PHILLIPSBURG, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Access Self Storage, a 322-unit facility in Phillipsburg, located along the New Jersey-Pennsylvania border. The facility was built on a little less than a full acre in 2018 and comprises 18,074 net rentable square feet of climate-controlled space. Luke Dawley, Nathan Coe, Brett Hatcher and Gabriel Coe of Marcus & Millichap represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyer was also not disclosed. John Horowitz of Marcus & Millichap assisted in closing the deal as the broker of record.
Industrial
MONROE, CONN. — Broadband Technical Resources has signed a 9,159-square-foot industrial lease in Monroe, about 20 miles west of New Haven. According to LoopNet Inc., the 23,702-square-foot building at 580 Pepper St. was originally built in 1987 and renovated in 1997. Bruce Wettenstein of locally based brokerage firm Vidal/Wettenstein represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Robert Malin Realty owns the building.
ST. CHARLES AND WEST CHICAGO, ILL. — Lee & Associates has negotiated the sales of three industrial buildings in the Fox Valley submarket of suburban Chicago. In the first transaction, the brokerage firm’s Andrew Block and Michael Plumb represented HFI Manufacturing in its $7.3 million purchase of a 60,196-square-foot property located at 3925 Stern Ave. in St. Charles. The duo also represented HFI in the sale of its 48,130-square-foot building at 1100 Carolina Drive in West Chicago. HFI is expanding and needed a larger facility for its stainless-steel manufacturing operations. The buyer of 1100 Carolina Drive was Paclantic Naturals LLC. In the third transaction, Andrew Block and Nick Eboli of Lee & Associates represented Eaglestone in the sale of a 19,888-square-foot property located at 3705 Swenson Ave. in St. Charles. A private buyer purchased the facility for $2.1 million. Eaglestone, a manufacturer of conveyor systems for the food processing and packaging industries, has expanded its operations into a larger 85,000-square-foot building at 1560 Frontenac Road in nearby Naperville. Block and Eboli also assisted Eaglestone in securing the new location.
MCHENRY, ILL. — Entre Commercial Realty has brokered the sale of a 56,254-square-foot industrial building located at 4610 Prime Parkway in McHenry, about 50 miles northwest of Chicago. The property had been on the market for more than two years before the owner engaged Entre to evaluate and handle the sale. The building was extremely specialized as a prior owner had outfitted a significant portion of the interior with a two-story production mezzanine. According to Entre, it became evident that the layout was too specialized for most of today’s users in search of higher cube warehouse space, lower office ratios and extra land. Entre engaged with an architectural firm, structural engineer and construction company to evaluate the feasibility and cost to remove the partially structural mezzanine and restore the building to a more generic warehouse-type building that would meet today’s user demand. Entre identified that the property could be transformed back into a smaller 42,000-square-fot building with a two-acre land parcel for parking or outdoor storage. After the property was relaunched to the market, it sold to Viper Holdings, which provides scissors and boom lifts to the construction industry. Entre’s Dan Jones, Dan Benassi and Sam Deihs represented the undisclosed …
Multiple Organics Sells 49,805 SF Warehouse, Cold Storage Facility in Hercules, California
by Amy Works
HERCULES, CALIF. — Multiple Organics has completed the disposition of a warehouse and cold storage facility, located at 200 Linus Pauling Drive in the Bay Area city of Hercules. A Sutter Health entity acquired the asset for an undisclosed price. The 49,805-square-foot property features 7,700 square feet of office space, six dock doors, four grade-level doors, 22-foot clear heights, 2,000 amps of power and 8,000 square feet of cooler space. Kevin Hatcher and Austin Hinder of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction.
BWE Arranges $40.3M Construction Financing for Industrial Property in Metro Charleston
by John Nelson
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. — BWE has arranged a $40.3 million loan for the construction of Carolina Business Park, an industrial development in Mount Pleasant, roughly five miles outside downtown Charleston. Cameron Property Co. is the borrower and developer. Thomas Wiedeman and Alan Tapie of BWE secured the financing through a life insurance company on behalf of the borrower. Upon completion, the property will total 483,300 square feet across three buildings. The rear-load buildings, situated on 60 acres, will feature clear heights between 32 and 36 feet.
ROBINSON, TEXAS — Walmart (NYSE: WMT) will open a dairy processing plant in Robinson, located just south of Waco in Central Texas, in a move that represents a capital investment of about $380 million in the regional economy. The Arkansas-based retailer also expects that the project, which will comprise 310,000 square feet of production and distribution space within Robinson Business Park, will result in the creation of about 400 jobs. Cushman & Wakefield represented Walmart in its site selection and purchase of the 79-acre tract on which the facility will be developed. The opening is scheduled for 2026.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — CBRE has negotiated a 221,444-square-foot industrial lease near Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The tenant, Big Ass Fans, will occupy the entirely of Building A at Fort West Commerce Center, a three-building, 531,601-square-foot development that sits on a 30-acre site. Buildings are designed to accommodate users with requirements from 34,041 to 221,444 square feet and feature 32- to 36-foot clear heights. Gordon Benedict, Courtney Oldenburg and Tim Vogds of CBRE represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Matt Carthey and George Jennings of Holt Lunsford Commercial represented the landlord, Phoenix-based Creation.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Texas-based investment firm Stonelake Capital Partners has purchased a 119,995-square-foot distribution facility in Fort Worth. The building at 4400 Diplomacy Drive, which was fully leased at the time of sale to Litex Industries, is located just south of DFW International Airport in the central part of the metroplex. Jim Carpenter, Jud Clements, Robby Rieke and Madeleine Supplee of Cushman & Wakefield represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. Coleman Brown, Michael Massad, Will Thomas and Keontae Burns represented Stonelake on an internal basis.
HOUSTON — Locally based brokerage firm Finial Group has arranged the sale of a 19,259-square-foot industrial building in northwest Houston. The building at 6606 Gessner Road sits on 1.5 acres and includes outdoor storage space. Jason Gibbons and Christian Villarreal of Final Group represented the seller in the transaction. Christy Bowen of Fox & Graham Real Estate represented the buyer. Both parties requested anonymity.