This week in the Retail Roundup, CoStar reports on expansions or new concepts at Casual Male, Coach, Subway and Chick-fil-A; closings, cutbacks, bankruptcy, default, receivership or foreclosure news at Disney Store, Movie Gallery, Car Dealerships, Walking…

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Chicago-based REIT Management & Research is the new owner of Hill Country Galleria, a 1.28 million-square-foot mixed-use lifestyle center located in Bee Cave, TX (a suburb of Austin) that filed bankruptcy in May of last year. The investment company won…

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More than 2,000 commercial and multifamily real estate professionals attended the Mortgage Bankers Association’s four-day Commercial Real Estate Finance/Multifamily Housing Conference, which wraps up Thursday in Las Vegas. Despite a recession and…

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Where will demand for retail real estate come from in 2010? One area increasingly viewed as a potential source is franchise operators. Pricewaterhouse Coopers forecasts that approximately 11,100 new franchised retail stores are expected to open across…

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Late Tuesday night, the country’s second largest movie rental chain, Movie Gallery, brought to fruition circulating rumors that it would file Chapter 11. Like most retailers, Movie Gallery was hit hard from lack of consumer demand during the recession…

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Another half a billion dollars in CMBS debt looks even weaker this week after New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced his intent to sue Vantage Properties LLC, a major New York City multifamily landlord. Cuomo sent a five-day notice letter…

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Real Estate Capital Partners USA Property Trust (RECP), a REIT based in Sydney, Australia, has conditionally agreed to purchase all of the units of Record Realty Holdings US Trust. RECP would pay about $17.68 million for the assets. The total price…

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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency closed the First National Bank of Georgia in Carrollton, GA, and appointed the FDIC as receiver. The FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with Community & Southern Bank, a newly chartered…

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Simon Property Group Inc. agreed to sell $2.25 billion of its senior unsecured notes in an underwritten public offering. Net proceeds will fund the cash purchase of certain existing senior notes and for general business purposes. Forest City Enterprises…

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This week, CoStar reports that Jones Lang LaSalle has landed a contract to provide development services for KMPG’s new headquarters offices at Two Financial Center in Boston. In New Jersey, billionaire Stephen Ross is reportedly consider a $500 million…

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Cushman & Wakefield said Tuesday that Glenn Rufrano has been appointed as the firm’s new president and chief executive officer. Based in New York, Rufrano takes office on March 22 and will also join the company’s board of directors. He succeeds Bruce…

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Colgate-Palmolive, a maker of household and personal care products, signed a 744,331-square-foot lease at 2501 Rock House Road in Lithia Springs, GA. IDI owns the one-story, 744,331-square-foot, Class A industrial building built in 2008. It is about…

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This week in the Retail Roundup, CoStar reports on expansions or new concepts at Starbucks, Meijer and 77kids; closings, cutbacks, bankruptcy, default, receivership or foreclosure news at Home Depot, Movie Gallery and Hollywood Video; acquisition, merger…

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A&B Properties, the real estate subsidiary of Honolulu, HI-based Alexander & Baldwin, closed on the $50.3 million sale of Mililani Shopping Center, which is located in Central Oahu, Hawaii. Newport, CA-based Stoneridge Capital Partners acquired the 180…

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A&B Properties Completes $81M in Retail Sale Transactions

Even though the overall number of U.S. jobs continued to disappear through December of last year, the U.S. office market unexpectedly posted positive net absorption for the quarter. The most likely explanation is that jobs in the office sector increased…

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Private equity firms and corporations seemed poised to take advantage of opportunities in the distressed hotels arena this year. In the past week, an affiliate of Lone Star Funds agreed to acquire Lodgian Inc. for $270 million, including assumed debt…

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A number of major regional banks reported a general slowing in the rate of deterioration of their commercial real estate loan portfolios in the fourth quarter, with several reporting a decline in the rate of charge-offs — loans deemed mostly uncollectable…

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Lease Up/Lease Down (Jan. 24-30): Disconnecting the Landline: Verizon to Cut 13,000 Jobs

Reporting on the major trends that took place in retail real estate in 2009, and expectations for the coming year, CoStar Group recently provided clients with a detailed analysis on the retail real estate market in the latest in its series of quarterly…

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Positive Outlook for Retail Real Estate Tempered by Ongoing Market Correction

Avon Products is relocating its North America unit to 777 Third Ave. in Manhattan. The global beauty products company signed 15-year lease for 246,500 square feet. The 38-story, 525,000-square-foot office tower is in the Plaza District, near Dag Hammarskjold…

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Avon North America Relocating to 777 Third Ave.

In this week’s issue, we report on two more large construction projects awarded to Turner Construction for projects in Queens, NY and Atlanta, GA; San Francisco data center developer Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will team up with KDC to develop build-to…

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This week in the Retail Roundup, CoStar reports on expansions or new concepts at Bloomingdale’s, BabuSan, Target, and Edible Arrangements; closings, cutbacks, bankruptcy, default, receivership or foreclosure news at General Growth, Movie Gallery and…

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The floor in the real estate market of the UAE is likely to come in the second quarter of this year. However, the entry of distressed assets and vulture funds is yet to materialise, according to a new report.

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General Electric’s decision to shrink its commercial finance arm and eventually divest itself of NBC Universal couldn’t have come fast enough, as the conglomerate reported a 19 percent drop in fourth-quarter profits.

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila C. Bair said she expects that banks will see higher delinquency and charge-off rates on commercial real estate loans which will likely lead to escalating bank failures in coming quarters. CRE credit…

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Movie Gallery Inc. could close another 1,000 stores, and/or file Chapter 11 (again) in efforts to restructure the company, reported the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with matter. However, a bankruptcy or official number of closures has yet…

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Movie Gallery May Close Another 1,000 Stores

Uno Restaurant Holdings Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection on Jan. 20, 2010. The company said it posted a $22.2 million net loss in 2009. The company’s CFO commented, “As the national economy suffered and consumers cut discretionary spending, Uno…

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The transfer of large balance CMBS loans to special servicing continues to increase as commercial property performance declines, according to Fitch Ratings in the latest edition of What’s in Special Servicing?. An additional $1.2 billion of loans in…

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Large Loans Drive CMBS, CDO Delinquencies Higher

PGGM Private Real Estate Fund (PGGM), an investment vehicle for Dutch pension funds, agreed to increase its investment in Behringer Harvard’s growing portfolio of multifamily communities to $300 million. This most recent commitment represents the third…

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