Ellis Partners Acquires 180 Grand Avenue, Oakland

Oakland, CA – San Francisco-based Ellis Partners announced that it has acquired the 277,030 square foot multi-tenant office building known as “180 Grand” in downtown Oakland, California. The project was acquired from an institutional investor.The property is a well-leased, multi-tenant office building at the southern edge of Broadway/Valdez specific plan district.  This acquisition represents the fifth purchase by commercial developer/investor Ellis Partners with capital partner Artemis Real Estate Partners.180 Grand is a fifteen story office building located at the prominent corner of Grand Avenue and Harrison Street adjacent to Oakland’s Lake Merritt.  The property also includes a surface parking lot …

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Ellis Partners Acquires 4040 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael

San Rafael, CA – San Francisco-based Ellis Partners LLC announced that it has acquired the 130,237 square foot multi-tenant office building known as “4040 Civic Center Drive” in San Rafael, California.  The project was acquired from an institutional investor.The acquisition represents the fourth purchase by commercial developer/investor Ellis Partners with capital partner Artemis Real Estate Partners.“We are pleased that Ellis Partners was able to identify another high-quality asset for acquisition,” said Jim Smith, Portfolio Manager of Artemis Real Estate Partners.  “Ellis Partners was one of our earliest partners and we are very pleased to continue expanding our relationship with the …

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Ellis Partners Announces Acquisition of The Pruneyard

Campbell, CA – Today Ellis Partners announced the purchase of The Pruneyard, a 27-acre mixed use landmark asset located in the heart of Campbell, CA. The Pruneyard is comprised of over 365,000 square feet of office space, over 250,000 square feet of retail space and the 171-room Doubletree (Hilton) hotel. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Located at the intersection of Campbell and Bascom Avenues only a quarter mile from thriving downtown Campbell, immediately accessible from State Route 17, and proximate to some of Silicon Valley’s highest profile residential neighborhoods including Willow Glen, Los Gatos, Saratoga, Cupertino, and Los Altos, …

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Young’s Market Company Buys Pleasanton Office Building

by Bianca Torres, San Francisco Business TimesPleasanton, CA – Young’s Market Co., a wholesale beverage distributor, is moving its Northern California operations to Pleasanton from Union City.The company recently bought a 65,000-square-foot office building at 5100 Franklin Dr. in Pleasanton from Ellis Partners LLC, a San Francisco-based real estate investor and developer.The property, built about 12 years ago, formerly housed Hitachi Data Systems, a company that downsized and moved to another facility in Pleasanton.Young’s Market, founded in 1888, is a family-owned company headquartered in Southern California with operations in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska Hawaii, Arizona, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming and Montana.  …

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Jack London Square Ventures Announces Agreement with Trifecta management Group for Major Entertainment Concept at Jack London Square

Oakland, CA – Today, Jack London Square Ventures, a joint venture between Ellis Partners LLC and DivcoWest, announced that it reached an agreement with Trifecta Management Group for a major dining and entertainment concept for the Pavilion Building that formerly housed a Barnes and Noble in Oakland’s Jack London Square Development.  The city block sized site, located at 98 Broadway, includes a 34,000 sq. ft. building and a 15,000 sq. ft. outdoor plaza and lies at the center of the 9 block project.“This is a major step forward at Jack London Square,” said James Ellis, Managing Principal of Ellis Partners …

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Adding Value To Surplus Properties

San Francisco, CA – One of Northern California’s largest commercial developers and investors, Ellis Partners focuses on turning around office, retail, industrial and mixed-use properties.“We regard ourselves as value-add investors with a love for architecture, buildings and communities, and expertise in complex rehabilitation and redevelopment challenges, many of which we execute in the urban infill areas around San Francisco Bay,” says Dean Rubinson, Senior Vice President of Development.  “We have a very strong team of professionals who are experienced in complex repositioning, renovation work and redevelopment of properties.”Putting the company’s experience to good use, Ellis Partners recently came to the …

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