ROSWELL, GA. — Hardware retail chain Ace Hardware has opened its 5,000th domestic store. Dubbed Fixit Ace Hardware, the store is located in Roswell, roughly 20 miles north of Atlanta. Additionally, the Oak Brook, Ill.-based retailer opened its 100th new store of the year in Henderson, Nev., last month. Ace Hardware, which operates more than 5,800 outposts globally, plans to open an additional 200 stores by the end of this year, which marks 100 years of business for the brand.
WEYMOUTH, MASS. — CBRE has arranged the $23 million sale of Riverway Plaza, a 250,000-square-foot shopping center in Weymouth, a southern suburb of Boston. Lowe’s Home Improvement anchors the center, which sits on 23 acres. Other tenants include Michael’s, Dollar Tree and Staples. Nat Heald and Jordana Roet of CBRE represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of which requested anonymity, in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — New York City-based Skyline Developers has topped out a 97-unit multifamily project at 18 W. 55th St. in Midtown Manhattan. Designed by Morris Adjmi Architects, the building rises 25 stories and spans 152,000 square feet, including 10,000 square feet of amenities and 5,265 square feet of retail space. Construction began in mid-2023, and delivery is slated for 2025. Goldman Sachs financed construction of the project.
VALLEY COTTAGE, N.Y. — Maryland-based investment firm Realterm has acquired an industrial outdoor storage facility in Valley Cottage, located just across the New York-New Jersey border. The 37,560-square-foot facility was built on a 5.4-acre site in 2009 and consists of a seven-bay, drive-thru maintenance facility, a concrete storage yard and office spaces. Realterm plans to implement a value-add program. The seller was not disclosed.
SECAUCUS, N.J. — Abra Health has signed a 24,908-square-foot retail sublease in Secaucus. The operator of pediatric primary care and dental clinics is backfilling a space previously occupied by The Vitamin Shoppe and will utilize the space to centralize its billing operations and establish a call center. Jeff Kolodkin and Andrew Kirshenbaum of Newmark represented Abra Health in the lease transaction.
SAN DIEGO — The Dinerstein Cos. has completed the disposition of Millennium PQ, a multifamily property located in San Diego’s Rancho Penasquitos neighborhood, to GID Real Estate Investments for $167 million, or $504,532 per unit. Millennium PQ features 331 apartments with high-end finishes and resort-style amenities in a low-density, garden-style setting. Hunter Combs led the Walker & Dunlop investment sales team that represented the seller and buyer in the transaction.
VISTA, CALIF. — Gelt Venture Partners has purchased Rancho Hills Apartments in Vista, approximately 40 miles north of San Diego. An undisclosed party sold the asset for $53.5 million. The 148-unit apartment community is located at 856 Heatherwood Lane. Built in 1986, the garden-style property features 10 two-story buildings on 7.3 acres. The community includes a mix of 56 one-bedroom units and 92 two-bedroom units with floor plans ranging from 553 square feet to 909 square feet. Recently upgraded apartments include washers/dryers, quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances and private balconies/patios. On-site amenities include a clubhouse, fitness center, pool, spa and a gas barbecue area. Rachel Parsons, Derrek Ostrzyzek and Mike Murphy of CBRE represented the buyer and seller in the deal.
GLENDALE, ARIZ. — EQT Exeter, a real estate division of EQT, has purchased Falcon Park 303 – Phase II, a 326,018-square-foot, Class A industrial building on more than 21 acres in Glendale. US Capital Development (USCD) and an institutional investor sold the asset for $50 million. A single tenant occupies the freestanding building, which was completed on a speculative basis in 2023. Totaling 925,504 square feet, Falcon Park 303 – Phase I and II are located at 15132 and 15152 W. Camelback Road, respectively. Will Strong, Michael Matchett, Molly Hunt and Dean Wiley of Cushman & Wakefield’s National Industrial Advisory Group – Mountain West represented the sellers in the disposition. Cushman & Wakefield’s Mike Haenel, Andy Markham, Phil Haenel and Foster Bundy provided market leasing advisory in the sale, as well as brokered the full-building lease with the existing tenant in fourth-quarter 2023. In 2023, the Cushman & Wakefield team brokered the sale of Falcon Park – Phase I to Cohen Asset Management for $81.7 million, while the Cushman & Wakefield equity debt structured finance team arranged the financing for the buyer.
SAN DIEGO — GPI Cos., in partnership with the University of California, San Diego, has completed the development of 8980 Villa La Jolla Drive, an academic facility in at the corner of La Jolla Village and Villa La Jolla drives in San Diego. The nine-story, 114,000-square-foot building is directly across from the university and serves as a gateway to the main campus. The building includes academic, administrative and research space and will be a hub for students, faculty and patients, as well as the home for various programs offered by UC San Diego Health Sciences and UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies. Additionally, Bird Rock Coffee Roasters will occupy ground-floor retail space at the building. The project team included Gensler’s San Diego office as architect and Swinerton Builders as general contractor. JLL will manage the building.
WEST SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Brennan Investment Group has acquired a three-building manufacturing facility in West Sacramento and simultaneously leased the property back to the seller, Manna Beverages & Ventures. Totaling 213,000 square feet, the assets are located at 2150 and 2286 Stone Blvd. and 1691 Cebrian St. Manna is a leading beverage manufacturer specializing in co-packing, co-manufacturing and distribution of juices, teas and carbonated beverages. Terms of the transaction were not released.
