The leases bring the 310,000-sf retail component of the project to about 36% occupancy. TJ Maxx is taking 33,188 sf; Ross Dress For Less, 29,702 sf; Office Depot, 19,290 sf; PetSmart, 17,760 sf; and Ulta, 10,840 sf. Selig officials declined to disclose the length and value of the transactions.

However, area retail brokers and marketers familiar with the West Atlanta submarket tell GlobeSt.com the estimated base rent range for non-anchors is probably in the $30- to $35-per-sf range and about $20 per sf for anchors. That would place the estimated aggregate value of the five leases in the $22-million range, brokers tell GlobeSt.com.

The retail component at the District at Howell Mill is adjacent to a 280-unit apartment building. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has a 150,000-sf store on the lower level of the two-level development. Selig marketing director Hilary W. Sure calls the project "a unique, multi-level, urban, mixed-use development."