RICHTON PARK, ILL. — Novak Construction has completed a new 184,000-square-foot, $18.3 million Walmart Supercenter in Richton Park, approximately 35 miles south of Chicago. The store includes a grocery, produce and bakery area; vision center; photo center; electronics and sporting goods departments; credit service station; indoor and outdoor garden center; and indoor pharmacy with drive-thru. The 28-acre site also included two detention basins, a frontage road, retaining wall, parking for 800 cars and a full-service fueling center. The adjacent roadways were widened to accommodate the new store, and traffic signals were added to the intersections. Construction took eight months to complete. Merriam, Kan.-based BRR Architecture Ltd. designed the project.
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SNELLVILLE, GA. — Publix Super Markets Inc. has purchased Publix at Centerville, a 68,752-square-foot shopping center located at the southeast corner of Centerville Highway and Centerville-Rosebud Road in Snellville, a Gwinnett County suburb of Atlanta. CBRE’s national retail investment group represented the seller, GDC Properties Inc., in the transaction. Publix at Centerville was 94 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Publix, Subway and GNC.
DALLAS — Bart Dickinson of NorthMarq Capital’s Dallas office has arranged the $3.5 million refinancing of Oak Lawn Crossing shopping center, a 19,500-square-foot retail property located at 2920 Oak Lawn Ave. in Dallas. The loan was structured with a 12-year term and 20-year amortization schedule. NorthMarq arranged financing for the borrower through its correspondent relationship with a life insurance company.
CARSON, CALIF. — KTGY Architecture + Planning has unveiled the design for Vintage Real Estate’s retailer expansion at SouthBay Pavilion, a 1.2 million-square-foot enclosed shopping center located in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson. KTGY worked with Vintage Real Estate to redesign the mall’s over-all lease plan to make way for a new 17,000-square-foot F21 RED store, and new retail and food tenants, as well as new flooring, restrooms and other upgrades to the property. The firm adapted Forever 21’s F21 RED brand for the new SouthBay Pavilion store, which includes floor-to-ceiling display window boxes, textured wall treatments and red metal panels. The expansion includes food concepts Wing Stop, Jamba Juice, Chile Verde Mexican Food and health retailer Vitamin World. The anticipated completion date for the redevelopment is early 2017.
CANOGA PARK, CALIF. — Charles Dunn Co. has arranged the acquisition of a single-tenant retail property located at 8232 De Soto Ave. in Canoga Park. A private investor from Orange County acquired the 3,139-square-foot property from a Los Angeles-based private investor for $2.9 million, or $948 per square foot. Built in 2001, the property is triple-net leased to Wendy’s. Kyle Gulock and Jason Cope of Charles Dunn Co. represented the buyer, while Sands Investments Group represented the seller.
TORRANCE, CALIF. — Irvine, Calif.-based The Muller Company has signed 24 Hour Fitness to Del Amo Crossing, a 422,000-square-foot, mixed-use complex located at 21515 Hawthorne Blvd. Designed by Nadel Architects, the two-story 24 Hour Fitness will be located in a new 44,000-square-foot building, which will be adjacent to the existing office structure. The $22 million, 15-year lease will be the chain’s first super sport club in the area. Construction is slated to begin in the first quarter of 2017, the fitness center is slated to open in late 2018. Bryan Norcott of Savills Studley represented 24 Hour Fitness, and Chris Sinfield and Leslie Mayer of Cushman & Wakefield represented The Muller Company.
NEW YORK CITY — A joint venture between Forest City Realty Trust and Madison International Realty has completed the sale of Steinway Street Theaters, known locally as UA Kaufman Astoria Cinemas in Astoria, Queens. An affiliate of Kaufman Astoria Studios acquired the property from the joint venture for $45 million. The 84,000-square-foot movie theater complex opened in 1999.
MEMPHIS, TENN. — Newmark Grubb Knight Frank (NGKF) has arranged the 315,450-square-foot lease relocation and adaptive reuse project for ServiceMaster, a home and commercial services provider whose products and services include home warranties, home inspections, furniture repair, residential cleaning, disaster restoration and termite and pest control. The publicly traded company plans to transform the former Peabody Place mall in downtown Memphis into Class A office space for its global headquarters. ServiceMaster will consolidate its office operations currently headquartered in four buildings within the suburban Poplar Avenue Corridor in Memphis. Neal Golden and Aaron Sommer of NGKF represented ServiceMaster in the two-year site selection process and lease transaction. ServiceMaster was considering relocating its corporate headquarters to other markets such as Atlanta, Dallas, Austin, Orlando and Tampa before selecting Memphis. The company plans to move approximately 1,200 employees to the renovated building by the end of 2017.
SEATTLE — KLM Equities Inc. has acquired the Hard Rock Café Seattle near Pike Place Market in Seattle for $20.8 million. The three-story restaurant is fully leased to Hard Rock Café. Gerry Rohm, Nicholas Kucha, Nick Kassab and Danny Reddin of HFF represented the seller, Urban Visions, in the transaction.
TEMPE, ARIZ. — CBRE has arranged the $1.7 million sale of a 3,288-square-foot, freestanding retail property located at 111 W. University Drive in Tempe. Andrew Fosberg, Max Bippus and Bert Kempfert of CBRE represented the seller, Ehrhardt Investment Properties LLC, in the transaction. Greg Saltz with GPS Retail LLC represented the buyer, SimonCRE Alpha LLC. Ehrhardt Bike Shop has occupied the property for 30 years.