S hopping C enters ICSC PA/NJ/DE C onference & D eal M aking E dition Eighty properties since January 1, 2016 CBRE’s Matt Gorman & Michael Shover arrange over $273m in sales in first two quarters of 2016 P www.marejournal.com M id A tlantic Real Estate Journal — Shopping Centers — Section C HILADELPHIA, PA – CBRE Group, Inc. (CBRE) announced classified as “net lease”, were a mix of restaurants, con- venience store/gas stations,
d i s c o u n t stores, auto parts, bank b r a n c h e s a n d d r u g stores, span- ning across t w e n t y - three states, i n c l u d i n g
t ha t Ma t - thew Gor- man and Mi- chael Shov- e r , b o t h senior vice presidents, investment properties at CBRE, have
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seventeen transactions in Pennsylvania and four in New Jersey. “Since moving over to CBRE in January of 2015 we have fo- cused on growing our business and bolstering our capabilities so we can handle more op- portunities and it’s paying off on the production side,” said
HI-LIGHTS AUGUST 26 - SEPT. 15, 2016 brokered the sales of eighty properties since January 1, 2016, totaling $273,346,849. The eighty properties, most “Lehigh Valley Retail ‘In Sync’ with National Trends”
Shover. “It’s a favorable mar- ket coupled with a lot of hard work which has resulted in our best start ever in 2016,” added Gorman. “The plan is to con- tinue to deliver best-in-market
results for our existing clients and work to develop new rela- tionships along the way.” Matthew Gorman and Mi- chael Shover lead CBRE’s net- lease team, specializing in the
marketing and sale of single and multi-tenant net-lease investment real estate. In their ten-year history, the team has sold more than $1 billion in net lease properties nationwide. n
$16.25m bridge loan arranged by Progress Capital breaths new life into struggling plaza
HARRISON, PA — Kathy Anderson of Progress Capi- tal Advisors worked with Steve Kogut to arrange a $16.4 million CMBS fixed rate loan when he acquired Heights Plaza in 2003. The plaza was built in 1953 and became a popular destination for shop- pers and families throughout the Alle-Kiski Valley. At the time of the loan, Lazarus, Sears, Big Lots Furniture, Dunham’s Sports and CVS Pharmacy were prominently on the plaza’s rent roll. In December 2012, just as the CMBS loan was nearing maturity, Heights Plaza was impacted by an electrical fire that damaged 100,000 s/f or one-third of the property. While there were no serious injuries sustained, many of the plaza’s tenants experienced consid- erable property damage and subsequent losses as a result. The owner was left with a sig- nificant drop in cash flow and was unable to refinance the loan conventionally. What others may have con- sidered an unfortunate situa- tion, owner Steve Kogut saw as an opportunity for rejuve- nation. It was clear that with the relocation of its large retail
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anchors, Heights Plaza needed to proceed in a new direction. Within the Alle-Kiski Valley, there are two prominent hos- pital networks, the Allegheny Health Network and UPMC. The two hospital networks actively vie for outpatient care and diagnostic facility real estate throughout the valley, offering a primed area for mixed-use medical office prop- erty options. Kogut approached Progress Capital Advisors during this
repositioning phase. Kogut had a vision of investing in the property to encourage new medical use tenants. In order to implement the business plan, Anderson arranged a $16.25 million 24-month bridge loan to retire the CMBS debt and al- low the owner time to rebrand the center into a retail/medical destination. Since engaging Progress Capital, Kogut has drawn in several new medical use tenants, such as a physical
rehabilitation center, Planet Fitness, urgent care facilities for UPMC and the Allegheny Health Network, as well as manymulti-specialty physician practices. The owner has also rebranded the plaza “Harri- son Town Square” to advocate the property’s repositioning strategy and highlight its re- naissance. The property has experienced an increase in oc- cupancy from 50% after the fire to over 75%, paving the path forward toward stabilization. n
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