PALM DESERT, CALIF. — Cushman & Wakefield’s Senior Housing Capital Markets team has arranged the sale of Bella Villaggio, a 148-unit assisted living and memory care community in Palm Desert, an eastern suburb of Los Angeles. West Partners, the San Diego-based developer, sold the property just as construction was reaching completion. Lytle Enterprises, a Washington-based investor, acquired the property for an undisclosed price. Leisure Care will operate the community. The Cushman & Wakefield team involved in the transaction included Richard Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig and Sam Dylag.
SAN DIEGO — Carleton Management has completed the sale of an industrial asset located in downtown San Diego’s East Village. A wholly owned subsidiary of Shapery Enterprises acquired the asset for $7 million. The transaction includes a vacant, 12,000-square-foot historical building at 1460 Island Ave. and an 11,000-square-foot light industrial building at 1490 Island Ave. The historic building dates backs to 1907 and was the former Electric Laundry Co. site. The buyer plans to restore the historic building and reposition it for a commercial tenant. The adjoining light industrial building is currently occupied by Crossfit Fortius and Urbana Design Build, a general contractor. Kevin Mulhern and Rachel Parsons of the CBRE Multifamily team represented the seller, while the buyer was self-represented in the transaction.
TUCSON, ARIZ. — Heslin Holdings has acquired a former grocery-anchored retail building, located at 5548 E. Grant Road in Tucson. Albertson’s sold the property for $2.5 million. The 35,000-square-foot property is situated on the southeast corner of Grant and Craycroft roads. Safeway formerly occupied the space. The company plans to invest $1.5 million in development and improvement efforts at the property, which is part of its larger plan to invest $75 million in retail properties over the next year. The property will be remodeled, repositioned and leased to a single retailer, slated to open in 2019.
One of the first questions clients ask when considering a hotel casino acquisition or the development of a new hotel casino project in Nevada is whether they have to obtain a gaming license. Since applying for a gaming license requires the disclosure of extensive, private personal information — and obtaining a gaming license can take several months — buyers and developers often want to learn about alternatives to the license. Those alternatives are briefly summarized below. Sale-Leaseback: The sale-leaseback structure involves the current hotel casino owner and/or operator selling substantially all of the assets to the buyer. The buyer, in turn, then leases all of such assets back to the seller. The seller retains the gaming assets and liabilities, utilizes the other assets per the lease and continues to operate the hotel casino for the lease term. The advantage of this structure is that the sale transaction can be closed quickly since the parties do not have to wait for the buyer to obtain its gaming license. A potential disadvantage to the seller is that it still has to operate the property. Possible disadvantages to the buyer are that the buyer assumes the future licensing risk and, generally speaking, cannot …
SAN FRANCISCO — Hudson Pacific Properties Inc. (NYSE: HPP) and Allianz Real Estate have formed a joint venture to acquire the Ferry Building in downtown San Francisco. Located at the foot of Market Street along the San Francisco Bay waterfront, the landmark features 192,532 square feet of office space and 75,486 square feet of retail space. Equity Office, an affiliate of the Blackstone Group, sold the leasehold interest in the land and improvements to the Ferry Building to the joint venture for $291 million. The remaining term on the ground lease, which is owned by the Port of San Francisco, is 49 years. The Ferry Building is fully leased to companies including SS&C Technologies Inc., Meltwater Inc., Meritage Group LP and Niantic Inc., as well as restaurants and retail tenants such as The Slanted Door and Blue Bottle Coffee. The Ferry Building also plays host to the Ferry Building Marketplace, a public food market that is organized along an indoor street known as the Nave. The food market attracts more than 8.8 million annual visitors. Hudson Pacific owns a 55 percent interest in the joint venture and will serve as the managing member and day-to-day operator of the property, while …
SUNNYVALE, CALIF. — SRS Real Estate Partners has negotiated the sale of Mary Manor Center, a retail center in Sunnyvale. A high-net-worth private investor acquired the property from a local family office for $10.3 million in a 1031 exchange. Located at 201 S. Mary Ave., the two-building property is situated on 1.1-acre site. The 11,950-square-foot property is fully occupied by Starbucks Coffee and six other neighborhood retailers. This is the first time the property has traded hands since it was built in 2004. Chris Tramontano, John Redfield and Bruce Frazier of SRS represented the seller in the transaction.
ARLINGTON, WASH. — iBorrow, a nationwide private direct lender for commercial real estate, has funded a $10.2 million loan for an industrial building in Arlington, approximately 45 miles north of Seattle. The borrower group plans to use the proceeds to fund the value-add component of the property. The 244,590-square-foot property, which features 16,108 square feet of office space, was 84 percent leased at the time of financing.
LAS VEGAS — The Ensign Group, through its Bridgestone Living portfolio company, has acquired Villa Court Assisted Living and Memory Care in Las Vegas. The community features 53 units of assisted living and 20 units of memory care. Villa Court had an occupancy rate of approximately 74 percent at the time of acquisition. This acquisition brings Ensign’s portfolio to 186 skilled nursing operations (22 of which also include assisted living), 52 assisted and independent living operations, 21 hospice agencies, 22 home health agencies and six home care businesses across 16 states. Ensign owns the real estate at 69 of its 237 healthcare operations.
PHOENIX — Orion Investment Real Estate has arranged the sale of Campbell Shops at 24th, a retail center in Phoenix. Yuma-based Santa Fe Arms LLC sold the property to KCS Arizona for $4 million, or $466 per square foot. At the time of sale, the approximately 8,584-square-foot property was fully occupied. Tenants include 7-Eleven, Ye Old Pipe & Tobacco, Fit Optical and Noble Eatery. Ari Spiro and Sean Stutzman of Orion Investment represented the seller, while Larry Kush of Orion and Sunhee Lee of Cambridge Properties represented the buyer in the deal.
LAS VEGAS — RealComm Advisors has arranged the purchase of an industrial property located within the Martin Hinson Business Center at 6683 Schuster St. in Las Vegas. Tabs Realty acquired the property for $1.7 million. Greg Pancirov and Mike De Lew of RealComm Advisors represented the buyer in the deal.