Retail

FENTON, ILL. — Mid-America Real Estate Corp. has arranged the $15 million sale of Fenton Commons, an 82,242-square-foot shopping center located in the St. Louis suburb of Fenton. Best Buy, Old Navy and Barnes & Noble anchor the center, which also features Chili’s and Bank of America outlots. Ben Wineman of Mid-America and Scott Seyfried of Pace Properties worked on behalf of the seller, a private St. Louis-based partnership. A group represented by Greenwood Village, Colo.-based GDA Real Estate acquired the property.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

CINCINNATI — Cincinnati-based Phillips Edison Grocery Center REIT II Inc. and TPG Real Estate have formed a partnership to acquire value-add, grocery-anchored shopping centers throughout the United States. The partnership will invest up to $250 million of equity and plans to leverage this capital to achieve a $750 million acquisition target. The partnership plans to acquire six grocery-anchored shopping centers and will focus on growing the platform through additional acquisitions located in fundamentally strong markets that present attractive return potential through operational and capital improvements.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail
Ambassador Town Center Lafayette

LAFAYETTE, LA. — Stirling Properties and CBL & Associates Properties Inc. have opened Ambassador Town Center in Lafayette. The co-developers hosted a formal ribbon cutting ceremony attended by Lafayette City-Parish president Joel Robideaux, former City-Parish president Joey Durel, LEDA president and CEO Gregg Gothreaux and other Lafayette area community leaders. Ambassador Town Center is a roughly 60-acre retail project anchored by Costco Wholesale and Dick’s Sporting Goods/Field & Stream. Situated at Ambassador Caffery Parkway and Kaliste Saloom Road, the 430,000-square-foot property is 97 percent leased to tenants such as Avalon Salon & Spa, BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse, Blaze Pizza, Chuy’s Mexican Restaurant, Costco Gasoline, Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, Five Below, Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers, Marshalls/HomeGoods, Nordstrom Rack, Off Broadway Shoes, Panda Express, Panera Bread, PetSmart, Phone Zone, Professor Bob Beans, Red Robin, Subway, Tao Japanese Cuisine, World of Beer and Verizon Wireless. Ambassador Town Center is expected to generate roughly 1,700 permanent jobs and nearly $9 million annually in estimated sales tax collection.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail
Signal Hill Shopping Center Manassas

MANASSAS, VA. — The JCR Cos. has acquired Signal Hill Shopping Center, a 105,781-square-foot, grocery-anchored shopping center in Manassas, for $22.6 million. JCR Cos. purchased the property from Regency Centers in an off-market transaction. Sandy Spring Bank provided acquisition financing. Signal Hill’s tenant roster includes Shoppers Food Warehouse, GameStop, Glory Days Grill, Panera Bread, and Chick-fil-A. JCR Cos. has sold the Chick-fil-A pad to an undisclosed buyer for $2.3 million in another off-market transaction. Signal Hill is the seventh shopping center acquisition for JCR Cos. since 2012 and its 20th transaction since the firm was founded in 2009.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail
Marcelo Claure David Beckham Miami Beckham United

MIAMI — Miami Beckham United (MBU), an investment group led by international soccer star and celebrity David Beckham, has purchased two parcels of land in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood for a new soccer stadium. In December 2015, Major League Soccer (MLS) approved the location of the $300 million project, which is expected to have about 30,000 seats and 7,000 parking spaces, according to the South Florida Business Journal. The new stadium will be the home of an MLS expansion team in Miami. In addition to Beckham, MBU is headed by Marcelo Claure, CEO of Sprint, producer Simon Fuller and sports executive Tim Leiweke. The partners have said the project will be privately funded. “We have the right site, the right ownership group, and a loyal base of fans counting down the days until our first match,” said Claure in a prepared statement. “We’re all-in on Overtown, and we couldn’t be more excited about moving forward with plans to deliver the most responsible stadium in Miami history.” MBU purchased the two sites, which total 6.2 acres, at 650 N.W. 8th St. The stadium site is situated midway between Miami Beach and Miami International Airport, within walking distance of downtown Miami and two blocks …

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

OAKLEY, CALIF. — Hanley Investment Group has arranged the sale of a single-tenant property in Oakley currently triple-net leased to O’Reilly Auto Parts. An investor from Northern California acquired the asset to complete 1031 exchanges. The 8,037-square-foot store is located at 100 E. Cypress Road. Jeremy McChesney of Hanley Investment Group represented the seller. Dan Diehl of Keller Williams Realty represented the buyer in this transaction.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

LAS VEGAS — IKEA, a home furnishings retailer, has completed the solar installation atop its Las Vegas store, which will open on May 18, 2016. The project is the largest single-use retail rooftop solar array in Nevada, according to the company. The store’s 240,504-square-foot solar array comprises a 1.14 megawatt system, built with 3,620 panels, and will produce approximately 1.8 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually for the store — the equivalent of reducing 1,207 tons of carbon dioxide, the company claims. For the development, design and installation of IKEA Las Vegas’ solar power system, IKEA selected Helix Electric, an electrical contractor specializing in design-build electrical projects in the U.S. R&O Construction is managing the site work and building of the actual store.  

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

ORLANDO, FLA. — First Capital Property Group Inc. has arranged the $17 million sale of The Village at Hunter’s Creek, a 52,537-square-foot shopping center located at 13526 Village Park Drive in Orlando. The center’s tenant roster includes Massage Envy, Edward Jones, Liberty Mutual, Firehouse Subs and Coldstone. Jean-Paul Beaulieu of First Capital represented the buyer, Village HC LLC, in the transaction. Sean Glickman of Colliers International represented the seller, GB BM2 LLC.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail
Huntsville-Crossing

HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS — Metropolitan Capital Advisors has arranged the sale and acquisition financing for Huntsville Crossing Shopping Center, a 23,760-square-foot retail center located in Huntsville. The property is located in front of a new power center anchored by Target, Kroger, Academy Sports + Outdoors, PetCo, Ross and Marshalls. In November 2014, Metropolitan Capital Advisors arranged the construction debt and equity to build the project on behalf of a partnership between Dallas-based Brand Capital Partners and Loon Partners. The property was 100 percent pre-leased to Spec’s, Mattress One, Chipotle and Buffalo Wild Wings prior to breaking ground. The project was completed in October 2015 with the last tenant taking occupancy in February 2016. Metropolitan Capital Advisors and Marcus & Millichap co-brokered the sale of the property to a California-based buyer utilizing a 1031 tax-deferred exchange. Metropolitan Capital Advisors also arranged the acquisition financing for the buyer with Longview-based Texas Bank & Trust.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail
162-Bouton-St-Norwalk-CT

NORWALK, CONN. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Affordable Self Storage, a self-storage facility located at 162 Bouton St. in Norwalk. The 77,760 net-rentable-square-foot facility sold for $19 million, or $242 per square foot. Situated on 3.9 acres and built in 1989, the property features 879 units, 477 of which are climate controlled. The units range in size from 25 square feet to 500 square feet, and on-site amenities include drive-up access to ground-level units, individual door alarms, complete fire protection and easy-to-use lifts. Brett Hatcher, Joseph Holloway and J.D. Parker of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, Paul Hertz and John Hertz, and procured the undisclosed buyer in the transaction.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail