CAVE CREEK AND MESA, ARIZ. — Buchanan Street Partners has acquired two Class A self-storage facilities in the Phoenix metro. The properties, located at 29640 N. Tatum Blvd. in Cave Creek and 2862 S. Signal Butte Road in Mesa, offer a combined 160,500 rentable square feet and 1,620 units. With a total purchase price of $41 million, or $255 per square foot, the acquisitions mark Buchanan’s entrance into the greater Phoenix self-storage market. Both recently constructed facilities offer climate-controlled units, video surveillance and security access controls. Westport Properties, Inc., operating under the US Storage Centers brand, will manage the properties as a third-party manager. CBRE’s Nick Walker and Walter Brauer arranged the sale.
Industrial
LYNWOOD, CALIF. — Prologis has purchased an infill industrial site in Lynwood. The 1.4-acre property is located at 11511 Bellinger St. It includes a historic 34,436-square-foot industrial facility built in 1930. Surrounding the property are more than 35 UPS, FedEx and Ontrac shipping hubs within a 10-mile radius. CBRE’s Mark Shaffer, Anthony DeLorenzo, Gerard Poutier, Bryan Johnson and Nick Williams from CBRE Investment Properties, along with Greg Dyer and Ryan Wengart from CBRE’s Los Angeles South Bay office, represented the seller, 11511 Bellinger Holdings LLC, in this transaction.
BAYTOWN, TEXAS — Locally based developer Avera Cos. has broken ground on Kilgore Grand Parkway, a 484,424-square-foot industrial facility in the eastern Houston suburb of Baytown. The cross-dock facility will be situated on a 33.9-acre site and will feature 40-foot clear heights, 185-foot truck court depths, 107 dock-high doors, an ESFR sprinkler system and ample car and trailer parking space. Avera is developing the project in partnership with AEW Capital Management. Delivery is slated for the second quarter of next year. Cushman & Wakefield is marketing the property for lease.
DRESSER, WIS. — MAG Capital Partners LLC has acquired a four-building industrial property in a sale-leaseback transaction with CORE Industrial Partners. Located at 700 Kelly Ave. in Dresser, a city in Northwest Wisconsin, the property totals 107,660 square feet. The facility will continue to be fully occupied by Cadrex Manufacturing Solutions, a mechanical solutions provider. Cadrex consists of 11 complementary acquisitions that CORE has integrated into a precision manufacturing platform. The property at 700 Kelly Ave. is the longtime home of sheet metal fabricator Tenere Inc., which was acquired by Cadrex in July 2022. JC Asensio, Briggs Goldberg and Andrew Sandquist of Newmark represented CORE.
ILLINOIS AND WISCONSIN — BWE has arranged a $5.2 million acquisition loan for a three-property industrial portfolio in Illinois and Wisconsin. Likewise Partners acquired the portfolio. Christopher Carroll and Max Miller of BWE arranged the loan through a Minnesota-based credit union. The three infill properties are located in Menomonee Falls, Wis., Appleton Wis.; and Machesney Park, Ill. The portfolio totals 79,152 square feet and is fully leased, with 92 percent of the space occupied by the Engman-Taylor Co., an industrial distributor.
IRVING, TEXAS — Prize Pest Control has signed a 4,469-square-foot lease at Highview Business Center, an industrial flex property in Irving. According to LoopNet Inc., the complex was built on 2.9 acres in 1981 and totals 40,618 square feet. Jim Ferris of Bradford Commercial Real Estate Services represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Barbara Brown of S&D Family Partners represented the landlord, an entity doing business as HV DJN Properties LP.
BRISTOL, WIS. — Peak Construction Corp. is underway on Building 8 at Bristol Business Park in Bristol, a city in Southeast Wisconsin. Janko Group is the developer. Peak previously completed Buildings 2 and 3 in 2022 and is continuing with site work and construction for Building 4. The 225-acre business park is fully entitled for up to 3 million square feet of industrial space, of which 2.4 million square feet has already been completed or is under construction. Of the 2.4 million square feet, 1.7 million square feet is currently leased. Building 8 is a 323,970-square-foot speculative facility featuring a clear height of 36 feet, 38 docks, four drive-in doors, 242 car spaces, 55 trailer spaces and build-to-suit office space. Kelly P. Harris is the architect, Manhard Consulting is the civil engineer and Cushman & Wakefield is the leasing agent. Completion of Building 8 is slated for the fourth quarter.
Intersection Equities, Blue Buy Vista Riverside Business Park in Jurupa Valley, California for $19.5M
by Jeff Shaw
JURUPA VALLEY, CALIF. — Intersection Equities and Blue Vista Capital Management have acquired Riverside Business Park, a 122,000-square-foot industrial park in Jurupa Valley, for $19.5 million. The park contains 30 suites ranging from 1,500 square feet to 11,000 square feet, offering a total of 30 drive-up doors. Intersection Equities plans to leverage its value-add strategy to make strategic capital improvements aimed at enhancing the attractiveness of the park for both existing and future tenants. Barret Woods of Lee & Associates represented the seller, Transition Properties, while Stefan Pastor of Stream Realty represented the buyers.
By Jeremy Spillman and Corey Sedrel, Capstone Commercial In a setting where I-80 and I-35 intersect to make up one of the busiest truck traffic intersections in the Midwest, Des Moines is well positioned to harness the power of manufacturing in Iowa to support several larger Midwest cities such as Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, St. Louis and Omaha. As we see change in our global supply chains, manufacturers and distributors look to states like Iowa to support these changing environments where we see these organizations moving away from the just-in-time model to just-in-case. The transition to a just-in-case supply chain model began to form due to several supply chain-related issues we encountered during the pandemic. This led to higher demand for additional warehousing to be constructed. Availability of large cube warehousing had been historically tight in Iowa since 2012 where most years carried vacancy rates of 2.5 to 4.5 percent annually. During 2022, there was 2.97 million square feet of warehouse/distribution space delivered to meet the increase in demand of rising inventories. “From the construction standpoint, supply chain issues are subsiding, but there are still longer than normal lead times for certain trades and equipment. These lead times are still …
Lovett Industrial Acquires 328 Acres Near Port of Virginia, Plans 2.2 MSF Spec Development
by John Nelson
JAMES CITY COUNTY, VA. — Lovett Industrial has acquired 328 acres in James City County, a county between Port of Virginia and I-95 near Williamsburg, Va. The Houston-based developer plans to build Enterprise Logistics Park, a 2.2 million-square-foot industrial park, on the site. In addition to the port and I-95, the speculative development will have direct access to I-64. Design is underway on the park, which will feature a variety of building sizes ranging from 100,000 to 1 million square feet and capabilities from light-industrial to manufacturing, as well as amenity space and conveniences for workers. Lovett plans to break ground in first-quarter 2024. Once completed, Enterprise Logistics Park will be the largest speculative industrial park developed on the I-64 corridor between Norfolk and Richmond, according to Lovett. Geoff Poston and Ellis Colthorpe of Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer will handle marketing and leasing efforts at the park.