West Babylon, N.Y. — German grocer Lidl has opened a 36,000-square-foot store at Hubbards Commons, a 65,970-square-foot shopping center in West Babylon on the western part of Long Island. Lidl will offer produce, meat, freshly baked goods and an array of household products. Hubbards Commons is located along Sunrise Highway, which connects Long Island to New York City. The property is now 98 percent leased to tenants including Walgreens, Orangetheory Fitness and Subway. ShopOne is the landlord of Hubbards Commons.
East Rutherford, N.J. — Candy and sweets retailer IT’SUGAR will open a 22,000-square-foot store at American Dream, a newly opened entertainment and retail destination in East Rutherford, a western suburb of New York City. The official opening is set for Saturday, Dec. 14. The first floor of the three-story store will offer giant candy, sugar sculptures and more than 5,000 square feet of candy bins with a variety of sweets. The second floor will house branded candies, including Sour Patch Kids, Swedish Fish and Reese’s. In spring 2020, a café …
Ashland, Va. — Rochester, New York-based Wegmans Food Markets Inc. will invest $175 million to establish a new regional distribution operation in Hanover County, 13 miles northeast of Richmond. Located along Sliding Hill and Ashcake roads in Ashland, the new campus will allow the grocer to expand its distribution network on the East Coast and grow its retail footprint, while creating 700 new jobs. Wegmans currently has over 100 stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts and North Carolina. No construction timeline was given for the new Virginia …
Pekin, Ill. — Mattress Liquidators has relocated to a former Bergner’s department store at East Court Village in Pekin within central Illinois. The mattress store, previously located at 3518 Court St. within the shopping center, has moved to the former Bergner’s space at 3536 Court St. Mattress Liquidators now occupies the entire 82,100-square-foot space and opened its doors Thursday, Dec. 12. Mattress Liquidators offers name-brand mattresses at significant discounts by purchasing overstocks and year-end models. The East Court Village store will also sell furniture and major appliances. The store is …
East Rutherford, N.J. — Triple Five Group has opened Big Snow, a 180,000-square-foot indoor snow slope within its American Dream entertainment and retail destination in East Rutherford, a western suburb of New York City. The 16-story vertical slope offers indoor skiing, snowboarding, sledding and other snow activities year-round. The facility will produce 4.4 tons of snow per hour, which will be kept at a constant temperature of 28 degrees with an average depth of 2 feet. Triple Five opened American Dream in late October with a Nickelodeon Universe theme park …
Myrtle Beach, S.C. — CBL Properties will redevelop Coastal Grand in Myrtle Beach. As part of the redevelopment, CBL will relocate Dick’s Sporting Goods, which will include Golf Galaxy, to a building near Dillard’s and a new 53,000-square-foot Flip N Fly that will occupy Dick’s Sporting Goods’ current space. Flip N Fly will bring a trampoline park as well as other family attractions to Coastal Grand. Construction on the new DICK’s Sporting Goods/Golf Galaxy store will begin in early 2020. More information about a grand opening date will be announced …
Philadelphia — Cliffs Climbing + Fitness will open a 40,000-square-foot climbing and fitness facility called in Philadelphia on Saturday, Dec. 7. The Cliffs at Callow Hill will be located in a single-tenant warehouse at 1010 Callowhill St. and will offer climbing walls with classes and clinics for all skill levels, plus a private yoga studio and a full-scale fitness center. The facility was built by Caledonia Builders Inc. and the climbing walls were built by Walltopia. Michael Gorman and Stephen Carrozza of Metro Commercial Real Estate represented Cliffs in the …
Lexington, S.C. — Publix Super Markets Inc. has opened a GreenWise Market store within Lexington Marketplace in Lexington. The new 20,400-square-foot grocery store is located at 5336 Sunset Blvd., 10 miles west of downtown Columbia. TSCG announced in April that Publix’s organic brand would be moving into the shopping center. This is second location for GreenWise in South Carolina. The 156,000-square-foot Lexington Marketplace is 94 percent leased to tenants including Hobby Lobby, Ulta Beauty, Brain Balance Achievement Centers, Fit Body Boot Camp, Smoothie King, MOD Pizza, Aiden Lane Boutique and Code Ninjas. …
Metairie, La. — The Richards family, the longtime owner and operator of Clearview Shopping Center in Metairie, has unveiled plans to transform the 700,000-square-foot regional mall into a mixed-use destination. Located at 4436 Veterans Memorial Blvd., the new Clearview City Center sits on a 35-acre site approximately six miles northwest of downtown New Orleans. The $100 million project will add a hotel, 260 upscale apartments, open-air restaurants with rooftop seating, 100,000 square feet of office space and green space for outdoor events and concerts. “This is what the next-generation consumer …
Ranson, W.Va. — Heidenberg Properties Group and Strategic Real Estate Partners have opened the 22,000-square-foot Marshalls at The Potomac Marketplace in Ranson. In March, the two companies announced they reached a leasing agreement with The TJX Cos., the parent company of Marshalls, and would need to immediately expand the center between Kohl’s and Petco. The center now spans 379,000 square feet following the expansion. Marshalls joins other retail tenants such as AT&T, Weis Markets, Kohl’s, Petco and The Home Depot.