BEVERLY HILLS, CA—Maxxam Enterprises hascompleted the sale of a three properties totaling $100 million,GlobeSt.com reports exclusively. Two of the properties, theL'Opera Building, an office property, andArlington Plaza, a shopping center, were part ofthe company's Southern California portfolio. The third propertysale, Maui Lu Resort, is a hotel in Hawaii.

“We received substantial interest in all three propertiesincluding multiple offers from qualified groups. Maxxam had severalreasons for disposing of each property,” a source at MaxxamEnterprises tells GlobeSt.com. “For Maui Lu Resort, we made thedecision not to develop this ourselves; the Riverside property wasa non-core location for us, so we maximized the potential throughre-tenanting and stabilizing the property; and for the L'OperaBuilding, we successfully leased it and stabilized it by gettingrid of all the vacancies,” says the source.

The Maui Lu Resort, a hotel development in Hawaii, was thelargest transaction of the three properties. The property sold foran undisclosed amount, however industry sources estimate theproperty sold to Japan-based Capbridge Group for$60 million. Once complete, the property will become aHilton Grand Vacations Timeshare with 388 vacationvillas on a 28-acre property. Capbridge Group, which announcedplans to buy the property in October, will tackle the finaldevelopment phase in 2015. The property will come online in2017.

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Kelsi Maree Borland

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.