Developer Looking to Transform Phoenix Shopping Center
Why this matters
Retail has become a quiet outperformer. A decade of effectively zero new development has left necessity-driven, grocery-anchored, and Sun Belt strip product with negligible vacancy and re-leasing spreads in the high single digits. Cap rates have compressed in step, and the bid for stabilized portfolios is again broad across REITs, pension funds, and institutional core-plus capital. Phoenix is at the front of the Sun Belt multifamily rent-growth recovery and continues to absorb large-format industrial along the I-10 corridor. The asset class has effectively rerated as a defensive yield trade rather than a secularly challenged sector.
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One of Phoenix’s oldest shopping centers is gearing up for a potentially major transformation. Camelback Colonnade is 62 years old in its original form, tracing back to the 1964 opening of the East Camelback Mall, or…
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