PLEASANTON – Danville-based actual property agency 300 Enterprise Group (3VG) introduced final week it has bought the constructing housing JCPenney on the Stoneridge Mall in Pleasanton, a transfer that might imply the top of the storefront after greater than 40 years.
Though plans for the 155,920-square-foot constructing on practically 10 acres of helpful actual property weren’t instantly introduced, 3VG stated in a press release that the property was “prime actual property in a excessive barrier to entry market with distinctive fundamentals.”
“Per its mission of profitably repositioning belongings to maximise their worth and create vibrant communities, 3VG is exploring numerous situations for the property,” the corporate added.
In a report by RealDeal.com, Nicholas Bicardo, the dealer who represented the vendor, stated it’s seemingly that JCPenney would shut its doorways.
“The property permits the investor the optionality to both function it below a long-term lease or terminate the lease and reposition the constructing/website into an alternate use or retailer,” Bicardo stated.
“All of it comes right down to what one’s funding technique is,” he continued. “For a extra passive purchaser, getting a single-tenant, long-term lease at an elevated cap charge could possibly be very enticing. For a extra proactive purchaser, which that is the case right here, repositioning the field on the present land foundation appears very enticing.”
Launched in March by 4 industrial actual property business veterans, 3VG and its capital companion acquired the JCPenney website at 1500 Stoneridge Mall Highway in mid-July.
The phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed.
In its assertion, 3VG referred to as Pleasanton a “extremely fascinating residential group that boasts one of many high faculty methods in California and is without doubt one of the wealthiest middle-sized cities in the US.”
Additionally within the assertion, Kameron Klotz, a founding principal of 3VG, referred to as the positioning an “irreplaceable location” on the intersection of the 580 and 680 freeways and throughout the road from the West Dublin/Pleasanton BART station.
“We sit up for working with the group and stakeholders to create an revolutionary imaginative and prescient and execution for the property,” Klotz stated.
The Stoneridge Mall has undergone quite a few modifications and house owners because the Stoneson Growth Company opened the procuring heart in 1980 with JCPenney, Macy’s and Emporium-Capwell as the unique anchor shops. In 1990, Nordstrom opened. In 1996, Macy’s took over Emporium and stored two places on the mall. Sears opened in 1996.
In recent times, as field shops and malls fell sufferer to on-line shopping for and a two-year pandemic, Sears closed in 2019 and Nordstrom in 2020.
The JCPenney constructing is the second main acquisition for 3VG. Klotz and his companions — Howard Overton, Jerry Hunt and Mark Pleis — are focusing their enterprise on acquisition, improvement and redevelopment of retail, workplace, multifamily and mixed-use properties. 4 months in the past, they bought a property in downtown Napa.
The corporate stated the Stoneridge advanced has seen main funding and redevelopment curiosity within the final three years. Fintech firm Workday’s 410,000-square-foot headquarters throughout the road has greater than 5,000 staff. Different main firms together with Ericsson, Kaiser-Permanente and Oracle are inside three miles and biotech firm 10x Genomics, positioned throughout the road, is scheduled to open in 2023.
“We based 3VG earlier this yr exactly to benefit from these artistic alternatives, which may add important worth to each the communities and our traders,” Overton stated within the assertion. “We wished to hit the bottom working, and have actually completed so, and now have 12.4 acres and 232,000 sq. toes below management in high-profile places. And we’re persevering with to pursue extra alternatives this yr.”
