TUCSON, ARIZ. — Capital Forsight has purchased a 15,413-square-foot building in Tucson that is triple-net leased to Walgreens for $9.7 million. The building is located at 7111 East Golf Links Road. It is an outparcel to the 99 Cent Only-anchored Desert Square Shopping Center. Walgreens is corporate-guaranteed and has 23 years remaining on its 25-year initial term. CAPRE Real Estate Investments represented Capital Forsight. Nick Coo, Matt Mousavi and Patrick Luther of Faris Lee Investments represented the seller, Sierra Industrial.
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CITY OF INDUSTRY, CALIF. — Lee & Associates has arranged the sale of Puente Hills East, a 195,063-square-foot shopping center located in City of Industry, for $36.7 million. The Target-anchored center was 100 percent occupied at the time of sale by tenants including Ross Dress for Less, PetSmart, Old Navy, Ulta Beauty, Wells Fargo and Macaroni Grill. Ryan Swanson and Kurt Bruggeman of Lee & Associates represented the buyer, a private investor, and Dixie Walker, Charley Simpson and Andrew Milne of DTZ represented the seller, The James Campbell Company, in the transaction.
CALABASAS, CALIF. — Calabasas-based Marcus & Millichap has named nine senior vice presidents of investments and one executive vice president of investments. Alvin Mansour was named executive vice president. Senior vice president promotions include Eduardo Cerna, a multifamily specialist in Palo Alto, California; Jerry Goldstein, a retail specialist in Houston, Texas; Douglas Mandel, an office and industrial specialist in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Richard Ringer, a multifamily specialist in Los Angeles; Steven Siegel, an institutional retail and net-lease specialist in New York City; Mark Taylor, an institutional retail and net-lease specialist in Philadelphia; Dean Zang, an institutional and retail net-lease specialist in Washington, D.C.; Christopher Zorbas, an institutional and multifamily specialist in San Diego; and Alex Zylberglait, an office and industrial specialist in Miami.
SUGAR LAND, TEXAS — A report from SmartAsset, a personal finance technology company, ranks Fort Bend County, a county in the Houston metropolitan area, as No. 1 in Texas and No. 5 in the United States as the area with the most incoming investments. The data, aggregated from various sources including the U.S. Census Bureau, showed that the county ranked highly in several further categories including gross domestic product (GDP) growth, new building permits and municipal bonds. The county ranked No. 10 in Texas with a GDP growth of over $3.5 million from 2013 to 2014. Fort Bend also ranked No. 1 in Texas and No. 2 in the United States for the highest number of new building permits granted per 1,000 homes. From 2013 to 2014, the county had a municipal bonds index of 2.13, earning the No. 8 spot in Texas. These bonds have been used to enhance quality of life such as mobility, water and safety, and are responses to the high growth in employment and residential opportunities available in the county.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of two contiguous mixed-use properties at 1703-1705 Second Ave. on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The two five-story buildings sold for $22.2 million, or $1,498 per square foot, in an all-cash transaction. Previously home to Elaine’s restaurant, the properties, which total 15,350 square feet, feature one store unit and 16 market-rate residential units. The apartment units, which recently underwent renovation, feature stainless steel appliances, new hardwood floors, washers/dryers, new windows and new electric service. Thomas Gammino Jr. of Cushman & Wakefield handled the transaction. The names of the seller and buyer were not released.
Boulder Group Arranges $1.4M Sale of Property Net Leased to Macaroni Grill near Indianapolis
by Jeff Shaw
CARMEL, IND. — The Boulder Group has brokered the sale of a 55,757-square-foot, single-tenant property formerly occupied by Macaroni Grill in Carmel, a northern suburb of Indianapolis, for $1.4 million. The Macaroni Grill closed within the last year as part of a larger company-wide closure of numerous locations. There are approximately two years remaining on the Macaroni Grill lease, which expires in April 2017. The property is located at the corner of the Keystone Parkway and E. 116th St. interchange, which experiences traffic counts in excess of 62,000 vehicles per day. Keystone Parkway is the primary north-south thoroughfare in the area connecting Carmel to Indianapolis. There is more than 360,000 square feet of retail space located across the street from the property that features Marsh Supermarket, Petco, World Market, PNC Bank, O’Reilly Auto Parts, and many others. There are approximately 60,000 people living within a three-mile radius of the property earning average annual household incomes in excess of $101,000. Randy Blankstein and Jimmy Goodman of Northbrook, Ill.-based The Boulder Group represented the seller, a Midwest-based commercial real estate development and investment firm, in the transaction. The purchaser was a high-net-worth individual from the West Coast.
The Shopping Center Group Brokers $9.9M Sale of Two Shopping Centers in the Carolinas
by John Nelson
ROCK HILL, S.C. AND HIGH POINT, N.C. — The Shopping Center Group has arranged the sale of two grocery-anchored neighborhood centers in the Carolinas — Belleview Square in Rock Hill and Fairfield Square in High Point. The 77,800-square-foot Belleview Square sold for $5.8 million. The shopping center is anchored by Super BI-LO and was 90 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Cricket Wireless, Papa John’s, HomeSmart Lease-To-Own and Albright’s Liquor Store. The 71,000-square-foot Fairfield Square sold for $4.1 million. The shopping center is anchored by Food Lion and was 100 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Radio Shack, Family Dollar and Donut World. An affiliate of New York-based Juster Development sold both assets to an affiliate of Richmond, Va.-based Hackney Real Estate Partners. Anthony Blanco, Lenard Williams, Darrell Palasciano and Mallory Ham of The Shopping Center Group marketed both properties.
GLENDALE, ARIZ. — Lee & Associates has arranged the sale of Glendale Market Square, a 221,388-square-foot shopping center, for $24.6 million. The center is located at 5850 W. Bell Road. The buyer was CIRE. Ian Fincham and Patrick Dempsey of Lee & Associates worked on behalf of both the buyer and seller.
AURORA, COLO. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the $20.1 million sale of City Center Marketplace, a 234,255-square-foot shopping center located in the Denver suburb of Aurora. The center is home to tenants including 24 Hour Fitness, Office Depot, Sherwin Williams, DaVita and Family Dollar. Jon Hendrickson and Aaron Johnson of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, a Colorado-based private partnership, in the transaction.
SAN DIEGO — A comingled fund managed by New York-based Clarion Partners has acquired a 294,428-square-foot portfolio from the McGrath Family located in San Diego. The 29.1-acre portfolio consists of six single-tenant leased retail properties and one retail strip center. At the time of sale, the portfolio was 100 percent occupied by tenants including Walmart, LA Fitness, McDonald’s, Food 4 Less, Starbucks Coffee, Verizon and Chipotle. Randy LaChance and Mark Caston of Voit Real Estate Services represented the seller, and Clarion was self-represented in the transaction.