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LOS ANGELES COUNTY NEWS
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U-Haul Buys Fomer Kmart Store in Lancaster for $5.2 Mil

2/02/18

U-Haul’s real estate arm purchased a shuttered Kmart store in the northern LA County city of Lancaster in a recent $5.2 mil transaction. The deal illustrates some of the ways retail real estate is being re-purposed in today’s market, according to John Battle, SIOR, Lee & Associates-LA North/Ventura, who represented the buyer and seller in the transaction.

The retail property is located at 1810 W. Avenue J at the corner of 20th Street West, A, U-Haul plans to operate it as a self storage and truck rental facility.

“We had a lot of inquiries for this property but the highest and best use was self-storage, and we proceeded with that strategy,” said Battle.

U-Haul, which will open its second facility in Antelope Valley with this purchase, will convert the retail building from its current 110k sf to 80k sf and utilize a portion of the surrounding 9.28 acres of land for rental truck storage.

According to Battle, who was awarded the listing after another brokerage had unsuccessfully tried to sell it for two years, once they dropped the listing price, they received inquiries from healthcare users, retail developers and automotive users. The building is well-located just in front of Antelope Valley Hospital with a Home Depot and Walgreens nearby, generating interest from physicians seeing an opportunity to transform it into a medical center as well as an RV seller and a few retail developers.

The seller, a family trust, had owned the building since 1970 before retailers such as Kmart began to see the sharp sales declines the sector is now experiencing. The Avenue J KMart location closed about five years ago.

Battle believes that the recent activity at the Northrop Grumman Corp plant in Palmdale is generating renewed interest in real estate in the city of Lancaster. Northrop Grumman is in the process of ramping up for an $80 bil contract it received several years ago from the U.S. Air Force to build a new generation of stealth bomber. The company has begun construction on a 1 msf expansion at its facility and hired over 2,000 workers with an estimated 5,000 to 6,000 new hires anticipated in the next 18 months.





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