WALNUT CREEK — A high-profile restaurant, movie and retail complex in Walnut Creek has been bought by a California-based investment group in a deal that hints at wobbly commercial property values in this part of the Bay Area.
Olympia Place, located on a choice site downtown, has been bought for $44.5 million, according to documents filed on Jan. 5 with the Contra Costa County Recorder’s Office.
In a possible indicator of a faltering real estate market, the $44.5 million the buyers paid for Olympia Place is about 13.6% below the property’s assessed value of $51.5 million.
The restaurant, retail and movie complex, which includes Century Theaters, was bought by a group based in the Los Angeles County city of Diamond Bar.
“Olympia Place is a trophy retail center in the heart of downtown Walnut Creek,” according to a marketing brochure circulated by JLL, a commercial real estate firm.
The Walnut Creek retail complex totals 114,600 square feet, the JLL brochure states. Olympia Place is bounded by Mt. Diablo Boulevard, Locust Street, Olympic Boulevard and South California Boulevard.