GUILFORD, CONN. — Zelco Properties, the development and acquisition arm of Charter Realty, and Haverford Retail Partners have acquired Guilford Commons, a 123,000-square-foot retail center in southern coastal Connecticut. Tenants at the property, which originally opened in 2015, include The Fresh Market, Michaels, DSW, Ulta Beauty, Panera Bread, MOOYAH, Spavia, Pure Barre and Ivy Rehab. T.J. Maxx and Old Navy also recently signed leases at the center. Charter Realty will handle leasing of the property.
LAFAYETTE, N.J. — The Metropolitan YMCA of the Oranges will open a 10,200-square-foot pickleball facility in the Northern New Jersey community of Lafayette. The six-court facility will be located within a freestanding industrial flex building at 11 Millpond Drive and is expected to open in November. John Schilp of NAI James E. Hanson represented the landlord in the lease negotiations. HQW Architects is designing the space, and Berardi Building Co. is handling the build-out.
SPRINGDALE, OHIO — A group of investors operating as AV Cincinnati Acquisition LLC is set to transform the former Tri-County Mall site in Springdale, a northern suburb of Cincinnati, into a mixed-use destination named City Center Springdale. Plans call for roughly 600,000 square feet of retail, entertainment and restaurant space, 750,000 square feet of office space, 2,600 multifamily units, 200,000 square feet of fitness facilities and 400 hotel rooms. The new ownership group, which is led by MarketSpace Capital, purchased the property earlier this year. Lee & Associates is handling leasing and management for the project. The mall closed in 2022.
COLUMBUS, OHIO — SRS Real Estate Partners has brokered the $8.6 million sale of a 125,357-square-foot retail property occupied by Lowe’s Home Improvement in Columbus. Situated on 12.8 acres, the building at 2888 Brice Road features a corporate-guaranteed lease that was recently extended for 10 more years. The property is adjacent to Brice Park, a 158,000-square-foot shopping center. Matthew Mousavi and Patrick Luther of SRS represented the undisclosed seller. A West Coast-based private investor purchased the asset at a cap rate of 6.4 percent.
LOS ANGELES — Thrive Living, along with Los Angeles city and community leaders, has broken ground on 5035 Coliseum Plaza, a mixed-use project in South Los Angeles. The community will feature a Costco Wholesale anchoring the street-level retail space and 800 units of rental housing above. The project is the first mixed-use development in the nation to have Costco as the anchor retail tenant. A total of 184 apartments, or 23 percent of the total units, will be dedicated to low-income households, and the balance of the units will be non-subsidized affordable and workforce housing. The site is designed to support families, seniors and other residents to move laterally from within the community. Community amenities will include an advanced full-service fitness center, high-tech shared workspaces for residents, study space for students, community rooms connected to landscaped courtyards and a rooftop pool. Construction of the 5035 Coliseum project will support thousands of jobs and is expected to take approximately 30 months from the start date. Additionally, the Costco location will creation an estimated up to 400 jobs once fully operational.
By Grant Mechlin, Sansone Group The St. Louis retail market showed impressive resilience in the second quarter of 2024, thanks to strong consumer spending and growing demand across various sectors. Despite challenges such as higher borrowing costs and persistent inflation, the market tightened considerably, with availability dropping to a record low 4.8 percent and well below the five-year average, according to CoStar. This strong absorption has persisted for nine consecutive quarters, highlighting the market’s ongoing strength. A major factor behind this is the limited new supply — only 770,000 square feet of retail space was added in the past year, with nearly all of it quickly absorbed, according to CoStar. This scarcity has fueled development, especially in areas like quick-service restaurants, banks and discount retailers, as tenants are forced to explore new construction as the only viable option to combat a lack of supply in the market. Meanwhile, the overall prices of goods and services in the St. Louis area saw a 3.4 percent rise over the past year, according to the Consumer Price Index. While food costs came down slightly, there was a 5.4 percent increase in energy costs and 4.3 percent for all other consumer expenditures. Despite …
TAYLORSVILLE, UTAH — Continental Realty Corp. (CRC) has entered the Utah market with the purchase of The Crossroads of Taylorsville, a shopping center in Taylorsville, for an undisclosed price. The asset was purchased with funds from Continental Realty Opportunistic Retail Fund I, a closed-end fund for which approximately $323 million has been raised. Totaling nearly 630,000 square feet, The Crossroads at Taylorsville is located at 5400 S. Redwood Road, 12 miles south of Salt Lake City. The property consists of 10 buildings and seven separate outparcels or multi-tenant strip buildings, all of which is surrounded by a free surface parking lot that can accommodate nearly 3,900 vehicles. At the time of sale, the property was 94 percent leased. Current tenants include Target, T.J.Maxx, HomeGoods, Ross Dress for Less, EOS Fitness, Regal Cinema, PetSmart, Dollar Tree, Guitar Center, King Buffet, Lifetime Products, Mr. Mac, Rockler Woodworking and Sierra Trading Post. Mark Damiani of Eastdil Secured represented the seller, TriGate Capital, in the deal. With this transaction, Baltimore-based CRC has now acquired more than $700 million in retail real estate since the beginning of 2021.
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. — California-based pizza chain Mountain Mike’s has signed three multi-unit franchise agreements to open 11 new restaurants in Texas. The deals call for five restaurants in Austin, three restaurants in metro Houston and three restaurants in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex. Franchisees Rajeev Dewan, Ajay and Karina Gorde and Tim Fogarty will own and operate the units in Austin, metro Houston and DFW, respectively. Mountain Mike’s current portfolio includes four existing restaurants in the DFW area and one in greater Houston.
NORTHBROOK, ILL. — JLL Capital Markets has brokered the sale of a flagship Tesla sales, service and delivery center in the Chicago suburb of Northbrook for an undisclosed price. The newly developed build-to-suit for Tesla is located at 1000 Skokie Blvd. The 47,997-square-foot property is Tesla’s only custom build-to-suit sales, service and delivery center in Chicagoland. Designed to support several retail showrooms throughout Chicago’s northern suburbs, the Northbrook facility provides new vehicle delivery, vehicle preparation and maintenance services. The building also features a showroom and ancillary office spaces. Alex Sharrin and Josh Katlin of JLL represented the seller, a joint venture between Focus and Fort Union. Kingsbarn Realty Capital was the buyer.
WESTLAKE, OHIO — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $4.2 million sale of a 7,187-square-foot property net leased to Charles Schwab in Westlake, about 12 miles west of downtown Cleveland. Built in 2020, the asset is located across from the Crocker Park retail center. Scott Wiles, Craig Fuller and Erin Patton of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a Cleveland-based family office. A California-based 1031 exchange investor was the buyer. Michael Glass, broker of record in Ohio, assisted in closing the transaction.