OKLAHOMA CITY — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged a $48.4 million loan for the refinancing of Britton Commerce Center, a 560,000-square-foot industrial property in Oklahoma City. The five-building complex was fully leased at the time of the loan closing. Sunny Sajnani and Travis Headapohl of IPA arranged the debt through an undisclosed credit union on behalf of the borrower, locally based development and investment firm Gardner Tanenbaum. The loan was structured with a five-year term, a fixed interest rate of 5.76 percent, 30-year amortization schedule and 24 months of interest-only payments.
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LAREDO, TEXAS — A partnership between Dallas-based Sunwest Real Estate Group and industrial investment firm AKRE Partners has purchased a 36,240-square-foot warehouse in the Rio Grande Valley city of Laredo. The small-bay building at 13609 Archer Drive is located within Killam Industrial Park. According to LoopNet Inc., the building was completed in 2001 and features 20-foot clear heights, 17 dock-high loading positions and 3,091 square feet of office space. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
HOUSTON — Stream Realty Partners has secured an 18,118-square-foot industrial lease in West Houston. According to LoopNet Inc., the building at 1325 S. Creek Drive was built in 1980 and totals 153,741 square feet. Garrret Geaccone and Boone Smith of Stream represented the landlord, Nuveen Real Estate, in the lease negotiations. The representative of the tenant, third-party logistics provider Lucky Dong, was not disclosed.
DURHAM AND MORRISVILLE, N.C. — Pharmaceutical developer and manufacturer Novartis (NYSE: NVS) has announced a $771 million expansion of its footprint in North Carolina’s Research Triangle. According to the company, the expansion will create 700 new jobs in Durham and Wake counties and more than 3,000 indirect jobs by the end of 2030. The North Carolina expansion is part of the Swiss company’s pledge to invest $23 billion in U.S. infrastructure over the next five years. Doubling the company’s operational presence to more than 700,000 square feet, the expansion will significantly increase manufacturing capacity. The expansion will comprise new construction as well as the renovation of existing facilities across three sites in Durham and Morrisville. The new hub will include a new site in Durham housing two new facilities for manufacturing biologics and sterile packaging and a new site in Morrisville for the production of solid dosage tablets and capsules, as well as an expansion of an existing Durham facility to support sterile filling of biologics into syringes and vials. One of the new facilities will be located at Pathway Triangle, occupying 202,000 square feet at the 1 million-square-foot campus in Morrisville. CBRE represented both Novartis and the landlord, King …
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. — Google will invest approximately $40 billion in Texas data centers through 2027 as the Silicon Valley-based tech giant looks to expand its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure capabilities. Google CEO Sundar Pichai made the announcement on Nov. 14 via a LinkedIn post, stating that the investment would also include the development of three new data center campuses in Armstrong and Haskell counties. Google said that one of its new campuses in Haskell County, which is located roughly midway between Fort Worth and Lubbock, will be built alongside a new solar and battery storage plant. Google also said in the post that it plans to “train existing electrical workers and more than 1,700 apprentices in Texas by 2030, more than doubling the projected pipeline of new electricians in the state.” As part of the investment, Google has also committed to an initiative to “strengthen energy resilience and abundance, as well as [to] support community energy efficiency initiatives through a new $30 million Energy Impact Fund.” According to Data Center Dynamics, Google is also planning an expansion of its existing data center facilities in Ellis County, which is located south of Dallas and encompasses the city of …
DALLAS — Creation, a developer with offices in Dallas and Phoenix, and PGIM Real Estate have begun construction on 635 Exchange, a three-building, 600,000-square-foot industrial project in North Dallas. The 36-acre site at the intersection of interstates 35E and 635 formerly housed a City of Dallas landfill, and the new buildings will feature 32- to 36-foot clear heights. LGE Design Build is handling the architectural and general contracting aspects of the project. Stream Realty Partners has been tapped as the leasing agent. Completion is slated for late 2026.
CYPRESS, TEXAS — Deason Financial Group has arranged a $16.1 million permanent loan for the acquisition of Blackhorse Storage & Postal, a 552-unit self-storage facility located in the northwestern Houston metro of Cypress. The 14.2-acre facility spans 261,206 net rentable square feet across a variety of unit types. The loan was structured with a five-year term, fixed interest rate and a 25-year amortization schedule. Dave Knobler of Marcus & Millichap brokered the sale. The names of the direct lender and borrower were not disclosed.
ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. — Florida-based development and investment firm Basis Industrial has received a $27 million construction loan for a self-storage project that will be located in the Long Island community of Rockville Centre. Public Storage will operate the facility, which will comprise 121,500 gross square feet of space across 957 units. NexBank is the senior lender on the project, and NexPoint is the mezzanine lender. Construction is underway and is expected to be complete in early 2027.
TUCSON, ARIZ. — Lincoln Property Co. has completed I-10 International Phase I, the company’s first-ever ground-up industrial development in Tucson. Valued at $80 million, I-10 International Phase I sits on 79 acres at the southeast corner of Alvernon Way and Los Reales Road, two miles from an interchange at I-10 and Valencia Road, within the Tucson International Airport submarket. Totaling 373,811 square feet, the property includes the 158,944-square-foot Building B and the 214,867-square-foot Building C. A fully designed, 188,434-square-foot Building A and a 476,000-square-foot Building D will be developed in line with market demand, bringing the asset to more than 1 million square feet of Class A industrial space. Buildings at I-10 International Phase I are state-of-the-art cold capable with 32-foot clear heights, 14-foot glass entrances, full concrete truck courts, generous clerestory windows and an R-38 insulated roof deck system. The project team includes Brinkmann Constructors as general contractor and Butler Design Group and Ware Malcomb as the collaborative design team. Jesse Blum of Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR is handling leasing for the project.
BELLINGHAM, MASS. — New England Appliance Group has signed a 124,000-square-foot industrial lease in Bellingham, located southwest of Boston. The independent retailer cooperative will occupy the entirety of the building at 206 Mechanic St. Locally based investment and development firm Marcus Partners owns the building. Both parties were self-represented in the lease negotiations.