MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Accurate Builders & Developers has broken ground on Morris Marketplace, a 140,000-square-foot retail redevelopment project located on the 64-acre former Colgate-Palmolive corporate campus in Northern New Jersey. Accurate Builders is co-developing the project with New Jersey-based DeVimy Equities Inc. Morris Marketplace will feature children’s play areas, pocket parks, splash pads and seating areas, as well as outdoor dining and recreational spaces. Committed tenants include German discount grocer Lidl, Starbucks, AT&T, Orangetheory Fitness and Restore Wellness & Cryotherapy. Construction is expected to be complete in the fourth quarter of 2022, at which point the space will be turned over to the retail providers to build out.
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ELK RIVER, MINN. — Northwoods Management has acquired Elk Park, a 205,009-square-foot shopping center in Elk River, about 34 miles northwest of Minneapolis. The purchase price was undisclosed. Grocer Cub Foods is the anchor tenant. The property, which is located at 19216 Freeport Ave., is also home to Planet Fitness, Famous Footwear and Maurice’s. CBRE represented the seller, Brixmor Property Group.
LANSING, MICH. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the sale of a 14,559-square-foot retail property net leased to Walgreens in Lansing for $6.2 million. Walgreens has over nine years remaining on its lease at the property, which is located at 6421 W. Saginaw Highway. James Ziegler, Keith Zelenika and Mitchell Kiven of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a Chicago-based private investor. A New York-based private investor completing a 1031 tax-deferred exchange was the buyer.
SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. — Shopoff Realty Investments and Praelium Commercial Real Estate, in partnership with an affiliate of Dune Real Estate Partners, has acquired the former Nordstrom property at the Paseo Nuevo mixed-use shopping center in downtown Santa Barbara. Terms of the transaction were not released. The three-story, 175,000-square-foot retail property is connected to the north end of the Paseo Nuevo mixed-use shopping center, which offers more than 450,000 square feet of open-air mixed-use space. Originally constructed in 1924, the property underwent a wholesale redevelopment between 1989 and 1994 into its current form and more recently underwent a $20 million renovation to enhance the outdoor lifestyle shopping experience.
HENDERSON, NEV. AND SALT LAKE CITY — Colliers International Las Vegas has arranged two separate land parcel sales totaling $6.6 million in Henderson and Salt Lake City. In the first deal, EOE Volunteer LLC sold an 0.84-acre land parcel at 3495 Volunteer Blvd. in Henderson. AutoZone Development LLC acquired the asset for $1.2 million. Steven Haynes of Colliers represented the seller in the transaction. In the second deal, an undisclosed buyer acquired a 0.48-acre land parcel at 3215 E. 3300 South in Salt Lake City for $5.4 million. The name of the seller was not released. Chris Clifford, Steve Neiger and Brett Rather of Colliers represented the buyer in the transaction.
LAS VEGAS — IYK Realty has purchased a retail property in Las Vegas for $26.2 million. Situated within Sahara Pavilion South at 2520-2650 S. Decatur Blvd., the asset features 158,394 square feet of retail space. Current tenants include Chase, Chipotle, Einstein Bros. Bagels and Starbucks Coffee. Additionally, the new, 48,000-square-foot anchor tenant will be a supermarket. Al Twainy and Jennifer Lehr of Colliers represented the buyer in the deal. The name of the seller was not released.
TRABUCO CANYON, CALIF. — Faris Lee Investments has arranged the sale of a freestanding retail building located in Trabuco Canyon. Southern California-based ValueRock Realty acquired the property from an undisclosed seller for $4.2 million. CVS/pharmacy occupies the property, located at 21572 Plano Trabuco Road, on a triple-net lease basis. Rich Chichester and Don MacLellan of Faris Lee, in partnership with John Cumbelich of Cumbelich & Associates, represented the seller and buyer in transaction.
CINCINNATI AND UNION, N.J. — Cincinnati-based The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) and Union, N.J.-based Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) have unveiled plans for a collaboration to directly offer Kroger customers the home and baby products carried by Bed Bath & Beyond. The products will be available on Kroger’s website as well as a small-scale, physical store pilot program at select Kroger stores beginning in 2022. The products will include bedding, storage, baby furniture and baby gear from both Bed Bath & Beyond and buybuy Baby.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Cleeman Realty Group, an investment advisory firm with offices in New York City and Miami, has negotiated the sale of Airport Plaza, a 97,000-square-foot shopping center in Syracuse. The sales price was $4.2 million. Airport Plaza was fully leased at the time of sale. Sam Seelenfreund of Cleeman Realty represented the undisclosed buyer and seller in the off-market transaction.
SRS Real Estate Partners Negotiates $8.2M Sale of Raising Cane’s-Occupied Property in San Bernardino
by Amy Works
SAN BERNARDINO, CALIF. — SRS Real Estate Partners has arranged the sale of a restaurant building located at 1857 S. Tippecanoe Ave. in San Bernardino. An affiliate of Red Mountain Group sold the property to a San Diego-based high-net-worth investor for $8.2 million. Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers occupies the 4,086-square-foot property, which was built in 2017 on 1.2 acres and has more than 11 years remaining on its absolute triple-net lease. Matthew Mousavi and Patrick Luther of SRS’s National Net Lease Group represented the seller, while Jim Casale of Lee & Associates represented the buyer in the deal. According to SRS Real Estate, the transaction is the highest price point for a Raising Cane’s property sold to date on a national basis.