The Shoppes at Boca Greens
Boca Raton, Florida
Property Type: Neighborhood Shopping Center
Acquisition Date: August 2003
Investment Thesis & Opportunities
- Recognized value of location in center of affluent West Boca market and excellent frontage
- Vision of undeveloped outparcel and under-exploited retail location with opportunity to re-tenant at higher market rents
- Strategy to re-merchandise center to family orientation
- Strong demographics: average household income of $105,633 within a 3-mile radius
Value Add Activities
- Negotiated purchase of Winn Dixie lease out of bankruptcy
- Negotiated buyout of CVS and Beall’s leases
- Redevelopment to support re-tenanting
- Converted below market rents to higher paying tenants
- Re-tenanted former CVS and Beall’s space with multiple medical tenants (doctor and dentist)
- Former Winn-Dixie re-tenanted to higher-paying retailers (Annie Sez, Denny’s Childrenswear, and Outback Steakhouse)