MANASQUAN, N.J. — Levin Properties has purchased ACME Center, a retail property located at 71 Taylor Ave. in Manasquan, for an undisclosed price. ACME supermarket occupies the 19,000-square-foot property, which is situated on two acres. Levin Management Corp. served as advisor to the buyer in the deal. Levin Management Corp. is the property’s new leasing and managing agent. The name of the seller was not released.
MIAMI — HFF has arranged the $58 million refinancing of a nine-property retail portfolio located throughout Miami-Dade County. Chris Drew, Nat Scarmazzi and Matthew McCormack of HFF arranged the 10-year, fixed-rate loan through a life insurance company on behalf of the borrower, MMG Equity Partners. The portfolio, which totals 275,979 square feet, includes Sunset Village Shopping Center, located at 10700 S.W. 72nd St. in Miami; Bird West Plaza, located at 14465 S.W. 42nd St. in Miami; Flagler Plaza, located at 5300 W. Flagler St. in Miami; Navarro Gables, located at 3949 S.W. 8th St. in Miami; Little River Retail, located at 8050-8100 N. Miami Ave. in Miami; Kendall Drive Retail, located at 9720 N. Kendall Drive in Miami; Navarro Miami Beach, located at 631 71st St. in Miami Beach; Colonial Shopping Center, located at 400 N.E. 125th St. in North Miami; and Navarro Sunny Isles, located at 18500 Collins Ave. in Sunny Isles Beach. Navarro Pharmacy anchors six of the properties, and President Supermarkets anchors two. The portfolio also includes one strip center. At the time of sale, the portfolio was 97 percent leased.
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA. — Williams-Sonoma and Pottery Barn have inked leases at the Town Center of Virginia Beach, a multi-phase mixed-use development in Virginia Beach. The homeware and home furnishings retailers will occupy a combined 18,000 square feet as part of the project’s sixth phase of development. A public-private partnership between the City of Virginia Beach and Virginia Beach-based Armada Hoffler Properties, Town Center is an ongoing development that started in 2000. The project spans 17 city blocks and features retail, dining, office space, residential units, hotels and entertainment venues. The two new retailers will be part of the latest addition to Town Center, which will include 39,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, a 300-seat performing arts theater, an open-air public plaza and a pedestrian bridge. Williams-Sonoma and Pottery Barn are expected to open in spring 2018. Divaris Real Estate is handling retail leasing for Town Center, and S.L. Nusbaum is managing the project’s residential component.
SCHAUMBURG, ILL. — Baum Realty Group LLC has arranged the sale of a 4.8-acre property net leased to a Hyundai car dealership in Schaumburg for $6.3 million. The property is located at 1020 E. Golf Road near Woodfield Mall. Patrick Forkin represented the seller, a local investor who had owned the property for over 30 years.
PERTH AMBOY, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has facilitated the sale of a retail property located at 599 New Brunswick Ave. in Perth Amboy. An undisclosed developer sold the building to an undisclosed buyer for $2.6 million. Family Dollar and All Brands Furniture occupy the 12,050-square-foot building. Ben Sgambati, Alan Cafiero and David Cafiero of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller in the transaction.
SPRING, TEXAS — EDGE Capital Markets has negotiated the sale of Spring Park Village, a 76,409-square-foot retail center located at 19764 Interstate 45 in the Houston metro of Spring. The center was 100 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Conn’s Home Plus, Sears Outlet, Starbucks, AT&T and Texas State Optical. Kevin Holland of EDGE represented the seller, MetroNational, in the transaction. Other terms of sale were not released.
INDIAN LAND, S.C. — HFF has arranged the $10.1 million sale of a retail development site in Indian Land, located 20 miles south of Charlotte, N.C. The 58.5-acre site will be the future home of The Promenade at Carolina Reserve, an open-air retail center. Travis Anderson, Richard Reid, Thomas Kolarczyk and Cory Fowler of HFF represented the seller, Lennar Corp. The Hutton Co. purchased the asset. The Promenade at Carolina Reserve will be home to Burlington, Ulta Beauty, Hobby Lobby, Petco, T.J. Maxx and Rack Room Shoes. The center will also include outparcels for future development.
ST. CLOUD, MINN. — Cohen Financial has arranged a $6.5 million loan for the acquisition of a 71,000-square-foot retail property in St. Cloud in central Minnesota. Cash Wise Foods anchors the property. Dan Rosenberg and Matt Terpstra of Cohen Financial arranged the fixed-rate loan with Goldman Sachs Commercial Mortgage Capital. Midland Atlantic Properties was the borrower.
DEERFIELD, ILL. — Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (NASDAQ: WBA), a global pharmacy-led enterprise comprising brands such as Walgreens and Duane Reade, plans to shutter 600 of its stores as part of its $4.38 billion purchase of rival Rite Aid Corp. During a conference call on Wednesday, Oct. 25, Walgreens spokesman Michael Polzin said the 600 shuttered stores will mostly be Rite Aid locations within close proximity to existing Walgreens stores as the company looks to optimize its retail store footprint. On Sept. 19, Walgreens announced it had secured regulatory clearance for its acquisition of 1,932 stores, three distribution centers and related inventory from Rite Aid. According to Walgreens’ earnings report released yesterday, the first few Rite Aid stores were acquired in the past week. Walgreens plans to transfer ownership of the remaining stores in phases as it aims to complete the store transfers by spring 2018. Walgreens has reviewed its combined U.S. store portfolio to determine the affected stores. The company expects to start closings between spring 2018 and mid-2019. As a result of the store closures, Walgreens expects to realize $300 million in annual savings through Aug. 31, 2020. The savings will be derived primarily from procurement, cost savings …
ATLANTA — There are still a lot of question marks in the frontier of e-commerce versus brick-and-mortar retail. But investing in strong anchor tenants and delivering to the needs of the end-user are key to maintaining and developing a successful center, according to panelists at International Council of Shopping Centers’ Southeast Conference & Deal Making event. The comments were made during the “Capital Markets, Retail Disruption, Rates, Maturities, Bankruptcies, Policy and Amazon” panel at the event, which was held Oct. 17-19 at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta. Caitlin Griffin, vice president of transactions at Brixmor Property Group, moderated the panel, which included Francine Glandt, senior vice president of REIT Banking Group at SunTrust Bank; Lauren Holden, senior vice president of Clarion Properties; Joel Murphy, CEO and co-founder of New Market Properties LLC; and Jake Nawrocki, CFA, president of Newport US RE. Although transaction volume is down 23.4 percent year-over-year, according to third-quarter research from JLL, retail demand and development pipelines remain steady. “The challenge for [buyers] is where to invest the capital that they are able to raise,” said Glandt. “The prices that they want to pay for what they want aren’t necessarily lining up with where the market is …
