CHICAGO — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of the Tesla Service Center of Chicago property located at 3059-3057 N. Elston Ave. for $13.1 million. Located in Chicago’s Avondale neighborhood, the build-to-suit for Tesla opened in 2019. The service center spans 31,700 square feet and provides maintenance and repairs for all Tesla models. Michael Marks, Evan Halkias, David Matheis and Eric Cline of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, a private owner. Exan Capital acquired the property on behalf of a separate account, Chicago Elston One LLC. Exan is an independent real estate fund manager with asset management services.
IVINS CITY, UTAH — D.A. Davidson’s Special District Group has successfully priced and closed $106 million of limited tax general obligation bonds for the 278-acre Black Desert Public Infrastructure District (PID). The proceeds will fund Black Desert Resort at Entrada, a commercial and residential resort in Ivins City. Black Desert Resort at Entrada will offer 148 hotel rooms; 299 hotel condominium units; a 200-acre, 19-hole golf course; miles of nearby trails; a wellness spa; and 46,160 square feet of retail and restaurant space. The property will also feature 32 single-family estates, 783 condominium units and approximately 214,000 square feet of commercial space, with the amenities of the resort center available for full-time residents. The first phase of development is expected to create 500 new jobs and future long-term employment opportunities. Construction on the first phase commenced in 2020 and full buildout of the commercial and residential resort is slated for 2027. The development is being undertaken by Enlaw LLC, a Delaware limited liability company that is primarily owned by Reef Capital Partners.
LEWISVILLE, TEXAS — Weitzman has arranged the sale of The Shops at Vista Ridge, a 74,837-square-foot retail center located in the northern Dallas suburb of Lewisville. Texas Family Fitness and Harbor Freight Tools are the center’s anchor tenants, and other users include Salons by JC, McAlister’s Deli, Smoothie King and Hobbytown USA. Matthew Rosenfeld, Kevin Butkus and Giovanni Scardino of Weitzman handled negotiations on behalf of the seller, a partnership between New Jersey-based Lamar Cos. and Colorado-based Real Capital Solutions. The buyer was an undisclosed, locally based investment group.
SELINSGROVE, PA. — JLL has negotiated the $44.8 million sale of Monroe Marketplace, a 372,794-square-foot retail power center in Selinsgrove, about 170 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Giant Food Stores anchors the property, and other soft goods retailers include T.J. Maxx, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Kohl’s, Ross Dress for Less, Michaels, Old Navy, PetSmart and Ulta Beauty. Restaurant users include Longhorn Steakhouse and Buffalo Wild Wings. Christopher Munley, Jim Galbally and Colin Behr of JLL represented the undisclosed institutional seller in the transaction. Acadia Realty Trust purchased the asset for an undisclosed price.
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Maryland-based investment and development firm Greenberg Gibbons has acquired North Providence Marketplace, a 112,497-square-foot shopping center in Rhode Island. Grocer Shaw’s is the anchor tenant of the property, which was 82 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Dollar Tree, Sally Beauty Supply, H&R Block and EbLens. Justin Smith, Chris Peterson, Bryan Anderson, Ben Starr, Sam Koonce and Molly Lynch of Atlantic Capital Partners represented Greenberg Gibbons and the unnamed seller in the transaction. The sales price was not disclosed, but Greenberg Gibbons acquired the asset in conjunction with a 92,000-square-foot center in Maryland for a combined $34.6 million.
BEAUMONT, CALIF. — JLL Capital Markets has brokered the sale of Marketplace Beaumont, a shopping center situated on 51.7 acres at 1604, 1693 and 1642 E. Second St. in Beaumont. Completed in 2008, the 187,851-square-foot property was 91 percent occupied at the time of sale. Tenants include ALDI, Ross Dress for Less, Best Buy, Petco and Bed Bath & Beyond. Gleb Lvovich and Daniel Tyner of JLL Retail Capital Markets represented the buyer, while Aldon Cole and Pat Burger of JLL Debt Advisory team represented the seller, a private family trust that originally developed the center, in the deal. JLL worked with Brixton Capital to source the transaction and structure the existing financing.
FAIRFIELD, CALIF. — SRS Real Estate Partners has brokered the sale of a retail property located at 200 Travis Blvd. in Fairfield. A West Coast-based owner and operator of retail properties sold the asset to a Los Angeles-based private 1031 exchange investor for $6.7 million. Grocery Outlet occupies the 33,590-square-foot property, which was built in 1977 on 4.1 acres. Matthew Mousavi and Patrick Luther of SRS Real Estate Partners’ National Net Lease Group represented the seller and buyer in the deal.
BENTONVILLE, ARK. — Walmart, a Bentonville-based discount retailer, has released plans to hire approximately 150,000 new store associates, with most of the job positions being permanent and full-time. The retailer wants to hire new employees ahead of the holiday season to ensure its stores are highly staffed for the predicted busy months. This July, the discount retailer announced it will invest approximately $1 billion over the next five years to pay college tuition and books for employees via its education program called Live Better U. Walmart also offers an average hourly wage of $16.40, with some jobs at the stores paying as much as $34 an hour. Other benefits include on-the-job and classroom training, affordable health insurance, a 10 percent discount on general merchandise and food for associates, as well as paid time off, no-cost counseling, 401(k) and parental leave. This hiring news follows the announcement the retailer made at the beginning of September in which Walmart planned to hire 20,000 new supply-chain employees in order to keep up with the company’s recent revenue growth. The company saw an increase of 2.4 percent year-over-year in revenue in its fiscal second quarter of 2021, which ended on July 31. The company …
MARSHALL, MICH. — Discount retailer Kmart is closing its final store in the state of Michigan, according to local media reports. The last remaining store is in Marshall, which is located just east of Battle Creek and about 45 miles south of Lansing. The store is expected to close in November. Kmart opened its first location in Garden City, Mich., in 1962. In its prime in the 1990s, Kmart operated more than 2,300 locations in the United States. The current parent company of Kmart, Transformco, also owns Sears, which recently unveiled plans to shutter its final store in the state of Illinois.
FISHERS, IND. — JVM Realty Corp. has acquired The Mark at Fishers District, a 260-unit luxury apartment community in Fishers, a northern suburb of Indianapolis. The company has also acquired Fishers District, an 18-acre development with 98,186 square feet of fully leased retail and restaurant space. A dual-branded Hyatt House and Hyatt Place hotel is also on the site but was not part of the sale. JVM plans to use its in-house management and marketing teams for the residential component, but will engage a national expert in retail services to assist with management of the retail portion. George Tikijian and Hannah Ott of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Thompson Thrift. The sales price was not disclosed.