EMERYVILLE, CALIF. — Benderson Development has acquired a retail property located at 3938 Horton St. in Emeryville, a city between Berkeley and Oakland, Calif., for $15.6 million. Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us formerly occupied the now-vacant property. The asset is part of the East Bay Bridge Shopping Center, situated at the convergence of interstates 880, 580 and 80/San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge.
LOS ANGELES — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has funded a $17 million CMBS first-mortgage loan for De Soto Industrial, a warehouse facility located in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles. Built in 1983, the multi-tenant property features 129,550 square feet of warehouse space and 21,280 square feet of office space. Josh Berde of Key’s Commercial Mortgage Group arranged the non-recourse, fixed-rate financing with a 10-year term, five-year interest-only payment period and a 30-year amortization schedule. The undisclosed borrower used the loan to refinance existing debt.
MILLCREEK, UTAH — Live Oak Bank has provided $5 million in financing. The borrower, All Seasons Health Services Co., will use the funds to acquire two assisted living properties in the Salt Lake City suburb of Millcreek. The two properties were built in 2013 and 2016 and feature 20 and 24 beds, respectively. Each stabilized community operates under the BeeHive Homes franchise system. The principal of the borrower lives in the area and is an operator of six BeeHive Homes locations in Utah. Live Oak’s loan package features a fully amortizing 25-year term. The bank sourced the financing in collaboration with Brady Johnson of Hunt Real Estate Capital.
POMONA, CALIF. — LNR Partners has completed the sale of Pomona Tech Center, an office building located at 3201 Temple Ave. in Pomona. A private buyer acquired the asset for $6.5 million, or $147 per square foot. The two-story, 44,187-square-foot building features institutional-quality, steel-frame improvements with a recently renovated vaulted lobby, mountain and valley views, and ample surface parking. Additionally, the property offers immediate access to Orange County and the Inland Empire. At the time of sale, the property was 89 percent leased to six tenants, with national credit tenants St. Joseph Health and Henkels & McCoy occupying 46 percent of the building. Jeffrey Cole, Ed Hernandez and Nico Napolitano of Cushman & Wakefield’s Capital Markets Group, along with Sean Kern and Ryan Russell of Cushman & Wakefield, represented the seller in the transaction.
New Mexico’s office market has held steady along with the rest of the country throughout 2017. New development in areas outside of metro Albuquerque, like the Facebook development in Los Lunas, is attracting retail- and service-related businesses. While it remains to be seen what this means to the general commercial real estate industry, it is encouraging to see increases in activity in areas where there had been little to no growth in recent years. Albuquerque, the heart of New Mexico’s office market, saw positive absorption start to increase from the past two quarters. The market is seeing organic tenant movement and, more importantly, there has been a swelling interest in Albuquerque metro areas from out-of-state companies looking for a Mountain Time Zone location that is economically attractive. Co-working spaces have gained in momentum with several cropping up since the end of 2016. New co-working spaces include Gravitate, which has expanded into two new locations near FreeRange and the new Tramway Plaza. We expect this trend to continue as the state focuses on investing in entrepreneurs and startup companies. New construction is expected to increase the overall Class A inventory over the course of 2018 and 2019. Compared to many other …
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Ridge Capital has completed the sale of Creekside Oaks, an office complex located at 1740, 1750 and 1760 Creekside Oaks Drive in Sacramento. An undisclosed buyer acquired the property in a 1031 exchange for $32.2 million. Kevin Partington, Ron Thomas, Bruce Hohenhaus, Chris Schwarze, Seth Siegel, Steven Hermann, Eric Fox, Adam Lasoff and George Eckard of Cushman & Wakefield’s Sacramento and Bay Area offices represented the seller in transaction. Originally built in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the three-building property underwent significant interior and exterior renovations within the past decade to include revamped commons areas, high-end tenant improvements, mechanical upgrades and new rooftops on all buildings. At the time of sale, the 178,694-square-foot asset was 99 percent leased to a variety of tenants in healthcare, technology and financial services sectors.
NOVATO, CALIF. — NKF Capital Markets has arranged the sale of Rowland Plaza, located at 75 and 88 Rowland Way in Novato. Buchanan Street Partners sold the asset to Pinnacle Capital Management Services and Harrison Street for an undisclosed price. The property features 142,856 square feet of office and medical office space spread across two three-story buildings. At the time of sale, the asset was 82 percent leased to 12 tenants representing medical, finance, government and software firms. Grant Lammersen, Steven Golubchik, Edmund Najera and Tyler Meyerdirk of NKF Capital Markets represented the seller in the deal.
LAS VEGAS — Dornin Investment Group (DIG) has completed the sale of Town Square North, an office asset located within Town Square mixed-use development on Las Vegas Boulevard South and Sunset Road in Las Vegas. Moonwater Capital, a local real estate owner and operator, acquired the property for an undisclosed price. The two-building asset features 131,000 square feet of Class A office space. The property was vacant at both the time of DIG’s acquisition in January and the current sale.
CLEARFIELD, UTAH — Vectra Management Group (VMG) has arranged the sale of an office building located at 888 S. University Park Blvd. in Clearfield. Clearfield 888 acquired the property from 888 Associates for an undisclosed price. Situated on 11.3 acres, the 129,949-square-foot property features one building with a two-story north wing and a three-story south wing. The building was constructed from 1999 to 2001 and fully renovated from 2014 to 2016. Raju Shah and Bryan Barnes led the VMG team that represented the buyer and secured acquisition financing through KeyBank’s Salt Lake City commercial banking division. VMG and CBRE represented the seller in the transaction. The seller is a VMG-sponsored company that acquired the property in November 2015.
ENGLEWOOD, COLO. — Newmark Knight Frank has arranged the sale of an industrial property located at 8640 S. Peoria St. Building No. 6 in Englewood, a suburb of Denver. IBC Concord IV LLC sold the 42,720-square-foot asset to Peoria Street Properties LLC for $7 million. Keith Bell, Jason Addlesperger and David Lee of Newmark Knight Frank represented the seller, while CBRE represented the buyer in the transaction.