Equity Industrial Buys Metro Boston Retail Building Leased to Stop & Shop for $35.5M

WATERTOWN, MASS. — Locally based investment firm Equity Industrial Partners has purchased a 69,000-square-foot retail building that is net leased to grocer Stop & Shop in Watertown, a western suburb of Boston. The sales price was $35.5 million. Stop & Shop has occupied the building for more than 25 years and recently extended its long-term lease. JLL represented the seller, a partnership between Winstanley Enterprises and Surrey Equities LLC, in the sale and procured Equity Industrial as the buyer. Equity Industrial Partners said it targeted the asset in response to intense competition for industrial properties that was pushing yields lower, and that the company believed it could find higher yield in retail deals for a similar risk profile.