Hendon Retail Services to provide leasing services for Market Square I Shopping Center, a 123,058 square feet asset in Macon, Georgia.  Owned by Gray Highway Holdings, Market Square is anchored by Dollar General Market, Farmers Furniture, Aaron’s, and national tenants T-Mobile and Citi Trends.

For more information, contact Jackie Wammock at 678.919.8440.

About Hendon Retail Services
Hendon Retail Services (HRS) is a highly specialized retail real estate advisory firm that takes on a principal led approach to retail leasing and management.  A collaboration between retail industry veteran’s Jackie Wammock, CRX, CLS and Charlie Hendon, HRS is founded on the principles of providing the highest level of service to all clients.

Hendon Retail Services lands deal to provide leasing services for East Gate Shopping Center a 75,716 square feet asset in Aiken, South Carolina and Furys Ferry a 70,458 square feet asset in Augusta, Georgia.  Both properties are anchored by Publix Super Markets in addition to a complimentary mix of local and national restaurants and service oriented shops.

East Gate Shopping Center and Furys Ferry are owned by New Market Properties, a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Preferred Apartment Communities, Inc. based in Georgia.

Charlie Hendon stands alongside Georgia Governor Nathan Deal and fellow members of the music industry to mark the passage of the Georgia Music Investment Act.

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Charlie Hendon, an avid music enthusiast, is founder/partner in Madison Records, an indie record label out of Atlanta, Georgia.  Madison Records has its own recording studio and production team of experienced and creative producers and consultants.  To learn more, visit www.madisonrecords.com.

 

Bargain Hunters Pounce on Weak Retail Properties, by Esther Fung

Wall Street Journal Online, May 30,2017

Most of the buyers say they have plans to improve operations and expect higher returns

As investors flee the battered retail-property sector, a few brave ones are picking through the wreckage.

GBT Realty Corp., a Brentwood, Tenn., property developer, is planning to raise a $500 million real-estate fund to purchase 80 to 100 retail buildings in the next decade.

Hendon Properties LLC, a real-estate development, management and brokerage firm based in Atlanta, is also looking to raise a fund to buy weak malls and open-air shopping centers.

“The opportunistic money is circling,” says Jeff Edison, chief executive of Phillips Edison & Co., an owner and operator of more than 340 grocery-anchored shopping centers across the U.S. “They smell blood in the water.”

So far this year, retailers have announced more than 3,000 store closures in the U.S. as a result of bankruptcy filings or shifts to e-commerce operations. The few chains that are still expanding, such as discount chain Burlington Stores Inc., are opening smaller stores in wealthier ZIP Codes.

The bifurcation between healthy properties in upscale regions and slumping ones in less-wealthy areas is creating bargains for some hardy investors.

While prices haven’t fallen to distressed levels, in some cases the land value itself is worth the purchase price, the investors say. Yet most of the buyers say they have plans to improve operations and expect higher returns.

“In some cases, the needle has swung too far and we want to take advantage of it,” says Charlie Hendon, chief executive and president of Hendon Properties.

The firm plans to raise $10 million to $20 million for the fund and will join with other institutional investors that will fork out the majority of the equity in potential projects. Hendon previously has partnered with investors such as Alabama investment firm Harbert Management Corp. and Acadia Realty Trust .

GBT Realty, which builds neighborhood shopping centers, single-tenant buildings and strip centers, already has several target acquisitions in mind, mostly open-air and grocery-anchored centers. It also could buy anchor department store locations in malls directly from retailers and reposition them by bringing in new tenants, says Scott Porter, managing director of GBT’s value-add division.

In general, the acquisitions will average around $10 million to $30 million, GBT says.

GBT already has an in-house leasing team with relationships in the retail community, says Chief Financial Officer Geren Moor. “We’re looking for assets where we can add value, such as backfilling vacant spaces,” says Mr. Moor. He added that the firm will continue with ground-up development operations, though such projects have tighter margins these days.

“There are mall investors with patient capital that can wait for the existing leases to ride out and bring in other uses to reposition the property,” says Margaret Caldwell, managing director at JLL Capital Markets. “We are also seeing new investors that are interested in buying malls due to potentially high yields.”

Time Equities Inc., a New York real-estate firm, recently purchased two Tennessee malls for $53.5 million, one in Morristown and the other in Maryville, making a bet it can revitalize the assets.

“The Tennessee portfolio presented the ideal opportunity to acquire two dominant middle market centers, both of which were priced attractively, have stable tenant rosters and showcase significant growth potential,” says Ami Ziff, director of national retail for Time Equities.

Hendon Properties announces the grand opening of Texas-based Conn’s HomePlus in Golden East Crossing in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The 45,000-square-foot store features a variety of name-brand items in product categories consisting of consumer electronics, furniture, mattress sets, home appliances and home office equipment.

Hendon Properties announces the Grand Opening of the new Kroger Marketplace in a ribbon cutting ceremony today at Dawson Marketplace, a 468,047 sq. ft. ground-up retail on 53 acres in North Georgia. In addition to an extensive prepared and organic food selection, this new Kroger concept will offer clothing and shoes, back-to-school items and housewares. Joining this state-of-the-art 123,000 sq. ft. Kroger will be Hobby Lobby, Marshalls, Ross Dress for Less, and Petco plus shops and restaurants. Kroger has also built its own 9-pump fuel station on the property.

Dawson Marketplace is adjacent to the North Georgia Premium Outlets, which averages 7.5M annual visitors (15,000 per day). Surrounding area retailers include Walmart Supercenter, The Home Depot, and Ingles.

Join us at Booth #648 on December 5 & 6 at the 2016 ICSC National Deal Making Conference at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York. Click HERE to request an on-site meeting with a member of our team.

 

 

Join us at Booth #730 on November 2 & 3 at the 2016 ICSC Southeast Conference in Atlanta.
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We are honored be a sponsor of this year’s 4th Annual Atlanta Golf Classic at East Lake Country Club on October 16th, 2016. This event helps support the Andrew P. Stewart Center, an organization that strives to promote strong communities through educational initiatives, spiritual enrichment opportunities, and wellness resources.