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—The Pacific Northwest-based grocer expands its footprint along the West Coast with the acquisition of Vons, Pavilions, Albertsons and Safeway stores as part of a divestiture in the merger between Albertsons and Safeway.
LOS ANGELES—A partnership between the Canyon Catalyst Fund and Paragon Commercial Group buys a 98,000-square-foot retail center on a high profile intersection.
SAN FRANCISCO—Two multifamily property owners take advantage of the low interest rates and high demand for housing, and refinance for a total of $23.5 million.
CERRITOS, CA—Alere buys a 395,117-square-foot, seven-building industrial park from CBRE Global Investors for its prime submarket and 100% occupancy rating.
LOS ANGELES—A private investor buys a McDonalds property from a partnership between Starpoint Commercial Properties & HRI Development at a historically low cap rate.
LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles-based investor promotes former EVP and general counsel Steven Jaffe to the position of chief investment officer and principal.