NEW YORK CITY — Australian restaurant Ruby’s Café has signed a 1,450-square-foot retail lease in Manhattan. The property is Ruby’s Café’s third location in Manhattan, and the company plans to install a garage-door storefront ahead of its opening in fall 2019. Daniyel Cohen of Winick Realty Group represented Ruby’s Café in the lease negotiations. Benjamin Birnbaum and Andrew Taub of Newmark Knight Frank represented the landlord, HUBBNYC.
NORTH LAS VEGAS — Colliers International has arranged the purchase of The Craig Shops, a multi-lessee retail building located at 3052 W. Craig Road in North Las Vegas. Meyer S.F. Partners LP acquired the 8,000-square-foot property from an undisclosed seller for $3 million. David Grant of Colliers represented the buyer in the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — Luxury department store retailer Barneys New York has voluntarily filed for bankruptcy protection and has disclosed plans to close 15 of its 22 brick-and-mortar stores. The Chapter 11 filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of New York indicated that Barneys had more than $100 million in assets and more than $100 million in debts, according to The Wall Street Journal. Barneys plans to keep five of its flagship locations open, including its famous Madison Avenue store. The retailer will also continue operating its downtown Manhattan, Beverly Hills, San Francisco and Boston stores. The company will also keep two Barneys Warehouse locations open in Woodbury, N.Y., and Livermore, Calif., as well as the Barneys.com and BarneysWarehouse.com websites. Barneys will close all other locations, including flagship stores in Chicago, Seattle, Las Vegas, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Santa Monica, Calif. This is the second high-end retail concept to file for bankruptcy this week, the other being luxury movie theater company IPIC Entertainment. Veteran retail consultant Jeff Green says that American shoppers are shying away from uber-luxury retailers like Barneys and IPIC, which saw its same-store sales drop 21.7 percent in first-quarter 2019 compared to …
BOCA RATON, FLA. — Luxury movie theater company IPIC Entertainment (Nasdaq: IPIC) has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court District of Delaware where it will seek approval of either a sale or financial reorganization plan. In July, the company missed a $10 million interest payment to Retirement System of Alabama (RSA) and notified investors that it might have to file for bankruptcy. IPIC borrowed $204 million from RSA, according to media reports. Hamid Hashemi, founder and CEO of IPIC, says that the company’s movie theaters will remain open and its employees and vendors are being paid. Hashemi notes that issues stemming from IPIC’s expansion plans for building 25 locations in four to five years are the principal culprit behind their missed payment to RSA. “Delays in development cycle combined with the high cost of capital depleted IPIC’s available resources before the company was able to reach critical mass and become self-funded,” says Hashemi. “Importantly, delays related to the Delray Beach location, resulted in unforeseen costs and a significant slowdown in circuit-wide development and new grand openings.” The Boca Raton-based company operates 16 dine-in theaters in nine states with plans to open locations in four more states, including …
ELYRIA, OHIO — Industrial Commercial Properties LLC (ICP) has acquired a 159,000-square-foot property at Midway Mall formerly occupied by Dillard’s in Elyria, about 30 miles southwest of Cleveland. The purchase price was not disclosed. The property sits on 18 acres. Earlier this year, ICP purchased the Sears building and Sears auto center on the western edge of the mall. ICP intends to redevelop the property, but specific plans have not been disclosed. Best Buy, Dunham’s Sports and Johnny K’s Power Sports anchor the 1.1 million-square-foot regional mall.
PORTLAND, ORE. — A joint venture between Holland Partner Group and Pacific Life Insurance Co. has acquired Tupelo Alley, a mixed-use community located in Portland’s North Mississippi Avenue neighborhood. Institutional investors advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management sold the property for $58 million. Situated on 1.4 acres at 3850 N. Mississippi Ave., the three-building Tupelo Alley features 188 apartments in a mix of studio, one- and three-bedroom layouts, averaging 770 square feet, and 10,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. On-site amenities include indoor and outdoor gathering spaces for residents. Ira Virden and Carrie Kahn of JLL Capital Markets represented the seller, while Charles Halladay, Rick Salinas and Charlie Watson, also of JLL Capital Markets, represented the buyer in the transaction. Additionally, JLL arranged $37.7 million in acquisition financing for the buyer.
PEARLAND, TEXAS — TIG Real Estate Services has sold Sunrise Lake, a 74,612-square-foot retail and medical office property located in the southern Houston suburb of Pearland. Sunrise Lake offers roughly 50,000 square feet of office/medical office space and approximately 24,500 square feet of retail space, which was a combined 86 percent leased at the time of sale. Dan Miller, John Indelli and Bryan Strode of JLL represented TIG in the transaction and procured the undisclosed buyer.
APPLE VALLEY, CALIF. — Houston-based Weingarten Realty has completed the sale of Jess Ranch Marketplace, a community shopping center located in Apple Valley. A Newport Beach, Calif.-based, privately held investment, development and management company acquired the asset for $89 million. The sale included the grocery, lifestyle and entertainment portions of Jess Ranch Marketplace, a 704,927-square-foot community shopping center. Anchor tenants include Target, Winco Foods, Burlington, 24 Hour Fitness, Cinemark, Best Buy, Bed Bath & Beyond, PetSmart, Rite Aid, Big 5 Sporting Goods, Staples, 99 Cents Only Stores and ULTA Beauty. Target, Winco Foods, Staples and 99 Cents Only Stores were not included in the sale. At the time of sale, the property was more than 98 percent leased, with more than 90 percent of the leased gross leasable area occupied by regional and national tenants. Additional tenants include Famous Footwear, Kirkland’s Home, Buffalo Wild Wings, Bank of America, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Brews, Western Dental, CareMore, Banner Mattress, rue21, Carter’s, Denny’s, Verizon Wireless, Massage Envy, Sprint, OshKosh B’gosh, Jack in the Box, Chipotle, CareMore’s Nifty After Fifty, AT&T, GNC, Golden Chopstix, Jersey Mike’s Subs, The Flame Broiler and MetroPCS. Lucescu Realty represented the seller and procured the buyer in …
CLOVIS, CALIF. — Mason Asset Management and Namdar Group have purchased Sierra Vista Mall and Lifestyle Center, a regional mall located at 1050 Shaw Ave. in Clovis, eight miles northeast of Fresno. An undisclosed seller sold the asset for $41 million. The seller had a 100 percent leasehold interest in the 500,000-square-foot mall. Originally built in 1988 and renovated in 2005, the mall features an outparcel and open-air configuration, as well as interior space. Current tenants include Kohls, Target, Sierra Vista Cinema, AT&T, Baja Fresh, Chipotle, Jamba Juice, Panera Bread, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Brews, Sleep Fit and Starbucks Coffee. Thomas Dobrowski of Newmark Knight Frank’s Capital Markets represented the seller in the transaction.
GLENDORA, CALIF. — JLL has brokered the sale of Glendora Commons, a grocery-anchored retail center located in Glendora. Seagrove Property Group sold the asset to a private foreign investor for $13.6 million. Located at 1241-1251 Lone Hill Ave., Glendora Commons features 41,689 square feet of retail space. Completed in 2017, the property is currently occupied by Aldi, Guitar Center, Chick-fil-A and Pick-Up-Stix. Bryan Ley and Tony Ensbury of JLL Capital Markets represented the seller in the sale.
