SAN JOSE, CALIF. – Vitamin Shoppe will open a 3,000-square-foot store at the Westgate Center in San Jose tomorrow, Dec. 13. The shop will be located at the corner of Saratoga Avenue and West Campbell Avenue. It will occupy a former gas station. The corner site will soon include the Veggie Grill, Verizon Wireless, as well as additional tenants that will be announced shortly. Construction on the corner is slated for completion early next year. Notable tenants at Westgate Center include Target, Nike Factory Store, Walmart Neighborhood Market, Old Navy, Gap Factory Store, Burlington Coat Factory, Nordstrom Rack, Michaels, Any Mountain, J. Crew Factory and Ross Dress for Less. Federal Realty Trust owns both the Westgate Center and the gas station site that is being redeveloped. Westgate was represented by SRS Real Estate Partners.
OAKLAND, CALIF. – The Swig Company has acquired The Wakefield Building, a 57,000-square-foot creative office property in Oakland, for an undisclosed sum. The building is located at 416 17th Street. The property was originally developed as a medical office building by Dr. W.H. Wakefield in the 1920s. Notable tenants include Sungevity’s incubator spin-off, SFunCube, as well as First Place for Youth, the American Heart Association, the Rockwood Leadership Institute and the Asian Pacific Education Network. The Swig Company also owns and operates the nearby Kaiser Center on Lake Merritt. The unnamed seller was represented by Seth Siegal and Adam Lasoff of Cushman & Wakefield. The Swig Company’s legal advice was provided by Tony Ratner of Farella Braun + Martell.
SEATTLE – Swedish Health Services has leased 24,000 square feet at First Hill Medical Pavilion in Seattle. The space is located on Seattle’s First Hill, across from the Swedish Hospital campus. Swedish Health Services will relocate its transplant group to the sixth floor of the building in the second quarter of next year. The building is 44 percent leased. It is currently undergoing a significant renovation. Swedish Health Services was represented by Bob Mooney and Hans Kemp of Flinn Ferguson. The landlord, a joint venture between Trammell Crow Company and Washington Capital Management, was represented by CBRE’s Paul Carr, Steve Perovich and Marcus Yamamoto.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – Make-A-Wish Foundation of Arizona has purchased an 11,400-square-foot office building in Scottsdale for $1.9 million. The building is located at 2901 N. 78th Street, just outside the downtown area. The foundation plans to use this space for its new headquarters after the property undergoes a full remodel. The purchase was made through contributions from a large donor. The building’s former tenant, RevSolve, previously known as Collections Service Bureau, relocated to another office just a mile away this past July. Make-A-Wish was represented by CBRE’s Chris Marchildon and Barry Gabel. The seller, SPQR LLC, was represented by Kelly O’Dea of LevRose/TCN Worldwide.
RAMON, CALIF. – Sarens has leased 7,355 square feet of space at Bishop Ranch in San Ramon. The Class A office space is located at 5000 Executive Parkway. The heavy lifting and engineered transport company will be relocating from the Marina Village office complex in nearby Alameda. Sarens recently transported the Endeavor space shuttle to Los Angeles. The company was represented by Gregg Hall of Cresa San Jose. The landlord, Sunset Development, represented itself in this transaction.
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIF. – Crunch Fitness & UFC has leased 25,015 square feet of space in Rancho Cucamonga. The space is located at 12739 Foothill Blvd. The lease is valued at $3.2 million. Vicky Espinosa, Fred Encinas and Lidia Talavera of NAI Global represented both Crunch Fitness and the landlord, THM Enterprises LLC, in this transaction.
HONOLULU — A 269-unit apartment project in Honolulu has received $100.6 million in construction financing. The development will be located at 7000 Hawaii Kai, at the intersection of Keahole Street and Hawaii Kai Drive in East Honolulu. The two, 10-story buildings will be situated on one of the last remaining residential development sites in the submarket, according to HFF, which secured the financing. Community amenities will include a swimming pool, fitness center with cardio machines and yoga studio, club room with full kitchen, library, meeting room, media/performance room and business center. The community will overlook the Hawaii Kai Marina once it’s completed in 2016. The project is being developed by a subsidiary of Hanwha America Development LLC and Avalon Development. Hanwha is the U.S. real estate arm of Korea-based Hanwha Engineering Construction Corp. HFF’s Aldon Cole and Zack Holderman secured the financing, which is composed of a $67.2-million, first-lien loan and $33.4 million in mezzanine financing. The first-lien loan was placed with Bank of the Ozarks, while the mezzanine financing was provided by iStar Financial.
LAS VEGAS — A partnership between Cambridge Companies and Diamond Rock Partners has announced plans to build a 1-million-square-foot industrial project in Las Vegas. The project will be constructed on about 50 acres of land in North Las Vegas. It will target end-users seeking larger facilities. Cambridge Companies has developed projects and invested in land in Las Vegas for more than 20 years. Diamond Rock Partners LLC is a privately held real estate owner and investment company that advises and invests alongside high-net-worth and institutional clients in a broad range of commercial and residential real estate, including property acquisitions, development, construction and repositioning.
SAN FRANCISCO — San Mateo BayCenter, a 303,257-square-foot office campus in the Silicon Valley submarket of San Mateo, has received $86 million in financing. The Class A campus is located at 901 and 951 Mariners Island Blvd., and 999 Baker Way. San Mateo BayCenter is situated at the intersection of U.S. Highway 101 and Highway 92. The three-building campus was built in 1987. The campus is more than 98 percent leased to tenants like Marketo, Brightedge Technologies and Actuate. The floating-rate, post-acquisition financing was arranged by HFF’s Bruce Ganong, Jordan Angel and Walter Chui on behalf of Rockpoint Group. HFF also handled the property’s sale, which closed in September. The seller was Equity Office Properties.
PHOENIX — Regent Properties has acquired Desert Ridge Corporate Center (DRCC), a 293,161-square-foot office and retail property in Phoenix, for $58.6 million. The institutional-grade center is located at 20860, 20830 and 20910 N. Tatum Blvd., within the master-planned community of Desert Ridge. DRCC contains two Class A office buildings, in addition to a 17,953-square-foot, multi-tenant specialty retail building. The property is located on land encumbered by a State of Arizona ground lease that has 78 remaining years. Notable tenants at the center include GEICO Insurance, Vantage Retirement, Wells Fargo Bank, C.H. Robinson Worldwide, K. Hovnanian Homes, Summit Energy, SimonMed Imaging and Scottrade. DRCC was built in 2007.