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.
ORANGE COUNTY, CA—The retail investor completes the acquisition of a 30,000-square-foot building from US Bank after nearly two years securing entitlements to redevelop the property.
LOS ANGELES—Chicago-based developer Bridge Development Partners opens its first West Coast office in Los Angeles, and hires Brian Wilson as principal to oversee the region.
LOS ANGELES—The Mani Brother buy a three-story, 89,365-square-foot office complex in Playa Vista for $48 million, with plans to completely renovate the property.
LOS ANGELES—The major industrial investor purchases the 168,000-square-foot property, which is occupied fully by Sugar Foods, because of the healthy user demand and climbing rental rates.
HOLLYWOOD, CA—A private investor buys the Whitley Heights in a highly competitive sale that generated multiple offers and secured escrow in only 72 hours.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA—The first phase of ETCO Homes' newest luxury condo development 460 Palm is already half sold, illustrating the high demand for condominiums in the market.
SANTA MONICA, CA—The Water Garden Phase I, a two-building 673,660-square-foot class-A office building, secures the 12-year fixed-rate loan to refinancing the property, which is part of a larger 1.7-million-square-foot property.
LOS ANGELES—Walk-ups are welcome at the RealShare L.A. conference in Century City, where CRE experts will discuss capital markets trends, emerging markets and redevelopment trends.