LOS ANGELES — Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital (BWE) has closed a $77 million nonrecourse construction loan for a flex office campus in northern Los Angeles. The borrower plans to develop a 204,600-square-foot building with 35-foot clear heights, specialized office build-out and onsite trailer storage space. Additionally, a new parking structure will be constructed on the site. Tom Kenny, Josh Boehling and Alex Gregoire of BWE’s Irvine, Calif., office originated the financing on behalf of the borrower. The financing was arranged with a bank lender for an initial three-year term, with an optional extension.
ESCONDIDO, CALIF. — Colliers has arranged the purchase of City Plaza, an apartment building located at 300-330 S. Escondido Blvd. in Escondido, a northern suburb of San Diego. Providence City Plaza Apartments II LLC acquired the asset from Escondido Apartments Investment LLC for $25 million. Built in 2018, the 63,729-square-foot property features 56 units in a mix of one- and two-bedroom layouts. Additionally, the property offers ground-floor retail space and 126 subterranean parking spaces. Peter Scepanovic and Corey McHenry of Colliers represented the buyer in the deal.
VANCOUVER, WASH. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of three Class A seniors housing communities in the Portland, Oregon suburb of Vancouver. The 703-unit portfolio spans the care continuum with offerings of active adult apartments, independent living, assisted living and memory care services. The seller, Rood Investments, developed all three communities between 2001 and 2017 in well-amenitized urban areas. Cushman & Wakefield’s Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig, Dan Baker and Jack Griffin represented the seller in the transaction. The buyer and price were not disclosed.
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — Tepuy Properties has purchased a three-story office building located at 5825 Delmonico Drive in Colorado Springs. DCP Delmonico LLC sold the asset for $7.9 million. Built in 1985, the 38,638-square-foot property was 90 percent occupied at the time of sale by eight tenants, including USA Triathlon. Eric Rutherford of WK Estate represented Tepuy Properties, while Matt Call of NavPoint Real Estate Group represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
NORTH LAS VEGAS, NEV. — CapRock Partners has completed the disposition of CapRock Tropical Logistics Phase I, a recently completed core industrial logistics facility in North Las Vegas. Terms of the sale were not released. Phase I consists of two Class A warehouse buildings totaling 1.1 million square feet on an 83-acre site. Developed by CapRock, the two buildings are 100 percent leased to three investment-grade credit tenants, including a Fortune 100 ecommerce company. The single-tenant building at 5802 E. Tropical Parkway features 857,000 square feet, 40-foot clear heights, 171 dock-high doors, 8,000 amps of power, 300 trailer stalls and 679 auto parking stalls. Located at 5902 E. Tropical Parkway, the second building features 271,000 square feet, 32-foot clear heights, 54 dock-high doors, 3,000 amps of power, 159 trailer stalls and 162 auto park stalls. Cushman & Wakefield’s Jeff Chiate, Jeff Cole, Mike Adey, Ed Hernandez and Brad Brandenburg, along with JLL’s Rob Lujan, Xavier Wasiak and Jason Simon, arranged the sale. Additionally, CapRock has broken ground on Phase II of the development, located at 6185, 6215 and 6325 N. Beesley Drive. The expansion will include Building 1 with 249,000 square feet, 28 dock-high loading doors, two drive-in doors, a …
LongPoint Realty Partners Receives $52M Acquisition Loan for Van Nuys Industrial Park in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — JLL Capital Markets has secured $52 million in acquisition financing for Van Nuys Industrial Park, a value-add business park situated on 11.7 acres in the Van Nuys submarket of Los Angeles. The borrower is Boston-based Longpoint Realty Partners. The seller was not disclosed. Totaling 84,346 square feet, Van Nuys Industrial Park features four light industrial buildings constructed between 1963 and 1974, plus two land parcels totaling 3.8 acres used as outdoor storage lots for automobile and truck trailers. At the time of sale, the property was fully leased to six tenants. The buildings are located at 16300-16210, 16251, 16201, 16141, 16161 Raymer St. and 8085 Woodley Ave. Greg Brown and Peter Thompson of JLL Capital Markets placed the three-year, floating-rate, nonrecourse acquisition loan with Prime Finance.
CLOVIS, N.M. — Carson City, Nev.-based Mission Senior Living has acquired Wheatfields Estates Senior Living and Memory Care at 4701 N. Prince St. in Clovis, located in the eastern portion of the state near the Texas border. Wheatfields Estates offers independent living cottages, assisted living, memory care and respite care for seniors. Terms of the transaction were not released. The acquisition brings Mission Senior Living’s portfolio to seven properties in three states, including Three Rivers Estates Senior Living and Memory Care property, currently under construction in Farmington.
TUCSON, ARIZ. — CBRE has arranged a $30 million loan for the dual-branded Hampton Inn/Home2 Suites hotel in Tucson. Located at 141 S. Stone Ave., the 199-key property opened in late summer 2021. Adrienne Andrews and Will Denton of CBRE facilitated the refinancing for the owner, Fayth Hospitality. A national bank lender provided the seven-year, fixed-rate loan, which pays off the construction loan and provides a future funding upside.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged an undisclosed amount of construction financing for the redevelopment of Italian restaurant Frankie, Johnnie & Luigi Too! into Mountain View Memory Care, a Class A, 54-unit, 60-bed, private-pay memory care community in the Bay Area city of Mountain View. JLL worked on behalf of the borrower, the D’Ambrosio Family, and its operating partner, Calson Management, to secure the construction financing through a local bank. The community will also continue be home to the D’Ambrosio Family’s restaurant, Frankie, Johnnie & Luigi Too! once completed. The community is positioned on 0.85 acres in an affluent residential neighborhood in Silicon Valley. The site is near highways 85, 237 and 101 and will have two accessible bus stops on either end of the community, providing future residents with transportation to nearby retail, dining and entertainment amenities. Bercut Smith, Lillian Roos and Chad Morgan led the JLL Capital Markets debt advisory team representing the borrower.
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As Affordability Crisis Deepens, Policies and Market Shift to Assist the Underserved
By Omar Eltorai, Arbor Realty Trust To understand the affordable housing market in spring 2022, one needs to first assess how this sector weathered the pandemic and then assess the current state of housing affordability across the country. In-depth findings on these trends are included in the Arbor Realty Trust-Chandan Economics Affordable Housing Trends Report, from which this article is excerpted. Weathering the Pandemic When it comes to the pandemic response, federal policymakers proved effective at defusing a large-scale increase in homelessness from financially insecure households. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) eviction moratorium, while unpopular among industry advocates, prevented an estimated 1.6 million evictions, according to an analysis by Eviction Lab. After the Supreme Court struck down the federal moratorium in August 2021[1], the wave of evictions that many were forecasting did not immediately materialize. Nationally, tracked eviction filings ticked up but remained well below their pre-pandemic averages, according to Eviction Lab. A key reason why many at-risk renters have remained in their homes is the deployment of funds allocated in the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERA) — a funding pool designed to assist households that are unable to pay rent or utilities. The ERA Program was …