HOUSTON — JLL has negotiated the sale of three self-storage facilities totaling 1,606 units in the Houston area that are operated under the Go Store It brand. The facilities are located at 2919 S. Highway 146 in the Bacliff area on the city’s southeast side and 12610 Tanner Road and 4100 W. 34th St. in northwest Houston. All three properties were built in the past 25 years and offer climate- and non-climate-controlled space. Matthew Wheeler, Adam Roossien, Brian Somoza and Steve Mellon of JLL represented the seller, a partnership between Madison Capital Group and affiliates of Cerberus Capital Management, in the transaction. Griffin Guthneck, also with JLL, arranged an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing for the purchase, which was part of a larger, 340,000-square-foot (net rentable) portfolio deal that included two facilities in Rhode Island. The buyer was not disclosed.
HOUSTON — A joint venture between Dallas-based Apricus Realty Capital and Baltimore-based ABR Capital Partners has purchased an 11-acre IOS (industrial outdoor storage) property in Houston. The address was not disclosed. The joint venture acquired the rail-served property, which includes more than 100,000 square feet of existing facilities across multiple buildings, in a sale-leaseback with Box Gang Manufacturing, a locally based manufacturer of waste management products including dumpsters and trash bins. Nathan Mai and Carlton Anderson of Mohr Partners represented the joint venture in the transaction. C.W. Sheehan, Peyton Ackerman and Nate Henderson of JLL arranged acquisition financing for the deal.
DALLAS — Duralum Products has signed a 57,000-square-foot industrial lease in northwest Dallas. The provider of patio covers and other home furnishings is taking space at 7 Justice Way, a single-tenant building that according to LoopNet Inc. was completed in 2023. Jason Moser and Giovanni Scardino of Stream Realty Partners represented the locally based landlord, Trive Capital, in the lease negotiations. David Eseke and Clay Balch of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant.
MILLSTONE, N.J. — Pennsylvania-based Logistics Plus Inc. has signed a 1 million-square-foot, full-building industrial lease in Millstone, an eastern suburb of Trenton. The building is part of Millstone 8 Logistics Center, a 140-acre speculative development by Crow Holdings that also includes a 220,000-square-foot building that is fully leased to United Legwear. Logistics Plus’ building features a clear height of 40 feet, 274 trailer parking stalls and 172 loading doors. Rob Kossar, Nate Demetsky and Leslie Lanne of JLL represented the ownership group, which includes The Carlyle Group and 2020 Acquisitions, in the lease negotiations. Andrew Crites, Art Leichner and Kyle Eaton of Newmark represented the tenant.
MIAMI — CBRE has arranged the sale of Sunshine State Industrial, a 211,471-square-foot, multi-tenant warehouse located at 1400 N.W. 159th St. in Miami. Corebridge Real Estate Investors purchased the property for $43.5 million. José Lobón, Trey Barry, Frank Fallon, Royce Rose, George Fallon, Gabriel Braun and Daniel Sarmiento of CBRE represented the seller, Boston-based Longpoint Partners, in the transaction. Originally built in 1969 on the city’s north side, the cross-dock warehouse features fluorescent and metal halide lighting, LED exterior lighting, 24-foot clear heights, 151 parking spaces, 49 loading positions and truck court depths of 95 feet to 150 feet, as well as a 335-foot building depth. The property is situated within the 5 million-square-foot Sunshine State Industrial Park, immediately adjacent to the Golden Glades Interchange project and the Miami and Fort Lauderdale airports.
NEW YORK CITY — A fund backed by New York City-based Clarion Partners has provided an undisclosed amount of financing for a national portfolio of eight industrial outdoor storage (IOS) properties totaling 2.3 million square feet. Eastdil Secured arranged the debt and acted as an advisor on the deal. The debt is a first mortgage loan for the refinancing of the national portfolio, and the borrower is a partnership between Outour Storage Investments and affiliates of Cerberus Capital Management. The portfolio encompasses properties in Chicago, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Houston, California’s Inland Empire, Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta with an aggregate size in excess of 50 acres. The Clarion fund also acquired a 7.6-acre IOS facility at 15550 Export Plaza Drive in Houston. The Houston property was recently upgraded, includes a 24,000-square-foot structure and was fully leased at the time of sale to a waste management services company. “This portfolio is a relatively rare assembly of IOS properties with best-in-class specifications, terrific market locations and a strong roster of national and regional credit tenants,” says Brent Jenkins, portfolio manager at Clarion Partners. “This financing provides an ideal opportunity to expose our investors to this high-demand subsector within the larger industrial and logistics …
The Birmingham industrial market is poised for an increase in absorption as the apex of higher interest rates seem to be settling down, not to mention the post-election certainty that now favors business expansion. Corporate America is waking up and the clouds are clearing. For the past 24 months, the competitive set of investor-controlled warehouse space has been sitting on about 2 million square feet of inventory. About 550,000 square feet of that is still unleased speculative space in three different projects delivered at the back-end of the post-COVID development wave that did see about 700,000 square feet of absorption of new spec space before the music metaphorically stopped. Then came the 2023/2024 wave of the “new spec space,” a byproduct of the mentioned interest rates and COVID over-correction. Several second-generation spaces are now being marketed as companies vacated or downsized for various reasons. For example, discount retailer Dollar General is vacating an entire 307,000-square-foot warehouse. Broader, there have been two major announcements in Central Alabama for the closure of distribution centers, both as a result of retailers’ bankruptcies. JoAnn Fabric’s 700,000-square-foot distribution facility in Opelika at I-85 is now on the market as is the 1.2 million-square-foot former …
Rockefeller Group, Falcon Commercial Break Ground on 557,339 SF Industrial Project in Baytown, Texas
BAYTOWN, TEXAS — A partnership between New York City-based Rockefeller Group and Falcon Commercial Development has broken ground onEast Bay Trade Center, a 557,339-square-foot industrial project in the eastern Houston suburb of Baytown. The development will consist of two cross-dock buildings totaling 307,595 square feet and 249,744 square feet on a 39-acre site. Building features will include 36-foot clear heights and a combined 121 dock doors, eight grade-level ramps and parking for 303 cars and 166 trailers. Munson & Associates designed the project, and FCL Builders is serving as the general contractor. Waneck Civil Engineering and Colliers are also part of the project team. Construction is slated for a fourth-quarter completion.
HOUSTON — Stream Realty Partners has negotiated a 32,238-square-foot industrial lease in southeast Houston. According to LoopNet Inc., the building at 8300 Telephone Road was constructed in 1981 and totals 107,025 square feet. Tyler Maner and William Carpenter of Stream represented the landlord, Birtcher Anderson Davis, in the lease negotiations. Amy Patterson with Clay & Co. represented the tenant, First Choice Fasteners.
CARNEYS POINT, N.J. — CBRE has arranged the sale of a 707,400-square-foot industrial development site in Carneys Point, located along the Delaware River in Southern New Jersey. Known as Salem Commerce Park, the site is fully approved for the development of three buildings on three separate parcels, and the sale included a 10-acre tract that houses a 78,000-square-foot vacant office building. An affiliate of local developer D2 Organization sold the property to another local entity, EQT Exeter, for an undisclosed price. Brian Fiumara and Brad Ruppel of CBRE brokered the deal.
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