VANCOUVER, WASH. — Senior Living Investment Brokerage has arranged the sale of a 48-unit assisted living community in Vancouver, just across the Columbia River from Portland, Ore., for $7.5 million. A regional company received the community out of bankruptcy and sold it to a regional owner-operator. The new owner plans to invest in improvements, including converting some employee apartments into units for more residents. The community was built in 2013. The name was not disclosed. Matthew Alley, Jason Punzel and Jeff Binder of Senior Living Investment Brokerage arranged the deal on behalf of the seller.
AUBURN, WASH. — KeyBank’s Community Development Lending & Investing group has provided $95.2 million in tax-exempt bond financing to construct two affordable housing communities in the Seattle suburb of Auburn, one for families and one for seniors. AVS Communities is developing the two properties. The Villas at Auburn will offer 295 units of affordable housing for families while The Reserve at Auburn will offer 297 units of affordable housing for seniors. Both projects will serve residents making 60 percent or less of the area median income. KeyBank provided a $47 million construction loan for The Reserve at Auburn, with a $40.6 million Freddie Mac Tax Exempt Loan (TEL) component arranged by Key’s Commercial Mortgage Group. The company provided a $48.2 million construction loan for The Villas at Auburn, with a $40.9 million Freddie Mac TEL arranged by Key’s Commercial Mortgage Group. The Washington State Housing Finance Commission issued the tax-exempt bonds. Victoria Quinn and Al Beaumariage arranged the financing.
WOODINVILLE, WASH. — Cru Selections has leased 10,970 square feet of industrial space at The Park at Woodinville. The property is located adjacent to one of the largest industrial winery locations in the state of Washington. Woodinville and its warehouse district have become home to over 100 wineries and tasting rooms over the last two decades. CBRE’s Erik Larsen represented Cru. Derek Heed of Colliers International represented the landlord, KBS Realty Advisors, in this transaction.
SEATTLE — Kevin Johnson, president and chief operating officer of Starbucks Corp. and a seven-year member of the Starbucks board of directors, will assume the role and responsibilities of president and chief executive officer, effective April 3, 2017. Also effective April 3, 2017, Howard Schultz, chairman and CEO, will be appointed executive chairman and will shift his focus to innovation, design and development of Starbucks Reserve Roasteries around the world, expansion of the Starbucks Reserve retail store format and the company’s social impact initiatives. In this new role Schultz will continue to serve as chairman of the board. As president and chief operating officer since March 2015, Johnson has led the company’s global operating businesses across all geographies as well as the core support functions of Starbucks supply chain, marketing, human resources, technology, and mobile and digital platforms. Johnson has been a Starbucks board member since 2009, and will continue to serve as a member of the Starbucks board of directors. Johnson’s career spans 33 years in the technology industry, which included a 16-year career at Microsoft and a 5-year tour as CEO of Juniper Networks. Founed in 1971, Starbucks Coffee Co. has more than 25,000 stores around the globe.
BOTHELL, WASH. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged $93 million in financing for the acquisition of the 524-unit Bridges at Northcreek apartments in Bothell. The Class A community is located at 20225 Bothell Everett Highway, just north of Bellevue. Bridges at Northcreek was built in 1999. The property is situated near more than 500 restaurants and shops, Woodinville wine country, golf courses, parks and more. The 10-year, full-term, interest-only loan has significant prepayment flexibility in its last several years. NorthMarq arranged financing for the borrower, one of NorthMarq’s long-term clients, through the firm’s Fannie Mae program. David Link and Brian Fisher led the team on this transaction.
FEDERAL WAY, WASH. — Priderock has purchased the 309-unit Arcadia Townhomes in the Seattle submarket of Federal Way for $68.5 million. The community is located at 1300 S.W. Campus Drive. Community amenities include barbeques and a gazebo, fitness center, clubhouse with Wi-Fi, outdoor pool, hot tub, biking and walking paths. JLL’s David Young and Corey Marx represented the seller, a joint venture between TruAmerica Multifamily and Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, in this transaction.
SEATTLE — A joint venture between Tristar Capital and RFR Holding has purchased Amazon Phase VII, a 12-story office building with ground-floor retail in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle, for $244 million. The building is located at 400 Ninth Ave. N. Amazon Phase VII features 313,000 square feet of office space fully leased to Amazon, 5,700 square feet of ground-floor retail space fully leased to Sam’s Tavern and a four-level subterranean garage. The development also includes a public plaza and a landscaped rooftop terrace with sweeping views of the city. “Nebulous,” a public art installation by local artist Dan Corson, is suspended above the public plaza. The building was completed in 2015 and is LEED-Gold certified. NBBJ designed the project, which Turner Construction built. The Washington State Chapter of NAIOP honored the building’s seller, Vulcan Real Estate, with the 2015 Office Development of the Year award for its 1 million-square-foot expansion of Amazon’s South Lake Union headquarters. This expansion included Amazon Phase VI, Phase VII and VIII. Kevin Shannon, Ken White, Michael Moll and David Milestone of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, along with CBRE’s Tom Pehl, Lou Senini and Owen Rice, negotiated the transaction. “Core, best-in-class office product in …
LOS ANGELES AND SAN FRANCISCO — CBRE Global Investment Partners has acquired a 45 percent stake in a $1.5 billion portfolio of 55 retail assets located on the West Coast. The investment was made on behalf of the company’s flagship Global Alpha Fund and various separate account clients and totals roughly $450 million, according to reports by The Wall Street Journal. San Francisco-based Merlone Geier Partners (MGP) is the majority owner in the portfolio, which totals nearly 7 million square feet, and will maintain its position as operating partner. The properties are largely anchored by grocery and necessity-based retailers, and are concentrated in Southern California, Seattle, Sacramento, the San Francisco Bay Area and Portland. “This joint venture gives us a rare opportunity to access for our clients a large diversified portfolio of high-quality retail centers that would be challenging to acquire in scale,” says Ian Gleeson, CIO for CBRE Global Investment Partners. “We are pleased to partner with Merlone Geier because it is a leading operator that has significant experience in the retail sector.” Eastdil Secured advised MGP in the transaction. MGP is a private real estate investment company focused on the acquisition, development and redevelopment of retail and mixed-use …
RICHLAND AND KENNEWICK, WASH. — Security Properties has purchased two multifamily assets in the Tri-Cities area of Washington State for a total of $41.3 million. The acquisitions include the 228-unit Riverpointe Apartments in Richland and the 200-unit Crosspointe Apartments in Kennewick. Both Class B assets are vintage/garden-style apartment communities built in 1996. Security Properties plans to renovate both communities, which were purchased for $22.3 million and $19 million, respectively. The communities were financed with assumed HUD mortgages at a 3.42 percent average fixed rate. Security Properties-affiliate Madrona Ridge Residential will manage the communities.
Seattle is on the rise, and companies are thriving in the downtown core and surrounding submarkets. Seattle’s office market is one of the healthiest in the country. Leasing continues to be led by a robust technology sector that’s fueled by both the expansion of homegrown companies and the addition of engineering offices from mostly California-based companies. These companies have established significant footprints in Seattle as they have been able to attract, hire and retain workers from a talented employee pool. Institutions like the University of Washington continue to produce additional engineering graduates from an expanding computer science program, and companies have had great success recruiting talent eager to move from across the country and internationally to the Puget Sound region. Traditional brick-and-mortar companies like Sears, Best Buy and Starbucks are all working in Seattle to monetize the use of electronic devices. Many new companies to the market like Snapchat, Airbnb and, most recently, Pinterest, have opened their first Seattle locations in co-working spaces. The collaborative nature of the co-working environment is also popular among startups. These companies are often created by former employees of some of the region’s longstanding heavyweights. Amazon has had a significant ripple effect on the region, …