FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of A Plus Boat Club, a 209-unit self-storage facility in Fort Worth. Built in 1990, the property spans 60,856 net rentable square feet and features non-climate-controlled units ranging in size from 200 to 352 square feet. Brandon Karr and Danny Cunningham of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a locally based partnership, in the transaction. The duo also procured the buyer, Spartan Investment Group, a self-storage owner-operator based in Denver.
COLUMBUS, OHIO — PCCP has formed a joint venture with The Pizzuti Cos. to develop a two-building industrial complex in Columbus totaling 539,094 square feet. Known as Rickenbacker West II and III, the speculative project will be situated adjacent to CreekSide Industrial Center. Completion is slated for mid-2020. The 277,692-square-foot Rickenbacker II will be situated on 16.9 acres while the 261,402-square-foot Rickenbacker III will be situated on 22.9 acres. Both facilities will feature a clear height of 32 feet, secure truck courts, LED warehouse lighting and ample parking.
NEW YORK CITY — JLL has brokered the $44.1 million sale of an industrial development site with three adjacent warehouses in Brooklyn. The property consists of three adjacent, single-story warehouses totaling 51,155 square feet and can support an additional 97,910 square feet of new development. Brendan Maddigan, Stephen Palmese, Winfield Clifford, Michael Mazzara and Ethan Stanton of JLL represented the seller, EcoRise Development LLC. The JLL team also represented the buyer, 473 President LLC.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Ready Capital has provided a $13.8 million loan for the acquisition, repositioning and lease-up of a flex property located in Portland’s Central East Side submarket. The undisclosed sponsor plans to use loan proceeds to convert the current industrial buildings into modern creative office spaces. The transformation will include connecting the building via a modernized tenant entry and common area, complemented by a new elevator system. Additionally, the repositioning will include rooftop access, improved common areas, updated exteriors and additional parking. Upon completion, the asset will offer approximately 57,000 square feet of office space. Ready Capital’s National Bridge Originations Team closed the non-recourse, interest-only, floating-rate loan. The financing features a 36-month term with two extension options and flexible prepayment, while including a facility to provide future funding for capital expenditures, tenant leasing costs and an interest reserve.
DALLAS — Over the last decade, the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) industrial market has transitioned from the middle of the pack of major U.S. industrial markets to Tier-1 status in terms of leasing and development, and the drivers extend beyond job and population growth. So went the opening conversation of the development panel of the InterFace DFW Industrial conference, held Sept. 4 at the Westin Galleria hotel and attended by more than 200 industry professionals in its first year of existence. Moderated by Keith Holley, partner at Method Architecture, the panel wasted no time in providing quantitative evidence of DFW’s emergence as a leading industrial market. Panelist Tony Creme, senior vice president at Hillwood, backed this assertion by pointing out that since the recession, the market has averaged about 25 million square feet of new deliveries per year. That rate of development puts DFW on pace to exceed 1 billion square feet by 2021, joining Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles as the only U.S. markets with that much inventory. “We’ve got about 36 million square feet of product under construction, which is about 40 percent preleased,” said Creme, citing numbers from CoStar Group. “That’s helping to temper development a little bit. …
HOUSTON — The Houston Waterworks Team is underway on the expansion of the Northeast Water Purification Plant, a project valued at approximately $1.7 billion. The project aims to shift a growing population’s reliance on groundwater to surface water and represents the largest design-build project for a water treatment plant that is underway in the country. The team has tapped McCarthy Building Cos. for several aspects of the larger project, which is expected to be fully operational by early 2025. McCarthy will construct a 30,000-square-foot raw water intake pump station building as well as a central plant as part of its involvement.
DALLAS — A partnership between The Kroger Co. and online grocery retailer Ocado Solutions will open a 350,000-square-foot fulfillment center off Interstate 20 in Dallas, a project that is expected to create about 400 new jobs. Construction is slated to begin in early 2020, and the facility is expected to be operational within 24 months of the groundbreaking. JLL’s Terry Darrow, Elizabeth Jones, Forshey Hoobler and Brian Leonard represented Kroger in the land acquisition. CBRE’s Nathan Lawrence and Krista Raymond represented the seller, Ridgeline. Kroger and Ocado have two similar facilities in development in Monroe, Ohio, and Groveland, Fla. Additional facilities are planned for metro Atlanta and the Mid-Atlantic region.
TULSA, OKLA. — CBRE has negotiated a 60,000-square-foot industrial lease at 5402 S. 129th East Avenue in Tulsa for an undisclosed warehouse and distribution tenant. David Glasgow, Matt Klimisch and Alex Powell of CBRE represented the landlord, Boardwalk 55 LLC, in the lease negotiations. The property, which is now fully leased, spans 200,000 square feet and features 28-foot ceiling heights, 20 dock-high doors and two drive-in doors.
SPARTA, N.J. — NAI James Hanson has arranged the sale of a 5.7-acre industrial development site in Sparta, located about 45 miles west of New York City. The property in situated within the 31.5-acre White Lake Commerce Park, which is comprised of 12 lots zoned for warehouse, office, distribution or manufacturing development. The buyer was Tomco Construction. NAI Hanson’s Sig Schorr and John Schilp represented the seller, Berardi Development Co., in the transaction. The NAI team also represented Tomco Construction.
EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. —Toy wholesaler Y&W International Inc. has renewed a 10,000-square-foot industrial lease for in East Brunswick, located approximately 35 miles south of New York City. The building is situated within Edgeboro Corporate Center, a two-building, 84,000-square-foot flex property located one mile from the New Jersey Turnpike. The tenant will continue to utilize the building as a showroom and distribution center for its products. David Zimmel of Zimmel Associates represented the landlord, Denholtz Properties, in the lease negotiations.