FORT WORTH, TEXAS — City Pickle USA has opened a 35,000-square-foot athletic facility in North Fort Worth. The site spans 3.3 acres at 8600 N. City Drive, and the facility features 16 courts, agym, full-service bar, pro shop and dedicated wellness spaces, including a sauna, cold plunge and a red light therapy room. A grand opening ceremony took place earlier this month.
PITTSBURGH — CBRE has brokered the sale of a 52,750-square-foot shopping center in North Pittsburgh. Located at 4885 McKnight Road and known as McKnight Siebert, the center is home to tenants such as Walgreens, Starbucks, The UPS Store, Bruegger’s Bagels, Sport Clips and T-Mobile. First Washington Realty sold the center to full-service firm Shannon Waltchack for an undisclosed price. Chris Munley, Colin Behr, Ryan Sciullo, Casey Benson Smith, R.J. Mirabile and Michael Pascavis of CBRE brokered the deal.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS — SRS Real Estate Partners has brokered the sale of Gruene Heights, a 25,767-square-foot retail center in New Braunfels, located northeast of San Antonio. Built on 3.5 acres in 2024, the center was fully leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Papa Johns, Garcia’s Mexican Food and Chicken Salad Chick. Cathy Nabours, Kyle Shaffer and Sam Nichols of SRS Real Estate Partners represented the seller, a San Antonio-based developer, in the transaction. The buyer was a Houston-based private investor.
WEST NYACK, N.Y. — Black Diamond Capital Management, a Connecticut-based alternative investment firm, has purchased Palisades Center, a 2.3 million-square-foot mall in West Nyack, about 35 miles north of New York City. According to the Rockland County Business Journal, Palisades Center sold for $175 million at auction after being originally listed for $463.4 million. According to Wikipedia, the shopping, dining and entertainment destination is the 12th largest U.S. mall by gross leasable area and was first developed by Pyramid Cos., ultimately opening in March 1998. Black Diamond plans to be a long-term owner of Palisades Center and to invest in various capital improvements to attract new users; the Rockland County Business Journal also reports that Palisades Center currently has two vacant anchor spaces that were previously occupied by Lord & Taylor and J.C. Penney. Spinoso Real Estate will operate the property as it has since fall 2024.
JOHNS CREEK, GA. — A new wave of retailers has joined the tenant roster at Medley, a new 43-acre mixed-use redevelopment underway in Johns Creek, about 27 miles north of Atlanta. Locally based Toro Development Co. recently announced the newcomers, which will include Shake Shack, Trader Joe’s, Kontour Medical Spa, Moop’s Boutique and Northern China Eatery. Previously announced concepts include Sephora, High Country Outfitters, BODYROK, Petfolk, CRÚ Food & Wine Bar, Fadó Irish Pub, Summit Coffee, Five Daughters Bakery, Drybar Shops, Minnie Olivia Pizzeria and Clean Your Dirty Face, among others. Set to debut officially around Halloween, Medley will offer 164,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and entertainment space; 833 luxury townhomes and apartments; The Hotel at Medley, a 150-room boutique hotel set to open in 2028; 110,000 square feet of lifestyle office space; and a 25,000-square-foot plaza. The project is located at the intersection of Johns Creek Parkway and McGinnis Ferry Road and was once a suburban office hub for State Farm Insurance.
SAN DIEGO — HP Investors has received $19 million in recapitalization financing for Gaslamp Square, a retail property at 405 5th Ave. in San Diego. Scott Peterson, Bill Chiles, Brian Cruz and Colby Matzke of CBRE arranged a floating-rate loan on behalf of the borrower. The financing features a multi-year interest-only period and a competitive structure with a maturity in 2029. Gaslamp Square features 54,856 square feet spanning a full block at 5th Avenue and J Street in downtown San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter. The asset consists of retail condominiums and a 243-stall subterranean parking garage.
MOUNT PROSPECT, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the $2.9 million sale of a 22,910-square-foot retail strip center located at 1776 Algonquin Road in Mount Prospect. Mitchell Kiven, Coult Greenwell, Eric Abbott and Zachary Taylor of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a large property owner with a national retail portfolio, and procured the buyer, a local investor who operates a chain of grocery stores. Built in 1964, the property sits on 1.8 acres and features 13 suites. The buyer plans to improve the physical condition of the asset and work to lease second-floor space.
BLUE SPRINGS, MO. — Trident Capital Partners has provided a $1.5 million bridge loan for the acquisition of a newly constructed retail property within the Copperleaf Shopping Center in Blue Springs. The six-month, full-recourse loan is secured by a first lien on the property, a 4,685-square-foot retail building housed on one of the center’s pad sites. The borrower, a partnership of three private investor groups, acquired the property to maintain control over development and tenant selection at the Copperleaf Shopping Center, a 32,978-square-foot retail center that it purchased in February 2023 for $6.9 million. The outparcel building is partially leased to two national restaurant concepts, including Dutch Bros Coffee and Qdoba Mexican Eats. An additional 1,775 square feet remains available.
GOODLETTSVILLE, TENN. — Merus, a design-build firm that was formerly known as Al. Neyer, has purchased RiverGate Mall, an enclosed shopping mall located at 1000 Rivergate Parkway in Goodlettsville that opened in 1971. The Cincinnati-based firm is planning to transform the 57-acre site on the northern outskirts of Nashville into a $450 million mixed-use district. Merus plans to demolish the mall this spring. In its place, the firm will develop 700 multifamily units, 100 townhomes, 80 independent seniors housing units, more than 130,000 square feet of retail and dining space and a center green and plaza for community programming. “Stepping into a site like this comes with a responsibility — not just to redevelop it, but to do it right,” says Patrick Poole, senior vice president and Nashville market leader for Merus. “Our focus is taking a property designed for a different era and reimagining it as a walkable, active district where people can live, work, gather and spend time.” Merus purchased the 514,000-square-foot mall, which is situated next to Dollar General’s global headquarters, for $33 million. Bryan Belk and John Tennant of Franklin Street represented the seller, Hendon Properties, in the transaction. Hartman Simons & Wood LLP executed legal work …
By Taylor Williams The challenges are multi-faceted. The timelines are elongated. The costs are brutal. The capital is tight. The consumers’ incomes are strained. The prevailing logic favors buying over building. The list goes on. And yet some retail developers in Texas and Oklahoma see the current environment as one that represents a unique chapter in the saga of their business — one that makes them glad they do what they do. That sentiment is not just a factor of a post-COVID resurgence built on the realization that brick-and-mortar stores and e-commerce platforms work better in tandem than in opposition. And it’s not just a natural byproduct of favorable supply-demand dynamics that have pushed retail occupancies and rents to record highs in most major markets. It goes beyond being the beneficiary of new capital flows as the commercial real estate darlings of the past decade — industrial and multifamily — have experienced softening fundamentals. The feeling is, in the words of Stevie Wonder, all these things and more. “It’s a special time in this business, even if it’s a different one,” says David Neher, president at Dallas-based Rainier Development Co. “There’s a fair amount of front-end risk and planning for …
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