LOUISVILLE, KY. — PRG Commercial Property Advisors has arranged the $9.3 million sale of Stonybrook South Shopping Center, a 149,000-square-foot retail property in Louisville. At the time of sale, the 14.5-acre center was leased to Dick’s Sporting Goods, Planet Fitness, PetSmart, Rack Room Shoes and Burkes Outlet, which opened Sept. 21. Stonybrook South is situated at 3500 S. Hurstbourne Parkway, 13 miles east of downtown Louisville. Fred Sutterlin of PRG Commercial was the court-appointed receiver for the property, which was in foreclosure from February 2018 to Sept. 21, 2020. During that time, Taylor Thompson, Reed Weinberg and Parker Page, who are also with PRG, were engaged to lease, manage, market and sell the asset. Midland Loan Services serviced the foreclosed conduit loan and chose Sutterlin as receiver and PRG as the brokerage firm through a competitive process. A locally based private investor that was completing a 1031 exchange closed on the purchase of Stonybrook South on Oct. 2. According to Sutterlin, the previous ownership was a tenancy in common (TIC) group of investors operating under the name TIC Stonybrook LLC.
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STONE MOUNTAIN, GA. — Colliers International has negotiated the $3.8 million sale of Indian Creek Crossing, a 63,650-square-foot, grocery-anchored shopping center in Stone Mountain. Food Depot anchors the center, which was 88 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Family Dollar and local retailers. Indian Creek Crossing is situated at 4100 Redan Road, 11 miles east of downtown Atlanta. Joe Montgomery and Tony D’Ambrosio of Colliers represented the seller, Tarrytown, N.Y.-based DLC Management. Locally based private investor Vishal I LLC acquired the asset, which was originally built in 1994.
INDIANAPOLIS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a Walgreens-occupied property in Indianapolis for $4 million. The 15,120-square-foot building is located at 455 E. Epler Ave., near Epler Medical Parke. Walgreens recently extended its lease for 10 years. Jordan Klink and David Klink of Marcus & Millichap’s The Klink Group marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a Pennsylvania-based real estate investment fund. The duo also represented the buyer, an Indiana-based private investor.
MENTOR, OHIO — Baceline Investments has purchased Trask Towers, a 16,232-square-foot shopping center in Mentor, about 25 miles northeast of Cleveland. The purchase price was undisclosed. The property is fully leased to tenants such as Noosa Bistro and Guilliano Pizza. Trask Towers marks Baceline’s fifth property in the state of Ohio and 71st in its core income portfolio, which owns and operates necessity-based, multi-tenant shopping centers in 27 different metros. Baceline is based in Denver.
NEW YORK CITY — ShopRite has opened a 70,000-square-foot grocery store at The Boulevard, a $200 million retail redevelopment project on Staten Island. Kimco Realty Corp. is leading the redevelopment of the 400,000-square-foot, open-air center, which will add retailers such as Marshalls, Ulta and PetSmart to its roster in 2021. The new ShopRite features specialty prepared foods from Valducci’s pizza, Loon Chuan Asian cuisine, Saladworks, Juice Press and Dunkin’ coffee, as well as onsite access to a registered dietitian and beauty consultant.
BOSTON — An affiliate of The Bulfinch Companies has purchased a 7,200-square-foot retail building in Boston’s Harvard Square neighborhood with plans to reposition the asset as a medical office or life sciences property complete with a rooftop deck. The building has two stories above grade and one below, with floor–to–ceiling windows on the street providing high visibility and ample daylighting. Kellie Coveney and Michael Restivo of JLL represented the seller, a private entity advised by Ella Properties LLC, in the transaction.This acquisition further strengthens Bulfinch’s portfolio in the Cambridge market. Earlier this year, Bulfinch completed a 280,000-square-foot lab building at Cambridge Discovery Park in the Alewife life sciences cluster. Bulfinch is also the manager of Osborn Triangle, a three-property life sciences and biotech development in Cambridge’s Kendall Square neighborhood,
Marcus & Millichap Arranges $2.4M Sale of Retail Strip Center in Upstate South Carolina
by Alex Tostado
GREER, S.C. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $2.4 million sale of Orangetheory Fitness Strip Center, an outparcel to Riverside Crossing Shopping Center, in Greer. The 6,500-square-foot outparcel is leased to Orangetheory Fitness, Greenfield’s Bagels & Deli and Stevenson Tax & Accounting. The sale is the final piece of the Riverside Crossing Shopping Center portfolio, which comprises a Lowe’s Foods grocery-anchored shopping center and two outparcels totaling 58,358 square feet. The asset is located at 870 E. Suber Road, 10 miles east of downtown Greenville. Zach Taylor and Don McMinn of Marcus & Millichap’s Taylor McMinn Group represented the seller, EA Riverside OP3 LLC, in the transaction. The buyer, VLH Hiawatha LLC, was completing a 1031 exchange. “When evaluating the sale, we concluded the best way to maximize proceeds was to sell the center as three separate offerings to three separate investors,” says Taylor. “By taking this parcelization approach, we achieved a blended cap rate that was 25 basis points lower and netted the seller an additional $600,000 in value.” The three parcels sold for a total of $17.4 million.
Progressive Real Estate Partners Negotiates $5.3M Sale of Foothill Village Shopping Center in Fontana, California
by Amy Works
FONTANA, CALIF. — Progressive Real Estate Partners has arranged the sale of Foothill Village, a retail center located at 14755 Foothill Blvd. in Fontana. A Los Angeles-based private investor sold the property to a Los Angeles-based investor for $5.3 million in an all-cash transaction. Built in 2006, Foothill Village features 24,985 square feet of retail space. At the time of sale, the property was fully leased to 13 tenants. Greg Bedell and Albert Lopez of Progressive Real Estate Partners represented the seller, while Bedell also represented the buyer in the transaction.
HARLINGEN, TEXAS — Coldwell Banker Commercial has arranged the sale of the former Sears department store at the Valle Vista Mall, a 739,000-square-foot retail property located in the Rio Grande Valley city of Harlingen. Sears, which had been one of the mall’s anchor tenants without owning the space since its construction in 1984, vacated the 90,000-square-foot space in 2018 as part of a larger series of store closures. New York-based Valle Vista Mall Holdings LLC sold the asset to ZE Valle Vista Realty LLC for an undisclosed price. The new ownership will redevelop the space but did not release specific plans.
RIVER OAKS, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of River Oaks Shopping Center, a 23,380-square-foot retail property located on the western outskirts of Fort Worth in River Oaks. Dollar Tree and grocer La Michoacana anchor the center, which was fully leased at the time of sale. Philip Levy and Chris Gainey of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a developer, in the transaction. The duo also procured the buyer, a private investor.