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PHOENIX — Rise48 Equity has acquired Spring, a 186-unit multifamily community in Phoenix. Living Well Homes sold the garden-style property for $42 million. Cliff David and Steve Gebing of Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller in the transaction. Brian Eisendrath, Cameron Chalfant, Jake Vitta and Tyler Johnson of IPA Capital Markets arranged an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing.  Built in 1984, Spring comprises 18 two-story buildings across nine acres. Community amenities include a pool, courtyard and a fitness center. Individual apartments feature washers and dryers, dishwashers, walk-in closets and patios or balconies. The average unit size is 830 square feet.

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SEATTLE — Nordstrom Inc. has announced plans to open five new Nordstrom Rack stores in California. Scheduled to open in 2024 and 2025, the stores will be located in Davis, Elk Grove, Gilroy, Oceanside and San Mateo. Both the Davis and Gilroy stores will comprise 25,000 square feet, with the Oceanside and San Mateo stores totaling 31,000 and 36,000 square feet, respectively. Each of the stores will be situated within shopping centers, with the new locations bringing the total count of Nordstrom Rack stores to 68.

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NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. — Clearwater Living has opened an information center at Clearwater Newport Beach, a 101-unit luxury assisted living and memory care community underway in Newport Beach, a coastal city south of Los Angeles. Clearwater expects to welcome new residents in early 2024. Clearwater Newport Beach will offer 70 assisted living and 31 memory care apartments in a variety of finishes and floor plans, including studio, one- and two-bedroom options. Clearwater Newport Beach will be the company’s 11th community in California, Nevada and Arizona, with additional developments in the pipeline.

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CARSON, CALIF. — Partners Capital has purchased a five-building industrial portfolio in Carson, a city 17 miles south of Los Angeles. The portfolio contains five buildings for a total of 38,152 square feet. Known as Carson Business Park, the asset is located on a two-acre site at 401 to 409 Gardena Blvd. The park was fully leased at the time of sale to 16 unique tenants with a weighted average lease term of about 0.8 years. In-place rents are about 61 percent below market rates. Scott Schumacher, Aaron Banks, Kevin Shannon, Andrew Briner and Anthony Muhlstein of Newmark represented the seller, an entity doing business as Carson Five LLC, in the transaction. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.

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— By Tad Loran, Vice President, Retail Specialist, Avison Young | Western Alliance Commercial — The Northern Nevada retail market has been performing well. New tenants are entering the marketplace and the area experienced positive absorption. Rental rates have increased for the year, but there has been a decrease in commercial sales due to higher interest rates.  The retail vacancy rate is currently at 4.7 percent, while asking rental rates are at $1.70 per square foot on a monthly basis. Many submarkets have shown improvement, including South Virginia, Meadowood, South Reno and the North Valleys. Tenants that have recently entered or are expanding in Northern Nevada include Colombia Sportswear, Voodoo Brewing Company, Jamba Juice, the Human Bean, Starbucks, Cracker Barrel, Mountain Mike Pizza, Pet Station, Take 5 Oil Change, AutoZone and Five Below. Tenants with closures include Bed Bath & Beyond, Sizzler Steakhouse, Food Source Grocery Store, Campo, California Pizza Kitchen, Long John Silver’s, Rounds Bakery and Claim Jumper.  Unemployment in Nevada fell to 3.4 percent in December 2022. This low unemployment rate has led some prospective new businesses to either delay or cancel expansion plans in this region.  From a development perspective, Reno has many new projects in the …

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LOS ANGELES — JLL Capital Markets has arranged three separate transactions for the sale of six assets in Los Angeles County totaling $53.6 million.  Five properties are located in the San Fernando Valley and one is in West Los Angeles. JLL worked on behalf of the seller, a corporate fiduciary acting on behalf of an LLC.  The identity of the three buyers was not disclosed. All three buyers assumed existing debt on the assets.  Peter Yorck and Nick Lavin led the JLL Capital Markets investment sales and advisory team representing the seller, while Jeff Sause and Max Mraz led the JLL Capital Markets debt advisory team.  The properties are 3596 Centinela, 14311-14319 Dickens St., 12314 Moorpark, 4144 Tujunga, 12207 Riverside and 12225 Riverside.

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MESA, ARIZ. — The Opus Group has begun leasing the multifamily component of Melody on Main in Mesa.  The mixed-use project includes 335 apartment units consisting of studios, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. Amenities include a resort-style pool, 24-hour fitness center, yoga studio, bocce ball court and a dog park and spa. Melody on Main also includes 20,000 square feet of retail space. Two of five buildings in the community are now open.  Melody on Main is scheduled to be fully complete in March 2024. Griffin Capital Co. was a co-developer on the project. MT Builders is the general contractor, and P.B. Bell is providing property management services.  Melody on Main is one of 12 communities that Griffin Capital Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund II is developing, which will comprise 4,096 units with an estimated total project cost of approximately $1.3 billion.

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CALABASAS, CALIF. — Naked Wardrobe has purchased a 90,371-square-foot office property in Calabasas for its new headquarters.  The building is located at 26541 Agoura Road. The affordable luxury clothing brand will expand from its previous location in nearby Northridge. CBRE’s Mark Perry, Michael Slater, Tom Dwyer, Caroline Bigelow  and Carlene O’Neil, along with Scott Murphy, asset manager for Ella Valley Investments, represented the sellers, Edgemark Littleton and the Murray S. Pepper Trust. ZMax Realty represented the buyer.

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BEAUMONT, CALIF. — Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors has brokered the $1.9 million sale of a newly constructed, single-tenant building located in Beaumont.  A Dutch Bros. Coffee drive-thru occupies the 920-square-foot property on a 15-year, triple-net ground lease.  Bill Asher and Jeff Lefko represented the seller and developer, Evergreen Development. Trevor Harris of Triwell Properties Inc. represented the buyer, a California-based private investor.

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SALT LAKE CITY — Colliers has merged with boutique firm Industrial Property Group (IPG). The latter is led by industry veterans Michael Jeppesen and Jeremy Jensen.  The new partnership underscores Colliers’ charge to invest in markets like Utah through growing its brokerage footprint with expansion in the broader Utah region and across the Southwestern United States.  Jeppesen, a 30-year industry veteran, specializes in institutional portfolio sales, leasing and asset management. He founded IPG in 2005. Jensen, a 25-year industry veteran, has served as president of the Utah chapters of the Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute (CCIM) and the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR). 

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