Specialty Retailer’s 14,650 SF Lease Brings Levin-Managed Center to Full Occupancy
Boating goods retailer West Marine has leased 14,650 square feet at St. Georges Crossing in Woodbridge, bringing the 340,000-square-foot shopping center to full occupancy. Located at the intersection of heavily traveled Route 1 & 9 and Route 35, the key Middlesex County shopping center is exclusively leased and managed by North Plainfield, N.J.-based Levin Management.
Levin Leasing Representative Jordan Korris negotiated the long-term lease. Marta Person Villa of CBRE served as tenant’s broker in the transaction.
“West Marine will be a wonderful resource for local residents,” said Korris. “We are confident this newest addition to St. Georges Crossing will make a major contribution to the shopping center’s ongoing popularity.”
With more than 260 stores in 38 states and Puerto Rico, West Marine is recognized as a leading waterlife outfitter for cruisers, sailors, anglers and paddle sports enthusiasts. Founded in 1968, West Marine carries more than 110,000 products that support customers’ life on the water including boating/sailing and fishing gear, apparel, engine parts, paddle boards and kayaks, and electronic gear and equipment.
Other recent additions to the tenant mix at St. Georges Crossing include off-price fashion retailer T.J.Maxx and upscale American restaurant Blu Alehouse – both of which have enjoyed rapid, sustained success. Anchored by ShopRite and P.C. Richard & Son, St. Georges Crossing features a strong mix of retail, restaurant and service tenants also including PetSmart, Pier 1 Imports, AutoZone, Bertucci’s restaurant, Verizon Wireless, European Wax Center, Visionworks, Taco Bell and GameStop, among others.
The center serves a residential population of more than 352,400 people within a five-mile radius, and a daytime population of 160,000 in those same five miles. The daily traffic count exceeds 100,000 vehicles. The property includes one, 4,300-square-foot pad site available for development.
St. Georges Crossing is one of a number of properties within Levin’s shopping center portfolio to reach 100 percent occupancy in recent months, demonstrating renewed strength in both the economy and the northeast retail marketplace.The firm maintains a diversified portfolio of approximately 95 properties totaling 13 million square feet in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, offering leasing, property management, accounting, construction management and marketing.
For more than six decades, Levin Management Corporation has been a trusted single-source commercial real estate services provider for institutional and private owners. The company specializes in repositioning, retenanting and renovating real estate – areas that have become particularly vital in an increasingly competitive market. Levin’s services continue to evolve with new technologies, efficiencies and sustainability-focused initiatives to serve a new generation of properties, investors and tenants.
