A Boston-based non-public fairness actual property agency has struck a deal to purchase California’s Willow Springs Worldwide Raceway, The Drive reported Friday.
CrossHarbor Capital Companions, which makes a speciality of “property turnarounds” for business actual property and at the moment has a property portfolio valued at over $10 billion, confirmed to the web site {that a} deal to buy the historic observe, opened in 1953, is pending.
Willow Springs has had the similar house owners for the previous 62 years, the Huth household, however it was listed on the market final 12 months at an undisclosed value. The observe has been maintained in kind of the identical situation over the many years, in order different racetracks have modernized and centered extra on a wealthy clientele—or just disappeared into housing tracts, procuring facilities, or industrial parks—Willow Springs has remained unpretentious and accessible.
Willow Springs Worldwide Raceway (picture by way of LoopNet)
Whether or not that may stay the case beneath new possession stays to be seen. In an announcement to The Drive, a CrossHarbor spokesperson stated the agency goals to “protect the legacy and fanatic entry” to Willow Springs, “whereas additionally organising the property for progress and success sooner or later.”
That gives some hope that Willow Springs will stay kind of as it’s. Opened in 1953, it is really a complicated of seven tracks, together with the two.5-mile Massive Willow highway course, Streets of Willow, and Horse Thief Mile, together with a skidpad, autocross space, and dust oval.
Willow Springs Worldwide Raceway (picture by way of LoopNet)
Situated about 80 miles north of Los Angeles, Willow Springs has by no means been a mainstay of big-time skilled racing. However it’s extraordinarily fashionable with fans, partially as a result of the Huth household has stored it accessible and low cost to lease. It was additionally a filming location for “Ford v. Ferrari,” which is becoming as Ken Miles, who the movie’s story facilities round, helped design the ability.
Willow Springs is not the one observe to return up on the market lately. Palm Seaside Worldwide Raceway was listed on the market earlier this 12 months, and actual property listings for Oregon Raceway Park and Michigan’s Grattan Raceway have popped up over the previous few years as nicely.
