PHOENIX — Velocity Retail Group has completed the disposition of six Phoenix-area properties that were formerly home to Albertson’s grocery stores. The properties were all owned by a partnership that was looking to sell in 2012 when the Phoenix market seemed to be “saturated with big boxes,” according to Velocity’s press release. The release also notes that four of these buildings were in the Southeast Valley, “which had been hardest hit by big box vacancy.”
The final building, a 50,394-square-foot property located at 409 N. Litchfield Road in Goodyear, recently closed escrow. The six buildings contained a total of 350,000 square feet. All have closed escrow over the past few months. Velocity notes the buildings sold to investors, retailers and even to a charter school.The seller, ACC Retail Associates, LLC, is an entity controlled in a joint venture by Praedium Group and ScanlanKemperBard Companies.