Retail

BALTIMORE — Klein Enterprises, an investment and development firm based in Baltimore, has purchased a portfolio of nine grocery-anchored shopping centers in the Mid-Atlantic. The portfolio spans 800,000 square feet of retail space and was 80 percent leased at the time of sale. Cedar Realty Trust sold the portfolio for an undisclosed price in conjunction with the broader asset acquisition of Cedar’s grocery-anchored portfolio by a joint venture between DRA Advisors and KPR. United Bank provided an undisclosed amount of debt financing for the acquisition. As part of the transaction, Klein is acquiring seven stabilized shopping centers and two centers actively under redevelopment: Valley Plaza in Hagerstown, Md., and Yorktowne Plaza in Cockeysville, Md. The other seven centers in the portfolio include: • The Shoppes Arts District located in Hyattsville, Md. • Oakland Mills located in Columbia, Md. • Elmhurst Square located in Portsmouth, Va. • General Booth Plaza located in Virginia Beach, Va. • Kempsville Crossing located in Virginia Beach, Va. • Oak Ridge Shopping Center located in Suffolk, Va. • Swede Square located in East Norriton, Pa.

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TUSCALOOSA, ALA. — GBT Realty has sold McFarland Plaza, a 188,406-square-foot shopping center located at 2600 McFarland Blvd. in Tuscaloosa. Cincinnati-based Select Strategies Realty purchased the property from the Brentwood, Tenn.-based owner for an undisclosed price. Jim Hamilton, Brad Buchanan and Andrew Kahn of JLL represented GBT Realty in the transaction. Situated one mile from the University of Alabama, McFarland Plaza’s tenant roster includes HomeGoods, T.J. Maxx, Ross Dress for Less, Michaels, Dollar General, CosmoProf, Shoe Carnival, Slim Chickens, Party Wow, MS Cos. and Jersey Mike’s.

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FRANKLIN PARK, N.J. — Oklahoma-based brokerage firm Stan Johnson Co. has arranged the $56 million sale of Franklin Towne Center, a 138,000-square-foot shopping center in Central New Jersey. Grocer Stop & Shop anchors the center, which was built on 14 acres in 1990. Isaiah Harf of Stan Johnson Co. represented the seller, a New York-based developer, in the transaction. The buyer was a New Jersey-based investment firm. Both parties involved in the deal requested anonymity.

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WEST HAVERSTRAW, N.Y. — An affiliate of locally based investment and management firm Northeast Capital Group has purchased Samsondale Plaza, a 156,185-square-foot shopping center in West Haverstraw, about 35 miles north of New York City, for $26.5 million. Anchored by grocer Stop & Shop, the property also houses tenants such as Dollar Tree, Advance Auto, Sports Clips and Sally Beauty Supply. Jose Cruz, J.B. Bruno, Steve Simonelli, Michael Oliver, Kevin O’Hearn, Austin Pierce and Andrew Scandalios of JLL represented the seller, a joint venture between investment and development firm Mark Holdings and Connecticut-based Paragon Realty Group, in the transaction.

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MIAMI — Helm Equities has announced plans for Parterre 42, a $300 million office building that will occupy a full city block between NE 42nd and 43rd streets in Miami’s Design District. The 500,000-square-foot development will offer 80,000 square feet of functional outdoor space dispersed across each floor of the building with communal work tables, outdoor power and charging stations, and flexible furniture groupings. COOKFOX Architects designed the project. Additional amenities at the property, which features unobstructed views of Biscayne Bay and the downtown Miami skyline, will include an indoor-outdoor cafe, multi-level fitness center, bike and scooter storage, and valet parking alongside retail space.  The project was designed to achieve LEED Gold and WELL Gold certifications with a dedicated outdoor air system and an all-electric HVAC system. “We worked with COOKFOX to turn the typical office building inside-out, incorporating massive amounts of functional outdoor space on every floor so that occupants of Parterre 42 feel like they are truly working in nature,” says Ayal Horovits, principal at Helm Equities. Paul Amrich, Neil King, Gordon Messinger and Camron Tallon of CBRE have been tapped to lease the project’s 320,000 square feet of office space. A timeline for construction was not announced.  …

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HOFFMAN ESTATES, ILL. — AmCap Inc. has acquired Hoffman Plaza in the Chicago suburb of Hoffman Estates for an undisclosed price. Jewel-Osco and Burlington anchor the 146,263-square-foot shopping center. AmCap purchased Hoffman Plaza in a joint venture with Encore Enterprises. The property is more than 96 percent leased.

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SHELBY TOWNSHIP, MICH. — Five Iron Golf, an indoor golf and entertainment experience, is scheduled to open in August in Shelby Township, about 30 miles north of Detroit. The 6,000-square-foot location at 70773 Corporate Drive will offer six TrackMan golf simulators, custom club fitting by The Fitting Lab, a putting green, full-service bar, widescreen TVs and shuffleboard. Five Iron Golf also plans to open a Detroit location later this year.

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PHOENIX — A CIM Group-managed fund has closed a $204 million construction loan to Medistar Corp., GMH Communities and a fund sponsored by CBRE Investment Management to finance the development of Central Station, a mixed-use transportation hub in downtown Phoenix. Located at 300 N. Central Ave. at Van Buren Street, Central Station will consist of 362 apartments, 435 student housing units with 655 beds, more than 100,000 square feet of office and retail space, and 427 subterranean parking spaces across two 22- and 23-story towers and a podium. The development is adjacent to an existing bus and light-rail transit center and is a public-private partnership with the City of Phoenix and the federal Transit Authority. The development team broke ground on the project in April.

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ATLANTA — CTO Realty Growth, a retail REIT based in Daytona Beach, Fla., has purchased Madison Yards, a new retail development in Atlanta’s Inman Park district. The developer, locally based Fuqua Development, sold the 162,500-square-foot project to CTO Realty Growth for $80.2 million. Located at 905 Memorial Drive along the Atlanta Beltline’s Eastside Trail, Madison Yards was 98 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including anchors Publix and AMC Theatres. Other tenants include AT&T, First Watch and Orangetheory Fitness. Fuqua delivered the property in 2019, as well as an attached apartment community that was not part of the transaction.

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KATY, TEXAS — Partners Capital, an affiliate of Partners Real Estate Co., has sold Royal Montreal Plaza, a 40,094-square-foot shopping center located in the western Houston suburb of Katy. Josh Lass-Sughrue and Davis Amanyisye of NAI Partners, the real estate services arm of Partners Real Estate, represented the seller in the transaction. The buyer was not disclosed. Partners Capital originally acquired the asset in August 2018.

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