HILLSIDE, ILL. — Brown Commercial Group has negotiated the sale of a 26,209-square-foot industrial building in Hillside, a western suburb of Chicago. The fully leased property is located at 500 N. Mannheim Road and was built in 1970. Pat Crowley of Brown represented the private buyer, while Jack Brown of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller. Further terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
LOUISVILLE, COLO. — Essex Financial Group has secured $7.9 million in financing for the acquisition of 1850 Dogwood, an industrial warehouse/production facility within Colorado Tech Center in Louisville. Ivy Realty is the borrower and buyer. Alternative Foods, a wholly owned subsidiary of Savencia Fromage & Dairy, fully occupies the 58,901-square-foot property. The company uses the property as a processing facility for plant-based foods. The facility features 20-foot clear heights, dock-high and drive-in doors, and infrastructure for the tenant’s food production and processing lines. Paul Donahue, Cooper Williams, Nate Schneider and Andrea Mehlem of Essex arranged the five-year, fixed-rate loan for the borrower.
SCHERTZ, TEXAS — Atlanta-based developer Ackerman & Co. has broken ground on Doerr Lane Logistics Center, a 307,000-square-foot industrial project in Schertz, a northeastern suburb of San Antonio. The Class A distribution center will feature 32-foot clear heights, 318 automobile parking spaces, 96 trailer parking spaces, an ESFR sprinkler system and two undeveloped acres for additional storage usage. Completion is slated for February 2023. NAI Partners has been tapped to lease the development.
DALTON, GA. — Atlanta-based Tamarack Investments has bought 1505 Coronet Drive, a vacant 212,740-square-foot warehouse in Dalton. David Nixon and Rob Kruer of CBRE represented the seller, Victory Carpet, and procured the buyer. The sales price was not disclosed. Built in 1996, the building features 31-foot clear heights, 50-foot by 60-foot column spacing, 25 dock positions and 6,000 square feet of open-plan offices with floor to ceiling glass. Extensive renovations are already underway on the building. Upon completion, the facility will become the new home of Florida-based Q.E.P. Co. Inc., a global provider of flooring and flooring installation solutions.
NORCROSS, GA. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged the sale of Plaza 85 Business Park, a nine-building industrial, office and flex park totaling 191,526 square feet in Norcross. Dennis Mitchell, Matt Wirth, Britton Burdette, Mitchell Townsend and Bo Osgood of JLL represented the seller, Atlanta-based Elmo Enterprises LLC. Dallas-based Westmount Realty Capital LLC purchased the park for an undisclosed price. Plaza 85 Business Park is leased to 43 tenants and includes clear heights ranging from 12 to 18 feet, dock-high and drive-in doors and a combination of rear- and front-loading configurations. Since acquiring the property in 2020, Elmo Enterprises executed a property improvement plan that resulted in exterior and interior upgrades, new roofs on some buildings and office space. Situated on 13.8 acres at 5970-6040 Unity Drive, the property has immediate access to Interstate 85.
BRISTOL, WIS. — HSA Commercial Real Estate has unveiled plans to build a new speculative industrial development totaling 1.3 million square feet near its existing Bristol Highlands Commerce Center East in Bristol, about 40 miles south of Milwaukee. The three-building project will be named Bristol Highlands Commerce Center West. HSA plans to start construction on the first 550,000-square-foot building in April with completion slated for July 2023. The two additional buildings will span 417,000 and 357,000 square feet. The project team consists of Partners in Design Architects, Premier Design + Build Group LLC and Pinnacle Engineering Group. CBRE will serve as leasing agent.
GLENDALE HEIGHTS, ILL. — Lee & Associates has negotiated a pair of industrial leases totaling 311,444 square feet in the Chicago suburb of Glendale Heights. Jeff Janda and Michael Plumb of Lee represented owner Link Logistics on two leases at neighboring properties. United Business Mail leased the 150,784-square-foot building at 101 Regency Drive, while a hardware company leased the 160,660-square-foot building at 500 Regency Drive. Steve Kohn of Avison Young represented United Business Mail, while Chris Lydon and Fort Richardson of Avison Young represented the hardware tenant.
By Randy Lacey, SIOR, senior vice president, CBRE | Oklahoma City; and Chris Zach, CPA, associate, CBRE | Oklahoma City Contrary to popular belief, the ongoing pandemic has been a boon to many aspects of the Oklahoma City economy. Industrial real estate growth has been more prominent than any other commercial sector. Those familiar with the city and surrounding area can vouch for the speed and intensity of housing demand and development, but industrial real estate has set itself apart over the last few years. OKC is Here to Stay Oklahoma City has a lot going for it. The market always has been well-positioned in terms of its central geographic location at the intersection of Interstates 35 and 40 and has seen tremendous growth and success in the last decade, with significant headway in the local industrial real estate market. The industry has proven its resiliency amid the pandemic and should continue to fare well into the future. But low costs of living and doing business have further bolstered the appeal of the community. In fact, Oklahoma City is only one of 14 cities across the country to add more than 100,000 people in the last 10 years, …
CONROE, TEXAS — SurePoint Self Storage will develop a 744-unit facility that will be located within Johnson Development’s Grand Central Park master-planned community in the northern Houston suburb of Conroe. CubeSmart will operate the facility, which will feature approximately 94,000 square feet of net rentable, climate-controlled space. Construction is scheduled to begin this fall and to be complete in May 2023. The facility will be SurePoint’s 14th self-storage development in the greater Houston area.
WATERLOO, IOWA — Hydrite Chemical plans to expand its facility in Waterloo that manufactures and distributes chemical products throughout the U.S. The City of Waterloo awarded tax benefits for the expansion project, which represents a $21 million capital investment over the next three years. Hydrite also plans to expand the facility’s transportation fleet and warehouse space. The project is expected to bring the workforce total to 158 employees at the Waterloo facility, which is the company’s only Iowa location and its largest property.