Tulsa-based, QuikTrip Corporation has completed the assemblage of 14 properties at Sunrise Avenue and Ruthrauff Road, near I-10, for a new store site. The 14 small parcels sold for an aggregate of $1.7 million (~ $19.50 PSF) for the approximate 2 acres plus a small segment of street to be abandoned. Most were single family residences and manufactured homes when sold.

Randy Emerson of GRE Partners of Tucson handled negotiations over an 18-month span, from start to finish, and represented the 14 sellers and QuikTrip in the transactions.

Emerson said, “QuikTrip sees this as an excellent future store site given the proposed ADOT reconfiguration at Ruthrauff Road and I-10. I’ve found QuikTrip to be a highly professional and community-minded company. They worked extremely hard to insure that the specific needs of each seller were addressed. Any assemblage like this requires a great deal of effort and perseverance.”

“It has been one of the most complex deals that I’ve worked on in my 30-years in commercial real estate. I really look forward to seeing a future QuikTrip at this corner and am very pleased to have been selected by QuikTrip to provide consulting and brokerage services on this transaction,” says Emerson.

QuikTrip will soon open its 18^th store in Tucson at Ina and Camino de la Tierra in Northwest Tucson and has an additional 84 stores in the Phoenix area. New “Gen-3 stores” as almost complete on Ina, are 6,000-square-feet in size with 16-18 pumps.

QuikTrip has several other sites it is planning in the long term, such as the QuikTrip Travel Center stilled planned for Ina and Star Commerce Way (for full story click here).

Emerson should be contacted at (520) 429-4967 for additional

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QuikTrip Corporation paid[mepr-show rules=”58038″]$2.2 million ($4.79 PSF) for a 10.41 acre lot at the northeast corner of Ina Road and Star Commerce Way for development of QuikTrip #1469, a QuikTrip Travel Center. The seller was Ina Road Group of Tucson (Bill Viner and Phil Pepper). The QuikTrip Travel Center accommodates larger vehicles will be similar to that at 59th Avenue & the Freeway in Phoenix.  There is generally only one Travel Center of this type built in a market. The property address will be 5050 West Ina Road in Marana.

The deal took about 14 months, with questions involving ADOTs’  Ina / I-10 interchange project.  The widening project is to be similar to the completed ADOT project at the Twin Peaks interchange. Also, there was an issue of highway signage for the buyer that took some time to resolve. ADOT has not yet scheduled the Ina Road widening project. Zoned E in Marana, QuikTrip submitted preliminary plans for the property and signage on 11/30/2012, the project is waiting a second submittal from Quik Trip before final approval. Construction may be some time off, as ADOT finishes the four lane widening at the Prince Road interchange scheduled for completion late 2013, and then moves on to Ruthrauff Road interchange widening  before reaching Ina Road.

QuikTrip Corporation is a privately held company headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Founded in 1958, QuikTrip has grown to a more than $10 billion company with 660+ stores in eleven states. Those revenues place QuikTrip high on the Forbes listing of largest privately held companies. QuikTrip’s strategy is to be the dominant convenience/gasoline retailer in each market and to reach that level not through sheer numbers of stores, but through key, high-volume locations. With nearly 13,000 employees, Fortune magazine has ranked QuikTrip high on the list of ‘Best Companies To Work For’ in the last ten years. QuikTrip also gives back to the communities it serves, donating 5% of net profits to charitable organizations.

QuikTrip currently operates 17 locations in the Tucson area. All QuikTrip stores are company owned – not franchises. The company leases back its stores with typical triple net lease terms of 15 year primary term and seven (7) 5-year options, at annual rate of return 6.75% – 15 year primary term (fixed) and .25 basis increases each option term.

Rob Glaser and Rob Tomlinson of Cushman & Wakefield / Picor Commercial Real Estate Services in Tucson represented the seller. Larry and Will Lewis of Landwire in Tucson represented QuikTrip in the transaction.

Contact JD Dudley, QuikTrip Surplus Real Estate Manager 800-206-4036 for information on properties available in Tucson. Glaser can be reached at (520) 546-2707 and Tomlinson can be contacted at (520) 546-2757. Lewis can be reached at (520) 250-0602.

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[ismember] QuikTrip offers a finder fee to brokers. Sale date was 6/19/2013. Exact sale price was $2,172,000. Escrow opened April 2012 and took a long time, not due to any lack of cooperation by all the parties, but waiting on ADOT plans and an sign easement that was granted along the highway.[/ismember]