NAI Isaac Facilitates a Lease with HomeStory of Lexington

Bruce Isaac, SIOR, CCIM, Senior Vice President and Jamie Adams, LEED AP, Senior Associate of Isaac Commercial Properties, Inc. represented the landlord, Hubert McGaughey in the lease negotiations with HomeStory of Lexington for space at 997 Floyd Drive in Lexington. HomeStory of Lexington is slated to open in April 2014. For more information visit www.homestorylexington.com.

NAI Isaac Brokers Sale of Freestanding Building in Frankfort, KY

NAI Isaac brokered the sale of the 16,486 sf freestanding building on 5.6 acres located at 770 Wilkinson Boulevard in Frankfort. Al Isaac, President and Jamie Adams, LEED AP, Senior Associate of NAI Isaac represented the seller, Fifth Third Bank, and Will Crumbaugh with The Crumbaugh Companies represented the buyer, Riverside Property Group, LLC, in this transaction.

NAI Isaac Assists with H&R Block Renewal at Barren River Plaza

NAI Isaac welcomes the renewal of H&R Block to Barren River Plaza in Glasgow, Kentucky. Located at 310 North L Rogers Wells Boulevard, the Center is anchored by Ruler Foods, Jo-Ann Fabrics, TJ Samson Medical Pavilion, Goody’s and Burke's Outlet owned by Barren River Plaza Project, LLC. Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky is in south-central Kentucky, about 90 miles southeast of Louisville and 90 miles northeast of Nashville.  Paul Ray Smith, Executive Vice President, and Jim Kemper, Vice President, of NAI Isaac Commercial Properties, exclusively represented the Landlord.

NAI Isaac's Al Isaac: Retail on the rise in Lexington

NAI Isaac's Al Isaac: Retail on the rise in Lexington
Posted By Dan Rafter On March 20, 2014 (11:16 am) In Homepage, Midwest Real Estate News, News

The Summit Lexington will bring new retailers and multi-family residences to Lexington.

Retail is on the rise in Lexington, with three major retail developments set to bring new energy to the heart of this key Kentucky market.

And for Al Isaac, president of Lexington’s NAI Isaac, this is good news not only for the city but for its surrounding areas, too.

“If you think about the size of our market and the size of the new retail developments coming in, there is some exciting activity in Lexington right now,” Isaac said.

The good news? The long-term trend for retail in the Lexington market looks positive. According to NAI Isaac’s 2013 year-end market report, the retail vacancy rate stood at 6.37 percent at the end of 2013. And Isaac said that this sector has remained a consistent one.

Even during the worst days of the Great Recession, the retail vacancy rate in the Lexington market never rose much higher than 10 percent, he said.

“That’s pretty strong,” Isaac said. “Even during the height of the recession, our retail vacancy rate wasn’t that bad. Today, there is strong demand among national retailers trying to get into our market. We’ve always been a stable and diverse market. That served us well during the recession.”
One of the most important developments now taking place in downtown Lexington is CentrePointe. This development will include office space, luxury hotel rooms, apartments and some retail and restaurant space. The overall mix is expected to include 300 full-service hotel homes, about 100 apartment units, 10,000 to 11,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor of these apartment units and a 160,000-square-foot office building. There will be additional retail and restaurant space on the ground floor of the office building.
“This new development is certainly a positive for the downtown area,” Isaac said. “Anything that brings more people downtown is good for the city.”

Construction has just started on this project developed by the Webb Companies.
The Fayette Mall in Lexington has always been a retail destination in south suburban Lexington. The mall, though, is now branching out. Its owners are remodeling the former home of Sears — which closed its doors last year — and bringing in a new slate of retailers to the mall.

Among the major retailers coming to the Fayette Mall in this renovation are the Cheesecake Factory restaurant and clothing store H&M. Isaac said that these retailers, and others, will be open in the fall, just in time for the holiday shopping season.

The second major retail development now in the early stages of construction in the Lexington area is The Summit Lexington, an outdoor mixed-use center developed by Bayer Properties at the Northeast corner of Man O’War Blvd. and Nicholasville Road.

The project, covering more than 60 acres, will cost $155.6 million and include a five-story hotel, upscale shops and multi-family housing. A list of tenants has not been revealed except for one major exception: Whole Foods, an upscale grocer, will relocate from its current location in Lexington to this development.
Bayer just received approval for its requested zoning changes, and construction hasn’t yet started. Bayer plans a 2016 delivery of the project.

“Bayer has built several of these types of mixed-use projects in the past, and they’ve always been very successful,” Isaac said. “They’ve been very successful at bringing new retailers to the markets they have targeted. So we’re looking forward to seeing which retailers come to this development.”
Retail isn’t the only sector that is doing well today in Lexington.

The market’s industrial sector, for instance, is thriving, ending 2013 with a vacancy rate of 7.60 percent, down 33.51 percent from six months earlier. NAI Isaac reported that there was 827,889 square feet of industrial space available at the end of 2013.

A pair of industrial buildings with 15,000 square feet or more were delivered to the market last year. While the largest lease signing in this sector last year included the 16,063-square-foot lease signed by Midwest Auto Parts at 667 E. New Circle Road and the 14,000-square-foot lease signed by the University of Kentucky at 845 Angliana Ave.

“We are now getting to the point where in some markets it is getting hard to find enough industrial product to meet the demand for it,” Isaac said. “One of the reasons the industrial market is so strong here here is the geographic location of Lexington. With Interstate-75 and -64 here, we are a several-hour drive to more than half of the population of the United States. From a distribution standpoint, Lexington makes a lot of sense for distribution warehouses.”

The Lexington-area office market was a bit more sluggish last year. The suburban office market vacancy rate stood at 15.34 percent at the end of 2013, while the CBD office vacancy rate stood at a nearly identical 15.40 percent. These submarkets were trending in opposite directions, though, with the vacancy rate falling during the last six months in the suburban office market and rising in the CBD.


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NAI Isaac Assists with 3rd Lexington Location for First Watch

NAI Isaac welcomes another First Watch Restaurant to Lexington. First Watch will open its 3^rd Lexington location at War Admiral Place in the Hamburg area. Breakfast is the new dinner. It is the fastest growing segment in the restaurant industry and First Watch has established itself as the category leader. First Watch offers breakfast, brunch and lunch menu items.  The café is slated to open Spring 2014. For more information visit http://www.firstwatch.com/.

Bruce Isaac, SIOR, CCIM, Senior Vice President and Jim Kemper, Vice President of NAI Isaac Commercial Properties represented the Tenant, Lex FW III, LLC and Patrick Madden represented the Landlord, War Admiral Place, LLC to secure the lease. 

NAI Isaac Welcomes WakeUpNow to North Park Marketplace

NAI Isaac brings WakeUpNow to North Park Marketplace and is slated to open March 2014. WakeUpNow is a network marketing business. For more information visit http://everydaypeople.wakeupnow.com/. North Park Marketplace is now a fully leased 46,647 square foot community center, anchored by Staples and located at 524 West New Circle Road adjacent to a Walmart Supercenter. Jim Holbrook and Jamie Adams, LEED AP, of NAI Isaac represented the Landlord, Yale Lexington, LLC in this transaction.