ARVADA, AURORA, DENVER AND FORT COLLINS, COLO. — JLL has arranged a $54 million loan for the refinancing of a four-property, 436,055-square-foot retail portfolio in Denver and Fort Collins. The borrower is Denver-based Gart Properties. Eric Tupler of JLL placed the 10-year, fixed-rate loan with an undisclosed life insurance company. Gart used the proceeds from the nonrecourse loan to retire existing debt and to realize significant value that has been created through the renovation and repositioning of the assets, including strategic leasing and management over several years. The portfolio includes Indian Tree Shopping Center at 7705-7739 Wadsworth Blvd. in Arvada; Saddle Rock Village at 7400 S. Gartrell Road in Aurora; Micro Center Shopping Center at 8800 E. Quincy Ave. in Denver; and Pavilion Shopping Center at 4200-4372 S. College Ave. in Fort Collins. Constructed between 1974 and 2005, the portfolio was 92.5 percent leased at the time of closing. Current tenants include Sprouts Farmers Market, Super Target, Ace Hardware, Anytime Fitness, Christy Sports, Hand & Stone, Michaels, Micro Center, Natural Grocers, Sherwin-Williams and T.J. Maxx.
GLENDALE, ARIZ. — Silver Star Real Estate has purchased Maryland West, a multifamily community located at 4530 W. McLellan Road in Glendale. CRSC Residential Inc. sold the asset for $26.5 million, or $265,000 per unit. Built in 1970, Maryland West features 100 apartments, the majority of which are two- and three-bedroom units. Communal amenities include onsite laundry facilities, a basketball court, playground and covered parking. Cliff David and Steve Gebing of Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.
BREA, CALIF. — Lee & Associates Orange has brokered the sale of a freestanding industrial property located at 760 Challenger St. in Brea, an eastern suburb of Los Angeles. The asset traded for $12.5 million, approximately 20 percent over asking price. The 27,734-square-foot building features two dock-high doors and 24-foot minimum warehouse clearance. Mark Hintergardt of Lee & Associates represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The name of the buyer was also not released.
DENVER — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the sale of a multi-tenant industrial property located at 1221 E. 56th Ave. in Denver. The sales price was undisclosed. Alyssa Tomback of Marcus & MIlichap’s Denver office represented the seller and buyer, both of which were private investors who requested anonymity, in the transaction. At the time of sale, the 36,300-square-foot property was fully occupied by multiple tenants.
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Build-to-Rent Planning and Entitlements: How to Avoid Challenges
The build-to-rent (BTR) property type has gained significant traction in the commercial real estate market due to increasing interest from tenants, investors and developers. Developers moving into the BTR market before 2020 originally focused on this sector as an “in between” product for future home buyers who weren’t ready to commit to a single location but wanted additional space and amenities. The pandemic fueled tenants’ desires for more privacy and space without the long-term commitment of homeownership, which ignited growth in the sector. As costs for single-family homes continue to rise, the BTR niche also increasingly attracts would-be homeowners who are priced out of the homebuying market — and the growing demand for BTR properties draws the attention of more and more investors and developers. But not all stakeholders are immediately on board with development of BTR properties. The concept is rather new in some markets and local communities have questions about the zoning and operation of these hybrid communities, which are an intriguing mix of single-family concept and multifamily operations. Developers often need to educate municipalities about the BTR concept — and they need to plan BTR properties that work for the local community. This is where Bohler — a land …
BELMONT, CALIF. — CBRE has arranged a $75 million loan for the acquisition and redevelopment of Shoreway Innovation Center in Belmont. The property will be redeveloped into a new life sciences campus. The borrower is Four Corners Properties. Mike Walker and Brad Zampa with CBRE Capital Markets’ Debt & Structured Finance group arranged and secured the three-year, floating-rate financing through a private equity firm. The nonrecourse loan carried two extension options. Four Corners Properties will use the financing to fund a portion of the predevelopment costs for 1301 Shoreway Road, which was acquired in December 2021 for $90.2 million. The future redevelopment will likely include construction of two Class A life sciences buildings totaling approximately 500,000 to 600,000 square feet. The new development will also include a multi-story parking structure with approximately 1,500 parking stalls.
SAN DIEGO — Clarion Partners and HP Investors have sold a collection of three single-tenant net-leased retail properties within Gateway at Kearny Mesa in San Diego. An undisclosed private investor acquired the asset for $89.8 million. Totaling 194,303 square feet, the property is fully occupied to three national tenants, including a global discount department store, Food 4 Less and Prime Car Wash/Jiffy Lube. The properties were constructed in 2001 on 18.8 acres as part of a 30-acre Gateway at Kearny Mesa retail destination. Gleb Lvovivh, Geoff Tranchina, Darcy Miramontes, Kip Malo and Bob Prendergast of JLL Capital Markets represented the sellers in the deal.
SEATTLE — Denver-based EverWest Real Estate Investors has purchased MUIR Apartments, a mixed-use multifamily property in downtown Seattle, for $54.5 million. Dylan Simon, Winslow Lee and Jerrid Anderson of the Simon and Anderson Team of Kidder Mathews’ Seattle office represented the undisclosed seller and sourced the buyer in the deal. Completed in 2019, MUIR Apartments features 130 apartments and a rooftop deck. The property takes its name from Camp Muir, a refuge on the ascent to Mount Rainier’s peak.
ROSEVILLE, CALIF. — Schnitzer Properties has purchased Highland Reserve Marketplace, a 191,416-square-foot retail center in Roseville, a suburb of Sacramento. Tenants at the center, which is situated on 21.5 acres, include Kohl’s, Ashley HomeStore, BevMo!, PetSmart, In-N-Out, Krispy Kreme, Freebird’s World Burrito, Yummy Cookie and Nurtishop. The seller and sales price were not released.
BALDWIN PARK, CALIF. — Kidder Mathews has arranged the sale a retail property located at 13822 Garvey Ave. in Baldwin Park, an eastern suburb of Los Angeles. A private family investor sold the asset to an undisclosed buyer for $18.1 million in a 1031 exchange transaction. LA Fitness occupies the 45,000-square-foot facility, which is located at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Garver Avenue. Tanel Harunzade, Darrell Levonian and Brittney McCarthy of Kidder Mathews represented the seller in the deal., while Janet Neman and Angelica Gotzev of Kidder Mathews represented the buyer.