SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — Avison Young has brokered the sale of a medical office building in downtown Santa Monica. US 528 Arizona Owner LLC acquired the property for $5 million. The 3,049-square-foot medical office building is located at 520 Arizona Ave. It was acquired as part of a land assemblage for the development of a mixed-use project. Mitch Stokes of Avison Young was the sole broker in the transaction.
LAS VEGAS — Next Century Rebar LLC has acquired a 19,512-squre-foot industrial warehouse in Las Vegas for $3.7 million. The facility is located at 3020 S. Valley View Blvd. within the West Central submarket. The two-story building features 18-foot clear heights, concrete tilt-up construction, four drive-in doors and Valley View frontage. CBRE’s Tyler Ecklund represented the seller, MSC Valley LLC, in the transaction.
ENGLEWOOD, COLO. — A local buyer has purchased a 14,200-square-foot industrial building in Englewood for $1.9 million. The facility is located at 2622 S. Raritan Circle. The seller, which was in a 1031 exchange, secured a higher price than what traditional financing would have offered due to a high interest rate environment, according to NorthPeak Commercial Advisors, which represented both parties. Meanwhile, the purchase allowed the buyer to continue purchasing triple-net industrial properties within the same business park as its other holdings. The transaction also allowed the company to simultaneously complete a 1031 exchange into a more passive investment than a previous building.
LAS VEGAS — San Diego-based owner-operator Davlyn Investments has closed on the $67 million purchase of Spectrum, a 252-unit apartment community in the Curve neighborhood of Las Vegas. Taylor Sims and Brady Cleary of Cushman & Wakefield represented the undisclosed seller. Mitch Clarfield and Meghan Varga of Newmark arranged acquisition financing. Spectrum was built in 2010 and offers one- and two-bedroom floor plans. Davlyn Investments has rebranded the property as The Michael B Townhomes and Flats.
LAS VEGAS — The Rockefeller Group has acquired seven acres of land in Las Vegas to develop two speculative industrial buildings totaling 145,630 square feet. R A Plaza LLC sold the land for $8.5 million. The project, Cheyenne Industrial Park, will be located at 3102 N. Lamb Blvd. and is fully entitled. Rockefeller plans to begin construction by the end of year. Rockefeller recently started construction on its first development in the region, Nellis Logistics Center, a 134,100-square-foot speculative distribution facility, at the southwest corner of North Nellis Boulevard and East Carey Avenue in Clark County.
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — CBRE has arranged the $15.4 million sale of Ranchero Palms, a 61-unit apartment community in San Jose. Keith Manson, Zachary Greenwood and Mac Watson represented both the buyer and seller. Ranchero Palms features one- and two-bedroom floor plans, and was recently renovated with a new entryway, railings, stairways and main electrical service. According to Apartments.com, the property was built in 1969 and offers community amenities such as a pool, a sundeck, on-site laundry facilities and dry-cleaning services.
GLEN ELLYN, ILL. — Senior Living Investment Brokerage (SLIB), a Glen Ellyn-based broker, has arranged the sales of two seniors housing communities in the Rocky Mountains states. The facilities total 130 units and were built in 1996 and 1999. The properties are 32,897 and 32,904 square feet, and are situated on approximately 1.81 and 4.03 acres of land. The buyer is a large, regional owner-operator based out of California with over 30 communities nationwide. The new owner will invest money in capital improvements and continuing the strong operational performance. The seller and price were not disclosed. Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Brad Goodsell and Matthew Alley of SLIB handled the transaction.
DENVER — Asset Living has been selected to manage St. Paul Collection, a 165-unit apartment building in Denver’s Cherry Creek North neighborhood. St. Paul Collection offers one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Community amenities include a pool with hot tubs and day beds, a lounge, fitness center, sun terrace, bike storage and a coffee bar.
— By Sean Fulp, Vice Chair & Head of Office Capital Markets, U.S. Southwest, Colliers — Office sales, leasing and development activity are at historic lows for Los Angeles County. With interest rates rapidly increasing, few active developments, and office vacancy and availability at an all-time high, the office market is in discovery mode. One of the major trends in development is creative, state-of-the-art studio/office campuses. These developments have broken ground in West Hollywood, Burbank, Santa Monica and Culver City. Developers in this space have the mindset of “if you build it, they will come.” Office sales activity is down more than 50 percent in the past year due to a high interest rate environment and a divide between buyer and seller pricing expectations. As loans become due, landlords will have decisions to make, and distress will occur in the market. Office availability is at an all-time high in Los Angeles at nearly 30 percent — likely the new norm going forward. Companies have figured out that employees like to have the flexibility of where and even when they work. With that said, companies are downsizing their office space by 25 percent to 50 percent and, in some cases, by …
LAS VEGAS; LOS ANGELES; AND PORTLAND, ORE. — BKM Capital Partners has purchased 10 properties in four recent transactions valued at more than $280 million. The deals involve more than 1.1 million square feet of light industrial space across 35 buildings in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Portland. The bulk of the activity occurred in Las Vegas, where BKM significantly expanded its holdings through two off-market transactions involving eight properties totaling nearly 830,000 square feet. The 22 small-bay industrial buildings consist of 321 units and are located near the Las Vegas Strip and McCarran Airport in Clark County’s Southwest submarket.
