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Simon, URW Among Latest to Temporarily Close Retail Centers Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

by Alex Tostado

Indianapolis and Los Angeles — Simon Property Group and Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) have announced they will temporarily close their respective shopping centers across the United States amid the worldwide COVID-19 outbreak. Simon (NYSE: SPG) closed all of its U.S. properties at 7 p.m. local time Wednesday. URW will close its properties starting today. URW, which is headquartered in Paris and has offices in Los Angeles and New York City, operates 47 properties in the U.S. Due to European governments implementing crowd bans, URW began shuttering centers in France, Spain, Poland, Austria, …

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Stockdale Capital Partners Secures $330 Million Construction Loan for The Campus at Horton in San Diego

by Alex Tostado

San Diego — Stockdale Capital Partners has closed on a $330 million loan with a group of funds managed by Alliance Bernstein to continue the redevelopment efforts at Horton Plaza in San Diego. Exterior construction is scheduled to begin soon with 600 to 800 construction workers expected on-site to build the mixed-use creative office and retail redevelopment. Stockdale Capital originally announced its redevelopment plans for Horton Plaza Mall in January. The Campus at Horton will include 700,000 square feet of creative office space and 300,000 square feet of retail space. The development …

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Avison Young Negotiates $20 Million Sale of The Village at Moorpark Shopping Center in California

by Alex Tostado

Moorpark, Calif. — Avison Young has arranged the sale of The Village at Moorpark, a community shopping center located at 706 W. Los Angeles Ave. in Moorpark. London Reo Retail-CA, a Delaware limited liability company, sold the asset to California-based Chesser Group for $20 million. Built in 2007 on 11.5 acres, the 129,374-square-foot property was 76.3 percent occupied at the time of sale to tenants including Petco, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Verizon, Bank of America and Leslie’s Pool Supply. Chris Maling and David Maling of Avison Young represented the seller and …

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Hanley Investment Group Arranges $7.4 Million Sale of Retail Building in Southern California

by Alex Tostado

Ventura, Calif. — Hanley Investment Group has arranged the $7.4 million sale of Campus Corner, a 9,000-square-foot, multi-tenant retail building in Ventura. A Starbucks with a drive-thru anchors the fully leased building, alongside Jersey Mike’s Subs, Eddie’s Grill, Ventura’s Children’s Dental Group and Jessica’s Nails. Campus Corner is situated at 5101 Telegraph Road, less than a mile from Ventura College and six miles east of downtown Ventura. Ed Hanley, Bill Asher and Jeff Lefko of Hanley Investment Group represented the seller, an affiliate of Beverly Hills, California-based MJL Capital Partners LLC, in …

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URW Opens Expansion at $1.1 Billion Silicon Valley Retail Destination

by Alex Tostado

San Jose, Calif. — Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) has opened a 500,000-square-foot expansion at Westfield Valley Fair, the French developer’s $1.1 billion retail destination in San Jose. The retail center is part of a redevelopment project that replaced two 1950s-era shopping centers.  The project now encompasses 2.2 million square feet in total, with more restaurant and store openings planned for 2021. A three-level flagship Bloomingdale’s luxury apparel department store anchors the new expansion, alongside other apparel retailers including Anthropologie, Club Monaco, Fabletics, Indochino, Jimmy Choo, John Varvatos, Longchamp, Rodd and Gunn, Urban …

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United Development Starts Construction of French Valley Marketplace in California

by Alex Tostado

French Valley, Calif. — Southlake, Texas-based United Development Co., in partnership with Pasadena, Calif.-based Halferty Development Co., has started construction of French Valley Marketplace, a shopping center in French Valley, approximately seven miles northeast of Temecula. Situated on 22 acres, French Valley Marketplace will offer 132,500 square feet of leaseable space in 16 buildings, with 44,300 square feet of retail space still available, four drive-thru pads for ground lease or build-to-suit and 5,000 square feet of grocery store and planned pharmacy space. Pre-leased tenants include Grocery Outlet, LA Fitness, McDonald’s, …

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Faris Lee Arranges $9.2 Million Sale of Two Freestanding Outparcel Assets in Fontana, California

by Alex Tostado

Fontana, Calif. — Faris Lee Investments has arranged the $9.1 million sale of two freestanding outparcel properties located at 17151-17171 W. Foothill Blvd. in Fontana. Shaun Riley and Nick Miller of Faris Lee represented the undisclosed seller and procured the Los Angeles-based buyer. Totaling 34,377 square feet, the properties are situated within a Walmart-anchored shopping center.

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Optimus Properties Sells Two-Property Mixed-Use Portfolio in California for $11 Million

by Alex Tostado

Carmel, Calif. — Optimus Properties has completed the disposition of a two-property portfolio in downtown Carmel. Wheat LLC acquired the mixed-use portfolio for $11 million. The sale consists of the 4,345-square-foot Block 71: Lot 5 building, with ground-floor retail and office space and second-floor residential space, and Block 76: Lot 11, a 2,763-square-foot retail property. Michael Schoeder of Cushman & Wakefield’s Central Coast Operations, in collaboration with Dan Wald and Don LeBuhn of the firm’s Retail Investment Advisors Group in San Francisco, represented the seller in the deal.

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Hanley Investment Group Arranges $10.4 Million Sale of Sprouts-Occupied Retail Asset in Inland Empire

by Alex Tostado

Fontana, Calif. — Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors has brokered the sale of a single-tenant retail building located within the recently completed Highland Village Shopping Center in Fontana. Woodlands Hills, California-based Adler Realty Investments sold the asset to a private investor for $10.4 million. Sprouts Farmers Market occupies the 30,000-square-foot building, which anchors Highland Village Shopping Center. Additional tenants at the center, which were not included in the acquisition, are BurgerIM, Jack in the Box, Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, Jersey Mike’s Subs, Café Rio Mexican Grill, Oggi’s, Mountain View …

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Entertainment-Based Retail Requires Patience, Creativity, Say EEE Panelists

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Los Angeles — In today’s retail environment, adding local food and beverage concepts, entertainment venues and landscaped parks seems like a surefire way to revitalize a dated shopping center. A trickier task is determining how exactly these nontraditional concepts boost the bottom line. A panel of retail owners and service providers weighed in on this topic at France Media’s sixth annual Entertainment Experience Evolution conference at the JW Marriott L.A. Live in Los Angeles last week. “This panel started because I’m a bit of a skeptic as it relates to …

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