PHOENIX — Mayo Clinic has announced plans to double the size of its Phoenix medical campus with a $648 million expansion over the next five years. Dubbed the Arizona Forward Project, the plan will add 1.4 million square feet of building space to the existing 1.7 million square feet, with expanded clinical capacity, support services and infrastructure near Loop 101 and 56th Street in North Phoenix. Highlights of the expansion include a six-story patient tower; three-floor addition to the existing four-story Mayo Clinic Building; three-story building to house an expanded Emergency Department, Laboratory Medicine, Radiology and Pharmacy departments; 1,000-space underground patient parking garage; 1,600-space multi-level staff parking garage; and new infrastructure space. New patient areas are projected to open as early as June 2020, with the final phase opening in April 2023. The expansion plan increases the number of inpatient beds from 280 to 374 by 2023 and creates close to 2,000 new jobs, including nearly 200 physicians by 2029.
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LOS ANGELES — CIM Group has completed the construction of 888 at Grand Hope Park, a 34-story apartment tower located at 888 S. Hope St. in downtown Los Angeles. The property features 525 apartment units, 6,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space and a public park. Additionally, the apartment tower features a 30,000-square-foot rooftop deck with thousands of plants and more than 132 trees; an indoor lounge; and a large outdoor terrace. The tower is adjacent to a seven-story, 650-stall parking structure and a 5,000-square-foot Petco.
SAN DIEGO — Amazon has opened an 85,000-square-foot office within Alexandria Real Estate Equities’ Campus Pointe, located in the University Town Center neighborhood of San Diego. The new space will house the company’s expanded San Diego Tech Hub, which will include 300 new high-tech jobs in fields in the software development, machine learning, cloud computing and digital entertainment. Amazon’s San Diego Tech Hub is one of 17 Tech Hubs outside of Seattle that employ more than 17,500 people across North America who invent and build new products and services for Amazon customers. Employees at the San Diego Tech Hub develop software systems for AmazonFresh, Prime Now, Amazon Web Services, supply chain tech, and preventing fraud and abuse on Amazon. Additionally, San Diego-based engineers and scientists recently played a key role in the launch of Whole Foods Market pickup and delivery via Prime Now, Alexa features for grocery shopping, and data-drive and machine-learning innovations. This expansion more than doubles Amazon’s tech workforce in the San Diego area.
DENVER — iBorrow, a nationwide private direct lender for commercial real estate, has funded a $6.4 million for an industrial property slated for conversion into a co-working office building. Located at 3950 Wynkoop St. in Denver, the asset includes a 16,646-square-foot warehouse and a parking lot. The undisclosed borrower plans to construct a two-story structure above the current parking lot and a second story above the current warehouse.
StarPoint Properties Buys 12-Story Beverly Hills Office Building for $193M, Plans Renovations
by Amy Works
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. — StarPoint Properties has purchased an office building, located at 433 N. Camden Drive in Beverly Hills. The original owner sold the 12-story asset for $193 million. StarPoint plans to renovate the property, which was built in 1972 and is known as Wells Fargo Building due to the banking tenant’s rooftop signage. The 207,432-square-foot building has not been renovated in 15 years and falls 25 percent below the market’s average rent of $48.24 per square foot — creating an opportunity for StarPoint, which specializes in acquiring and repositioning undervalued properties. Renovation plans, although not finalized, include transforming a 6,500-square-foot deck on the fourth floor into an open-air lobby that emphasizes natural light and features sculpture gardens and an improved façade.
Dermody Properties Acquires 14-Acre Parcel in Northern California for Industrial Development
by Amy Works
VACAVILLE, CALIF. — Dermody Properties has purchased a 14-acre land parcel on Icon Way in Vacaville for an undisclosed price. The company plans to develop LogistiCenter at Vacaville on the site, with construction scheduled to begin in October and finish in June 2019. The facility will feature 252,160 square feet of Class A space for industrial and logistics tenants, featuring 36-foot clear heights, and extra trailer and car parking to accommodate e-commerce companies. LogistiCenter at Vacaville will be located midway between the San Francisco Bay area and the Sacramento markets, offering access to interstates 550 and 80. Jason Ovadia of JLL represented Dermody in the land transaction, which was facilitated by Tom Schaal of Schaal Realty Advisors. The name of the seller was not released.
Vintage Capital Partners Sells 265-Bed Student Housing Community Near Dixie State University
by Amy Works
ST. GEORGE, UTAH — Vintage Capital Partners, an investment affiliate of Redstone Residential, has sold Vintage Tabernacle, a 265-bed student housing community located near Dixie State University in St. George. The property opened in 2018 and offers two-, four- and five-bedroom units with shared amenities including a swimming pool and fitness center. An investor based in California acquired the community for an undisclosed price. Brock Zylstra and Danny Shin of Marcus & Millichap brokered the transaction. Redstone Residential will continue to manage the project for the new owner. “We are proud of what we have built at Dixie and look forward to our continued association with the property in a management role,” says Grant Collard, CEO at Redstone Residential. “We had contemplated holding the property for many years, but received an attractive, unsolicited offer at our year-eight pro-forma price.”
NORTHRIDGE, CALIF. — PacWest Management has purchased Northridge Promenade, a neighborhood shopping center located at 19510-19530 Nordhoff St. in Northridge. The buyer acquired the property for $16.4 million through the Ten-X online auction platform. The seller was LNR Partners. Situated on 4.9 acres, the 89,473-square-foot property was 82 percent occupied by 25 tenants at the time of sale. Guitar Center is the anchor tenant. Additionally, the property sold as a “covered land play,” which provides the opportunity for potential residential and/or mixed-use development while receiving a definable income stream in the interim. Dixie Walker and Charley Simpson of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, while the buyer was self-represented in the deal.
DENVER — Unico Properties, with Confluent Development as construction manager, has delivered The Circa Building, a 96,000-square-foot mixed-use building located at 1615 Platte St. in Denver. The four-story building features 80,000 square feet of office space on the top three levels, 10,000 square feet of Class A retail and restaurant space on the ground level, and three levels of underground parking. Xero, an online accounting software provider, has leased 30,000 square feet of space at the property and will occupy the entire top floor of the building. Unico Properties is the owner and developer of the project, with Confluent Development managing the project’s entitlement and construction. Swinerton Builders served as general contractor and Open Studio Architecture served as architect. JLL is the broker for the office space, and Cushman & Wakefield serves as the retail lease broker.
DENVER — Equity Residential has acquired Alexan Uptown, a luxury apartment tower located at 1935 Logan St. in Denver’s Uptown neighborhood. Trammel Crow Residential sold the 12-story property for an undisclosed price. Completed in 2017, the tower features 372 units in a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans averaging 771 square feet. Individual units feature high-end finishes, including premium cabinetry, quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances, oversized windows, high ceilings, mudrooms, custom closets and balconies. On-site community amenities include a resort-style pool and spa with views of downtown, Coors Field and the Rocky Mountains; a state-of-the-art fitness center with yoga, cross training and spin studios; a fifth-floor games lawn; clubhouse; catering kitchen; resident lounge; business center; pet spa; and electric car charging stations. Jordan Robbins and Anna Stevens of HFF represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal. The acquisition marks Equity’s re-entry into the Denver market since exiting in area in January 2018.