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Park Ridge, Ill. — Mid-America Real Estate Corp. has brokered the sale of The Shops of Uptown, a 70,144-square-foot retail center located in Park Ridge, approximately 15 miles northwest of downtown Chicago. The purchase price was roughly $26 million, as reported by various media outlets. Joe Girardi and Patrick Corrigan of Mid-America represented the seller, Phillips Edison Co., in the transaction. The property was acquired by an institutional investment manager.
Trader Joe’s anchors the center, which features a mix of additional tenants including Blufish, LensCrafters, Nothing Bundt Cakes, Pure Barre, Club Pilates, Orangetheory Fitness and Mathnasium. The Shops of Uptown was built in 2008 and was 97.2 percent leased at the time of sale.