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Arden Buys Foothill Ranch Offices From Layton Belling

Los Angeles-based office landlord Arden Realty Inc. said on Thursday it bought Towne Centre Plaza, a three-building office complex in Foothill Ranch.

The three Foothill Ranch buildings total 205,077 square feet.

Arden bought Towne Centre, along with a two-building, 196,501-square-foot complex in Phoenix, from Irvine-based Layton Belling and Associates, a real estate investment and management company.

Arden, which itself was acquired earlier this year by the real estate investment arm of General Electric Co., paid a combined $107.5 million for the Foothill Ranch and Phoenix properties.

Layton Belling had owned the Foothill Ranch property for less than a year.

Last February, Layton Belling bought the offices as part of its $435 million acquisition of Bedford Property Investors Inc., a real estate investment trust based near Oakland.

Layton Belling added nearly 7 million square feet of office and industrial space to its portfolio as a result of the Bedford acquisition.

Arden owns about 16 million square feet comprised of 111 properties and 191 buildings from Ventura to San Diego counties. In Orange County, its holdings total about 19 office buildings, with about 3.4 million square feet of space.

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Mark Mueller
Mark Mueller
Mark is the former Editor-in-Chief and current Community Editor of the Orange County Business Journal, one of the premier regional business newspapers in the country. He’s the fifth person to hold the editor’s position in the paper’s long history. He oversees a staff of about 15 people. The OCBJ is considered a must-read for area business executives. The print edition of the paper is the primary source of local news for most of the Business Journal’s subscribers, which includes most of OC’s major corporate and community players. Mark’s been with the paper since 2005, and long served as the real estate reporter for the paper, breaking hundreds of commercial and residential real estate stories. He took on the editor’s position in 2018.

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