DUBLIN, CALIF. — Ross Stores opened 24 Ross Dress for Less and seven dd’s DISCOUNTS stores across 15 different states in June and July. These new locations are part of the company’s 2016 expansion plans to add approximately 70 Ross and 20 dd’s DISCOUNTS locations throughout the year. Ross Stores, Inc. is headquartered in Dublin, Calif., with 1,317 locations in 34 states, the District of Columbia and Guam. The company also currently operates 185 dd’s DISCOUNTS in 15 states.
LOS ANGELES — ArcWest Partners, a joint venture between Arc Capital Partners and Belay Investment Group, has acquired Chapman Plaza, a historic retail center in Los Angeles’s Koreatown, for an undisclosed sum. Originally opened in 1929 and renovated in 1990, the property is anchored by Baekjeong and Quarters, two Korean-barbeque restaurants. Ben Wagner of CBRE worked with Thorofare Capital and DoubleLine Capital to arrange for bridge acquisition and renovation financing. Jay Chu and Ryan Yatman of Secured Properties advised the buyer and seller in an off-market basis. The names of the seller and buyer were not released.
TEMPE ARIZ. — Orion Investment Real Estate has arranged the $2 million sale of Red Devil Center, an 18,170-square-foot shopping center located near Arizona State University in Tempe. Fry’s Food Store shadow-anchors the property, which was 81 percent occupied at the time of sale by tenants including H&R Block, Red Devil Italian Restaurant and Trophy Den. Derek Buescher of Orion represented the seller, John A. Teberg Trust, in the sale of the property to Norte Land Holdings LLC.
LOS ANGELES — A property occupied by fashion house Bijan has traded hands on Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles. An undisclosed investor acquired the property, located at 420 N. Rodeo Drive, in an all-cash transaction. Bijan has operated at the property for more than 40 years, and is the longest standing privately owned designer house on Rodeo Drive. Marc Schillinger, Bryan Ley and Bill Fishel of HFF represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
LOS ANGELES — Dunkin’ Donuts has signed a development agreement with Precision Hospitality & Development to develop eight new restaurants in Los Angeles. The first restaurant is planned to open in 2018. This agreement closes out the company’s first wave of franchise commitments since announcing the state would be open for franchise sales in January 2013. In 2014, Precision Hospitality & Development signed a store development agreement to open 10 Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants in South Orange County and surrounding cities. The group already has two restaurant locations open in Laguna Hills and Irvine, with plans to open a multi-brand restaurant with sister-brand Baskin-Robbins this fall in Foothill Ranch.
LEAWOOD, KAN. — AMC Theatres (NYSE: AMC) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the largest theater exhibitor in Europe, London-based Odeon & UCI Cinemas Group, from private equity firm Terra Firma. The transaction is valued at approximately £921 million, or $1.2 billion. The transaction is comprised of roughly £500 million, or roughly $665 million, for the equity, 75 percent of which is in cash; and 25 percent of which is stock consideration. The deal also includes the assumption of £407 million, or roughly $542 million, worth of net debt. The transaction is contingent upon antitrust clearance by the European Commission and is subject to consultation with the European Works. With 242 theaters and 2,236 screens, Odeon & UCI is currently the number one theater operator in Europe. The combination of AMC and Odeon & UCI will result in AMC’s operation of 627 theaters and more than 7,600 screens in eight countries, making AMC the largest movie theater operator in the world. AMC is also currently in a process to acquire Carmike Cinemas (NASDAQ: CKEC). AMC will continue to be headquartered in Leawood, and Odeon & UCI will continue to be headquartered in London, and will operate as a …
NEW YORK CITY — Tishman Speyer, in partnership with Qatar Diar, is moving ahead with the construction of a 1.1 million-square-foot office and retail project in Long Island City. The project concludes Tishman Speyer’s purchase of 1.8 million square feet of development rights from New York City, which included a 700,000-square-foot office building that the company completed in 2011. Designed by MdeAS Architects, the new commercial project will comprise two 27-story towers connected by a four-story podium featuring a mix of retail, food hall, restaurant and parking garage space. Construction is slated to begin in early 2017, with completion scheduled for 2019. More than 800,000 square feet of the available office space in the development has been preleased, including 250,000 square feet to WeWork, a shared office space provider. Fried Frank acted as counsel to Tishman Speyer in the closing of the company’s $770 million transaction to develop the two towers. The transaction included the acquisition of the site from the New York City Economic Development Corp., an equity investment by Qatari Diar, construction financing and tax benefits from the New York City Industrial Development Agency. The Fried Frank team included Jonathan Mechanic, Tal Golomb, Michael Barker, Michael Werner, Janice Mac …
CAROL STREAM, ILL. — SVN | Chicago Commercial has brokered the $1.8 million sale of Elk Trail Center, a 16,299-square-foot shopping center located at 257-81 Elk Trail Road in Carol Stream, a village in DuPage County roughly 33 miles west of Chicago. Tim Franz of SVN | Chicago Commercial represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyer was an out-of-state entity. Elk Trail Center’s tenant roster includes Allstate Insurance, Maytag Laundromat, Papa Ray’s Pizza, Sul Realty, White Bridge Cleaners, Village View Barber Shop and the Carol Stream Food Mart.
BEAUMONT, TEXAS — UT Physicians has leased 12,000 square feet for a retail health center at Gateway Shopping Center in Beaumont. The property is located at the intersection of Stagg Drive and College Street. Nelson Spitz represented the landlord, Lombard Texas Holdings, and Mark Davis of Davis Commercial Real Estate represented UT Physicians. UT Physicians is the clinical practice of The University of Texas Medical School in Houston.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the sale of Forty Oaks Shopping Center, a 37,500-square-foot retail property located in Fort Worth. Blake Burnett and Chance Hales of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a limited liability company. Lisa Estrada, also of Marcus & Millichap, procured the buyer, an individual/personal trust. Forty Oaks Shopping Center is located at 5405-5425 E. Lancaster Ave., just off Grandview Drive. Built in 1958, the asset is situated on 3.5 acres near Loop 820 and I-30. Family Dollar anchors the shopping center, which was 100 percent leased at the time of sale.
