YORKTOWN, N.Y. — Breslin Realty Development has broken ground for a Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse located in Yorktown. Located at 3200 Crompond Road, the 124,000-square-foot retail location will anchor a retail center that also includes three retail pads. The property is slated to open in the first quarter of 2019.
DALLAS — Dallas-based development and asset management firm Oaxaca Interests will redevelop a warehouse located at 660 Fort Worth Ave. in west Dallas into a 10,000-square-foot retail and restaurant property. The warehouse property, which was previously occupied by W&B Refrigeration Service Co., is situated on one acre next to the Sylvan/Thirty mixed-use development. Oaxaca is targeting two to five tenants for the project, construction of which is scheduled to begin before the end of 2017 and wrap up in fall 2018.
DUARTE, CALIF. — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has arranged the $38.1 million sale of Buena Vista Marketplace, a 92,346-square-foot retail center in Duarte, 21 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Pete Bethea, Rob Ippolito and Glenn Rudy represented the seller, Weingarten Realty, in the transaction. The buyer, Gerrity Group, represented itself. Smart & Final anchors Buena Vista Marketplace, which was 98.5 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Dollar Tree, Wells Fargo, AT&T, UPS, Subway, Flame Broiler and Jamba Juice.
MORENO VALLEY, CALIF. — Faris Lee Investments has arranged the $3.5 million sale of a 6,440-square-foot retail building in Moreno Valley. The property was triple-net-leased to TitleMax and Coast Dental at the time of sale. Patrick Toomey and Matt Brooks of Faris Lee Investments represented the seller, TC Enterprise LLC, in the transaction. Realty ONE Group represented the buyer, Perrishemlock LLC. The property was renovated in 2015 and is located within a larger center that is home to CVS/pharmacy and Dollar Tree.
LAS VEGAS — Pollo Campero has opened its newest restaurant in Las Vegas, marking the second Las Vegas location and 75th location nationwide. The new restaurant is the second Pollo Campero for GSK 3 Investments, which is owned by franchisees Maria Enamorado and her sons, Gurpaul and Gurdev Kular. In April, GSK 3 Investments opened Nevada’s first Pollo Campero restaurant in North Las Vegas. The latest restaurant opening is part of Pollo Campero’s strategic development plan focused on strengthening its footprint in existing markets and opening new restaurants in key cities in the United States through corporately owned and franchised units. As part of its franchising agreement, GSK 3 Investments will open a third Las Vegas Pollo Campero restaurant in the near future. Pollo Campero is a chicken restaurant brand founded in 1971 in Guatemala.
ALTOONA, IOWA — New England Development has opened Outlets of Des Moines in Altoona. The region’s first outlet center features retailers such as ASICS, Nike Factory Store, Express Factory Store, francesca’s, LOFT Outlet, Converse, Tommy Hilfiger, Under Armour, Vera Bradley, Levi’s, Brooks Brothers and Le Creuset. A ribbon-cutting ceremony took place on Friday, Oct. 20. The construction phase created about 500 jobs and the outlet center is expected to generate an additional 800 jobs, according to New England Development. The development is expected to generate about $100 million in annual retail sales. The property is located at 801 Bass Pro Drive near I-80. A video recap of opening weekend can be found here.
The Richmond retail market continues to be strong. Overall vacancy rates are slightly higher than usual, hovering around 7 percent with negative absorption, due to all types of new products coming online in the first half of 2017. The market is adding millennials at double the pace of any other generation and has been recently named in multiple media outlets as one of the top living destinations for millennials nationwide. With this influx, multifamily development in Richmond is robust, which in turn is attracting all types of urban retail and chef-driven restaurants. The most popular submarkets for new urban retail are the Central Business District, Shockoe Bottom and the white-hot Scott’s Addition, with many developers taking advantage of Richmond’s Historic Tax Credit program. Richmond’s famous grocery wars continue with major players jockeying for the best positions. Kroger has historically positioned themselves well in the market with 18 stores, many of which have gone through recent expansions to the Marketplace concept. It recently scrapped plans for the development of two new relocation positions in Mechanicsville and Colonial Heights. The most recent grocery news has been Martin’s Food Markets exiting and Publix entering the market. Martin’s peaked at 19 stores, most of …
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS — Weitzman has negotiated a 46,155-square-foot tenant lease with Tru Fit Athletic Clubs for the anchor space at Parkway Square, a 156,520-square-foot retail center in College Station. Tru Fit Athletic Clubs will join other tenants at the center such as Stein Mart, Harbor Freight Tools, Firestone and McDonald’s. The Parkway Square gym will be the Colorado-based fitness chain’s 18th location in Texas. James Namken and Kyle Knight of Weitzman represented the landlord in the lease negotiations and CBRE represented Tru Fit.
NEW BERN, N.C. — Columbia Development has unveiled plans to develop New Bern Marketplace, a 326,850-square-foot grocery-anchored shopping center located on Highway 17 and Glenburnie Road in New Bern near North Carolina’s Crystal Coast. A 100,000-square-foot Harris Teeter, which will include a fuel station and drive-thru pharmacy, will anchor the property. The center will also be home to Academy Sports + Outdoors, Hobby Lobby, West Marine, Ross Dress for Less, Ulta Beauty, Pet Supermarket, Five Below and Lee Nails.
MONROVIA, CALIF. — Warner Pacific Properties is repositioning Monrovia Landing, a retail center within Shamrock Center located at 729 E. Huntington Drive in Monrovia. After acquiring the 100,000-square-foot property in 2016, the company began a re-tenanting and repositioning program for the center. At the time of acquisition, the center consisted of a vacant Albertsons grocery store and a 6,700-square-foot O’Reilly Auto Parts. Originally built in 1973 as a Super K-Mart, Lucky Grocery Stores acquired the property in 1997. It was later sold to Albertsons. A combination T.J. Maxx and HomeGoods store (slated to open Oct. 22), ALDI (opening Dec. 7) and ULTA Beauty (scheduled to open second quarter of 2018) will anchor the redeveloped property. Several smaller shops and retailers, including My Pet Garden, will also occupy the center. Warner Pacific Properties specializes in the acquisition and repositioning of commercial buildings and developing vacant ground.