DALLAS — Northwood Retail has signed leases with four new tenants at Hillside Village, the Dallas-based owner’s outdoor shopping and dining plaza in the city’s Lakewood neighborhood. Phoenix-based grocer Sprouts Farmers Market and spa and salon concept Alchemy 43 will open this fall. Sugared + Bronze, which offers hair removal and tanning services, will open this winter, and California-based veterinary clinic Modern Animal will follow in 2023.
BRANFORD, CONN. — Locally based brokerage firm O,R&L Commercial has negotiated the $18.9 million sale of Shoreline Plaza, a 77,037-square-foot retail center in the southern coastal Connecticut city of Branford. Tenants include Coastal Wine & Spirits, Staples, Shoreline Prime Meats & Deli and InShape Fitness. Frank Hird of O,R&L Commercial represented the seller, A&A Properties, in the transaction, and procured the buyer, an entity doing business as Executive Two Hundred LLC.
CHICAGO — Chicago-based JLL has entered into a strategic partnership with Memphis, Tenn.-based Poag Shopping Centers to acquire and redevelop mixed-use assets. Poag will provide development and redevelopment services for JLL-managed centers across the U.S., while JLL will provide management and operational services to Poag’s 10 open-air lifestyle centers. Poag will partner with JLL on its existing pipeline of redevelopment work and intends to grow this platform as more malls and open-air centers are revamped for today’s changing retail environment. Poag will also work with JLL to answer requests for proposals for large mixed-use developments that integrate retail with a variety of other uses.
SMYRNA, GA. — JLL Capital Markets has brokered the $18.5 million sale of Ivy Walk, a 42,499-square-foot neighborhood retail center located in the north Atlanta suburb of Smyrna. Brad Buchanan, Jim Hamilton and Andrew Kahn of JLL represented the seller, MRE Properties, in the transaction. The buyer was South Coast Commercial LLC. Ivy Walk was built in 2004 and was 91 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Muss & Turner’s, South City Kitchen, First Watch, Natural Body Spa and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
ANAHEIM, CALIF. — Faris Lee Investments has arranged the purchase of Anaheim Resort Centre, a retail investment opportunity located within the Disneyland Resort District in Anaheim. An Irvine-based family office acquired the asset from an undisclosed seller for $19.5 million. Located on the corner of Harbor Boulevard and Katella Avenue, Anaheim Resort Centre features 10,000 square feet of retail space that nine tenants fully occupy on a triple-net lease basis. Nick Miller and Shaun Riley of Faris Lee Investments represented the buyer in the transaction.
SUNNYVALE, CALIF. — Lee & Associates has brokered the sale of a retail building located at 1109 E. Arques Ave. in Sunnyvale. The asset traded for $4.8 million. Neil Cowperthwaite and Winston Street of Lee & Associates Oakland represented the undisclosed seller in the deal. Union Bank occupies the 5,600-square-foot freestanding building on a long-term, triple-net lease.
KISSIMMEE, FLA. — Lakeland, Fla.-based Publix Super Markets has purchased Osceola Village, a 121,445-square-foot shopping center located at 3040 Dyer Blvd. in Kissimmee, a suburb of Orlando. East Coast Acquisitions sold the Publix-anchored property for $36.1 million. Brad Peterson and Whitaker Leonhardt of JLL represented the seller in the transaction and procured the buyer. Built in 2008 and renovated in 2022, Osceola Village was fully leased at the time of sale to tenants including Metro Diner, Insight Credit Union, Orlando Health, DaVita Dialysis and Goodwill, which recently entered a new 15-year lease.
TAKOMA PARK, MD. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of Takoma Langley Crossroads, a 125,245-square-foot, grocery-anchored shopping center in Takoma Park, a city in suburban Maryland’s Montgomery County. Granite Canyon Partners purchased the grocery-anchored center for an undisclosed price. Cushman & Wakefield’s John Owendoff represented the unnamed seller in the transaction. The recently renovated shopping center was nearly fully leased at the time of sale to tenants including Aldi, Walgreens, Citibank, Taco Bell and 7-Eleven. Situated on nearly 10 acres at the intersection of University Boulevard and New Hampshire Avenue, Takoma Langley is located across the street from the Takoma Langley Transit Center, the largest non-Metrorail transfer point in the metro Washington, D.C., region and the future home of a Purple Line Metro stop.
SOMERSET, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the $12.9 million sale of Franklin Court, a 42,116-square-foot retail center located in the Northern New Jersey community of Somerset. Tenants at the property include Walgreens and KFC. Andrew Schwartz, Jordan Sobel, Seth Pollack and Andre Balthazard of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Adoni Property Group, and procured the buyer, LJL Realty Co., in the transaction.
LYNNWOOD, WASH. — Bellevue-based Sterling Realty Organization has completed the sale of Lynnwood Crossroads, grocery-anchored shopping center in Lynnwood. Orange County, Calif.-based Sakioka Farms acquired the asset for $45 million in an all-cash 1031 exchange transaction. Billy Sleeth and Paul Sleeth of Newmark represented the seller, while Pete Bethea, Glenn Rudy and Rob Ippolito of Newmark represented the buyer in the transaction. Sprouts Farmers Market, LA Fitness, Starbucks Coffee, Jersey Mike’s Subs, Five Guys, The Joint Chiropractic, Great Clips and Qdoba are tenants at the 103,141-square-foot retail space. At the time of sale, the property was 100 percent leased.
