HOUSTON — Edens has added five new tenants at Uptown Park in Houston. Lombardi Cucina Italiana will open a 9,350-square-foot restaurant; Polestar, a Swedish electric car brand, will occupy 3,420 square feet; and GLOSSLAB, a membership-based nail salon, will occupy 972 square feet. Rocambolesc, an ice cream shop, opened at the retail center earlier this year, and fertility and reproductive health clinic kindbody also recently opened a 5,360-square-foot facility at Uptown Park.
PORT RICHEY, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $7.7 million sale of Harmony Plaza, an 82,820-square-foot shopping center located at 11932 U.S. Highway 19 in Port Richey. James Medefind, Jim Shiebler, James Garner and Jonathan Gerszberg of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a California-based private investor, in the transaction. A private investor purchased the property. Built in 1973 and located on a six-acre site, Harmony Plaza was 87 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Big Lots.
BRADENTON, FLA. — SRS Real Estate Partners’ National Net Lease Group has negotiated the $3.2 million ground-lease sale of a single-tenant retail property in Bradenton occupied by Fifth Third Bank. Built in 2007 and situated on about 1.1 acres, the 3,500-square-foot property is located at 6550 Cortez Road W. Patrick Nutt and William Wamble of SRS represented the seller, a California-based private investor, in the transaction. The buyer was Massachusetts-based Dorchester Avenue Holding LLC. Fifth Third Bank has more than 13 years remaining on its corporate-guaranteed lease, according to SRS.
NEW CITY, N.Y. — New Jersey-based development and investment firm KABR Group has acquired New City Shopping Center, a 125,110-square-foot property located north of New York City in Rockland County, for $30 million. KABR Group acquired the grocery-anchored center, which was 96 percent leased at the time of sale, in partnership with Long Island-based retail operator BTF. Jose Cruz, J.B. Bruno, Kevin O’Hearn, Michael Oliver, Steve Simonelli, Andrew Scandalios and Austin Pierce of JLL represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
GARDENA, CALIF. — Storm Properties has completed the disposition of Redondo Plaza, a grocery-anchored retail center located at 1550 W. Redondo Beach Blvd. in Gardena. A private 1031 exchange buyer acquired the asset for $15.1 million. Built in 2002 and renovated in 2018, Redondo Plaza features 28,000 square feet of retail space. Aldi anchors the property with 11.5 years remaining on its existing triple-net lease. At the time of sale, the property was fully occupied. Tenants include Domino’s Pizza, T-Mobile, Jackson Hewitt, Super Laundry and Crazy Rock’n Sushi. Gleb Lvovich, Daniel Tyner, Geoff Tranchina and Bryan Ley of JLL Retail Capital Markets Investment Sales and Advisory team represented the seller in the deal.
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. — Tropical Supermarket will open a 15,800-square-foot grocery store at Clinton Corners, a 30,331-square-foot neighborhood retail center located in the Northern New Jersey community of South Plainfield. The tenant will backfill a space previously occupied by grocer Bravo, maintaining the property’s 100 percent occupancy rate. Vanessa Fernandez-Kelty of Levin Management Corp. represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations.
STERLING HEIGHTS, MICH. — Millennial Collection, a trading card and gaming store, has signed a lease for 1,600 square feet at Brookside Shopping Center in Sterling Heights. The tenant will occupy space formerly home to an arcade. Michael Murphy and Tjader Gerdom of Gerdom Realty & Investment represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease.
PINELLAS PARK, FLA. — JLL has brokered the $85 million sale of Shoppes at Park Place, a 361,250-square-foot shopping center located at 7200 U.S. Highway 19 N in the Tampa Bay suburb of Pinellas Park. Brad Peterson, Tom Hall, Whitaker Leonhardt and Michael Brewster of JLL represented the unnamed seller in the transaction. CBRE represented the buyer, Belleair Development, which funded the acquisition with a $51 million loan. Built in 2006, Shoppes at Park Place was 97.4 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Regal Cinemas, Academy Sports + Outdoors, Conn’s HomePlus, Marshalls, Michaels, Petco, Five Below, Famous Footwear and Dollar Tree. The center features 10 outparcels housing tenants such as Chick-fil-A, Starbucks, Chase Bank, Panera Bread, Mattress Firm and Panda Express, among others. Belleair Development plans to add more retail space to the 42-acre site, as well as apartments and a hotel.
ALLEN, TEXAS — Chicken N Pickle, a Kansas City-based concept that combines dining with pickleball and other outdoor games, will open a restaurant and entertainment venue in the northeastern Dallas suburb of Allen. The tenant will launch at The Farm, a 135-acre mixed-use development by JaRyCo, in late 2023. Chicken N Pickle also has locations in the Dallas-Fort Worth metros of Grand Prairie and Grapevine, as well as San Antonio, and has committed to a new space in Webster, a southwestern suburb of Houston.
VERNON HILLS, ILL. – Dallas-based real estate firm Centennial has revealed plans to expand on its Hawthorn 2.0 redevelopment of Hawthorn Mall, a super-regional shopping center in Vernon Hills, a northern suburb of Chicago. Built in 1973, the mall currently houses over 120 retailers. Centennial first announced the redevelopment of Hawthorn Mall in 2019, which included new retail and dining options, luxury multifamily housing and indoor/outdoor gathering spaces. The expanded plans nearly triple the new development at the property and include 162 units of seniors housing, a 25,000-square-foot grocery store and 109,000 square feet of open-air retail. The center started its redevelopment with the 2020 unveiling of Center Park, a 15,190 square-foot outdoor space in the mall’s former Center Court. Center Park features both lawn games and soft furnishings. The expanded plan calls for the relocation of 250 apartments to create a larger outdoor public plaza to increase pedestrian access to the mall and a new main entrance for the shopping center. Hawthorn 2.0 will also create more retail, restaurant and entertainment space surrounding the exterior of the Hawthorn Row integrated streetscape. “The expansion of our Hawthorn 2.0 plans enhances the original vision we had for the center as a …