• Insider's View: A Q1 M&A and Capital Markets Review

    More players chasing fewer assets

    From CSP Daily News

    SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Last year was truly a banner year for merger and acquisition activity in the convenience store industry. We witnessed the culmination of major oil company retail asset divestitures, as well as a very aggressive acquisition program by 7-Eleven Inc.

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  • 7-Eleven Retains NRC Realty & Capital Advisors For Store Sales

    From Convenience Store Decisions

    7-Eleven Inc. retained NRC Realty & Capital Advisors to coordinate the sale of 30 gas stations and c-stores in upstate and western New York.

    The 30 locations stretch from Fredonia and Buffalo in the west through Elmira and Watertown to communities next to Lake Champlain in northeast. Lot sizes range from 5,500 to nearly 81,000 square feet, while store sizes range from 1,100 to 3,500 square feet. All sites are being sold without 7-Eleven branding. Fuel sites are currently branded Mobil, Sunoco or unbranded.

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  • Getty Realty Puts 66 Sites Up for Sale

    From Convenience Store News

    CHICAGO -- Getty Realty Corp. has tapped NRC Realty & Capital Advisors to lead its divesture of 66 retail and commercial properties. The sites are spread through six markets in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.

    “These sites are very attractive for a variety of retail and commercial uses,” said Dennis Ruben, NRC's executive managing director. “The majority are located on high-traffic corners in mature neighborhoods and in small towns. Investors will also be interested in bidding on many of the locations under licenses with operators.”

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  • Cumberland Farms to sell 18 convenience stores & 2 undeveloped sites

    From NPN Magazine

    Cumberland Farms, Inc. plans to sell 18 convenience stores, some of which are operating, some of which are closed, plus two retail development sites. All of the properties are in the Northeast, according to a statement by NRC Realty & Capital Advisors, which said it was retained to handle the sale.

    The company has a market-leading position throughout the Northeast as well as a significant presence in the Mid-Atlantic region and Florida.

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  • NRC Announces the Acquisition of City Stop Assets by S&S Fuels, LLC

    NRC Realty & Capital Advisors, LLC ("NRC") announced today that S&S Fuels, LLC ("S&S") of Littleton, Colorado, has acquired all of the assets of City Stop Inc. and its affiliates ("City Stop") in the metropolitan Las Vegas, Nevada market. NRC served as the exclusive financial advisor to City Stop during the private placement sale.

    City Stop offers a "one-stop-shopping" concept, providing customers with multiple services such as gasoline, car washes, groceries, gaming and US Postal Service units.

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  • NRC announces auction of cross-dock industrial portfolio

    NRC Realty & Capital Advisors, LLC, announced today that it has been retained by YRC Worldwide to coordinate the sale of 61 surplus cross-dock industrial sites located throughout the country. Geographically, the sites are primarily in the Southeast and Midwest with the remaining sites in New England, Texas and Los Angeles, California. While the sites are improved with cross-dock terminals, they are also adaptable to a variety of industrial, and in some cases retail, uses. YRC Worldwide has one of the largest less-than-truckload (LTL) networks in North America YRC Worldwide has designated these sites as surplus and has closed the facilities over the past several years.

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Press Releases

Sunday, August 3, 2008

NRC Realty Advisors Changes Name to NRC Realty & Capital Advisors; Reflects Financial Advisory Services Commitment

CHICAGO, August 3, 2008 ? In response to its increasingly important role in the financial advisory arena since 2004, NRC Realty Advisors, LLC, a Chicago-based firm specializing in the accelerated sale of real estate by auction and sealed bid sales, has changed its name to NRC Realty & Capital Advisors, LLC.

The name change reflects the firm?s commitment to provide a total array of real estate services to its clients.

"For more than 20 years, we have set the national standard in executing structured sales," says Dennis Ruben, Managing Director. "Building on that success and responding to the needs of our clients, we?ve evolved over the past five years into a fully integrated real estate and financial advisory services company. This broad service allows us to extract optimum value from each engagement, positioning our clients? operations for maximum and continued growth."

"Our new name is a reflection of that growth, befitting our excellent reputation and reflective of our past, present and future accomplishments," says Ruben.

NRC Realty & Capital Advisors offers cradle-to-grave services, providing a full array of real estate and financial advisory services. NRC?s breadth of experience includes multi-site and portfolio divestiture, portfolio evaluation and analysis; refinancing, recapitalization and sale-leaseback financing options; and merger and acquisition advisory services. They have regularly been retained by major petroleum companies, multi-unit owners and operators, jobbers and franchisees to consult with and assist them in the evaluation of their existing real estate portfolios or proposed acquisitions. In addition, NRC has helped its clients obtain over $200 million in commitments for sale-leaseback financing. Clients include globally recognized companies in a variety of industries, including petroleum, (BP, Shell and Sunoco), convenience stores (White Hen Pantry and Circle K), financial institutions (GE Capital, Fifth Third and Bank of America) and retail (Kmart). For more information, visit www.nrc.com.