ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Landmark Village Shopping Center, a 71,915-square-foot retail center in Arlington. Situated on 5.9 acres, the property was built in 1985 and was 86 percent occupied at the time of sale. Bill Jordan of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, in the transaction. Other terms of sale were not released.
WYLIE, TEXAS — KWA Construction has broken ground on Club Inspiration, an 11,404-square-foot amenities center in the northeastern Dallas metro of Wylie. The property will be part of Inspiration Texas, a 600-acre master-planned development. Valued at roughly $3.8 million, the project will bring multiple pools and a lazy river to the development, as well as a fitness center, volleyball and tennis courts, a playground and walking trails. Completion is slated for October.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The Boulder Group has arranged the sale of a single-tenant property net leased to Shopko in Sioux Falls for $11.7 million. The 90,585-square-foot building is located at 1601 W. 41st St. The property is near big box retailers such as Walmart Supercenter, Target, Costco and Menards. There are over 17 years remaining on Shopko’s lease, which expires in December 2035. Randy Blankstein and Jimmy Goodman of The Boulder Group represented the seller, a Texas-based REIT. A local real estate investor purchased the asset.
MEDFORD, ORE. — Savills Studley has brokered the sale of WinCo Plaza, a regional shopping center located in Medford. Larkspur, Calif.-based Argonaut Investments purchased the 147,943-square-foot property from a private family office for an undisclosed price. Located at Barnett Road and Interstate 5 Freeway, the property is anchored by WinCo Foods, which occupies 94,500 square feet. Additional tenants include Dollar Tree, McDonald’s, Payless ShoeSource and Valley Immediate Care. Maurice Nieman of Savills Studley handled the transaction.
SILVER SPRING, MD. — Phillips Realty Capital has arranged $22.5 million in permanent financing for WesTech Corner, a 41,262-square-foot shopping center in Silver Spring, about six miles north of Washington, D.C. Mark Remington of Phillips Realty Capital arranged the loan through United Bank on behalf of the borrower, Rappaport, which acquired the property in 2014. WesTech Corner was fully leased at the time of financing to tenants such as Five Guys, Chick-fil-A, Qdoba Mexican Grill, Fridays, Panera Bread, IHOP and Capital One Bank.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $18.4 million sale of Okee Square, a 124,000-square-foot retail center located at 2021-2031 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach. The center includes 103,690 square feet of inline retail space, two outparcels, a 16,010-square-foot Rooms To Go Kids and a 4,300-square-foot PDQ restaurant. Douglas Mandel, Barry Wolfe, Alan Lipsky and Elon Gerberg of Marcus & Millichap arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, a partnership. Konover South procured the buyer, Myron Vogel.
As the number of jobs and people in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) grows, the region’s retail market holds steady. Historically, vacancy in this market tends to hover between 5 and 7 percent. So the current retail vacancy rate in the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission MSA, which according to CoStar Group is 4.5 percent, represents a couple different trends. First, the vacancy figure illustrates positive absorption of newly constructed retail space. In 2016 and 2017, the market added about 770,000 and 675,000 square feet, respectively, its highest supply additions in nearly a decade. Second, the diminished vacancy rate suggests that new retailers are entering the McAllen MSA, which can be a gauge for the rest of the RGV. In actuality, much of the new space is being leased to retailers that already have a presence in the valley. One might think the RGV is too small a market to support healthy same-store operations, but this is not the case. Best Buy, Walmart and Ulta Beauty can attest to this. A Dominant Sector There is a common thread that unites these newcomers, and it involves single-family development. According to the latest HUD data available, single-family home sales increased 3 percent year-over-year in 2017. More …
SANTA ANA, CALIF. — CBRE has arranged the sale of Bristol Center, a community shopping center located at 3601-3825 S. Bristol St. in Santa Ana. Dallas-based Sarofim Realty Advisors sold the retail center to Orange County, Calif.-based JH Real Estate Partners for $46.6 million. Preston Fetrow, Kirk Brummer, Megan Wood, Sean Heitzler and Philip Voorhees of CBRE’s National Retail Partners-West represented the seller and buyer in the deal. Built in 1974, Bristol Center features 165,508 square feet of retail space and is situated on 14.2 acres directly across from South Coast Plaza. At the time of sale the property was 97 percent leased to a variety of tenants, including CVS/pharmacy, Michaels, Staples, Party City, Wells Fargo, Buffalo Wild Wings, Chick-fil-A, Chipotle and Firestone Auto Care.
LAS VEGAS — After nearly 35 years of developing and brokering commercial real estate, Scott McLain has no doubt about the deep connection between retail and human nature. McLain, principal and managing broker of Huntsville, Ala.-based Coldwell Banker Commercial McLain Real Estate, sees e-commerce and other new forms of delivering retail products and services as mechanisms that hit on the most basic wants and needs of consumers. For all the talk about how e-commerce is putting retailers out of business, McLain’s view is that retailers that don’t offer value, convenience or the ability to delight consumers are the most vulnerable and have been exposed by online competitors. That holds equally true for online-based and brick-and-mortar retailers. REBusinessOnline.com caught up with McLain at the RECon show in Las Vegas in late May for a quick lesson in human psychology and how it applies to Amazon, store closures and retail real estate in the 21st century. His edited responses are as follows: REBusinessOnline.com: In your opinion, have we seen the worst of the store closures yet? How do you see the closures playing out over the next 12 months? Scott McLain: What I’ve discerned recently about this industry is that there’s a …
SAN ANTONIO — REATA Real Estate Services LP has brokered the sale of Valley View Shopping Center, an 86,196-square-foot retail center located at 8523 Blanco Road on San Antonio’s north side. Anchored by Marshalls, the property was 89 percent occupied at the time of sale. Kevin Catalani of REATA represented the seller, Weingarten Realty, in the transaction. Dallas-based LRIC Properties purchased the center for an undisclosed price.