RIVERSIDE, CALIF. — Northstar Commercial Partners has completed the sale of an office building located at 1595 Spruce St. in Riverside. An undisclosed buyer acquired the asset for $6 million. An affiliate of Northstar originally purchased the 67,076-square-foot property in 2015 as one of 24 total assets in a portfolio acquisition totaling $224.3 million. Gary Stache, Doug Mack, Vindar Batoosingh and Phil Woodford of CBRE represented the seller in the deal.
IRVINE, CALIF. — The Bascom Group LLC, an Irvine, Calif.-based private equity firm, has refinanced an 11-property multifamily portfolio. Bascom received individual loans for each asset totaling $235 million. Bascom worked with several capital market partners and lenders to complete the refinancing. Comerica Bank provided five loans while Silvergate Bank provided two of the loans. TCF Bank, New York Life, Citizens Business Bank and Texas Capital Bank each funded one loan as well. Brian Eisendrath and Annie Rice from CBRE, Charles Halladay and Jamie Kline from JLL and Tom Sherlock and Erich Pryor from Talonvest arranged the debt financing The portfolio includes six properties that are located in California and two that are located in Las Vegas. The other three properties are located in Colorado, Arizona and Texas. All of the properties are part of Bascom’s third fully discretionary fund, Bascom Value Added Apartment Investors III LLC The transaction yielded more than $39 million in additional loan proceeds for Bascom Group, enabling the firm to reduce its debt service requirement by 16 percent. Most of the loans were structured with interest-only terms for 24 to 36 months and rates between 180 and 200 basis points over LIBOR. “Our lending partners …
CHANDLER, ARIZ. — Wood Partners has completed the sale of Alta San Marcos, an apartment complex located in Chandler. JLL Income Property Trust acquired the property for $71.7 million or $262,821 per unit. The buyer plans to rebrand the property as Summit at San Marcos. Located within walking distance of downtown Chandler, the multifamily property features 273 apartments with nine-plus feet ceilings and an average unit size of 940 square feet. Community amenities include a clubhouse and leasing office with a 13-foot theater-style television, plush seating, a demonstration kitchen and fitness center. The community was completed in 2018. Steve Gebing and Cliff David of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.
SAN FRANCISCO — Stockbridge Capital Group has purchased a portfolio of 26 institutional-quality logistics and e-commerce properties spanning nine U.S. markets, with a heavy focus on the West Coast. PGIM Real Estate Finance provided $350 million in financing for the acquisition. The 6.4 million-square-foot portfolio includes a complement of bulk distribution facilities and light industrial properties. The bulk distribution facilities are relatively new and are as large as 1.1 million square feet, while the light industrial properties are smaller and generally geared toward local last-mile distribution tenants. Approximately 60 percent of the portfolio’s net operating income is generated from assets in California markets: Inland Empire, East Bay, San Diego and Central Valley. PGIM Real Estate Finance served as the lender with Jaime Zadra and Elizabeth Velazquez pf PGIM Real Estate Finance arranged the acquisition financing through two seve-year fixed-rate loans. Kristin Renaudin, Nicole Stagnaro and Kristin Paul led the Stockbridge transaction team. Debra Bonebrake of JLL will serve as property manager.
KENT, WASH. — Menashe Properties has completed the disposition of Creeksides at Centerpoint, an office campus located in Kent. An undisclosed buyer acquired the asset for $39 million. The three-building campus features 218,650 square feet of office space. At the time of sale, the asset was 97.6 percent leased to a diverse roster of local, regional, national and government tenants, including Blue Nile and the State of Washington. Logan Greer and Kevin Freels of JLL Capital Markets, along with Scott Sulman and Michael George of NAI Puget Sound Properties, represented the seller in the deal.
HACIENDA HEIGHTS, CALIF. — The Mogharebi Group (TMG) has brokered the sale of Sagewood Gardens, an age-restricted community located on Gale Avenue in Hacienda Heights. A San Gabriel Valley-based private investor acquired the asset from a Los Angeles-based private owner for $34.4 million. Built in 1988, Sagewood Gardens is a one- and two-story apartment community comprising 21 residential buildings totaling 93,930 rentable square feet. Situated on 5.3 acres, the property features 162 apartments in a mix of one- and two-bedroom layouts, as well as a detached single-family residence. The property is restricted to residents age 55 or older. On-site amenities include a fitness facility, resident lounge with media room, covered parking and an activity center. Alex Mogharebi and Otto Ozen of TMG represented the seller and the buyer in the deal.
EL SEGUNDO, CALIF. — R.D. Olson Construction has completed AC Hotel Los Angeles South Bay, a six-story hotel located in El Segundo’s business district. Located at 2130 Maple Ave., the 98,728-square-foot hotel features four tech-enabled meeting space, the city’s first rooftop bar with exterior benches and a fire table. The hotel offers 106 king-bed and 74 double-queen guestrooms featuring a European-style, contemporary design. The property also features an AC Lobby Lounge, which is a communal workspace by day and social gathering space by night; a first-floor bar and terrace with a fireplace and water feature; a 24-hour fitness center; and AC Kitchen, a European-style restaurant serving a variety of breakfast options. Project partners included Welcome Group Inc., AXIS/GFA Architecture + Design, Design Force Corp. and Robison Engineering.
Greater Phoenix has re-cast itself in this real estate cycle. It is no longer expected to play the “boom-to-bust” role in the office sector. The metro area has definitely expanded its breadth of industries, reaching beyond homebuilding and professional services to now feature some of the country’s leading insurance corporations, technology companies and medical innovators. This diversification promises to buffer any future fall in nationwide economic activity. Greater Phoenix continues to lead the country in job creation, adding an estimated 66,500 net new jobs between May 2018 and May 2019, marking a 3.2 percent increase. These jobs are coming from companies like Carvana, AllState and WageWorks. Phoenix has benefitted from great exposure from in the national media, which has matriculated to corporate America and attracted broad attention. The Greater Phoenix MSA boasts a phenomenal combination of attractive cost of living, growing wages and an enviable lifestyle. This package of appealing factors has allowed Phoenix to garner more than its fair share of corporate expansions and relocations throughout the Western U.S. Demand has been strong for office space in the area. However, a diminishing availability of quality, speculative space is creating a battle for the tenants. Sizable users wanting signature spaces …
LOS ANGELES — San Diego-based MG Properties Group has purchased two multifamily properties in Los Angeles for a total of $139.7 million. An undisclosed seller sold both properties. Totaling 397 units, the assets are The Enclave at Warner Center, which sold for $69.5 million, and Meridian Place Apartment Homes, which sold for $70.2 million. Located in Los Angeles’ Warner Center/Woodland Hills neighborhood, The Enclave at Warner Center features 195 units. Meridian Place Apartments, situated in Los Angeles’ Northridge district, features 202 units. MG Properties plans to enhance the interiors of the units and upgrade common area amenities at both properties. Greg Harris, Kevin Green and Joseph Grabiec of Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller in the Enclave at Warner Center deal, while Sean Deasy and Blake Rogers of JLL represented the seller in the Meridian Place transaction. Brian Eisendrath, Brandon Smith and Cameron Chalfant of CBRE arranged acquisition financing for the deals.
MESA, TEMPE AND SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Harvard Investments and Lincoln Property Co. (LPC) have completed the sale of Waypoint, a suburban Class A office campus located in Mesa, Tempe and Scottsdale. New York City-based Innovatus Capital Partners acquired the four-building asset for $107.6 million. Harvard and LPC developed the first 108,956-square-foot building at Waypoint in 2014 as a build-to-suit that was fully pre-leased to Verrda Mobility, formerly American Traffic Solutions. In 2016, the partnership completed the second 153,134-square-foot building. Additionally, the companies purchased two adjacent existing buildings to create the four-building, 426,951-square-foot Waypoint campus. At the time of sale, the campus was 98 percent leased. Tenants include Cognizant, Verra Mobility, Mitel, Ashton Woods, Beazer Homes, Nextcare, Udall Shumway and EPS Group. LPC serves as property manager for all four buildings and the company will maintain the management assignment as part of its almost 10 million-square-foot Phoenix property management portfolio. Dave Carder and Scott Boardman of Cushman & Wakefield are handling leasing for the property.