January 2015 Greetings, Friends! Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe another year has come and gone. We are taking the bull by the horns and starting this one off right. As we embark on 2016, we can make one promise to you, and that is to continue to bring you the best restaurant, retail and commercial investment locations that the market has to offer in Southern California. Read on to hear what 2016 has already brought us. Cheers to you and yours! Iconic Uptown Watering Hole For Lease   3780 Park Blvd., San Diego, CA 92103 Full Liquor License (Type 48) 2,057 SF Highly visible space on the major thoroughfare of Park Boulevard and just around the corner from iconic University Avenue Steps away from the new mixed-use building, Mr. Robinson, designed by acclaimed architect Jonathon Segal Immediate freeway access to Interstate 805 and close to Interstates 5, 8, and 15 Paul Ahern (858) 764-1828 Email Las Olas Point Loma – 3924 W. Point Loma Blvd., San Diego, CA 92110 Pt. Loma’s margarita-sipping locale shut its doors after a 3 year stretch on W. Point Loma Blvd. The authentic Mexican food restaurant chain opened their first location in 1981 right across the beach in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, which still remains on Highway 101 to this day. The buyer, local restaurateur Jaime Osuna, is bringing his ever popular Swami’s Café brand to the Pt. Loma community. This will be his seventh Swami’s in San Diego. The menu hinges mostly on all-day breakfast, from acai bowls to omelettes and breakfast burritos. Be sure to check them out in Spring of 2016. Paul Ahern represented the Seller and Buyer in this transaction. swamiscafesd.com Pizza Studio Point Loma – 3640 Rosecrans St., San Diego, CA 92110 Pizza Studio recently opened at Grosvenor Square Shopping Center in Point Loma. This will be the fast casual custom pizza chain’s 13th California location. The franchise, which has been around since 2012, allows guests to create their own custom pizzas from an assortment of crusts, sauces, meats and vegetables all for under $8.00. Marc Karren represented the tenant and Matt Moser of Retail Insite represented the landlord in this transaction. pizzastudio.com Knockout Pizzeria Oceanside – 401 Mission Ave., Oceanside, CA 92054 The pizza craze continues. Knockout Pizzeria just signed a lease deal at Ocean Place in Coastal Oceanside. They will share their pizza love with the North County Coastal community by bringing their NYC style pies, slices and Italian grub to the area. This is the second location for the San Diego based pizzeria whose prices are a “knockout”! Paul Ahern represented the tenant and Chad Iafrate of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord. kopzsd.com ICSC – The Future of Retail Positioning to Win We attended this month’s ICSC’s event, The Future of Retail Positioning to Win, held at Bali Hai Restaurant on Shelter Island. Retail movers and shakers, such as Shea Properties’ Kiril McKee and OliverMcMillan’s Eric Buchanan, shared valuable information on a panel discussing the future retail industry and how they can position their companies and portfolios to outperform the competition. icsc.org New Year Team Celebration at Kettner Exchange We rung in the New Year with a company dinner held at ultra-swanky Kettner Exchange in foodie mecca, Little Italy. We stuffed ourselves silly on the restaurant’s “progressive American cuisine” and sipped on unique tastebud blowing cocktails. If you haven’t checked out Kettner Exchange yet, you are missing out. kettnerexchange.com Don’t forget to follow us! 4 Trends Shaping Tomorrow's Dining Rooms The next wave of restaurant dining rooms might focus less on looking spacious and cool and more on feeling like intimate living spaces—only with slightly less Netflix and slightly fancier cocktails—slightly. As consumers’ preferences tend toward social, convenient, transparent and authentic eating experiences, restaurateurs and designers are meeting the demand with designs that are smaller, faster and more open… Read more → A Forward Look at Retail Construction Leading up to the economic downturn in 2008, retail was the only property type to experience a significant inventory increase. Between 2000 and 2008, total retail stock increased by 14.2 percent, more than double the inventory increase observed in the apartment and office sectors. Almost eight years later, we are left with a sector that has been overbuilt and under-demolished… Read more → About Us  /  Properties  /  Contact This email was sent to you from   Location Matters 2010 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Ste 205, Del Mar, CA 92014 (858) 792-5521