Development

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NORTH LAS VEGAS — VanTrust Real Estate has broken ground on the first two buildings at Vantage North, an industrial project offering upward of 4.5 million square feet of logistics and distribution facilities at full build out. Situated on 350 acres, the asset is in North Las Vegas offering visibility along Interstate 5. Infrastructure and site work commenced in January at Vantage North. VanTrust has already preleased one of the buildings to Saddle Creek Logistics, which will occupy 580,000 square feet in fourth-quarter 2023. The first two buildings will total more than 1 million square feet and are scheduled for completion in November 2023. Kevin Higgins and Jake Higgins of CBRE are marketing the development for lease.

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PINAL COUNTY, ARIZ. — Scottsdale-based Empire Group has acquired a 27-acre land parcel in Pinal County from Galeb Cos. and Borgata Ventures for $13.8 million. The company plans to develop Village at Borgata, a build-to-rent community on the site, which is situated at the southwest corner of Hunt Highway and Thompson Road near the foothills of the San Tan mountains. The gated community will feature 287 one-, two- and three-bedroom homes for rent, ranging in size from 680 square feet to 1,300 square feet. The single-story homes will offer modern designs and finishes and include private landscaped backyards with doggie door access, smart technology packages and security. Community amenities will include a resort-style pool and hot tub, walking paths, a community clubhouse with kitchen, a fitness center, barbecue area and fire pits areas. Empire Group plans to break ground on the project in spring 2023, with leasing slated to start by fall 2024. Village at Bortaga is part of the larger master-planned Borgata at San Tan, a 100-acre development with mixed-use commercial space, apartments, condominiums and single-family residences. Brett Rinehart of Land Advisors Organization represented Empire Group in the land acquisition.

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FORT WORTH, TEXAS — A partnership between two Dallas-area firms, Miyama USA Texas and Dodson Commercial Real Estate, has completed The Rosedale, a 59-unit student housing project that will serve students at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth. The three-story building will house one- and two-bedroom units with a total 100 beds and amenities such as a lounge, fitness center, conference room, rooftop patio and a study lab.

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PONTOON BEACH, ILL. — Contegra Construction Co. has completed its fourth distribution center at NorthPoint Development’s Gateway Tradeport in Pontoon Beach near St. Louis. Gateway Tradeport IV is a 1 million-square-foot speculative building with a clear height of 40 feet, 112 dock doors and parking for 264 trailers and 752 cars. Contegra also performed infrastructure improvements and will complete tenant finishes. Development at Gateway Tradeport began in 2019. The project now encompasses 2.7 million square feet of industrial space across 600 acres.

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SIOUX CITY, IOWA — Omaha-based Oracle Aviation has broken ground on a new aviation center at the Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City. The 40,000-square-foot facility will include hangar space, training classrooms and office space. The project received a $1 million grant from the Economic Development Administration as well as additional funding from the City of Sioux City, The Siouxland Initiative, Morningside University and Western Iowa Tech. Both Morningside University and Western Iowa Tech will now offer degrees in aviation fields. A timeline for construction was not provided.

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CHAMBERSBURG, PA. — Pennsylvania-based investment and development firm Endurance Real Estate Group has broken ground on Chambersburg Logistics Park, a 1 million-square-foot industrial project that will be located about 55 miles southwest of Harrisburg. The site spans 93 acres and is located immediately off Exit 10 of I-81. Building features will include a clear height of 40 feet, 166 overhead dock positions, four drive-in doors, 213 trailer stalls (expandable to 303), 375 car parking spaces (expandable to 561) and an ESFR sprinkler system. PNC Bank provided construction financing for the project, which is slated for a fourth-quarter 2023 completion. Endurance is developing Chambersburg Logistics Park in partnership with an affiliate of Guardian Life Insurance Co. and has tapped Cushman & Wakefield to lease the facility. Cushman & Wakefield also advised on Endurance’s capitalization of the project.

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ALABAMA, N.Y. — Edwards Vacuum, a British-based manufacturer of vacuum and abatement equipment and part of the Atlas Copco Group, plans to develop a new $319 million manufacturing facility in Western New York. The 240,000-square-foot project will be situated within Western New York Science & Technology Advanced Manufacturing Park (STAMP), a 1,250-acre industrial park located in the Genesee County town of Alabama. The facility will house manufacturing, storage and administration for the production of dry pump equipment for the U.S. semiconductor industry. Edwards Vacuum will create 600 jobs for the larger Buffalo-Rochester Tech Corridor. The announcement builds on Micron’s recent $100 billion investment in Central New York, as well as the as New York’s recently signed Green CHIPS legislation and the federal CHIPS and Science Act, to make New York a central figure in the global semiconductor industry. “We are now seeing energy flow into Upstate’s manufacturing sector like never before, and this investment will further cement that the future of microchips will be built with American made products, crafted by New York workers,” says Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer. As part of the agreement with Edwards Vacuum, New York’s chief economic development agency, Empire State Development, has offered up …

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Industrial sector Lee Associates

Lee & Associates’ newly released 2022 Q3 North America Market Report examines third-quarter 2022 industrial, office, retail and multifamily outlooks throughout the United States. This sector-based review of commercial real estate trends for the third quarter of the year examines the difficulties facing each asset class and where opportunities in the commercial real estate landscape may be emerging. Lee & Associates has made the full market report available here (with further breakdowns of factors like vacancy rates, market rents, inventory square footage and cap rates by city), but the summaries below provide high-level considerations of the overall health and obstacles for the industrial, office, retail and multifamily sectors. Industrial Overview: High Rent, Low Vacancy Everywhere North American industrial space availability is tight everywhere while rent growth and property prices remain near or have moved beyond historic highs. Through the third quarter, the United States’ vacancy rate settled at 4 percent, up 10 basis points from second quarter 2022. Average rents increased 11.4 percent year over year with gains of 19 percent in Miami, 18.7 percent in Southern California’s Inland Empire, 16 percent in Phoenix and 14.6 percent in Atlanta. Since the COVID lockdown in March of 2020, developers of U.S. logistics space have been …

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HOUSTON — Hoar Construction, a general contractor with nine offices across the country, has broken ground on Town Centre II, a 167,141-square-foot office project in West Houston. Designed by Kirksey Architecture and developed by Moody Rambin, the eight-story building will be located within the Town Centre complex and will house a 220-seat conference room. Construction of the project, which also includes a 1,390-space parking garage, is slated for a September 2023 completion.

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GARLAND, TEXAS — Locally based developer Palladium USA has completed a 122-unit mixed-income seniors housing project in Garland, a northeastern suburb of Dallas. Designed by HEDK Architects, the development will consist of 92 units that will be reserved for renters aged 62 and above who earn 60 percent or less of the area median income. The remaining 30 units will be rented at market rates. Amenities will include a fitness center, computer lab, library and a theater. A grand opening ceremony will take place on Nov. 10.

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