HOUSTON — CenterPoint Properties has acquired a 27-building portfolio in Houston. The properties are located within nine business parks and total 3.6 million square feet. Jud Clements, Rusty Tamlyn, Trent Agnew and Robby Rieke of HFF facilitated the transaction between CenterPoint and the unnamed seller. The majority of the facilities acquired are situated east of the Houston Central Business District. The buildings offer access to shipping channels including the Union Pacific (UP) Settegast, UP Englewood and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Mykawa yards, the Port of Houston, and a petrochemical refining complex.
DEERSFIELD BEACH, FLA. — Bristol Group Inc. and Butters Construction and Development have acquired the former Deerfield Country Club in Deersfield Beach from Gator Development Group LLC. Bristol and Butters will be co-developing a 925,000-square-foot business park at the site known as Hillsboro Technology Center. Plans for the 74-acre campus include a Class A warehouse/distribution center, office space and a limited service hotel. The park will be located adjacent to the four-way interchange of I-95 and Hillsboro Boulevard. Phase I of the park will also include a developer-donated recreation building for the city of Deerfield Beach and a public park with jogging and walking trails. Construction on the development will begin in the second quarter of 2015, and the developers plan to deliver the first two speculative industrial buildings in the first half of 2016. Upon completion in three to five years, Hillsboro Technology Center is expected to host roughly 1,500 permanent jobs, and the project is expected to create roughly 3,500 construction jobs. Tom Viscount and Tom Hotz of Butters Realty & Management have been selected to lease the project.
HAMPTON, VA. — Huntington Ingalls Industries, a publicly traded shipbuilding company, has leased 515,486 square feet of warehouse space in West Park, a business park located at 300 and 500 W. Park Lane in Hampton. Worth Remick, Ashton Williamson and Chamie Burroughs of CBRE|Hampton Roads represented the owner, Boston-based High Street Equity, in the transaction. Clay Culbreth of Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer represented the tenant.
KENOSHA, PEWAUKEE AND MENOMONEE FALLS, WIS. — Zilber Property Group will break ground on three industrial spec buildings located throughout southeast Wisconsin this spring. The properties include Zilber Industrial I at Business Park in Kenosha; Zilber Industrial I at RidgeView Corporate Park in Pewaukee; and Zilber Industrial I at Lilly Creek Business Park in Menomonee Falls. The Kenosha property includes 30-foot ceiling heights and will accommodate industrial users ranging from 27,000 to 173,000 square feet. The Pewaukee facility includes 28-foot ceiling heights and will accommodate tenants from 20,000 to 113,000 square feet. Zilber Industrial I at Lilly Creek Business Park in Menomonee Falls will be the first of two industrial facilities to be built at the site. The first facility will include 30-foot ceiling heights and can accommodate users ranging from 22,000 to 146,000 square feet. The second facility will include 30-foot ceiling heights and will be able to accommodate up to 180,000 square feet.
EDEN PRAIRIE, MINN. — Dougherty Real Estate Equity Advisors LLC, an affiliate within the Dougherty group of companies, has acquired C.H. Robinson Worldwide Operations Center, a 153,028-square-foot office building in Eden Prairie. The facility is net-leased to C.H. Robinson and is part of its world headquarters campus. The transaction represents an off-market opportunity handled by the CBRE Minneapolis Investment Sales Team of Holtz/Buss/Watts/Welliver/Dusil.
FRASER, MICH. — Colliers International has arranged the sale of an 11,840-square-foot industrial building in Fraser. The property is located on 15 Mile Road. Jack Williams of Colliers International represented the seller, a private trust. The buyer, Royal Oak Ford, intends to use the property as a warehouse to support its main operations.
LOS ANGELES – A 42,968-square-foot industrial building in the Los Angeles submarket of Glendale has sold to a private buyer for $6.9 million. The building is located at 1219 Los Angeles Street. The buyer was represented by Artak Dovlatian of Specialized Realty. The seller, Khuri Enterprises, was represented by CBRE’s David Harding and Greg Geraci.
SAN DIEGO – Kenamar Group has purchased a 40,222-square-foot industrial building in the Miramar submarket of San Diego for $4.3 million. The space is located at 7737 Kenamar Court. It property is part of Centerpointe Court. The buyer plans to use the property for manufacturing and office space. Kenamar was represented by Marc Lipschitz of Canter Companies. The seller, Providence II Centerpointe, was represented by Evan McDonald and Derek Hulse of Colliers International.
PASADENA, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Morningstar of Pasadena, an 88,011-square-foot self-storage facility located in Pasadena. The asset had a list price of $4.3 million. Chico LeClaire and Dave Knobler of Marcus & Millichap’s Houston office marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a limited liability company. Knobler and LeClaire also represented the buyer, a limited liability company from the Pacific Northwest.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Ridge Development plans to construct a two-building industrial park on 47 acres in north Fort Worth. A joint venture between Ridge Development and LaSalle Investment Management will own the development, known as Railhead Industrial Park. Construction on the project is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2015. The first structure is a speculative building totaling 299,000 square feet, which should be finished by the end of this year. The second building is being marketed as a build-to-suit potentially spanning 343,000 square feet. Railhead Industrial Park has the ability to provide service from the BNSF Railway and has additional capacity for secondary service from the Union Pacific Railroad. The first building is planned for the southeast corner of North Main Street and East Industrial Road and will offer flexibility for single- or multi-tenant usage with storage and distribution space from 75,000 square feet to 299,000 square feet.