PREIT’s plan to gain approval for multifamily developments at six of its mall properties has now swelled to as many as 7,000 apartments, CEO Joseph Coradino told the Philadelphia Business Journal. After selling off more than 20 malls in the past two decades, the Philadelphia company’s strategy has shifted to maximizing its remaining properties by… Read more »
A developer has purchased an historic building at 6th Street and Girard Avenue in Philadelphia for $1.5 million and plans to develop what was originally known as Farmers’ Market House & Hall into a mixed-use complex. The sale of the prominent property at 527-37 Girard Ave. took more than two years to get done —… Read more »
Lamar Cos., a New Jersey real estate company, has paid a bargain price of $60 million to buy the Shops at Valley Square, a 293,550-square-foot mixed-use lifestyle center in Warrington that is 70% occupied. The last time the property traded was in 2016 when a partnership involving Poag Shopping Centers of Memphis, Tennessee, and a real estate… Read more »
An entity affiliated with Centrum Partners of Chicago sold for $10.8 million a 10,000-square-foot retail condominium leased on a long-term basis to CVS Pharmacy in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia. It bought the commercial condo at 259 Market St. in 2015 for $10 million. The buyer this time around is a Lafayette, Indiana, entity… Read more »
