AUSTIN, TEXAS — Foot Locker, an athletic footwear and apparel retailer, has leased 4,135 square feet of retail space in Capital Plaza, an Austin retail center located at the northeast corner of IH-35 and Cameron Road. Matt Epple and Casey Kopecky of The Weitzman Group were the retail leasing agents for Capital Plaza. Cencor Realty Services manages Capital Plaza.
BLAINE, MINN. — Transwestern’s Chicago office has brokered the sale of a 221,239-square-foot shopping center in Blaine. The Village of Blaine Shopping Center is located at 4345 – 4349 Pheasant Ridge Road. Pine Tree Commercial Realty LLC paid an undisclosed amount for the property. A Cub Foods grocery store anchors the shopping center. Other tenants in the 13-year-old center include Michaels, Applebee’s, Pier 1 Imports, DressBarn, Sprint, Maurices, Caribou Coffee, Bath & Body Works, GNC and Great Clips. Janice Sellis and Paul Barile of Transwestern represented the seller, MEPT, and its real estate advisor, Bentall Kennedy. Pine Tree Commercial Realty was represented internally in the transaction.
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, ILL. — L3 Corp. has arranged the lease of a 28,000-square-foot retail space in Fairview Heights. Fresh Thyme Markets will occupy space within the Fairview Heights City Centre located at 6569 N. Illinois St. Fresh Thyme Markets leased the space from Fairview Heights 881 Fee LLC. L3 Corp. represented the tenant in the transaction.
CHICAGO — @properties Commercial has arranged two retail leases at Westport Commons Shopping Center in Chicago’s Ashburn neighborhood. Westport Commons Shopping Center is located at 3302 W. 87th St. Greg Stein of Bialow Real Estate represented fashion retailer VILLA in a 10-year lease for 5,000 square feet of space. Todd Cabanban of Cabanban Rubin and Mayberry Commercial Realty represented Simply Fashions in a five-year lease for 3,500 square feet. The 180,000-square-foot shopping center is 96 percent leased. Mike Rourke of @properties Commercial represented Westport Associates LP in the two retail leases.
MIAMI — RKF has brokered three property sales in Miami’s Design District and Wynwood neighborhoods totaling $86.8 million. Brooklyn-based RedSky Capital purchased the three properties from three separate sellers. Ben Mandell, Drew Schaul and John Ellis of RKF represented RedSky in all three transactions. The assets included a two-story, 19,436-square-foot retail property located at the corner of North Miami Avenue and N.E. 40th Street in the Design District. RedSky purchased the asset from Hardor Corp. for $29.3 million. Hardor Corp. was represented internally in the transaction. The other Design District property was a three-story, 17,391-square-foot retail asset at 35 N.E. 40th St. that RedSky purchased from a limited liability company known as 35 NE 40th Street LLC for $28 million. Oak Tavern, a 140-seat bar and restaurant, currently occupies the space. Fran Clougherty of Douglas Elliman represented the seller in the transaction. Lastly, RedSky purchased Wynwood Block, an enclosed shopping center occupying a full city block at 2621 N.W. 2nd Ave. in Wynwood, for $29.5 million. Gaston Miculitzki of Brightway Properties represented the seller, Wynwood 2621 LLC, in the transaction.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Crossman & Co. has signed Supercuts to a 1,300-square-foot lease at Cornerstone at Lake Hart, a 78,241-square-foot Publix-anchored shopping center located at the corner of Narcoossee and Moss Park roads in Orlando. The lease brings the center to full occupancy. The hair salon will join a tenant roster that features UPS, GNC, 7-Eleven, Giovanni’s Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria and Orlando Cleaners. Tyler Wilkins of Crossman & Co. co-brokered the lease transaction with Joanna Robinson of The Shopping Center Group.
NEW YORK CITY — The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has approved RFR’s plans to reposition and redevelop 281 Park Avenue South in New York City. Formerly known as Church Mission House, the six-story, 45,000-square-foot building will undergo a renovation to modify the storefronts and create retail space on the second floor and a dedicated entry for a single office tenant. Redesigned by MdeAS Architects, the building will feature 6,700 rentable-square-foot office floor plates, marble mosaic flooring, stained glass windows, wood wainscoting, plaster ornamentation and a copper and terracotta roof. RFR is a fully integrated real estate investment firm based in New York City with a core focus on select urban markets in the United States and Germany.
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Integra Real Estate Capital has arranged a $14 million acquisition loan for a shopping center in South Brunswick. A grocery store and Bank of America occupy the 77,500-square-foot South Brunswick Shopping Center. The New Jersey-based borrower received a non-recourse loan of 82.5 percent loan-to-value that features three years of interest-only payments. Meyer Perlman of Integra negotiated the financing through a national balance sheet lender.
SAN DIEGO – Poway Valley Center, a 25,754-square-foot retail shopping center in the San Diego submarket of Poway, has sold to Capstone Advisors for $6.2 million. The center is located at the corner of Poway and Community roads. Capstone plans to make capital improvements to the storefronts, landscaping and parking lot, among other things. John Jennings and Rob Ippolito of Cushman and Wakefield represented both Capstone and the unnamed seller in this transaction.
TUCSON, ARIZ. – Shops at Desert Springs, a 20,485-square-foot neighborhood retail center in Tucson, has sold to Bastion Investments for $5.3 million. The center is located at 7250 N. La Cholla Blvd. It is shadowed anchored by Albertsons. Other notable tenants include Christie’s Appliance, Edward Jones, L’Amour Nails, Great Clips, H&R Block, Casey’s Hallmark, Edmund Marquez Insurance, Papa Murphey’s Pizza and the Arizona National Guard. The seller was La Cholla Retail II LLC. The transaction was executed by CBRE’s Pete Villaescusa, Mike Sandahl, Jesse Peron, Wyatt Campbell, Phil Voorhees and Brad Rable.
