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SAN DIEGO — Voit Real Estate Services has arranged the sale of Futura Business Park, a three-building office park located in San Diego’s Kearny Mesa submarket. Otay Terminal – Farnham St. LLC sold the asset to La Jolla, Calif.-based Hill Properties for $11.2 million. The buyer plans to implement a capital improvement program at the 51,229-square-foot, multi-tenant asset. Planned renovations will include exterior and interior improvements and repositioning the property as creative office space. Futura Business Park is located at 9445, 9455 and 9465 Farnham St. Randy LaChance, Ryan Bracker and Arthur Bleier of Voit’s San Diego office represented both parties in the transaction.

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A decade ago, the Seattle office market was still reeling from the effects of the global recession. Total downtown vacancy had reached 14.9 percent with nearly every submarket from the Central Business District (CBD) to Lake Union experiencing some form of negative absorption. Total vacancy today is slightly more than half of what it was back then, hovering at around 7.7 percent. This is despite the total net rentable area growing by more than 11 million square feet. Seattle has also shifted from largely being considered a secondary market to one of the leading real estate hubs in the nation, thanks to consistent talent and demand from the engineering, aerospace and technology industries. Seattle currently ranks second behind San Francisco in our annual Scoring Tech Talent report. And yet, while our extensive growth has been a benefit to the office market, a new problem has cropped up in the face of this progress: availability. The rise of coworking, as well as the surplus of partial floor spaces, has been a benefit to smaller companies in the midst of early stage growth and expansion. In fact, there are more than 700 options in Downtown Seattle for smaller tenants, primarily under 15,000 …

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APPLE VALLEY, CALIF. — Houston-based Weingarten Realty has completed the sale of Jess Ranch Marketplace, a community shopping center located in Apple Valley. A Newport Beach, Calif.-based, privately held investment, development and management company acquired the asset for $89 million. The sale included the grocery, lifestyle and entertainment portions of Jess Ranch Marketplace, a 704,927-square-foot community shopping center. Anchor tenants include Target, Winco Foods, Burlington, 24 Hour Fitness, Cinemark, Best Buy, Bed Bath & Beyond, PetSmart, Rite Aid, Big 5 Sporting Goods, Staples, 99 Cents Only Stores and ULTA Beauty. Target, Winco Foods, Staples and 99 Cents Only Stores were not included in the sale. At the time of sale, the property was more than 98 percent leased, with more than 90 percent of the leased gross leasable area occupied by regional and national tenants. Additional tenants include Famous Footwear, Kirkland’s Home, Buffalo Wild Wings, Bank of America, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Brews, Western Dental, CareMore, Banner Mattress, rue21, Carter’s, Denny’s, Verizon Wireless, Massage Envy, Sprint, OshKosh B’gosh, Jack in the Box, Chipotle, CareMore’s Nifty After Fifty, AT&T, GNC, Golden Chopstix, Jersey Mike’s Subs, The Flame Broiler and MetroPCS. Lucescu Realty represented the seller and procured the buyer in …

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PHOENIX — TruAmerica Multifamily has purchased Covington Park, a garden-style apartment community located in Phoenix’s Northwest Corridor. An undisclosed seller sold the asset for $77.3 million. Built in 1999, Covington Park features 520 units in a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts with nine-foot ceilings, private balconies or patios, walk-in closets and washers/dryers. Community amenities include a three-acre community park, lighted basketball and volleyball courts, three swimming pools, a playground, newly renovated fitness center, dog park, resident clubhouse and package receiving lockers. Additionally, the property includes 105 detached garages. TruAmerica will implement a multi-million-dollar capital improvement program at the property that will include the renovation of all unit interiors and targeted exterior and amenity space upgrades. The buyer leveraged 10-year floating-rate financing through Freddie Mac’s Multifamily Green Advantage platform for the acquisition. Brian Eisendrath of CBRE Capital Markets arranged the financing. Tyler Anderson, Asher Gunter, Sean Cunningham and Matt Pesch of CBRE’s Arizona office represented the seller in the deal.

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CLOVIS, CALIF. — Mason Asset Management and Namdar Group have purchased Sierra Vista Mall and Lifestyle Center, a regional mall located at 1050 Shaw Ave. in Clovis, eight miles northeast of Fresno. An undisclosed seller sold the asset for $41 million. The seller had a 100 percent leasehold interest in the 500,000-square-foot mall. Originally built in 1988 and renovated in 2005, the mall features an outparcel and open-air configuration, as well as interior space. Current tenants include Kohls, Target, Sierra Vista Cinema, AT&T, Baja Fresh, Chipotle, Jamba Juice, Panera Bread, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Brews, Sleep Fit and Starbucks Coffee. Thomas Dobrowski of Newmark Knight Frank’s Capital Markets represented the seller in the transaction.

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GLENDORA, CALIF. — JLL has brokered the sale of Glendora Commons, a grocery-anchored retail center located in Glendora. Seagrove Property Group sold the asset to a private foreign investor for $13.6 million. Located at 1241-1251 Lone Hill Ave., Glendora Commons features 41,689 square feet of retail space. Completed in 2017, the property is currently occupied by Aldi, Guitar Center, Chick-fil-A and Pick-Up-Stix. Bryan Ley and Tony Ensbury of JLL Capital Markets represented the seller in the sale.

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FARMINGTON, N.M. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Cedar Ridge Inn, a skilled nursing facility located at 800 Saguaro Trail in Farmington. A private investor sold the asset to another private investor for an undisclosed price. Built in 2002 on 4.5 acres, the single-story, 39,232-square-foot facility features 101 beds for seniors. Prior to the sale, the seller reduced operating capacity to fully renovate the 10-unit short-term rehabilitation wing. Tony Cassie and Sam Thompson of Marcus & Millichap’s Portland, Ore., office represented the seller, while Rod Llanos of Marcus & Millichap’s Houston office represented the buyer in the deal. Matthew Reeves, also of Marcus & Millichap, assisted in the transaction.

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TOLEDO, OHIO — Welltower Inc. (NYSE: WELL) has expanded its senior living portfolio to the tune of 15 properties worth $949 million across the country. Simultaneously, the healthcare REIT giant exited its partnership with seniors housing operator Benchmark Senior Living, selling its 48-property portfolio to an undisclosed buyer for $1.8 billion. The 48 properties that Benchmark operates total 4,137 units and are located in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. As part of the recapitalization, Benchmark will invest in improvements at the properties. Benchmark will continue to manage the portfolio under a new management agreement with the new capital partner. Ted Flagg of the JLL Capital Markets team represented Welltower in the Benchmark transaction. With the new acquisitions, Welltower expanded its footprint by entering into or expanding partner agreements with senior living operators Balfour Senior Living, Sunrise Senior Living and Discovery Senior Living. The three partnerships yielded 14 properties in Maryland, Colorado, California and Texas. Welltower acquired six properties from Balfour, including Balfour’s flagship Balfour at Riverfront in Denver and the recently opened Lavender Farms, for $308 million. The other four properties are situated in the Denver and Boulder metro areas. Additionally, Welltower has the option to …

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PALO ALTO, CALIF. — Longfellow Real Estate Partners has purchased Palo Alto Technology Center (PATC), a life science and technology campus in Palo Alto. KBS sold the 10-building asset for $205 million. Located at 1800-1850 Embarcadero Road and 2445-2465 Faber Place, PATC offers a total of 259,586 square feet of life science and technology space. At the time of sale, the campus was 99 percent leased to a variety of tenants, including Stanford, Bill.com, Aurora Innovation and Eversight. Greg Cioth, Paul Nelson, Nate Jones and Kurt Chong of Eastdil Secured represented the seller, while Longfellow was self-represented in the transaction.

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SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Federal Realty Investment Trust has started construction on One Santana West, the newest edition to Santana Row in San Jose. The project includes a 360,000-square-foot office building and 1,750 parking spaces spread across a five-story parking garage and two floors of below-grade parking areas. One Santana West is the first phase of the up to 1 million-square-foot Santana West development that will adjoin Santana Row, a mixed-use neighborhood. Located at corner of Winchester Boulevard and Olin Avenue, the eight-story One Santana West will feature floorplates up to 54,000 square feet, 13-foot clear heights, direct access to parking, a plaza and terraces on the second, seventh and eighth floors. Completion is slated for first-quarter 2021. The adjacent 360,000-square-foot Two Santana West is scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2022. San Francisco-based Studios Architecture is serving as architect and Devcon Construction is serving as general contractor. Newmark Knight Frank is the leasing agent for the project.

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