Palisades Private Capital Fund 1, a $50-million Fund created by Palisades Mexico Partners (PMP), has acquired Chandler Corporate Center, a two-story, 67,561-square-foot Class A office asset in Chandler, Ariz., for $13.9 million.
PMP is a joint venture of Joaquin de Monet, founder and managing principal of Palisades Capital Realty Advisors, LLC, an investment management and advisory firm, and Sergio Argüelles, president/CEO of Monterrey, Mexico-based FINSA, one of the foremost industrial real estate development firms in the Americas.
“Chandler Corporate Center is a well located, attractive office building with sustainable features that provide the tenants with economical operations and a comfortable, healthy work environment,” said Argüelles, a Mexican real estate mogul who transformed his family-owned company into a highly successful real estate development firm in Mexico. “The asset offers our investors a stabilized, secure and growing cash flow, with the opportunity for significant rent increases as the market continues to improve,” he added.
“Growth in the region’s high-tech sector has boosted job growth, beginning in the last quarter of 2013,” explained de Monet, a successful and seasoned executive with expertise in large global real estate investments and property management. “This upturn in Chandler’s economy is increasing demand for office space and this acquisition is in the right place, at the right time,” he noted, “offering an opportunity to invest in the right cycle of the market.”
Situated on 7.24 acres at 585 North Juniper Drive northwest of Chandler Boulevard and McClintock Drive, this LEED-certified building, which was built in 2008, is PMP’s first investment in the Arizona market. The property provides tenants, including MediServe Information Systems, STA Travel and Garmin International, Inc., ample open and canopied, surface parking spaces with an excellent 6.63:1000 parking ratio.
Jones Lang LaSalle handled the transaction for both the seller, Held Properties, Inc., and PMP.
Palisades Private Capital Fund I, which has raised $50 million in private capital and is on target to increase the Fund to $100 by yearend, is focusing on value-add, Class A and B office assets in growing western suburban markets. The Fund initially will acquire institutional-quality office assets in Southern California, Arizona and Texas. Besides the Chandler asset, PMP recently acquired a property in Southern California: 2929 Imperial, a two-story, 121,143-square-foot, office building in Brea, for $20.8 million.
PMP’s capital campaign is connecting with high net-worth individuals and family offices specifically in Mexico and Latin America. PMP will accumulate a diversified pool of suburban office properties priced below replacement cost, with solid in-place cash flow and average 75% occupancy. De Monet and his team at Palisades Capital will source investments and manage the Fund, improving the assets, creating value and capturing rent growth over the targeted hold period of three to five years.
