YADKIN COUNTY, N.C. — WhiteFiber Inc., a data center owner-operator and cloud solutions provider, has agreed to acquire two industrial facilities in Yadkin County, situated near Winston-Salem at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. WhiteFiber is acquiring the properties via its wholly owned subsidiary Enovum Data Centers Corp. with plans to retrofit both properties into data centers. The agreed purchase price was $60 million for both sites. The two facilities, which will be renamed NC-2 and NC-3, sit approximately 55 miles from NC-1, WhiteFiber’s existing data center campus in Madison, N.C. NC-2 and NC-3 are expected to provide a combined minimum of 60 megawatts (MW) of initial gross utility capacity with the potential to support up to 200 MW of combined utility capacity over time. WhiteFiber expects to close the transaction in the fourth quarter and bring the properties on line in third-quarter 2027.
HOUSTON — A partnership between Dallas-based Apricus Realty Capital and Baltimore-based ABR Capital Partners has purchased an 18.5-acre industrial outdoor storage (IOS) facility in northwest Houston. The facility at 11403 N. Houston Rosslyn Road, which was fully leased at the time of sale to American Piping Products, includes approximately 53,000 square feet of warehouse and service facilities. C.W. Sheehan, Jack Britton, Peyton Ackerman and Nate Henderson of JLL arranged acquisition financing for the deal. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Alcon Research LLC, which supports innovation in the field of eye care, has signed an industrial lease renewal and expansion in Fort Worth. The address was not disclosed, but the company’s new footprint is roughly 385,000 square feet. Allyson Yost of Colliers represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Matt Carthey and Trey Goodspeed with Holt Lunsford Commercial represented the landlord, Boston-based TA Realty.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN. — Matthews has arranged the sale of a 574-unit self-storage facility located at 606 Manufacturers Road in Chattanooga’s Northshore neighborhood. Extra Space Storage manages the property, which was built in 2021 and offers 75,520 square feet of rentable climate-controlled space. Austin McLeod and Hunter Reynolds of Matthews represented the seller, an unnamed developer, in the transaction. The buyer, a private equity firm based in New York and repeat client of Matthews, purchased the property for an undisclosed price. The facility was 95 percent occupied at the time of sale.
WHITESTOWN, IND. — JLL Capital Markets has negotiated the sale of Subaru at Park 267, a 1.1 million-square-foot distribution facility in the Indianapolis suburb of Whitestown. John Huguenard, Ed Halaburt, Ross Bratcher and Cameron Chandra of JLL represented the seller, a joint venture between Prologis and Browning. LaSalle Investment Management acquired the asset. Browning’s construction division constructed the build-to-suit development in 2024. The facility is fully leased to Subaru of America Inc. and serves as the largest distribution center within its nine-facility national network. The property features a clear height of 40 feet, 108 dock-high doors, four drive-in doors, cross-dock configuration with 135 feet of truck court depth and LEED Silver certification. The site includes 342 automobile parking spaces and 100 trailer parking spaces across 69.7 acres.
OTTAWA, ILL. — Ottawa Easy Storage has opened with 200 units in its first phase. An additional 200 units is planned for future development. The facility offers a one-year rate guarantee, meaning that rental rates will not increase during a customer’s first year of storage. Sean Garrett of Columbus Development Co. developed the project. The firm also owns local shopping centers North Ottawa Plaza and Columbus Square, and has plans for additional development along East Etna Road. Blunier Builders served as general contractor. Monument provided facility management software. SafeLease and StorageDefender offerings will be available to tenants.
PIKE COUNTY, OHIO — OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) platform best known for ChatGPT, has signed a 20-year lease agreement to be the customer at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus, an AI data center redevelopment of the decommissioned Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Pike County, located in southern Ohio’s Appalachian region. The size and cost of the campus has not been released, but The New York Times reports that it will be among the world’s largest data centers and that the build-out could cost as much as $500 billion. SB Energy, a data center and power infrastructure company backed by Tokyo-based SoftBank Group Corp., will build, own and operate the campus. Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), a hardware manufacturer of semiconductors and networking systems for AI data centers, will provide the full build-out at PORTS-Pike Technology Campus using its DSX AI factory platform — encompassing all aspects typical to an AI-ready data center, including GPUs (graphics processing units), CPUs (central processing units), servers and infrastructure software. Nvidia has secured land, power and shell (LPS) rights at the Pike County project through a partnership with SB Energy. Nvidia will immediately invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy to support the project’s build-out. SB Energy and …
DENTON, TEXAS — Developer Jackson-Shaw has broken ground on Horizon 35, a 908,730-square-foot industrial project in the North Texas city of Denton. The site is located at the northeast corner of I-35 and Loop 288, and the first phase of the development will consist of three rear-load buildings totaling 543,550 square feet. Building features of Phase I, which is expected to be complete in the third quarter of next year, will include 32- to 36-foot clear heights, dock-high loading doors, 18-by-20-foot drive-in doors and “ample” car and trailer parking allotments. ARCO/Murray is the design-build firm for Horizon 35, and Stream Realty Partners is the leasing agent.
FRISCO, TEXAS — Base Power Inc. has signed a 32,375-square-foot industrial lease in Frisco. The provider of home batteries is taking space within Building 3 at Frisco Trade Center. Brett Lewis, Taylor Stell and George Tanghongs of Lee & Associates represented the locally based landlord, Dalfen Industrial, in the lease negotiations. The tenant representative was not disclosed.
BLACK CREEK, GA. — JLL Capital Markets has secured $30.5 million in joint venture equity and $39.9 million in construction financing for Black Creek Commerce Center, a three-building industrial development underway in Black Creek, roughly 23 miles northwest of Savannah. Bobby Norwood, Mark Sixour, Britton Burdette, Jim Freeman, Kelsey Bawcombe and Austin Smith of JLL arranged the construction loan through Seacoast Bank on behalf of the developer, Xebec, and placed the joint venture equity with a unnamed, private investment group. Scheduled to deliver in the third quarter of 2027, the 687,890-square-foot development will include three rear-load buildings that feature 36-foot clear heights, 50-foot loading bays with 60-foot speed bays, 130-foot truck courts, ESFR fire suppression systems and TPO roofing. The site sits nearly seven miles from Hyundai’s $7.6 billion Metaplant America facility underway and 28 miles from the Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal. Xebec will continue to hold a right of first refusal on Phase II of the project, an adjacent 77-acre parcel, through April 2027.