LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, OHIO — BMC Capital has arranged a $3.6 million acquisition loan for a property net leased to Walgreens in Liberty Township, approximately 30 miles north of Cincinnati. The 10-year, interest-only loan features a fixed rate of 5.23 percent and a 30-year amortization schedule. Jada Jordan of BMC Capital arranged the loan for the undisclosed borrower through a CMBS lender.
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia-based PREIT has sold three non-core malls in Alabama and Virginia for $66 million. The malls include Gadsden Mall in Gadsden, Ala.; Wiregrass Commons Mall in Dothan, Ala.; and New River Valley Mall in Christianburg, Va. All three malls are anchored Belk and JC Penney. As part of its disposition strategy, PREIT has sold 13 non-core malls since November 2012, as well as a few retail power centers and land parcels, for roughly $600 million in gross proceeds. Average gross rents for the 13 malls sold were $28.82 per square foot, nearly 50 percent lower than PREIT’s portfolio average of $54.56 per square foot, excluding non-core malls. Average non-anchor occupancy for the 13 malls at the time of sale was 82.1 percent, which compares to a portfolio average of 92.9 percent at the end of 2015, excluding non-core malls.
WELLINGTON, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $9.5 million sale of a 14,820-square-foot Walgreens located at 10420 Forest Hill Blvd. in Wellington, a suburb of West Palm Beach. The store is located at the entrance to The Mall at Wellington Green, a 1.3 million-square-foot regional mall anchored by Nordstrom, Dillard’s, JC Penney and Macy’s. The buyer, a limited liability company, purchased the Walgreens store at a sub 5 percent cap rate. Russell Malayery and Walter Chapman of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company, in the transaction. Benjamin Silver, Douglas Mandel and Richard Niewiadomski of Marcus & Millichap’s Fort Lauderdale office represented the buyer.
SAGINAW, TEXAS — Robert Dorazil of United Commercial Development (UCD) has purchased a 21-acre property on the southwest corner of Bailey Boswell Road and FM-156 in Saginaw. Edward Bogel and David Davidson Jr. of Davidson & Bogel Real Estate brokered the transaction. UCD will be developing retail shop space on the property and is working with DB2RE on the retail pad sites, as well as selling multifamily land on the south side of the property.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — Aztec Group has secured a $26 million construction loan for Phase II of Riverbend Marketplace, a 37-acre, Walmart-anchored development in Fort Lauderdale. The 189,000-square-foot Walmart Supercenter opened in January 2016 and sold earlier this month for $26.1 million. Phase II of Riverbend Marketplace will consist of 83,000 square feet of retail and restaurants and five outparcels. The borrower, an affiliate of Gatlin Development Co., broke ground on Phase II earlier this month. The new tenants joining Riverbend Marketplace include Planet Fitness, Chipotle, Lucky Me and T-Mobile. The new outparcel tenants will include Wawa, Krispy Kreme and McDonald’s.
CLAWSON, MICH. — Mid-America Real Estate Corp. has arranged the sale of Clawson Center, a 130,424-square-foot grocery-anchored shopping center located in the northern Detroit suburb of Clawson, for an undisclosed price. Tenants at the center include Aldi, Dollar Tree, O’Reilly Auto Parts, Rite Aid and Staples. The shopping center was 80 percent occupied at the time of sale. Ben Wineman and Daniel Stern of Mid-America represented the seller, Kimco Realty, in the transaction. Viking Partners was the buyer.
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIF. — Hanley Investment Group has arranged the $18.6 million sale of a newly redeveloped retail center located on the corner of Brookhurst Street and Adams Avenue in Huntington Beach. Tenants at the fully occupied, 24,000-square-foot center include PetSmart, U.S. Bank, Phenix Salon, Tenet Healthcare and Orangetheory Fitness. LBG Real Estate Cos. LLC sold the property to an Orange County-based private investor. Ed Hanley, Bill Asher and Eric Vu of Hanley Investment Group arranged the sale of the property in an off-market transaction.
DUBLIN, CALIF. — Ross Stores recently opened 22 Ross Dress for Less® and six dd’s DISCOUNTS stores across 15 states in February and March. 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. “These recent openings reflect our ongoing plans to continue building our presence in both existing and newer markets, including the Midwest for Ross, and expansion of dd’s DISCOUNTS,” says Jim Fassio, president and chief development officer. “Ross Dress for Less remains the largest off-price apparel and home fashion chain in the U.S with 1,295 locations in 34 states, the District of Columbia and Guam. We continue to identify plenty of domestic growth opportunities ahead for both Ross and dd’s DISCOUNTS, and believe that over the long term, Ross can grow to 2,000 total locations and dd’s DISCOUNTS can become a chain of 500 stores.” Ross Stores, Inc. is headquartered in Dublin, Calif.
MESA, ARIZ. — HFF has arranged $6.3 million in acquisition financing for Marketplace at Signal Butte, a 116,358-square-foot, grocery-anchored retail center located in Mesa. Basha’s anchors the center, which is home to tenants including Big 5 Sporting Goods, Denny’s, Dollar General, Golden China, Sunrise Daycare, US Nail Spa, Edward Jones, Papa John’s Pizza and H&R Block. Greg Brown of HFF worked on behalf of the borrower, Progression REI, to place the 10-year, fixed-rate loan with Wells Fargo Bank.
HUMBLE, TEXAS — T.J. Maxx has signed a new 22,000-square-foot lease for a store in Westlake Marketplace, a shopping center located at Beltway 8 and West Lake Houston Parkway in Humble. Culver Stedman of EDGE Realty Partners represented the tenant, and Carson Wilson of Fidelis Realty Partners represented the landlord.