FOUNTAIN, COLO. — CBRE has brokered the purchase of The Shops at Mesa Ridge, a multi-tenant retail property located at 6859-6885 and 6965 Mesa Ridge Parkway in Fountain, a suburb of Colorado Springs. A private investor acquired the asset from an undisclosed seller for $12.9 million. Built in 2001, the 29,309-square-foot asset features two multi-tenant buildings that were 95.7 percent occupied at the time of sale. Pizza Hut, ENT Credit Union and Buffalo Wild Wings are three of the 16 current tenants. Mark Shaffer, Gary Stache, Gerard Poutier and Chris Martin of CBRE Capital Markets Investment Properties represented the buyer in the transaction.
LEDGEWOOD, N.J. — Barnes & Noble will open a 13,875-square-foot bookstore in the Northern New Jersey community of Ledgewood. The retailer is taking space at The Shops at Ledgewood Commons, a 450,000-square-foot open-air lifestyle center that is a redevelopment of the former Ledgewood Mall. Marc Palestina and Chuck Lanyard of The Goldstein Group represented Barnes & Noble in the lease negotiations. Mike Testa, Shane Wierks and Bill Farkas of Jeffery Realty represented the landlord.
MESA, ARIZ. — Diversified Partners has broken ground on Eastgate Plaza, a 17-acre mixed-use development at the northeast corner of Elliot and Ellsworth roads in Mesa. Confirmed tenants for the project include a drive-thru Starbucks Coffee, d’Lite Health On The Go, Pure Barre, Fix FX, Fresh Monkee, Playa Bowls, Kolache Café, Southern California-based Farmer Boys, Ono Hawaiian BBQ, Vero Chicago Pizza, Swig soda shop, Euphoria Nail Salon, Mecham Orthodontics, MB2 Dental, Andi’s Hair Salon & Barbershop AVEDA, Discount Tire and The UPS Store. Eastgate Plaza will also feature a 91,911-square-foot Cambria Hotel with 107 guest rooms on 2.11 acres. Designed with Cambria’s new prototypical plans, the hotel will include a 500-square-foot rooftop bar and kitchen, a first-floor restaurant and lounge, an outdoor seating and dining area, and an outdoor pool with a sundeck and fireplace. The hotel is slated to open on Sept. 1, 2025. Elliot & Ellsworth Investment Properties owns the site. An entity led by Brown Jr. Canyon Building & Design is the construction management group overseeing the buildout, while RKAA Architects is the architect of the project. EPS Group is serving as civil engineer.
RIVERSIDE, CALIF. — Gantry has arranged a $12.8 million permanent loan to fund the recapitalization of a grocery-anchored retail building within the Citrus Landing retail center in the Inland Empire city of Riverside. Stater Bros, AutoZone and Ross Dress for Less are tenants at the 99,000-square-foot retail center, which is located at 7200 Arlington Ave. Braden Turnbull, George Mitsanas and Austin Ridge of Gantry’s Los Angeles production office secured the financing on behalf of the borrower, a private real estate entity. One of Gantry’s correspondent life company lenders provided the loan, which features a fixed rate, interest-only payments and pre-payment flexibility in years four and five.
FAYETTEVILLE, GA. — CBRE’s National Retail Partners team has arranged the sale of Fayette Pavilion, an open-air retail center in Fayetteville, a city about 22 miles south of Atlanta. At nearly 1.1 million square feet, Fayette Pavilion is the largest open-air retail center in Georgia and also the most visited with approximately 8.3 million annual visitors, according to CBRE. Chris Decoufle, Kevin Hurley and Matt Karempelis of CBRE’s National Retail Partners’ Southeast team represented the seller, Chicago-based Nuveen Real Estate, and procured the buyer, Houston-based 5Rivers CRE, in the transaction. The sales price was not disclosed. Developed on 106 acres from 1995 to 2003, Fayette Pavilion’s tenant roster includes Publix, Hobby Lobby, Burlington, Ross Dress for Less, Marshalls, PetSmart, Old Navy, pOpshelf, Dollar Tree and Five Below.
ATLANTA — Matthews Real Estate Investment Services has hired Pierce Mayson and Kyle Stonis as senior vice presidents, Jeff Enck as first vice president and Boris Shilkrot as associate vice president. The veteran retail specialists join the company’s shopping center division from SRS Real Estate Partners where they managed the sales of shopping centers in 17 different states across the Southeast, Midwest and Northeast. Collectively, Mayson, Stonis, Enck and Shilkrot have brokered the sales of $4 billion in career transactions over a combined 50 years. The group will operate from the Matthews’ Atlanta office off Peachtree Road and work with Matthew Wallace, the company’s national director of shopping centers.
HICKSVILLE, N.Y. — JLL has arranged the sale of Broadway Commons, a 730,000-square-foot retail power center in the Long Island community of Hicksville. The center was 97 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Round 1 Bowling & Amusement, Showcase 12 Cinema, H&M, Old Navy, Blink Fitness, Buffalo Wild Wings, On the Border, Hook & Reel, Panera Bread and Blaze Pizza. Jose Cruz, Kevin O’Hearn, J.B. Bruno and David Monahan of JLL represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction and procured the buyer, a partnership between KABR Group, BTF Capital and AJM BRE Ventures.
ACTON, MASS. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has negotiated the sale of Brookside Shops, a 75,529-square-foot shopping center in Acton, a western suburb of Boston. Grocer Trader Joe’s anchors the center, which was built on 10 acres in 2002. Other tenants include Staples, X-Golf and Talbots. Jim Koury led the IPA team that represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction and procured the buyer, Crosspoint Acquisitions.
InterFace Panel: Macroeconomic, Institutional Market Obstacles Hinder Retail Supply Growth in Austin
By Taylor Williams The Austin retail market is in dire need of more quality space, but between the newfound volatility in the U.S. capital markets and longstanding local policies that have hamstrung commercial developers in the state capital, delivering that space is no easy feat. The city’s remarkable growth story is well-documented. Big Tech has made Austin its home away from home, spearheading what was a 33 percent increase in population between 2010 and 2020, according to the Austin Chamber of Commerce. But the paces of growth of housing and infrastructure — two crucial prerequisites for retail development — haven’t kept up with the surging head count. In addition, the Austin bureaucracy is notorious for slow-moving entitlement and permitting processes, at least in the eyes of Texas developers who have done business in zone-free Houston or certain municipalities of Dallas-Fort Worth that make it a point to fast-track new projects. These issues at the local level have merged with debt market disruption on the national circuit, rendering a scenario in which the process of financing and building new retail space is fraught with headaches, delays and pitfalls. The number of ways in which new projects can be killed in action …
HOUSTON — Dallas-based brokerage firm Disney Investment Group (DIG) has arranged the sale of Presidio Square, a 189,338-square-foot shopping center in West Houston. An 82,466-square-foot H-E-B grocery store anchors the center. Other tenants include Family Thrift, AT&T, Subway, State Farm, Little Caesars, IHOP and Chase Bank. David Disney and Adam Crockett of DIG represented the seller, an affiliate of North American Development Group, in the transaction. The duo also procured the buyer, Houston-based Wu Properties. The sales price was not disclosed.