LEAGUE CITY, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Centre At South Shore Harbour, a 28,150-square-foot retail property located in League City. Matthew Mignerey and Derek Hargrove of Marcus & Millichap’s Houston office marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a limited liability company. Mignerey and Hargrove also secured and represented the buyer, a private investor. Centre At South Shore Harbour is located at 2800 Marina Bay Drive.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Fresh Market has signed a lease for a new location in the Dilworth Gardens Shopping Center in Charlotte. The specialty grocer’s new store will be located at East Boulevard and Scott Avenue. Once opened, the new store will be the Greensboro, N.C.-based company’s 21st store in North Carolina and its sixth in the metro Charlotte area. The grocer currently operates 168 stores in 27 states.
Throughout the economic recovery, real estate has been investors’ preferred asset class in the Cincinnati region and across the United States. Although the Federal Reserve is likely to raise short-term interest rates in June or September, demand for commercial real estate is expected to remain strong as long as the recovering economy continues to create new demand for commercial space. According to Real Capital Analytics, 2014 finally saw total U.S. sales volume and property prices (at the aggregate level) reach pre-recession levels. In fact, Real Capital Analytics reports that excluding portfolio sales, activity was higher in 2014 than in 2007. Investment Sales Surge Metro Cincinnati’s property and portfolio sales in 2014 totaled more than $2.3 billion across all major real estate sectors, a 53 percent increase over 2013. It was, by far, the strongest year for investment activity in recent memory, with significant increases across all property types. For the second straight year, retail sales transactions led the way locally among all property types. Retail sales volume in 2014 exceeded $600 million, $370 million of which occurred in the fourth quarter. Office property and portfolio sales in Cincinnati totaled nearly $580 million in 2014. This figure was a 162 percent …
LAS VEGAS – M&M World Las Vegas has completed a $4.7-million renovation. The 31,056-square-foot building is located at Showcase Mall on the Las Vegas Strip. DC Building Group remodeled all four floors of the attraction. M&M World features a new NASCAR display with a full-size NASCAR race car replica and a new M&M Color Wall with a colored candy tube ceiling. Construction commenced in late 2012. FITCH served as the architect. The building is owned by MARS.
SUGAR LAND AND SPRING, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of two properties in metro Houston. In the first transaction, the firm arranged the sale of The Crossing at Telfair Commons, a shopping center in Sugar Land. Justin Miller and Derek Hargrove marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a local developer. Miller and Hargrove also secured the buyer, a limited liability company. The Crossing at Telfair Commons is located at 520 Highway 6. It is shadow-anchored by an HEB grocery store and adjacent to Chuy’s Mexican Food and Whataburger. In the second transaction, Marcus & Millichap arranged the sale of Ace Hardware, a 15,500-square-foot, net-leased property located in Spring. Jerry Goldstein and Kelley Workman of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a limited liability company. Goldstein secured and represented the buyer, a partnership. Ace Hardware is located at 9001 Spring Cypress.
HOUSTON — The San Diego and Houston offices of Colliers International have arranged the sale of a 10,125-square-foot, single-tenant retail property located at 959 Bay Area Blvd. in Houston for $4.7 million. A CVS that has 11 years reaming on its 22-year lease occupies the property. Jon Busse and Charles Herder of Colliers International represented the seller, Burlingame Gulf LLC. David Wells of Wells Net Lease Group and JRW Realty represented the buyer, Exchange Right Real Estate LLC. The buyer is a tenant in common entity that specializes in the acquisition of single tenant, net-leased properties.
LIBERTYVILLE, ILL. — Quantum Real Estate Advisors has brokered the $2.2 million sale of a multitenant retail building located at 200-218 S. Milwaukee Ave. in Libertyville. Shepard Square is fully leased to tenants Randstad, @Properties, Pizza Italia, Bite 9, Village Cleaners and Lovely Nails. A Lake Bluff, Ill.-based real estate investor purchased the property. A Chicago-based private real estate investor purchased the property. Chad Firsel of Quantum Real Estate Advisors was the sole broker in the transaction.
FOREST LAKE, MINN. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $1.3 million sale of TNC Mini Storage, a 40,000-square-foot, 203-unit self-storage facility located in Forest Lake. TNC Mini Storage is a two-property self-storage facility separated into two parcels that are located less than one-half mile from each other. The facility was 96 percent occupied at the time of sale. Adam Haydon and Adam Schlosser of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, and the buyer, another private investor.
COLUMBUS, GA. — Charleston, S.C.-based Ziff Properties has purchased St. Francis Marketplace, a 62,535-square-foot shopping center located in Columbus, for $6.6 million. The property was 98 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Starbucks Coffee, Planet Fitness, Rent a Center, Peluso’s and The Yogurt Shoppe. The asset, which was constructed in 1971 and renovated in 1994, is located directly across from St. Francis Hospital. Ziff Properties acquired the property from Woodruff Real Estate. Craig Taylor of CBRE’s Atlanta office represented Ziff in the transaction.
PFLUGERVILLE, TEXAS — The Net Leased Investment Group for Coldwell Banker Commercial has arranged the sale of Pflugerville West Shopping Center in Pflugerville. The 67,149-square-foot shopping center was 89 percent leased at the time of the sale. Parker Carroll of Coldwell Banker Commercial represented the seller, Retail Pflugerville Partners, in the transaction. The buyer was not named.
