ST. PETERS AND ARNOLD, MO. — Northern Tool + Equipment has signed two, 10-year retail leases in metro St. Louis. One lease was for a 15,061-square-foot building in the Cave Springs Shopping Center, located at 4055 Veterans Memorial Parkway in St. Peters about 30 miles west of St. Louis. Mike Swearngin of Pace Properties represented the landlord in the St. Peters transaction. The second lease was for a 15,631-square-foot building, located at 233 Arnold Crossroads Center in Arnold about 18 miles south of St. Louis. Tom Egan of Wm. Boudoures Co. represented the landlord in the Arnold transaction. Burnsville, Minn.-based Northern Tool + Equipment has more than 70 locations in 14 states and sells a wide variety of products, ranging from consumer goods to industrial and construction equipment. Venture Commercial represented Northern Tool in both transactions.
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PAWTUCKET, R. I. — Washington Trust Commercial Real Estate Group has provided a $4.5 million commercial mortgage loan to Blackstone Place Limited Partnership for the acquisition of Blackstone Place, a 38,000-square-foot retail building located at 727 East Ave. in Pawtucket. The retail space is currently occupied by Rite Aid, Hillside Avenue Family & Community Medicine and Dunkin’ Donuts.
AUBURN, N.Y. — Towne Center Shopping Plaza, located at 315 Genesse St. in Auburn, has sold for $2.2 million to Clinton Hill Auburn Town Center Equities LLC. The Libby Corp. built the 86,000-square-foot plaza in 2000. The plaza was formerly the home of P & C Grocery until its closing, when the parent company of P & C declared bankruptcy in 2009. The property was then foreclosed by T.D. Bank, and Bouck Real Estate was assigned to handle management of the property. Current tenants in the plaza include Advance Auto Parts and Family Dollar.
NEW YORK CITY — Winick Realty Group has been hired by Columbia University to market retail space at 2884 Broadway, between 112th and 113th streets. Formerly occupied by Card-O-Mat, the space is 1,240 square feet on the ground floor with 13-foot ceilings. The retail center is located between two subway stops near the main gate to the campus, and just two storefronts away from the legendary Tom’s Restaurant made famous by the television show Seinfeld.
FRESNO, CALIF. — A 52,400-square-foot retail property in Fresno that is triple-net leased to El Super supermarket has sold to Super AB, LLC for $8.7 million. The property is located at 3190 East Tulare Street within the Heritage Square retail center. The buyer was represented by Matt Mousavi of Faris Lee Investments. The seller, Tulare & 1st Fresno, LLC, was represented by CBRE’s Art Flores.
OLDSMAR, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of North Tampa Shores, a 31,022-square-foot retail property in Oldsmar for $5.1 million. The property is located at 4009-4013 Tampa Road and tenants include FedEx, AT&T, Flamestone American Grill and Moe's Southwest Grill. Rob Keeler of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer, a limited liability company.
SCHAUMBURG, ILL. — Inland Private Capital Corp. (IPCC) has sold a 100,773-square-foot retail property, located at 905-915 E. Golf Road in Schaumburg, for $12.4 million. The property is anchored by Bed, Bath & Beyond and Golfsmith and is located near Woodfield Mall. Prior to completion of the sale, an affiliate of IPCC renegotiated and extended the leases of Bed, Bath & Beyond and Golfsmith through Jan. 31, 2023 and Sept. 20, 2017, respectively. Affiliates of Inland offered tenant-in-common interests in the property to a group of investors in a private offering in 2004 and continued managing the property on their behalf.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Austin-based World Class Capital Group has acquired the 100,000-square-foot Galleria Oaks, a retail center located in northwest Austin on Research Boulevard. World Class purchased the property from a Los Angeles-based investment firm. World Class currently owns and operates retail properties in 10 states and 21 markets.
WOODLAND, CALIF. – Walmart has announced plans to open a new Walmart Neighborhood Market in Woodland. The smaller-format store will occupy a 62,000-square-foot building at 1250 E. Gibson Road about 15 miles northwest of Sacramento. The building was previously occupied by Mervyn’s at the County Fair Fashion Mall. The mall is owned by County Fair Fashion Mall, LLC and managed by Primero Management. Scott Sterlekar serves as the mall’s director of real estate and leasing.
KNOXVILLE, TENN. — Developer CHM LLC has broken ground on University Commons, Knoxville's first urban, vertical retail complex. The property will be situated on 12 acres near the University of Tennessee and will include 211,000 square feet of retail space and parking. The shopping and dining development is located on the former Fulton Bellows site. Walmart and Publix will anchor the property and more than 40,000 square feet will be dedicated to smaller retailers and service providers once the project is completed. The complex is expected to fill a grocery and retail void in the downtown and university areas, in what is considered a federally designated “food desert,” says Mike Griffin, a partner with CHM. The Walmart and Publix are slated to open in the summer of 2014.