SAN DIEGO — Cushman & Wakefield has advised the seller in the disposition of Sorrento Ridge, a 103,325-square-foot, three-story office building in the Miramar submarket of San Diego. Tappan Corp. purchased the property, located at 7220 Trade St., from an unnamed seller. The price was not disclosed. Cushman & Wakefield’s Rick Reeder, Brad Tecca, Brooks Campbell and Duncan Dodd represented the seller, while Bill Cavanagh and Mike Novkov provided local market advisory. Larry Glenn of Glendale Mortgage represented the buyer. Sorrento Ridge was nearly 60 percent leased at the time of sale to mainly smaller tenants representing a mix of professional services, engineering and technology firms, with the largest leasing less than 10,000 square feet. The property is situated on 4.4 acres near interstates 5 and 805 and the Sorrento Plaza shopping center.
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Irvine Investment Co. Begins Construction of 540,000 SF Irvine Office Park in Metro Salt Lake City
by Jeff Shaw
DRAPER, UTAH — Irvine Investment Co. has started construction of Irvine Office Park in the Salt Lake City suburb of Draper. Upon completion, the 540,000-square-foot park will include three buildings at the intersection of I-15 and Bangerter Highway. Building one will finish completion in early 2020, spanning six stories and 180,000 square feet. Colliers is handling leasing.
PHOENIX — NorthMarq has brokered the sale of Park at Deer Valley Apartments, a multifamily community located near 19th Avenue and Bell Road in Phoenix, for $56.7 million. The NorthMarq Phoenix investment sales team of Trevor Koskovich, Bill Hahn and Jesse Hudson represented both the seller and the buyer in the transaction. Tides at Deer Valley Owner LLC, an entity formed by Los Angeles-based Tides Equities, was the buyer. Tides acquired the asset with a $49.1 million bridge loan arranged by James DuMars and Griffin Martin of NorthMarq’s debt and equity team. Park at Deer Valley LLC, an entity formed by Billah Khan of Chandler, Ariz., was the seller. Built in 1984, the 436-unit apartment community feature studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments, along with two swimming pools, five playgrounds, a dog park and multiple sport courts.
HAILEY, IDAHO — KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment (CDLI), along with KeyBank Real Estate Capital (KBREC), has secured $27 million to refinance and renovate Balmoral Apartments. The property is located in Hailey, a small city in central Idaho approximately 125 miles east of Boise. The financing included $10.1 million provided by CDLI, as well as $17.3 million from Freddie Mac arranged by KBREC’s commercial mortgage group. Completed in 2002, the property is a 192-unit, affordable garden-style apartment complex on four acres. Balmoral comprises 19 two- and three-story buildings offering five different floor plans with one-, two- and three-bedroom units. Site amenities include a clubhouse, fitness center, playground, picnic areas and access to an adjacent park with a soccer field and basketball courts. Dominium, which acquired the property in 2015, intends to moderately rehabilitate the property with a construction budget estimated at $52,000 per unit. The renovations will be conducted during a nine-month period while tenants are in place. Balmoral operates under the Section 42 LIHTC Program with seven units reseved for residents making up to 30 percent of area median income (AMI), 11 units at 40 percent AMI and 174 units at 60 percent AMI. Kelly Frank of Key’s …
The City of Los Angeles checks all the boxes for an excellent apartment owner environment. This includes a booming economy, expensive housing, meaningful job growth, and an abundance of Millennials and professionals. Los Angeles enjoys an immense and fast-growing high-tech industry, especially within the media, tech, aerospace and advanced transportation industry with the likes of Netflix, Google, SpaceX and Northrop Grumman. Los Angeles County houses the nation’s largest international trade industry, the nation’s largest manufacturing base, and an increasing amount of venture capital investment startups. A growing economy is almost always paired with escalating housing costs, and Los Angeles is no exception. More than ever, residents are driven to rental housing as homeownership is prohibitively expensive and not conducive to job mobility and flexibility. Last year was a banner year for region’s apartment sector. The average market rent in the Los Angeles MSA has seen extremely impressive growth, increasing an average of 5.3 percent annually since the turn of the century, according to Axiometrics. This remarkable trajectory has been spurred by the extremely tight rental market, with annual occupancies averaging between 94 percent and 97 percent. Such indicators allow landlords to be extremely discerning when vetting tenants, which, in turn, …
Ryman Hospitality Receives $880M Refinancing for Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center Near Denver
by Jeff Shaw
AURORA, COLO. — Ryman Hospitality Properties Inc. (NYSE: RHP) has received a financing package totaling $880 million to refinance the construction and mezzanine loans for Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center in Aurora, just east of Denver. Wells Fargo both provided and arranged the loan. Sitting on 85 acres, Gaylord Rockies features over 1,500 guest rooms including 114 suites and over 485,000 square feet of meeting and convention space. Amenities include eight restaurants, a spa/salon, multiple retail shops and a $25 million indoor/outdoor water park. Marriott International operates the resort, which opened in December 2018. Ryman Hospitality is a publicly traded lodging REIT specializing in destination hotel assets in urban and resort markets. The original loans were scheduled to mature in December 2019. Although the owner of the property is a joint venture, with Ryman owning 61.2 percent of the property, the other owners were not disclosed. The new loan consists of an $800 million term loan and an additional $80 million of borrowing capacity should the joint venture decide to pursue a future expansion. The new loan matures in July 2023 with three one-year extension options and bears an interest rate at LIBOR plus 2.5 percent. Simultaneously with the …
HENDERSON, NEV. — Google has broken ground on a $600 million data center in the metro Las Vegas city of Henderson. The 750,000-square-foot facility sits on a 64-acre site and is expected to open in 2020. It is part of a $13 billion data center and office expansion effort by Google, which also includes facilities in Michigan, Oklahoma and Texas.
SEATTLE — Vanbarton Group, a privately owned real estate investment and advisory firm, has purchased 901 Fifth Ave. from Schnitzer West and Investcorp for $305 million. The 541,190-square-foot, 41-story tower is located at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Madison Street in Seattle’s central business district. Schnitzer West will continue to perform property management services for the tower, which is 100 percent occupied by tenants including Pitchbook and Cray Inc. HFF and Newmark Knight Frank brokered the transition with market leasing support from JLL.
Harvest Properties, New York Life Real Estate Investors Sell One Bay Plaza in Bay Area for $75.3M
by Jeff Shaw
BURLINGAME, CALIF. — Harvest Properties and joint-venture partner New York Life Real Estate Investors, on behalf of McMorgan Northern California Value Add Development Fund I, have sold One Bay Plaza in Burlingame to local developer/operator Woodstock Development for an undisclosed amount. The 196,000-square-foot, nine-story office tower was originally purchased in 2016. Paul Nelson, Stephen Van Dusen, Cartter Berg and Cameron Palmer of Eastdil Secured represented Harvest and New York Life Real Estate Investors on the transaction. Sources close to the sale confirmed a price of $75.3 million.
OXNARD, CALIF. — Oakmont Senior Living has announced plans for Oakmont of Riverpark, slated to open this winter in Oxnard, a coastal city approximately 70 miles west of Los Angeles. Senior living veteran Gina Salman will be executive director of the 90,000-square-foot, resort-style senior living community located on three acres. The property will feature 59 assisted living and 25 memory care apartment homes. A marketing information center is already open at the site.