CLINTON TOWNSHIP, MICH. — Gerdom Realty & Investment has arranged the sale of a 2,822-square-foot retail property formerly occupied by Dunkin’ in Clinton Township, north of Detroit. The sales price was undisclosed. The building is located on Groesbeck Highway, just north of 15 Mile Road. Tjader Gerdom and Vicki Gutowski of Gerdom represented the seller. Matt Croswell of CBRE represented the buyer, a Captain D’s restaurant franchisee. This will be the first Captain D’s restaurant in Michigan.
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO., CARUTHERSVILLE, MO., AND NEW CUMBERLAND, W.V. — VICI Properties Inc. (NYSE: VICI), a New York City-based REIT that specializes in casinos, has acquired three such properties in Missouri and West Virginia. Eldorado Resorts Inc. sold the assets for $278 million in an all-cash deal. In Missouri, Isle Casino Cape Girardeau is located in Cape Girardeau in the southern part of the state, while Lady Luck Casino is a riverboat casino in Caruthersville, located even further south near the Tennessee-Missouri border. Both cities are situated along the Mississippi River. In West Virginia, Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort is in New Cumberland, a city situated along the Ohio River in the northern part of the state. Isle Casino opened in 2012 and features 41,500 square feet of casino space, three dining venues, a pavilion and an entertainment center. Lady Luck opened 1995 and consists of a dockside casino spanning 21,500 square feet, two restaurants and a 40,000-square-foot pavilion. Mountaineer opened as a racetrack and resort in 1951. The casino debuted in 1994 and offers a 357-room hotel, five dining venues, 1,486 gaming machines and 36 table games. VICI Properties has also entered into an agreement with Colorado-based Century Casinos …
LEXINGTON, S.C. — Publix Super Markets Inc. has opened a GreenWise Market store within Lexington Marketplace in Lexington. The new 20,400-square-foot grocery store is located at 5336 Sunset Blvd., 10 miles west of downtown Columbia. TSCG announced in April that Publix’s organic brand would be moving into the shopping center. This is second location for GreenWise in South Carolina. The 156,000-square-foot Lexington Marketplace is 94 percent leased to tenants including Hobby Lobby, Ulta Beauty, Brain Balance Achievement Centers, Fit Body Boot Camp, Smoothie King, MOD Pizza, Aiden Lane Boutique and Code Ninjas. Darrell Palasciano of TSCG represented the landlord and developer, Columbia Development, in the lease transaction.
PHILADELPHIA — Cliffs Climbing + Fitness will open a 40,000-square-foot climbing and fitness facility called in Philadelphia on Saturday, Dec. 7. The Cliffs at Callow Hill will be located in a single-tenant warehouse at 1010 Callowhill St. and will offer climbing walls with classes and clinics for all skill levels, plus a private yoga studio and a full-scale fitness center. The facility was built by Caledonia Builders Inc. and the climbing walls were built by Walltopia. Michael Gorman and Stephen Carrozza of Metro Commercial Real Estate represented Cliffs in the lease negotiations.
PHOENIX — Sumitomo Corp. of Americas has purchased Collier Center, a 2.8-acre commercial complex in downtown Phoenix. Eastdil Secured handled the transaction. Terms of the deal, including acquisition price and seller, were not disclosed. The 24-story property features more than 578,000 square feet of rentable space, including a variety of restaurants and bars, plus a three-level underground parking garage. At the time of acquisition, the building was 84 percent occupied, with Bank of America and Uber among its largest tenants. With this new acquisition, Sumitomo owns a commercial real estate portfolio totaling over $425 million to date with more than 1.6 million square feet of commercial space.
NEWBURGH, IND. — Cohen Financial, a division of SunTrust Bank, has arranged a $10.7 million loan for the acquisition of Bell Oaks in Newburgh, a suburb of Evansville. Schnucks grocery store anchors the 95,000-square-foot shopping center. Dan Rosenberg and Matt Terpstra of Cohen arranged the 10-year, fixed-rate loan with Goldman Sachs. Midland Atlantic Properties was the borrower.
INNER GROVE HEIGHTS, MINN. — The Cooper Commercial Investment Group has brokered the $2.1 million sale of Inner Grove Market II, an 8,955-square-foot retail property in Inner Grove Heights, about 20 miles southeast of Minneapolis. Caribou Coffee anchors the building, constructed in 2005. Bob Havasi and Dan Cooper of Cooper Group represented the seller, an East Coast-based private investment group. A North Dakota-based private investment group purchased the asset at a cap rate of 7.28 percent.
Southern California’s Inland Empire region has enjoyed a sustained period of growth in the retail real estate sector. Good spaces in quality centers are leasing quickly. Although new developments have slowed, there is still about 1.2 million square feet of new space under construction. These are all top-tier projects that will very much enhance the communities where they are being built. Projects include a Sprouts-anchored center in Eastvale, a Grocery Outlet/Planet Fitness center in Beaumont, an Aldi-anchored center in Hesperia, a Stater Bros. center in Calimesa, AMC Theaters at Montclair Place in Montclair and a Cardenas grocery market center in Montclair. Conversely, apart from the Inland Empire, there are likely few other areas that were as impacted by the recent store closure announcements from Sears and Forever 21. Closings will occur in Montclair, San Bernardino, Victorville, Moreno Valley, Palm Desert, Riverside, Temecula and Rancho Mirage. All told, more than 900,000 square feet of big box space just hit the market. The Inland Center Mall in San Bernardino, which has been a very healthy property over the past few years, is dealing with both a Sears and Forever 21 closure. Macy’s and JC Penney (opened in 2016) still remain at the …
BURLINGTON, N.C. — The Morgan Cos. has purchased a former Sears department store at 309 Huffman Mill Road within Holly Hill Mall. Morgan Cos. intends to develop the 9.6-acre site into a shopping center anchored by a 48,387-square-foot Publix grocery store and 13,400 square feet of inline retail space. Prego’s Trattoria restaurant, located on an outparcel, is also part of the purchased property. Morgan Cos. will also develop the former Sears Auto Center outparcel next to Prego’s into a multi-tenant retail building as part of the project. Morgan Cos. plans to begin demolition of the Sears building next year and expects the new shopping center to be completed in 2021. Morgan Cos. currently owns a second Triad Publix and developed and owns Peace Haven Village shopping center in Clemmons, N.C.. Morgan Cos. is currently developing another Publix-anchored shopping center in Clayton, N.C. that is expected to open in 2021.
RANSON, W.VA. — Heidenberg Properties Group and Strategic Real Estate Partners have opened the 22,000-square-foot Marshalls at The Potomac Marketplace in Ranson. In March, the two companies announced they reached a leasing agreement with The TJX Cos., the parent company of Marshalls, and would need to immediately expand the center between Kohl’s and Petco. The center now spans 379,000 square feet following the expansion. Marshalls joins other retail tenants such as AT&T, Weis Markets, Kohl’s, Petco and The Home Depot.
