AUSTIN, TEXAS — CBRE has brokered the sale of 8312 Burnet Road, a fully occupied, 12,500-square-foot retail center in Austin’s Burnet Road corridor. A local investor purchased the asset for an undisclosed price. Michael Bullard of CBRE’s Austin office represented the buyer. Tim Jarvis and Bill Ott of BBD Commercial represented the unnamed seller. The asset’s 13 tenants include Austin Fashion Exchange, Metro PCS, Liberty Tax and ASC Sports Cards.
LUBBOCK, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Rockridge Plaza, an 86,534-square-foot grocery-anchored shopping center in Lubbock. Michael Buckner and Richard Mireles of the firm’s Austin office represented the seller. Rockridge Plaza is located at 5217 82nd St. with visibility from the intersection of 82nd Street and Slide Road. Tenants include Caprock Cafe, Einstein Bros. Bagels, H&R Block, Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores, Scottrade, Sprint and Tuxedo Junction. The grocery anchor was not a part of the sale.
SWEETWATER, TEXAS — Taylor Consulting Inc. (TAYO) has signed a contract to sell a real estate parcel in West Texas. It’s the sixth sale in the region that the company has completed since May. Last year, TAYO’s real estate division, Third Avenue Development, added 47 residential and commercial lots to its portfolio in the town of Sweetwater, where development has been spurred by a new railroad logistics center and other projects. Third Avenue Development is working to build a portfolio of real estate assets for investment, rehabilitation and resale.
WATERTOWN, MASS. — Savills Studley National Retail Services Group has brokered the sale of a single-tenant retail property in Watertown. Boston-based Eastern Real Estate sold the 126,480-square-foot property to an affiliate of Inland Real Estate Acquisitions Inc. for an undisclosed price. Located at 615 Arsenal St., the property is occupied by The Home Depot, which has 17 years remaining on its triple-net lease. Kyle Miller and Bill Bauman represented the seller in the transaction.
CLAREMONT, CALIF. — NAI Capital has arranged the sale of a 22,750-square-foot Sprouts Farmers Market located in Claremont. The property sold for over $12 million. Fariba Kavian of NAI Capital represented the seller, HCLARE LLC, in the sale of the property to Acquisition Group Inc. The single-story building is situated on 1.91 acres of land and was renovated in 2007.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. — U.S. Property Trust has purchased the Lakewood Galleria, a 19,008-square-foot shopping center in Lakewood, for an undisclosed sum. The center is located at 5115 Candlewood Road across from the Lakewood Galleria Mall. Tenants at the center include Fantastic Sam’s, Corner Bakery Café, Cold Stone Creamery, Rubio’s Grill and Pick Up Stix, among others. HFF brokered the transaction.
LOS ANGELES — Stevenson Real Estate Services has arranged the sale of a retail center located at 5581 Huntington Drive North in Los Angeles. 11305 West Moorpark LLC acquired the property for $4.1 million from Sandale LLC. Situated on a 28,807-square-foot land parcel, the property offers 9,689 square feet of retail space. Built in 2008, the property is 100 percent occupied by tenants including Antigua Bread Bakery & Café, Jackie’s Closet, Subway, Rite-Optics, Prodigy Hair Salon, Burrito Place, Boost Mobile and Tips 2 Toes. Randy Stevenson, Stephen Baker and Kris Hons of Stevenson Real Estate Services represented the seller, while Andrew Awaida of RE/MAX Optima represented the buyer in the transaction.
COLUMBUS, GA. — Colliers International has brokered the $30 million sale of The Landings, a 277,000-square-foot lifestyle and community shopping center located along Airport Thruway in Columbus, a city in west Georgia near the Alabama/Georgia border. The Landings’ tenant roster includes Kinnucan’s, Outback, Baskin Robbins, I Love Juice Bar, Plato’s Closet, Chicken Salad Chick, McDonald’s, Baldwin Interiors, Taco Bell, Office Depot, Petland, Subway and Fuddrucker’s. Joe Montgomery, Tony D’Ambrosio, Hank Hall and Trevor Ritter of Colliers International’s Atlanta office represented the seller, a subsidiary of the Woodruff Cos., which will continue to provide property management and leasing services for The Landings on-site.
Detroit is in a state of transition. It’s a process that has been simmering for some time, but really began in earnest about five years ago. This article discusses some of the property types, developments and neighborhoods that continue to reshape downtown Detroit and offers some insight into what the city might look like in five to 10 years. Fueled by a strengthening economy, there is an air of excitement in the Motor City, and the development climate is increasingly vibrant. The nexus of development and redevelopment activity is occurring in the same places — Downtown, Midtown, New Center — that were at the core of the city’s renaissance a century ago. In some respects, today’s Detroit is reinventing itself in the same way. Residential leads the way The foundation of Detroit’s development resurgence is residential growth. People are continuing to move to Detroit to work and to live — a trend that has accelerated dramatically in the last few years with downtown apartment buildings reporting upwards of 98 percent occupancy. It’s a phenomenon that shows no real sign of slowing down. It’s also an important and natural first phase. With residential comes the corresponding demand for dining, retail and …
CLEVELAND, OHIO — Friedman Integrated Real Estate Solutions will auction off a 41,780-square-foot retail center in Cleveland on Aug. 31-Sept. 2 on behalf of an undisclosed seller. Constructed in 1993, Brooklyn Centre is located at W. 25th St. and sits on a three-acre site. The property is 57 percent occupied. The center is comprised of three buildings, the largest of which is 29,780 square feet. The two smaller buildings are each 6,000 square feet. One building is divided for multi-tenant use and the other is configured for a single tenant. Tenants of the property include Rent-A-Center, CVS Pharmacy, America Cash Express and Cricket. Bidding for the Brooklyn Centre will start at $600,000, according to auction.com. Barry Swatsenberg and Rich Deptula of Friedman Integrated Real Estate Solutions are representing the seller. The auction will take place online at auction.com
