Miami Manager is left with three shopping centers in South Florida, after selling Village Shoppes of Coconut Creek for $21.3 million.
An affiliate of Sunrise-based Miami Manager, led by Claudio and Milton Mekler, sold the two-building retail site at 4690 North State Road in Coconut Creek to an entity managed by Dayvana Milano and Lisette Hermoso in Coral Springs, records and real estate database Vizzda show.
“We view this as a favorable moment to sell high cap rate assets, as they have experienced relatively lower price reductions compared to other segments of the real estate market,” Claudio Mekler said in an email. “This allows us to reinvest in a less risky asset while maintaining similar returns.”
The nearly 5-acre property includes a two-story building that includes some office suites on the second floor completed in 2009, as well as an outparcel one-story building built in 2011, according to records and Vizzda. The buildings span 53,709 square feet. Miami Manager sold another outparcel building leased to Chick-Fil-A for $3.6 million in 2022.
In 2015, Miami Manager paid $19.6 million for Village Shoppes of Coconut Creek, records show.
The fully leased shopping center’s tenants include Hook’s Catch Seafood & Wings, Colella Cosmetic Dentistry, KOA Mart Korean and Asian food store, Belfort Fitness Lifestyle and Pasquale’s Pizza Co. The property generates an annual net operating income of $1.5 million, according to an offering memorandum.
Miami Manager owns three other shopping centers in Doral, Sunrise and West Palm Beach. In 2022, the firm sold Plantation Marketplace, a shopping center anchored by a Food Fair supermarket in Plantation, for $38.4 million to Barron Real Estate.
Outdoor shopping centers like Village Shoppes of Coconut Creek remain safe bets for retail investors at a time when the commercial sector is experiencing headwinds due to recent bankruptcies of big box and national restaurant chains.
During the fourth quarter of last year, Broward County retail landlords slightly increased the average asking rent to $27.84 a square foot, compared to $27.49 a square foot during the same period of the previous year, according to a Colliers report. But Broward’s retail vacancy rate climbed to 4.2 percent, compared to 3.7 percent, year-over-year.