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FRISCO, TEXAS — The Bays, in partnership with golf equipment and apparel manufacturer TaylorMade, will open The Bays at Frisco, an 18-acre golf resort that will be located on the northern outskirts of Dallas. The site is located near the PGA of America’s headquarters campus and Omni Hotel. The property will consist of a four-story, 100,000-square-foot golf lab and suites facility, restaurant and bar and a 19-room boutique hotel. The facility will also offer a custom club-fitting experience in which guests can watch their clubs being crafted onsite, as well as a 25,000-square-foot putting green, 12,000-square-foot private membership club and dedicated space for corporate events. Hotel suites will also have their own private hitting bays, and the hotel will offer a rooftop pool. The opening is scheduled for late 2025.

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AVON, CONN. — New Jersey-based Cronheim Mortgage has arranged a $24 million permanent loan for Avon Marketplace, a 78,687-square-foot shopping center located on the western outskirts of Hartford. The center was built on 17.3 acres in 1994 and is home to tenants such as ULTA Beauty, Athleta, LensCrafters, GAP Factory, New Balance, Starbucks and Verizon Wireless. Dev Morris, Andrew Stewart and Allison Villamagna of Cronheim arranged the loan, which carried two years of interest-only payments and a 25-year amortization schedule. The borrower and direct lender were not disclosed.

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NAPLES, FLA. — Benderson Development has acquired Carillon Place, a 250,000-square-foot, open-air shopping center located at the intersection of Airport-Pulling and Pine Ridge roads in Naples. Tenants at the property, which was 92 percent leased at the time of sale, include T.J. Maxx, DSW and Walmart. The previous owner was an entity doing business as BRE DDR Carillon Place LLC, according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. The sales price was not disclosed.

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WARRENVILLE, ILL. — SVN Chicago Commercial has brokered the $3 million sale of an 11,916-square-foot restaurant property in the Chicago suburb of Warrenville. The two-building asset is located at 28258 Diehl Road. Ronald Weissenhofer of SVN represented the buyer, the owner of Simply South Indian Cuisine. The transaction marks the first Midwest location for Simply South Indian Cuisine, which plans to expand across the country. The seller was undisclosed.

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ENCINITAS, CALIF. — Calbay Development has completed the sale of 1967 San Elijo Ave. in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, a beach community in Encinitas, north of San Diego. Albatross LLC acquired the asset for $3.1 million. Situated on 16,702 square feet, the coastal pad is adjacent to Cardiff Seaside Market Center and across from San Elijo State Beach. Jack in the Box formerly occupied the 1,429-square-foot building, which offers 20 parking spaces. The buyer plans to redevelop the property and occupy the site. Reg Kobzi, Michael Peterson and Joel Wilson of CBRE represented the seller in the deal.

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DEERFIELD, ILL. — Walgreens (NASDAQ: WBA) is set to close a significant portion of its store locations across the United States over the next three years. The company is finalizing its “footprint optimization program” after failing to meet earnings expectations in its fiscal third quarter, which ended May 31. Walgreens CEO Tim Wentworth reported in the company’s earnings call on Thursday morning that 25 percent of stores in the United States were not profitable, and that “changes are imminent” for those locations. The retail pharmacy chain currently runs about 8,600 locations in the United States, meaning that as many as 2,150 underperforming stores face potential closure. “We are finalizing a multifactor store footprint optimization program, which we expect will include the closure of a significant portion of these underperforming stores over the next three years,” said Wentworth. “Plans to finalize this number are in motion, and we will update you in due course.” Even among the underperforming stores that will remain open, “we will contemplate additional closures if performance does not improve, which includes external factors, such as reimbursement rates,” said Wentworth. “While it is not an easy decision to close a store, we will work to minimize customer disruptions. …

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HUNTINGTON STATION, N.Y. — Whole Foods Market will open a 43,916-square-foot store in Huntington Station, a hamlet and census-designated area on Long Island, on July 17. The store will be located at 330 Walt Whitman Road and will offer more than 2,000 locally sourced items from more than 400 regional suppliers. The store will also feature full-service meat and seafood counters, a bakery, wellness and beauty section and a selection of more than 300 craft beers. The Austin-based grocer operates about 30 stores in New York, including more than half a dozen on Long Island.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Gantry has arranged a $22.3 million acquisition loan for Cityline at Tenley, a Target-anchored shopping center located at 4500 Wisconsin Ave. NW in Washington, D.C.’s Tenleytown neighborhood. The center is part of a mixed-use development that also features 204 condominiums. Other retail tenants at the 89,000-square-foot retail property include Ace Hardware and Bank of America. Cityline at Tenley is situated above a Metro station near American University and across Wisconsin Avenue from a Whole Foods Market grocery store, Wawa and Chick-fil-A. Braden Turnbull, George Mitsanas and Austin Ridge of Gantry arranged the fixed-rate financing through a life insurance company on behalf of the borrower, Lincoln Property Co. The loan features a seven-year term with five years of interest-only payments followed by a 30-year amortization schedule.

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WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. — Priority Capital Advisory has arranged $35 million in debt financing to refinance Faring’s planned Robertson Lane, a 400,000-square-foot retail and hotel project in West Hollywood. Centennial Bank provided the financing, which Zachary Streit of Priority Capital Advisory arranged. Located at 645-681 N. Robertson Blvd., the 84,506-square-foot development site is an assemblage of eight contiguous lots. The assembled site was originally entitled for a 10-story, 237-room hotel with dining, nightclub, entertainment and retail space, a rooftop pool and a three-level, 750-car underground parking garage. In 2022, the ownership submitted a revised plan for a 123-room luxury hotel and seven-story office tower over ground-floor retail space and a subterranean garage. Current plans include the adaptive reuse and rehabilitation of the Factory Building, a historical building dating to 1929.

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STEVENSON RANCH, CALIF. — Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors has arranged the sale of Stevenson Ranch Plaza, a neighborhood shopping center in Stevenson Ranch, approximately 35 miles northwest of Los Angeles. San Francisco-based Catalyst Real Estate sold the asset to a Los Angeles-based private investor for an undisclosed price. Kevin Fryman, Ed Hanley, Sean Cox and Alexander Moore of Hanley Investment Group represented the seller, while Edmond Bina of Beverly Hills-based EMB Properties represented the buyer in the deal. Originally built in 1999 and remodeled in 2023, Stevenson Ranch Plaza offers 29,817 square feet of retail space at 25804-25860 Hemingway Ave. Tutor Time, a subsidiary of Learning Care Group, anchors the retail center and has operated at the property since it was built.

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