AURORA, ILL. — The Boulder Group has arranged $1.4 million sale of a single-tenant, net-leased Tuffy Auto Service Center in Aurora, a suburb of Chicago. The property is located at 3190 N. Aurora Road. Tuffy is the sole occupant of the 3,900-square-foot retail building, built in 2007. There are more than 13 years of primary lease term remaining, which expires in November 2027. The lease features 10 percent rental escalations every five years. Tuffy is a chain of automotive service centers headquartered in Toledo, Ohio. The company is owned by the Tuffy Associates Corp., which also owns about 170 Car-X Tire and Auto stores. There are more that 235 Tuffy locations in 20 states across the eastern United States. Randy Blankstein and Jimmy Goodman of The Boulder Group represented the seller, a Chicago-based private real estate investor, and the undisclosed buyer, who purchased the property in a 1031 tax-deferred exchange.
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