POMPTON LAKES, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Pompton Mall, a retail property located at 14 Wanaque Ave. in Pompton Lakes. A private investor sold the 7,870-square-foot property for $2.3 million. Ben Sgambati, Alan Cafiero and John Moroz of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller. The buyer was an undisclosed private investor.
Throughout his 32-year career, Fred Cordova has purchased, sold, financed, developed and leased more than 6.5 billion square feet of real estate. As the executive vice president of brokerage services at California-based Kennedy Wilson, Cordova currently specializes in the retail sector. Western Real Estate Business caught up with Cordova at ICSC RECon in late May to get his thoughts on how traditional brick-and-mortar retailers can survive the current rash of store closures. Western Real Estate Business: Can you clarify your role in the retail space? Fred Cordova: Our brokerage service really specializes in the retail space, particularly in urban retail. We excel at leasing urban retail centers and properties, including the ground floors — the huge new wave of development of multifamily in an urban environment that has spread across the country like wildfire. We’re the ones who lease the ground-floor space. We also do infill retail shopping centers, many of which need to be repurposed. On the capital side, we do a lot of sales of properties that are going to be repositioned — older properties that need to be taken down completely, or in some cases rehabbed. But in most cases those properties are razed to make room for …
WOODBRIDGE, VA. — Sterling Organization has sold Market at Opitz Crossing, a 157,724-square-foot, grocery-anchored retail center in Woodbridge, a suburb of Washington, D.C., in northern Virginia. Klein Enterprises purchased the asset from Sterling for $29.3 million. Price Rite anchors the center, which is located one mile east of Interstate 95 at the intersection of Jefferson Davis Highway and Opitz Boulevard. Other tenants include Advance Auto Parts, Dollar Tree, Checkers, Subway, BB&T Bank, Taco Bell, Edible Arrangements, Papa Johns, Hair Cuttery, Mariner Finance, Quest Diagnostics and T-Mobile. Geoffrey Millerd and Mat Adler of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank represented Sterling, which sold the asset through its institutional fund Sterling Value Add Partners LP. Marc Tropp of Eastern Union Funding arranged an acquisition loan through Apple Federal Credit Union on behalf of Klein Enterprises. Sterling purchased the asset in 2013 for $17.8 million and increased its occupancy rate from 77 percent to 96 percent. During its ownership, Sterling added an outparcel retail building leased to Chipotle Mexican Grill at the center.
PARAMOUNT, CALIF. — Faris Lee Investments has brokered the sale of two freestanding, single-tenant retail buildings located on a 1.5-acre land parcel at 8819 Alondra Blvd. in Paramount. A private investor acquired the properties, which total 15,772 square feet, for $12.5 million. A 13,972-square-foot CVS/pharmacy and a 1,800-square-foot Starbucks Coffee occupy the buildings. Nicholas Coo and Joseph Chichester of Faris Lee Investments represented the seller, a private family company, while RE/MAX Premier Properties represented the buyer in the deal.
SAN DIMAS, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Bonita Canyon Gateway, a retail property located at 671 E. Bonita Ave. in San Dimas. An undisclosed developer sold the 7,860-square-foot property for $2.1 million. At the time of sale, the shopping center was 78 percent occupied. Richard Longobardo of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller. The name of the buyer was not released.
NEW YORK CITY — Mission Capital Advisors has arranged $41.6 million in financing for the construction of Kingswood Plaza II, an office and retail development located at 1715 E. 13th St. in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. Jason Cohen, Ari Hirt, Steven Buchwald, Justin Hunt and David Behmoaras of Mission Capital arranged the loan with a foreign bank for the borrower, a joint venture between Infinity Real Estate and The Nightingale Group. The 106,000-square-foot development, which is 56 percent pre-leased to Target and Marshalls, will offer three floors of professional/medical office space in addition to its retail component.
YARDLEY, PA. — A fund advised by Inland Institutional Capital has acquired Lower Makefield Shopping Center in Yardley. The 74,953-square-foot grocery- and drugstore-anchored property sold for an undisclosed price. The name of the seller was not released. Giant grocery store and Rite Aid Pharmacy occupy the property.
TORRANCE, CALIF. — Dick’s Sporting Goods will open five new stores this month, including an outpost at the Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance. That store celebrated its grand opening between June 2 and 4. With the grand opening of these new stores, Dick’s will have 702 Dick’s locations in the country. Founded in 1948 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Dick’s also owns and operates Golf Galaxy and Field & Stream specialty stores, as well as Dick’s Team Sports HQ, a youth sports digital platform.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — New England Development is repositioning the Galleria shopping center in East Cambridge as CambridgeSide through a $30 million renovation and rebranding project, which is slated for completion in October. Situated on the original site of New England’s Lechmere department store, the shopping center will be the centerpiece of a 1.2 million-square-foot urban mixed-use development. Tenants at the rebranded retail property will include J.Crew, Club Monaco, A|X Armani Exchange, Abercrombie & Fitch, Banana Republic, Macy’s, H&M, Express, Forever 21, Sephora, The Cheesecake Factory and World of Beer.
CHADDS FORD, PA. — Talonvest Capital has arranged $24.1 million in construction financing for Metro Self Storage. The borrower plans to develop one self-storage facility in Chadds Ford and two in Naperville and Addison, Illinois. In total, the new developments will feature more than 236,000 rentable square feet. A Midwestern-based bank financed the Pennsylvania development, while an East Coast-based bank funded the two suburban Chicago properties. Kim Leslie, Tom Sherlock and Jim Davies of Talonvest negotiated and structured the loans for the borrower.