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RK Centers Adds Retail Along Highland/Needham Corridor

Needham-based RK Centers added two high-visibility properties along the Highland Avenue/Needham Street retail corridor on the Needham-Newton, MA line. The combined purchase price was $7,075,000.

Ken Fries, director of leasing, acquisitions and development for RK Centers, represented the buyer in-house. Brandon Dickason, VP with Avison Young, represented the seller, Terrazzino Investment Trust.

The property at 238 Highland Ave. in Needham, which totals 15,609 square feet, is home to the Needham Montessori School, Mandarin Cuisine Restaurant and Needham Nail & Spa.

At the 3,588-square-foot 106 Needham St. in Newton, the sole tenant is Gym Source, the country’s largest distributor of residential and commercial fitness equipment.

The Highland Avenue/Needham Street corridor boasts a high-density population with over 265,000 residents within a five-mile radius, and average household income of approximately $150,000, according to RK Centers.

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Paul Bubny serves as Senior Content Director for Connect Commercial Real Estate, a role to which he brings 16-plus years’ experience covering the commercial real estate industry and 30-plus years in business-to-business journalism. In this capacity, he oversees daily operations while also reporting on both local/regional markets and national trends, covering individual transactions across all property types, as well as delving into broader subject matter. He produces 7-10 daily news stories per day and works with the Connect team and clients to develop longer-form content, ranging from Q&As to thought-leadership pieces. Prior to joining Connect, Paul was Managing Editor for both Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com at American Lawyer Media, where he oversaw operations at both publications while also producing daily news and feature-length articles. His tenure in B2B publishing stretches back into the print era, and he has served as Editor in Chief on four national trade publications. Since 1999, Paul has volunteered as the newsletter editor of passenger rail advocacy groups (one national, one local).

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