SEAL BEACH, Calif. – Dec. 26, 2023 – PRLog — Harbor Associates, LLC (“Harbor”) in  joint venture with F&F Capital Group has acquired a five-story, 164,683-square-foot Class A creative office building on Los Angeles’ westside for $44.713 million.

“After several years of kicking the can down the road, we are now beginning to see distress hit the market,” said Harbor Principal Joon Choi.  “While current market conditions and the work from home phenomenon has dealt a severe blow to the commercial office sector, there are still compelling opportunities to find the hidden gems at a deep discount to replacement.  At our cost basis, we expect the property to perform very well for us in the Post Covid-era.”

1640 Sepulveda Boulevard is located one block north of Santa Monica Boulevard at the gateway to Century City and Beverly Hills.   Built in 1987, the property was extensively renovated over the last decade with more than $11 million in renovations that went to improve tenant spaces, create expansive North and West facing balconies, redesigned building lobby, and common areas, a 70-seat ground floor screening room and brand new elevator landings.

“1640 Sepulveda is a well-appointed low-rise creative office asset that is in high demand in Southern California,” added Harbor Principal Paul Miszkowicz.  “It also draws off the leasing velocity taking place in Century City, Los Angeles’ strongest office submarket.  “Given those demand drivers, more than 80,000 square feet of leases have been signed in the past three years”.

1640 Sepulveda was 80% occupied at the time of closing.

This is the joint venture’s second acquisition in the past two months.   In November Harbor/F&F acquired a 102,000-square-foot industrial portfolio in the San Diego submarket of Carlsbad for $21 million.

“F&F Capital is thrilled to be expanding our relationship with Harbor Associates and growing our nationwide multi-billion dollar real estate portfolio with their team,” added Jeff Frieden, Co-Founder and CEO of F&F Capital Group.

Kevin Shannon and Rob Hannan of Newmark advised the seller.

About Harbor: Harbor Associates, LLC (http://www.harborassociates.com) is a value-add operating platform focused on acquiring and repositioning under-performing commercial real estate assets throughout Southern California. Harbor has been involved in the renovation, repositioning and development of 40 commercial projects totaling over 4.0 million square feet with a portfolio value in excess of $1.0B. The company is a joint venture with The Bascom Group, LLC.

About F&F Capital Group:

With a commercial real estate portfolio in excess of $2.4 billion and growing, F&F Capital Group has a team of real estate professionals and acquisition specialists that work within the retail, office, hospitality, industrial, multifamily, student housing and self-storage sectors. The team is also an active buyer of distressed commercial real estate debt with expertise in CMBS and mezzanine debt. F&F boasts proven methods of real estate investment. Supported by state-of-the-art technology, carefully curated partnerships and unrivaled industry information access, F&F is leading real estate investment into the 21st century.

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SEAL BEACH, Calif. – Nov. 27, 2023 – PRLog — Harbor Associates, LLC (“Harbor”) in joint venture with Evergen Equity (“Evergen”) has acquired a 126,015-square-foot industrial real estate portfolio in the Los Angeles submarket of Gardena from a local investor in an off-market transaction for $55 million.

The portfolio consists of four adjacent properties ranging in size from 17,000 square feet – 45,000 square feet at 690-760 W. 190^th Street.  The 7.5-acre site is located within the 34 million-square-foot Gardena/Harbor industrial submarket, which boasts a vacancy rate of less than 1%. It is situated immediately next to the I-405/I-110 interchange, two of Southern California’s major truck routes providing easy access to the Ports of Los Angeles, Downtown Los Angeles, Pasadena Long Beach and Orange County.

“The opportunity to acquire 7.5 acres of prime industrial land in this very tight and important industrial submarket is rare,” said Rich McEvoy, Principal for Harbor. “We are contemplating several possible options for the property including a Class A industrial outdoor storage facility for trucking and container uses.”

“This submarket is incredibly dense and is one of the few in the area that allows for trucking and shipping container uses,” added Harbor Principal Paul Miszkowicz.   “This has ‘super-charged’ the demand as 3PL and logistics companies compete for a diminished supply of truck yards.”

The 190^th Street asset represents Harbor’s third industrial acquisition of 2023 totaling more than $120 million and adds to its 640,000-square-foot industrial portfolio with assets located in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego Counties.

“We are explicitly focused on partnering with best-in-class operators on the ownership of generational real estate, which made this an easy opportunity to lean into.  We have a long history with the exceptional Harbor team, and these irreplaceable 7.5 acres at the intersection of two interstates with more than  500,000 vehicles per day of traffic will be one of the crown jewels in our logistics portfolio,” said Troy Marcus, Founder and CEO of Evergen Equity.

Eric Cox, Barbara Perrier and Darla Longo of CBRE advised the seller on the transaction.

About Harbor: Harbor Asssociates, LLC (http://www.harborassociates.com) is a value-add operating platform focused on acquiring and repositioning under-performing commercial real estate assets throughout Southern California. Harbor has been involved in the renovation, repositioning and development of 36 commercial projects totaling over 4.0 million square feet with a portfolio value in excess of $1.0B. The company is a joint venture with The Bascom Group, LLC.

About Evergen Equity: Evergen Equity (http://www.evergenequity.com) is a multiple family office that is focused on the real estate allocation of ultra high net worth families that are based in the United States. These families have built and operated businesses in a variety of industries ranging from technology and energy, to automotive and consumer product goods. Evergen is hyper-focused on wealth preservation and partnering alongside best in-class operators to steward their families’ capital through real estate investments of all product types and in all markets across the continental United States.

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