YARDLEY, PA. — Regional grocer Wegmans has opened an 88,000-square-foot store in Yardley, about 30 miles northeast of Philadelphia. The site is located within the Prickett Preserve mixed-use development, and the store offers a selection of approximately 1,200 wines and 500 beers and ciders. The store, which will employ about 400 people on full- and part-time bases, is Wegmans’ second in Bucks County.
ORLAND PARK, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $2.1 million sale of a 14,000-square-foot retail building anchored by AutoZone in the Chicago suburb of Orland Park. AutoZone occupies about 60 percent of the property, which is located at 9310 W. 159th St. adjacent to a Jewel-Osco grocery store. Mitchell Kiven of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, and the buyer, a local investor based in suburban Cook County.
HOUSTON — Fast-casual concept Salad and Go has inked three new leases in metro Houston. The drive-thru-only company will open restaurants at a 44,431-square-foot property in Magnolia and a 30,000-square-foot property in Cypress, as well as in The Woodlands. Salad and Go has also signed a lease to open an eatery in the Central Texas city of Bryan. Jason Baker, Traci Holman, Lunden McGill and John Frazier of Baker Katz represented the Arizona-based tenant in all lease negotiations. Danny Miller of Gulf Coast Commercial Group represented the landlord in the Magnolia and Cypress deals. Jacob Weersing of Capital Retail represented the landlord in The Woodlands transaction. Salad and Go now has more than 100 locations across four states, including about 60 in Texas.
Matthews Arranges Sale of 143,716 SF Martintown Plaza Retail Center in North Augusta, South Carolina
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. — Matthews Real Estate Investment Services has arranged the sale of Martintown Plaza, a 143,716-square-foot retail center located at 1115 Knox Ave. in North Augusta. Belk, Planet Fitness and Goodwill anchor the property, which was built in 1975 and renovated in 2012. Kyle Stonis, Pierce Mayson, Jeff Enck and Boris Shilkrot of Matthews represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyer and sales price were also not disclosed.
HARRISBURG, PA. — New Jersey-based brokerage firm The Kislak Co. Inc. has negotiated the $4.6 million sale of Uptown Plaza, a 156,066-square-foot shopping center in Harrisburg. The center was built on 14 acres in 1957 and includes two pad sites, one of which is occupied by McDonald’s. Robert Holland of Kislak represented the seller, Town Associates LP, in the transaction. Barry Waisbrod, also with Kislak, procured the buyer, America’s Realty LLC.
SEATTLE — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a gas station in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. Shell occupies the property, located at 6759 15th Ave. NW, on a net-leased basis. A partnership sold the asset for $3.2 million. The buyer, a local experienced fuel-station owner, will continue to operate the 1,950-square-foot property as a Shell station. Hank Wolfer of Marcus & Millichap’s Seattle office represented the seller in the deal.
By Katie Lester of Colliers Nashville’s economy experienced some of the healthiest growth in the nation in 2023, with a job growth rate of 3.7 percent, putting it among the top five of the largest 50 metros. Forecasted by Oxford Economics, overall jobs are projected to grow 1.2 percent in 2024 and by 0.8 percent per year in 2025 through 2028, outpacing the U.S. average of 0.5 percent. Nashville also received high marks from the Urban Land Institute, ranking the “No. 1 Market to Watch” in its 2024 Emerging Trends in Real Estate report. This is the third consecutive year that Nashville has earned the top spot in this ranking, a true nod to the confidence and strength of Nashville’s commercial real estate market. The report credits Nashville and other “Supernova” cities as having above-average levels of economic diversity and high-wage jobs that attract investors’ appeal and confidence in sustaining high growth in the coming years. These fundamentals have been a boon to the retail market and have helped attract new-to-market retail brands to Middle Tennessee. Most notably, after a multi-city, multi-state search over the course of two years, In-N-Out Burger picked Middle Tennessee to locate its Eastern Operations Hub, …
CEDAR HILL, TEXAS — Spatch Kitchen & Cocktails, a contemporary American concept, will open a 7,500-square-foot restaurant in Cedar Hill, a southern suburb of Dallas. The space is located within Hillside Village, an open-air retail center that is also home to tenants such as Dick’s Sporting Goods, Barnes & Noble, Old Navy, H&M, F21 Red and Victoria’s Secret. Gretchen Miller, Emilie Paulson and Bryn Carden of Weitzman represented the landlord, PREP Property Group, in the lease negotiations. Morrow Hill represented the tenant, which plans to open this summer.
OAK FOREST, ILL. — Mid-America Real Estate Corp. has brokered the sale of Oak Forest Commons, a 115,754-square-foot shopping center in the Chicago suburb of Oak Forest. The sales price was undisclosed. The value-add property presents the opportunity for ownership to lease up grocer space formerly occupied by Food 4 Less. Rick Drogosz, Ben Wineman and Joe Girardi of Mid-America represented the seller, IRC Retail Centers/DRA Advisors. The asset sold to First Tek. The property was managed by Pine Tree.
WHITEWATER, WIS. — Cost Cutters Hair Salon has signed a 1,670-square-foot lease to open at Whitewater Plaza shopping center in Whitewater, a city in southern Wisconsin. The property is located at 1139 W. Main St. Conor Farrell and Matthew Beadle of Founders 3 Real Estate Services represented the landlord, an entity doing business as PNL Whitewater LLC.