LAKEWOOD, WASH. — Security Properties has acquired the 267-unit Beaumont Grand apartments in Lakewood for $35.2 million. The community is located at 8504 82nd St. SW. It is situated near the Port of Tacoma and Joint Base Lewis-McChord, a U.S. military installation supporting more than 66,000 jobs. The property is 95 percent leased. HFF’s Ira Virden and Chris Ross represented the seller, Grand Peaks Properties, and its finance partner, Pacific Coast Capital Partners, in this transaction.
SEATTLE — An affiliate of Champion has acquired the 73-unit Union Bay Apartments in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle for $24 million. The community is located at 526 Yale Ave. N. It was built in 1994. Union Bay is situated near Amazon, Dropbox, Google, Facebook, WeWork, the Paul Allen Brain Institute, Fred Hutch Cancer Research and Zymogenetics.
SEATTLE — PSRS has provided $54 million in acquisition financing for a 324,287-square-foot office campus in Seattle. The borrower was not disclosed. The loan features a three-year term and a 25-year amortization schedule. The loan was placed with a life insurance company. It was structured by PSRS’s Antonio Hachem.
EVERETT, WASH. — KeyBank has provided $54.5 million in construction financing for a 256-unit affordable housing development at Puget Park in Everett. The community will be situated 30 miles north of Seattle. The property will serve residents who earn 60 percent or less of the area median income. KeyBank’s Community Development Lending & Investing group provided the funds.
BELLEVUE, WASH. — Pacific Coast Capital Partners has purchased Evergreen Office Park in Bellevue for $21.4 million. The two-building office park is located at 10940 & 11000 N.E. 33rd Place. Pacific Coast Capital Partners plans to make capital improvements to the park’s common areas, including new tenant amenities. Andy Miller, Joe Lynch and Dan Harden of Kidder Mathews represented the seller, SteelWave, in this transaction.
SEATTLE — A joint venture between real estate investment company Kennedy Wilson (NYSE: KW) and an undisclosed partner has acquired Radius, a 282-unit multifamily community in Seattle’s South Lake Union submarket, for $141 million. Radius is a class-A apartment community built in 2015. Amenities include two rooftop decks, gaming room, fitness center and a private resident media room. The seller was not disclosed. Radius is located directly across the street from the world headquarters and main campus of Amazon and walking distance to over 10 million square feet of additional Amazon office space. The property is also within walking distance of employers such as Facebook, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and a future 607,000-square-foot Google campus. The 50/50 joint venture invested $72 million of equity for the purchase, drawing from its recent $58 million sale of The Grove, a 331-unit community in San Jose, Calif. The partnership also secured a 10-year acquisition loan of $70 million. The financing features a fixed interest rate of 4.06 percent and interest-only payments for the first five years. “Radius is an exciting addition to our Seattle apartment portfolio,” says Shem Streeter, managing director of Kennedy Wilson Multifamily Investments. “Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood features some of …
SEATTLE — A joint venture between the Molasky Group and China-based Binjiang Group has secured $325 million in financing to build a 41-story mixed-use multifamily and hotel tower in the Belltown submarket of Seattle. Financing includes a $225 million joint venture partnership, as well as a $100 million construction-to-permanent loan. The project has not been named yet, but will be built on the site of the old Potala Tower. That project was put under the control of a court-appointed receiver, which suspended construction for about one year. The joint venture development partnership, arranged by Newmark, acquired the property from the court-appointed receiver in October 2016. Construction has resumed at the project. PCL will serve as the general contractor and Weber Thompson will act as the architect. The tower will feature 339 apartment units, 142 hotel rooms and 1,824 square feet of ground-floor retail space. It is scheduled for completion in August 2018. The $100 million construction-to-permanent loan was placed with two of Newmark’s correspondent life insurance company lenders, Guardian Life and Voya Investment, with each lender providing $50 million. The seven-year, construction-to-permanent loans will feature interest-only payments for a period of time, and later amortized over 30 years. Newmark will service the loans, …
SEATTLE — Atlas Workbase has opened a new 20,000-square-foot coworking space at the Lumen Building in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood. The space will cater to mature companies, small businesses and executives, meaning managers and consultants rather than the traditional start-up crowd. The space is targeting professional industries like retail banking, insurance and law that seek a professional shared workspace. Atlas Workbase was designed in conjunction with Gensler and OpenSquare. It was created with partners including FedEx Office, Steelcase and Philips Lighting. Atlas previously announced a partnership with FedEx Office. The company has opened an in-house print and ship center inside its Mercer Street facility.
SAN RAFAEL, CALIF., AND BURLINGTON, WASH. — Macerich has completed the disposition of two retail centers in California and Washington. Merlone Geier Partners acquired the properties — Northgate Mall in San Rafael and Cascade Mall in Burlington — for $170 million. The transaction resulted in net proceeds to Macerich of approximately $100 million after the repayment of a floating-rate note on Northgate Mall.
VANCOUVER, WASH. — Parkview Financial has secured a $16.2 million loan for a 124-unit multifamily development in Vancouver. The community is being developed along 134th Street.
