NEW CANEY, TEXAS — Dallas-based retail brokerage firm STRIVE has arranged the sale of Brookshire Brothers Shopping Center, a 55,944-square-foot retail asset in New Caney, a northern suburb of Houston. The five-mile radius around the property, which is anchored by a 42,000-square-foot Brookshire Brothers, has seen its population increase by more than 25 percent since 2010. Daniel Wenz of STRIVE represented the Florida-based seller in the transaction and procured the local buyer. Both parties requested anonymity.
LAS VEGAS — Houston-based Weingarten Realty has completed the sale of Tropicana Beltway Shopping Center, a retail property located in Las Vegas. Affiliates of San Francisco-based The Krausz Cos. acquired the property for $59 million. Mark Lucescu of Lucescu Realty represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal. Walmart Supercenter, Lowe’s, Ross Dress for Less, PetSmart, Office Depot, 99 Cents Only (featuring a grocery department) and Pier 1 Imports anchor the 617,821-square-foot shopping center. At the time of sale, the property was 99.7 percent occupied. Additional tenants include Applebee’s, Bank of America, IHOP, Panera Bread, Chase Bank, Pacific Dental Services, Chipotle, Del Taco, Leslie’s Pool Supplies, Panda Express, T-Mobile, Club Pilates, Cricket Wireless, Sally Beauty Supply, Starbucks Coffee, MetroPCS, Subway, The UPS Store, GNC, GameStop, Sport Clips and The Joint Chiropractic. Neither Walmart Supercenter or Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse were included the in the sale.
ROSEBURG, ORE. — Norris, Beggs & Simpson Financial Services (NBS Financial) has secured $2 million in financing for Newton Creek Center, a retail property located in Roseburg. Ken Griggs, Paddy Ryan and Bryant Bushnell of NBS Financial arranged the fixed-rate, non-recourse funding for the undisclosed borrower. A correspondent life company of NBS Financial provided the funding. The perm loan financing was structured with a 15-year term and a 25-year amortization, with rate reset options every five years. Built in 2004, Newton Creek Center is a two-building, 13,717-square-foot retail property. At the time of financing, the property was 100 percent occupied. Tenants include Batteries Plus Bulbs and Edward Jones.
TERRELL, TEXAS — RealtyLink LLC, a developer specializing in retail and restaurant properties, has unveiled the latest round of tenants that will open stores at Crossroads at Terrell, a 270,000-square-foot center being developed about 30 miles east of Dallas. The newest retailers, which are expected to open their stores during the third quarter of 2019, include Petco, GoWireless and Sport Clips. Previously announced tenants at the center include Hobby Lobby, Five Below, Marshalls and Rack Room Shoes. CBRE is marketing the center for lease.
TEXAS CITY, TEXAS — On Nov. 12, Houston-based Edifis Group will reopen Palmer Plaza, a 95,295-square-foot shopping center in Texas City, about 40 miles southeast of Houston. In 2016, Edifis Group purchased the property, which was originally built in 1987, and upgraded its landscaping, decorative lighting and signage. New and future tenants at the redeveloped center include Aldi, Ross Dress for Less and Chick-fil-A.
ATLANTA — Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) and Carter, an Atlanta-based developer, have broken ground for the first phase of Lee Street Campus, a $52 million mixed-use development in Atlanta’s Historic West End. The $52 million development will include MSM’s first on-campus graduate student housing, offering 187 units in a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom layouts; a 25,000-square-foot ambulatory health facility; 9,000-square-foot fitness/wellness center; 2,500 square feet of retail space; and a four-level parking deck at the corner of Lee Street and Westview Drive. The ownership joint venture for the project includes equity investments by MSM, Carter and Campus Life Fund, sponsored by Atlantic American Partners. Patterson Real Estate Advisors Group secured construction financing, which was provided by First Citizens Bank. Construction is slated for completion in time for the 2020 school year.
CHICAGO — It’Sugar has opened a 2,000-square-foot store at Chicago’s Navy Pier. Founded in 2006, the candy retailer has approximately 100 locations across the country and worldwide. The store at Navy Pier offers a “Taste of Chicago Box,” which features products that originated in Chicago including Tootsie Rolls, Razzles, Baby Ruth, Juicy Fruit, Charleston Chew, Sugar Daddy and Chuckles. Other current tenants at Navy Pier include Build-A-Bear Workshop, Garrett Popcorn Shops, Giordano’s, Harry Caray’s Tavern, Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., McDonald’s and Starbucks. Gregory Kirsch, Corey Black and Larry Kling of Newmark Knight Frank represented It’Sugar in the lease.
The malls of yesteryear are not dead, but many are in need of a revival if they want to thrive tomorrow and beyond, believes Leslie Lundin, co-founder and managing partner at LBG Real Estate Cos. Lundin, who held the “Transforming Challenges into Opportunities” workshop on Monday at ICSC’s Western Dealmaking Conference at the Los Angeles Convention Center, asserts that many mall properties are situated in prime traffic corridors — meaning the traffic is there but it’s up to the owner to take advantage of these numbers. She points to the Shops at Hilltop, a 1.2-million-square-foot shopping center in the San Francisco East Bay submarket of Richmond, as one example. LBG acquired the asset, which is currently undergoing a rebranding and re-tenanting just off Interstate 80 in a dense traffic corridor that sits 20 miles northeast of San Francisco, in July 2017. It is set to become an Asian-themed shopping and entertainment destination that includes a movie theater, live theater, grocery store, food hall, and more than 100,000 square feet of restaurants along with various entertainment-related tenants. The Shops at Hilltop will also include off-price, valued-based tenants such as H&M, Forever 21 and Saks Off Fifth. Rich Walter, executive vice president …
NEW YORK CITY — ABS Altman Warwick has arranged the $51 million refinancing of the Pergament Enterprises Mall, a 360,000-square-foot grocery-anchored power center in Staten Island. Located adjacent to the 1.3 million-square-foot Staten Island Mall on Richmond Avenue, the center in anchored by Stop & Shop. ABS Altman Warwick arranged a 15-year, interest-only loan with a rate of 4 percent on behalf of the undisclosed borrower. The lender was a major life insurance company.
SEWELL, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the $5.4 million sale of a 2,000-square-foot retail property net leased to Wawa in Sewell. The property is located at 485 Woodbury Glassboro Road. The sales price represents a 4.5 percent capitalization rate. Derrick Dougherty and Scott Woodard of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer, a limited liability company, in the transaction. The seller was undisclosed.