Retail

JERSEY CITY-Xtra, a specialty grocery chain, is set to take over the 50,000-sf store vacated by CitiMarkets in this city's Martin Luther King Drive Hub, a redevelopment project.

JACKSONVILLE, FL-The 32-acre Southside hospital campus expects to break ground in two months on a 250,000-sf hospital and an 80,000-sf physicians' office building in the 1,022-acre Flagler Center at Interstate 95 and Old St. Augustine Road.

AURORA-The new municipal center, besides being three times the size of the old one, is an anchor of the city's Downtown and "civic campus.

LOS ANGELES-The Modesti family, which has operated on the site for 30 years, sells one corner property and moves to another. Several offers surfaced for the prime corner, but the winner was Peretz Properties of LA.

PHOENIX-Mike Kumelski of Trammell Crow Co. is one of 10 nationwide selected for the national advisory board of ICSC's "Next Generation Program." The program will be rolled out at the May convention in Las Vegas.

FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA-The firm is adding two new retail centers to its portfolio with the $31 million purchase of South Valley Shopping Center and Mount Vernon Plaza from separate owners. The adjacent properties account for 213,000 sf and 257,000 sf, respectively.

WASHINGTON, PA-Gander Mountain of Bloomington, MN has signed a lease with Crown American Realty Trust to locate their superstore concept here in the former Ames Department Store space at Washington Crown Center.

RIVERSIDE, CA-Transcan Development, based near Oakland, is working on entitlements for the 84-acre Canyon Crossings at Canyon Springs, an entertainment and retail center planned at the junction of I-215 and the 60 Highway.