CHICAGO — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Ashland Wellington Plaza in Chicago for $9.8 million. The 19,979-square-foot retail property is located at 2862-2928 N. Ashland Ave. Jewel-Osco shadow anchors the property. Adrian Mendoza, Austin Weisenbeck and Sean R. Sharko of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a private investor. The team also procured the buyer, a St. Louis-based investor.
SPARKS, NEV. — RCG Ventures has acquired Sparks Crossing, a 335,981-square-foot shopping center located roughly four miles outside Reno in Sparks, for $40.2 million. The property is home to tenants including Ross Dress for Less, Bed Bath & Beyond, Cost Plus World Market, Best Buy, Michaels, PetSmart, Ulta Beauty and Dollar Tree. Peter Bethea and Rob Ippolito of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
GOODYEAR, ARIZ. — Sterling Organization has acquired Palm Valley Marketplace, a 107,633-square-foot shopping center located roughly 16 miles outside Phoenix in Goodyear. Safeway anchors the center, which is also home to Subway, H&R Block, Domino’s Pizza, AAA, Great Clips, The UPS Store, Nationwide Vision, GNC, FastFrame, Oreck, Elements Massage and PurTone Hearing Centers. A subsidiary of Regency Centers sold the asset on behalf of Sterling Organization’s institutional core fund, Sterling United Properties I LP.
DORAVILLE, GA. — Cohen Financial, a division of SunTrust Bank based in Chicago, has arranged a $14.5 million acquisition loan for Doraville Plaza, a 190,000 square-foot retail complex in Doraville, a suburb of Atlanta in DeKalb County. Dan Rosenberg and Matt Terpstra of Cohen Financial’s Chicago office secured the 10-year, fixed-rate loan with a 30-year amortization schedule through Citigroup Global Markets Inc. on behalf of the borrower, The Equinox Group Inc., a commercial real estate owner/operator in Atlanta and a longtime client to Cohen Financial. Situated on Buford Highway, Doraville Plaza is anchored by Burlington.
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Sublett Corners Shopping Center, a five-building, 87,900-square-foot retail center located at 5900-5912 S. Cooper St. in Arlington. Situated on 10 acres and shadowed-anchored by Albertson’s, the Stein Mart-anchored center was 94 percent occupied at the time of sale. Bill Jordan of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of whom are private investors.
AMARILLO, TEXAS — TREK Investment Group has brokered the sale of Coronado Shopping Center, a 48,716-square-foot retail center located at 3303 Wimberly Road in Amarillo. Parker Carroll of TREK represented the buyer, Assertive Realty Group LLC, in the transaction. The name and representative of the seller were not disclosed.
BROOKLYN PARK, MINN. — Cushman & Wakefield NorthMarq has arranged the sale of two shopping centers in suburban Minneapolis for undisclosed prices. Edinburgh Festival Centre, located at the corner of Highway 252 and 85th Avenue North in Brooklyn Park, consists of 91,563 square feet. Festival Foods anchors the center, which is 95 percent leased. Other tenants include Caribou Coffee, Broadway Pizza and Dollar Tree. Shingle Creek Shopping Center consists of 39,456 square feet and is located in Brooklyn Center. The property is fully leased to tenants such as Panera Bread, H&R Block, Gamestop and UPS. IRC Retail Centers sold both properties to LS Capital. Leah Maurer of Cushman & Wakefield NorthMarq represented the seller in the Edinburgh Festival transaction and the buyer in the Shingle Creek transaction.
DELTA TOWNSHIP, MICH. — Mid-America Real Estate Corp. has brokered the sale of a 174,353-square-foot shopping center in Delta Township, a western suburb of Lansing. The sales price was not disclosed. Marketplace at Delta Township is located at the southwest corner of I-69 and Saginaw Highway. Michaels, PetSmart, Tractor Supply Co. and Ulta anchor the center. GDA Real Estate Services purchased the property. Ben Wineman, Carly Gallagher and Daniel Stern of Mid-America brokered the transaction on behalf of the seller, a public REIT.
Pittsburgh retail can be summed up in three words: location, location, location — and the original definition of great real estate has never been more pronounced than it is today in the Pittsburgh retail market. According to some publications, retail and retailers appear to be struggling almost everywhere for many different reasons, including online sales, too many stores, market conditions and oversaturation of product. However, as of year-end 2016, CoStar indicated that the overall Pittsburgh retail market occupancy rate was 96.8 percent. Pittsburgh has natural barriers to entry for retail due to its topography, which includes numerous hills and valleys, making it often times impossible to build a “newer, bigger, better” retail property across the street. As a result, many developers have successfully repurposed older centers through adaptive reuse, converting them in keeping with the latest and greatest retail trends. Other older centers have successfully withstood the test of time, replacing outdated retail concepts with today’s current concepts at significantly lower costs than building a new center. Adaptive reuse of Pittsburgh retail started decades ago when the May Company relocated Kaufmann’s Department Stores from four freestanding locations into the dominant regional malls, leaving one- and two-story 200,000-square-foot boxes vacant. Local …
MEXIA, TEXAS — Henry S. Miller Co. (HSM) has brokered the sale of Mexia Plaza, a 16,600-square-foot retail center located at 1322 Milam St. in Mexia, a city approximately 40 miles east of Waco. Shadow-anchored by Walmart, the property was 100 percent occupied at the time of sale to tenants such as Cricket Wireless, Hibbett Sports and Payday Loans. Lane Kommer of HSM represented the seller in the transaction, and Michelle Hudson of Hudson Peters represented the buyers.
