LA VERNE, CALIF. — California-based Forward One has purchased a retail property located at 1479 Foothill Blvd. in La Verne, a suburb of Los Angeles. New Jersey-based Arctrust, a private REIT, sold the asset for $7.7 million in an off-market transaction. CVS/pharmacy anchors the 26,500-square-foot building, which is situated on 1.6 acres. Anton Qiu of Anchor Pacific Capital represented the buyer, while David Kern of The Mansour Group represented the seller in the deal.
LONG BEACH, CALIF. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged the $4.5 million sale of a newly constructed, 1,839-square-foot retail building at 5865 E. Spring St. that is triple-net leased to The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Long Beach. Adam Friedlander of JLL marketed the property on behalf of the seller, Pacific West Property Group Inc. An undisclosed private investor acquired the property in an all-cash transaction as part of a 1031 exchange. Alan Wong of DAAG Developments acted as the buyer’s consultant. Situated 20 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf was constructed in 2020 and features a drive-thru along with an outdoor patio that can accommodate up to 90 customers.
Shopping center owners thought the solution to combat online shopping was so crystal clear. Give them experiences. Provide social spaces. Make interaction the focal point. And this worked…for a while. Entertainment and food and beverage operators soon absorbed the spaces left behind by traditional retailers. Old Sears locations became luxury movie theaters. Vacant in-line spaces could be taken over by Instagrammable pop-up experiences. Mall kiosks that once sold tchotchkes could now be occupied by virtual reality pods. Even mall food courts were redesigned as food halls, a cooler, sleeker older cousin. Centers that created the right formula of fun, fashion and food were packed. It was all going so well until 2020. “All of us in the experiential business thought we were recession-proof,” says Bryan Severance, CEO of Fallout Zones, a family entertainment consulting and design firm in Las Vegas. “Even when the economy was down in 2008, people wanted to get out and have fun. The whole industry was building parks and experiences and making money. When the government tells you to shut down, though, it’s a totally different story. Turns out we’re not pandemic-proof.” Just as the experiential retail industry rode the high highs together, it is now …
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – The Sembler Co., a St. Petersburg, Fla.-based commercial real estate developer, plans to develop The Mill, a 46-acre mixed-use project in Myrtle Beach’s Carolina Forest community. The new development is slated to include retail, office space and multifamily. Sembler is partnering with Hawthorne Residential Partners on the apartment residences. Sembler and Hawthorne expect to begin construction this summer. The Mill is situated at the intersection of River Oaks Drive and Carolina Forest Boulevard, adjacent to The Parks of Carolina Forest, a roughly 800-unit housing development by D.R. Horton Inc. The Mill will include Marketplace at The Mill, a 66,680-square-foot neighborhood shopping center that features a freestanding, 46,800-square-foot Publix, as well as a six-acre parcel ideal for a medical or traditional office, hotel, mini-storage or other commercial use. The shopping center is expected to be complete by summer 2022. The Mill will also include Hawthorne at The Mill, a 290-unit multifamily residential community. The property will offer one-, two- and three-bedroom units throughout two four-story buildings with elevator access and nine, two-story carriage-style buildings over private garages. The apartment community will also feature over 8,000 square feet of amenity space, including a luxury clubhouse with resident lounge, …
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C.— SRS Real Estate Partners’ National Net Lease Group has brokered the $7.4 million sale of The Shops at Gregorie Landing, a shopping center located at 2966 Hwy 17 N in Mount Pleasant. Parker Walter, Matthew Mousavi and Patrick Luther of SRS represented the buyer, a private investor from the Northeast who was in a 1031 exchange, in the transaction. Benjy Cooke of Oswald Cooke & Associates represented the seller, an unnamed South Carolina-based developer. The Shops at Gregorie Landing is located approximately 12 miles from Charleston and 11 miles from the South Carolina Aquarium. Completed in 2020, the 11,125-square-foot property is situated on 1.6 acres. The newly constructed three-tenant retail property is fully occupied by Panera Bread, TD Bank and Heartland Dental who have all signed long-term, triple net leases.
RUSTBURG, VA. — S.L. Nusbaum Realty Co. has arranged the $4.7 million sale of Rustburg Marketplace, a 46,700-square-foot shopping center in Rustburg. The Kent Mall LLC, a private real estate investment company based in Pennsylvania, purchased the center from Rustburg Ventures LLC. The center, anchored by Food Lion, was fully leased at the time of sale to nine local and national tenants including Family Dollar, Virginia ABC, Domino’s Pizza and Subway. According to the brokers, 88 percent of the tenants at Rustburg Marketplace have been in place for more than 20 years.
PATERSON AND WEST ORANGE, N.J. — R.J. Brunelli & Co. Inc. has negotiated two retail leases for Family Dollar totaling 20,082 square feet in Northern New Jersey. In the first deal, the discount retailer leased a 10,382-square-foot space formerly occupied by Rite Aid in Paterson for a store that is expected to open in the third quarter. In the second transaction, Family Dollar signed a lease for 9,700 square feet at an inline space in West Orange. That store is scheduled to open in October. Danielle Brunelli and Pete Nicholson of R.J. Brunelli represented Family Dollar in both sets of lease negotiations. Patrick Varelas of Remax represented the landlord in the Paterson deal.
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CALIF. — Newport Beach, Calif.-based Buchanan Street Partners has purchased E405 Euclid Shops, a showroom retail center located at 18225 to 18349 Euclid St. in Fountain Valley. A Southern California-based family trust sold the asset for $24 million. Situated on 4.9 acres, the property features 91,517 square feet of flexible showroom and retail space. Current tenants include Sherwin-Williams, Guitar Center and Cort Furniture. Matthew Mousavi, Patrick Luther and Rich Walter of SRS National Net Lease Group represented the buyer and seller in the deal.
Ralph Cram, President of Envoy Net Lease Partners, LLC, is seeing dramatic change in the net lease space in 2021: in the past couple months he’s seen cap rates with 25 to 35 basis point drops on active deals, increased 1031 exchange activity and robust interest in net-lease properties. “What we’ve really seen in the last six months is the demand for investment-grade, net-lease properties has skyrocketed — partly because people aren’t buying nonessential or non-investment-grade tenants.” There is a supply constraint though: with many 2020 projects delayed, Cram anticipates 12 months before supply can reach the market — making for a tight market. Finance criteria for net lease clients, construction loan programs, development risks, outlining the process for lending overall and 2021 goals are concepts covered in this video interview for Finance Insight. This article is posted as part of REBusinessOnline’s Finance Insight series. Click here to subscribe to the Finance Insight newsletter, a four-part newsletter series, followed by video interviews delivered to your inbox in March.
FLORENCE, KY. — Ohio-based MAGNA Properties has acquired Florence Shops, a 50,068-square-foot, multi-tenant shopping center located at 7541-7565 Mall Road in Florence. The property was fully leased at the time of sale. Patrick Metz of Stan Johnson Co. represented MAGNA Properties in the $5.5 million acquisition. The seller was an undisclosed local developer. The Florence Shops is situated on 4.1 acres approximately 13 miles from Cincinnati. The acquisition includes additional development potential on an adjacent pad site. The center’s neighboring tenants include Kroger, Old Navy, Ulta Beauty and Barnes & Noble. The center was last renovated in 2015.