SAN DIEGO-Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. has purchased Hawthorne Crossings; a 141,288-square-foot grocery anchored community shopping center at 4200-4380 Kearny Mesa Rd. & 8055 Armour St. here for $41.5 million or $297.72 per square foot. American Fund US Investments LP was the seller.
Cushman & Wakefield capital markets group, led by Pete Bethea and Glenn Rudy together with John Jennings, represented the seller and procured the buyer. C&W says that the entire marketing and sale process in less than two and a half months.
Rudy pointed out that “The sale of Hawthorne Crossings further demonstrates the market's flight to quality to infill core submarkets in Southern California.” He explains that “The property's high quality design, diverse tenant mix and position within the trade area drew significant attention producing multiple offers from an extremely qualified buyer pool.”
Rudy continues that “this transaction affirms the overwhelming demand for core, grocery-anchored shopping centers and the pace by which buyers are willing to work to secure like kind opportunities.”
Hawthorne Crossings features a lineup of national and regional retailers including Ross Dress for Less, Staples, Mitsuwa Marketplace, Dollar Tree, Sleep Train and Starbucks Coffee. Hawthorne Crossings is the premier retail center in the community of Kearny Mesa. Built in 1993, the center has been operated by institutional ownership for the past 10 years. Numerous investments such as implementation and construction of a new monument sign program and new landscaping theme are just two examples of the many capital improvements made in recent years.
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