FORT LEE, N.J. — Locally based brokerage firm The Goldstein Group has negotiated the $37 million sale of Washington Bridge Plaza, a 47,000-square-foot retail center located in the Northern New Jersey community of Fort Lee. Walgreens anchors the center. Other tenants include Dollar Tree, Jersey Mike’s, Kung Fu Tea, The Gyro Project, Bon Epi, Fort Lee Vision, Binghamton Bagel & Deli, Belle Journee Bakery, Pho Today, Punta Cana, 101 Chicken and Kura Revolving Sushi. C.J. Huter, Marc Palestina and Lew Finkelstein of The Goldstein Group represented the buyer in the transaction. Baruch Herman of Booth Street Realty represented the seller. Both parties were limited liability companies.
TUSTIN, CALIF. — Five new tenants have signed leases to join The District at Tustin Legacy, a 1 million-square-foot retail center located in the Orange County city of Tustin. Jini Mini, Café 86 and The District Eatery have already opened at the property. Activate Games is scheduled to open in July, while French bakery Le Macaron is expected to open later this year. Additional tenants at the center include Whole Foods Market, Costco, Target, Lowe’s, Nothing Bundt Cakes, Ben & Jerry’s, The Winery Restaurant & Wine Bar and Pinot’s Palette.The District at Tustin Legacy is owned by a partnership between Kimco Realty Corp. and Vestar Development Co.
SAN DIEGO — Northmarq has arranged the sale of The Charmer, a mixed-use community in San Diego’s Mission Hills neighborhood. Charmer LLC sold the property to Monroe Capital Real Estate Fund for $12.7 million. Built in 2011, The Charmer features 19 apartments, two live-work lofts and three commercial units. The property offers top-of-the-line interiors, abundant outdoor space with private patios and gardens, as well as amenity spaces. Tyler Sinks, Ed Rosen and John Chu of Northmarq’s San Diego Multifamily Investment Sales team represented the seller in the deal.
FLORISSANT, MO. — First National Realty Partners (FNRP) has acquired Florissant Marketplace, a grocery-anchored shopping center in the St. Louis suburb of Florissant. The property is 98 percent leased and anchored by a 70,262-square-foot Schnucks store. The grocer, which maintains over 115 stores in the Midwest, has operated at Florissant Marketplace for more than 20 years. Additional tenants include Crunch Fitness, Pet Supplies Plus, Wing Stop and AT&T. Current inline tenants have a weighted average tenure exceeding 11 years. Chase Young of CBRE represented the undisclosed seller. FNRP now owns four grocery-anchored centers totaling over 950,000 square feet in Missouri. All are located within metro St. Louis.
SALEM, N.H. — Three new retailers will join the tenant roster at Tuscan Village, a 170-acre mixed-use development in Salem that is a redevelopment of the former Rockingham Park horseracing complex. Grocer Whole Foods Market, eyewear provider Warby Parker and ice cream maker Salt & Straw will all open new stores at Tuscan Village in 2025. Square footages of spaces were not disclosed.
FRANKLIN, N.C. — Taylor McMinn Retail Group, an Atlanta-based retail investment sales team within Marcus & Millichap, has brokered the sale of a newly constructed, single-tenant retail property located at 1352 Siler Road in Franklin. Starbucks Coffee occupies the building — which totals 2,500 square feet — on a 10-year corporate lease with rent increases. The Starbucks is shadow-anchored by the closest Walmart store to Highlands, a popular vacation destination in western North Carolina. Don McMinn of Taylor McMinn Retail represented the seller, a Georgia-based developer, in the all-cash, 1031 exchange. The out-of-state buyer and the sales price were not disclosed. “You can’t overemphasize the impact that price point has on pricing in today’s market,” says McMinn. “In some cases, price point is more critical than credit compared to where deals are trading and when.”
MIAMI — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $5.7 million sale of Plaza 77 Shops, a 9,590-square foot retail strip center in Miami’s Dadeland neighborhood. Situated less than one mile from Dadeland Mall, the property is anchored by Trulieve and Domino’s Pizza, which both operate on corporate-guaranteed leases. Additional tenants at the center include Chase Bank, Outback Steakhouse, Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza, Cancun Grill and Massage Envy, according to LoopNet. Drew Kristol and Kirk Olson of Marcus & Millichap’s Miami office represented the seller, an entity doing business as Plaza 77 Shops LLC, and procured the buyer, a local private investor, in the transaction.
PARKER, COLO. — Trevey Commercial Real Estate has directed the sale of Stagecoach Building, a retail property on 1.7 acres in Parker. Pony Express LLC sold the asset to 18632 Pony LLC for $2.7 million. Located at 18632 Pony Express Drive, Stagecoach Building features 26,000 square feet of retail space. David Marulli of Trevey Commercial Real Estate represented the seller, while James West of Black Diamond Commercial Real Estate represented the buyer in transaction.
FONTANA, CALIF. — Raceway Express Car Wash has acquired Foothill Express Car Wash, located at 16345 Foothill Blvd. in Fontana, for an undisclosed price. Originally built in 2018 by the seller, the property features a 3,693-square-foot building with a 120-foot tunnel and 25 vacuum stations. Alex Kogan of Beta Agency represented the seller, while Adam Indihar of Pacific Investments represented the buyer in the deal.
BENTONVILLE, ARK. — Sam’s Club, a division of Bentonville-based Walmart, has announced plans to remodel all 600 of its existing membership-based stores (called “clubs”) nationwide. The stores will be modeled after the Grapevine, Texas, location, which opened in December 2024. The new locations will span 160,000 square feet and include a seafood/sushi island, full-service floral station, walk-in dairy and fresh coolers and a larger healthcare space featuring a patient waiting area, health services suites, private consultation rooms and dedicated hearing and optical centers. As part of its previously announced long-term strategy, Sam’s Club will also open 30 new locations over the next several years while building a pipeline to begin opening 15 new clubs annually. This marks the first expansion since 2017 after Sam’s Club closed 62 locations in 2018. By the end of fiscal 2025, Sam’s Club plans to open two more new locations in Tempe, Ariz., and Lebanon, Tenn., with further plans to begin construction on seven additional locations, according to CNBC.