SAN ANTONIO — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a 10,825-square-foot industrial building located at 12296 U.S. Highway 181 in San Antonio. According to LoopNet Inc., the single-tenant building was constructed on 2.8 acres in 1965. Adam Abushagur, Tyler Ranft and Ernesto Melgar Campos of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller in the transaction. Additional terms of sale were not disclosed.
ST. LOUIS — McCarthy Building Cos. will construct a $400 million lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery materials manufacturing plant for ICL (NYSE: ICL) in St. Louis. The facility is expected to be the first commercial-scale LFP battery materials manufacturing plant in the U.S., according to McCarthy. The 140,000-square-foot plant is expected to produce 30,000 metric tons for use in batteries that can store energy needed to run electric vehicles, charging stations or on the electric grid. ICL’s investment in the plant was augmented by a $197 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. The new plant will be located on ICL’s existing Carondelet campus in St. Louis. In addition to creating 800 to 900 union construction jobs, the new facility is estimated to create 150 high-paying union and professional jobs for ICL. The plant is expected to be operational by 2025 and will help meet growing demand from the energy storage, electric vehicle and clean-energy industries for U.S.-produced-and-sourced essential battery materials. ICL is a global specialty minerals company, creating solutions for sustainability challenges in the food, agriculture and industrial markets. ICL shares are dual listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. The company …
CORONA, CALIF. — BDK Logistics Intelligence has signed a deal to lease an entire industrial facility located at 1161 Olympic Drive in Corona. Monterey Rancho Mirage LLC owns the property. Terms of the lease were not released. Situated on 4.8 acres, the 114,190-square-foot building features 20 dock-high loading doors. Brett Lockwood and Rick Ellison of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord in the lease.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Holt Lunsford Commercial has negotiated a 54,552-square-foot industrial lease in the Blue Mound/Saginaw area of Fort Worth. Blake Rogers of JLL represented the tenant, Strato Inc., a manufacturer of various industrial parts, in the lease negotiations. George Jennings, Trey Goodspeed and William Wilson of Holt Lunsford Commercial represented the landlord, Blue Ridge Industrial.
DALLAS — Fort Worth-based brokerage firm LanCarte Commercial has arranged the sale of a 50,138-square-foot industrial property located at 11126 Shady Trail Parkway in northwest Dallas. The property consists of three buildings that house 18 units on a 2.9-acre site. Sarah LanCarte of LanCarte Commercial represented the undisclosed seller, which acquired the property in 2020 and implemented a value-add program, in the transaction. The buyer and sales price were also not disclosed.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — CBRE has brokered the portfolio sale of two industrial properties in Jacksonville totaling nearly 1.4 million square feet. Dallas-based Hillwood Investment Properties purchased the portfolio from Atlanta-based Invesco Real Estate for an undisclosed price. Jose Lobon, Trey Barry, Frank Fallon, Royce Rose, Alain Bonvecchio and Ben Stewart of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction. The properties include a 772,210-square-foot facility at 1200 Presidents Court that is leased to Unilever. Built in 2008, the property features 32-foot clear heights, 90 dock doors, ESFR sprinklers, 186 car parking spaces and 255 trailer parking spaces. The other asset is a 601,500-square-foot facility located at 2300 Pickettville Road that is leased to Keurig Dr. Pepper. Built in 2009, the building features 32-foot clear heights, 128 dock doors, ESFR sprinklers, 326 car parking spaces and 118 trailer parking spaces. Both facilities feature cross-dock loading and are situated in Jacksonville’s Westside industrial submarket.
VIOLET TOWNSHIP, OHIO — DHL Supply Chain has broken ground on a new 755,000-square-foot distribution center in Violet Township, an eastern suburb of Columbus. The facility, which will be located near DHL Supply Chain’s U.S. headquarters in Westerville, is slated to open in the second quarter of 2024 and create approximately 200 jobs in the region. The project brings DHL’s total footprint to more than 15 million square feet in its home state and 161 million square feet in North America. The Violet Township facility will leverage the latest robotics technology and automation processes as well as sustainable building planning and construction. DHL Supply Chain’s expansion of its warehousing footprint is led by DHL Real Estate Solutions.
ETNA, OHIO — The I-70 Logistics Center, located at 9157 Mink St. SW in the Columbus suburb of Etna, has traded hands for an undisclosed price. Hines Global Income Trust Inc. was the buyer. The 700,000-square-foot property is fully leased to a third-party logistics provider and features a clear height of 40 feet. The facility offers convenient access to two rail providers, reaching roughly 60 percent of the North American population within a one-day drive. Ed Halaburt and Ross Bratcher of JLL represented the seller, Core5 Industrial Partners.
By John Cassidy and Calvin Gunn, Lee & Associates If you love a good groundbreaking photo — full of shiny shovels, hard hats and smiling development teams — you may be disappointed this year, for all the best reasons. With Chicago’s most recent wave of speculative industrial projects currently being delivered, the market now actually has space to offer industrial tenants — a refreshing change from the past few years. With construction costs and interest rates continuing to rise and credit availability shrinking, many developers with ties to Chicago are pausing new projects as exit cap rates are becoming more difficult to predict. At the same time, market fundamentals are starting to cool from the pandemic-era eruption of demand. The good news: Chicago’s industrial market may be down from the clouds, but it’s still historically quite healthy. Vacancy rate in perspective According to Lee & Associates of Illinois’ second-quarter industrial snapshot, construction deliveries caused the Chicago industrial vacancy rate to tick upward for the second consecutive quarter. However, a 3.68 percent vacant market is still considered a historically low vacancy environment. As a comparison, that vacancy rate measured about 12 percent at the end of 2009 and 6.6 percent in …
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Improved Land Surveys, Due Diligence Can Ensure Development Project Success
Due diligence — particularly land surveying — can be a slow, cumbersome process if a project lacks strong guidelines based on the owner or developer’s particular needs. It can be easy to overprepare for the wrong site or underprepare for the succession of steps needed for the right site. REBusiness spoke to two land surveying experts, Billy Logsdon, divisional director of surveying, and Tom Teabo, associate and regional survey manager. Both work for Bohler, a land development consulting and site design firm, and both have strong insights on how to incorporate each step in the due diligence process elegantly within a well-planned approach. Due diligence such as American Land Title Association (ALTA) surveys and gathering topographic information can be time-consuming and expensive steps — making it beneficial to fit their timing into the larger project in a way that reflects the client’s needs — from the purchase of land to development completion. Logsdon and Teabo highlight the importance of streamlining the survey process and getting owners and developers better results based on their desired outcomes, often starting with the information already available about the site early in the process. REBusiness: What is slowing down survey due diligence, in your experience, and do …