DENVER — NorthPeak Commercial Advisors has arranged the sale of an apartment complex located at 551 S. Fairfax St. in Denver. The 13-unit asset traded for $2.3 million, or $180,769 per unit. The names of the seller and buyer were not released. Hunter Schaefer, Jack Sherman and Dan Hawthorne of NorthPeak Commercial represented the buyer and seller in the deal.
PARKER, COLO. — Blue West Capital has brokered the acquisition of a single-tenant ground lease located at 9560 Twenty Mile Road in Parker. A Denver-based 1031 exchange investor acquired the asset from an Arizona-based development company for $2.1 million. Murphy Express occupies the site on a 20-year corporate ground lease that features 10 percent rental increases every five years and zero landlord responsibilities. Murphy Express (NYSE: MUSA) is the sixth largest convenience store chain in the United States with more than 1,500 locations. Brandon Gayeski of Blue West Capital represented the buyer in the transaction.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Dallas-based investment firm Baranof Holdings has purchased a 1,041-unit self-storage facility in Austin. The site offers frontage along I-35 on the city’s north side. Pennsylvania-based REIT CubeSmart manages the facility, which comprises 100,417 net rentable square feet of climate-controlled space and was 90 percent occupied at the time of sale. Nick Walker and Nate Holash led a CBRE team that represented the seller, global investment firm KKR, in the transaction.
IRVING, TEXAS — Dallas-based investment firm CanTex Capital has acquired three industrial buildings totaling 313,626 square feet in Irving. The buildings are situated on a 50.9-acre site and were fully leased at the time of sale. Chase Miller of NAI Robert Lynn represented CanTex Capital, which purchased the assets from an undisclosed institutional investment firm, in the transaction.
HOUSTON — California-based brokerage firm Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors has negotiated the sale of Northwest Crossing Centre, a 180,000-square-foot shopping center in Houston. The property was built on 20 acres in 1993. At the time of sale, Northwest Crossing Centre was 94 percent leased to tenants such as Burlington, Dollar Tree, Marshalls, Planet Fitness, Hibbett Sports, pOpshelf, Chick-fil-A, James Coney Island, Red Lobster and Whataburger. Kevin Fryman and Ed Hanley of Hanley Investment Group, in conjunction with ParaSell Inc., represented the seller, San Diego-based USA Properties Inc., in the transaction. The buyer was Houston-based Wu Properties.
PLANO, TEXAS — Stream Realty Partners has arranged the sale of a two-story, vacant building in Plano that consists of 30,066 square feet of office space and a 7,640-square-foot basement showroom. Jamie Jennings and Ryan Evanich of Stream represented the seller, an entity doing business as Hacienda Care V LP, in the transaction. Pam Goodwin of Goodwin Advisors LLC represented the buyer, Peacock Point LLC, which also plans to occupy the building.
SMITHFIELD, R.I. — Boston-based investment firm The Davis Cos. has acquired a 122,000-square-foot life sciences facility at 100 Technology Way in Smithfield, a northwestern suburb of Providence. The acquisition includes a vacant 15.5-acre parcel that can support an additional 175,000 square feet of new development. The seller was Rubius Therapeutics, which most recently used the facility for the development of gene and cell therapy treatments. Davis has hired Newmark to market the facility for lease.
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILL. — Venture One Real Estate, through its acquisition fund VK Industrial VI LP, has acquired a 94,262-square-foot industrial building in the Chicago suburb of Elk Grove Village. The acquisition was structured as a sale-leaseback. The sales price was undisclosed. Located at 2121 Landmeier Road and constructed in 1966, the building features a clear height of 18 feet, six exterior docks, four interior docks, two drive-in doors and parking for more than 100 cars and 10 trailers. Phil Reiff of JLL represented the undisclosed seller. VK Industrial VI LP is a partnership between Venture One and Kovitz Investment Group.
WAUSEON, OHIO — Franklin Street has arranged the sale of a 100-unit self-storage facility in Wauseon, about 30 miles west of Toledo. The sales price was undisclosed. Built in phases between 1989 and 1994, the value-add property features 10 parking spaces and newly installed security cameras. The transaction includes 0.3 acres of developable land for potential expansion. David Perlleshi and Frank DeSalvo of Franklin Street represented the seller, HZ Capital Partners LLC. Missouri-based On Track Storage, which currently operates facilities in Missouri and Kansas, was the buyer.
KENILWORTH, N.J. — Biopharmaceutical giant Merck (NYSE: MRK) has agreed to sell its 108-acre office and research campus in Kenilworth to a joint venture between private investment firms Onyx Equities and Machine Investment Group. The price was not disclosed. The life sciences campus, formerly Merck’s headquarters, features 1.4 million square feet of laboratory space, 500,000 square feet of Class A office space, 30 acres of developable land, a 25-megawatt cogeneration plant, three cafeterias, a fitness center, auditoriums, conference centers, outdoor amenity areas and more than 3,200 surface and structured parking spaces. The property sits off Garden State Parkway and is located near to Route 78, the Route 22 retail corridor, the New Jersey Turnpike, Newark Liberty International Airport and the Port Newark Elizabeth Marine Terminal. Kenilworth is located just across the Arthur Kill waterway that separates New Jersey from Staten Island. The buyers plan to market and lease out the site’s laboratories and support facilities to biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and technology companies. Merck will vacate the property in phases over the next several years while expansion progresses on the firm’s new headquarters in nearby Rahway. “New Jersey receives two forms of good news today as one of the pillars of our business community …
