Ian Ritter is national online editor for GlobeSt.com/RETAIL.

COLERAIN TOWNSHIP, OH-Feldman Mall Properties is buying Northgate Mall, a 1.1-million-sf center here for $110 million. The Great Neck, NY-based company is acquiring the center from Owensboro, KY-based David Hocker & Associates, by assuming a $79.6-million mortgage loan and paying $30.4 million in cash.

Dillard's, J.C. Penney, Macy's and Sears anchor the center, which has sales per sf of $300 and an overall occupancy of 93%. To increase sales, executives say, they will add one to two entertainment tenant, restaurants and additional specialty stores to the mall. "FMP management intends to invigorate shopper interest and sales at Northgate through targeted capital expenditures designed to increase mall traffic," says Larry Feldman, chairman and CEO of FMP.

Feldman has been busy on the acquisition front so far this year. In January it bought the 1.3-million-sf Stratford Square Mall, in Bloomingdale, IL, for $93.1 million. The company purchased the 1.2-million-sf Colonie Center, in Albany, for $82.2 million. Feldman executives are also in talks to acquire the Tallahassee (FL) Mall for $65 million from Tallahassee Mall Partners. If it is able to close that deal, and the Northgate transaction, Feldman will own six malls totaling 6.2 million sf.