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A Stockbridge Capital Partners fund is offering a mixed-use
complex in the Bay Area that could attract bids of roughly
$150 million.
The fully occupied property, Park Place at Bay Meadows,
has 187,000 sf of office space and 63,000 sf of retail
space. There are also 19 residential condominiums that
are owned separately and not part of the offering.
At the estimated sales price, the buyer’s initial
annual yield would be about 5.5%. Stockbridge is marketing
the office and retail components jointly, but it would
consider bids on either part. Eastdil Secured has the
listing.
The lead office tenants are Oracle, which has a lease
on 128,000 sf until 2014, and Dorado Corp. (36,000 sf
until 2008). Whole Foods, the main retail tenant, is leasing
38,000 sf until 2023. Its store generates sales of nearly
$1,000/sf.
Most of the leases were signed before the project was
completed in 2003. Since then, the market has rebounded
strongly. As a result, the rents at Park Place are lower
than the prevailing triple-net asking rents of $39/sf
for comparable office space and $50/sf for retail space.
The three-building property is off U.S. Highway 101,
less than a mile south of State Highway 92 and about 20
miles south of San Francisco.
Park Place is on land that PaineWebber Real Estate Fund
acquired in 1997 and subdivided. The 173-acre site had
been occupied for seven decades by the Bay Meadows Race
Course.
The PaineWebber fund developed Park Place. The actual
construction was handled by Equity Office Properties of
Chicago and Blake Hunt Ventures of Danville, Calif., neither
of which plowed any equity in the project. In 2003, the
fund’s manager, Terry Fancher, and several colleagues
formed Stockbridge and acquired the management rights
to the fund, which they renamed Stockbridge Real Estate
Fund.
Stockbridge, which last year completed raising $1 billion
of equity for a follow up fund, plans to develop office,
retail and luxury residential condominiums on other portions
of the former racetrack.
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