WOODBRIDGE, N.J. — New Jersey-based Woodmont Industrial Partners has completed a 54,113-square-foot project in the Northern New Jersey community of Woodbridge. The building features a clear height of 32 feet, eight exterior dock doors, one drive-in door and build-to-suit office space. Woodmont has also secured a full-building lease with Indiana-based R.A.S. Logistics. Mindy Lissner, Chuck Fern, Jason Barton and David Gheriani of Cushman &. Wakefield represented Woodmont in the lease negotiations.
RINCON, GA. — Atlanta-based Core5 Industrial Partners plans to develop Effingham Business Center, a 121-acre industrial park situated in Rincon, a city in the Savannah market of Effingham County. The site is approximately 9.5 miles from Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal and 10 miles from Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport. The park will feature a 401,760-square-foot rear-load building, which will accommodate tenants 100,000 square feet and higher, and a 362,880-square-foot front-load building designed to accommodate tenants of 150,000 square feet and higher. Both buildings are being developed on a speculative basis and will feature 36-foot clear heights, automobile parking, office finishes, dock equipment, lighting and 185-foot truck courts. Delivery of both buildings is scheduled for the first quarter of 2025. CBRE’s Savannah office will handle leasing efforts on behalf of Core5 for both buildings.
By Taylor Williams Tenant demand and availability of capital for industrial deals are still healthy in Texas, but end users and developers are demonstrating a clear push for smaller footprints in their leases and projects. This shift reflects a marked departure from recent years, when massive speculative facilities were financed without hesitation or preleasing and industrial users had little choice but to accept staggering levels of rent growth. Spikes in interest rates bear some, but not all, blame for this emerging dynamic. Local and regional banks tend to be go-to debt providers on industrial projects, and these groups take defensive positions with their capital flows during high interest rate environments. And while reliance on e-commerce and third-party distribution remains deeply ingrained in consumer preferences, users still see value in rightsizing their footprints in today’s market. As such, the industrial landscape is changing in Texas, where exceptionally strong population growth nonetheless ensures that the sector remains on very solid footing overall. But changes are undoubtedly happening. Large-scale spec facilities are being swapped for smaller build-to-suits, and manufacturing deals are taking up a larger share of the development pipeline. Lenders are tightening leverage and demanding more upfront equity for projects that they …
Self-storage has had an amazing run since just before the pandemic. Cap rates started near 6 percent, with buildings starting at $150 per square foot. Then came the flood of pandemic capital pushing prices — by mid-2022 prices jumped to a point no one had previously experienced. “In some of the bigger markets, we were seeing per-square-foot prices of $300 and above for the first time,” says Denise Nunez, executive managing director with NAI Horizon. Cap rates fell to as low as 4 percent. “The low cap rates had gotten to such a point where many brokers were not even pricing deals because they didn’t want to miss that extra that they could get on the sale.” But rising interest rates have had an impact on self-storage, as they have had on every other commercial real estate asset class, with prices reversing again. Investors are still unsure of what the Federal Reserve will be doing in the near term with monetary policy. Building costs are high — final delivery construction costs are still higher by 40 percent or more than pre-pandemic. That reality has resulted in investors alternating between cold feet and, with some signs that the Fed may plan …
TOMBALL, TEXAS — Houston-based development and investment firm NewQuest Properties has announced that The Grand at 249, a $90 million retail project the northwestern Houston suburb of Tomball, is now 96 percent leased. The site spans 65 acres and fronts both Tomball Tollway/Texas Highway 249 and Grand Parkway/Texas Highway 99, and the center itself will feature 404,256 square feet of shopping, dining and entertainment space. Tenants that have already committed include AT&T, Boomer Jack’s, Gringo’s, Jersey Mike’s, Milano Nails and Two Pho Nine Asian Fusion.
ROUND ROCK, TEXAS — Minneapolis-based LS Black Development has broken ground on Preserve at Mustang Creek, an $88 million affordable housing project in the northern Austin suburb of Round Rock. Designed by Merriman Anderson Architects, Preserve at Mustang Creek will total 252 units that will be reserved for households earning 30 to 60 percent of the area median income (AMI). Units will come in one-, two-, three- and four- bedroom floor plans, and amenities will include a pool, playground, clubroom and outdoor grilling and dining stations. Construction is scheduled for a fall 2025 completion.
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — DC Blox, a data center provider based in Atlanta, has opened its Cable Landing Station in Myrtle Beach. The 125,000-square-foot facility is equipped with 19 megawatts (mW) of power and can host up to five subsea cables and colocation space for network and cable operators, communications providers, local enterprises and partners. DC Blox is also building a dark fiber route from the new facility to its communications hub in Atlanta. Google has announced two subsea cables that will land at the Myrtle Beach station, including the Firmina cable connecting Myrtle Beach to Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, and the Nuvem cable to connect to Portugal and Bermuda. Edge Holdings (a subsidiary of Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram) has announced that it plans to land its Anjana cable connecting to Spain.
WAKE FOREST, N.C. — St. John Properties has purchased a 30-acre site in Wake Forest, about 13 miles north of Raleigh. The Baltimore-based developer plans to build Wake Forest Exchange, a 165,000-square-foot mixed-use business community comprising flex, research-and-development (R&D), office and retail space. Phase I will include two flex/R&D buildings spanning approximately 95,000 square feet, a 25,000-square-foot office building and a 10,000-square-foot retail building. The remaining flex/R&D and retail buildings will be phased based on leasing pace, with the goal of executing St. John Properties’ entire development plan by 2027. Wake Forest Exchange is expected to support nearly 500 jobs at final build-out and leasing. Jay Taylor of SVN Tar Heel Commercial Realty Inc. represented the unnamed seller in the land sale, and St. John Properties was self-represented.
DELRAY BEACH, FLA. — Pebb Capital has signed 136,852 square feet of retail, restaurant and commercial office leases at Sundy Village, a mixed-use development underway in Delray Beach. The new tenants include communications infrastructure provider Vertical Bridge, Barcelona Wine Bar and a Schulson Collective project by chef and restauranteur Michael Schulson. Additionally, Pebb Capital will relocate its Boca Raton headquarters to Sundy Village in one of the property’s standalone office buildings, taking approximately 5,600 square feet of office space. The firm has also signed a 79,141-square-foot lease on the neighboring block, located at 100 S.E. 1st Ave., for a build-to-suit corporate headquarters relocation of an undisclosed, publicly traded company. Sundy Village will span across six buildings on approximately seven acres at 22 W. Atlantic Ave. Joe Freitas and John Criddle of CBRE oversee the Sundy Village’s office leasing, and Sara Wolfe of Vertical Real Estate handles retail leasing. Pebb Capital broke ground on the project in February, with delivery estimated for summer 2024. The project team includes Gensler and RLC Architects.
SAN DIEGO — Owner 6916 Fulton St. LLC is nearing completion of the development of Citrino, an apartment complex in the Linda Vista neighborhood of San Diego. Located at 6919 Fulton St., the pet-friendly community features 47 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments ranging from 470 square feet to 941 square feet. Units offer open floorplans with oversized windows, stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops and full-size stackable washers/dryers. The solar-powered property features two electric vehicle charging stations, a community clubhouse, kitchen and courtyard. San Diego-based Sunrise Management is serving as property manager for the asset. Pre-leasing for the community is underway.