CHICAGO — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a 21,916-square-foot retail center in Chicago for $3.4 million. The property, occupied by Dollar Tree and One Hope United, is located at 707 E. 47th St. It is shadow anchored by a $46 million mixed-use building that includes a Walmart Neighborhood Market. Adrian Mendoza, Austin Weisenbeck and Sean Sharko marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a fund manager. A California-based family trust purchased the asset.
RENO, NEV. — K Corp. has purchased a portion of retail space at The Crossing at Meadowood Square, a shopping center in Reno. The company acquired the 31,400-square-foot portion for $4.4 million. This transaction completes its ownership of the 63,000-square-foot center, after purchasing 32,000 square feet of space in 2014. The 31,400-square-foot portion is an anchor site currently occupied by Goodwill, which will vacate the space in October. The new owner plans to redevelop the property. Additional tenants include FedEx Office, Subway, Nevada Home Fitness and Animal Emergency. The name of the seller was not released.
BUCKEYE, ARIZ. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the sale of a retail property located at 1341 S. Watson Road in Buckeye. A limited liability company sold the property to an undisclosed buyer for $3.6 million. Planet Fitness occupies the 20,091-square-foot property, which was built this year, on a double-net-leased basis. The tenant just signed a 15-year lease for the property. Mark Ruble, Jamie Medress and Chris Lind of Marcus & Millichap’s Phoenix office represented the seller in the deal.
GARLAND, TEXAS — Berkadia has arranged a $3.5 million loan for the refinancing of Duck Creek Community Shopping Center, a retail center located at the intersection of North Jupiter Road and East Arapaho Drive in Garland, a northeastern suburb of Dallas. Wells Fargo provided the 10-year loan for the borrower, an affiliate of Dallas-based Retail Plazas Inc. The deal closed on Aug. 20.
BENSALEM, PA. — JLL has arranged the sale of Bensalem Square, a 70,378-square-foot retail center in Bensalem, a northeastern suburb of Philadelphia. Redner’s Markets grocery store anchors the property. The center also houses tenants in the restaurant, service and medical sectors. Chris Munley, James Galbally and Colin Behr of JLL represented the seller, Brixmor Property Group, in the transaction. LS Property Investment was the buyer.
SOUTHPORT, N.C. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $2.3 million sale of a Dollar General-occupied building that was delivered in March of this year in Southport. The 9,026-square-foot building is located at 4421 Long Beach Road SE, about 30 miles south of downtown Wilmington. Par 5 Development Group LLC sold the asset, which Sedgemoor Properties LLC acquired. Don McMinn of Marcus & Millichap represented both the buyer and seller in the transaction.
CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. is set to open a downtown Cincinnati store on Wednesday, Sept. 25. This is the first downtown store in a half-century for the Cincinnati-based grocer, according to the Cincinnati Business Courier. The new store is located at the corner of Court and Walnut streets, across from the company’s headquarters. The 45,000-square-foot, two-story store will include five restaurants within a food hall. It will be known as Kroger on the Rhine, replacing an existing Kroger store in the Over-the-Rhine district. Besides the Kroger store, the 18-story building comprises a 139-unit apartment complex known as 1010 on the Rhine.
A persistent need for a tenant mix that is resistant to e-commerce and which facilitates a unique, authentic experience is prompting owners of older retail centers and malls to assume high levels of risk and redevelop their properties. While there can be a plethora of non-tenant-related factors that spur redevelopment projects — the basic need to charge higher rents, the structural and aesthetic deterioration over time, a desire to restore a public perception of vibrancy — the ultimate success of almost every retail redevelopment project hinges on the tenancy. For shopping centers, this typically entails adding more restaurant users and other retail categories that offer a critical service or a unique shopping experience, as well as integrating open recreational spaces. For malls, adding entertainment uses is becoming increasingly important, particularly when an anchor space has been vacated or sold back to the owner. When paired with a telltale sign like sluggish sales and/or negative rent growth, any of the aforementioned factors can be the catalyst for pulling the trigger on a redevelopment project. But whatever the impetus for the project, without marketing to and leasing tenants that can afford market-rate rents, align with the surrounding demographics and drive foot traffic throughout …
NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS — Berkadia has arranged a $15.4 million CMBS loan for the refinancing of Courtyard Plaza, a retail strip center located near I-35 in New Braunfels, a suburb of San Antonio. Argentic provided the loan, which carries a 10-year term and a fixed interest rate. The borrower was not disclosed. The deal closed on August 27.
HOUSTON — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a 30,942-square-foot retail strip center located at 5301 Telephone Road in Houston. Pep Boys and Melrose, an apparel retailer, anchor the property. Gus Lagos and Nik Kapetanakis of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company, in the transaction. Lagos also secured the buyer, another limited liability company.