Costa Mesa shopping-center owner Donahue Schriber has expanded to Washington state after buying a retail property about 30 miles outside Seattle for a reported $41 million.
The company this month bought the Four Corners Shopping Center, a 127,750-square-foot shopping center in Maple Valley, Wash., that’s anchored by a Safeway.
Local reports put the 14-acre property changing hands for $41 million, or about $320 per square foot. Bellevue, Wash.-based Pallis Properties sold the Four Corners center.
It is Donahue Schriber’s only property in Washington, though more deals could be on the way.
The company announced earlier this year it would be eyeing more shopping centers in the Pacific Northwest, as well as in coastal locations in California.
Donahue Schriber’s holdings include about 80 shopping centers, totaling close to 12 million square feet of space. California is its largest market, with other properties also in Nevada, Arizona and Oregon.
Local properties it owns include Bristol Village Plaza in Costa Mesa and the Fountain Valley Promenade. Its flagship property is considered to be the Del Mar Highlands Town Center, a 273,000-square-foot center in northern San Diego County’s Carmel Valley.
The company has announced the addition of three properties to its portfolio in 2012, following a $1.2 billion recapitalization last summer.
The other two recent acquisitions include a pair of California properties: The Crossings at Paso Robles, a 310,161-square-foot center in San Luis Obispo County that’s anchored by a Target store, and the Mandalay Village Marketplace, a 193,964-square-foot center, anchored by a Ralphs and CVS/Pharmacy, in Port Hueneme, Ventura County.
Donahue Schriber plans to spend $1.5 million on improving the Mandalay Village property, which it bought in January, according to local reports.
Those two deals were the first deals announced under what the company called an “aggressive acquisitions program” targeting retail properties in California’s coastal communities and the Pacific Northwest.
Arizona Sales
The company also has been selling a handful of centers it owned in Arizona, which could free up some additional money for acquisitions.
Affiliates of San Rafael-based SyWest Development are reported to have paid a combined $121.8 million to buy a trio of the company’s centers in Tempe, Chandler, and Gilbert, Ariz., which total close to 700,000 square feet.
The sales were reportedly the most expensive retail sales in the Phoenix area in the past quarter, according to CoStar Group Inc. data.
