LAREDO, TEXAS — A partnership between Realterm, a Maryland-based investment manager focused on the transportation industry, and Chicago-based Stotan Industrial has broken ground on a 25.8-acre industrial outdoor storage (IOS) facility in the Rio Grande Valley city of Laredo. The site will have a 19,710-square-foot maintenance building with seven drive-thru bays and one drive-in bay, as well as a 2,250-square-foot office space that is expandable to 3,375 square feet. Construction is slated for a mid-2026 completion.
DALLAS — A partnership between two locally based firms, Leone Real Estate Partners and Lampasas Partners, has purchased a 24,942-square-foot warehouse in the Valwood area of North Dallas. The property features 14- to 24-foot clear heights, two dock-high loading doors, two grade-level loading doors, 4,100 square feet of office space and one acre of fenced outdoor storage space. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
PHOENIX AND TEMPE, ARIZ. — BKM Capital Partners has acquired a portfolio of eight light industrial buildings in Phoenix and Tempe from an affiliate of Equus Capital Partners Ltd. for $167.8 million. The portfolio features 889,352 square feet spread across 46 buildings. Rusty Kennedy, Joe Cesta and Darla Longo of CBRE represented the seller in the deal. The portfolio includes: The properties offer a range of unit sizes, providing leasing flexibility.
JOLIET, ILL. — Mapletree Investments has acquired a 29.4-acre site at 1035 W. Laraway Road in Joliet with plans to develop a logistics facility totaling 418,880 square feet. The transaction marks the company’s second acquisition in Joliet this year, following the May purchase of an 18.1-acre site at 3600 Houbolt Road where it will build a 276,000-square-foot warehouse. Both sites provide direct connectivity to the Joliet Intermodal Center — North America’s largest inland port — home to both the Union Pacific and BNSF Joliet Intermodal Terminals. The Laraway Road project will feature a clear height of 40 feet, 80 dock doors, 100 trailer stalls and 172 car parking spaces. Matthew Stauber and Steve Ostrowski of Colliers represented the seller and worked directly with Mapletree to secure the transaction. Mapletree currently owns and manages more than 10 million square feet of industrial assets in the Chicago market.
BETHLEHEM, PA. — Bosch Rexroth, a provider of industrial machinery, has broken ground on a 50,000-square-foot industrial expansion project in the Lehigh Valley city of Bethlehem. The new building at 2300 City Line Road will be an expansion of the company’s existing facility, which has been operating in the area for nearly 60 years. Regional developer J.G. Petrucci Co. is serving as the general contractor for the project. Construction is expected to be complete in mid-2026.
CONCORD, N.C. — Energy drink giant Red Bull, along with development partners Ball Corp. (NYSE: BALL) and Rauch North America, has broken ground on a 2.3 million-square-foot production, manufacturing and distribution bottling plant in Concord, a northeast suburb of Charlotte. The $1.5 billion investment, as disclosed by several media sources, is expected to begin operations in 2028, with maximized filling capacity anticipated by 2031. The Charlotte Business Journal reports that the companies originally bought the 500-acre site at the former Philips Morris cigarette plant site, now rebranded as The Grounds, in 2021 for $55 million, after first announcing their plans to open a facility. As additionally reported, the plan initially began as a $740 million project, but as the Cabarrus County Economic Development Corp. approved enhanced incentives in 2022, the project expanded. The fully automated Red Bull plant will now offer 170,000 pallet spaces, as well as internal conveyor bridges for intralogistics that will connect can manufacturing to co-packing to warehousing, and lastly, directly to customer deliveries to “minimize carbon emissions.” Ball Corp. will also build an 800,000-square-foot aluminum can plant at the industrial park. The company will produce packaging at the new facility for Red Bull, as well as other beverage …
DALLAS AND FORT WORTH, TEXAS — JLL has brokered the sale of the DFW Bulk Portfolio, a collection of four industrial buildings totaling approximately 1.7 million square feet across 122.6 acres in Dallas-Fort Worth. The names and addresses of the buildings, which were completed between 1999 and 2017, were not disclosed, but they are located in the North Fort Worth, East Fort Worth and Great Southwest submarkets. The portfolio, which was fully leased to six tenants at the time of sale, features a total of 318 dock-high doors, 13 grade-level doors and parking for 1,094 cars and 179 trailers, as well as average clear heights and truck court depths of 33 and 162 feet, respectively. Trent Agnew, Tom Weber, Pauli Kerr, Keenan Ryan and Brennan Fewin of JLL represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyer was a fund backed by Los Angeles-based Ares Real Estate.
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Houston-based investment firm Welcome Group has purchased a 100,129-square-foot industrial building in Arlington. The single-tenant building at 3101 Pinewood Drive was constructed on 4.6 acres in 1977 and renovated in 2021. According to LoopNet Inc., building features include 22-foot clear heights, 13 dock-high loading doors and four grade-level doors. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
KELLER, TEXAS — Locally based brokerage firm LanCarte Commercial has arranged the sale of two industrial buildings totaling 9,800 square feet and a 2.9-acre land parcel in Keller, located north of Fort Worth. The properties are all located along South Main Street. Mark Boone and Matt Murff of LanCarte Commercial represented the buyer and seller, both of which requested anonymity, in the transaction.
GILBERT, ARIZ. — Gantry has secured a $25.5 million permanent loan to provide funds for the acquisition of Power Commerce Center in Gilbert. Situated on 14.2 acres at 3380 S. Power Road, the master-planned industrial park was delivered in 2023 and features 11 buildings offering 20 units totaling 146,000 rentable square feet. Additionally, the asset includes fenced outdoor yard spaces for each building. Patrick Barkley, Chad Metzger and Andrew Christopherson of Gantry represented the borrower, a private real estate investor, in the financing. The fixed-rate loan, which features a 30-year amortization, came from one of Gantry’s correspondent life company lenders. Gantry will service the loan.