PORTAGE, IND. — Healthy Smiles Northwest Indiana will open a 2,000-square-foot location at the Promenade at Founders Square in Portage. The dental practice will join Big Time Burgers and Brew and the Greater Portage Chamber of Commerce as tenants at the mixed-use development, which includes residential units. Holladay Properties provides leasing and property management services for the Promenade at Founders Square, which is owned by an investment group led by the Portage office of Holladay Properties. Michael O’Connor of Holladay Properties represented the building ownership group in the lease transaction with Healthy Smiles.
JENSEN BEACH, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of Marketplace Square, a 169,223-square-foot shopping center located at 3181 N.W. Federal Highway in Jensen Beach. Patrick Berman, Jason Donald and Todd Tolbert of Cushman & Wakefield arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, Leon Capital Group. Exchange Solutions Inc. acquired the asset. Hobby Lobby anchors Marketplace Square, which was 89 percent leased at the time of sale. Additional tenants include Dollar Tree, Buffalo Wild Wings, Buddy’s Home Furnishings, Once Upon a Child and Rush Trampoline Park. The center also houses two outparcels, occupied by KFC and Sonic.
ATLANTA — Braves Development Co. has signed Savi Provisions to a 4,500-square-foot lease at The Battery Atlanta. The Atlanta-based gourmet market concept will open its seventh location at the 1.5 million-square-foot mixed-use development in late 2019. The store will feature chef-driven prepared food as well as grab-and-go meals. Customers will be able to order from a menu to enjoy on-site or to take out with them. The market will also deliver anywhere inside The Battery Atlanta. Athens, Ga.-based Jittery Joe’s Coffee will share space within the market as part of the continued expansion of its partnership with Savi Provisions. Gary Lewis of Gary Lewis & Associates Real Estate represented Braves Development Co. in the lease transaction.
ALAMEDA, CALIF. — The City of Alameda and Alameda Point Partners have broken ground on the first phase of the $1 billion mixed-use, transit-oriented waterfront development at the gateway to Alameda Point, called Site A. The 68-acre Site A development is located on the former Naval Air Station Alameda, which closed more than 20 years ago. Alameda Point Partners is a joint venture between managing partner Trammell Crow Residential, a division of Dallas-based Crow Holdings; commercial developer srmERNST Development Partners; affordable nonprofit housing developer Eden Housing; retail landlord Madison Marquette; and financial partner Cypress Equity Investments. Slated to cost $500 million, the first phase of the Site A project consists of 673 housing units, including 130 affordable units for low-income households and an additional 310 units for middle-income households; eight acres of parks and open space; and 100,000 square feet of retail, dining and marker space, as well as community event and gathering space. Major infrastructure improvements on the 30-acre Phase I project include new water, sewer, electrical and gas lines, newly paved streets with bike and transit lanes, and bulkhead improvements on Seaplane Lagoon for a new ferry terminal. Eden Housing will develop 130 affordable housing units during Phase …
CHANDLER, ARIZ. — Los Altos, Calif.-based West Valley Properties has completed the disposition of The Boardwalk at Anderson Springs, a shopping center located at the southeast corner of Dobson and Ray roads in Chandler. Los Angeles-based Westwood Financial purchased the property for $26 million. The original Sprouts Farmers Market anchors the 89,804-square-foot property. Sprouts originally opened in 2005 and is currently undergoing a $1 million renovation. At the time of sale, the property was 97 percent occupied by a variety of tenants, including Pita Jungle, State Farm, Pet Planet and Desert Financial Credit Union. Ryan Schubert and Michael Hackett of Cushman & Wakefield Phoenix represented the seller.
SOUTH PASADENA AND CLOVERDALE, CALIF. — Colliers International has arranged two sales of retail properties located in Sonoma and Los Angeles counties totaling $12 million. In the first deal, Guillermo Olaiz and John Archibald of Colliers represented a family trust in the $5.3 million sale of a corner lot located at 815 Freemont Ave. in South Pasadena. The property is short-term leased to Carrow’s Restaurant. The buyer was a San Gabriel Valley-based builder. In the second transaction, the family trust purchased a single-tenant, net-leased retail property located in Cloverdale for $6.7 million. Grocery Outlet, a regional discount grocer, occupies the 15,756-square-foot property. Olaiz and Archibald of Colliers represented the family trust in this 1031 exchange transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated the $9.9 million sale of 43-10/24 Queens Blvd., an 8,521-square-foot retail building in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Queens. The single-story property features 95 feet of retail frontage and currently houses eight retail tenants. Tom Donovan, Will Suarez, Eugene Kim, Maurice Suede and Sean Rucker of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction. The buyer was undisclosed.
HOUSTON AND PASADENA, TEXAS — LMI Capital has closed three loans totaling roughly $24 million for the acquisitions of two multifamily complexes and one retail center in the Houston area. The undisclosed properties include a 215-unit apartment complex in northwest Houston, a 200-unit apartment property in the southeastern suburb of Pasadena and a 21,000-square-foot retail center in west Houston. Jamie Mullin, Brandon Brown and Jamie Safier of LMI Capital closed the deals for the first, second and third properties, respectively. The borrowers were not disclosed.
LAS VEGAS — NorthMarq Capital has secured a $37 million refinancing for Sahara Center, a retail property located at 10000 W. Sahara Ave. in Las Vegas. Scott Monroe of NorthMarq Capital’s Las Vegas office arranged the 10-year term on a 30-year amortization schedule. A conduit CMBS lender provided the capital. Sprouts Farmers Market, TJ Maxx, Petco, Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, In-N-Out Burger, Stein Mart and Burlington Coat Factory are major tenants at the 222,883-square-foot retail property.
LAS VEGAS — Hessam Nadji has a simple message for the shopping center community in a tumultuous retail environment: adaptation plus innovation equals opportunity, particularly in an economy with plenty of runway left for growth. “If you take a look at the most dominant technology players that you can think of — Microsoft, Apple and Amazon — they are getting into brick-and-mortar retail every day. Why? Because physical space counts, physical location counts, presence in the community counts, foot traffic counts,” said Nadji, president and CEO of Marcus & Millichap, who delivered a forceful message Monday afternoon to a packed ballroom of several hundred attendees at the Renaissance Hotel in Las Vegas. The event, titled “Marcus & Millichap’s Retail Trends 2018,” was held in conjunction with RECon, an event hosted by the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) that has attracted approximately 37,000 industry professionals and 1,200 exhibitors to the Las Vegas Convention Center. Apple currently operates more than 270 stores in the United States, followed by Microsoft with about 90 stores. Through its $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods Market last year, Amazon controls about 479 stores in the United States and Europe. Conversely, the graveyard of failed retailers …