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Dinerstein, Harrison Street Claim Berkeley Student Housing

Houston-based The Dinerstein Companies (TDC), alongside Chicago-based Harrison Street, purchased the six-property Berkeley Apartment Portfolio from Equity Residential. Totaling 343 units with 27,304 square feet of retail space, The Berkeleyan, Renaissance Villas, ARTech, Touriel, Fine Arts (pictured), and Gaia will allow the new owners to achieve an immediate critical mass in one of the most sought-after apartment markets in the country.

All six properties were built between 1998 and 2004, and are located steps from the UC Berkeley Campus in Downtown Berkeley in the city’s technology innovation hub, within proximity to BART stations as well as Downtown Oakland and San Francisco.

The Berkeley Portfolio will be rebranded The Sterling Berkeley Collection and will become part of the Sterling Housing, TDC’s student housing division. The leasing center for all buildings will be located at 1910 Oxford St.

Eastdil Secured’s Joseph Smolen brokered the deal.

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About Dennis Kaiser

Dennis Kaiser is Vice President of Public Relations and Communications for Connect Creative. Dennis is a communications leader with more than 40 years of experience including as a journalist and in corporate and agency marketing communications roles. He is responsible for Connect Creative’s agency client services and is involved in a range of initiatives ranging from public relations and content strategy, communications and message development, copywriting, media relations, social media and content marketing services. Prior to joining Connect Media in 2015, his most recent corporate communications roles involved leading a regional public relations effort across Southern California for CBRE, playing a key marketing role on JLL’s national retail team, and directing the global public relations effort at ValleyCrest (BrightView), the nation’s largest commercial landscape services company. He has worked on marketing communications assignments for such CRE companies as Blackstone/Equity Office, Carlyle, Caruso, Disney Resorts, GE Capital, Irvine Company, Hines, Howard Hughes Corp., Jeffries, Lennar, MGM, Marcus & Millichap, Prologis, Raleigh Studios, Simon, Starwood, Trammell Crow Company, Transamerica, UBS and Wynn Resorts. Dennis has also worked on communications and launch strategies for a number of consumer electronic, media and tech brands including SlingMedia, Channel Master, Deluxe Media Entertainment, BeIn Sports, EchoStar and Sprint. Dennis’s agency background included firms such as Off Madison Ave., Idea Hall and Macy + Associates. He has earned an outstanding reputation with organization leaders as a trusted advisor, strategic program implementer, consensus builder and exceptional collaborator. Dennis has developed and managed national communications programs for Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, both public and private. He’s successfully worked with journalists across the globe representing clients involved in major-breaking news stories, product launches, media tours, and company news announcements. Dennis has been involved in a host of charitable and community organizations including the American Cancer Society, Easter Seals, Boy Scouts, Chrysalis Foundation, Freedom For Life, HOLA, L.A.’s BEST, Reach Out and Read, Super Bowl Host Committee, and the Thunderbirds Charities.

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