Arlington, Va. — American Real Estate Partners (AREP) has unveiled its plans to redevelop and rebrand the Rosslyn Metro Center in Arlington’s Rosslyn neighborhood. AREP began the $35 million project earlier this month. Rosslyn City Center is a 62,000-square-foot former mall located directly above the Rosslyn Metro Station. Completion is scheduled for third-quarter 2020. Rosslyn City Center is located at 1700 N. Moore St., three miles east of downtown Arlington and less than five miles from Amazon’s HQ2 campus. The redevelopment will include transforming the existing structure on the site, …
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Ruston, La. — Hutton has opened Ruston Marketplace, a 103,413-square-foot shopping center in Ruston. The property’s tenants include Hobby Lobby, T.J. Maxx, Ulta Beauty, Five Below and Rack Room Shoes. Ruston Marketplace is situated off of Interstate 20, one mile from Louisiana Tech University. Hutton partnered with the City of Ruston to deliver the project. According to multiple media outlets, the City of Ruston paid $6.4 million to improve the infrastructure around the shopping center to make it more accessible to shoppers.
New York City — Cornell Realty Management has topped out 200 Kent Avenue, a 72,000-square-foot retail and office building located in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn. The property spans 50,000 square feet of retail space that will be anchored by a Trader Joe’s, 22,000 square feet of office and restaurant space and 45,000 square feet of parking. Manhattan-based Madison Realty Capital originally provided a $64 million construction loan for the project in November 2017, and Bluestone Group recently provided $8 million in mezzanine debt to finance additional capital expenditures.
South Fulton, Ga. — Adams & Co. Real Estate Inc. will break ground on a 48,387-square-foot Publix this fall within its Sandtown Crossing mixed-use project in the city of South Fulton. The new Publix will be flanked by two 8,200-square-foot buildings and is scheduled to open in fall 2020. The grocer will join a CVS/pharmacy, 15,000 square feet of retail space and 18,000 square feet of office space. Sandtown Crossing is situated on the corner of Camp Creek Parkway and Campbellton Road, 15 miles west of downtown Atlanta.
Evergreen Devco, City Street Investors Break Ground on The Shops at Beeler Park in Denver
Denver — A joint venture between Evergreen Devco and City Street Investors has broken ground on The Shops at Beeler Park, located at the northwest corner of 56th Avenue and Central Park Boulevard in Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood. Situated on 6.8 acres, The Shops at Beeler Park will feature two multi-tenant buildings and five single-tenant buildings offering a total of 16,500 square feet of retail space. Completion is slated for November. The project team includes Farnsworth Group as architect and Waner Construction Co. as contractor. Evergreen has already sold two pads …
Midwood Investment to Develop 94,000-Square-Foot Retail Property in Los Angeles’ Studio City
Los Angeles — Midwood Investment & Development plans to build The Shops at Sportmen’s Lodge at the intersection of Coldwater Canyon Avenue and Ventura Boulevard in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles. Designed by Gensler, the new ground-up development will feature 94,000 square feet of retail space and communal outdoor space designed OLIN Studio, as well as more than 450 parking spaces. Groundbreaking will commence in August, with an estimated opening slated for fall 2020. Midwood is co-developing the project with Richard Weintraub, who originally introduced this retail concept …
Lee’s Summit, Mo. and Shawnee, Kan. — Hotworx, a high intensity isometric fitness concept, has signed two long-term leases in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, and Shawnee, Kansas. The Lee’s Summit location will be located at 1309 NE Douglas St. and span 1,900 square feet. The studio is scheduled to open this summer. In Shawnee, Hotworx will occupy a 2,000-square-foot space in a Bank of America-anchored strip center. The location is also expected to open this summer. Bill Maas and Daniel Brocato of Block & Co. Inc. Realtors represented Hotworx in the …
Dallas — Eataly, a concept that offers Italian-inspired food and drink in a marketplace setting, has signed a lease to open a 48,000-square-foot space at NorthPark Center, an enclosed shopping mall in Dallas. This location will be the company’s first in Texas. Scott Muller, Katie Rambie, Kiley Pipkin, Zach Ballenger, Justin Rasansky, Sydney Muller and Jack Gosnell of CBRE represented Eataly in the lease negotiations.
Manhattan Beach, Calif. — Two new restaurants are joining the tenant roster at Manhattan Village, a 573,000-square-foot indoor/outdoor mixed-use dining and retail property located in Manhattan Beach. The restaurants are: • dan by ROC (Republic of China), a new concept from ROC that offers home-cooked Chinese food, specializing in dumplings and noodles. Situated within the Village Shops, the 3,500-square-foot location is scheduled to open in fall 2020. • edo Little Bites, which is the newest creation of Chef Edoardo Baldi, creator of e.baldi. Located in Village Shops, the 642-square-foot eatery …
Arlington, Va. — Lidl US plans to open 25 grocery stores on the East Coast by spring 2020. The 25 stores will be located in Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, including the first four in Long Island. Openings for the individual stores were not released. In conjunction with the openings, Lidl US also plans to close two stores in Rockingham and Kinston, North Carolina, this summer. Lidl operates 10,500 grocery stores in 29 countries. Lidl established its U.S. headquarters in Arlington in June 2015.