NEW YORK CITY — Sagard Real Estate, the Denver-based firm formerly known as EverWest Real Estate Investors, has completed One Nassau Place, a 331,700-square-foot warehouse on Staten Island. The site is located less than a mile from State Route 440, and the building features a clear height of 36 feet, 60 dock doors, 175 car parking spaces, rooftop solar panels and an ESFR sprinkler system. Construction began in summer 2024. Sagard has tapped Cushman & Wakefield as the leasing agent.
FAIRLAND, IND. — Prime Beverage Group, a beverage contract manufacturer, has expanded into the Indianapolis market. The company has secured approvals to establish a beverage production facility in Fairland, a southeast suburb of Indianapolis. The property is part of Velocity 74 Trade Center, an industrial development from Browning Real Estate Partners. The tenant also maintains production and warehousing operations in North Carolina. According to Prime, the new Midwest location will provide improved supply chain efficiency, faster turnaround times and greater accessibility for its brand partners in Midwest markets. The Indiana facility totals 915,720 square feet. Warren Snowdon of Foundry Commercial and Brian Zurawski of Colliers represented Prime. Jimmy Cohoat and Jason Speckman of Colliers represented Browning.
CHICAGO — The Missner Group, in partnership with Thackeray Partners, has completed a 180,000-square-foot industrial development at 4002 S. Princeton Ave. in Chicago’s Fuller Park neighborhood. Located within Chicago Stockyards Industrial Park, the project marks Missner’s third in the historic industrial district. The speculative facility can accommodate up to four tenants. Larry Goldwasser of CBRE is handling leasing.
TUCSON, ARIZ. — Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR has brokered the sale of the 123,394-square-foot industrial building located at 3430 E. 36th St. in Tucson. The sales price was $8.6 million. A company doing business as Arto 3430 LLC acquired the property, which is known locally as the former Sam Levitz building, from a company operating under the name 36th & Palo Verde Investors LLC. Arto Brick, a manufacturer of handmade ceramic, porcelain and concrete tiles, pavers and brick veneers, will occupy the property in an effort to expand its California manufacturing operations into the Tucson market. Stephen Cohen and Paul Hooker of Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR represented the seller in the transaction, while Rick Borane of Volk Co. represented the buyer in the deal.
Digital Realty Agrees to Buy Blackstone’s Stake in Northern Virginia Data Center Portfolio for $3.5B
MANASSAS AND STERLING, VA. — Data center firm Digital Realty has agreed to purchase a $3.5 billion equity stake in three data centers located in the Northern Virginia cities of Sterling and Manassas from Blackstone-affiliated funds. The portfolio maintains a gross value of $7.8 billion, reflecting an expected initial stabilized capitalization rate of over 6.5 percent. The portfolio is comprised of three data centers — two in Manassas, one in Sterling — which each contain 96 megawatts of IT capacity. Digital Realty will purchase Blackstone’s 80 percent interest in the Manassas properties and 50 percent interest in the Sterling facility, including assumed debt and remaining capital expenditures to complete the ongoing development. Two of the data centers are expected to stabilize in the first half of 2027 while the third is anticipated to stabilize in 2028. The data centers are all fully leased for 15 years to investment-grade hyperscale customers, and rent will escalate annually by 3.6 percent. The transaction will see Digital Realty pay Blackstone $1.2 billion in cash as well as $2.3 billion in Digital Realty shares for a blended 64 percent equity interest in the properties. Digital Realty was an original partner in the $7 billion joint …
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 78,272-square-foot industrial lease in North Fort Worth. The tenant is Wistron Corp., a provider of high-tech communications products and services, and the space is located within Building H at 35 Eagle Center. Trey Fricke and Reid Bassinger of Lee & Associates represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Bob Scully and Steve Trese of CBRE represented the landlord, an entity doing business as Alpha Industrial Properties.
COMMERCIAL POINT, OHIO — Scannell Properties has broken ground on the first phase of a logistics park in Commercial Point, a southern suburb of Columbus. The 1.2 million-square-foot speculative building will feature a clear height of 40 feet, 60 dock doors and four drive-in doors. The development marks Scannell’s ninth in the central Ohio region. Completion is slated for April 2027. Joel Yakovac of Colliers is handling leasing.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — NAI DiLeo-Bram & Co. (NAIDB) has negotiated the $10.5 million sale of a 41,309-square-foot industrial building in the Northern New Jersey community of Piscataway. According to LoopNet Inc., the building at 281 Centennial Ave. was originally constructed in 1973. Robert J. DiLeo, Kyle Gerace and Robert V. DiLeo of NAIDB represented both the seller, HVAC services company Binsky & Snyder, and the buyer, Eastern Lift Truck Co., in the transaction.
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing, as well as joint venture equity, for an approximately 8-acre industrial outdoor storage (IOS) facility in South Plainfield, about 40 miles southwest of New York City. The facility at 200 Saint Nicholas Ave. houses two maintenance facilities totaling 10,000 and 20,000 square feet. John Alascio, T.J. Sullivan and Chris Meloni led the transaction for Cushman & Wakefield on behalf of the sponsor, Ridgecut Road.
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — JLL has negotiated the sale of a portfolio of three self-storage facilities totaling 669 units in Arlington. The facilities at 3016 S. Cooper St., 2331 S. Collins St. and 2306 N. Collins St. were all built in the 1970s and collectively span 80,216 net rentable square feet. Steve Mellon, Brian Somoza, Adam Roossien and Matthew Wheeler of JLL represented the seller, an undisclosed, publicly traded storage REIT, in the transaction. BreakChain Capital Investments purchased the portfolio for an undisclosed price.