HOUSTON — A partnership between two local owner-operators, MetroNational and Radom Capital, is nearing completion of Greenside, a 35,000-square-foot retail redevelopment project in Houston’s Memorial City district. Designed by Michael Hsu Office of Architecture, Greenside is an adaptive reuse of three warehouse buildings, includes open green space and is expected to be fully complete later this year. The partnership has also signed leases with five new tenants: Merit Coffee, Tifa Chocolate & Gelato, Epic Cycles, Swish Dental and Original ChopShop.
MARIETTA, GA. — Sterling Properties has acquired Merchants Walk, a 271,992-square-foot shopping center in Marietta, a northern suburb of Atlanta. The West Palm Beach-based private equity real estate investment firm purchased the shopping center from Washington, D.C.-based mixed-use developer and operator EDENS for $93.2 million. Kevin Hurley and Matt Karempelis of CBRE’s National Retail Partners represented the buyer in the transaction. Situated on nearly 30 acres at the intersection of Roswell and Johnson Ferry roads in metro Atlanta’s East Cobb neighborhood, Merchants Walk was 90 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Whole Foods Market, Marshalls, PetSmart, Old Navy, DSW, Ulta Beauty, Office Depot and Georgia Theater Company Stadium Cinemas, as well as boutique retailers, service retailers and restaurants. Kohl’s shadow-anchors the center.
SPARKS, NEV. — Idaho-based Alturas Capital Partners has purchased Legends at Sparks Marina, a 421,000-square-foot mixed-use lifestyle center in Sparks. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction, which closed on July 23, will be added to the Alturas Real Estate Fund. This acquisition brings the company’s assets under management to $850 million and 4.6 million square feet. Legends at Sparks Marina features national and regional tenants, including H&M, Nike, Sephora, Five Below, Yard House, Galaxy Theatres, Burlington and Cavender’s.
Years of nation-leading population growth, a robust job market and rising household incomes have propelled Charlotte retail onto the national stage as a major target for institutional and private investors alike. The market is now operating at a premium, with average asking rents surpassing the national average for the first time on record in late 2025 after rising more than 30 percent over the past five years, according to data from CoStar Group Inc. That milestone says a lot about how far the market has come, but it also points to where it is headed.The next phase of Charlotte retail will not be defined by growth alone. It will be defined by having the right tenant in the right format serving the right trade area. The strongest corridors continue to command attention from retailers and investors alike, while rising occupancy costs are forcing every deal to stand on stronger fundamentals. For owners, tenants and capital sources, that dynamic makes Charlotte one of the Southeast’s most compelling retail markets, but also one of its most nuanced. The new retail map Charlotte gained 20,731 residents between 2024 and 2025, ranking among the fastest-growing major cities in the country, according to the U.S. …
HOUSTON — Island Grill American Mediterranean, a Houston-based, family-owned concept, will open a new restaurant at 2810 Westheimer Road in the city’s River Oaks neighborhood. Eric Lestin and Michael Burgower of Cushman & Wakefield represented Island Grill in the lease negotiations. The restaurant, which is set to open late next spring, will be the sixth for the company.
ISLAMORADA, FLA. — Bass Pro Shops, an outdoors retailer based in Springfield, Mo., has purchased Cheeca Lodge & Spa, a 27-acre resort in the Florida Keys city of Islamorada that was established in 1946. Northwood Investors sold the property to Bass Pro Shops but will continue to manage the 254-room resort and grounds, which includes multiple hotel layouts; several restaurants and bars, including the Pierre’s Restaurant and Beach Café & Bar and 25 South tiki bar; indoor meeting spaces and conference rooms; three swimming pools, including a zero-entry oceanfront pool; a fitness center and spa with treatment rooms; nine-hole golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus; pickleball and tennis courts; the World Wide Sportsman Store & Marina; and the longest fishing pier in the Keys. The property also includes staff housing and operates under a mixed ownership structure comprising 169 fee-simple hotel rooms and 85 third-party-owned condominiums participating in the rental program. Daniel Peek, Andrew Dickey, Chris Drew and Maciej Polek of JLL represented Northwood Investors, which has owned and managed the Cheeca Lodge & Spa for the past 15 years. The sales price and future plans for the resort were not disclosed.
STAMFORD, CONN. — Golf Lounge 18 has opened a 7,700-square-foot entertainment venue in the southern coastal Connecticut city of Stamford. The space is located within Atlantic Station, a mixed-use development in the downtown area, and features multiple golf simulators in addition to food-and-beverage offerings. Golf Lounge 18 now operates 11 venues nationwide. RXR owns Atlantic Station.
Hurricane Helene was not a modest disruption. It was a disaster of historic scale. The North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management estimated total damage and recovery needs at $59.6 billion as of Dec. 2024, including damage to more than 73,000 homes, more than 100 confirmed deaths in North Carolina and a federal disaster declaration covering 39 counties. As a broker in Western North Carolina (WNC), I am often asked why the commercial real estate market has remained as strong as it has. The answer is not that the market avoided pain. It did not. The answer is that a tightly supplied market behaves very differently from a soft market after a disaster. In WNC, Hurricane Helene did not expose oversupply. It exposed scarcity. Before Helene, the Asheville-area commercial market already had very little slack. In NAI Beverly-Hanks’ second-quarter 2024 Asheville MSA commercial market report, CoStar Group-derived vacancy stood at 5.3 percent for industrial, 2.8 percent for office and 1.6 percent for retail. Earlier 2024 reporting from the same source showed similarly constrained conditions, reinforcing the same point: this was already a tight market before the storm arrived. A familiar recovery pattern That pre-storm scarcity shaped the recovery pattern. …
Adaptive reuse has always been an astute trend when it comes to utilizing location, existing bones, and saving a little time and money on delivery. It’s also particularly useful in submarkets like the southeast Las Vegas submarket of Henderson where strong population growth and rising household incomes outpace the availability of new retail. This long-standing unmet demand for Class A retail has inspired one developer to reshape how it views underperforming office assets. Steve Neiger, managing principal at CAST Capital Partners, is co-developing the Cliff, a 100,000-square-foot office-to-retail conversion in Henderson’s Green Valley Ranch submarket. The project involves the repositioning of a vacant, low-density suburban office property that had struggled to remain competitive as newer product and shifting workplace trends weighed on demand. Rather than pursue a traditional office lease-up or a residential conversion, the development team, which includes Partners Capital, is transforming the site into an open-air retail and dining destination designed to better align with the area’s demographics, accessibility and surrounding residential density. The repositioning reflects a broader trend in how developers are evaluating aging office assets in high-growth suburban markets, particularly where strong consumer demand is not being met by existing retail supply. Situated along Paseo Verde …
WOODLAND HILLS, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $5.1 million sale of a single-tenant restaurant building located approximately 26 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles in Woodland Hills. Built in 1978, the 10,000-square-foot building is leased to full-service Mexican restaurant El Torito. Brandon Michaels of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, an entity doing business as Kia Canoga Warner LLC, and procured the buyer, an undisclosed private investor.
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