DALLAS — Global development and investment firm Matthews has acquired a 2 million-square-foot distribution center located just south of downtown Dallas. The site at 1600 Roe St. spans 38.5 acres, and the facility formerly housed the distribution operations of Sears Roebuck and was later rebranded as Cedars Commerce Center. Most recently, LBA Logistics occupied the property. David Davidson Jr. and Jake Milner of Davidson Bogel Real Estate brokered the sale. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. Matthews did not disclose future plans for the property.
TAMPA, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated the sale of Crossroads Logistics Park, a 58,849-square-foot industrial facility located at 5231 Crossroads Park Drive on Tampa’s east side. Delivered in 2025, the small-bay building is 67 percent leased, with roughly 26,946 square feet still available for lease. Crossroads Logistics Park features tilt-wall construction, 28-foor clear heights, spec office build-outs, 22 dock-high doors, two drive-in doors, ESFR sprinklers and five trailer parking stalls. Rick Brugge, Mike Davis, Rick Colon and Dominic Montazemi of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Arrow Capital, in the transaction. The buyer was Clarion Partners. The sales price was not disclosed.
GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — NAI Robert Lynn and Northmarq have brokered the sale of a portfolio of 16 small-bay industrial buildings totaling roughly 256,000 square feet in Grand Prairie, located roughly midway between Dallas and Fort Worth. The buildings are situated across three industrial parks at 2100 S. Great Southwest Parkway, 2601 Aero Drive and 605 E. Palace Parkway. Jeff Jackson of NAI Robert Lynn, alongside Northmarq’s David Annett and Joe Habighorst, represented the buyers, Florida-based Thematic Capital Group and Texas-based Dray Investments, in the deal. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — Colliers has arranged a 223,358-square-foot lease at 77 Beltway Industrial Park, a two-building manufacturing and distribution facility located in Huntersville, about 12 miles north of Charlotte. The tenant, national office furniture wholesaler and distributor COE Distributing Inc., will occupy Building A, which comprises 506,513 square feet and includes 34-foot clear heights, 51 dock-high doors, four grade-level doors, 133 trailer parking spaces, 185-foot truck court depths and 3,753 square feet of office space. The second building, referred to as Building C, spans 315,896 square feet. Lawrence Shaw, Justin Smith, Rob Speir and Phoebe Dinga of Colliers represented the landlord, Cabot Properties, in the lease negotiations. Cabot Properties originally acquired the 821,260-square-foot logistics portfolio from the developer, Strategic Capital Partners LLC.
NEW JERSEY — EQT Real Estate has purchased a portfolio of 11 industrial buildings totaling 893,625 square feet in Northern New Jersey. Known as the New Jersey Value-Add Industrial Portfolio, the collection of buildings is located between Exits 2 and 14 off the New Jersey Turnpike. The portfolio was fully leased at the time of sale and has a weighted average remaining lease term of about four years. John Plower, Ryan Cottone, Nicholas Stefans and Jason Lundy of JLL represented the undisclosed, institutional seller in the transaction. The sales price was also not disclosed.
PHOENIX — ViaWest Group and Barings have received $107 million in construction financing for ReDiscover Logistics Park, an industrial development located at 2402 W. Beardsley Road in Phoenix. Kevin MacKenzie, Jason Carlos and Lilley Kroll of JLL Capital Markets arranged the loan through a life insurance company. Situated on 43.5 acres, ReDiscover Logistics Park will offer 808,448 square feet of industrial space spread across four individual buildings ranging from 189,280 square feet to 212,000 square feet with clear heights of 32 to 36 feet, designed to accommodate a diverse range of manufacturing and distribution tenants. The development will incorporate flexible space configurations, a 200-foot shared truck court depth, FM Global compliant sprinkler systems and 980 parking spaces. Construction is underway, with completion slated for first-quarter 2027.
AURORA, COLO. — Essex Real Estate Capital Advisors has sourced a $71 million loan for the refinancing of Denali Logistics Park, a Class A industrial asset in Aurora. Blair Butler and Matt Perigard of Essex arranged the nonrecourse, interest-only bank loan loan for Hines, which developed and owns the property. The three-year, floating-rate loan was used to retire the construction debt in a cash-neutral transaction. The loan also included future funding to draw upon for leasing, securing the property’s long-term capitalization, allowing Hines to continue to execute its leasing plan and fully stabilize the asset. Denali Logistics Park features three buildings totaling 759,620 square feet. The two front-park rear-load buildings and one cross-dock building each have different depths, allowing for devisability to accommodate tenants ranging from 30,000 square feet to 200,000 square feet. Additionally, the property includes secured trailer parking that is available to all tenants and an onsite basketball court.
PLEASANTON, CALIF. — JLL Capital Markets has directed the sale of Tri-Valley GMP, an industrial biomanufacturing facility located at 4698 Willow Road in Pleasanton. An undisclosed seller sold the asset to Cannae Partners and REALM for $8.5 million. Erik Hanson of JLL led the transaction. The cGMP facility previously served as Gritstone bio’s Tri-Valley hub until its February 2025 vacancy. The 42,620-square-foot property benefits from improvements totaling more than $325 per square foot invested into the current build-out, transforming it into a state-of-the-art laboratory and manufacturing complex featuring 12 production rooms, ISO 5+ cleanroom space and comprehensive quality assurance and quality control laboratories.
WOODRIDGE, ILL. — Brennan Investment Group has acquired an 80,000-square-foot industrial building situated on 8.8 acres in the Chicago suburb of Woodridge. The property is located within the I-55 submarket at the intersection of I-55 and I-355. Brennan says the property was acquired to address the region’s shortage of functional small-bay industrial product, as the vacancy rate is less than 1 percent among spaces under 50,000 square feet in the I-55 submarket. Brennan plans to reposition the building by demising it into four 20,000-square-foot suites complete with spec offices, individual docks and drive-in doors and a large, secured yard. The building was originally constructed in 2007.
Once upon a time, not so long ago, an industrial developer in Texas could pick an appropriately zoned spot on the map, throw up four walls and a roof, slap a few utilities in place and reasonably expect multiple tenants to quickly reach out and express a willingness to pay healthy rent for that space. That’s a colorful and simplified view of the pinnacle of the post-COVID Texas industrial market, but it’s not a farcical take. Between roughly early 2021 and mid-2023, phrases like “record-breaking,” “gangbusters” and “never seen anything like it,” were routinely used by brokers and owners alike to describe the state of industrial tenant demand. Combined with cheap debt and available equity, the ferocious need for warehouse, distribution and manufacturing space sparked absorption of older buildings and fresh capitalizations of new projects across all major markets. Tenants needed space yesterday, and supply chain disruptions — for developers and tenants — were simply a cost of doing business. And business was very, very good. Business is still good today. But the development landscape has undoubtedly shifted while the capital markets that govern said landscape have invariably cooled. New development, particularly in terms of equity, is significantly harder to …