NORTH LAS VEGAS, NEV. — Alston Construction, serving as general contractor, has broken ground on a warehouse property at Centennial Corporate Park, an industrial park in North Las Vegas. Speedway 10 Industrial, a joint venture between LaSalle Investment Management and Panattoni Development, owns the property. Situated on 10 acres, the 204,000-square-foot, cross-dock industrial warehouse will feature 32-foot clear heights, ESFR sprinklers, LED warehouse lighting and flexible office build-outs. The speculative development is valued at $14 million. Panattoni Development is developing Centennial Corporate Park, which is slated for completion in second-quarter 2019.
FORNEY, TEXAS — Goodyear Tire Co. will open a 1.2 million-square-foot warehouse and distribution center in Forney, a city located about 20 miles east of Dallas, according to a recent announcement from the Forney City Council. The property will be situated on 102 acres at the corner of South Gateway Boulevard and U.S. Highway 80. According to local media sources, a developer for the project, which is expected to create up to 160 new jobs, has not yet been named.
STOCKTON, CALIF. — Amazon has signed a lease with CT Realty to occupy a newly constructed, 1.1 million-square-foot industrial building at NorCal Logistics Center in Stockton. Located at 4532 Newcastle Road, the fulfillment center offers proximity to Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Union Pacific intermodal facilities, SR-99 and interstates 5, 205 and 580. Terms of the lease were not disclosed. The transaction marks the completion of CT’s approximately 1.7 million-square-foot first phase of the 345-acre NorCal Logistics Center, following the sale of two completed buildings, totaling 575,127 square feet, to Prologis in June. CT Is underway on the second phase of the development: five buildings, totaling 2.7 million square feet, built as a mix of speculative and build-to-suit projects.
KENT, WASH. — Terreno Realty Corp. has acquired an industrial property, currently under construction at 8615 S. 192nd St. in Kent, for $12.4 million. The name of the seller was not released. Situated on 12.7 acres, the 220,000-square-foot, rear-load industrial distribution facility is slated for completion by the end of 2019. The property will feature 47 dock-high and two grade-level loading positions, 36-foot clear heights, and parking for 137 cars and 30 trailers. The estimated stabilized cap rate of the property is 5.6 percent and the total expected investment is $33.9 million.
MIDDLEBOROUGH, MASS. — NKF has brokered the sale of 19 Leona Drive and 139 Campanelli Drive in Middleborough. The two distribution facilities were sold for an undisclosed price. 19 Leona Drive currently serves as the corporate headquarters for Sager Electronics, an electronic components distributor. 139 Campanelli Drive serves as a distribution center for Stop & Shop, a regional grocer with more than 400 stores across New England, New York and New Jersey. Both properties are located within the Campanelli Business Park, a 220-acre, 1.5 million-square-foot industrial campus. Edward Maher, Matthew Pullen, James Tribble and Samantha Hallowell of NKF represented the sellers, Artemis Real Estate Partners and Calare Properties. The buyer was NorthBridge Partners.
LINCOLNSHIRE, ILL. — Heathrow Scientific has signed a build-to-suit agreement with a private developer for a 186,616-square-foot industrial property in Lincolnshire. The building will be situated on 10 acres and will include 25,000 square feet of office space, a clear height of 36 feet and 14 exterior docks. Heathrow Scientific, a manufacturer of lab equipment, is slated to take occupancy in April 2019. Brett Kroner, Keith Puritz and Eric Fischer of Cushman & Wakefield represented Heathrow in the transaction. The team is also marketing the remaining 68,589 square feet for lease.
LYNWOOD, ILL. — SkyView Advisors has brokered the sale of E-Z Self Storage of Lynwood for an undisclosed price. The facility features 650 non-climate-controlled units and 85,825 net rentable square feet. The property is situated on six acres at 19600 Stoney Island Ave. Ryan Clark and Parker Sweet of SkyView represented the seller, a private owner. A private equity-backed buyer purchased the asset.
Development of data centers is surging across the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex, and the party is really just getting started. According to research from JLL, DFW is the fourth-largest data center market in the country in terms of supply with approximately 3.7 million square feet of inventory providing 505 critical megawatts of power. DFW’s development pipeline spans more than 1.1 million square feet of new projects totaling about 215 critical megawatts that are either planned or already under construction. Data centers typically produce about 150 watts of power per square foot. A facility’s total power intake minus the portion needed to cool the equipment represents its critical megawattage — its true capacity for storing and processing data. A number of state-level factors have contributed to DFW’s rapid ascension up the national data center ladder. Texas possesses a great deal of fiber optic connectivity, which gives users fast, reliable transmission of data and helps reduce costs. In addition, the state has its own power grid, as well as an abundant, cheap supply of natural gas to fuel power costs, which are typically the most expensive operating item for data centers. An arid climate, ample available land and friendly development policies have …
SAN ANTONIO — Tampa-based self-storage brokerage firm SkyView Advisors has arranged the sale of 1604 Store and More, a 558-unit self-storage facility in San Antonio. The property totals 140,220 net rentable square feet across 269 climate-controlled units and 289 non-climate-controlled units. Ryan Clark and Cameron Vale of SkyView Advisors represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
HOUSTON — Newcor Commercial Real Estate has brokered the sale of a 12,000-square-foot industrial building located at 8715 Golden Spike Lane in Houston. David Alexander of Newcor Commercial represented the seller, NSH Properties, in the transaction. Kyle Prater of Newmark Knight Frank represented the buyer, Hyvonen Properties, which will occupy the property and use it for cold storage.