Retail

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LAS VEGAS — Calmwater Capital has provided $23.2 million in short-term, first-mortgage debt to a Los Angeles-based private investor for the purchase of Decatur 215 Plaza, a shopping center in northwest Las Vegas. Built in 2013, the 126,678-square-foot property is fully leased to a mix of national and regional tenants including Petco, Hobby Lobby, Ulta Beauty, Sprouts Farmers Market, Sleep Number and Blaze Pizza. Approximately 90 percent of the tenants have occupied the center since 2016. Zachary Novatt, Larry Grantham and DaJuan Bennett of Calmwater originated the loan for the borrower.

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RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIF. — Progressive Real Estate Partners has arranged the sale of a single-tenant retail property located at 9008 Foothill Blvd. in Rancho Cucamonga. Red Mountain Group sold the asset to Celery Realty Investments LLC for $4.9 million in an all-cash deal. Dollar Tree occupies the 16,560-square-foot property on a triple-net, 10-year, corporate-backed lease. Brad Umansky, Greg Bedell and Lance Mordachini of Progressive Real Estate Partners represented the seller, while Katherine Quach and Wendy Wong of Treelane Realty Group represented the buyer in the deal.

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TINLEY PARK, ILL. — Cannabis Facility Construction (CFC) has completed the Ascend Tinley Park recreational cannabis dispensary for Ascend Wellness Holdings Inc. in the Chicago suburb of Tinley Park. The 4,900-square-foot property at 16200 S. Harlem Ave. was formerly home to Chili’s and the Dugout sports bar. The project build-out included new lighting, custom-milled wood walls, multimedia display screens, illuminated product display cases and flexible point-of-sale stations. The building now features a state-of-the-art security system, custom mural by a local artist and expanded parking. The project marks the seventh Illinois dispensary that CFC has built for Ascend.

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PRINCETON, N.J. — The Container Store has opened a 15,000-square-foot shop at The Square at West Windsor in Princeton. The store is the retailer’s 100th nationally and sixth in New Jersey. Anchored by Lowe’s and Trader Joe’s, the 220,000-square-foot shopping center is also home to tenants such as Ethan Allen, Mattress Firm, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Starbucks and Fidelity Investments. Blake Shanaphy of JLL represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Michael Gartenberg represented the landlord, New Jersey-based Garden Commercial, on an internal basis.

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GREENSBORO, N.C. — CBRE|Triad has arranged four retail leases at Irving Park Shops, a retail and dining property spanning three buildings in the Piedmont Triad market of Greensboro. The deals include a 3,100-square-foot lease for Dave’s Hot Chicken, which will repurpose the former A Cleaner World building. The restaurant will be the fifth North Carolina location for the fast-casual chain. A Cleaner World, a dry-cleaning operator, will move into a new 1,333-square-foot space within Irving Park Shops at 2105 W. Cornwallis Drive. CycleBar and Armine’s Blow Outs and Bubbles will also occupy the single-story building with 2,030- and 1,362-square-foot locations, respectively. Matt King and Christy Smith of CBRE|Triad represented the landlord, an entity doing business as Irving Park Shops LLC, in the transactions. The duo also handles the marketing responsibilities for the property.

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DAVENPORT, FLA. — SRS Real Estate Partners has brokered the $3.1 million sale of a newly built retail property located at 1217 Finley Ave. in Davenport, a suburb of Orlando. The 2,500-square-foot, freestanding building was delivered in October and has a 10-year lease in place with Starbucks Coffee. Patrick Nutt, William Wamble and Robert Dillard of SRS represented the seller, an unnamed development firm based in Florida, in the transaction. The buyer is also based in Florida and purchased the property in a 1031 exchange at a 5.25 percent cap rate.

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By Taylor Williams Retail owners are facing critical questions about whether to sell or hold their properties in the current environment, which is still defined by uncertainty about whether interest rate hikes have truly peaked and investment sales prices have actually bottomed out. Investment sales decisions frequently hinge on analysis of cap rates, defined as a property’s net operating income divided by its sales price. Generally speaking, higher cap rates indicate lower sales prices and are therefore sought by buyers, whereas lower cap rates reflect higher prices and are preferred by sellers. Cap rates are fluid and tend to move linearly with interest rates. Thus, the Federal Reserve’s campaign of 11 interest rate hikes totaling 500 basis points over the last 20 months has caused cap rates in all asset classes to rise, or as industry folks say, to decompress. The extent to which this cap rate movement influences an investor’s sell-or-hold dilemma varies from deal to deal, but the common denominator is that it complicates all such decisions. At the inaugural InterFace Houston Retail conference, a panel of capital markets professionals delved into the numerical analysis and anecdotal evidence that investment sales brokers are relying on to guide clients …

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Jeff Rinkov Lee Associates Investment Sales

Would-be commercial real estate investors and sellers for the last several months have been waiting for a sign that the Federal Reserve has tamed inflation, therefore giving the central bank reason to officially end its tightening program. October’s better-than-expected consumer price index increase of 3.2 percent — versus the 3.3 percent consensus — may have delivered that signal. The futures markets immediately reduced the probability of a Fed interest rate hike in December to zero, with many capital markets analysts suggesting that it would begin to cut rates midway through 2024. But just an end to rate hikes could fuel investment sales activity, says Jeff Rinkov, CEO of Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate Services. “Once investors see some positive sentiment from the Fed, I think they’ll start to get interested in deploying what we believe is an enormous amount of capital that has been waiting on the sidelines,” he explains. “I also think that’s when investors will be met by more accommodating sellers. At the moment, price discovery continues to be very challenging and is driving a sluggish transaction environment.” Crashing Sales Indeed, investment sales volume through three quarters of 2023 totaled $276.3 billion, a year-over-year decline of 55 …

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LOS ANGELES — Gantry has arranged $21.6 million in construction-to-permanent financing for the development of a grocery-anchored retail project in the Studio City submarket of Los Angeles. Located at 11265-11321 Ventura Blvd., the project will feature 33,700 square feet of retail space. Braden Turnbull, George Mitsanas and Austin Ridge of Gantry arranged the five-year loan, which one of the firm’s correspondent lenders provided, for the private real estate entity borrower.

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NEW YORK CITY — Fifth Avenue in Manhattan has retained its No. 1 ranking as the world’s most expensive retail destination at approximately $2,000 per square foot, which is unchanged from last year. That’s according to the 33rd edition of the Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) Main Streets Across the World, an annual report that examines retail rental rates around the world in “high street” locations, referring to bustling, high-end retail districts. Fifth Avenue is world-renowned for its luxury offerings, including Bergdorf Goodman, Prada, Saks and Tiffany, among others. Additions to Fifth Avenue’s retail store count this year include a new store for Harry Winston and newcomers to the corridor Asics, Dyson, Skechers, Johnston & Murphy and Bandier, according to online directory Visit 5th Avenue. While on par with the rents charged last year, Fifth Avenue’s average retail rate is up 14 percent from pre-pandemic levels, making it only one of three high streets in the top 10 that have increased rates since that time span. The No. 2 retail destination in Main Streets Across the World is Milan’s Via Montenapoleone at $1,766 per square foot. The district jumped a spot into second from last year’s report by pushing rental …

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