CHANDLER, ARIZ. — CBRE Global Investors has purchased a data center, located at 2500 W. Frye Road in Chandler, an eastern suburb of Phoenix, for $72.7 million. The seller was Lincoln Rackhouse, the data center division of Lincoln Property Co., in partnership with Principal Real Estate Investors. Kristina Metzger and James McCarthy of CBRE Data Center Capital Markets represented the seller in the deal. Lincoln Rackhouse and Principal Real Estate Investors originally purchased the data center in 2018 as part of a three-property portfolio. A global data center services provider fully occupies the 191,000-square-foot facility.
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PORTLAND, ORE. — A joint venture between Holland Partner Group and Pacific Life Insurance Co. has acquired Tupelo Alley, a mixed-use community located in Portland’s North Mississippi Avenue neighborhood. Institutional investors advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management sold the property for $58 million. Situated on 1.4 acres at 3850 N. Mississippi Ave., the three-building Tupelo Alley features 188 apartments in a mix of studio, one- and three-bedroom layouts, averaging 770 square feet, and 10,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. On-site amenities include indoor and outdoor gathering spaces for residents. Ira Virden and Carrie Kahn of JLL Capital Markets represented the seller, while Charles Halladay, Rick Salinas and Charlie Watson, also of JLL Capital Markets, represented the buyer in the transaction. Additionally, JLL arranged $37.7 million in acquisition financing for the buyer.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Colliers International has arranged the purchase of 6Y, a 11-story creative office building located at 811 SW Sixth Ave. in Portland’s Central Business District (CBD). Deka Immobilien acquired the asset from a joint venture between KBS and True North Management Group for $47.5 million. The transaction marks Frankfurt, Germany-based Deka’s third U.S. purchase in the last nine months and its entry into the Oregon market. Overlooking Pioneer Square, the 116,224-square-foot property was repositioned to include upgraded creative office suites, a tenant lounge and a contemporary lobby. Robert Stamm and Andres Roldan of Colliers’ Investment Advisory Group, in coordination with Chris Johnson of Colliers’ Portland office, represented the buyer, while Nick Kucha, James Childress and Bill DeLacy of Newmark Knight Frank represented the seller in the deal.
KeyBank Provides $29M HUD Refinancing for Skilled Nursing Facility in Northern California
by Amy Works
SALINAS, CALIF. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has provided a $29 million loan to refinance Pacific Coast Care Center, a 149-bed skilled nursing facility in Salinas, just south of the Bay Area proper. The facility was built in 1979. The borrower is an investor group led by BM Eagle Holdings and BlueMountain Capital Management. Financing for the property was closed using the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 232/223(f) mortgage insurance program. Proceeds from the FHA loan were used to pay down a portion of an interim bridge loan. A KeyBank-led bank syndicate originally provided the acquisition financing in mid-2017 as part of a multi-asset skilled nursing portfolio. The deal team consisted of John Randolph of Key Bank’s FHA Healthcare team and Grant Saunders and Peter Trazzaera from Key Bank’s Healthcare Group.
Voit Real Estate Services Brokers $11.2M Sale of Three-Building Office Asset in San Diego
by Amy Works
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
Mason Asset Management, Namdar Group Buy 500,000 SF Sierra Vista Mall in San Joaquin Valley
by Amy Works
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.
JLL Arranges $13.6M Sale of Leasehold Interest of Glendora Commons Shopping Center in Los Angeles County
by Amy Works
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.