ELMHURST, ILL. — Adelphia Properties has arranged the sale of a 14,000-square-foot former restaurant building in Elmhurst, about 20 miles west of Chicago. Arena Sports Bar & Grille formerly occupied the property, located at 630 W. Lake St., for more than 35 years. Simeon Spirrison and George Spirrison of Adelphia represented the seller, the proprietor. A local investor purchased the asset for an undisclosed price.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Salon Service Group, a wholesale salon product distributor for licensed cosmetologists, has opened at Red Bridge Shopping Center in Kansas City. The tenant occupies nearly 2,000 square feet. Lane4 Property Group manages the center, which has welcomed 12 new tenants since its redevelopment in 2018. Salon Service Group operates 51 locations in 11 states, four of which are in metro Kansas City.
LAND O LAKES, FLA. — SRS Real Estate Partners’ National Net Lease Group has brokered the $2.3 million sale of a newly developed, single-tenant retail property in Land O Lakes. William Wamble and Patrick Nutt of SRS represented the seller, an entity doing business as RS Roach LLC. The buyer was a private investor based in Wyoming. Built in 2022 and situated on 1.1 acres, the 2,500-square-foot ground-lease property has a 15-year tenant lease in place with Wendy’s. Located at 7775 Land O Lakes Blvd., the freestanding property is directly across the street from Connerton, a mixed-use project situated on 1,800 acres that is currently under development.
HOUSTON — Kroger (NYSE: K) and Kitchen United MIX, a platform that coordinates food pickups and deliveries, have opened a 50,000-square-foot “kitchen center” at 1035 N. Shepherd Drive in The Heights neighborhood of Houston. Customers who place orders digitally for groceries or prepared meals can either pick their items at the center or have them delivered.
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.
