Grocery-anchored

Washington, D.C. — Whole Foods Market has signed a 40,000-square-foot lease to anchor the Hartley apartment building within The Parks at Walter Reed in northwest Washington, D.C. The Parks is a 3.1 million-square-foot mixed-use development from the partnership of Hines, Urban Atlantic and Triden Development. The Hartley will be the third new construction at the site, alongside two projects underway: The Brooks condominiums and the Vale apartments, which features 18,000 square feet of retail. The Hartley features 323 rental units and 58,000 square feet of retail space. The apartment building will be …

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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 …

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Lawrenceville, Ga. — CW Capital has sold Village Shoppes of Sugarloaf, a 149,805-square-foot retail center in Lawrenceville. Publix anchors the property, which is located at 3330-3410 Sugarloaf Parkway, 30 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta. Village Shoppes was 63 percent leased at the time of sale. Scott Israel, Adam Sklaver and Phil Kates of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction. Branch Properties acquired the asset at a 5.5 percent cap rate.

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New Holstein, Wis. — The Boulder Group has arranged the $2.3 million sale of a single-tenant property net leased to grocer Piggly Wiggly in New Holstein, about 40 miles south of Green Bay. The 29,651-square-foot building is located at 2243 Calumet Drive. There are more than eight years remaining on Piggly Wiggly’s lease. Randy Blankstein and John Feeney of Boulder represented the seller, a Wisconsin-based partnership. A Midwest-based individual purchased the asset while completing a 1031 tax-deferred exchange.

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Irvine, Calif. and Salt Lake City — Faris Lee Investments and MTN Retail Advisors, a grocer-specialized data collection and analytics provider, have entered into a partnership to combine Faris Lee’s retail, real estate, finance and investment advisory services with MTN’s proprietary technology, which includes artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning. MTN currently has data on 28,000 active grocers across the United States and expects that number to grow to 40,000 over the next 18 months. The partnership between Irvine-based Faris Lee Investments and Salt Lake City-based MTN Retail Advisors will also …

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Maryland and Virginia — United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) will sell 13 of its 43 Shoppers Food & Pharmacy locations in a continued effort to reduce its retail footprint. The company will sell the stores to three grocery operators, which will run the stores under their respective banners. UNFI will also close four Shoppers Food locations by the end of January 2020. UNFI agreed to not renew three of the leases while the fourth lease will be canceled pursuant to agreement with the landlord. The four stores being closed are …

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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. …

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Burlington, N.C. — The Morgan Cos. has purchased a former Sears department store at 309 Huffman Mill Road within Holly Hill Mall. Morgan Cos. intends to develop the 9.6-acre site into a shopping center anchored by a 48,387-square-foot Publix grocery store and 13,400 square feet of inline retail space. Prego’s Trattoria restaurant, located on an outparcel, is also part of the purchased property. Morgan Cos. will also develop the former Sears Auto Center outparcel next to Prego’s into a multi-tenant retail building as part of the project. Morgan Cos. plans …

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Ormond Beach, Fla. — The Ferber Co. has completed the 33,000-square-foot Phase II of The Shoppes at Granada in Ormond Beach, Florida. ALDI, TD Bank, Spectrum and Salzburg Animal Hospital join Panera Bread, Chipotle Mexican Grill and Petco at the center. The Shoppes at Granada now includes 64,000 total square feet of retail space.

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Larchmont, N.Y. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of Ferndale Shopping Center, an 84,000-square-foot retail property in Larchmont, a northern suburb of New York City. Located at 1310-1340 Boston Post Road, the property was 96 percent occupied by seven tenants at the time of sale, including grocer Stop & Shop and a 24-hour CVS/pharmacy. The asset sold for approximately $35 million. Andrew Merin, David Bernhaut, Gary Gabriel, Brian Whitmer, Frank DiTommaso and Kyle Schmidt of Cushman & Wakefield represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The team also …

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