CARY, ILL. — Entre Commercial Realty LLC has arranged the acquisition of an industrial property located at 770 Industrial Drive in Cary. A private investor purchased the 54,000-square-foot multi-tenant building for an undisclosed price. Situated on 4.5 acres, the property features six 9,000-square-foot units, 18- to 22-foot ceiling heights, parking for more than 120 cars and six truck docks, one for each unit. After the acquisition, the buyer announced the leasing of three units, totaling 27,000 square feet, to American Eagle Packaging Co. The ownership plans to rehab the remaining units with new interior office finishes and lighting, in addition to exterior upgrades such as new monument signage and parking lot improvements. Dan Jones, Dan Benassi and Mike DeSerto of Entre Commercial represented the buyer in the acquisition and leasing transactions. Ryan Nelson of Foresite Realty Partners represented the seller, FirstMerit Bank, in the deal.
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WAUKESHA, WIS. — The Dickman Company Inc. has arranged the sale of an industrial property located at 310 S. West Ave. in Waukesha. The State of Wisconsin Department of Transportation sold the 19,250-square-foot property for an undisclosed price to Soraal LLC. Samuel D. Dickman, Samuel M. Dickman Jr. and Zach Noble of The Dickman Company Inc. represented the seller, while Brian Parrish of PARADIGM Real Estate represented the buyer in the transaction.
CROMWELL, CONN. — O,R&L Commercial has brokered the sale of a flex building located at 800 Corporate Row in Cromwell. Buhl Land East IV LLC sold the 12,750-square-foot property for $1.05 million to Matthew Esler. The property features four drive-in doors and two loading docks. Renewal by Andersen will occupy the facility for its marketing and sales office, as well as a distribution hub for doors and windows. Frank Hird of O,R&L Commercial represented the seller, while Bob Gaucher, also of O,R&L, represented the buyer in the transaction.
DES PLAINES, ILL. — Transwestern has arranged the lease of a 25,573-square-foot industrial space in Des Plaines. Deco Salon Furniture Inc. has leased the space located at 1757 Marshall Drive. John Joyce and Ryan Phillips of Transwestern represented Deco Salon Furniture in the transaction. Rick Daly and Adam Haefner of Darwin Realty represented the building owner, TA Associates.
LAS VEGAS — LogistiCenter Cheyenne, a 381,804-square-foot distribution facility, has broken ground in Las Vegas. The new facility will be located at 4025 East Cheyenne Ave. It is two miles east of Interstate 15, and within a one-day drive of Los Angeles, Phoenix and Utah. LogistiCenter Cheyenne is scheduled for completion this October. It is being developed by Dermody Properties, which has developed more than 4 million square feet in this market since its first Las Vegas facility was built in 1974. The facility is being built by United Construction Company. Hillwood Investment Properties is the strategic financial partner on the project. It is being marketed by Susan Borst and Dan Doherty of Colliers International Las Vegas.
Texas has been a beacon of light during our country’s recent bout of recession. No doubt, this has to do with our business-friendly regulations and the physical space and capacity for business growth. Our economy is growing stronger every day. This past March, the United States Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) released the latest employment numbers, and Regional Commissioner Stanley W. Suchman pointed out that the Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) area ranked first in the rate of job growth and third in the number of jobs added among the country’s largest metropolitan areas. DFW’s largest growth last year was in the professional and business services sector, as 33,000 jobs were added. Other growth sectors included trade, transportation and utilities (30,500 jobs), education and health services (19,200 jobs), and leisure and hospitality (17,300 jobs). It is hard to open the business section of the morning paper anymore without seeing news of a company relocating to the DFW Metroplex, bringing along the promise of thousands of jobs. As a result, commercial real estate is booming in north Texas. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is an important force behind Texas’ growth and a contributor to one of the nation’s most prosperous and vital economies. …
LIVERMORE, CALIF. – Industrial Property Trust has acquired Greenville Business Center, a 266,825-square-foot warehouse/distribution building in Livermore for an undisclosed sum. The property is located at 7501-7551 Las Positas Road. The center is fully leased to Performance Food Group (Vistar), Transwestern Polymers Inc. and Topp Shelf (dba UNITS). Michael Lloyd and Greig Lagomarsino of Colliers International represented both the buyer and seller, Alere Property Group, in this transaction.
HOUSTON — SurePoint Self Storage will open a third property in the Houston market. This summer the SurePoint team will begin construction on a Class A, three-story building that will include 123,000 square feet. The two-acre property is located on Barker Cypress Road, south of US 290. In addition, the three San Antonio-based developers are poised to begin construction in the next 60 days on two Class A multi-story facilities in the Houston market, one is a three-story, 110,000-square-foot facility on Spring Cypress Road just east of Grant Road in Cypress, and the other is a four-story building in Richmond near Highway 59 and the Grand Parkway. SurePoint Self Storage has just completed two new projects in San Antonio and a third is under construction.
PLAINFIELD, IND. — HSA Commercial Real Estate has arranged a long-term lease renewal for Banning Engineering within the Gateway Industrial Business Park in Plainfield. The property is located at 853 Columbia Road. Banning, a civil engineering and surveying firm, occupies 16,000 square feet in the first distribution facility to be constructed at the 13-acre business park and was the original tenant at the park in 2004. HSA Commercial owns and manages the park, which has since expanded to include a 121,000-square-foot multi-tenant second phase that was built in 2006, a 34,880-square-foot facility occupied by the Federal Aviation Administration, and a 220,000-square-foot speculative warehouse that HSA built in partnership with Great Point Investors LLC in 2014.
LAKELAND, FLA. — AEW Capital Management LP has purchased two land parcels totaling 46.6 acres at Lakeland Logistics Center, an existing business park in Lakeland. A joint venture between AEW, Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management (MassPRIM) and Ridge Development Co. plans to develop two Class A distribution centers on the land parcels. The facilities will each span 245,000 square feet and feature 32-foot clear heights, ESFR sprinklers, cross-dock configurations, 185-foot private truck courts, 45 trailer parking spaces and a 200-foot shared truck court. AEW, MassPRIM and Ridge Development plan to develop the facilities in two phases with construction slated to begin in June. Upon completion, Julia Silva Rettig, Jeff Lamm, Jared Bonshire and David Perez of Cushman & Wakefield will provide leasing services for the two distribution centers.