FORT COLLINS, COLO. — US Property Trust has acquired Mulberry & Lemay Crossing, an 18,988-square-foot shopping center located in Fort Collins, for an undisclosed price. Walmart and The Home Depot shadow anchor the center. Tenants at the property, located at 1281 E. Magnolia St., include RadioShack, Supercuts, Silver Mine Subs, The UPS Store, Qdoba, Dairy Queen, GameStop, Papa John’s, State Farm and Chase Bank.
SANTA CLARITA, CALIF. — Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors (HIG) has arranged the sale of Bouquet Center, a 148,903-square-foot, grocery-anchored shopping center located in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita. The price was not disclosed. Ed Hanley and Kevin Fryman of HIG represented the seller, a Los Angeles-based private investor, in the sale of the property to an undisclosed, publically traded REIT. Built in 1985, the center underwent a $7 million renovation in 2007. Tenants at the 95 percent occupied property include Vons, CVS/pharmacy, Ross Dress for Less, Chase, Citibank, Wendy’s, Baskin Robbins, Jersey Mike’s Sub, Little Caesars Pizza and Payless ShoeSource.
SAN DIEGO — Excel Trust has hired Luke Petherbridge president and CEO. Petherbridge currently serves as the CFO and treasurer of DDR Corp., a power center REIT with 352 value-oriented shopping centers. At DDR Corp., Petherbridge has overseen the execution of $5 billion worth of real estate transactions, raised over $9 billion of long-term capital and supported various strategic initiatives. A fund managed by Blackstone Real Estate acquired Excel Trust in 2015. Through additional acquisitions, the San Diego-based company’s leased and managed portfolio will have more than doubled to include over 80 retail assets covering 19 million square feet. The portfolio consists of high-quality, open-air shopping centers with concentrations in California, Texas, New York and Florida.
ROSENBERG, TEXAS — NewQuest Properties has finalized a 38,835-square-foot lease with 24 Hour Fitness Worldwide Inc. at the 550-acre Brazos Town Center in the Houston suburb of Fort Bend County. Site work is underway on a tract fronting FM 762 and adjacent to Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods. The California-based fitness center pioneer is planning to open a sport club, one of four concepts in its portfolio, by year’s end. McLeod-Cobb and Bob Conwell of NewQuest Properties represented the landlord, while their colleague Jeff Hayes negotiated on behalf of 24 Hour Fitness. The project’s new tenant has more than 400 clubs nationwide and nearly 4 million members. The 99 percent leased Brazos Town Center is located at the junction of Southwest Freeway (I-69) and FM 762.
LEWISVILLE, TEXAS — Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods, a shopping experience founded and operated by the same Houston family since 1962, has leased 25,908 square feet of retail space in Lakepointe Crossing, a power retail center located at 2416 S. Stemmons Freeway in Lewisville. Blake Shipp of The Weitzman Group handled negotiations as the leasing agent for Lakepointe Crossing. Jody Detmore of SFP Brokerage LLC represented Spec’s. Cencor Realty Services’ property manager, Susana Gandara, manages Lakepointe Crossing.
HUMBLE, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of The Learning Experience, a 10,500-square-foot net leased property in Humble. Taylor Booker and Nate Newman of Marcus & Millichap’s The Woodlands office marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a limited liability company. Keith Lloyd and Christopher Jones of the firm’s Houston office secured and represented the buyer, a partnership. The Learning Experience is located at 7743 N. Sam Houston Parkway East.
BAL HARBOUR, FLA. — Whitman Family Development has submitted updated plans for a $400 million expansion of Bal Harbour Shops, an upscale, 450,000-square-foot, open-air shopping center located in Bal Harbour Village near Miami Beach. Expansion plans include the addition of the first Barneys New York flagship store in the Southeastern U.S., as well as significant upgrades to longtime anchor tenants Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue. The expansion will also include the addition of new luxury boutiques and restaurants, expanded vehicle entryways and exits with improved traffic signals, and wider sidewalks with increased landscaping and tree canopy around the shops on 96th Street and Collins Avenue. The new plans are the result of a Bal Harbour Village Council meeting on April 13 during which all council members expressed support for the expansion, but deadlocked 2-2 on the sale of the current Village Hall site that was central to the proposal. The revised plan reduces the proposed footprint by approximately 19 percent, according to reports by the Miami Herald, and will be built entirely on land already owned by Whitman Family Development. “The updated plan meets all of our goals, albeit in a different configuration,” says Matthew Whitman Lazenby, president and CEO of …
CONEJO VALLEY, CALIF. — Oak Park Properties LLC has acquired Oak Park Plaza, a lifestyle center located at 702-706 Lindero Canyon Road in Conejo Valley. Oak Park Assets LLC sold the property for $11.9 million. Tenants at the 29,950-square-foot retail property include Subway, On the Thirty, Stevenson Fitness and Margarita’s Mexican Restaurant. Jeff McGuire and Slavic Zlatkin of Lee & Associates – LA North/Ventura represented the seller, while Zlaktin also represented the buyer in the off-market transaction.
SOLANA BEACH, CALIF. — Hanley Investment Group has brokered the sale of Gateway @ Cedros, a coastal retail center located in Solana Beach. A Canada-based real estate investment fund acquired the multi-tenant retail building from an Encinitas, Calif.-based private investment company for $6.7 million, or $837 per square foot. Located at 100-116 S. Cedros Ave. and 121-129 Lomas Santa Fe Drive, the 8,035-square-foot property fully occupied and anchored by Peet’s Coffee. Eric Wohl of Hanley Investment represented the seller and buyer in the transaction.
LAKE OSWEGO, ORE. — 365 by Whole Foods Market will open its second location West Coast location in Lake Oswego, Ore., on July 14. The second store will host two new Friends of 365 partners that both originate from Portland, Ore.: Next Level Burger, a plant-based take on hamburgers, and Canteen, a café and juice bar. Both ‘friends’ will establish shops within the store. The store will also offer online ordering and delivery. Whole Foods hopes to open 10 stores under the 365 brand in 2017.
