Target to Replace Movie Theatre at Laveen Retail 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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Target will replace a movie theatre as an anchor tenant at a W. Phoenix retail center. Another supersized store from the retail giant will open at Laveen Park Place. Harkins Theatres was originally slated to anchor th…
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