LOS ANGELES — Vestar has been selected to provide management services for Warner Marketplace, a 160,000-square-foot shopping center located in the Canoga Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Warner Marketplace is fully leased to a mix of tenants including Ashley Furniture, BevMo!, Ulta Beauty, DSW, PetSmart and Carter’s. With the addition of Warner Marketplace, Vestar now manages over 12.5 million square feet in California and the western United States.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — GFO Investments and InSite Group, in partnership with Atlas Real Estate and Prime Finance, have acquired The Galleria at Fort Lauderdale, with plans to redevelop the 800,000-square-foot mall. Robert Given, Brad Capas and Casey Rosen of CBRE represented the seller, Keystone-Florida Holding Corp., in the transaction. The sales price was not disclosed. GFO and InSite Group will oversee redevelopment efforts, while Sandeep Mathrani of Atlas Hill Real Estate will lead leasing at the property. Galleria Mall, an underperforming, super-regional shopping center, will be reimagined into a community-focused destination. Detailed plans for the redevelopment will be released in the coming months. Keystone-Florida Holding Corp. originally listed the mall for sale in 2023, which was only 67 percent occupied after losing tenants such as Lord & Taylor, SAKS Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus, according to South Florida Business Journal. Current tenants include Aldo Shoes, Apple, Blue Martini, H&M, Macy’s, Michael Kors, P.F. Chang’s, the Capital Grille and Zales.
SAN DIEGO — Brixton Capital has acquired Carmel Mountain Gateway Plaza in San Diego from Triwell Properties for $21.3 million. This off-market transaction marks Brixton’s fifth California retail acquisition this year. Located at 11465-11495 Carmel Mountain Road, the 44,230-square-foot Carmel Mountain Gateway Plaza was built in 1995 and renovated in 2019. With BevMo! and Ulta Beauty as anchor tenants, the property was 75 percent occupied at the time of sale. Kyle Erthner of UrbanCalifornia represented the seller, while Brixton was self-represented in the deal.
SCHAUMBURG, ILL. — UrbanStreet Group has broken ground on a 30-acre retail district at Veridian in the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg. The first phase of the district is expected to open in 2027 for apartments; retail turnover is slated for fall 2026. The Veridian project involves the transformation of the former Motorola campus. The first phase of the retail district will include 100,000 square feet of walkable retail and international cuisine, anchored by a 26,000-square-foot The Fresh Market grocery store along with 321 apartments and year-round community programming. At full build-out, the district will include more than 200,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space and more than 600 apartment units, adding to the 225-acre Veridian site that is already home to Topgolf; corporate users such as The Boler Co., Zurich North America, Motorola Solutions and DR Horton; and multiple residential communities. The groundbreaking is the latest milestone for the project, which began a decade ago. In 2015, Motorola announced it would relocate its headquarters to downtown Chicago. The following year, UrbanStreet Group acquired the property and began planning the redevelopment. In 2018, the Village of Schaumburg approved a new zoning ordinance, clearing the way for Veridian’s master plan. By …
SMYRNA, TENN. — The Boulder Group has brokered the $2.9 million sale of an 18,750-square-foot, single-tenant retail property in Smyrna leased to Tractor Supply. Located along U.S. Highway 41, Tractor Supply has operated at the site since 1999 and recently signed a 10-year lease extension. Randy Blankstein and Jimmy Goodman of The Boulder Group represented the buyer, a high-net-worth family engaging in estate planning, in the transaction. Andrew Ragsdale of Colliers represented the undisclosed seller. Founded in 1938, Tractor Supply operates more than 2,300 stores across 49 states.
FAIRVIEW PARK, OHIO — JLL Capital Markets has brokered the $13.8 million sale of Fairview Centre, a 147,602-square-foot shopping center in the Cleveland suburb of Fairview Park. The grocery-anchored property consists of three buildings that are nearly 90 percent occupied by Giant Eagle, which has a 30-year tenure at the center. Additional tenants include Dollar Tree, Onyx Gyms, Goldfish Swim School, UPS and the American Cancer Society. Michael Nieder and Brian Page of JLL represented the seller, Lamar Cos. Axiom Realty purchased the asset.
By Sean Slater, senior principal, RDC Architecture & Planning In today’s evolving retail landscape, one of the most promising — and often overlooked — opportunities lies in the land surrounding our nation’s hospitals and medical centers. As healthcare systems continue to expand and consolidate, savvy development executives recognize the immense potential of strategically positioning retail properties in locations that are adjacent to major medical facilities. Doing so combines consistent foot traffic, demographic advantages and an urgent need for community-focused amenities. This was the scenario that RDC’s placemaking design team faced at the Texas Medical Center’s (TMC) new TMC3 research and development campus south of the massive healthcare cluster near downtown Houston. On any given day at that sprawling site, more than 100,000 people — about the seating capacity of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum — come to work, while 27,400 patients visit one of the 21 associated hospitals. Many of them are international visitors staying at local hotels with significant downtime. Kristen Kupperman, TMC’s vice president of design, construction and facilities, introduced RDC’s design team to this problem, saying that there are 80,000 women who work at TMC every day, yet there is nowhere to get a manicure and nowhere …
NORTH FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, PA. — A partnership between Los Angeles-based Industrial Realty Group (IRG) and Cleveland-based PREP Funds has acquired Washington Crown Center, a 450,000-square-foot mall near Pittsburgh, with plans to undertake a redevelopment. As reported by regional media outlet Observer-Reporter, as well as several other media sources, IRG and PREP Funds are jointly investing $40 million for the transformation of the former mall into a mixed-use hub for retail and business that will be called Franklin Crossroads Park. In addition, according to Pittsburgh Business Times, New York-based Kohan Retail Investment Group originally purchased the mall for $20 million in 2016 and began marketing the property for sale in 2024. Construction of Franklin Crossroads Park, which is situated 30 miles south of Pittsburgh in Washington County along I-70, is set to begin this fall. Meanwhile, a portion of the mall will remain open through the end of the year. “Our vision is to diversify the site’s use by attracting new retailers and businesses to the property,” says Chris Salata, partner at PREP Funds. “This adaptive reuse project will significantly improve the facility and bring new economic activity.” Redevelopment plans for Franklin Crossroads Park currently call for the creation of a 100,000-square-foot retail …
BELLEAIR BLUFFS, FLA. — JLL has negotiated the sale of Belleair Bazaar, a 38,874-square-foot, unanchored retail strip center located at 2979 W. Bay Drive in Belleair Bluffs, a suburb of Tampa in Pinellas County. The property features 29,603 square feet of retail space and 9,271 square feet of second-story office space. Jorge Portela, Danny Finkle and Kim Flores of JLL represented the seller, Cardinal Point Management LLC, in the transaction. The buyer was Shannon Waltchack LLC, a retail real estate investment and management firm based in Birmingham, Ala. The sales price was not disclosed. Renovated and repositioned in 2020, Belleair Bazaar’s retail component was 96 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Bonefish Grill, Cold Stone Creamery, State Farm and Maggie Mae’s.
ODESSA, FLA. — SRS Real Estate Partners has brokered the $3.9 million ground lease sale of a retail property in Odessa leased to Circle K. Patrick Nutt and William Wamble of SRS represented the seller, a Florida-based private developer, in the transaction. The buyer, a private investment entity controlled by family members residing in California and Florida, purchased the property to complete a 1031 tax-deferred exchange. The 5,200-square-foot property is situated on 1.7 acres at the northwest corner of State Route 54 and Asturian Parkway and has a 15-year, corporate-guaranteed lease in place. The Circle K serves as an outparcel to a larger development that will feature Ford’s Garage, a three-tenant retail property, offices and apartments.
