RUNNING WITH EQUITY CRE

WITH DAVID GOODMAN

David Goodman | Feb 22, 2016 |

ShopRite, Wawa coming to Northeast Philadelphia

A ShopRite-anchored center that will also include Wawa will receive a total of $12.5 million in tax credits to fund its construction, which is expected to start in a couple months. The center will be located in the Wissinoming section of Philadelphia (lower Northeast) and will be about 110,000 square feet.

David Goodman | Jan 27, 2016 |

ShopRite and Samsung to allow customers to order groceries from their refrigerators

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, Samsung showed off its new Family Hub refrigerator that will allow owners to order groceries from ShopRite through the appliance’s built-in screen. ShopRite plans to integrate its online grocery service with the Groceries by MasterCard app that comes with the refrigerator. According to published […]

David Goodman | Jan 27, 2016 |

Dollar Tree adds 8 Philly area stores

Dollar Tree announced earlier this month that it plans to open eight new stores in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania suburbs. The new stores are in the following locations. Bensalem, PA Fairless Hills, PA Levittown, PA Southampton, PA Chester, PA Woodlyn, PA Philadelphia, PA (Morrell Ave.) Philadelphia, PA (Broad St.) The company has been in expansion […]

David Goodman | Jan 21, 2016 |

Walmart to close 269 stores, including all Express stores

Walmart announced last week that it plans to close 269 stores, including all of its 102 Walmart Express small-format stores. Of the store closings, 154 will take place in the U.S. According to Walmart, the impacted stores represent less than 1 percent of the 11,600 stores worldwide and will impact 16,000 employees (10,000 in the […]

David Goodman | Jan 21, 2016 |

Save-A-Lot files IPO, to spin off from Supervalu

Supervalu announced earlier this month that its discount grocer Save-A-Lot filed an IPO and plans to spin off into a publicly traded company to be largely controlled by Supervalu shareholders. According to Supervalu CEO Sam Duncan, after the separation “Supervalu will be able to focus on providing wholesale distribution services to independent retail customers and […]

David Goodman | Dec 22, 2015 |

Brookhaven, PA to welcome ShopRite and Giant in 2016

The shopping center known as 352 Plaza in Brookhaven, PA had two doomed tenants – Pathmark and K-Mart-  but will soon come to life with a Lowe’s (under construction) and a planned ShopRite. The grocery store could open by March 2016 and will feature an outdoor cafe, beer sales, and a hot and cold food […]

David Goodman | Dec 22, 2015 |

Dollar General to open 900 stores in 2016

Dollar General said earlier this month that it plans to open 900 new stores in 2016, compared to 730 store openings in 2015. The new stores are planned for urban, suburban and rural locations. The company also announced its third quarter earnings. Net income rose 7.2% (compared to the previous year’s third quarter) to $253 […]

David Goodman | Dec 22, 2015 |

Whole Foods to seek $1 billion in debt offering

Whole Foods announced earlier this month that it was seeking to raise $1 billion in a debt offering. The company said it intends to use the proceeds for general corporate purposes, including an authorization to repurchase up to $1 billion in its stock. Standard and Poor’s (S&P) assigned a “BBB” rating to the offering, the […]

David Goodman | Dec 22, 2015 |

Plans in place again for Albertsons IPO

Albertsons (Acme, Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco et al) filed an amended stock prospectus for an initial public offering late last month in hopes of raising between $1.5 and $2 billion. The company had originally planned to hold the offering in October but called off the IPO due to market volatility. The prospectus is seeking a […]

David Goodman | Dec 22, 2015 |

ShopRite subject to antitrust claim in fight to squeeze Wegmans

Wegmans’ bid to open a store in Hanover, NJ took an interesting twist recently, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a decision reversing a previous ruling, and holding that Village Supermarkets, a ShopRite operator and Wakefern member, may be subject to an antitrust claim related to its efforts to thwart […]

David Goodman

David leases high-quality shopping centers, represents select retail clients and sells vacant bank properties.

Call David