CHICAGO — Duke Realty Corp. (NYSE: DRE) has purchased a 10-building industrial portfolio totaling nearly 3.5 million square feet, plus two additional land parcels, for $515 million. The assets are situated in Southern California, Northern New Jersey and South Florida. The two parcels will eventually contain two buildings totaling 852,745 square feet. Construction on these projects will commence later this year. The total value of the portfolio will be approximately $700 million once construction is completed. The seller, Bridge Development Partners, has completed more than $2 billion in developments and acquisitions since its joint venture with Dallas-based Banner Oak Capital Partners in 2013. Bridge’s current pipeline contains more than 10.3 million square feet valued at $1.3 billion in the most supply constrained U.S. core industrial markets, including Chicago, Miami, New Jersey, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. “This portfolio sale is part of the $1.1 billion of new state-of-the-art industrial assets Bridge will sell in 2017,” says Steve Poulos, the company’s founder and CEO. “The portfolio includes a mix of fully stabilized, partially stabilized and completely vacant assets.” Though the exact properties included in this transaction were not disclosed, some of Bridge’s assets include the 306,466-square-foot Bridge Point I-95 in …
