PHOENIX — Idaho-based Stafford Holdings has purchased North Loop 101 Building D, an office building located at 19820 N. 7th Ave. in Phoenix. Los Angeles-based Regent Properties sold the property for $22.1 million. Barry Gabel, Chris Marchildon and Will Mast of CBRE represented the seller, while Blake Hupfer of Premiere Property Group represented the buyer in the deal. The two-story building features 88,696 square feet of Class A office space. At the time of sale, the property was fully leased to two tenants. Centuri Construction Group, a subsidiary of Southwest Gas, occupies 95 percent of the building, with Pacific Western Bank occupying the remaining space.
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SANTA CLARITA, CALIF. — Oxford Properties Group, a real estate investment and management firm based in Toronto, has purchased Santa Clarita Innovation Park, a 14-building campus situated on 118.5 acres in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita. Funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management and Intertex Cos. sold the property, which was formerly known as Mann Biomedical Park, for $133.5 million. The acquisition of Santa Clarita Innovation Park falls in line with Oxford’s investment strategy as it is leased to various distribution users and life sciences firms such as Boston Scientific and Bioness. Oxford aims to have 45 to 60 percent of its assets-under-management portfolio to be in life sciences, industrial and residential real estate by 2025. In addition to distribution and life sciences, Santa Clarita Innovation Park includes some offices, a childcare facility and Wolf Creek Brewery. Additionally, the acquisition includes development rights for approximately 40 acres within the park. “Substantially growing our life sciences and industrial businesses represents our highest conviction investment strategies and top priorities at Oxford,” says Chad Remis, executive vice president of North America at Oxford. “The acquisition of Santa Clarita Innovation Park, and its additional development capacity, uniquely provides us with flexibility to build …
LAS VEGAS — The Bascom Group has completed the disposition of Fifty101, a multifamily community located at 5101 O’Bannon Drive in Las Vegas. Apartment Ventures acquired the asset for $21.6 million. The 90-unit community consists of 16 one-bedroom apartments, 50 two-bedroom units and 24 three-bedroom/two-bath layouts in a variety of floor plans. The Bascom Group had completed property-wide renovations, including capital improvements in dual-pane windows and public update upgrades and select unit renovations. Taylor Sims, Carl Sims and Brady Cleary of Cushman & Wakefield’s Multifamily Advisory Group in Las Vegas represented the seller in the transaction.
LAS VEGAS — DXD Capital has broken ground on a self-storage facility located on a 1.7-acre parcel at the corner of West Sahara Avenue and South Monte Cristo Way in Las Vegas. Designed by Studio Level I with Arco Murray serving as general contractor, the new property will feature 1,100 units, plus two interior loading bays with room for three trucks in a fully climate-controlled building with two freight elevators and a storefront with moving supplies. Public Storage will operate the facility, which is slated to open in third-quarter 2022. DXD acquired the property in January 2021 through its DXD Self Storage Fund I, which was launched in November 2020. The fund is raising $50 million to invest in ground-up development of Class A, multi-story, climate-controlled self-storage facilities.
Exeter 4837 Watt Buys Flex Industrial Building in North Highlands, California for $12.4M
by Amy Works
NORTH HIGHLANDS, CALIF. — Exeter 4837 Watt LLC has acquired a flex industrial facility located at 4837 Watt Ave. in North Highlands. Stoneridge Watt Avenue LLC sold the asset for $12.4 million. Built in 1987 for Price Club, the property was renovated in 1997 for industrial and flex use. Situated on 12.8 acres, the 129,491-square-foot property is half a mile from Interstate 80. Alan Pekarcik and Chris Smith of Avison Young’s Irvine, Calif., office represented the buyer, while Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the deal.
PHOENIX — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a retail property located at 5120 and 5110 W. Indian School Road in Phoenix. A limited liability company sold the property to a personal trust for $8.1 million. WSS Shoes and Habit Burger occupy the 13,100-square-foot shopping center, which is across the street from American Family Fields of Phoenix Baseball Park, spring training home to the Milwaukee Brewers. Mark Ruble and Chris Land of Marcus & Millichap’s Phoenix’s office represented the seller, while Peter James and Rob Narchi of Marcus & Millichap’s Los Angeles office represented the buyer in the deal.
OAKLAND, ORE. — Crystal Investment Property (CIP) has arranged the sale of Ranch Motel, a motel in Oakland, a tiny city approximately midway between Eugene and Medford. Joseph Kennedy of CIP represented the buyer and seller in the deal. The acquisition price was not released. The exterior corridor motel is located north of Oakland and features 25 A-frame-style rooms and limited service. The property’s updated lobby and cabins feature a mid-century peaked metal roof.
PHOENIX, ARIZ. — CapRock Partners has broken ground on CapRock West 202 Logistics, a 183-acre speculative industrial project in Phoenix. The eight-building, Class A industrial warehouse complex will total 3.4 million square feet. The project will be developed in two phases. Phase I will start in November 2021, with completion and delivery anticipated by the end of 2022. The first phase will include the first five buildings, totaling approximately 2.5 million square feet. The timeline for Phase II was not disclosed. Estimated development costs were also not released. The project will feature buildings ranging from 228,000 to 1.1 million square feet, with clear heights between 32-feet and 40-feet. All buildings will feature dock-high and ground-level loading with secured concrete truck courts. Each of the buildings are designed with varying depths and are divisible to accommodate multiple tenants. The project is the largest speculative industrial development in the history of Phoenix, according to CapRock. Bob O’Neill, senior vice president of acquisitions at CapRock Partners, said the CapRock West 202 Logistics project will be bigger than any other industrial project in Phoenix by more than 1 million square feet. “Phoenix is now the fifth largest municipality in the United States, and also …
SANTA FE, N.M. — Benderson Development has acquired two tracts of land ground-leased to Plaza Santa Fe, a 450,000-square-foot power center in Santa Fe. Truzaf LP sold the asset for an undisclosed price. The leases commenced in two phases, one in 1998 with the region’s only Target store and a newly refurbished Albertsons Market Street, and the second in 2000 with the opening of TJ Maxx, Ross Dress for Less, BestBuy, Michaels and PetSmart. Located at the intersections of Cerrillos Road, Zafarano Drive and Rodeo Road, the retail center has more than 1,000 lineal feet of street frontage on Cerrillos Road and 3,000 square feet of footage on Zafarano Drive. Target, BestBuy, Albertsons, Ross Dress for Less, TJ Maxx, Michaels, PetSmart, Ulta Beauty, Total Wine & More, Panera Bread, Five Guys and Buffalo Wild Wings are tenants at the retail center. The tracts’ combined 1.2 million gross square feet of land includes 717 parking stalls. Bill Rose of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, and Matt Reeves, Marcus & Millichap’s broker of record in New Mexico, represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction.
BELLEVUE, WASH. — Continental Properties has completed the sale of BLU Bellevue, an apartment property located in downtown Bellevue. Virtu Investments acquired the community for $109 million, or $1,004 per square foot. Built in 2020 by Continental Properties, BLU Bellevue features 135 apartments, a rooftop terrace, 24-hour fitness center, pet facilities, parking garage with electric charging stations, and 360-degree cityscape and mountain views. Units feature floor-to-ceiling, triple-pane windows; air conditioning; walk-in closets with custom, built-in shelving; and biometric wall safes. Philip Assouad, Giovanni Napoli, Ryan Dinius, Sidney Warsinske and Anthony Palladino of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.