LA VISTA, NEB. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $6.4 million sale of Val Verde Place Shopping Center in La Vista, a southern suburb of Omaha. Located at 9631 Giles Road and built in 2000, the property totals 48,712 square feet. Chris Garavaglia, Alex Perez and Austin Sweet of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private equity group based on the East Coast, and procured the buyer, a Midwest-based 1031 exchange investor. The asset closed at 99 percent of the list price.
MADISON, TENN. — JLL has brokered the $9.8 million sale of Rivergate Square, an 81,935-square-foot shopping center located at 1584 Gallatin Pike N in Madison, a suburb of Nashville. Jim Hamilton and Brad Buchanan of JLL represented the seller, Albanese Cormier, in the transaction. The buyer was not disclosed. Rivergate Square was fully leased at the time of sale to tenants including Dollar General, Office Depot, dd’s Discounts and Jimmy John’s.
NEW YORK CITY — HKS Real Estate Advisors has arranged a $4 million acquisition loan for One Vandam, a 14,000-square-foot retail property located in the SoHo area of Manhattan. The four-unit property at 180 Sixth Ave. was fully leased at the time of the loan closing. Eugene Weinraub and Alex Dobosh of HKS Real Estate originated the loan through locally based bridge lender Emerald Creek Capital. The borrower was New York-based CRE8 Equities.
PASADENA, CALIF. — Pasadena, Calif.-based ExchangeRight has purchased 13 net-leased properties as a sale-leaseback transaction with Tractor Supply. Totaling more than 425,000 square feet, the properties are in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas. With this acquisition, ExchangeRight has expanded its portfolio of assets net leased to Tractor Supply to more than 100 properties as of Oct. 31, 2024.
LAKE ZURICH, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $7.7 million sale of Lakeview Plaza, a retail strip center totaling 52,400 square feet in the Chicago suburb of Lake Zurich. Built in 1987, the property is home to restaurants, health and fitness tenants, and automotive service users. Adrian Mendoza, Sean Sharko and Austin Weisenbeck of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investment group, and procured the buyer, a family office specializing in owning and operating shopping centers.
LYNCHBURG, VA. — Coldwell Banker Commercial Read & Co. has brokered the $6 million sale of Forest Hill Shopping Center, an 82,000-square-foot retail center located at 2820 Linkhorne Drive in Lynchburg. Rick Read and Ricky Read of Coldwell Banker Read represented the seller, an entity doing business as Lynchburg Investment Co. Inc., in the transaction. The brokerage firm has served as the landlord rep for the retail center for the past 20 years. The buyer, Swintstorage Conversion Fund LLC, plans to convert the shopping center’s anchor store into a self-storage facility with some outdoor RV and boat storage space. The new owner will also rehabilitate the balance of Forest Hill’s retail space.
CUMMING, GA. — CTO Realty Growth Inc. has announced a round of new retail openings and leases at The Collection at Forsyth, an open-air mixed-use development in Cumming, an Atlanta suburb in Forsyth County. Sephora and Kilwins opened new locations at The Collection in November, and boutique Pilates fitness concept Bodyrok and pickleball concept The Picklr have recently signed leases to join the tenant roster. Sherri Wilson of JLL handles the retail leasing at The Collection on behalf of CTO. Additionally, True Rest Float Spa and Bahama Buck’s are set to open in the coming weeks, joining existing tenants including J. Crew Factory, Mellow Mushroom, Hopdoddy Burger Bar, Pandora, Parsons Gifts, Le Macaron, Master Jewelers, Woof Gang Bakery, The Good Feet Store, Spavia and F45 Training. JLL launched repositioning and leasing efforts at The Collection in January 2023.
HOUSTON — Rice Real Estate Co., the property investment arm of Rice University, has welcomed three new tenants to Rice Village, a 300,000-square-foot shopping, dining and entertainment destination located southwest of downtown Houston. The new tenants are New Orleans-based eyewear brand KREWE (941 square feet), boys’ boutique apparel retailer ParkerJoe (1,975 square feet) and Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams (1,603 square feet). KREWE will open in early December, and ParkerJoe and Jeni’s will open in early 2025.
MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. — New Jersey-based financial intermediary G.S. Wilcox & Co. has arranged a $12 million loan for the refinancing of Fair Ground Plaza, a 178,532-square-foot shopping center located outside of Philadelphia in Southern New Jersey. The center was 90 percent leased at the time of the loan closing. Grocer Acme Markets is the anchor, and other tenants include Staples, Dollar Tree and Advance Auto Parts. David Fryer of G.S. Wilcox arranged the loan through an undisclosed life insurance company. The borrower was also not disclosed.
PHOENIX — Lena Centers, a division of Boston-based Longpoint, has purchased El Monte Shopping Plaza, a retail property on 8.8 acres in Phoenix. Terms of the transaction were not released. Mindy Korth and JK Jackson of Colliers in Phoenix, along with El Warner and Caitlin Zirpolo of Colliers in Irvine, Calif., handled the transaction. Built in 1962, El Monte Shopping Plaza offers 101,269 square feet of retail space. At the time of sale, the property was 99 percent leased by ASI Real Estate with 15 destination-oriented tenants. Current tenants include El Rancho Market IGA, dd’s DISCOUNTS, Shoe Palace, ArchWell Health, Cute Smiles dentistry, Cricket Wireless and Baskin Robbins.
