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By STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News
stevebrown@dallasnews.com
A retailer expanding to the Dallas area has snapped up a prime shopping location.
Buy Buy Baby – a fast-growing
January 1st, 2008 - ARLINGTON, TX-Work is under way on a $60-million expansion to Arlington Highlands, a 640,000-sf assortment of lifestyle retailers with another 160,000-sf and 137-room Hyatt Place Lifestyle hotel en
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Client-centered development, acquisition and merchant banking services enable us to align with our retail clients to deliver their objectives. Created as retailer-driven service arms, Connected Development Services and Connected Acquisition Services not only advise retailers on their acquisition and development strategies, but assist with structuring investment joint ventures. Our Merchant Banking team, Connected Capital, assists entrepreneurial and emerging growth retail and restaurant chains with operating expertise and sources of capital for their operations.
With unsurpassed knowledge and commitment, we align with our clients to optimize the value of their enterprise by partnering for success.
Working in conjunction with specific client needs, The Retail Connection's acquisition platform, Connected Acquisition Services, utilizes its market knowledge and access to capital to develop store opening programs that ensure our client's goals are met.
Connected Acquisition Services structures acquisition joint ventures and purchases retail investment properties which are either single-tenant or multi-tenant assets, as either a single store or a portfolio of properties.
Connected Acquisition Services' investment strategy is concentrated on core/core-plus and value-added centers in metropolitan areas and major single store markets.
Our extensive market research and capital markets knowledge enable us to expertly advise our clients on their equity and debt options. Our relationships with the leading national and regional lenders facilitate our ability to aggressively source capital to assure that each refinance, acquisition or development financing receives the optimal rate and terms available in the marketplace.
For retailers in an expansion or development mode, Connected Development Services advises retailers on their development strategies and structures development joint ventures.
Connected Development Services, created as a retailer-driven services arm, extends The Retail Connection’s reach immeasurably, giving the firm the ability to deliver any or all aspects of the development process. Connected Development Services facilitates The Retail Connections' client expansion plans by delivering tenant-driven, build-to-suit programs. Our team has the expertise and relationships requisite to redevelop retail properties through repositioning, remodeling and remerchandising the tenant mix. At the same time, we have the experience necessary to convert raw land into income-producing properties.
Specifically, the group specializes in all aspects of the development, re-development and renovation of retail projects across the Southwest.
• Feasibility Studies• Pro-forma Preparation• Site Selection & Land Acquisition• Lease and Sales Structuring• Budgeting, Accounting and Financing• Municipal Approvals Including Zoning and Permitting• Project Management
The Retail Connection’s specialization and alignment with retailers allow the Company to reach beyond real estate into the core operations of our clients' businesses. Our merchant banking team, Connected Capital, assists entrepreneurial and emerging growth retail and restaurant chains with strategic guidance, operating expertise and sources of capital for their operations.
With unsurpassed knowledge and commitment, we align with retailers and restauranteurs to optimize the value of their enterprise by partnering for success.
