BARRINGTON, ILL. — Avalon Equities has purchased Barrington Station, a 5,780-square-foot retail building in Barrington, a northwest suburb of Chicago. The purchase price was undisclosed. Tenants at the property include Starbucks, Verizon, Briddick Tile & Stone and Skinovatio Medical Spa. CBRE represented the seller, GK Development.
TUCSON, ARIZ. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of a multi-tenant retail building situated within Santa Cruz Plaza at 3782 S. 16th Ave. in Tucson. Carlsbad, Calif.-based Blue Hat LLC acquired the asset from Los Angeles-based Santa Cruz Center LLC for $2.5 million. The 7,200-square-foot building is an outparcel to Santa Cruz Plaza, a 271,600-square-foot shopping center anchored by Fry’s Grocery. At the time of sale, the property was fully leased to four tenants: Subway, Cricket Wireless, Nationwide Vision and Affordable Dentures & Implants. Chris Hollenbeck and Shane Carter of Cushman & Wakefield’s Phoenix office represented the seller in the deal.
DENVER — Kroenke Sports and Entertainment (KSE) and Revesco Properties have received a $124.6 million loan to refinance Elitch Gardens Theme and Water Park in downtown Denver. The 130-year-old property is Colorado’s only combination amusement park and water park. The park is set to open for its 2020 season in April, but no word has come out if the outbreak of COVID-19 has changed that plan. Eric Tupler and Tyler Dumon of JLL arranged the five-year, floating-rate loan through Pacific Western Bank. KSE and Revesco, both based in Denver, plan to use the loan to retire existing debt and fund predevelopment work for the future River Mile project. Expected to take 25 years to fully come to fruition, River Mile is Revesco’s planned mixed-use district that will span 62 acres along a one-mile stretch of the South Platte River. KSE is a partner on the project. River Mile will eventually replace the amusement park, according to local media outlets. The redevelopment is expected to span 14 million square feet of residential and commercial mixed-use space, as well as public space along the riverfront. The River Mile project will include Meow Wolf, a 90,000-square-foot art installation attraction that is expected to …
PEORIA, ILL. — PaPPo’s Pizzeria & Pub will open at Quincy Mall in Peoria this summer. The restaurant specializes in stone-hearth, oven-baked pizza and craft beer. Quincy Mall is the company’s first Illinois location, but it currently operates in Lake of the Ozarks, Columbia and Springfield, Missouri. PaPPo’s also serves calzones, sandwiches, salads, wings, breadsticks and its famous Pizookie, a brown butter chocolate chip cookie. PaPPo’s will occupy the current Que Town Bar-B-Que space. Que Town plans to relocate within the mall. Cullinan Properties Ltd. owns the property.
ANN ARBOR, MICH. — Beyond Juice Juicery + Eatery will open its 15th Southeast Michigan location at the new Uptown Ann Arbor project in Ann Arbor. Beztak Properties is the project developer. Beyond Juice will occupy 1,600 square feet. Billy Gershensen of the Gershenson Group represented Beyond Juice in the lease transaction. Michael Murphy, Vicki Gutowski and Larry Siedell of Gerdom Realty & Investment represented Beztak. Upon completion, Uptown will be home to 250 townhomes and luxury lofts as well as 17,220 square feet of ground-floor retail space.
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA. — Armada Hoffler has agreed to sell seven grocery-anchored retail properties in North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland for a combined $106.5 million. The assets comprise 630,780 square feet. The three Virginia centers include Bermuda Crossroads, a 122,566-square-foot, Food Lion-anchored property in Chester; Gainsborough Square, an 88,862-square-foot, Food Lion-anchored property in Chesapeake; and Indian Lakes Crossing, a 64,973-square-foot, Harris Teeter-anchored property in Virginia Beach. In North Carolina, the company will sell three Harris Teeter-anchored centers, including Alexander Pointe, a 64,724-square-foot property in Salisbury; Harper Hill Commons, a 64,973-square-foot asset in Winston-Salem; and Renaissance Square, an 80,467-square-foot property in Davidson. Armada Hoffler will also sell Stone House Square, a 112,274-square-foot, Weis Markets-anchored center in Hagerstown, Md. The institutional buyer was not disclosed. Virginia Beach-based Armada Hoffler expects the sale to close in the second quarter.
NEW YORK CITY — Footwear retailer Manolo Blahik will open a 9,947-square-foot retail and office lease in Manhattan. The property with include 4,942 square feet of retail space and 5,005 square feet of office space. David Thomas Design will serve as the project architect for the interior build-out of the store. Ariel Schuster, Ben Birnbaum and Peter Shimkin represented Manolo Blahik in the lease negotiations. The landlord is 717 Madison LP The store is slated to open later this year.
EASTON, PENN. — Quick-service restaurant Playa Bowls has signed a 2,000-square-foot retail lease in Easton, an eastern suburb of Allentown. The restaurant serves fruit bowls, smoothies, soups, salads and other items. The space is located within the Lower Nazareth Commons Shopping Center, an approximately 90,200-square-foot retail center located at 3770 Dryland Way. Target anchors the retail center, and other tenants include Petco and Burlington Coat Factory. Scott Horner of Colliers International represented the Playa Bowls in the lease negotiations. The landlord, Regency Centers Corp., was represented internally.
SACRAMENTO — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of 630 K Street, an office and retail building located in downtown Sacramento. New York Life Real Estate Investors, on behalf of an institutional client, purchased the five-story property from Swift Real Estate Partners. The acquisition price was not released. The new owner plans to make capital improvements to the five-story, 87,140-square-foot property to bring the asset to Class A condition. Adam Lasoff, Seth Siegel, Steve Hermann, Ryan Venezia and Eric Fox of Cushman & Wakefield’s Northern California Capital Markets group, along with Ron Thomas and Kevin Partington of Cushman & Wakefield’s Sacramento office, brokered the transaction. Additionally, the buyer retained Cushman & Wakefield to perform project leasing services for the building.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — Colliers International has brokered the sale of Mandarin Central, a 63,346-square-foot shopping center in Jacksonville. The center was constructed in 1985 on seven acres at 11018 Old Saint Augustine Road, 17 miles south of downtown Jacksonville. The property was 94 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Dollar General, Pizza Hut and Salento Steakhouse. Milestone Properties Inc. sold the asset to Mandarin Central Plaza LLC for an undisclosed price. Joe Montgomery, Tony D’Ambrosio and Ernie Saltmarsh IV of Colliers represented the seller in the transaction.
