GAINESVILLE, VA. — Newmark has arranged $975 million in financing for Project Helios, a newly delivered data center development in Northern Virginia. According to national media reports, the data center project is situated within the Gainesville Data Center campus in Prince William County. Jordan Roeschlaub, Christopher Kramer, Chris Lozinak, John Caraviello, Ryan Bub, Andrew Warin and Phil O’Bannon of Newmark arranged the financing through Blue Owl Capital on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture between Affinius Capital and Corscale Data Centers. Project Helios was fully leased at the time of financing to an unnamed cloud service provider under a long-term lease, according to Newmark.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — Dalfen Industrial has acquired a nine-building industrial portfolio in South Florida’s Broward County totaling 419,253 square feet. The Dallas-based investment and development firm purchased the properties at 55 percent replacement cost. The portfolio was 83 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including FedEx, Event Service Group Realestate LLC, Chromalloy Material Solutions LLC and Commercial Distribution Specialists Inc. The properties offer direct access to I- 95 and the Florida Turnpike, as well as proximity to Port Everglades and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
PHILADELPHIA AND FALLS TOWNSHIP, PA. — Urban Outfitters Inc. (NASDAQ: URBN), a global portfolio of apparel retail brands and physical shops that includes Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie and Free People, is making a major investment in its home market of metropolitan Philadelphia. The company has announced that it will open a new facility for its Nuuly brand in Falls Township, a city located 28 miles northeast of Philadelphia in Bucks County. According to Urban Outfitters, the new facility will create 600 jobs and work in tandem with the existing 600,000-square-foot Nuuly distribution center in Raymore, Mo., that opened in 2024. Further details about the Falls Township facility were not released. Nuuly is a monthly subscription service that lets patrons rent apparel from URBN’s various brands. According to the Philadelphia Business Journal, Nuuly represents almost 10 percent of URBN’s total net sales. In addition to the new facility, URBN plans to invest at least $150 million in capital and create 450 jobs at its global headquarters campus at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The company has been headquartered at the former shipyard since 2006 and recently opened the 117,000-square-foot Building 16. Today, URBN employs roughly 2,500 staffers at the Navy Yard, which includes adaptive …
GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — Century Fire Protection, which provides fire extinguishers, alarms and sprinkler systems, has signed a 25,798-square-foot industrial lease in the central metroplex city of Grand Prairie. According to LoopNet Inc., the building at 1111 W. Carrier Parkway was constructed in 1984 and totals 65,203 square feet. Brad Balke of KBC Advisors represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Canon Shoults, Maddy Coffman and Walker Floyd of Holt Lunsford Commercial represented the landlord, Sealy & Co.
CLAYMONT, DEL. — JLL has arranged $70 million in bridge financing for Tri-State Distribution Center, a 525,000-square-foot industrial building located about 25 miles outside of Philadelphia in Claymont, Delaware. The property features a clear height of 40-feet, an ESFR sprinkler system, 130-foot truck court depths, four drive-in ramps with overhead doors and “ample” trailer and car parking allotments. Construction began in August 2023. Michael Pagniucci, Chad Orcutt, Chris Drew, Ethan Rodgers and Michelle Morgenstern of JLL arranged the debt through Chicago-based Pearlmark on behalf of the owner, a joint venture between New York City-based KPR Centers LLC and Los Angeles-based PCCP LLC.
LYNDHURST, N.J. — Northcott Silk USA has signed a 38,728-square-foot industrial lease in the Northern New Jersey community of Lyndhurst. The textile company is taking about half the space at the building at 1050 Valley Brook Ave., which according to LoopNet Inc. features a clear height of 24 feet, seven exterior dock doors and 70 car parking spaces. Robert Adams of Garden State Realty brokered the deal. Saddleback Real Estate Developers owns the building.
SUFFOLK, VA. — Rockefeller Group and Matan Cos. have broken ground on Building 3 at Port 460 Logistics Center, an industrial development that will comprise 5 million square feet in Suffolk, approximately 20 miles southwest of Norfolk with direct access to the Port of Virginia. The third building will be completed in the first quarter of 2027 and will span a little more than 1 million square feet, making it the largest building within the master-planned industrial park. Buildings 1 and 2, which measure 339,150 square feet and 246,490 square feet, respectively, are completed and ready for lease or sale. In a joint venture partnership with Mitsubishi Estate New York, Chuo Nittochi and Taisei USA LLC, Rockefeller and Matan will deliver 2.4 million square feet of industrial space across five buildings in Phase I of Port 460 Logistics Center. A second phase totaling 2.7 million square feet will follow. Rockefeller and Matan broke ground on Port 460 in September 2024. Brian Devlin, Todd Hughes, Kris Kennedy and Gregg Christofferson of JLL are handling leasing at the property. Earlier this year, A. Duie Pyle, a 101-year-old, family-owned provider of integrated transportation and distribution solutions, purchased a 43-acre development site at Port 460 …
SHEPHERDSVILLE, KY. — JLL Income Property Trust has received a $49 million mortgage loan for Louisville Logistics Center, a 1 million-square-foot distribution facility located in Shepherdsville, a southern suburb of Louisville. The facility was fully leased at the time of financing to UPS Supply Chain Solutions. The loan features a five-year term with a 5.28 percent interest rate. The lender was not disclosed. JLL Income Property Trust acquired Louisville Logistics Center in 2023. The property features 40-foot clear heights and 110 dock-high doors.
DUBLIN, CALIF. — Newmark has arranged the sale of Sierra Trinity, a shallow-bay industrial portfolio located at 6701 Sierra Court in Dublin, located in the San Francisco East Bay area. Terms of the transaction were not released. Sierra Trinity features 11 buildings that were 97 percent leased at the time of sale to nearly 40 tenants across a variety of industries. Steven Golubchik, Edmund Najera, Darren Hollak and Brendan Raney of Newmark represented the undisclosed seller and buyer in the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — New York City-based Catalyst Investment Partners has received $281 million in acquisition financing for a national portfolio of 77 industrial outdoor storage (IOS) properties. The properties are scattered across 12 markets, including locations in Northern New Jersey, Miami and Washington, D.C. The financing comprises separate loans provided by Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies and institutional investors advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Justin Horowitz of New York City-based mortgage broker Cooper-Horowitz arranged the financing on behalf of Catalyst Investment Partners. The seller was not disclosed. The exact occupancy rate of the portfolio at the time of the loan closing was not disclosed, but the properties are leased to “a variety of tenants representing a diverse cross-section of industries,” according to Catalyst. These industries include equipment rental, infrastructure and e-commerce. “Our early entry into the IOS sector and proprietary data has enabled us to identify a deep opportunity set of small, flexible, low-coverage IOS properties that are situated in dense urban areas where the supply of IOS is fixed or declining, creating irreplaceable assets for occupiers and investors,” says Max Heiden, co-founder and partner at Catalyst. Heiden co-founded Catalyst in 2021 with Dan Haroun. The company currently …