Irvine, Calif. — Faris Lee Investments has arranged the sale of a retail property located in Irvine. A Los Angeles-based buyer acquired the asset from an Irvine-based seller for $6.9 million. Restoration Hardware occupies the property. Rick Chichester, Tom Chichester and Joe Chichester of Faris Lee Investments represented the seller and buyer in the deal.
Boston — Citizens Commercial Banking has provided a $435 million construction loan for a 500,000-square-foot office and retail project in Boston’s Seaport District. The new building at 111 Harbor Way will feature two floors of retail space and 15 floors of office space that Amazon will fully occupy. Construction of the project is scheduled for completion by 2021. The borrower, a partnership between locally based investment firm WS Development and Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board, officially broke ground on the building May 28. The partnership is the lead developer …
Jacksonville, Fla. — Lote Group will renovate the Shoppes of Northshore, a 17,000-square-foot shopping center in Jacksonville’s Atlantic Beach submarket. The renovations are expected to include giving the center a modern look while preserving the beach-style architecture of the area. Renovations are expected to be complete by the end of this year. Whitney Butler of Franklin Street is leading the leasing efforts on behalf of Lote. Local restaurants, boutique retailers and fitness and wellness concepts are being targeted for the project. Shoppes of Northshore is located four blocks from the …
Richland, Wash. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a small retail center anchored by Starbucks in Richland. A developer sold the property to an undisclosed buyer for $1.9 million. Located at 698 Gage Blvd., the property features 7,038 square feet of retail space. Brendan Powell of Marcus & Millichap’s Portland, Ore., office, along with Joe Deis of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller in the deal.
New York City — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the $1.9 million sale of 3175-3177 Steinway St., a 2,000-square-foot commercial building currently leased to a women’s clothing retailer, for $1.9 million. Baby Blue occupies the single-story property, which is located within a C4-2A zoning district, allowing for commercial or residential development, with a total of approximately 6,750 buildable square feet. ABS Steinway Acquisition II LLC acquired the property for $935 per square foot, the highest per-square-foot transaction on Steinway Street in more than two years. Stephen R. Preuss and Andreas Efthymiou of Cushman …
St. Petersburg and West Palm Beach, Fla. — Forge Capital Partners has sold Disston Plaza, a 129,150-square-foot shopping center in St. Petersburg, and Polo Grounds Mall, a 130,015-square-foot shopping center in West Palm Beach. New Market Properties LLC, a subsidiary of Preferred Apartment Communities, acquired both properties, which are both anchored by Publix. Disston Plaza was built in 1954 and was renovated in 2018. The property was 97 percent leased at the time of the sale to tenants including Publix, Bealls Outlet, Dollar Tree, Suncoast Resale Shoppe, Anytime Fitness, Subway, …
McKinney, Texas — Dallas-based retail brokerage firm STRIVE has arranged the sale of The Shops at Lake Forest, a 6,571-square-foot retail strip center located in the northern Dallas suburb of McKinney. The four-tenant property was built in 2018 and is situated along Collin McKinney Parkway just north of the Sam Rayburn Tollway. The average household income within a one-mile radius of the property exceeds $131,000. STRIVE worked with an outside broker to procure the buyer and represented the seller, both of which were locally based private investors.
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, …
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.
Alpharetta, Ga. — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has arranged the sale of Stonewood Village, a 106,485-square-foot shopping center in Alpharetta. Stonewood Village was 70 percent leased at the time of the sale to tenants including Dover Saddlery, Anytime Fitness, Queen of Hearts Antiques and Pure Spa. A vacant big box also sits on the site. Orkin & Associates acquired the property, which is situated at 670 N. Main St., 30 miles north of downtown Atlanta. Mark Joines and Drew Fleming of NKF represented the seller, Nightingale Properties, in the transaction. …
