BERTHOUD, COLO. — NAI Shames Makovsky has arranged the sale of a retail property located at 1111 Mountain Ave. in Berthoud, a small town near Fort Collins. 1111 Mountain Ave LLC sold the asset to 655 South Boulder LLC for $3.1 million. 7-Eleven occupies the 4,067-square-foot building on a triple-net-lease basis. Paul Cattin and Samuel Cohen of NAI Shames Makovsky represented the seller, while Robert Edwards of Blue West Capital represented the buyer in the deal.
By Terrison Quinn, Managing Principal, SRS Real Estate Partners Despite a recent uptick in vacancy from 4.07 percent to 4.5 percent and a softening of rents from $32.99 to $32.55 per square foot, Orange County remains Southern California’s tightest retail market. And retail investors remain bullish for good reasons. Theaters, gyms and other uses shuttered by the pandemic have reopened to greater-than-expected customer demand. In fact, several health club chains have reported they are back to pre-COVID membership numbers. A multitude of entertainment groups and theaters are also communicating positive messages about demand and expressing an interest in expanding. Theater operators have generally said their limitation is more related to content than demand. The reopening success is even more obvious in categories like grocery stores and drive-thru restaurants. This is apparent in nearly every Orange County city as parking lots are visibly impacted and cars continue to spill out of fast food drive-thru lanes. Most notably, Amazon Fresh is aggressively opening new stores, while fast feeders like Raising Cane’s, Chick-fil-A and Starbucks can’t seem to open new stores fast enough. Sit-down restaurants have also experienced a resurgence in demand with many national and regional groups setting record same-store sales. Clearly, …
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Grosvenor Americas has acquired Orchard-Trimble, an office and R&D campus located at Orchard Parkway and West Trimble Road in North San Jose’s Golden Triangle. The acquisition price and name of the seller were not released. Toshiba America Electronic Components, the U.S. storage and semiconductor division of Toshiba Corp., occupies the 218,645-square-foot property, which features R&D lab space. The campus is near San Jose International Airport and provides access to downtown San Jose via the VTA Light Rail.
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CALIF. — Paragon Commercial Group and Canyon Partners Real Estate have purchased Village Center, a multi-tenant shopping center located in Fountain Valley. An undisclosed seller sold the asset for $14.8 million. Originally built in 1965 and owned by the same family until this purchase, Village Center features 92,386 square feet of retail space. Current tenants include Big Lots, Rite-Aid, Dollar Tree and Bank of America. Additionally, Sprouts Farmer’s Market is slated to join the roster as an anchor tenant. The ownership plans to implement an extensive capital improvement program that will update and modernize the shopping center, which has not been significantly updated in more than 50 years. This acquisition marks the eighth investment completed by Paragon through its joint venture with Canyon Catalyst Fund.
GOODYEAR, ARIZ. — CIM Group has purchased a newly constructed industrial building, located at 2250 S. Litchfield Road adjacent to Phoenix Goodyear Airport in Goodyear. Terms of the transaction were not released. The 450,619-square-foot, cross-dock facility features 36-foot clear heights, 190-foot truck courts and ample auto and trailer parking on a 29.2-acre site. Additionally, the property is the largest available site with rail access east of Loop 303.
LONG BEACH, CALIF. — Tourmaline Capital has purchased Marina Center, a retail strip center located at 6200-6252 Pacific Coast Highway in Long Beach. A private investor, who owned the asset for more than 23 years, sold the property for $16.2 million. The 32,757-square-foot property was 84 percent leased at the time of sale. Current tenants include Ortho Mattress, Belmont Shore Veterinary Hospital, Subway, Image Rx, Audio Concepts, Lavender Nails, Golden State Tanning, Honey’s Cleaners, Enrique’s Mexican Restaurant and First Bank. Gleb Lvovich and Daniel Tyner of JLL Retail Capital Markets represented the seller in the deal.
COSTA MESA, CALIF. — Kidder Mathews has arranged the sale of a net-leased retail property located at 400 E. 17th St. in Costa Mesa. A Newport Beach-based investor sold the asset to Massachusetts-based Henley Enterprises (dba Valvoline) for $3.1 million, or $3,454 per square foot. Since 2000, Valvoline has occupied the 902-square-foot building. The property was triple-net leased to the tenant, which is now the owner-operator. Michael Walseth of Kidder Mathews Walseth Net Leased group represented the seller, while the buyer was self-represented in the transaction.
ONTARIO, CALIF. — Newport Beach-based Nuveen Real Estate has purchased an industrial building, located at 2950 E. Philadelphia St. in Ontario, from Myers Power Products in a sale-leaseback transaction for an undisclosed price. Myers Powers, the tenant, is an industry leader in the design and manufacture of engineered-to-order power distribution equipment. The company occupies the freestanding, 236,700-square-foot building and utilizes the facility for its full in-house manufacturing capabilities, including metal fabrication, state-of-the-art paint systems, assembly, integration and testing. Situated on 12 acres, the building features two oversized, grade-level loading doors, 35 dock-high loading positions, a 155-foot truck court, 4,000 amps, a fenced yard and is naturally divisible. Chris Migliori of Daum Commercial Real Estate Services handled the transaction.
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Redwood City-based Dollinger Properties has acquired Valley Creative Center, a six-building R&D and office campus located at the confluence of Zanker Road, Bering Drive and Charcot Avenue in San Jose. Vista Investment Group sold the asset for $56 million. Located at 2235-2249 Zanker Road, 2340-2390 Bering Drive and 225-245 Charcot Ave., the complex features 166,928 square feet of space with grade-level loading, ample parking and new exterior façade upgrades. Alan Guterman, Jon DeCoite, Steve Horton and Kelly Yoder of Cushman & Wakefield represented the buyer in the deal. Additionally, the team will service as leasing agents for the multi-tenant property.
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — Dallas-based Hall Structured Finance (HSF) has closed a new first lien construction loan totaling $55.6 million to finance the development of a dual-flagged Marriott hotel property in downtown Colorado Springs. Construction is currently underway for the Springhill Suites/Element Hotel, which will offer a total of 261 guest rooms. The project is a joint venture between Olive Real Estate Group, Hotel Equities, Hotel Operations Services and Colarelli Construction. Completion is slated for spring 2022. Hotel Equities will manage the hotels upon opening. The 136-key Springhill Suites will feature all-suite guest rooms with office desks and kitchenettes. The 125-key, extended-stay Element Hotel will offer rooms with fully equipped kitchens, stainless steel appliances and eight- to 10-foot ceiling heights. Shared hotel amenities will include an open-air courtyard with lounge seating, business center, indoor pool with a whirlpool, complimentary breakfast and a fitness center. Additional amenities will include meeting and event space, a ground-floor restaurant with outdoor seating and a 6,700-square-foot rooftop bar, restaurant and lounge. John Pascal of Paramount Capital Advisors brokered the loan.