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Intersection Equities and Equity Resource Investments Acquire Las Vegas Industrial Park for $25M

Intersection Equities, LLC announces the acquisition of Mojave Industrial Park, a 175,000 square foot, industrial business park in Las Vegas, NV. The asset was purchased for $25.5 million. MDL Group represented the Seller, Mojave 15, LLC, and Erik Sexton and Camila Rosales of NAI Vegas represented the Buyer, a joint venture between Intersection Equities, LLC and a fund managed by Equity Resource Investments, LLC.

Built in 1975 and remodeled in 2006, the project includes 4 buildings on 5 separate parcels totaling 9.1 acres. The property is comprised of 9 total suites ranging in size from 4,000 SF to 28,000 square feet, and it features a total of 24 grade-level doors with ceiling heights ranging from 22 – 28 feet. The property is located within an infill industrial area of Central Las Vegas, which experienced 15.0% annual rent growth in 2022 and maintains a 1.6% vacancy rate. Additionally, the property is located just 2.2 miles from Downtown Las Vegas, 3.2 miles from The Strip, and 5.0 miles from Harry Reid International Airport, with immediate access to Interstate 515 and SR 582

“We are thrilled to acquire our fifth industrial asset through a new partnership with ERI, who shares our conviction in the fundamentals underlying the small bay industrial sector”, said Intersection Senior Director of Acquisitions, Eric DeWees. 

“Mojave Industrial Park marks Intersection’s second industrial acquisition in Las Vegas, which is a strategic market for Intersection. This off-market transaction created a unique opportunity to enter the infill Central Las Vegas submarket at a cost basis we believe to be well below replacement cost”, Anton Myskiw, Senior Associate with Intersection added. 

 

To learn more about this deal please reach out to Eric DeWees at [email protected] or Anton Myskiw at [email protected]

Natalie Baylon is the Marketing Coordinator at Intersection, providing strategic marketing expertise to support business objectives across company divisions. For general and marketing inquiries, please contact Natalie at [email protected] 

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Intersection Equities and Blue Vista Capital Management Acquire Riverside Industrial Park for $19.5M

Intersection Equities, LLC announces the acquisition of Riverside Business Park, a 122,000 square foot, industrial business park in Jurupa Valley, CA. The asset was purchased for $19.5 million. Barret Woods of Lee & Associates represented the Seller, Transition Properties, L.P., and Stefan Pastor of Stream Realty represented the Buyer, a new joint venture between Intersection Equities, LLC and an affiliate of Blue Vista Capital Management, LLC.

Riverside Business Park is a 122,000 square foot, multi-tenant business park comprised of 30 suites ranging in size from 1,500 to 11,000 square feet. The Property features a total of 30 drive-up doors and is positioned on 8.9 acres of land. The park is located directly along CA State Route 60 and is in close proximity to State Route 91 and Interstate 215.

The purchase of Riverside Business Park aligns with Intersection’s strategy of acquiring well-located industrial assets that offer significant value-add potential in core markets west of Denver.

We acquired the property at a substantial discount to replacement cost and we will make strategic capital improvements focused upon enhancing the appeal of the project to current and prospective tenants”, said Intersection Senior Director of Acquisitions, Eric DeWees. “This is our fourth industrial acquisition and we’re excited to be doing it with a new partner in Blue Vista.”

Anton Myskiw from Intersection added, “This is a rare investment opportunity in a market we have been hoping to break into for some time. We are eager to begin executing our business plan and create an exceptional industrial asset on behalf of our new partnership.”

 
 

To learn more about this deal please reach out to Eric DeWees at [email protected] or Anton Myskiw at [email protected]

Natalie Baylon is the Marketing Coordinator at Intersection, providing strategic marketing expertise to support business objectives across company divisions. For general and marketing inquiries, please contact Natalie at [email protected] 

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Intersection Equities Completes Sale of Arville Industrial Park Near the Las Vegas Strip for $8.4M

Intersection Equities is pleased to announce the sale of 4375 and 4355 W Reno Avenue, a 31,000-square-foot, two building industrial park in Las Vegas, Nevada. The asset sold for $8,400,000 ($269 per square foot). Erik Sexton and Camila Rosales of NAI Vegas represented the seller, Intersection. The undisclosed buyer was represented by Brian Riffel of Colliers.

The property was acquired off-market by Intersection[1] in October 2021 as part of its value-add industrial investment acquisition strategy, headlined by near-term tenant rollover and below-market rents. In 14 months, Intersection completed a full exterior renovation that included exterior paint, a new parking lot and a new signage program. As a result of the implementation of exterior improvements and an aggressive leasing program led by local leasing team Erik Sexton and Camila Rosales at NAI Vegas, Intersection increased NOI by 68% during its first year of ownership. Once stabilized, the property was placed on the market and sold to a private investor looking for long term cash flow and appreciation.

4355 and 4375 W. Reno Avenue is situated in the southwest Las Vegas Submarket, less than two miles from the Las Vegas Strip, I-15, Allegiant Stadium and T-Mobile Arena.

Prior to Intersection’s acquisition of the property, the average rent at the Arville Business Center was $1.03 gross per month/sf, well below-market rents. Through the implementation of strategic property improvements, 77% of the tenant base was raised to an average rental rate to $1.32 NNN per month/sf within twelve months. The asset previously maintained an average of 100% occupancy over the past 5 years (according to CoStar) and retained several legacy tenants, ranging from general automotive services, custom apparel printing, and metal refining services.

“We immediately saw opportunity in this asset when it was brought to our attention by our broker. The market had seen significant leasing momentum with new construction in the area and the project itself had many value-add opportunities that allowed us to leverage our vertically integrated platform and execute on a plan that delivered triple-digit deal level returns,” said Anton Myskiw, Associate with Intersection. Erik Sexton, leasing broker on the project from NAI Vegas added, “It has been a pleasure working with the team at Intersection. They moved quickly on the property improvements that helped us drive a leasing effort that ultimately resulted in a win for both Seller and Buyer.”

[1] RenoAvenue, LLC, Intersection Equities, LLC

To learn more about this deal please reach out to Anton Myskiw at [email protected] or Eric DeWees at [email protected].

Natalie Baylon is the Marketing Coordinator at Intersection, providing strategic marketing expertise to support business objectives across company divisions. For general and marketing inquiries, please contact Natalie at [email protected] 

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President and Co-Founder, Mark Hoekstra Finds Redemption as He Graduates with a Master’s in Executive Leadership (MSEL)

Intersection President and Co-Founder, Mark Hoekstra, sat down with Bill Brennan of CMR Risk and Insurance Services to discuss how second chances and an opportunity for redemption led him to completing his Master’s Degree.

As Mark and Bill settle in and begin the interview, they both acknowledge their mutual admiration for each other, both personally and in business. “From a professional standpoint it’s been fantastic working with you. You do what we do. We do it in the commercial real estate space you do it in the insurance space. You anticipate and solve problems and it’s been a tremendous relationship and I love working together” says Mark.

“I want to point that out you’ve been a huge help to my career, and I’m really stoked you’re here”, continues Bill ” I think your story is amazing and I wanted to talk a little bit about what you do, what Intersection as a company does, and mainly about your recent master’s degree and how that relates to second chances and maybe redemption. Will you give our audience a brief summary of your background and what Intersection does?”

“Intersection is an investment management company focused on the commercial real estate space. We are headquartered in downtown San Diego, we have offices in Carlsbad, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Salt Lake City, with a team of about 45 staff members and brokers. Our company breaks up into four main divisions:
Our Investment Management Division raises money and buys commercial real estate. That’s done throughout the Western United State, right now we are focused industrial properties in markets like Las Vegas, Arizona, Salt Lake City, Denver and other markets. We’d like to do more in San Diego, we’d like to do more in California, it’s just very difficult with prices right now.
Our next largest division is Real Estate Services – traditional property management, we do for our own properties, and we do it for third parties. Generally, those third parties are clients who are investors of ours. In addition to property management there’s construction management, lease renewals, insurance tower and our insurance program. The next division is our brokerage division we have currently 11 brokers serving San Diego County and they not only work on our properties that we own but they also work on third party clients we help people to buy buildings sell buildings lease buildings we do tenant representation work helping clients to either relocate expand contract whatever and then our newest division is our Intersection Facility Services (ISF). Intersection Facility Services is something that probably much like our brokerage division, originated out not being happy with the services that we were getting from our vendors and our outside service providers and thought that maybe we could create a better mousetrap, maybe we could do this internally and so it started off just as a kind of almost like a little pet project of ours and it quickly blew up into a much more sizable, much more meaningful business ourselves and our clients better. That’s what Intersection does”, explains Mark

“That’s a great answer”, says Bill “You are a full-service real estate firm in a lot of ways which is a unique offering, and you do a good job for your clients I’ve seen it firsthand. I’m going to switch gears; this is the whole reason that I asked to meet with you. I love your story about getting your master’s degree and what drove you to do it um maybe the personal nature of it and just the experience in general kind of running a large firm and being a busy guy and getting it done and candidly excelling. I think yours is a story we can all relate to”.

“First of all, I’d be remiss if i didn’t talk about my business partner Rocco Cortese”, begins Mark. “Rocco and I have always tried to create a culture of lifelong learning within the company but to be honest with you he embraced it I talked about it a lot, but I don’t know that I necessarily embraced it and I didn’t live that belief to the extent that he did. We were talking one day we were having one of our same page meetings and we’re just talking about wanting to encourage a culture of learning within our company and especially within the leadership and so we challenged each other to go out and find something that would not only necessarily benefit the company but benefit us individually as human beings and so I started my process of looking at it. As a University of San Diego (USD) undergrad that was the first place I started, and I stumbled across this Master’s of Science and Executive Leadership. I didn’t have any intention of getting a degree I just knew there were areas where I needed more tools. I looked at the program and it touched on all of the issues that I wanted to grow and develop as a leader within our company, namely finance and accounting and marketing and entrepreneurship. It literally touched on all of these areas and so I said to myslef, ‘all right I’m going to bring Rocco and I’m going to bring my wife Glynna to this introductory breakfast where they talk about the program’. When we get there, I’m listening and I’m asking questions about the time commitment and I’m starting to panic inside, there’s no way I can do this, I can’t run four companies and I can’t do all the things that I’m doing, the community service work and do this. It’s insane. Once we get out of this breakfast and walk outside, Rocco says ‘so what did you think?’, and I said ‘There’s no way. I’m not going to do it’, he asks ‘why not?’ and I say ‘I can’t handle the time commitment’. Both my wife and my Rocco looked at me and they said ‘There’s no way you’re not going to do this. This this was made for you. We will support you all of the way’. Now I start thinking about it and then we’re really going back to a little bit of the personal nature there are three reasons for doing it.
Number one: we have goals we have a strategic plan for where we want to take this company and I recognized that I needed more tools in my toolbox to be able to be the operational leader of this organization and, in some respects, I’ve gone as far as I can go; to do it right and to be an effective leader, I needed more tools in my toolbox so that was number one.
Number two; what is Mark 2.0 going to look like? What am I going to do when I’m 68 years old 10 years from now? Maybe I’m not running the day-to-day operations of a full-service real estate company, maybe I’m going to be a professor at USD maybe I’m going to run for politics and run for an office? I need those tools to be that kind of a leader as well.
Number three is the more personal reason; I graduated from University of San Diego in 1986 and when I say graduated, I use that term very loosely. I had a 2.01 GPA and I remember feeling that day when I’m sitting there on the field, in cap and gown, looking around at my classmates and thinking, I don’t know that I belong here, I don’t know that I did the work, and I certainly didn’t feel like I was educated like everyone else. I think I’m smart, but I’ve always felt that maybe I wasn’t the most educated person in the room and so if I’m going to make this commitment, I’m going to make this commitment to get the tools that I need to run the company and to have the tools polished and continue to use them for whatever Mark 2.0 does. I’m going to excel, I’m going to do fantastic, and my goal was to get out of there with a 4.0. I didn’t quite do with a 3.98 (I got a B+ in one class and I ran out of classes in time to bring up my grade point average), but I really achieved all three of those ‘whys'”.

Bill follows up with “How do you feel now? Did graduating with your Master’s check off a bucket list item or personal goal? Has it closed that chapter for you?”

“It is extremely satisfying for many reasons” answers Mark. “As you know, I live on small horse and cattle ranch up in Valley Center and my friends would make fun of me because I was living on this ranch, and I didn’t even own any tools. One day, I went to Home Depot, and I bought all these tools. I don’t know how to use them, but I have some of the greatest tools and toolbox. I looked at it this education in a similar way. I can’t just go buy the tools, I actually have to learn how to use them and more importantly, I need to be intentional and try to create situations where you can use it again and again. The first most satisfying thing in finishing this program is being intentional in the lives of family and friends and as a leader, being a leader within the community and at work. How do I intentionally create situations where I can go use this new sets of tools? That’s been the most fun, that’s been the most gratifying. It really started with the first class 22 months ago because I started using the tools I was learning immediately and that gave a sense of accomplishment. I don’t know that I’m a whole lot smarter, but I feel more educated and I’m just proud of the effort. Going from barely graduating and having almost been thrown out of the University twice on academic probation, to now having nearly a 4.0 through this program. It was very satisfying. I’m already beginning the process of figuring out what’s next?”

To learn more about the MSEL program or leadership with the organization, please reach out to Mark Hoekstra at [email protected].

Natalie Baylon is the Marketing Coordinator at Intersection, providing strategic marketing expertise to support business objectives across company divisions. For general and marketing inquiries, please contact Natalie at [email protected] 

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New Office Management Contract Awarded in San Diego’s Engineering Hub

Located at 16885 Via del Campo Court, San Diego, CA 92127, this 3-story multi-tenant class ‘B’ office building consists of 48,907 SF within Rancho Bernardo submarket.

Intersection has been awarded a new office management assignment in Rancho Bernardo.

“The project came through a referral and the ownership profile is perfectly aligned with our kind of client –privately owned by a local family”, explains Rocco Cortese, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Intersection.

With Senior Real Estate Manager, Nicole Schuck at the helm, our Real Estate Services team has been working diligently with our accounting team to ensure a seamless takeover in management. Intersection Facility Services will be taking over roof maintenance, day-porter services and upgrading electrical and building signage at the property.

“We are creating value for our client and tenants through our full-service platform”, say Nicole Schuck “With large companies like Amazon and Apple moving in, the bar is being raised for office projects in the neighborhood. We are working with Carrier Johnson on the lobby remodel and interior upgrades to meet the standards of today’s market”.

In addition to upgrading the physical plant, Intersection will be performing lease audits and making recommendations to increase net operating income for this project. Del Campo Court is latest example of our company mission: To use our strategic experience and local market knowledge to ensure the financial security of those we serve and the wellbeing of the communities where we live and work.

To learn more about this property please reach out to Nicole Schuck at [email protected]

Natalie Baylon is the Marketing Coordinator at Intersection, providing strategic marketing expertise to support business objectives across company divisions. For general and marketing inquiries, please contact Natalie at [email protected] 

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Intersection Diversified Value Fund sold Carlsbad office property, La Place to a local investor

Located at 5900-5950 La Place Court, Carlsbad, CA 92008, this two-building multi-tenant class ‘A’ office campus consists of 81,965 SF within the Carlsbad Research Center.

Brokers Henry Zahner, Steven Jacobson, and Steve Gildred of Intersection, quietly marketed the property for sale in the first quarter of 2022 as an unpriced off-market life science conversion opportunity. After multiple competing offers were received, the buyer Chesnut Properties (Diego I Investment Company, LLC) was selected based on their strong local reputation and future plans for the campus. Strong acquisition interest from a variety of buyers was based on the desire to invest in the future of the Carlsbad market.

La Place was originally acquired by Intersection Diversified Value Fund as a Class ‘A’ stabilized office campus in February 2020. During the holding period, conditions for the office, R&D, and industrial markets across the globe changed largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This created a decrease in demand for general office space and an increase in demand for R&D/industrial space. The La Place Court campus represents a versatile product type that continues to be attractive and functional for a variety of uses, including life science.

“There is currently a shortage of life science space in the Carlsbad market where demand and conversion of existing product is anticipated to continue”, says Henry Zahner, Senior Director with Intersection.

Senior Associate Steve Jacobson explains that the Carlsbad submarket and the area immediately surrounding the property are slated to be a premier life science hub. Surrounding properties have either sold for the purpose of life science conversion, are being marketed, or will provide supporting general office space for technology-oriented companies.

“We created a win for both the buyer and seller in this transaction”, says Steve Jacobson

The sale of La Place Court Campus represents the largest transaction for the Intersection Diversified Value Fund, led by Managing Directors Rocco Cortese and Mark Hoekstra.

“The decision to sell the property was tied to our strategy for this project and momentum in the market” shared Rocco Cortese “We have a similar project in Sorrento Mesa that we are also considering for a life science conversion”.

To learn more about this deal please reach out to Rocco Cortese at [email protected] or Henry Zahner at [email protected]

Autumn Valencia is the Marketing Coordinator at Intersection, providing strategic marketing expertise to support business objectives across company divisions. For general and marketing inquiries, please contact Autumn at [email protected] 

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