PORTLAND, ORE. — Reno, Nevada-based DP Partners will break ground on a 10.7-acre, 105,000-square-foot build-to-suit headquarters property in Portland for Morgan Distributing LLC. Located at LogistiCourt at Portal Way, the new building will accommodate Morgan’s central operations as well as the warehousing and distribution of Anheuser-Busch products when completed in spring 2010. Group Mackenzie and Perlo McCormack Pacific, both based in Portland, are the architect and contractor, respectively, on the project.
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BARSTOW, CALIF. — Revolutions has purchased the more than 35,000-square-foot Barstow Bowling Alley, located at 750-760 East Main Street in Barstow. Dr. Ronald J. Barbieri of the Inland Empire North office of Lee & Associates represented both the buyer and undisclosed seller in the transaction.
LOS ANGELES — Restaurateur James Li has opened a new 1880 Café on the ground floor of Held Properties’ 1880 Century Park East office building, located in the Century City submarket of Los Angeles. The restaurant’s 1,100-square-foot interior incorporates green building materials such as low VOC paint.
FREMONT, CALIF. — Silicon Valley investors Asilomar Partners have purchased a three-building, 195,000-square-foot research and development campus from UBS Realty, an institutional commercial real estate owner, for an undisclosed amount. Located at 49000 Milmont Drive in Fremont, the property had been marketed for more than 4 years, most recently as a residential redevelopment site. However, in the short term, Asilomar plans to keep it as an office/R&D project and will divide the buildings down to roughly 12,000 square feet. Mike Webber of GVA Kidder Mathews represented Asilomar in the transaction.
AUBURN, WASH. — Marcus & Millichap Capital Corporation (MMCC) has arranged a $6 million, 10-year fixed-rate loan to refinance the Auburn Center, a 45,402-square-foot neighborhood retail center located in Auburn. Arranged by Glenn Gioseffi, a director in MMCC’s Seattle office, the refinancing package was provided by a local bank. Built in 1991, the Auburn Center was refinanced at a loan-to-value of 50 percent with a 30-year term.
HUBBARD, ORE. — Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services has brokered the sale of a 14,578-square-foot industrial property in Hubbard. Located at 2363 Industrial Ave., the asset commanded a sales price of $1.05 million. Michael Kapnick and Ryan O'Leary of Marcus & Millichap’s Portland office handled the transaction.
Since the beginning of 2009, six new office projects containing 254,000 square feet of space have been delivered. As of the second quarter, these projects were 53 percent occupied. This strong absorption came primarily from one tenant, Fidelity Investments, which moved into a 112,000-square-foot build-to-suit project designed to handle the firm’s human resources outsourcing work. This project was developed by Forest City Covington in Mesa Del Sol, a master-planned, mixed-use community located just south of the airport on a mesa overlooking the Rio Grande Valley. In a rare occurrence, no multi-tenant office projects were under construction during the second quarter. This is good news for these recently completed office projects. New speculative projects are likely to remain on the drawing board as developers face financing challenges with high pre-leasing requirements. The excess amount of unsold office condominiums on the market (approximately 300,000 square feet) may aggressively compete for tenants by offering lease-to-purchase options. The Albuquerque metro area is poised for growth during the next few years. It has earned some high rankings by national media, placing it among the top metro areas. The bottom line is the Albuquerque metro area is being discovered for its excellent climate, strong workforce and …
RENO, NEV. — ITS Logistics, a third-party logistics provider, has renewed its lease of 176,000 square feet of distribution space at ProLogis’ West Spice Industrial Park in Reno. ITS will continue to occupy the space at Building 16 of the master-planned distribution park, which is located approximately two miles south of Interstate 80 off McCarran Boulevard.
ONTARIO, CALIF. — Belmont & Grove Land Holdings LLC, a division of Panattoni Development Company, has secured a 63-month lease of 101,690 square feet of industrial space at 1110 S. Mildred Ave. in Ontario. The lessee was represented by Grubb & Ellis’ Roger Rhoades, Milo Lipson and Michael Arens. CB Richard Ellis represented Office Master Inc., the lessor, in the transaction.
CENTENNIAL, COLO. — The new 95,000-square-foot Centennial Station office building developed by Harwood & Associates has opened at 12154 E. Easter Ave. in Centennial. After 12 months of construction, the building is now fully occupied and includes a central conference room and learning center, break rooms, a jogging path and workout facility, as well as an atrium and balconies with views of Colorado’s Front Range. Project partners included the U.S. General Services Administration, general contractor The Weitz Company and architect Gensler. The development was designed for LEED-Silver certification.