Stadium Gateway, one of the larger Central County offices still run by Los Angeles-based MPG Office Trust Inc., is getting sold.
In a bit of a twist for the beleaguered landlord, which has been shedding Orange County properties the past few years to ease its debt load, the latest sale isn’t lender-driven.
MPG—formerly known as Maguire Properties Inc.—manages and has a 20% ownership stake in Anaheim-based Stadium Gateway, a six-story, 274,000-square-foot office facility at 1900 S. State College Blvd., west of Angel Stadium.
The building was about 72% leased to seven tenants and brought in about $4.2 million in rents last year, according to MPG’s last annual report.
Tenants currently include the local operations of New York-based Turner Construction Co. The building was previously used by the now-defunct Countrywide Home Loans.
The remaining 80% stake in Stadium Gateway is owned by Charter Hall Office REIT, an Australian property trust. The office is one of five Charter Hall properties that MPG manages and has a similar ownership stake in.
Other buildings falling under the same ownership structure include the 52-story, 1.2 million-square-foot Wells Fargo Center in Den-ver, and the 42-story, 1-million-square-foot One California Center tower in Los Angeles.
Charter Hall took over the 80% stake in the five buildings last year from fellow Australian investor Macquarie Office Trust, which partnered with then-Maguire in 2006.
Charter Hall said earlier this month it was selling a 13-office portfolio, including the five MPG-managed buildings, to a unit of Boston-based Beacon Capital Partners LLC, a real estate investment firm.
The 4.9-million-square-foot portfolio is expected to trade hands for $1.7 billion, or about $347 per square foot.
Stadium Gateway is the only OC asset changing hands in the Charter Hall-Beacon sale.
Charter Hall said it was selling the buildings to focus on the Australian office market.
The deal with Beacon is said to include about $740 million in securitized debt, according to trade reports. The debt isn’t distressed, and is set to mature in 2015 and 2016.
The Stadium Gateway building has about $42 million of securitized debt tied to it, according to reports. It last traded hands for about $71 million in 2006, or about $260 per square foot, according to brokerage data.
Fullerton Project
Oak Brook, Ill.-based Inland Real Estate Group is moving ahead with a student housing and retail project near California State University, Fullerton’s campus.
The developer is breaking ground on one of the first sections of Fullerton’s sizeable Collegetown Redevelopment plan. The project is slated for the northwest corner of Commonwealth and Chapman avenues.
Inland’s project is expected to hold some 1,100 rooms for student housing, along with 30,000 square feet of retail.
Brokers with Fullerton-based Vanguard Commercial have the listing for the retail portion of the development, which is expected to open by mid-2013.
Shops and restaurants are expected to run from 1,000 square feet to 5,500 square feet at the development, according to marketing plans. Rents are listed from $2.50 to $3.50 per square feet.
Brokers note there are seven colleges and high schools in about a 1-mile radius of the project, including Cal State Fullerton, and say there’s already been interest from national brands as well as local operators.
Beaumont Buy
Aliso Viejo-based CT Realty Investors Inc. has snapped up another large industrial building in the Inland Empire.
The real estate investor said earlier this month it bought the Dowling Orchard Business Park, a two-building warehouse in Beaumont near the intersection of the Moreno Valley (60) Freeway and Redlands (10) Freeway.
The buildings total 572,143 square feet; the sale included the purchase of 30 acres of land entitled for a 611,000-square-foot building.
The building was sold by a unit of Atlanta-based Oakmont Industrial Group, which has a local office in Irvine.
Oakmont built the project in 2008 to environmentally friendly standards. Construction was handled by Brea-based KPRS Construction Services Inc.
Terms of the sale weren’t disclosed, but the buildings traded “well below replacement cost, in keeping with our opportunistic investment strategy,” according to Carter Ewing, executive vice president of CT Realty. It was an all-cash deal and closed in less than 60 days, according to the buyers.
Assuming the remaining 611,000 square feet of development is completed, CT Realty said it would look at leasing or selling the property to a single user.
The investor has bought nearly 4 million square feet of industrial buildings in the Inland Empire in the past year.
