BLOOMFIELD, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Terry’s Drugs Retail Strip, a retail property located at 1049 Broad St. in Bloomfield. A private investor sold the property for $3.4 million. At the time of sale, the 8,500-square-foot center was fully leased to five retailers. Ben Sgambati, Alan Cafiero and David Cafiero of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller. The name of the buyer was not released.
DUBLIN, CALIF. — Ross Stores has recently opened 30 Ross Dress for Less and 10 dd’s Discounts stores across 22 different states in September and October. These new locations complete the company’s store growth plans for fiscal 2017. (Ross added 96 new stores total in 2017.) “This fall, we continued to expand our Ross and dd’s footprints across both new and existing markets, with nearly half of our Ross store openings in our newest market — the Midwest,” says Jim Fassio, president and chief development officer. Ross Stores Inc. is headquartered in Dublin and boasts 1,412 Ross Dress for Less locations in 37 states, the District of Columbia and Guam. The company also operates 215 dd’s Discounts stores in 16 states. Long term, the company hopes to reach 2,000 stores for Ross and 500 for dd’s Discounts
CLIFTON, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the sale of a retail property located at 449 Lakeview Ave. in Clifton. A developer acquired the property from an undisclosed seller for $1.7 million. Dollar General occupies the 11,500-square-foot building on a net-lease basis. Ben Sgambati, Alan Cafiero and John Moroz of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, while Cafiero, Sgambati and David Cafiero, also of Marcus & Millichap, represented the buyer in the deal.
OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — Planet Fitness has signed an 18,052-square-foot lease to open a new location in Overland Park. Best Buy is a co-tenant at the 65,000-square-foot property, which is located at 9301 Quivira Road. Construction of a new entrance and façade is currently underway. David M. Block, William Glasgow and Alex Block of Block & Co. Inc. Realtors negotiated the long-term lease. Block & Co. Development & Construction Management LLC is responsible for the construction of the Planet Fitness space.
CONCORD AND MATTHEWS, N.C. — ECHO Realty has acquired two Harris Teeter-anchored shopping centers in metro Charlotte: Cannon Crossroads in Concord and Matthews Township Shopping Center in Matthews. The sales prices and sellers were not disclosed. The acquisitions bring ECHO’s portfolio in the Charlotte area to six grocery-anchored centers totaling 500,000 square feet. The 67,000-square-foot Cannon Crossroads is located at the intersection of Harris and Poplar Tent roads, roughly 25 miles northeast of Charlotte. At the time of sale, the property was 96 percent leased to Harris Teeter, Great Clips, State Farm Insurance and Johnny Brusco’s. The 128,650-square-foot Matthews Township Shopping Center is located at the intersection of Independence Boulevard and Matthews Township Parkway in Matthews, roughly 12 miles southeast of Charlotte. At the time of sale, the property was fully leased to anchor tenants Harris Teeter and Stein Mart, as well as Rack Room Shoes, Hallmark and Chipotle Mexican Grill.
NORTHGLENN, COLO. — Hutensky Capital Partners has purchased Marketplace at Northglenn, a 439,000-square-foot shopping center in Northglenn, a northern suburb of Denver, for $48 million. The center is shadow-anchored by Lowe’s Home Improvement, and is also home to Ross Dress for Less, Bed Bath & Beyond, Office Depot, PetSmart and JoAnn Fabrics. The seller was not disclosed.
THORNTON, COLO. — Simon has broken ground on Denver Premium Outlets, a 330,000-square-foot open-air outlet center located 12 miles outside Denver in Thornton. The mall will be home to 80 outlet stores offering discount, name-brand merchandise. The location marks the first and only Premium Outlets development in the state of Colorado. It is scheduled to open in fall 2018.
LOS ANGELES — Nordstrom Inc. opened its newest Los Angeles full-line store at Westfield Century City, a re-location from Westside Pavilion. The store offers a new store design and new customer services. Also, in West Hollywood, the retailer launched Nordstrom Local, a neighborhood hub where customers can access the company’s services in a central location. The three-level, 154,000-square-foot Century City store offers the fifth ‘Nordstrom x Nike’ sneaker boutique, a women’s-only fitness/fashion lifestyle concept; and SPACE, a boutique featuring advanced and emerging designers. The store also houses the first West Coast MAC Makeup Studio; Bar Verde, a full-service, seasonally-focused restaurant and bar; Style Bar, an area to meet with complimentary personal stylists; Nordstrom to You, a personal stylist service on wheels; Buy Online & Pick-Up In-Store; Reserve & Try In-Store; Curbside Pickup; and Two-Hour Delivery. Nordstrom Century City will have the company’s latest store design concept, which includes more windows to incorporate natural light and connect the shopping experience to the outside world. Also on the horizon: The company plans to open its 10th Nordstrom Rack location in Los Angeles at the FIGat7th shopping center downtown. Nordstrom Rack is the off-price division of Nordstrom. Nordstrom is a fashion retailer based in …
The Minneapolis retail market ended the second quarter with a vacancy rate of 3.1 percent. The freestanding retail segment (buildings not contained within a shopping center) posted a vacancy rate of 1.8 percent. Over the past year, there has been a pattern of positive absorption in the market. The average quoted asking retail rental rate at the end of the second quarter was $13.94 per square foot. Comparably, a year ago this rate was $13.29 per square foot. Meanwhile, construction of retail properties has been on an upward climb. Within the past four quarters, 1.2 million square feet of retail space has been built, and there is an additional 892,910 square feet in progress, according to CoStar Group. Net absorption continues Retail net absorption was moderate in Minneapolis in the second quarter of 2017, totaling 484,120 square feet. That’s up from 135,536 square feet of positive absorption in the first quarter and 366,652 square feet in the fourth quarter of 2016. However, these figures are all down from the third quarter of 2016, when 638,183 square feet were positively absorbed in the market. Several tenants have moved out of large blocks of space in 2017. For example, Sears vacated 125,209 …
LANSING, N.Y. — Great Neck, N.Y.-based Uber Capital Group, a commercial real estate financial advisory and mortgage origination firm, has arranged a $14 million loan for the acquisition of The Shops at Ithaca Mall, a shopping center located at 40 Catherwood Road in Lansing. Joel J. Gorjian of Uber Capital Group secured the financing for the borrower, a private commercial real estate investment group. Target, Old Navy, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Bon-Ton, Michaels and a 14-screen Regal Cinemas anchor the shopping center, which was built in 1976. Additional tenants at the 623,000-square-foot property include Bath & Body Works, Kay Jewelers, Victoria’s Secret, ULTA Beauty, DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse, The Entertainment Zone, Great Escape Adventures, Planet Fitness and Zumiez.
