HILLSBORO, ORE. — Wood Partners has broken ground on Alta Amberglen, an apartment property on 18 acres at the intersection of NE Eckert Drive and Walker Road in Hillsboro. Slated for completion in 2024, Alta Amberglen will feature 326 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, as well as townhome options. Each residence will offer kitchens in two color palettes, stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops, tile backsplash, in-unit washers/dryers and wide-plank flooring throughout. Community amenities will include an on-site pocket park, a 10-acre wooded area and natural stream within the property’s 18-acre site, a fitness center with yoga studio, multiple coworking spaces, a game room with golf simulator, a podcast studio and ample room for socializing with fellow residents. Preleasing for Alta Amberglen is scheduled to begin in late 2023. Wood Residential will manage the property.
WEST VALLEY CITY, UTAH — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged the sale of Lakeside Village, an active adult property in West Valley City. Constructed in 1997, Lakeside Village features 144 one- and two-bedroom residences with eight-foot ceilings, walk-in closets and private balconies or patios. The community includes a swimming pool, hot tub, community garden and pond. Danny Shin and Brock Zylstra of IPA represented the undisclosed seller and procured the undisclosed buyer in the deal. Terms of the transaction were not released.
ADELANTO, CALIF. — Joseph W. Brady Inc., doing business as The Bradco Cos., has arranged the sale of an industrial manufacturing facility located at 9400 Holly Road in the San Bernardino County city of Adelanto. Molded Fiber Glass sold the asset to an undisclosed buyer for $11.8 million. Paul Casilla and Joseph Brady of The Bradco Cos. represented the seller, while David Moore of NAI Capital represented the buyer in deal. Situated on 9.3 acres, the property features 71,246 square feet of manufacturing space. Molded Fiber Glass used the asset for its Western operation until it closed the facility in early 2020.
NORTH LAS VEGAS, NEV. — CBRE has arranged a $5 million sale of six grey shell office buildings within Camino Al Norte Office Park in North Las Vegas. Totaling 33,800 square feet, the assets were sold to five private buyers. Michael Hsu, Roy Fritz and Kellie Ortiz-Thompson of CBRE represented the Las Vegas-based seller and developer, NDL Group, in the transactions. The sales included six single-story, freestanding buildings at 5115, 5119, 5145, 5155, 5191 and 5195 Camino Al Norte. The properties were designed for medical and professional use. The buildings at 5115 and 5119 Camino Al Norte were completed in 2020 and offer approximately 5,000 square feet each. The remaining four buildings were completed in 2022 and offer approximately 6,000 square feet each.
SEATTLE — LPC West has partnered with Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. to acquire a development site for a nine-story life sciences building near Seattle’s Space Needle. Located on the border of the South Lake Union and Uptown neighborhoods, the building will total approximately 195,000 square feet and will cater to the needs of the city’s flourishing life sciences sector. Currently in the early design stages, the Class A building will feature views of the Space Needle, Climate Pledge Arena and the Puget Sound. Additionally, the site offers full transit accessibility with access to the Seattle Center Monorail, metro transit routes and Highway 99.
SAN DIEGO — Hines, in partnership with USAA Real Estate, has started construction on the first phase of the 200-acre Riverwalk San Diego, a transit-oriented, mixed-use property in San Diego. The first phase will include 900 residential rental units, ranging from studios to townhomes, in five buildings along Friars Road; a neighborhood-serving retail space; village green; and traffic, sidewalk and bike lane improvements along Friars Road. Completion is slated for early 2025. The Riverwalk plan that was established through a partnership between Hines and the Levi-Cushman family landowners will transform Mission Valley West neighborhood, according to the development partnership.
SALT LAKE CITY — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has arranged a $68.3 million permanent loan through Freddie Mac for The Woodbury Corp., Colmena Group and Western States Lodging. The loan refinances existing debt on Legacy Village of Sugar House, a seniors housing property in Salt Lake City. The 10-story Legacy Village of Sugar House features independent living, assisted living and memory care units. The property also offers retail space, parking and commercial space. Morgin Morris of KeyBank structured the 10-year, fixed-rate loan with an initial five years of interest-only payments. The property is within the master-planned Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City.
TACOMA, WASH. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Tanara Village, a multifamily community in Tacoma. A private seller in a 1031 exchange sold the property to a limited liability company for $24.1 million, or $185,769 per unit. Built in 1969, Tanara Village features 130 apartments spread across five buildings. The community offers four laundry rooms, a recreation room, dog park and 113 parking stalls. The apartments are all one-bedroom/one-bath, 114 of which are 550 square feet and 16 are 600 square feet. Kellan Moll and Scott Morasch of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction.
SAN DIEGO — HIW Associates has selected Pacific Building Group as general contractor for Harbor Island West Marina, a project including the demolition and renovation of the current marina located at 2040 Harbor Island Drive in San Diego. Estimated to cost $16 million, the 16,000-square-foot project’s scope includes the construction of two new buildings: a two-story, 9,980-square-foot retail building connected to a two-story, 5,000-square-foot marina building. The project will also include an 800-square-foot boater restroom building and recreation areas featuring a pool, picnic area and site landscaping. The marina will be renovated to include its full-service fuel dock, deli, hot tub and 620 boat slips, as well as its sailing academy. Construction on the project is slated to begin in January 2024, with completion scheduled for January 2025. Orange-based firm AO is serving as architect for the project. HIW has owned and managed the marina since 1982,
By Dave Cheatham, President, Velocity Retail Group For decades, Arizona’s housing and commercial real estate industry have benefitted and fed the state’s robust gains as population grew. Even during the pandemic, Phoenix welcomed more than 140,000 new residents fleeing more expensive, crowded coastal cities for what many deemed an improved quality of life. As we know, retail follows housing. Phoenix’s housing market has restarted, and these new markets will need retail to serve them. It has taken 15 years for retail vacancy rates to return to pre-recession levels in Phoenix. In the second quarter of 2022, the direct vacancy rate for retail properties declined to 6.7 percent. West Phoenix, Northwest Phoenix and Scottsdale are currently the strongest submarkets, drawing residents to fast growing cities and towns. I see retail expanding as residential development at the edges of the city continue, and agricultural land is transformed into subdivisions. With inflation shrinking household budgets, consumers are making intentional choices on where they drive and what they buy. Those retailers who are large-space occupiers will continue to focus on delivering value and lower prices to their customers. Shopping center development has been anemic in Phoenix in the past decade, as those that lease big …