CHICAGO — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Park Shops, a grocery-anchored retail center in Chicago, for $3.9 million. The 47,069-square-foot property is located at 6400 W. 63rd St. Fair Share Super Market has operated at the location for 27 years and recently extended its lease for 10 years. Adrian Mendoza, Austin Weisenbeck and Sean Sharko of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a developer. A Chicago-based private investor purchased the asset.
HUMBLE, TEXAS — Dallas-based Hunt Southwest will develop 59 Logistics Center, a 509,600-square-foot speculative industrial facility that will be located near George Bush Intercontinental Airport in the northeastern Houston suburb of Humble. Situated along Highway 59, the cross-dock facility will feature 36-foot clear heights and an ESFR sprinkler system. Completion is slated for the fourth quarter of 2020. CBRE will handle leasing of the facility. Powers Brown is the project architect, and E.E. Reed Construction is the project’s general contractor.
ST PETERSBURG, FLA. — Real estate developer The Kolter Group has acquired the 1.7-acre parking lot of the Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront Hotel, with plans to construct a 35-story residential tower on the site.
FARMERS BRANCH, TEXAS — California-based Panattoni Development has acquired 8.4 acres in the northern Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch for the development of a 159,405-square-foot speculative distribution center. The site is located near Interstates 35 and 635. Completion is slated for the second quarter of 2020. The seller was Centurion American Development Group. Biel Partners Commercial Real Estate represented Panattoni in the land acquisition.
DALLAS — G.W. Floyd Ventures LLC has acquired Switzer Business Park, a 123,000-square-foot development featuring a mix of office, industrial and flex spaces in northeast Dallas. Brian Pafford and Jason Finch of Bradford Commercial Real Estate Services represented the seller, a California-based partnership that is exiting the Texas market. Bradford will continue to lease the property, which houses more than 60 tenants, on behalf of the new ownership.
SAN ANTONIO — Orlando-based Capstone Manufactured Housing has arranged the sale of Crescent Place, a 319-site manufactured housing asset located on 60 acres in San Antonio. Amenities include a swimming pool, clubhouse, basketball court, playground and a dog park. Ian Hilpl, Kevan Enger and Brian Hummell of Capstone represented the seller, a private investor, in the sale.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Cantrell Co. & Partners has brokered the sale of Antiqua Village, a 152-unit multifamily community in southeast Fort Worth. The property was 93.5 percent occupied at the time of sale. Sam Pettigrew of Cantrell represented the seller, Republic Village LP. The buyer of record is M&D Antiqua Village LLC, a Texas-based entity.
As retailers rise and fall in the age of Amazon, property taxes remain one of retailers’ largest operating expenses. That makes it critical to monitor assessments of retail properties and be ready to contest unfairly high taxable valuations. Assessors — and property owners attempting to educate those assessors — must understand how the changes taking place in the retail sector affect property value. Assessors must adjust their models to reflect new market realities, and property owners or their representatives must be able to explain why previously held valuation assumptions could no longer be valid. No Going Back Changing consumer tastes have always required retailers to adapt in order to survive, but traditional retailers are facing a different kind of challenge today. The increasing role of e-commerce in overall sales reflects a fundamental change in consumer behavior that will not reverse course with the whims of fashion. The ability to shop online is resetting consumer expectations, and retailers are struggling to adapt and stay competitive. This struggle is evident in store closings that in 2019 are outpacing closings from the prior year. In addition to the threat of e-commerce, some economists believe a recession is coming in 2020. Falling retail sales, …
NAMPA, IDAHO — Amazon has announced plans to open its first fulfillment center in Idaho, creating more than 1,000 full-time jobs. Located in Nampa, the 650,000-square-foot facility is slated to open in 2020. The fulfillment center is being developed in partnership with Pannotoni Development Co. Inc. Amazon plans to utilize the center to fulfill customer orders such as books, electronics and toys.
SAN MARCOS, CALIF. — San Diego-based SENTRE Inc. has purchased San Marcos Village, a neighborhood retail center located in San Marcos. A San Diego-based joint venture partnership sold the property for $19.2 million. At the time of sale, the grocery-anchored center was 92 percent leased to a variety of tenants, including Grocery Outlet, 99 Cents Only Store and AutoZone. Philip Voorhees, Reg Kobzi, Preston Fetrow and Eric Shain of CBRE National Retail Partners-West represented both parties in the transaction. Scott Peterson, Bill Chiles, Brian Cruz and Morgon Fraser of CBRE’s San Diego Debt & Structured Finance team arranged an $11.6 million, seven-year, fixed-rate loan through a regional bank for the buyer.