NewMark Merrill Receives $36M Loan for Refinancing of Shopping Center in Melrose Park, Illinois

MELROSE PARK, ILL. — NewMark Merrill has received a $36 million loan for the refinancing of Winston Plaza, a shopping center in Melrose Park. NewMark Merrill acquired the property in 2008 and completed an extensive remodeling and repositioning. Since the end of COVID, the center has received more than 100,000 square feet of new merchants, including a Cermak grocery store, Ross Dress for Less, Burlington, JD Sports, Sistar Beauty and an expanded Five Below store. Kostas Kavayiotidis of Pacific Southwest Realty and Bryan Gortikov of Gortikov Capital arranged the refinancing loan with Wells Fargo for long-term debt from Mutual of Omaha. Sandra Kist and Josh Ginsborg represented NewMark Merrill on an internal basis.