LOS ANGELES — Parkview Financial has provided a $35 million loan to CMNTY Culture for the acquisition of a land assemblage situated at the northeast corner of the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Highland Avenue in Los Angeles’ Hollywood district. The site comprises four contiguous parcels totaling 1.88 acres at 1518-1836 N. Highland Ave. and 6751-6767 W. Sunset Blvd. One parcel at 6767 W. Sunset Blvd. was purchased in July 2021 for $9.1 million. Parkview provided the loan to facilitate the acquisition of the three remaining parcels, which were recently purchased for $44 million. Once fully rezoned and entitled, the ownership plans to construct CMNTY Culture Campus that will include two towers – one 13 stories and one 14 stories – totaling approximately 500,000 square feet of creative office and studio/production space with six subterranean parking levels. The four parcels consist of U-shaped land that currently features a strip retail center, live performance venue, plant nursery and two surface parking plots. The owner plans to demolish the buildings for the new development. HKS Architects is serving as project architect and Oakland-based Hood Design Studio is serving as landscape designer.
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FRESNO, CALIF. — STAG Industrial has acquired a 233,840-square-foot industrial facility, located at 2624 E. Edgar Ave. in Fresno. Caro Nut, a producer of nuts and nut butters for blue-chip retail customers such as Costco and Hormel, sold the asset for $30 million in a sale-leaseback transaction. The asset is a single-tenant nut processing facility operated by Caro Nut Co., which processes and packages a variety of nuts sourced from around the world and turns them into dry roasted, oil roasted or pasteurized raw snacking nuts; nut butters; and ingredients for major brands, private labels and industrial manufacturers. The facility features 24- to 26-foot clear heights, 44- by 48-foot column spacing, 10 dock-high doors, four grade-level doors, a paved and fenced yard and ESFR sprinklers. Jordan Alleva and Carter Lear of Newmark represented the seller in the deal.
CIT Provides $50.8M Refinancing for Providence Family Wellness Center in Hillsboro, Oregon
by Amy Works
HILLSBORO, ORE. — CIT, a division of First Citizens Bank, has provided a $50.8 million loan to Seavest Healthcare Properties for the refinancing of Providence Family Wellness Center and Medical Office Building in Hillsboro. CIT’s healthcare finance unit provided the financing. Providence Family Wellness Center is a newly delivered, 118,000-square-foot medical office building and wellness center. Providence Health & Services – Oregon, a subsidiary of Providence St. Joseph, leases the building. The property offers clinical space for services, including primary care, pediatrics, behavioral health, sports medicine, women’s health, dermatology, cardiology, urgent care, diagnostics imaging, lab, rehabilitation and sports therapy. Additionally, the building features a comprehensive active wellness center complete with indoor warm water and outdoor lap pools.
DENVER — Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors has arranged the sale of an industrial property located at 3625 E. 48th Ave. in Denver. The 62,114-square-foot building traded for $6.1 million. The names of the seller and buyer were not released. Dallas Sandberg of Pinnacle’s Johnson Ritter Team assisted the buyer and seller in the deal.
OpenPath Investments Divests of Pointe East Apartment Homes in Fife, Washington for $31.7M
by Amy Works
FIFE, WASH. — OpenPath Investments has completed the disposition of Pointe East Apartment Homes, an apartment community in Fife. 11 Capital LLC acquired the property for $31.7 million, or $256,048 per unit. Philip Assouad, Giovanni Napoli, Ryan Harmon and Nicholas Ruggiero of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction. Built in 1986, Pointe East features 124 apartments, a leasing office, fitness center, outdoor courtyard with barbecue areas and a children’s playground. All apartments offer wood-burning fireplaces, extra storage spaces, private decks or patios, and a walk-in closet or dual closets in the main bedroom. The unit mix includes 37 one-bedroom units and 87 two-bedroom apartments.
SALT LAKE CITY — GO Industrial, in partnership with a real estate fund advised by Crow Holdings Capital, has completed the disposition of 5600 | Logistics, a two-building logistics campus in Salt Lake City. Terms of the transaction were not released. Totaling 505,692 square feet, 5600 | Logistics features a 265,120-square-foot building with 32-foot clear heights, 50 dock-high doors, four grade-level doors, 177 employee parking spaces and 72 trailer parking spaces, as well as a 240,654-square-foot building with 32-foot clear heights, 46 dock-high doors, four grade-level doors, 159 employee parking spaces and 62 trailer spaces. CBRE | National Partners negotiated the deal for the seller.
FOLSOM, CALIF. — Revel Communities, a division of The Wolff Company representing a portfolio of independent living communities, has opened its newest property, Revel Folsom. Located 35 miles outside of Sacramento, Revel Folsom will feature views of the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The size and number of units were not disclosed. Alicia Rist is the community’s executive director. Revel Folsom is the latest expansion for Revel across the Western U.S. and will join Revel Palm Desert and Revel Lodi as the brand’s third independent living community in California in two years.
HILO, HAWAII — SRS Real Estate Partners has arranged the sale of a single-tenant retail property located at 715 Kinoole St. in Hilo. A mainland-based private investor acquired the asset from a Hawaii-based private investor for $5.5 million. Cost-U-Less, a warehouse-style retail chain store, occupies the 23,016-square-foot building, which was built in 2002. Nicholas Paulic, AJ Cordero, Matthew Mousavi and Patrick Luther of SRS Real Estate Partners’ National Net Lease Group represented the seller in the transaction.
EL CAJON, CALIF. — The LeClaire-Schlosser Group of Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of VIP Self Storage in El Cajon. Terms of the transaction were not released. Totaling 23,620 square feet, VIP Self Storage offers 376 non-climate-controlled units. Keith Phillips and Charles LeClaire of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a California-based partnership that has owned the asset for more than 25 years. The buyer is a real estate investment firm that operates nationwide.
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LA Multifamily Investment Deals See Volume Normalization, Pricing Resets for Select Assets
Multifamily investment transaction volume had an unprecedented year in 2021, and the first six months of 2022 were quite robust. Now, economic uncertainty in the form of rising interest rates and a cooling economy has created some hesitancy on the part of investors. “Some normalization is occurring in the market now, in addition to a pullback because of what is going on in the capital markets and economy,” says Paul Darrow, a managing director of Walker & Dunlop’s investment sales team based out of Los Angeles. Walker & Dunlop is one of the largest providers of capital to commercial real estate industry in the United States. Darrow sat down with REBusinessOnline to talk about multifamily investment sales trends in the Los Angeles area and the opportunities he sees for investors down the road. REBusiness: Investor interests have shifted in the past few months. What kinds of properties are investors most interested in now? Darrow: It’s a mixed bag when it comes to investor appetite. Those who raised money to buy specific types of buildings are obviously guided by what they’ve promised their investors in the form of return profiles and risk. Core funds, for example, can’t just switch to value-add or …