BRASELTON, GA. — Branch Properties, an Atlanta-based shopping center development firm, has acquired land in Braselton for the development of a Publix-anchored shopping center. Dubbed Braselton Village, the 70,987-square-foot retail center will be located at the intersection of Old Winder Highway and the newly constructed Braselton Village Parkway, about 50 miles northeast of Atlanta. Branch Properties expects to deliver the property, which will feature 22,600 square feet of inline retail space in addition to the Publix grocery store, in second-quarter 2025. In addition to Braselton Village, Branch Properties is also developing or recently delivered four other Publix-anchored centers in the Southeast: Triple Crown Shopping Center in Richwood, Ky.; One Nexton in Summerville, S.C.; Limestone Marketplace in Gainesville, Ga.; and the recently completed Summerhill Station in Atlanta.
LOS ANGELES — JLL Capital Markets has arranged $65 million in financing for Wateridge, a six-building office and retail campus in West Los Angeles. LPC Realty Advisors I LLC, an investment advisory affiliate of Lincoln Property Co., is the borrower. Todd Sugimoto, Mark Wintner and Chad Morgan of JLL Capital Markets secured the five-year, fixed-rate financing with Deutsche Bank. Built between 1989 and 2005 on 21 acres, Wateridge features three multi-tenant office buildings, a single-tenant medical office building, a standalone 24-hour fitness facility and a multi-tenant retail strip center. At the time of financing, the 583,580-square-foot campus was 80 percent occupied and leased by credit tenants, including Kaiser Health Foundation, County of Los Angeles and Providence Health.
DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CALIF. — Progressive Real Estate Partners has brokered the sale of a retail property, located at 13000-13160 Palm Drive in Desert Hot Springs, located in the Coachella Valley. An Orange County-based private investor sold the property to a Los Angeles County-based private investor for $6.1 million in an all-cash transaction. Totaling 33,004 square feet, the property features a multi-tenant building and two pad buildings, one of which is occupied by Chase Bank. Greg Bedell of Progressive Real Estate Partners represented the seller, while Heather Sharp of Progressive Real Estate Partners procured the buyer in the transaction.
SOUTH LYON, MICH. — World Custom Alterations is relocating its shop from Northville to downtown South Lyon, about 16 miles northeast of Ann Arbor. The tenant has leased a 1,500-square-foot space on West Lake Street. Michael Murphy of Gerdom Realty & Investment represented the undisclosed landlord.
— By John R. Read, senior vice president, CBRE Retail Investment Properties-West — Undoubtedly, 2023 proved to be a volatile year. It was marked by persistent inflationary pressures, four 25-basis-point interest rate hikes by the Fed and a surge in the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield (from the high 3 percent range in January to peak levels near 5 percent in October). These changes had a pronounced impact on retail real estate investors, businesses occupying retail centers and consumers who frequented these establishments. The real estate sector particularly grappled with the cost of financing in an environment of higher interest rates. While these challenges did temper Orange County’s retail market to some extent, it largely remained resilient due to its strong underlying fundamentals. These include a substantial population of high-income earners, flourishing industries like tourism and destination-oriented shopping centers, as well as a supply constrained retail property base with limited large-scale retail development. The unemployment rate in Orange County remained steady at 3.8 percent in December 2023, unchanged from November’s revised rate. This rate is notably higher than the year-ago estimate of 2.7 percent. In comparison, California’s unemployment rate stands at 5.1 percent rate, while the national rate during the same …
ALPHARETTA, GA. — IKEA plans to open a 4,306-square-foot store at Mansell Crossing, a shopping center located at 7681 North Point Parkway in the northern Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta. The landlord is New York-based Brixmor. The new store is among four small-format locations that IKEA announced in January, along with new stores in the greater Los Angeles area and Austin, Texas. Each store will allow customers to design and order home-furnishing solutions and products with help from IKEA experts, as well as pick up items once they’re shipped. The new Alpharetta store is set to open this summer. Other tenants at Mansell Crossing include REI, Five Below, TJ Maxx, DSW, Macy’s Furniture Gallery and Barnes & Noble. IKEA opened its prototypical store and warehouse location, which spans more than 366,000 square feet, in Atlanta’s Midtown area in 2005.
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Trademark Property Co. has unveiled plans for the redevelopment of Lincoln Square, a 45-acre shopping center in Arlington. The Fort Worth-based owner-operator plans to demolish about 229,000 square feet of the existing space and renovate another 65,000 square feet at the 40-year-old center beginning in the second quarter of next year. Trademark will rebrand the property as “Anthem” and redevelop it to feature 152,000 square feet of new retail and restaurant space, 125,000 square feet of office and coworking space, a hotel with up to 200 rooms and 355 apartments. Trademark acquired Lincoln Square in late 2022 and subsequently entered into a public-private partnership agreement with the City of Arlington to invest $150 million into the property’s redevelopment. Dwell Design Studio is the project architect.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Ziff Real Estate Partners (ZRP) has acquired Mercado at Scottsdale Ranch, a neighborhood retail center in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale. Whitestone REIT sold the asset for $26.5 million. This transaction marks ZRP’s first purchase in Arizona. Situated on more than 11 acres, Mercado at Scottsdale Ranch offers 118,751 square feet of retail space occupied by a blend of national, regional and local tenants, including Planet Fitness and Walgreens. The center serves Scottsdale Ranch, a 1,100-acre, master-planned community. Steve Julius, Jesse Goldsmith and Chase Dorsett of Newmark represented the seller, while Christian Chamblee and Kayla Meier provided self-representation for the buyer in the transaction.
WATHENA, KAN. — The Boulder Group has arranged the $1.8 million sale of a 10,566-square-foot property occupied by Dollar General in Wathena, a city in northeast Kansas. The net-leased building is located on South Park Street, a main thoroughfare in the city. Randy Blankstein and Jimmy Goodman of Boulder represented the seller, a Dollar General developer. The buyer was an individual completing a 1031 exchange.
DAHLONEGA, GA. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the $4.4 million sale of Goldmine Village, a 28,000-square-foot retail center located in Dahlonega, about 65 miles north of Atlanta. Walmart shadow-anchors the property, which was fully occupied at the time of sale. Eric Abbott and Zach Taylor of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer, an entity doing business as AGW Goldmine LLC, in the transaction. “This is a great long-term investment for our client,” says Abbott. “Dahlonega is a unique market in that it is directly in North Atlanta’s path of growth, but it’s tough to find inventory due to the limited retail space and barriers to entry posed by the topography.”