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Capstone Advisors is continuing to expand its Phoenix retail portfolio. The firm has exited out of a shopping center in San Diego and purchased its fifth retail property in Phoenix. Capstone purchased 18,037 square feet of shop space at the 250,000-square-foot Tuscano Town Center in Phoenix. The property is 100% leased to 12 tenants, and is an ideal fit for Capstone’s Phoenix business plan.

“We are focused on two primary product types in Phoenix, retail and multi-tenant flex-industrial. This is our fifth current project in that market,” Ira Schwartz, COO of Capstone Advisors, tells GlobeSt.com…Read More

Capstone Advisors has identified the Reno market in Nevada has a target for new retail construction. Like nearby Las Vegas, Reno has also experience economic and population growth, and now has a pent-up demand for retail and services. Capstone has already broken ground on the first retail building on an undeveloped parcel of Sky Vista,but it could be the beginning of several projects for the San Diego-based developer… (Read More)

RENO, Nev. — Capstone Advisors announced this week crews recently broke ground on the firm’s first retail component at the Sky Vista development project in the North Valleys area of Reno. According to an Aug. 13 press release from the Carlsbad, Calif.-based real estate investment and development company, the future building will feature 10,899 square feet of mixed retail space, including an available restaurant footprint with an outdoor patio.

Sky Vista at North Valleys consists of a 1.91-acre pad site immediately adjacent to the existing Walmart Supercenter — which opened in 2012 at 250 Vista Knoll Parkway — and a nearly 96-acre parcel of adjacent land entitled and planned for residential, retail and industrial development. (Read More)

Connect California – Carlsbad, CA-based Capstone Advisors acquired El Camino Square Shopping Center in Encinitas, CA from US Financial, LP for $12.2 million. The 27,499-square-foot property is located at 191 N. El Camino Real in the heart of Encinitas’ retail corridor…Read More 

San Diego-based Capstone Advisors has sold its first commercial asset in a decade. The firm traded out of a retail property in Knightdale, North Carolina and purchased a two-building flex-industrial asset in Phoenix. Capstone had owned the retail center, a 63,543 square-foot shopping center fully leased to credit tenants, since it was developed in 1998. The trade was motivated by a combination of market conditions as well as geography. (Read More)

The more than $1 billion deal private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners struck recently to take a majority stake in online real estate marketplace Ten-X heralds further investment in and growth of commercial real estate technology. (Read More)

SAN DIEGO—Both students and faculty spend a majority of their days on campus and need quality retail nearby for their daily needs, Capstone Advisors’ VP of leasing Christie Parker tells GlobeSt.com. The firm recently completed six new leases at its commercial retail facility in the Linda Vista submarket, the Presidio. (Read More)

Two of Capstone Advisors’ projects have been nominated for San Diego’s prestigious Orchid Awards, and we are shamelessly asking for your support. (Read More)

Connect California – Carlsbad, CA-based Capstone Advisors completed a $1.5-million upgrade at The Ivanhoe, a nearly 35,000-square-foot, office property in La Jolla, CA. The repositioned Class A property is a unique contemporary design statement that’s better connected to the active urban La Jolla Village neighborhood…Read More