LAKEWOOD, COLO. — Deerfield, Ill.-based Core Acquisitions and Chicago-based Midloch Investment Partners have acquired Lamar Station Plaza, a regional shopping center in Lakewood, approximately five miles west of downtown Denver. An undisclosed seller sold the asset for $30.2 million. Lamar Station Plaza features 271,632 square feet of retail space anchored by Casa Bonita, a Mexican restaurant and entertainment destination owned by “South Park” television show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The 1,000-seat Casa Bonita features live entertainment with an indoor waterfall and cliff-diving pool and accommodates more than 650,000 visits annually. Additional tenants include Ross, Planet Fitness, Dollar Tree, Dutch Bros. and ARC Thrift Stores. At the time of sale, the property was 76 percent occupied. The buyers secured a new mortgage loan from Old National Bank for the purchase, which was brokered by Cushman & Wakefield. An affiliate of Core will manage the property, with Cushman & Wakefield handling leasing efforts. The new ownership plans to execute a targeted capital improvements program for the asset. Upgrades include an enhanced façade, upgraded signage, roof replacements, parking lot and landscaping upgrades and an increased focus on operations, including janitorial and sweeping services.
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FORNEY, TEXAS — StreetLevel Investments has welcomed new tenants to Village at Gateway, a 152-acre mixed-use project located in Forney, roughly 20 miles east of Dallas. The new operators include Dick’s Sporting Goods, EVO Entertainment, Verizon Wireless, Hand & Stone Massage & Facial Spa, Luna Grill, Costa Vida, Handel’s Ice Cream, Forney Nail Bar, Livewell, Solis and America’s Best Contacts & Eyeglasses. Plans for Village at Gateway also include future multifamily units, a 50-acre medical district and an additional 120,000 square feet of retail space.
MIAMI — SRS Real Estate Partners has negotiated the $8.9 million ground lease sale of a restaurant property located at 18240 S. Dixie Highway in Miami. Chick-fil-A occupies the 5,399-square-foot property, which was built in 2024, on an absolute triple-net, corporate-guaranteed lease with 13 years remaining on the initial term. Patrick Nutt and William Wamble of SRS represented the seller, a joint venture between Coconut Grove, Fla.-based Berkowitz Development Group and Landsea Development Group, in the transaction. The New York-based buyer requested anonymity.
By Robert Reid, principal, Corporeal Visions Inc. Every multi-unit retail and restaurant operator knows the math on a late opening. Rent starts on the commencement date whether the doors are open or not. Staff have been hired and trained against a date that is now moving. Marketing has been spent. Equipment is sitting in a warehouse accruing storage fees. A four-week slip on a single restaurant can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars in carried rent, payroll and lost sales, and for a team opening several units a year, those slips compound. What separates the teams that open on time from the teams that don’t is rarely the quality of the finishes or the size of the budget. It is whether the general contractor (GC) was made to own a handful of coordination points that fall between the cracks of a typical bid. Facility and construction managers who put these items on the table before the contract is signed, and hold the GC to them through turnover, tend to open when they said they would. Demand A Written Lndlord-To-Tenant Handoff Most late openings trace back to the first week, not the last. A tenant build-out starts on the assumption …
CentrePoint Properties Divests of 52,743 SF Mixed-Use Property in Wheat Ridge, Colorado
by Amy Works
WHEAT RIDGE, COLO. — CentrePoint Properties has completed the sale of Wilmore Center, a mixed-use property in Wheat Ridge, to HCA HealthONE for $14.5 million. Jon Hendrickson and Aaron Johnson of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction. Situated on 5 acres at 7615 W. 38th Ave., Wilmore Center comprises two single-story multi-tenant buildings offering a total of 52,743 square feet of mixed-use space and 236 parking spaces. At the time of sale, the asset was 84 percent occupied by 15 tenants. The tenant mix includes retail, food and medical, with 68 percent of the leased area occupied by medical-related tenants.
KATY, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $7.5 million sale of an 8,753-square-foot restaurant building in the western Houston suburb of Katy. The sales price equates to $874.84 per square foot. The building at 222 W. Grand Parkway was constructed on a 1.5-acre site in 2017 and is net-leased to Brazilian restaurant chain Fogo de Chao. Alvin Mansour and David Kern of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a developer, in the all-cash transaction. The buyer was a California-based 1031 exchange investor. Both parties requested anonymity.
HOUSTON — Baker Katz has negotiated five leases totaling 9,548 square feet for Einstein Bros. Bagels in the greater Houston area. The spaces are located in the city’s Garden Oaks district and in the suburbs of Tomball, Spring, Baytown and Manvel. Lunden McGill and John Frazier of Baker Katz represented Einstein Bros. in all lease negotiations. Landlord brokers included Lindsey Lee and Rami Khoury of Blue Ox Group (Houston); Kristen Barker of Edge Properties (Tomball); Austen Baldridge and Diandra Breen of NewQuest (Spring); Anna Grace Mako of Fidelis (Baytown); and Kyle Knight of Weitzman (Manvel).
DOVER, N.H. — A partnership between Boston-based developer Cathartes and the City of Dover, located near the Maine-New Hampshire border, has completed a multifamily project and public park in the city’s waterfront district., The Truette is a 220-unit apartment complex that features studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units, as well as 2,200-square-foot townhomes. Amenities include a rooftop terrace, coworking spaces, fitness areas and pet-friendly facilities, as well as an onsite restaurant. The 3.5-acre Nebi Park features art installations and a 2,300-square-foot pavilion and green space for public events.
TMG Partners Acquires 435,000 SF Skyport Plaza Office, Retail Complex in San Jose, California
by Amy Works
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — TMG Partners, in partnership with accounts managed by global investment firm KKR, has purchased Skyport Plaza, an office and retail complex at 1650 and 1700 Technology Drive and 50 and 90 Skyport Drive in San Jose. Terms of the acquisition were not released. In conjunction with the purchase, TMG Partners signed a long-term lease with the County of Santa Clara that, after extensive renovation of the two office buildings, is projected to commence in the first quarter of 2029 through 2059. Completed in 2001 and institutionally maintained, the 435,000-square-foot Skyport Plaza features floor plates of approximately 25,000 square feet. The property consists of two eight-story office towers totaling 393,000 square feet and two retail buildings totaling 42,000 square feet. The retail portion is 97 percent leased to a childcare facility, restaurants and cafés.
AC Development Completes First Phase of 14-Acre Mixed-Use Development in Golden, Colorado
by Amy Works
GOLDEN, COLO. — AC Development, the Coor’s family development company, has completed The Pottery, an office building that is the first phase of Clayworks, a 14-acre redevelopment of the former CoorsTek ceramics manufacturing site in Golden. The project team for The Pottery includes AC Development as developer, Tryba Architects as architect and Holder Construction as general contractor. The completion of The Pottery also marks the return of CoorsTek’s global headquarters to its original location in Golden, where the company’s ceramics operation was established in 1910. The CoorsTek and AC Development teams completed their move into the 188,600-square-foot office building this month. The Pottery was created through the adaptive reuse of the former CoorsTek headquarters and manufacturing facilities with the new building incorporating historic elements, including the brick façade along Ford Street and the original kiln elements. Clayworks is transforming the former Coors industrial campus into a mixed-use neighborhood across six city blocks, with plans for office, retail, dining, public gathering areas, housing, parking and a boutique hotel that will reimagine the historic Golden High School. Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters is the first announced retail tenant at Clayworks and is set to open on the ground floor of The Pottery later …
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