Butler Realty Group and DeFelice Realtors cobroke $120,000 sale
Jeffrey Butler of Butler Realty Group and Feng Lei of DeFelice Realtors co-brokered the $120,000 sale of a 3,186 s/f retail building at 734 Park Ave. to Yan Juan Liu. The seller of the 5-unit (2 retail, ground floor; 2 residential, second floor; and a garage) property was Brightside Realty, LLC. The buyer plans on renovating the apartments and opening a Chinese restaurant and gift shop on the ground floor.
And in Swansea, Mass. Butler sold a 1,500 s/f retail location at 572 Grand Army Hwy. to Mark Carreiro. The seller of the former Tim Horton's location was 572 Swansea Realty, LLC. The buyer will open a Sprint Cell Phone Store. The lender for the $415,000 loan was Dime Bank.
West Roxbury, MA Prescott IOS has arranged an industrial outdoor storage lease for Eastern Bus Company at 151 Rivermoor St. David Skinner and Devon Wagner of Prescott IOS represented the tenant, while Caroline Munn nd Rob Byrne of CBRE represented the landlord, Feeney Brothers Real Estate. The 40,000 front foot site gives the bus operator secured yard space close to the routes it serves across Boston and the inner suburbs.
This may seem self-serving, and I’ll be the first to admit it. But unlike some of the artificial intelligence tools now reshaping our industry, I am fully aware of my own bias. So, hear me out. The rise of AI in commercial real estate is not a distant threat or a speculative headline.
Now what? As the year comes to a close, the state of retail is always in the news. The answers vary greatly depending on who in the various related industries you ask, each offering a unique lens on the challenges and opportunities ahead.