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KPR Centers, a New York City-based retail real estate development and investment group, has entered the Denver, Colorado retail market with the $56.5 million acquisition of University Hills, a 210,000 square foot grocery-anchored center located at 2750 S. Colorado Boulevard. The grocery-anchored asset featuring King Soopers, Michaels, Marshalls, Office Depot, PetSmart, Five Below, Ulta Beauty, Starbucks Coffee, and numerous other restaurants and retailers, was 100 percent leased and occupied at the time of the transaction. Tom Lagos of Institutional Property Advisors represented KPR on this off-market transaction. KPR Centers is now active in 18 states, with approximately 10 million square feet of owned and self-managed properties.

New York-based KPR Centers has acquired an eight-property shopping center portfolio for $180 million. The portfolio includes retail centers in Milwaukee, St. Louis, Jensen Beach, and Lakeland, Fla., comprising more than 1.5 million square feet of space. Cumulatively 96% leased at the time of the purchase, the portfolio is a combination of grocery-anchored and power centers, featuring anchors Dick’s Sporting Goods, Marshalls, Michael’s, Ross Dress for Less, The Fresh Market and others.

Dan Katz founded Katz Properties when he was 24 years old, and today, it operates under the name KPR. The company primarily owns grocery anchored shopping centers in high density Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeast markets. Its initial significant growth occurred after the great recession. Dan explains how he managed to seize opportunities during those challenging economic times.

A partnership between a real estate fund managed by New York City-based DRA Advisors, LLC and KPR Centers has completed the acquisition of a portfolio of 35 grocery-anchored shopping centers, comprising more than 4.9 million square feet of space, from Cedar Realty Trust for $879 million. The centers are situated in nine states throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions of the country. The partnership disposed of 16 of those shopping centers, totaling more than 1.5 million square feet of space, to three separate entities simultaneously at closing. The remaining 19 shopping centers, comprising more than 3.4 million square feet of space and cumulatively 93% leased, will be owned and managed by the two real estate companies focused on value-add investments. Chris Angelone of JLL represented the seller in this transaction.

Finmarc Management, Inc., a commercial real estate investment and management firm headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, together with KPR Centers, a real estate investment and operating firm based in New York City, have completed the acquisition of Providence Town Center, a 760,000 square foot retail center located northwest of Philadelphia in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. The purchase price was $161.75 million. Located at 100 Town Center, the asset was 92% leased at the time of the sale and features 11 anchor tenants led by Wegmans Food Markets, and approximately 70 tenants in total.

A joint venture between PCCP, LLC and KPR Centers has acquired Schaumburg Corners, a 100% leased 160,301-square-foot shopping center located at 16-66 E Golf Rd. in the northwestern Chicago suburb of Schaumburg, IL. The seller was Kensington Development Partners. Deal terms weren’t disclosed.

CARY, N.C. — Katz Properties Retail, a New York-based real estate firm, has acquired Amberly Place, a 77,675-square-foot shopping center located in Cary. Dennis Carson, Casey Rosen and Mike Burkard of CBRE represented the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based seller, The Sembler Co. The sales price was $28.4 million.

Retailer to celebrate Brunswick location with $5K in donations to nonprofits

Active across New England for almost a decade, Gotham-based KPR Centers is moving beyond the grocery anchored shopping plazas focused on while assembling a seven-million-sf platform extending from Maine to Florida, yet Managing Partner Daniel Katz tells Real Reporter its just completed deal spending $47 million on 310,000 sf of refrigerated industrial space here in southern New Hampshire does connect to the firm’s real estate roots. The off-market agreement arranged Read More

New York, New York – KPR (Katz Properties Retail) and DRA Advisors jointly purchased Concordia Shopping Center, located in Monroe Township, NJ, for $32,300,000. Read More

New York, New York – KPR (Katz Properties Retail), an East coast retail investor and operating firm, continues to add to its portfolio with the recent acquisition of The Shops at Blue Bell, located in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.  Read More

Meet four rising stars who are making standout contributions to retail real estate

By Ben Johnson

The bar for being named an ICSC NextGen 4 Under 40 designee was higher than ever this year, because this annual award received the greatest number of nominations ever in its five-year history. “We are excited to continue the legacy of 4 Under 40 with very bright and talented men and women who are proven leaders from a variety of backgrounds, including leasing, asset management, brokerage and consulting,” said Jessica Goss, vice president of Americas real estate at J.P. Morgan & Co. and a member of the national ICSC NextGen Leadership Board, which oversees the subcommittee responsible for the 4 Under 40 program. Read More

New York, New York – Katz Properties Retail announced today the successful acquisition of Bolton Plaza, a 174,037 square foot grocery-anchored shopping center located in Orange Park (Jacksonville MSA), Florida. Read More

Chili, NY – Since purchasing Chili Square in 2010, Katz Properties Retail had a big plan for the revitalization of the 114,000 square foot Kmart building; transition it into a neighborhood shopping center that will better meet the everyday needs of the community. Read More

New York, New York – ICSC NextGen committee announced the 4 Under 40 honorees on May 19 at RECon in Las Vegas.  Read More

New York, New York – Katz Properties Retail announced the addition of Michael J. Zieja as Leasing Director.  Mr. Zieja will contribute to leasing KPR’s 5+ million square foot growing portfolio and will be reporting to Thomas Smith, KPR’s National Director of Leasing.  Read More

New York, New York ─ Katz Properties, an East coast retail investor and operating firm, continues to add to its portfolio with the recent acquisition of Freshwater-Stateline Plaza, located in Enfield Connecticut.  Read More

Managing Partner and Principal, Daniel Katz, Hires Shelley Anderson to Assist in Major Transition  View Article

QUAKERTOWN, PA. —  Katz Properties has purchased Richland Marketplace, a shopping center located on 36.9 acres on Route 309 in Quakertown.  …. View Article

New York-based Katz Properties has acquired Vestavia Hills City Center, a 392,000-square-foot shopping center in Vestavia Hills…. View Article

ATLANTA (August 21, 2017) – SRS’ Investment Properties Group (IPG) exclusively marketed and brokered the sale of Union Town Centre in Indian Trail, N.C…..View Article Read More

For the second time in days, a Glastonbury retail center has changed hands…View Article

The Sembler Co. sold OakLeaf Town Center for $53.6 million to Katz Properties… View Article

In 2012 the New York based Katz Properties made its first acquisition in the Commonwealth of Virginia… Some six years later the property is trading again… View Article

Katz Properties acquires 302,000 square foot Brunswick shopping center for
$13.25 million…View Article

The 400,000 square foot property is fully occupied by a variety of tenants… View Article

A New York-based investor and developer just picked up a shopping center in Pompano Beach for $46.8 million… View Article

Derry Meadows Shoppes has sold to Slate Properties… View Article

The center currently 100 percent occupied and is anchored by… View Article

Katz Properties of New York has purchased Gloucester Town Center…View Article

New York City-based Katz Properties has acquired the Sunshine Plaza shopping center here for $28.5 million…View Article

Katz Properties, a New York real estate investment, development and management company with offices in Boston, has purchased…View Article

Katz Properties has acquired the 69,000-square foot Giant-anchored shopping center…View Article

Katz Properties of New York has acquired the 200,791-square-foot…View Article

One of Keene’s largest shopping centers has a new owner…View Article

Another Big Apple buyer has poured money into Richmond real estate…View Article

The 67,535 s/f shopping center was built in 2001 and is part of the Richmond metropolitan area…View Article

 

Katz Properties of New York has acquired Heritage Plaza in East Longmeadow and Golden Ring Plaza in Rosedale, MD…View Article

Golden Ring Plaza has been purchased by New York-based Katz Properties…View Article