CLEVELAND — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Cleveland Retail Center, a 17,070-square-foot property located at 429 W. Southline St., for $3.7 million. Built in 2007, the property is at the main entrance to a Super Walmart and is 100 percent occupied. Tenants include Buddy’s Furniture, Subway, Mann Eye Center, Edward Jones, Sally Beauty Supply and Advance Cash America. Kelley Workman and Jerry Goldstein of Marcus & Millichap had the exclusive listing to market the property on behalf of the seller, a private investor. The buyer was a private investor who was completing a 1031 exchange transaction.
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REDLANDS, CALIF. — Equitas Investments has completed the disposition of single-tenant retail property located at 1325 Industrial Park Ave. in Redlands. A private investor acquired the 2,324-square-foot property for $1.5 million. Built in 1984, the former Long John Silver’s restaurant will be converted into an Enterprise Rent-A-Car. The company signed a 10-year, corporate-backed, absolute triple-net lease with two five-year options for the property. Jeremy McChesney of Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors represented the seller, while Hai Luong of Maxwell Realty Inc. represented the buyer in the deal.
MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $9.1 million sale of 441 Plaza, a 38,100-square-foot shopping center located on the northeast corner of N.W. 207th Street and U.S. Route 441 in Miami Gardens. Drew Kristol and Kirk Olson of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer, a South American commercial real estate investment group, in the transaction.
ORLANDO, FLA. — UFC Gym has leased 12,000 square feet of space at Westland Terrace Shopping Center on West Colonial Drive in Orlando. The gym will be situated within the space formerly leased to Petco. Nick Barbato and Eric Portnoy of Equity Investment Services represented the landlord, ESJ Capital Partners, in the lease deal.
As we near the end of 2016, we also mark another strong year for the San Antonio retail market. In fact, the market is strong enough that we can retire the word recovery and replace it with expansion. Expansion, in a nutshell, means that the retail market has not only matched the pre-recession occupancy level of 92 percent, it has exceeded it. San Antonio currently boasts a healthy occupancy rate of 94 percent, even as key vacancies from Sports Authority came onto the market during the past year. The Alamo City is able to maintain the balance due to the fact that vacancy added by the sporting goods retailer was offset by fully leased construction and the backfilling of major retail box spaces. The Weitzman Group currently reviews approximately 45 million square feet of retail inventory in San Antonio centers with 25,000 square feet or more. Like the retail market, San Antonio’s economy also continues to grow, based on solid population and job growth. The metro area market, as of September 2016, reports an unemployment rate of 4.1 percent. This is well below the country’s rate of 4.8 percent, according to the Texas Workforce Commission. The metro area also ranks …
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Resaca Village, a retail power center located at 1601 E. Price Road in Brownsville. MIMCO acquired the 173,667-square-foot property for an undisclosed price. At the time of sale, the property was 96 percent occupied by Big Lots, Fallas, the University of Texas at Brownsville, CSL Plasma, Harbor Freight Tools, Family Dollar and Tuesday Morning. The asset was constructed in 1974 and 1994 and renovated in 2005 and 2014. Philip Levy of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, an Austin-based partnership, in the deal.
DALLAS — JLL has brokered the sale of the former John Roberts BMW retail property located at 2536 Forest Lane in Dallas. AutoNation Luxury Imports Ltd. sold the 96,557-square-foot property, including its 6.2-acre land parcel, for an undisclosed sum. Clay Smith, Mark Newman and Katie Carlisle of JLL represented the seller, while Mark Adame of Joe Adame & Associates Inc. represented the undisclosed buyer in the transaction.
HOUSTON — NorthMarq Capital has secured refinancing for Beechnut Tiendas, a retail center located in Houston. Warren Hitchcock of NorthMarq Capital arranged the financing through a life insurance company for the undisclosed borrower. Pollo Campero, Supermercado Teloloapan, T-Mobile and Shipley Do-Nuts occupy the 18,995-square-foot property.
BARBOURSVILLE, W.VA. — Field & Stream, an outdoors specialty store owned and operated by Dick’s Sporting Goods, plans to open a new store in Huntington Mall in Barboursville. The new store will be situated adjacent to an existing Dick’s Sporting Goods and together the two retailers will occupy 100,000 square feet on the west side of the 1.5 million-square-foot mall, which is located off Route 60 and I-64. Niles, Ohio-based Cafaro Co. owns the mall and inked the lease for the new Field & Stream, which is slated to open in the fall of 2017.
CONCORD, CALIF. — A joint venture between Long Market Property Partners LLC and Paragon Commercial Group LLC has acquired Shops at Todos Santos, a full city block of retail located in downtown Concord, for an undisclosed price. The 40,000-square-foot property is fully occupied by tenants including Peet’s Coffee, The Old Spaghetti Factory, CREAM Inc., Capriotti’s, Bollinger Nail Salon, Naan ’n’ Curry, Half Price Books and Chevron. Forrest Gherlone, Mike Zylstra, Keith Marr and Zachary LeBeouf of Newmark Cornish & Carey handled the disposition on behalf of the seller, an undisclosed private family.