Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.
LOS ANGELES—A partnership between Atlas Capital Investors III, Square Mile Capital Management and USAA Real Estate Co. buys the company for its significant downtown portfolio.
LOS ANGELES—CGI Real Estate acquires the Villa Carlotta, a 46,000-square-foot and 50-unit apartment building circa 1926 in Franklin Village for $12.2 million.
LOS ANGELES—J. Fam LLC will use the funds to develop 110 condominium units and 224 single-family detached homes on the fully entailed land, which was originally purchased in 2011.
VENICE, CA—The Lincoln Place Apartment Homes development includes the rehabilitation of 45 buildings and a total of 696 units and the ground-up construction of 99 apartment homes.
LOS ANGELES—Texas-based Alamo Drafthouse Cinema signs a lease for its first West Coast location with the Ratkovich Co.'s $180 million downtown development, the Bloc.
LOS ANGELES—The industrial REIT offers common stock shares with plans to apply the capital gains to repay debts and fund potential acquisition opportunities.
LOS ANGELES—New owners GreenOak Real Estate Advisors and Urban Lifestyle Hotel Group plan a major renovation for the 1925 285-guestroom hotel, GlobeSt.com reports <b>EXCLUSIVELY</b>.
LOS ANGELES—TCA Architects and Equity Residential begin construction on the Altitude at Howard Hughes Center, a luxury 545-unit multifamily complex scheduled to open in 2016.
PLAYA VISTA, CA—The mixed-use development signs leases with eight new retail and restaurant tenants in preparation for holiday shopping seasons and the property's Q1 2015 grand opening date.