ST. CLOUD, FLA. — Walmart plans to anchor a new 40-acre retail development underway in St. Cloud, an Orlando suburb in Osceola County. Situated at the intersection of U.S. Highway 192 and Puffin Road, the property will include a 187,000-square-foot Walmart Supercenter, a Walmart convenience store and gas station and seven to 10 outparcels. The master developer of the project is The Ferber Co., a privately held development firm. The Ponte Vedra, Fla.-based company is currently underway on site work and underground utility installation at the site. First tenants are expected to open by early 2028. The project team includes Hanson, Walter and Associates Inc., Traffic & Mobility Consultants, JR Davis and Cogent Bank. Alex Bisbee of Insite Real Estate helped identify the two-parcel assemblage opportunity for Ferber.
LOS ANGELES — Northmarq has arranged a $29.3 million loan to refinance Chapman Market, a 41,241-square-foot dining and entertainment center located in Los Angeles’ Koreatown neighborhood. Joe Giordani, Alex Kane and Karl Weidell of Northmarq secured the loan through Voya Investment Management on behalf of the borrower, Arc Capital Partners. Originally opened in 1928, Chapman Market is home to a mix of tenants including Club HUE, Quarters Korean BBQ, Starbucks, Origin Korean BBQ, Shibuyala, Toebang Café, Escala Ktown, Danbi, Tiger Sugar Boba, BHC Chicken, Kazunori: The Original Handroll Bar and Uncle Tetsu.
ZIONSVILLE, IND. — The Boulder Group has arranged the $4.5 million sale of a single-tenant retail property net leased to CVS in Zionsville. The building is located at 6511 Whitestown Parkway near the interchange of I-65 and Whitestown Parkway. Randy Blankstein, Jimmy Goodman and John Feeney of Boulder Group represented the seller, a West Coast-based real estate fund, and the West Coast-based 1031 exchange buyer. Approximately 15 years remain on the CVS lease. The landlord has zero ongoing property management responsibilities under the triple net lease structure. CVS Health operates approximately 9,000 retail pharmacy locations across the United States.
TAMPA, FLA. — The University of South Florida (USF) and its development partners have broken ground on the $500 million first phase of Uptown Landing, a new mixed-use project situated within walking distance of the planned USF on-campus football stadium. The first phase of the project comprises 30 acres and will include 717 beds of student housing; 152 apartments reserved for graduate students and USF employees; four to six restaurant venues; 68,000 square feet of retail space; a hotel and conference center and academic research facilities. Delivered through a master development agreement with ACE Fletcher LLC, this development marks the largest public-private partnership (PPP) in the history of the State University System of Florida. ACE Fletcher is a partnership between Capstone Development Partners, Aureate Development and Ellison Development. The project team also includes Provident Resources Group, CBI Construction, Baker Barrios Architects and Kimley-Horn. Funding for the project includes $270 million in tax-exempt bond financing for the student housing, hospitality, restaurant and retail uses, as well as a roughly $225 million investment for the Translational Research Institute. Capstone Management Partners will provide maintenance and operations services at the student housing building in a shared services agreement with USF. The first phase is …
PALM BEACH GARDENS, FLA. — Nuveen Real Estate has sold Promenade Shopping Plaza, a 207,877-square-foot shopping center located in Palm Beach Gardens. Boston-based Mount Vernon Co. purchased the Publix-anchored center. Danny Finkle, Jorge Portela and Kim Flores of JLL represented Nuveen in the transaction. The sales price was not disclosed, but South Florida Business Journal reports that the shopping center traded for $67 million. Promenade was originally developed in 1989 and renovated in May 2025. The property was 98 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Planet Fitness, Bealls Outlet, Goodwill and Ace Hardware, as well as professional services and medical tenants.
NORTH BEND, WASH. — Northmarq has arranged the sale of J.O. Borgen Plaza, a multi-tenant retail center in North Bend, approximately 30 miles southeast of Seattle. The asset traded for $8.2 million. Sean Tufts, Kevin Adatto, Joe Dugoni and Jack Hallberg of Northmarq’s Pacific Northwest retail investment sales team represented the undisclosed seller and undisclosed buyer in the deal. Located at 248-250 Bendigo Blvd. South and 249 Main Ave. South, the 28,418-square-foot center is occupied by a freestanding Wells Fargo branch, Jersey Mike’s Subs and The UPS Store. Additionally, the center features a 17,958-square-foot former Bartell Drugs building, which was vacant at the time of sale. The sale was aligned with a commercial national retailer to backfill the Bartell Drugs’ property, with an opening slated for 2027.
By Taylor Williams In terms of both ground-up construction and expansions and redevelopments of existing properties, retail development in the greater Houston area is pretty healthy by today’s standards, which is to say that meaningful supply gains in major markets are relatively rare in 2026. But the numbers are working in Houston, where sources say that brick-and-mortar sales are strong enough to support the rents that justify new development. Yet at the same time, margins remain thin on both the tenant and landlord sides, and owners are still very much focused on finding creative ways to manage development and operating costs lest they lose that precious, hard-fought cushion. “There’s a ton of new development around the horn, with projects in Katy, Fulshear, Tomball, Magnolia, Baytown and [New Caney’s] Valley Ranch, and those deals are penciling because retailers are keeping up with rents,” said Kenneth Katz, co-founder and principal at Houston-based brokerage firm Baker Katz. His comments were delivered at the annual InterFace Houston Retail & Mixed-Use conference at the Houston Briar Club on Aug. 25., which was attended by more than 200 industry professionals. Editor’s note: InterFace Conference Group, a division of France Media Inc., produces networking and educational conferences for commercial …
TRINITY, FLA. — Colliers has negotiated the sale of Trinity Village Center, a 76,834-square-foot shopping center located in Trinity, roughly 30 miles north of Tampa. According to the Tampa Bay Business Journal, Crow Holdings purchased the center for $23 million. Tommy Isola and Whitaker Leonhardt of Colliers represented the buyer, Colterra Capital Corp., in the transaction. Trinity Village Center was 93 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Bonefish, Synovus Bank and Tampa General.
CHINO HILLS, CALIF. — Stockdale Capital Partners, together with funds managed by Hamilton Lane, has purchased The Shoppes at Chino Hills, an open-air lifestyle center in Chino Hills, for $157 million. The buyer plans to rename the property The Shops at Chino Hills. Stockdale led the acquisition, with Hamilton Lane as a co-investor. Originally developed in 2008, The Shops at Chino Hills features 378,140 square feet of retail, restaurants and experiential space situated on more than 25 acres at 13920 City Center Drive. Trader Joe’s and Barnes & Noble anchor the center, which serves a customer base of more than 300,000 residents within a five-mile radius. Stockdale plans to invest in the community and property with a rebranding, remerchandising and repositioning strategy to be shared at a later time. Jimmy Slusher, Mark Damiani, James Tyrrell and Shaya Northrup of CBRE marketed the asset.
PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. — Coldwell Banker Commercial Lyle & Associates has facilitated the sale of Liebling Building, a retail property located at 100 N. Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs. The asset traded for $14 million. Steve Lyle and Rob Wenthold of Coldwell Banker Commercial Lyle & Associates represented the undisclosed buyer and the undisclosed seller in the deal. Located at the northeast corner of North Palm Canyon Drive and Tahquitz Canyon Way, Liebling Building features 24,014 square feet of multi-tenant retail space. Surrounding retailers include Faherty, Tommy Bahama, West Elm, The Plaza Theatre, The Rowan and Hyatt Palm Springs.