ARLINGTON, VA. — Whole Foods Market Daily Shop, the grocer’s smaller format retail concept, has opened its fourth location in the Crystal City neighborhood of Arlington. The grocery store spans 10,000 square feet of retail space, which makes it the largest Whole Foods Market Daily Shop to open and the first location to open outside of New York City. The store features more than 250 local items from the broader Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia (DMV) areas. The Arlington store officially opened on Thursday, Oct. 23. Information about the landlord was not released.
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LOS ANGELES — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA) has brokered the sale of Echo Park Village, a 21,876-square-foot retail center located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park. The buyer is Optimus Properties LLC. Built in 1921 and renovated in 2019, tenants at the property include Gra Pizzeria, Clark Street Bread, One Down Dog yoga studio, Butchr Bar, The Strength Shoppe, Henrietta and A Good Used Book. Echo Park Village was 78 percent leased at the time of sale. IPA represented the seller.
Progressive Real Estate Partners Arranges $7M Sale of Tower Plaza Commercial Center in Yucaipa, California
by Amy Works
YUCAIPA, CALIF. — Progressive Real Estate Partners has negotiated the sale of Tower Plaza Commercial Center, a retail and office property located at 34590-34664 County Line Road in Yucaipa. Greg Bedell of Progressive Real Estate Partners represented the seller, a private Inland Empire-based investor and the original developer of the property, while Tricia Cerda of REMAX Redlands represented the buyer, an Inland Empire-based private investor. Built in 1995, Tower Plaza Commercial Center offers 39,422 square feet of commercial space spread across three buildings. At the time of sale, the property was fully occupied by 27 tenants, including food, healthcare, beauty, finance, office and retail users. The units range in size from 240 square feet to 2,200 square feet.
CHICAGO — Pegasus, in cooperation with ParaSell Inc., has arranged the $3.2 million sale of Chatham Plaza, a fully occupied, four-tenant retail strip center positioned within Chatham Market in Chicago. Tenants include Athletico, H&R Block and UPS. The property totals 9,610 square feet, and the weighted average lease term is six years. Katherine Weaver of Pegasus represented the seller, a private fund based in Chicago. The buyer was a Texas-based private fund. The sales price represented a cap rate of 8.5 percent.
WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS — Dallas-based brokerage firm STRIVE has arranged the sale of Call Field Crossing, a 43,736-square-foot shopping center in Wichita Falls, located about 115 miles northwest of Fort Worth. The center was 88 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Jersey Mike’s Subs and Crab Kingdom. Will Schubert and Jennifer Pierson of STRIVE represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The name and representative of the buyer were also not disclosed.
NORTH PORT, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $10.8 million sale of North Port Village, a 66,083-square-foot neighborhood retail center located at 14255 S. Tamiami Trail in North Port, roughly 35 miles south of Sarasota, Fla. Planet Fitness anchors the property, which was fully leased at the time of sale. Additional tenants include Humana, NAPA Auto Parts and Do The Beach adventure park. North Port Village was originally built in 1989 on nearly 11 acres. Clayton Brown, Luke Holsinger and Ruthanne Loar of Marcus & Millichap’s Seattle office procured the buyer, a Seattle-based private investor, in the transaction. Drew Kristol and Kirk Olson, also with Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller, a South Florida-based real estate investment firm.
CUMMING, GA. — JLL has signed four new tenants to join The Collection at Forsyth, a 565,000-square-foot, open-air mixed-use lifestyle center located in Cumming, a northern suburb of Atlanta. Build-A-Bear Workshop is already open at the property, while Rocket Fizz Soda Pop & Candy Shop is set to open by Halloween. Pickleball membership club The Picklr is scheduled to open in November. Meanwhile, children’s interactive play concept Giggle Town recently signed a 7,118-square-foot lease to open its own space at the center. Existing tenant Dermani Medspa has relocated to a larger 3,142-square-foot space at the center while Dental Town, a pediatric dentist, also plans to expand its footprint at the property. Sherri Wilson of JLL led leasing negotiations on behalf of the landlord, CTO Realty Growth Inc. Situated at the intersection of Ga. Highway 400 and Peachtree Parkway, The Collection at Forsyth features a variety of national and local retailers, restaurants and a movie theater, including Academy Sports + Outdoors, Barnes & Noble, Victoria’s Secret, AMC Theatres, J. Crew Factory, Pandora and Sephora. JLL has handled leasing and repositioning at the property since 2023.
OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — Made in KC, a retailer selling local goods, gifts and apparel, will open at Oak Park Mall in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park. The deal marks the brand’s 11th location in metro Kansas City. David Block of Block & Co. Inc. Realtors represented the tenant, which provides a platform for 200 local artists, designers and makers to reach customers throughout Kansas City and across the country. The new store at Oak Park Mall will span 1,560 square feet on the upper level closest to Dillard’s. The store is expected to open soon and will occupy the former Nine Leather & Watches space.
Cammeby’s, Rybak Development Deliver 1 MSF Luxury Apartment Community in Brooklyn’s Coney Island
by Abby Cox
NEW YORK CITY — Cammeby’s International Group, in partnership with Rybak Development, has unveiled Sky Three Residences Club, a 1 million-square-foot luxury apartment community located in Brooklyn’s Coney Island neighborhood. Leasing has begun for the development, with move-ins expected to begin on Saturday, Nov. 1. The three-tower community was constructed as part of the two-phase Neptune/Sixth development plan, which joins a new retail strip that was built during Phase I. Sky Three Residences Club now anchors South Brooklyn’s West Brighton district. “Cammeby’s and its partners have consistently maintained and reinvigorated the retail offerings to ensure a walkable and vibrant neighborhood,” says a company spokesperson for Cammeby’s International. “With leasing at Sky Three underway, we’re proud to welcome residents to a reimagined West Brighton and to a community setting exceptional standards.” Sky Three features 499 apartment units in studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floorplans, ranging in size from 500 to 1,000 square feet, according to Apartments.com. Monthly rental rates begin at $3,100. The project team included Zproekt Architecture and interior designer Durukan Design, as well as Tier 2 Landscape Architecture for the project’s exterior landscaping. The development offers more than 100,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor amenities, including an Olympic-size swimming …
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Lee & Associates’ Report: Q3 Results Shaped by Market Uncertainty, Questions of Legality, Tariffs, AI Considerations
Lee & Associates’ 2025 Q3 North America Market Report examines a commercial real estate landscape experiencing some pauses as the effects of exogenous forces work their way through the market. Economic and legal questions, the second- and third-order effects of tariffs, persistently high costs, unemployment concerns and the new realities of artificial intelligence (AI) have combined to produce mixed results across all property types. Demand for office and retail has increased (and their respective pipelines remain constrained). Of the four property types covered in the report — industrial, office, retail and multifamily — only retail saw transaction momentum in the previous quarter. Meanwhile, the overbuilt industrial and multifamily sectors have witnessed weakening or negative demand in the third quarter. Lee & Associates’ full, detailed market report is available to read here. The overviews for the sectors below reveal a market that seems to be holding its breath, awaiting new information. Industrial Overview: Markets Await Tariff Clarity Net absorption of industrial space increased in the third quarter across North America, but demand was weak and failed again to keep pace with the supply of new buildings, while tenant growth remained hobbled by tariff concerns and interest rates. In the United States, following 8.1 million square feet …