SAN DIEGO — Cassidy Turley BRE Commercial has negotiated Northrop Grumman Systems Corp.’s more than $9 million lease of 93,161 square feet of office space within The Point in Rancho Bernardo located at 16765 West Bernardo Drive in San Diego. The tenant’s 65-month lease covers one of the two Class A office buildings in the complex, which also includes an R&D building. Cassidy Turley BRE Commercial’s Brian Driscoll, Tom van Betten and Brett Ward, as well as Tony Russell of Jones Lang La Salle, represented Prudential Real Estate Investors in the transaction, and CB Richard Ellis’ Tom Martinez represented the tenant.
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ESCONDIDO, CALIF. — Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust and Federal Realty Investment Trust have announced the closing of the $11.25 million sale of a 75,712-square-foot former Mervyn’s store located in Escondido. In July, Inland Western signed a 44,760-square-foot lease with Dick’s Sporting Goods to fill a portion of the space. Inland Western commenced construction in September to facilitate an early 2011 opening. Tenant-improvement costs incurred to date will be reimbursed by Federal Realty Investment Trust.
VISTA, CALIF. — Lee & Associates has completed a 10-year, $6.7 million lease of a 98,000-square-foot industrial building located at 2633 Progress St. in Vista. The brokerage firm’s Adam Robinson, Isaac Little and Marko Dragovic represented the landlord, Wilco Investments, in the transaction, and Cassidy Turley/BRE Commercial’s Don Grant represented tenant, McCain Inc., which will be using the recently constructed, LEED-certified property for office, R&D, manufacturing and distribution purposes.
WESTMINSTER, COLO. — ARA has brokered the $21.75 million sale of the 256-unit Broadstone at the Ranch, an apartment community located in Westminster. Jeff Hawks, Doug Andrews, Terrance Hunt and Shane Ozment of Atlanta-based ARA represented Alliance Residential in its sale of the 1980s vintage property to the joint venture of Greystar Real Estate Partners and The Praedium Group.
SAN DIEGO — A 9,595-square-foot office property, located at 7877 Ivanhoe Ave. in San Diego, has traded for $2.1 million. Voit Real Estate Services’ Brian Mulvaney and Jon Boland represented the buyer, Pacific Trust Bank, in the transaction, and Voit’s Pete Beauchamp and Mark Sigler represented the FDIC as receiver for San Diego National Bank.
OCEANSIDE, CALIF. — Construction has begun on R.D. Olson Development’s $25 million Courtyard by Marriott hotel, located at 3501 Seagate Way in Oceanside. The four-story, 82,000-square-foot property will feature 140 guest rooms and suites and include 2,000 square feet of meeting space, a fitness room, and a large outdoor pool and spa. Marriott International will manage the hotel, which represents the company’s newest prototype design, while the Irvine, Calif.-based developer retains ownership. Seattle-based Johnson Braund Design Group is the project architect. The second hotel R.D. Olson will have developed in the market, the Courtyard by Marriott in Oceanside will be completed in fourth quarter 2011.
DENVER — Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors has brokered the $2 million sale of a 20-unit apartment building, located at 1721 Humboldt Street in Denver. Built in 1961 and completely renovated in 2010, the uptown multifamily property consists of eight studio units and 12 one-bedroom/one-bathroom units. Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors’s Jeff Johnson and Matt Ritter represented the seller in the transaction, and Doug Haughey of Coldwell Banker assisted the buyer.
NORTH LAS VEGAS — CORE Construction-Nevada has completed the 88,359-square-foot Ruby Duncan Elementary School, located at 250 W. Rome Street in North Las Vegas, at a cost of nearly $17.9 million. Designed by SH Architecture, the school comprises three single-story buildings — administrative, multipurpose and kindergarten — and a two-story academic building. The structures enclose a secure courtyard for outdoor learning. The Clark County School District contracted with CORE for Duncan Elementary’s construction, which began in mid-July 2009.
MESA, ARIZ. — Colliers International–Greater Phoenix has negotiated the $9.7 million acquisition of the 226-unit Sorrento Apartments, located at 901 South Dobson Road in Mesa. Built in 1983, the 163,308-square-foot Class B multifamily property underwent extensive interior and exterior improvements in 2007, including renovation of more than 90 percent of the units and the clubhouse. Colliers International’s Cindy Cooke, Brad Cooke, Carrie Burton and Nicholas Eggert represented the San Francisco-based buyer, Hamilton Zanze & Co., in the off-market transaction; the Newport Beach, Calif.-based seller, San Ai Dobson LLC, was self-represented. Having recently acquired seven Class B multifamily properties in Tucson, Ariz., Hamilton Zanze retained Fairfield Residential as the property management firm for the 93 percent-occupied Sorrento Apartments.
SAN FRANCISCO — Cassidy Turley BT Commercial’s Scott Mason has represented Tony Leong in his $5.85 million acquisition of a 30,000-square-foot warehouse facility in San Francisco from YRC Inc. The new owner/user operates an electrical company and will be utilizing a portion of the property, which is primarily a cross-dock facility that also consists of nearly 70,000 square feet of yard space.