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LOS ANGELES — OnlyRoses, a specialty rose gift brand, will open its first U.S. retail location and second non-franchise store in the Los Angeles submarket of Beverly Hills. The Beverly Hills location will be the company’s second non-franchise boutique in the world and home base in the U.S. for nationwide shipments, which will come from the company’s new warehouse in Hollywood. Italian architecture firm Baciocchi Associati designed the store. Roses are ethically sourced directly from farms in the Andes mountains near Quito, Ecuador. Originally founded by husband-and-wife team Anian and Sabine Schmitt in 2007, the original London-based OnlyRoses store is located in London’s Knightsbridge neighborhood on the block adjacent to Harrod’s. In the last decade, the business has expanded with franchise locations in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Riyadh and Kuwait City.

FAIR OAKS, CALIF. — NewMark Merrill Cos. has acquired Madison Marketplace, a 258,981-square-foot retail center in Fair Oaks, located 18 miles east of Sacramento. Raley’s Supermarket and TJ Maxx anchor the center, which was 93 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Petco, Dollar Tree, O’Reilly Auto Parts, Chipotle Mexican Grill, GameStop, Leslie Pool Supplies, McDonalds and Starbucks Coffee. Sandy Sigal, Jim Patton, Brad Pearl, Sandra Kist and Susan Rorison of NewMark Merrill represented the company internally in the transaction. Roman Benvenuti and Bill Palmer of Palmer Capital Inc. represented the seller, TA Realty. The price was not disclosed. Kostas Kavayiotidis of Pacific Southwest Realty Services arranged a 10-year, fixed-rate loan through John Hancock Insurance on behalf of NewMark Merrill.