NEW YORK CITY — Union Investment has acquired a retail property located at 412 W. 14th St. in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Premier Equities sold the three-story property for an undisclosed price. The 17,000-square-foot property is Toyota’s new experiential retail concept, “Intersect by Lexus.” The location will give customers the opportunity to experience the Lexus brand in a high-end environment featuring a showroom, coffee shop, full-service restaurant and gallery space. The acquisition was made on behalf of Unilmmo: Global, an open-ended retail estate fund.
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DETROIT — Galley Group has unveiled plans to open a food hall in the Federal Reserve Building, owned by Bedrock and located in downtown Detroit. The 8,646-square-foot space will feature an open floor plan with four kitchen spaces and a centralized full bar. Completion is slated for this fall. Applications are now open for chefs to submit their restaurant ideas and vie for a kitchen space. Galley Group is also opening a location in Cleveland this year following its two food halls in Pittsburgh.
JV Opens Mixed-Use Property with 286 Apartments, 70,000 SF Retail Space in Corona, California
by Nellie Day
CORONA, CALIF. — A joint venture between Wermers Properties and Watermarke Properties has developed The Metro, a mixed-use property located in the center of the Main Street Corridor in Corona. The transit-oriented development features 286 residential units and more than 70,000 square feet of retail space. Currently signed retailers include Starbucks Coffee, Z-Pizza Tap Room, Poke Cat, Burgerim, America’s Best Eyeglass, Citibank, Organic Junkie, Paws at Main, Nail & Spa Today, D’Vine Mediterranean, Meraki Salon and Union Barber.
LOS ANGELES — Coda Equities has purchased Verdugo Plaza, a three-building asset located at 3322 Verdugo Road and 2614 Arthur St. in Northeast Los Angeles. A private trust sold the retail plaza for $6.2 million. The buyer was not disclosed. The asset consists of three freestanding buildings totaling 21,885 square feet. At the time of acquisition, the property was 53 percent occupied. Karol Le of CBRE represented the buyer and seller in the deal.
MONTCLAIR, CALIF. — CIM Group has signed a lease with AMC Dine-in Theatre at Montclair Place, a 1.2 million-square-foot regional mall in the Inland Empire community of Montclair. The new theater will occupy 55,000 square feet of a new 134,000-square-foot, two-level building under construction at the site of the former Broadway department store. The theater will include 12 auditoriums and its signature MacGuffins adult beverage concept. In addition to AMC Theatres, the new building at Montclair Place will include 64,000 square feet of space for restaurant and entertainment concepts, and will provide a new grand entrance to the mall. The project is part of the multi-phased redevelopment and revitalization of the shopping center. A construction timeline for the project was not disclosed.
MONTGOMERY, ALA. — SRS Real Estate Partners has arranged the $10.5 million sale of Twin Oaks, a 97,189-square-foot shopping center located at 2717-2787 Eastern Blvd. in Montgomery. Kyle Stonis and Pierce Mayson of SRS arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, RCG-Montgomery LLC. PDQ Acquisitions Corp. acquired the asset. At the time of sale, Twin Oaks was 97 percent leased to tenants such as T.J. Maxx, Party City, Dollar General, Hibbett Sports, Catherines, Leslie’s Pool Supplies and Jackson Hewitt.
Among professionals in the major sectors of commercial real estate, retailers are often the first to spot, understand and respond to emerging trends in human behavior. Those trends have shifted dramatically the past few years, and retail real estate in Austin has certainly felt the ripple effects, from downtown to the suburbs and across the emerging “nodes” in between. For some time now, American consumers in general have been clearly indicating their preference for more “experiential” ways to shop or receive services. That said, smart developers know that the experience begins well before shoppers enter a retailer’s doors. And understanding how to best cater to emerging demands helps breed success, not only for tenants, but also for the project as a whole. The following three trends represent key ways in which consumer demand is driving change in Austin’s retail landscape and illustrate how the market is responding. Seamless Integration Consumers want retail options located within close proximity to where they work and live — all the better if the property housing these needs can be one and the same. Just as Austin has grown regionally, so has demand for retail space, giving rise to mixed-use projects throughout the city. In …
WOOD VILLAGE AND MCMINNVILLE, ORE. — Capital Pacific has arranged the sales of two shopping centers in the Portland area: Wood Village Town Center in Wood Village, located 15 miles east of Portland, and McMinnville Plaza in McMinnville, 37 miles southwest of Portland. Wood Village Retail I LLC acquired the 139,831-square-foot Wood Village Town Center for $26.6 million. Wood Village GARP LLC sold the asset, which is home to Kohl’s. Fred Meyer and Lowe’s shadow-anchor the property. March Hare LLC, in conjunction with Mcmincenter LLC, purchased the 135,873-square-foot McMinnville Plaza for $17.4 million. REEF McMinnville Plaza LLC sold the property, which is home to tenants such as Ross Dress for Less, Petco, T.J. Maxx and JCPenney. Safeway shadow-anchors the center. Capital Pacific represented the buyers and sellers in both transactions.
MAPLE GROVE, MINN. — TOLD Development Co. has sold The Shops at Wedgwood in Maple Grove for an undisclosed price. The 32,000-square-foot retail center is located at the intersection of Interstate 494 and Bass Lake Road. The property, developed in two phases in 2006 and 2014, is fully leased to tenants such as The Original Pancake House, Jimmy John’s, Pizza Hut, Bruegger’s Bagels, Caribou Coffee, RTaco, Fantastic Sam’s, Solo’s Pizza Café and Metro Dentalcare. Upland Real Estate Group represented TOLD in the sale. An institutional investor was the buyer.
MISSION, KAN. — Block & Co. Inc. Realtors has brokered the sale of a restaurant building formerly occupied by Runza in Mission, just south of Kansas City. The sales price was not disclosed. The 2,515-square-foot property is a pad site near the Mission West Shopping Center. David Block, Alex Block and Max Kosoglad of Block & Co. negotiated the transaction on behalf of the buyer, an investment group managed by Block & Co. The team manages the property and is in the process of leasing the space to a replacement restaurant concept.