Publix bags another South Florida shopping center with $72M Kendall buy

Shopping for South Florida strip malls anchored by its stores is a pleasure for Publix. An affiliate of Lakeland-based Publix, led by CEO Kevin Murphy, paid $71.9 million for Hammocks Town Center, a 207,470-square-foot shopping center anchored by a Publix supermarket at 10201 Hammock Boulevard, records show. The purchase is Publix’s latest acquisition in a buying spree that began last year.  Publix paid $347 a square foot for Hammocks Town Center, which is in Kendall, an unincorporated neighborhood in southwest Miami-Dade County. The deal did not include five outparcels owned by other entities, including Bank of America, Extra Space Storage, […]

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