Retail

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MONROE TOWNSHIP, N.J. — CBRE Group has arranged $7.7 million in first mortgage refinancing secured by Monroe Town Center in Monroe Township. Located at the intersection of Applegarth and Prospect Plains roads, the 32,205-square-foot retail center is anchored by Wawa. James Gunning, Donna Falzarano and Evan Kleppe of CBRE’s Capital Markets Debt & Structured Finance team arranged the financing for the borrower, Monroe Center Associates LLC. The financing is a CMBS loan with a 10-year term from UBS Real Estate Securities Inc.

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NEW YORK CITY — EagleBridge Capital has arranged $6 million in permanent mortgage financing for a retail building located at 7821 Third Ave. in Brooklyn. Rite Aid Pharmacy and Tutor Time occupy the 19,200-square-foot property. Brian Sheehan and Ted Sidel of EagleBridge secured the financing provided by a leading financial institution.

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MOD

HOUSTON — Transwestern has represented MOD Pizza in five leases totaling 13,662 square feet for new locations in the Houston area. Grant Walker and Chris Reyes of Transwestern served as advisors for MOD Pizza in the Houston market, and represented the retailer in the transactions. MOD will be operating over 100 stores across the U.S. by the end of 2015, with plans to open more than 30 additional locations in Houston within the next four to five years. MOD Pizza’s newest Houston locations include 3,175 square feet at 19820 Southwest Freeway in Sugar Land, 2,797 square feet at 5777 San Felipe St. in Houston, 2,744 square feet at 2682 Pearland Parkway in Pearland, 2,446 square feet at 10123 Louetta Road in Houston and 2,500 square feet at 14555 Memorial Drive in Houston.

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The Shoppes at Bel Air Mobile

MOBILE, ALA. — New York-based Rouse Properties Inc. has unveiled plans for a redevelopment of Bel Air Mall, a 1.3 million-square-foot regional mall in Mobile. Once complete, the renovated property will be known as The Shoppes at Bel Air. Renovations will include the redevelopment of the enclosed mall space into a streetscape with retail and high-volume restaurant concepts fronting on Airport Boulevard, as well as an interior cosmetic revamp, improved lighting, interior landscaping, soft seating and high-end finishes and amenities. Rouse recently inked a lease with Belk Inc. to open a new 237,000-square-foot flagship store, which will take the place of an existing Sears location. Construction on the new store is slated to begin in January 2016 with completion slated for that fall. Other tenants to join The Shoppes at Bel Air include a P.F. Chang’s and Grimaldi’s Pizza, which will open 6,000-square-foot and 3,500-square-foot locations, respectively, on the newly designed streetscape.

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FLOWER MOUND, TEXAS — InvenTrust Properties Corp. has acquired The Highlands of Flower Mound a 169,447-square-foot shopping center located in Flower Mound, for $45.8 million. Highlands of Flower Mound is 96 percent occupied, with 60 percent of its roster comprising original tenants. The center is shadow anchored by a Super Target and is leased to Bed Bath and Beyond, Cost Plus World Market, Stein Mart, Pier 1, Famous Footwear and Party City. InvenTrust became a self-managed REIT in 2014. The company owns 108 multi-tenant retail properties, comprising 15.5 million square feet of retail space in 24 states.

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HOUSTON — Boxer Property is expanding Boxer Workstyle to Houston’s Galleria area as property renovations begin at Cotter Voss Tower at 2323 S. Voss Road, a six-story office building spanning 78,522 square feet. Interior and exterior renovations will be done to the Galleria-area office property to establish streamlined finishes and new amenities to the property. The first floor will be renovated to include Boxer Workstyle collaborative suites, which provide small businesses access to a variety of shared amenities including guest Wi-Fi access, a coffee bar, open lounge space and conference rooms. Boxer Workstyle is configured to meet the needs of small businesses that enjoy meeting in a collaborative environment with the privacy of their own small office. The new Workstyle space is approximately 11,000 square feet and brings Boxer Workstyle to 15 Houston area locations and more than 500,000 total square feet of Workstyle-designed space.

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Walgreens-Smithtown-NY

SMITHTOWN, N.Y. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a Walgreens property located at 10 W. Main St. in Smithtown. Situated on the North Shore of Long Island, the property sold for $10.4 million, or $714 per square foot. Constructed in 2006, the 14,560-square-foot building sits on two acres. Simon Jonna and Raymond Jonna of Marcus & Millichap’s Detroit office represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction. J.D. Parker of Marcus & Millichap’s Manhattan office is the broker of record for the deal. The names of the seller and buyer were not released.

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NEW YORK CITY — Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates has arranged a 50,000-square-foot lease at Liberty View Plaza in Brooklyn for Koppers Specialty Chocolate Co. The company is relocating from a 30,000-square-foot space in Greenwich Village to the space at 850 Third Ave. in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood. As part of the deal, Empire State Development, New York State’s economic development agency, will provide Koppers with up to $556,000 in performance-based Excelsior Jobs Program Tax Credits, as the company agreed to create at least 27 new full-time jobs over the next five years and keep the position through at least 2025. Neil Dolgin and Jeffrey Unger of Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates, along with Howard Kesseler and Jordan Gosin of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, represented the landlord, Salmar Properties, in the transaction.

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