Pacific Urban Investors Expands Boston MSA Portfolio with Acquisition of The Residences at River's Edge


PALO ALTO, Calif., July 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Multifamily owner-operator and investment manager Pacific Urban Investors has acquired The Residences at River’s Edge, a 222-unit apartment community in Medford, MA. The acquisition of Residences at River’s Edge (the “Property”) is the third investment in the Boston metro for Pacific Urban bringing the total Boston MSA portfolio to 746 units.

The Residences at River’s Edge is a 2009-constructed, 100% market rate midrise community with 337 garage spaces. The Property benefits from its transportation-centric location, five miles north of downtown Boston and less than a mile from the Wellington Orange line MBTA train station. Additionally, the Property offers large, functional floorplans with ten- and fourteen-foot ceiling heights as well as a full amenity set. Residences’ location adjacent to River’s Edge Park, a 10-acre riverfront park with over 1/3 of a mile of river frontage and two acres of wetlands along the Malden River, provides a bucolic setting only minutes from the city.

“Residences at River’s Edge gives Pacific the opportunity to acquire a contemporary apartment community in an extremely job- and amenity- rich location. The Property offers residents convenient access to Boston’s employment centers as well as the rapidly expanding neighborhood of Assembly Row. When you couple this with the adjacent River’s Edge Park, we believe the Property differentiates itself in the marketplace providing lower density living with immediate access to the lifestyle amenities and employment of the urban center,” said Dan Maccabee, Vice President of Investments at Pacific.

Pacific’s President Rory Gardner commented ““We are thrilled to add this asset to our portfolio given the asset quality and strong market fundamentals, and we are eager to add additional opportunities to our expanding Boston portfolio. We are actively seeking additional Boston investments across all our strategies; including both direct acquisitions, as well as joint venture and preferred equity opportunities.”

About Pacific Urban Investors:   The Palo Alto, CA-based company has over $8.6 billion in assets under management and owns and manages a national portfolio of more than 20,000 units. The firm and its partners have decades of experience in apartment investments, both repositioning and ‘re-manufacturing’ multifamily assets and their income streams to their optimal, core potential. Pacific has progressed over time to become a best-in-class owner, operator and asset manager in the multifamily space, serving as a fiduciary for its own partner capital as well as its strategic partnerships with institutional pension funds and other sophisticated investors. Pacific is actively acquiring multifamily assets as a principal and providing both co-investment and preferred equity for development, acquisition, and recapitalization.

For more information, please visit www.pacificurbaninvestors.com or please contact:

Daniel Maccabee
Vice President, Investments
120 W 45th Street, 15th Floor | New York, NY 10036
(M) 917.386.7936| dmaccabee@pacificurbaninvetors.com

John M. Fluke
Director, Investments
1924 1st Ave., Suite 450 | Seattle, WA 98101
(P) 206.973.2325 | (M) 206.915.7806 | jfluke@pacificurbaninvestors.com

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