BURLINGTON, MASS. — Burlington-based KeyPoint Partners has added 16 Boston retail properties to its property management portfolio. The properties, which are owned by Linear Retail, total more than 104,000 square feet and include four Newbury Street locations. KeyPoint currently manages 38 properties throughout New England for Linear Retail, ranging from small suburban properties to grocery-anchored shopping centers. With the new assignments, KeyPoint will manage 54 properties for Linear Retail totaling nearly 1.3 million square feet.
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WESTLAND, MICH. — Bernard Financial Group has arranged a $2.8 million loan to refinance the Bayview Market Place Center, a 21,024-square-foot shopping center in Westland, located approximately 20 miles west of Detroit. The complex consists of two buildings situated on nearly one acre. Dave Dismondy of Bernard Financial Group arranged the loan for the borrower, Westland Associates Partners LLC, with a CMBS lender.
LUBBOCK, TEXAS — CBRE has brokered the sale of Northpark Village in Lubbock. Cincinnati, Ohio-based Phillips Edison & Co. bought the grocery-anchored center for an undisclosed price. Lubbock-based United Supermarkets anchors the 70,479-square-foot Northpark Village at the intersection of 4th Street and Slide Road. Texas Tech University is two miles from the center. The complex is 96.8 percent occupied. Other tenants include Starbucks and GNC. Chris Cozby, Chris Gerard and Kevin Holland with CBRE represented the unnamed seller in an off-market sale.
WORCESTER, MASS. — CBRE/New England’s Capital Markets team has brokered the sale of Price Chopper Supermarket located at 50 Cambridge St. in Worcester. H&R REIT sold the 69,000-square-foot property to The Federated Companies for $16 million. Built in 2003, the Worcester Price Chopper serves as the flagship store in Worcester, one of Price Chopper’s primary markets. Price Chopper operates 10 stores in the Greater Worcester market and has more than 130 locations throughout the Northeast. Nat Heald, Chris Angelone, Bill Moylan and Bruce Lusa of CBRE/New England represented the seller and buyer in the transaction.
LOS ANGELES – Cotti Foods has received a $39.4-million loan to acquire 39 Wendy’s Restaurants throughout Los Angeles and Hawaii. Some of the funds will also be used to remodel existing units, as well as to develop new units. The acquisition includes 32 restaurants in the Greater Los Angeles market and seven in Hawaii. The restaurants were sold by Wendy’s International Inc. So far, the company has disposed of 418 Wendy’s restaurants across 13 U.S. markets. Most of these dispositions occurred out West. The loan was provided by GE Capital’s Franchise Finance business.
HOUSTON — Progressive Real Estate Partners has brokered the sale of a 24,000-square-foot former PetSmart building for $5 million. The freestanding building is located at 10500 Katy Freeway in Houston. Built in 1992, the 1.8-acre property is shadow-anchored by Home Depot, Hobby Lobby and Sam’s Club. The site is near Interstate 10 and Beltway 8 in Houston’s Memorial City District.
ATLANTA — Westbridge Partners has acquired the retail component of a new mixed-use building located at 691 14th St. in Atlanta’s West Midtown neighborhood. Completed in 2014, the property features 197 apartment residences and 10,980 square feet of retail space. Patterson Real Estate Advisory Group arranged acquisition financing through Hamilton State Bank on behalf of Westbridge. Westbridge purchased the retail portion from Greystar and has executed leases with Cooks and Soldiers (4,625 square feet), Kane Boutique (1,192 square feet) and an unnamed national coffee/tea company (1,700 square feet).
NEW SMYRNA BEACH AND TALLAHASSEE, FLA. — HFF has arranged the $23 million sale of two Publix-anchored shopping centers in Florida. The properties include the 118,451-square-foot New Smyrna Beach Regional in New Smyrna Beach and the 71,526-square-foot Forest Village in Tallahassee. Publix Super Markets Inc. purchased New Smyrna Beach Regional (90 percent leased) for $16 million and Forest Village (79 percent leased) for $7 million. Brad Peterson and Whitaker Leonhardt of HFF represented the seller, Equity One Inc., in the transaction.
MORRIS PLAINS, N.J. — A joint venture between Baltimore-based MCB Real Estate and ARC Property Trust has acquired a freestanding retail building in Morris Plains, which is approximately 30 miles east of New York City. The 32,450-square-foot asset was purchased for $2.6 million and is currently leased to ACME Supermarkets. Lawrence Anderson of Anderson Realty Services represented the seller in the transaction.
HOUSTON — NorthMarq Capital’s Houston office secured acquisition financing for Lakewood Town Square, a 32,000-square-foot retail property in northwest Houston. The bridge loan was secured with a 10-year term fully amortizing and was arranged for the borrower, a local private buyer, through NorthMarq’s relationship with, Symetra, a life insurance company. The interest rate was 4 percent. Warren Hitchcock, vice president of NorthMarq’s Houston office, secured acquisition financing in the transaction.