BOSTON—HFF has closed the sale of a 24-property, 1.4million-square-foot retail portfolio located in the greater Bostonarea, New Jersey and Connecticut. The property was sold for $270million—including the assumption of approximately $121 million ofdebt.

HFF exclusively marketed the portfolio on behalf of G.P.B.Holdings, LLC and introduced the buyer, Kimco Realty Corp., tothe seller. The HFF investment sales team representing theseller was led by senior managing director Jim Koury and executivemanaging director John Fowler.

The overall portfolio was 96% occupied and anchored by avariety of national and regional credit tenants including Walmart,Kohl's, Lowe's, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Petco, Pier 1 Imports,Walgreens, CVS as well as Kings and Aldisupermarkets. Massachusetts plays host to 21 of theproperties, two are in New Jersey and one is in Connecticut. Several included irreplaceable, core locations such as the TraderJoe's near Harvard and MIT on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Mass.and a Whole Foods in close proximity to Boston College and BostonUniversity in Brighton, Mass.

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Rayna Katz

Rayna Katz is a seasoned business journalist whose extensive experience includes coverage of the lodging sector, travel and the culinary space. She was most recently content director for a business-to-business publisher, overseeing four publications. While at Meeting News, a travel trade publication, she received a Best Reporting award for a story on meeting cancellations in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.