Des Peres Corners

Des Peres Corners

Des Peres Corners

St. Louis, Missouri

Acquisition date: July 2024

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Occupancy Rate

90%

Square feet acquired

121K

Market

St. Louis, MO

Property Sector

Grocery-Anchored Shopping Center

Grocery-anchored, open-air shopping center with a diverse tenant lineup.

Overall thesis:

  • Open-air shopping centers at highest occupancy level in 16 years(1)

Property/Market highlights:

  • Des Peres is recognized as a top suburban market in St. Louis for its proximity to high-profile employers, universities and a highly rated local school system, which creates a strong local economy
  • Flagship shopping center for dominant regional grocer located in one of the most prominent, high traffic intersections in Des Peres with access to the adjacent major highway
  • Offers a wide array of local shops across medical, beauty, personal care and restaurants

Operating partner:

  • Phillips Edison & Company (PECO), a listed REIT manager and one of the nation’s largest owners and operators of grocery-anchored neighborhood shopping centers

Open-air community shopping center in economically strong and highly trafficked top suburban market

Des Peres Corners is an approximately 121,000 square foot grocery-anchored, open-air shopping center built in 2009, located at one of the most prominent intersections in Des Peres, a growing suburb of St. Louis. The property is 90% leased and is anchored by an approximately 74,000 square foot Schnucks grocer along with an array of national and local necessity-based retailers across the medical, beauty and personal care and food industries. Schnucks is the grocery market share leader in the St. Louis metro area with more than 100 stores throughout the Midwest.

Des Peres is recognized as a top suburban market for its proximity to high-profile employers in the area, 30 colleges and universities and a highly-rated local school system. The affluent submarket boasts strong five-year average occupancy rates for retail properties, consistently outperforming neighboring submarkets and the U.S. average, with local retail vacancy at all-time lows.

We are excited to launch our programmatic joint venture with Phillips Edison & Company through this first acquisition. PECO is one of the largest publicly traded owners of grocery-anchored shopping centers in the U.S., and we have watched them operate skillfully for many years in this property segment. We believe their expertise will drive value in this joint venture. More broadly, we believe CNSREIT shareholders will continue to benefit from the superior operating capabilities and access to superior deal flow that our best-in-class partners bring to our investment program.

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