million. The community is located at 3536 E. Cambridge Ave. It was built in 1974. The seller was Greenbrook Apartments LLC. The transaction was executed by CBRE’s Brian Smuckler and Jeff Seaman.
SEATTLE – Swedish Health Services has leased 120,000 square feet at First Hill Medical Pavilion in Seattle. The campus is located in the First Hill submarket. Swedish Health Services will join CellNetix and Theraclone when they occupy the building later this year. The transaction was executed by CBRE’s Paul Carr, Steve Perovich and Marcus Yamamoto.
LAS VEGAS – Shred-It Corp. has leased 22,000 square feet of industrial space in Las Vegas. The facility is located at 4524 Lawrence Street in North Las Vegas. It was built in 1998 for the U.S. Corp of Engineers and the U.S. Army Reserves. The new 10-year lease was executed by Curtis Sanders of Cushman & Wakefield | Commerce.
SAN FRANCISCO — Simon Property Group has opened the 185,000-square-foot expansion of San Francisco Premium Outlets, an upscale outlet mall in San Francisco featuring retailers such as Burberry, Coach, Kate Spade New York, MaxMara, Michael Kors and Prada. With the expansion, San Francisco Premium Outlets is now the largest outlet center in California. The expansion adds 30 new stores to the development, including CH Carolina Herrera, Catimini, ECCO, Rag & Bone New York, Scotch & Soda, Ted Baker London, Tory Burch, UGG Australia and Vince. An additional 20 stores will open in the next few weeks, according to Simon. Simon’s redevelopment and expansion projects, including the addition of new anchors, were underway at 28 properties in the U.S. as of June 30. Simon’s share of the costs of all development and redevelopment projects under construction at quarter-end was approximately $2.3 billion.
DENVER — A partnership between Soma Capital Partners (SCP) and CenterSquare Investment Management has purchased the LAB, a 78,639-square-foot office building in the Denver submarket of Platte Valley, for an undisclosed sum. The newly constructed building is located at 2420 17th St. WeWork Companies, an international co-working platform, has pre-leased about 65 percent of the property. It will occupy the space by year-end. CBRE serves as the leasing agent for the second floor of the office building. Urban Legend is marketing the 3,000-square-foot, ground-floor retail space to prospective food and beverage tenants. JR Bitzer of Lee & Associates Denver represented SCP in this transaction. The seller was the building’s developer, a partnership between Brue Capital and Confluent Development.
DANVILLE, CALIF. —Eight stores are set to open at a mixed-use redevelopment of the historic Danville Hotel in downtown Danville, a project by joint developers Castle Cos. and Nearon Enterprises. Retail tenants will receive space in late August through September. New openings will include a 1,200-square-foot Papyrus; a 2,000-square-foot Heavenly Couture; a 1,100-square-foot Sole Desire Shoes; a 1,000-square-foot Look + See Luxury Optical; a 400-square-foot BoBen Designs jeweler; a 3,700-square-foot Danville Brewing Co.; a 2,800-square-foot Pizza Antica; and a 1,600-square-foot Basque Boulangerie Café. Adria Giacomelli and Gary Riele of Newmark Cornish & Carey led the leasing efforts.
LOS ANGELES — JLL has named Tony Morales as brokerage lead in the Los Angeles region. This area contains about 80 brokers across six offices. Morales’ expanded role will allow him to set the strategic direction for the Los Angeles-area brokerage business and oversee these offices. Morales, a 25-year commercial real estate veteran, will also continue in his role as JLL Los Angeles’ managing director, where he specializes in office properties. Prior to JLL, Morales worked with several high-profile companies, including Yahoo!, DIRECTV, Boston Consulting Group, Electronic Arts, William Morris Endeavor and Morrison & Foerster.