LIBERTY, MO. — Block & Co. Inc. Realtors has negotiated the sale of a 19,900-square-foot retail building in Liberty, a northeastern suburb of Kansas City. The sales price was not disclosed. The property is located on a one-acre pad site in front of Liberty Commons shopping center. The building is fully leased to Blaze Pizza, Phone Medic, Evolve Juicery & Paleo Kitchen, Chic Nails & Spa, Orange Theory Fitness, Joplimo Mattress and McAlister’s Deli. David Block and Alex Block of Block & Co. represented the buyer, Liberty Commons 2018 LLC. Legacy Liberty LLC was the seller. Block & Co. will handle leasing and property management for the building.
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. — HFF has secured $160 million, or $5,691 per square foot, in refinancing for a high-street retail property located at 338-346 N. Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. Tom Ford, Bally and Balenciaga occupy the two-story, 28,114-square-foot retail property, which is situated on the premier 300 block and across street from the flagship Gucci store. Marc Schillinger led the HFF team that arranged the 10-year, fixed-rate loan through an entity managed by an affiliate of Apollo Global Management for the borrower, a private owner.
ATLANTA — CBRE’s National Retail Partners has brokered the sale of Midtown Promenade, a 110,988-square-foot shopping center located at 931 Monroe Drive in Midtown Atlanta. Charlotte-based Asana Partners, which purchased Krog Street Market in Atlanta’s Inman Park neighborhood last year, bought the shopping center from an affiliate of Atlanta-based Ackerman & Co. for an undisclosed price. Chris Decoufle, Kevin Reavey and Kevin Hurley of CBRE represented the seller, Ackerman-Midtown Associates LLC. Anchored by Trader Joe’s, Midtown Promenade was 99 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Landmark Theaters Midtown Art Cinema, Starbucks Coffee, Richard’s Variety Store, MetroFresh, Apres Diem, The Highlander, The Independent and F.R.O.G.S. The shopping center sits on the edge of Piedmont Park along the Atlanta BeltLine’s Eastside Trail.
ATLANTA — Selig Enterprises has added two new food and beverage tenants at The Works, a $1 billion mixed-use development underway on 80 acres in Atlanta’s Upper Westside neighborhood. The Atlanta-based developer has announced a new food hall known as Chattahoochee Food Works. Headed by Robert Montwaid of Gansevoort Consulting, the new food hall will occupy 16,000 square feet of space within The Makers Building, which will front a quarter-mile linear park known as The Spur. The food hall will feature vendors, a test kitchen, artisanal market shops, space for events and tables that double as charging stations. Selig will also add a new 9,000-square-foot taproom and macrobrewery for Scofflaw Brewing Co., an Atlanta brewery founded in 2016 by Matt Shirah and Travis Herman. The new location will serve as Scofflaw’s main research and development facility and will feature a programmed outdoor area with games and gathering places. Situated off Chattahoochee Avenue, The Works will span 350,000 square feet of retail and entertainment, 500,000 square feet of office space, 500 residences, 200 hotel rooms and 13 acres of green space. The 27-acre Phase I is currently under construction and scheduled for openings in early 2020.
ALCOA, TENN. — SRS Real Estate Partners has arranged the sale of Hamilton Crossing, a 175,464-square-foot shopping center located in the Knoxville suburb of Alcoa. The property was 95 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Dick’s Sporting Goods, Ross Dress for Less, Michaels, PetSmart, Old Navy, Shoe Carnival, Buffalo Wild Wings, AT&T and Five Guys. Kyle Stonis, Pierce Mayson and Steve Miskew of SRS represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyer and terms of the sale were also not disclosed.
CHICO, CALIF. — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has arranged the sale of Chico Mall, a regional mall located off Highway 99 and East 20th Street in Chico. Ethan Conrad Properties acquired the 503,710-square-foot property for an undisclosed price. Situated on nearly 39 acres, the mall features more than 30 tenants, including Dick’s Sporting Goods, JCPenney and Forever 21. Nicholas Bicardo, Thomas Dobrowski and Brandon Rogoff of NKF represented the undisclosed seller in the deal.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Madison Marquette has sold University Place, a 372,190-square-foot shopping center in Chapel Hill, for $51.5 million. Harris Teeter, SilverSpot Cinema, Planet Fitness and Southern Season anchor the 39.5-acre property. Other tenants include Burlington Shoes, City Kitchen, Chick-fil-A, Bath & Body Works, AT&T, Stoney River Steakhouse and Grill and Bartaco. University Place was originally built in 1973 and most recently renovated in 2013. Daniel Finkle, Richard Reid, John Owendoff, Jordan Lex, Tom Kolarczyk and Kim Flores of HFF represented the seller in the transaction. Ram Realty Advisors purchased the asset.
SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — Hendricks Commercial Properties has sold Southern Pines Village, a 179,276-square-foot shopping center in Southern Pines, for $29 million. Kohl’s, Hobby Lobby, Ulta Beauty, Dollar Tree and LongHorn Steakhouse anchor the shopping center. Julia Evinger, Nathan Whalen, Jeremie Johnson and Damien Yoder of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller in the transaction. Ashish Vakhariya and Seth Haron, also of Marcus & Millichap, procured the buyer, a Midwest-based private investor.
ST. LOUIS — Lawrence Group, the developer for City Foundry STL, has unveiled that the 30,000-square-foot food hall at the mixed-use project is now 50 percent preleased. The lineup of food vendors is exclusive to the development and St. Louis. Tenants include CropCircle, serving country fair-type foods; Good Day, offering crepes and breakfast sandwiches; Hello Poke, serving fresh poke and seafood; Lost & Found, a burger and pizza joint; Juice Box Central, a drink station with juices and smoothies; Mokyu Mokyu, selling ice cream with a Japanese and Korean flair; Press Waffle Co.; serving made-to-order waffles; Sumax, known for its Middle Eastern hummus and wraps; and UKraft; offering breakfast bowls, sandwiches, and soups. City Foundry STL is the adaptive reuse of the former 10-acre Century Electric Foundry complex in St. Louis’ Midtown neighborhood. The $210 million first phase will include 122,000 square feet of restaurant and entertainment space, 105,000 square feet of shops and 107,000 square feet of office space. Additional tenants will be announced this spring. Phase I is slated to begin opening in mid-2019.
Retail real estate in Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) is nearing its cyclical peak, and users that want to continue expanding in the metroplex are being hamstrung by a lack of quality space and surging rents. According to CoStar Group, DFW’s retail vacancy rate currently stands at 4.4 percent, a record low that the research firm expects to hold steady or even improve in the coming years. Rents have grown by more than 3 percent annually over the last five years, and are now 15 percent higher than their pre-recession peaks. Put simply, DFW is a landlord’s market. As such, retailers that have had success in the metroplex over the last decade and want to keep opening new stores should be considering other markets. One of the ideal landing spots for these users lies a mere 200 miles up Interstate 35 in Oklahoma City. According to CoStar, Oklahoma City’s retail vacancy has grown by approximately 100 basis points over the last two years, currently clocking in at 6.1 percent. There is very little new product under construction — less than half a million square feet — but asking rents in Oklahoma City average $14.40 per square foot, compared to $18.89 per square …