SCHAUMBURG, ILL. — Specialty candy retailer IT’SUGAR has relocated its store at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg to a 5,600-square-foot storefront, nearly double the size of its previous location. The Woodfield Mall location is the retailer’s fifth store in the Chicago market and offers more than 300 candy bins. Alongside its candy offerings, IT’SUGAR also features immersive candy displays from brands such as Sour Patch Kids, OREO, Nerds, Skittles, Reese’s and Starburst.
SHORT PUMP, VA. — Wafra Inc. has sold Short Pump Station, a 91,369-square-foot shopping center in Short Pump, located roughly 10 miles northwest of Richmond. Nuveen Real Estate acquired the property for nearly $55 million, making the center the investor’s second acquisition in the Richmond metro area. Situated on 147 acres, the retail development is anchored by Trader Joe’s. Other tenants at the property include Ulta Beauty and Petco. John Owendoff of Cushman & Wakefield, along with Catharine Spangler of Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer, represented Wafra in the transaction. The New York City-based investor has owned Short Pump Station since acquiring it from a joint venture affiliate of AmCap in 2021. Nuveen has retained Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer to lease and manage the shopping center.
LAS VEGAS — Remington Nevada has completed the sale of Mountain’s Edge Marketplace, a neighborhood shopping center in Mountain’s Edge, a master-planned community in Las Vegas. An out-of-state investor acquired the asset for $50.3 million, or $37 per square foot. Roy Fritz and Preston Fetrow of CBRE’s National Retail Investment Partners-West represented the seller, a Las Vegas-based private investment firm. The purchase includes the assumption of a $33 million CMBS loan requiring the new borrower to engage a loan expeditor to facilitate the process. Situated on 14.7 acres at 7975 Blue Diamond Road, Mountain’s Edge Marketplace offers 115,037 square feet of retail space, which is 98 percent leased to 40 national and local retailers. Current tenants include Ross Dress for Less, Planet Fitness, Starbucks Coffee, Supercuts, The UPS Store, China A Go Go and T-Mobile. The property is shadow anchored by an Albertsons-occupied property, which was not included in the sale.
BUFORD, GA. — Marcus & Millichap’s Taylor McMinn Retail Group has brokered the sale of a newly built restaurant located at 4996 Lanier Parkway in Buford, a northeast suburb of Atlanta. Built in 2024, the 3,318-square-foot restaurant is ground-leased to Whataburger and sits on a nearly 1.5-acre site at the entrance of a 1.1 million-square-foot Amazon logistics center. The popular quick-service restaurant (QSR) chain has a 15-year ground lease in place at the restaurant with scheduled rent increases and extension options. Whataburger is based in Texas and only recently began opening restaurants in Georgia, the first of which opened in Kennesaw in 2022. Don McMinn of Taylor McMinn Retail Group represented the seller, an unnamed developer, in the 1031 transaction. The buyer and sales price were also not disclosed. “This is our third Whataburger closing in fourth-quarter 2024 and will be bring more to market in 2025,” says McMinn. “Whataburger continues to garner strong demand and attractive pricing from investors and is one of the more desirable QSR options in the market today.”
BOSTON — Locally based brokerage firm Atlantic Capital Partners has negotiated the $15.4 million sale of The Trapelo Portfolio, a collection of four retail properties and one office building totaling roughly 70,000 square feet in Massachusetts. The retail component of the portfolio includes Duxbury Plaza, a 44,014-square-foot, grocery-anchored shopping center located south of Boston, as well as three freestanding buildings in Billerica, Burlington and Shrewsbury that are leased to the United States Postal Service. Justin Smith, Chris Peterson, Sam Koonce, Mary Powers and Matt Ericson of Atlantic Capital Partners represented the buyer and seller, both of which requested anonymity, in the transaction.
LINDEN, N.J. — SRS Real Estate Partners has brokered the $7.4 million ground-lease sale of a 5,585-square-foot retail building in the Northern New Jersey community of Linden that is leased to convenience store operator Wawa. The building was constructed in 2023 on 1.5 acres within the 350,000-square-foot Legacy Square shopping center, and Wawa has 19 years remaining on the corporate-guaranteed lease. Kyle Fant, Britt Raymond, Matthew Mousavi and Patrick Luther of SRS represented the seller, a partnership between Dallas-based Cypress Equities and San Francisco-based Stockbridge Capital Group, in the deal. The undisclosed, New York-based buyer acquired the property via a 1031 exchange.
CHAMPAIGN, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $5.1 million sale of Champaign Station, a six-suite retail strip center in Champaign. Built in 2007, the 21,152-square-foot property is fully leased to a mix of restaurant and service-oriented tenants. The asset is shadow anchored by Menards and adjacent to Market Place Shopping Center. Alex Perez and Chris Garavaglia of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private equity group, and procured the buyer, a private equity group based out of North Carolina. The duo previously brokered the sale of the property in 2020.
MIAMI — Major League Baseball’s Miami Marlins have formed a partnership with The Cordish Companies to develop Miami Live! at loanDepot Park, the home ballpark of the Marlins. The entertainment destination in the city’s Little Havana neighborhood will feature indoor-outdoor dining and entertainment spaces aimed at elevating the fan experience, including year-round space activations. The official opening of Miami Live! is anticipated for early 2026. LoanDepot Park opened in 2012 and hosts events such as the World Baseball Classic, Caribbean Series and Choque de Gigantes in addition to Marlins home games. “This project represents our commitment to our community, as we develop our ballpark’s campus to feature dining, entertainment and gathering options for everyone to enjoy,” says Bruce Sherman, Miami Marlins chairman and principal owner. The Marlins organization has prioritized sustainability and inclusivity in its design, including features such as energy-efficient lighting, accessible pathways and community art installations. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava emphasizes that the privately financed project comes at zero cost to taxpayers. The project is being developed and designed in partnership with Cordish, which is known for its sports-anchored mixed-use developments. Cordish has partnered with many of the country’s professional sports franchises, including the St. Louis …
THOUSAND OAKS, CALIF. — Marathon Asset Management has provided a $164 million mortgage loan for the acquisition of The Oaks, a shopping mall located in Thousand Oaks, roughly 38 miles west of Los Angeles. Stockdale Capital Partners was the borrower. Nordstrom, Dick’s Sporting Goods and AMC Theatres anchor the 1.2 million-square-foot property, which is situated on 85 acres. Other tenants at the center include Apple, Anthropologie, Zara, H&M and Arhaus. Joseph Griffin of Marathon originated the loan. Greg Stampley and Jessica Henning of Eastdil Secured arranged the financing on behalf of Stockdale.
EDGEWATER, COLO. — CentrePoint Properties has acquired Edgewater Public Market, a 76,000-square-foot retail center located in Edgewater, roughly five miles outside downtown Denver, for an undisclosed price. LCP Development, an affiliate of LCP Management, was the developer and seller. Opened in 2019 within a building formerly occupied by King Soopers, the center comprises a food hall and 17 retail tenants, as well as three additional buildings leased to tenants including Shake Shack, Syrup, Veterinary Emergency Group and Adelita’s Cocina y Cantina.
