SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Newmark has brokered the $80 million sale of a 19.7-acre development site located at 550 E. Brokaw in San Jose. The property includes a 293,906-square-foot building. Steven Golubchik, Edmund Najera, Jonathan Schaefler and Darren Hollak of Newmark represented the seller, Bay West Development, in the transaction. Supermicro Computers acquired the property, with plans to occupy the existing building and develop at the site. Phil Mahoney and Joe Kelly of Newmark assisted in the sale and manage leasing at the property, which Fry’s Electronics previously occupied.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Holt Lunsford Commercial has negotiated a 7,418-square-foot industrial lease at West Fork Business Center in Fort Worth. George Jennings and Trey Goodspeed of Holt Lunsford represented the landlord, locally based developer Exline Capital, in the lease negotiations. William Wilson, also with Holt Lunsford, represented the tenant, CarRev LLC.
BAYPORT, N.Y. — Metropolitan Realty Associates (MRA) has purchased a 75,000-square-foot cold storage facility in the Long Island community of Bayport for $12.6 million. Commercial baker Europastry formerly occupied the facility at 33 Rajon Road, which was originally built in 1986, according to LoopNet Inc. Building features include a clear height of 40 feet, 35,000 square feet of freezer space, 11 loading docks and two drive-in doors. Nick Gallipoli of Cushman & Wakefield represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. Doug Omstrom of JLL represented MRA, which has subsequently inked a 15-year, full-building lease with Bakery Processing Solutions.
MARYSVILLE, OHIO — Contegra Construction Co. has completed a 1.3 million-square-foot distribution center for The Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. in Marysville, about 27 miles northwest of Columbus. Developed by Crawford Hoying, the facility is located about two miles from Scotts MiracleGro’s headquarters and primary manufacturing plant. The company has consolidated five central Ohio distribution operations into the new location, adding 40 jobs and enhancing its distribution capabilities ahead of the 2024 spring lawn and garden season. Located on an 84-acre site at 12575 Industrial Parkway, the building consists of 8,000 square feet of office space with the remaining space devoted to storage and distribution. The property features a clear height of 38 feet, 120 dock doors and four drive-in doors.
SHAWNEE, KAN. — Hunt Midwest will build a new 854,306-square-foot build-to-suit facility for Keystone Automotive Industries at Heartland Logistics Park in Shawnee. Keystone will lease 530,455 square feet within Heartland Logistics Park Building III. Keystone is an aftermarket auto parts supplier and a subsidiary of LKQ, a global supplier and manufacturer of aftermarket, recycled, refurbished and remanufactured automotive products. Construction on Building III is set to begin this month with completion slated for the first quarter of 2025. Leasing options are available for the remaining 323,851 square feet within the building. The property will feature a clear height of 36 feet, 190-foot-deep truck courts, 36 dock-high doors, four drive-in doors, 87 trailer parking spaces and 251 car parking spaces. The project team includes Brinkmann Constructors, Renaissance Infrastructure Consulting and H2B Architects. Mike Mitchelson and Austin Baier of CBRE represented LKQ in the lease. Ed Elder and John Stafford of Colliers handle leasing of Heartland Logistics Park.
CEDAR LAKE, IND. — StorSafe Self Storage has acquired a self-storage facility in Cedar Lake, a city in Northwest Indiana. The purchase price was undisclosed. StorSafe’s portfolio now encompasses 29 facilities totaling more than 1.7 million square feet across Florida, Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin. StorSafe is a subsidiary of Elmdale Partners. The Cedar Lake property will offer security, parking, climate-controlled units and varied storage sizes for both personal and business use.
DALLAS — New York-based Sterling Investors has purchased Centreport 2, a 430,852-square-foot industrial building in Dallas. The address was not disclosed, but the cross-dock facility is located south of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in the Upper Great Southwest submarket. Centreport 2 was built in 2017 and features 97 dock doors and 32-foot clear heights. Trent Agnew, Charlie Strauss, Parker McCormack, Tom Weber, Lance Young, Pauli Kerr, Matthew Barge and Brooke Petzold of JLL represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction and procured Sterling Investors as the buyer.
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Lee & Associates has arranged a 255,000-square-foot industrial sublease in South Brunswick, about 50 miles south of New York City. According to LoopNet Inc., the 610,949-square-foot property at 301-321 Herrod Blvd. was built on 39.5 acres in 1998 and features a clear height of 27 feet and 119 parking spaces. Drew Maffey, Will Ziegler and Matt Esposito of Lee & Associates represented the subtenant, an undisclosed storage company, in the lease negotiations. Dave Saltzman, also with Lee & Associates, represented the sublandlord, which also requested anonymity.
SCRANTON, PA. — CBRE has brokered the $6.5 million sale of a 108,000-square-foot light industrial complex in Scranton. The development consists of three buildings ranging in size from 27,000 to 40,500 square feet on an 11.8-acre site. Buildings feature clear heights of 19 to 21 feet. Steve Marzullo, Adam Silverman, Michael Hines and Joe Hill of CBRE represented the seller, CEP Family Office LLC, in the transaction. The buyer, an affiliate of Pennsylvania-based Industrial Investments Inc., was represented internally.
GREER, S.C. — OMRON Automation, a global industrial automation solutions provider, plans to expand its operations footprint to Upstate South Carolina with a new manufacturing facility in Greer. The new facility will be located at 311 Genoble Road and will support 162 new jobs. OMRON plans to invest $9.2 million into the operation, which will include the manufacturing of motion controllers and drives, machine vision, barcode readers and verification systems. Meredith O’Connor, Sean Reynolds, Perry Major and John Cashion of JLL represented OMRON in the development and site selection process, which included the evaluation of more than 85 cities across the United States. The size and construction timeline for the Greer facility were not disclosed.