BOLINGBROOK, ILL. — Windy City Wire Cable and Technology Products LLC has signed an industrial lease renewal and expansion in Bolingbrook, a southwest suburb of Chicago. The cable management company now occupies the entire 247,500-square-foot facility, which is located at 386 Internationale Drive. The property features 30-foot clear heights, 42 exterior docks and nine drive-in doors. Kevin Mackey of TIG represented Windy City Wire in the transaction. ML Realty Partners is the property landlord.
CARLSBAD, CALIF. — Berdan Holdings has purchased a 109,807-square-foot FedEx shipping facility in Carlsbad for $24.5 million. The facility is located at 2495 Faraday Ave. The property was built in 1999. It is fully leased to FedEx on a net lease basis. Property features include 32-foot clear height, 10,900 square feet of office space, nine dock and nine grade-level doors. Ron Jacobson of SD Realty Partners represented Berdan Holdings, while Aric Starck of Cushman & Wakefield’s San Diego office represented the seller, Leonard Living Trust, in this transaction.
GOODYEAR, ARIZ. — Lincoln Property Co. has announced plans to break ground on Lincoln Logistics 40, a 901,700-square-foot spec industrial development in Goodyear, in December. The development will be the area’s first speculative industrial project to offer a 40’ clear ceiling heights. The project will be situated along Interstate 10 at Bullard Avenue on 50 acres within the Airport Gateway at Goodyear business park. Lincoln Logistics 40 will feature 169 dock and grade-level doors, 185 trailer storage stalls, up to 660 parking stalls, fiber optic data and energy-efficient clearstory windows in lieu of skylights. Completion is slated for mid-2018. Layton Construction will build the project. The architect is Butler Design Group. CBRE’s Pat Feeney, Dan Calihan and Rusty Kennedy represented the land seller, EJM Development Co. The firm’s John Werstler and Cooper Fratt represented Lincoln Property in the land purchase. Werstler, Kennedy and Fratt serve as the Lincoln Logistics 40 exclusive leasing team.
NASHUA, N.H. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of a flex building located at 472 Amherst St. in Nashua. BSP Cotton Road LLC, an entity related to Brady Sullivan Properties, sold the property to Pinnacle Properties for $6.6 million. Situated on 7.7 acres, the two-building property totals 98,595 square feet and is leased to multiple tenants. Tom Farrelly, Sue Ann Johnson and Denis Dances of Cushman & Wakefield, in collaboration with Charles Panasis, Ben Kelley and James Tobin of Brady Sullivan Properties, represented the seller in the deal.
TAMPA, FLA. — Westmount Realty Capital LLC has sold a 332,250-square-foot, 14-building industrial portfolio located in Tampa’s Westside submarket. The sales price and seller were not disclosed. The portfolio includes six showroom and flex buildings on West Waters Avenue, two rear-load, dock-high buildings on Sunstate Street and six front-load, dock-high distribution warehouse buildings on Pioneer Park Boulevard. Westmount originally acquired the portfolio in 2013 and invested in exterior upgrades. The portfolio’s occupancy rates improved during Westmount’s ownership from 75 to 94.5 percent.
COSTA MESA, CALIF. — A joint venture that includes SteelWave has acquired a 24-acre site that previously served as a Los Angeles Times printing plant in Costa Mesa for $65 million. The site is located at 1350 South Coast Drive. The 50-foot-tall steel frame building on the property was used by the Los Angeles Times and three of its community newspapers as a printing plant, distribution facility and office until it closed in 2010. The facility is known as The Press. Redevelopment plans include more than three acres of outdoor amenities, as well as a 20,000-square-foot raised patio. SteelWave plans to re-brand the space as the Hive. Rick Kaplan and Rob Lambert of Cushman Wakefield represented the sellers, Tribune Real Estate Holdings, a subsidiary of Tribune Media Co., and Kearny Real Estate. Kearny Real Estate has worked with the City of Costa Mesa to re-entitle and redevelop the property over the past two years.
KATY, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Franz Road Self Storage, a 274-unit self-storage facility located at 23012 Franz Road in the Houston metro of Katy. Dave Knobler of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, and procured the buyer, a limited liability company. Both parties requested anonymity.
HOUSTON — NAI Partners has secured a 91,200-square-foot industrial lease at 9010 W. Little York Road in northwest Houston on behalf of Favorite Brands, a distributor of alcoholic beverages. John Ferruzzo and Nick Peterson of NAI Partners represented Favorite Brands in the lease negotiations. Matteson Hamilton of Stream Realty Partners represented the landlord, KTR Hou IV LP.
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — LRC Properties has acquired Leeds Park, a 1.1 million-square-foot industrial complex located at 4500 Leeds Ave. in North Charleston, for $42 million. Dexter Rumsey, Shep Benjamin and Andie Edmonds of NAI Charleston arranged the transaction on behalf of LRC Properties. Amherst Capital Management provided debt financing for the acquisition and future renovations. The seller was not disclosed. Leeds Park is located on 72 acres off Interstate 526, near the Port of Charleston, Charleston International Airport and Boeing’s manufacturing facility. The center offers office, manufacturing and flex space and features a water treatment plant, air compressors, large electrical capacity, conditioned space and more than 1,200 parking spaces. At the time of sale, the property was 75 percent leased to tenants including MAHLE, American Axle & Manufacturing, Cumming, the Charleston Chamber of Commerce and Limestone College. LRC plans to invest approximately $15 million in infrastructure and aesthetic improvements, including a new façade on part of the building, added amenities and a new entrance, signage and landscaping. In addition, LRC will renovate roughly 40,000 to 50,000 square feet of office space to Class A standards and another 150,000 square feet of industrial space to create needed flex/industrial space. Interior …
In the greater Fort Worth commercial real estate market, there was a scarcity of industrial speculative development until 2007-2008. A number of submarkets saw projects go vertical at this time, including Alliance, North Fort Worth and South Fort Worth. The results were mixed. While there were some successes, a number of developers found themselves at the mercy of unfortunate timing. Deal velocity slowed, leaving well-positioned buildings competing for the same tenants. This resulted in unanticipated, extended vacancy time frames and generous tenant concessions. Fast forward to 2017 — 10 years after the last cycle — and we are in the midst of an even more ambitious round of speculative development. Although many would say we are in the late innings of this real estate upswing, the number of new starts under construction or announced across Fort Worth paints a different picture. Is the continued construction justified, or is this another example of developers falling in love with the market fundamentals and not paying enough attention to market-specific deal velocity? According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fort Worth’s population has grown 60 percent since 2000, making it the 16th-largest city in the country and the fastest-growing among the 20 largest cities …
