JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Margules Properties has acquired a retail building located at 2800 John F. Kennedy Blvd. in Jersey City. The 9,500-square-foot asset sold for $1.5 million. Situated in the Journal Square neighborhood, the two-story building was owned by The Empire Education Group and operated as a cosmetology school. Gardner Rivera, an independent real estate broker in New Jersey, represented the buyer and seller in the deal.
HOUSTON — Daiso California LLC has signed its first lease for retail space in the Houston area, where the company plans to open 12 stores in the next two years. Japan-based Daiso Industries Inc. designs and manufactures private-label products, offering more than 90,000 items ranging from $1.50 to $10 in its stores. Daiso has jump-started its push into Houston with a 10,998-square-foot lease in Mason Park Shopping Center at 501 S. Mason Road in Katy. Currently, five other leases are at various stages of negotiation. Heather Nguyen and John Nguyen of Houston-based NewQuest Properties are Daiso’s tenant representatives in Texas.
MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS — Malawi’s Pizza has leased 5,000 square feet of retail space at 8731 Highway 6 Center in Missouri City for its first Houston-area location. The center is located at Highway 6 and Sienna Parkway in Sienna Plantation, a master-planned development. Malawi’s Pizza plans to eventually open 22 restaurants in the greater Houston market. Doug Hermann, Edward Heap and Randy Hopper with The Weitzman Group handled negotiations as tenant representatives for the restaurant. The newly constructed center is shadow-anchored by H-E-B and serves the growing Sienna Plantation market. For each meal purchased at Malawi’s Pizza, the restaurant donates a meal to a child in Malawi, Africa.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Jab Beech Inc. and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which JAB Beech will acquire Krispy Kreme for $21 per share in cash, or a total equity value of approximately $1.35 billion. The agreement, which has been unanimously approved by Krispy Kreme’s board of directors, represents a premium of approximately 25 percent over the company’s closing stock price on May 6, 2016. Wells Fargo Securities LLC is serving as financial advisor to Krispy Kreme in connection with this transaction, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP are providing legal support and advice. Barclays and BDT & Co. LLC are serving as financial advisors to JAB Beech in connection with this transaction, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP is providing legal advice. At the close of the transaction, Krispy Kreme will be privately owned and will continue to be independently operated from its current headquarters in Winston-Salem. As of this writing there are over 1,100 Krispy Kreme shops in more than 26 countries around the world. Jab Beech Inc. is a subsidiary of JAB Holdings Co., which has controlling stakes in Keurig Green Mountain, …
DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA. — Weingarten Realty Investors has acquired Deerfield Mall, a 394,248-square-foot, Publix-anchored shopping center located in the South Florida community of Deerfield Beach, for $92.8 million. Daniel Finkle, Luis Castillo, Nat Scarmazzi and Scott Wadler of HFF represented the sellers, CP Deerfield LLC and Land Trust Agreement 1001-SOD, in the transaction. Completed in 1988 and renovated in 2001, Deerfield Mall comprises one main building totaling 366,301 square feet in an “L” configuration, two multi-tenant outparcel buildings totaling 25,427 square feet and two single-tenant outparcels occupied by Citibank and Chick-fil-A. The 84 percent occupied center is home to tenants including Sports Authority, T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, Youfit Health Club, Cinépolis, Dollar Tree, Five Below, Ulta Beauty, The Avenue, Panera Bread, First Watch and Taco Bell.
MORRISTOWN, TENN. — CBL & Associates Properties Inc. has announced that Dick’s Sporting Goods and Ulta Beauty will be joining College Square Mall in Morristown. The two new stores will be situated in the former J.C. Penney location. Construction on both stores is set to begin in early May with anticipated openings prior to the 2016 holiday season. Other tenants at College Square Mall include Belk, Kohl’s, American Girl, Carmike Cinemas, Longhorn Steakhouse and T.J. Maxx.
GLENDALE, ARIZ. — CBRE has arranged the $10 million sale of Shops at Arrowhead Gateway, a 35,684-square-foot shopping center located on an outparcel of Arrowhead Towne Center Mall in Glendale. Steve Julius and Jesse Goldsmith of CBRE negotiated the transaction on behalf of the buyer, NLT Properties LLC. Chad Tiedeman and Steve Underwood of Phoenix Commercial Advisors represented the seller, FPWL Bell and 75th LLC, in the transaction. The 95 percent-occupied property is home to tenants including Red Mountain Weight Loss, iRepair Plus, Salon Boutique and Merle Norman. The center is also home to a medical component, with tenants including IMS Urologist, IMS Allergist, Noah’s Ark Pediatrics and Desert Valley Dental.
PASADENA, CALIF. — BRC Advisors has brokered the lease of a retail property located at 59 Colorado in Pasadena. Situated within Indiana Colony, a new marketplace concept, the 846 square feet restaurant space is located within a 5,500-square-foot retail building. Surrounding tenants include CoolHaus, Pressed Juicery, Piehole and Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea. Lorena Tomb of BRC Advisors represented the tenant in the transaction. The names of the tenant and landlord were not released.
LOS ANGELES — JLL has hired Scott Kaplan as executive vice president and Erik Westedt as senior vice president to expand the firm’s Southern California retail practice. The pair brings a combined 35 years of experience in the leasing, development and sale of retail properties locally, regionally and nationally. Throughout their careers, the pair has completed transactions encompassing 25 million square feet of retail space valued at more than $5 billion. Prior to joining JLL, Kaplan served as a senior vice president at a global commercial real estate firm and Westedt served as a vice president at a global commercial real estate firm.
IRVINE, CALIF. — Commercial real estate values in the United States increased by 7 percent from April 2015 to April 2016, according to Ten-X, an online real estate marketplace. The company has released its latest Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Nowcast. The pricing index, which combines Google Trends data, Ten-X’s proprietary transaction data and investor surveys to forecast CRE pricing trends in real time, reveals that commercial valuations increased by 0.6 percent month-over-month in April and are back above their year-end 2015 level. The Ten-X CRE Nowcast (formerly the Auction.com CRE Nowcast) is a price index covering the entire U.S. commercial market, including individual price trends for the office, apartments, retail, industrial and hotel sectors. “Even though the April all-sector increase is significantly stronger than the prior month’s slight gain of 0.2 percent, this still is the slowest annual growth rate from pricing for the cycle,” says Ten-X chief economist Peter Muoio. “April’s uptick in growth was seen across all major CRE sectors except hotel, where that segment’s fundamentals, as well as its pricing, continue dwindling. Meanwhile, the multifamily sector displayed the strongest pricing trends with a 1.8 percent gain in April.” The Ten-X Hotel Nowcast dipped 1 percent from March …
