Loan Servicer Puts Downers Grove Shopping Center On The Market

The Grove shopping center, Downers Grove, Ill.
The Grove Shopping Center, Downers Grove

The dominant headlines about retail real estate these days are focused on brick-and-mortar's slow demise. (Although the reality is a bit more complex.) So placing an underperforming shopping center up for sale in this climate raises some eyebrows. But that is what a loan servicer is doing with a suburban strip mall, Crain's Chicago Business reports.

C-III Asset Management has retained NAI Global to market The Grove, a shopping center in Downers Grove. C-III seized ownership of the property in 2014 after its previous owners, Robin Realty & Management, failed to pay a maturing $11.5M mortgage on the property.

The Grove is 44.7% vacant but real estate professionals are adept at turning obstacles into opportunity. NAI Global is listing The Grove as a "value enhancement opportunity" in a high-traffic area. And a buyer could get The Grove for a song: it was appraised at $11.8M last year.

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