Inland Real Estate Corporation Announces Acquisition of Grocery-Anchored Center in Minneapolis-St. Paul MSA

- Argonne Village in Lakeville, Minn., is 100% Leased -

Inland Real Estate Corporation (NYSE: IRC) today announced that its joint venture with Dutch pension fund advisor PGGM has acquired Argonne Village, a 113,000-square-foot neighborhood shopping center, located in Lakeville, Minn., a suburb of Minneapolis, for $26.3 million in cash. Argonne Village is anchored by a 71,800-square-foot Cub Foods grocery store with a complementary mix of co-tenants that includes national retailers Dollar Tree, Taco Bell, Starbucks, FedEx Kinko’s, Little Caesars Pizza, Great Clips and others.

Argonne Village - Lakeville, MN (Photo: Business Wire)

“Argonne Village has all of the attributes we look for in a Class-A grocery-anchored center,” said Scott Carr, executive vice president and chief investment officer for Inland Real Estate Corporation. “The 100-percent-leased center has a strategic location in a demographically-strong trade area and a high quality tenant roster which includes Cub Foods, the market leading grocer in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market, and other high quality national and local tenants. In addition, the acquisition of Argonne Village strengthens our presence in the Twin Cities metro area, which enhances our leasing flexibility and operating efficiencies.”

The Argonne Village neighborhood shopping center, situated approximately 20 miles south of Minneapolis, draws from an affluent population base of more than 40,500 with average household income in excess of $124,000 within a 3-mile radius. The property is well located off of County Road 50 and I-35W, where an estimated 20,237 and 83,000 vehicles pass by, respectively, each day. The city of Lakeville, located within the Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud MN-WI MSA, is a growing, family-oriented community that was named one of Money Magazine’s “Top 100 Best Places to Live” in 2012.

About Inland Real Estate Corporation

Inland Real Estate Corporation is a self-advised and self-managed publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on owning and operating open-air neighborhood, community and power shopping centers located in well-established markets primarily in the Central United States. As of September 30, 2014, the Company owned interests in 136 investment properties, including 31 owned through its unconsolidated joint ventures, with aggregate leasable space of approximately 15 million square feet. Additional information on Inland Real Estate Corporation is available at www.inlandrealestate.com. To connect with Inland Real Estate Corporation via LinkedIn, visit http://www.linkedin.com/company/inland-real-estate-corporation, or via Twitter at www.twitter.com/IRC_REIT.

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Inland Real Estate CorporationDawn Benchelt, Director of Investor Relations(630) [e-mail]