SILVER SPRING, MD. — GBT Realty Corp. has added DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse to Ellsworth Place, a 350,000-square-foot retail and entertainment center in Silver Spring, a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C. The Brentwood, Tenn.-based developer and owner acquired Ellsworth Place in 2018. The discount shoe retailer signed the lease last month with plans to renovate the former Guitar Center storefront. Construction on the property is currently underway with DSW expected to open in March. Located on level four of Ellsworth Place, DSW will be in a 17,500-square-foot store. The tenant’s new location is convenient to Town Center Garage via the pedestrian bridge. DSW joins tenants at Ellsworth Place including Burlington, Ross Dress for Less, Marshalls, Michaels, T.J. Maxx and Dave & Buster’s.
LOS GATOS, CALIF. — Levin Johnston of Marcus & Millichap and Taycon Real Estate have arranged the sale of El Gato Village Shopping Center, a retail property situated on 3.4 acres in Los Gatos. A family trust sold the asset to a privately held real estate investment and development company for $36 million. Adam Levin of Levin Johnston and Marko Buljan of Taycon Real Estate represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal. Located at 15710 Los Gatos Blvd., the center features 58,519 square feet of retail space. At the time of sale, the property was 97 percent occupied. Current tenants include Nob Hill Foods, Chase Bank, Los Gatos Café Uptown, Una Mas Mexican Grill, PostalAnnex and Baskin-Robbins.
SPRING VALLEY, NEV. — Alston Construction, as general contractor, has unveiled plans for a 298,389-square-foot industrial facility located at W. Sunset Road and Raphael Riviera Way in Spring Valley, for Ashley Furniture Industries. The project will include tilt-up construction, full-site improvements, paving, concrete and landscaping. The warehouse will offer a retail showroom component and a distribution center. Construction is slated to begin in June 2022, with completion scheduled for July 2023. Hodgdon Group will serve as developer and Robert Jacob will serve as architect.
WEBSTER, TEXAS — Locally based investment firm Gulf Coast Commercial Group has purchased Baybrook Passage Shopping Center, a 189,334-square-foot retail property located in the southeastern Houston suburb of Webster. Built on 20.5 acres in 2003, the property was roughly 80 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Best Buy, Staples, Memorial Hermann Urgent Care, DXL Casual Male, Mia’s Table and Torchy’s Tacos. CBRE represented the seller, Passage Realty Inc., in the transaction. The new ownership plans to implement a value-add program at Baybrook Passage.
FLOWER MOUND, TEXAS — Weitzman has arranged the sale of Arbor Crossing, a 19,260-square-foot shopping center in Flower Mound, a northern suburb of Fort Worth. The property was fully leased at the time of sale to tenants such as The UPS Store, Verizon Wireless, Nekter Juice Bar and Fuzzy’s Taco Shop. Michelle Caplan and Matthew Rosenfeld of Weitzman, along with Scott Remphrey of Brytar Cos., which developed the property, represented the seller in the transaction. Rob Holuba, Patrick Camporini, Victoria Taylor Madrid and Justin Okumus with CenterSquare Investment Management, which acquired the asset on behalf of a public pension fund client, represented the buyer on an internal basis.
ST. JOHNS, FLA. — CBRE has brokered the $19.2 million sale of Shoppes at Beachwalk, a newly built, Publix-anchored shopping center located on County Road 210 in St. Johns, a suburb of Jacksonville. The developer, Pebb Enterprises, delivered the 58,887-square-foot shopping center last year. Publix Super Markets purchased Shoppes at Beachwalk, which was fully occupied at the time of sale. Casey Rosen and Dennis Carson of CBRE’s National Retail Partners team represented the seller in the transaction.
BLOOMINGDALE, ILL. — Burlington has signed a lease to open a 27,726-square-foot store at Stratford Crossing in Bloomingdale, a western suburb of Chicago. Burlington will be the ninth anchor tenant to join the 385,000-square-foot shopping center, which is home to T.J. Maxx, HomeGoods, Mariano’s, PetSmart, Hobby Lobby and Planet Fitness. Joe Parrott, Sean McCourt and Riley McCarron of CBRE represented ownership, an affiliate of Newmark Merrill Cos. Burlington is scheduled to open later this year.
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIF. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged the sale of Goldenwest & Bolsa, a retail center located at 15031 Goldenwest St. in Huntington Beach. A private equity fund sold the property to a local private investor for $23.5 million. Constructed in 1974 on six acres, Goldenwest & Bolsa features 63,269 square feet of retail space. At the time of sale, the property was 95.4 percent leased to a mix of daily needs and internet-resistant tenants. Gleb Lvovich, Geoff Tranchina and Daniel Tyner of JLL Retail Capital Markets represented the seller in the transaction.
CEDAR PARK, TEXAS — California-based brokerage firm Matthews Real Estate Investment Services has negotiated the sale of a 21,061-square-foot retail strip center located at 1201 N. Lakeline Blvd. in the northern Austin suburb of Cedar Park. DeWitt Goss and Jeff Miller of Matthews represented the seller, Saadeh Properties, in the transaction. The buyer was Legacy Properties. The center was 94 percent leased at the time of sale.
HUNTSVILLE, ALA. — PBR x Lockhart Smokehouse is opening this year at Bridge Street Town Center, a mixed-use development in Huntsville. The dining concept is a partnership between the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) Cowboy Bar, Lockhart Smokehouse and Live! Concepts. Bayer Properties is the developer for the Bridge Street Town Center. PBR Cowboy Bar’s Country-Western experience will be joined with Lockhart Smokehouse’s Texas barbecue in the dining concept. The location at Bridge Street Town Center will be Lockhart Smokehouse’s first location outside of Texas. PBR x Lockhart Smokehouse will take up 8,121 square feet of space. Bridge Street Town Centre features over 50 tenants including Apple, Athleta, H&M and Sephora. The development recently added The Cheesecake Factory and soon will open Main Event. The property is also home to more than 207,000 square feet of Class A office space that is fully leased, as well as a 232-room Westin hotel, 150-room Element by Westin hotel, 244-unit Seleno apartment complex and a 131-room Hyatt Place Hotel.