NORTH RIVERSIDE, ILL. — Five new retailers have signed leases to open at North Riverside Park Mall in the Chicago suburb of North Riverside. The Feil Organization owns the 1.2 million-square-foot shopping center. The leases, which include Canada Weather Gear, Lovisa Jewelry & Accessories, Boneyard Chicago, FLX Move Pilates and Hello Sweetie, bring the property to 96 percent occupancy. Most of the tenants are now open. Feil acquired the mall in 2004 and completed an $8 million capital improvement plan in November 2024.
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Capital Returns as 2025 Signals a Market Reset
By Patrick McGlohn, senior managing director, Berkadia After two years of caution and recalibration, capital is flowing back into commercial real estate. The bid-ask gap between buyers and sellers is narrowing, underwriting assumptions are stabilizing and both equity and debt investors are once again finding common ground. At Berkadia, we’re seeing equity move from the sidelines to the playing field, selectively, but decisively. Equity’s Comeback: Selective, but Strong Private equity and institutional investors are increasingly re-entering the market, with activity strongest in the “Smile States,” stretching from Northern Virginia to the western states and extending into major cities like Chicago. Much of the capital is chasing value-add and opportunistic plays rather than core, stabilized assets. Over the past couple of years, many equity investors would only touch preferred equity because of valuation uncertainty, but now we’re seeing common equity return in a meaningful way. The change reflects both greater pricing clarity and a collective sense that the bottom of the market cycle has passed. Navigating the Wall of Maturities The looming wall of debt maturities remains a defining storyline for 2025 and beyond. Nearly $950 billion in commercial mortgages matured in 2025 — roughly 20 percent of all outstanding commercial …
FRISCO, TEXAS — Houston-based Whitestone REIT has purchased World Cup Plaza, a 90,391-square-foot shopping center located at the corner of Main Street and the Dallas North Tollway in Frisco. Developed in 2007 and situated adjacent to Toyota Stadium, the center is home to tenants such as Blue Goose Cantina, The Green Gator, The NOW Massage, Hikari Sushi & Grill, Lemma Coffee Roasters, Rotate Bar & Kitchen, Frisco Soccer Association and Wells Fargo Bank. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — New York-based Eastern Union has secured $2.9 million in financing for the acquisition of Arcadia Lakes Shopping Center, a 33,684-square-foot retail center located at 6432 Two Notch Road in Columbia. Marc Tropp of Eastern Union arranged the five-year mortgage on behalf of the buyer, CityWide Properties. The loan features a 75 percent loan-to-cost ratio and a 6.65 percent interest rate. Proceeds of the loan were used for the purchase of the shopping center, as well as for a line of credit for tenant improvements and leasing commissions. CityWide Properties is planning to upgrade the property with new exterior lighting and paint, parking lot repaving and striping and fresh landscaping. Tenants at the property include Rent-A-Center, Pizza Hut, Boost Mobile and Heights Finance.
LAKE GROVE, N.Y. — Nordstrom Rack has opened a 25,000-square-foot store in Lake Grove, located on Long Island. The space is located within the 150,000-square-foot Smith Haven Plaza shopping center. Other tenants at the shopping center include Trader Joe’s, Old Navy, Athleta and Ulta Beauty. A partnership between Breslin Realty Development Corp. and Colin Development LLC owns Smith Haven Plaza.
Phoenix Commercial Advisors Brokers Sale of Sprouts Farmers Market-Anchored Retail Center in Phoenix
PHOENIX — Phoenix Commercial Advisors has arranged the sale of Ninety Nine Ave, a grocery-anchored retail property in Phoenix. A private buyer acquired the asset from the developer for $30.7 million, or $650 per square foot, in an all-cash transaction. Situated on 5.2 acres on the northeast corner of 99th Avenue and McDowell Road, the property offers 47,201 square feet of retail space. At the time of sale, the property was 100 percent leased to a variety of tenants, including Sprouts Farmers Market, CAVA, Hand & Stone and Mountain Mike’s Pizza. Danny Gardiner and Chad Tiedeman of Phoenix Commercial Advisors represented the seller in the deal.
BANNOCKBURN, ILL. — Associated Bank has provided an $11.7 million loan to GTZ Properties for the development of a four-building, multi-tenant retail center on a vacant parcel at 1300 Half Day Road in Bannockburn. The 23,864-square-foot project is situated on a 5.3-acre corner lot adjacent to a Mariano’s grocery store and across the street from a Heinen’s grocery store. The development is 93 percent preleased with one space remaining. Signed leases include Wells Fargo Bank, Chipotle, Heart Certified Auto Care, Just Salad and a nail salon. The Gardner School is purchasing a parcel to develop the fifth building on the property as an early childhood education center. Completion of the retail center is slated for summer 2026. Daniel Barrins of Associated Bank handled the loan arrangements and closing.
If you’ve spent any time driving around Atlanta recently, you’ve probably noticed something. More development sites are returning with bulldozers and developers are taking down land parcels in the suburbs the size of small European countries. But this time, the approach is more strategic than ever. Gone are the days when a developer would carve out a shopping center for base rents less than $40 per square foot and call it a day. Today, some metro Atlanta developers are assembling larger tracts and creating hybrid projects that include multifamily housing, storage and even industrial uses in the back of the parcel, saving the front-facing road frontage for ground leases, build-to-suits and limited shop space. Automotive and restaurants concepts are clamoring for pads. The result? Those once-overlooked “front and center” pad sites and strip centers are suddenly the belle of the ball. The downside is paying too much on the buy side for the dirt for aggressively low caps rates. But all I can say for the rental rates that I’m seeing is “Wow.” Restaurants still lead In Atlanta’s retail market, restaurants continue to be the leading driver of leasing activity. According to observations, excluding junior box space, food-and-beverage deals made …
SPRING, TEXAS — New Promise Neuropathy will open a 3,000-square-foot wellness clinic in Spring, a northern suburb of Houston. The space is situated within Spring Oaks Plaza, a newly developed, 10,188-square-foot retail strip center located at 4544 Spring Stuebner Road. Diana Gaines and Jackson Cain of SVN | J. Beard Real Estate represented the landlord, an entity doing business as Spring Oaks Investments LLC, in the lease negotiations. D.J. Hale of Oxford Partners represented the tenant.
BATAVIA, ILL. — Mid-America Real Estate Corp. has brokered the sale of Wind Point Shopping Center, a 255,704-square-foot, grocery-anchored community center in the Chicago suburb of Batavia. The property is 98.7 percent leased to tenants such as Aldi, Kohl’s, Hobby Lobby, Harbor Freight Tools, OfficeMax, HobbyTown, Picked!, PetLand and AT&T. The center is positioned on the retail corridor or Randall Road. Ben Wineman and Emily Gadomski of Mid-America represented the seller, PMAT Real Estate Investments. Core Equity Partners was the buyer.