DALLAS — SRS Real Estate Partners, a full-service commercial real estate services firm based in Dallas, has launched an industrial division. Brant Landry, formerly of Landry Commercial Real Estate Services, will lead the Dallas-based SRS Industrial team comprising Joseph Cooper, Shannon Johnston, Dennis Sims, Lance Woodward and Stephanie Martin. Cooper, Johnston and Martin also join SRS from Landry Commercial. Sims was most recently with Mohr Partners Inc., while Woodward comes from Henry S. Miller Brokerage. SRS Industrial is also in the process of building teams in Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta and New York.
GASTON, S.C. — Columbia, S.C.-based Red Rock Developments has broken ground on a 497,952 square-foot facility in Gaston. Construction is slated for completion by the second quarter of 2023. The cross-dock property will be the first spec facility within Sandy Run Industrial Park, a 761-acre park that will ultimately span 5.9 million square feet, according to Red Rock. The first building will feature 36-foot clear heights and will be expandable to 663,836 square feet. Chuck Salley, Dave Matthews, Thomas Beard and John Peebles of Colliers will oversee leasing at the property. Located along Interstate 26, Sandy Run Industrial Park is situated near the Port of Charleston, an Amazon distribution center and Columbia Metropolitan Airport.
LUNENBERG, MASS. — A joint venture between The Brennan Group, John M. Corcoran & Co. and Berkeley Partners has broken ground on Lunenberg Central, a 372,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center in the northern central part of Massachusetts. The site offers proximity to Interstates 190 and 495. Building features will include a clear height of 36 feet, 71 dock doors, 402 car parking spots, 94 trailer parking stalls (expandable to 120) and build-to-suit office space. GMA Architects is designing the project, and ARCO National Construction is serving as the general contractor. Construction is slated to be complete in the first quarter of next year. CBRE arranged construction financing on behalf of the joint venture through Cambridge Savings Bank. Newmark will lease the facility.
LOS ANGELES — Lee & Associates LA North/Ventura has arranged the purchases of three multi-tenant industrial properties located in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles in two separate deals for the combined total of $21.4 million. Together the properties total 66,019 square feet. In the first transaction, Vineland Group Holdings sold a two-building asset at 6850 Vineland Ave. to LaTerra Development II LLC. Scott Caswell and Eric Balin of Lee & Associates LA North/Ventura represented the buyer. In the second deal, 625 South Pacific Avenue LLC acquired an industrial building at 13401-13431 Saticoy St. from Pine Investment Partners. Caswell and Balin represented the buyer, while Greg Barsamian of CBRE represented the seller in the deal.
EVERETT, WASH. — SecureSpace has purchased Stadium Storage, a self-storage facility located at 8407 Broadway Ave. in Everett. The buyer plans to rebrand the property as SecureSpace Everett. The four-story property offers 32,661 square feet of 100 percent climate-controlled units and 79 rentable parking spaces. Built in 2016, the property is 96 percent occupied. SecureSpace plans to expand the property to increase visibility of the 2.5-acre site. The newly rebranded property will offer free WiFi throughout and a contactless rental process. Terms of the transaction were not released.
PHOENIX — Creation RE, a Phoenix-based real estate investment and development firm, and J.P. Morgan Global Alternatives have created a joint venture with plans to invest $1 billion in industrial, warehouse and logistics real estate projects across four states. The partners have released plans to capitalize and develop seven projects, three of which have already closed and four in the pipeline. The properties total approximately 5 million square feet in Newmark, N.J.; Melville and Islandia, N.Y.; Fort Worth, Texas; and Chandler, Gilbert and Phoenix, Ariz.
VAN NUYS, CARSON, VERNON AND OCEANSIDE, CALIF. — New York-based New Mountain Capital has completed the disposition of four infill industrial properties in the Greater Los Angeles and San Diego County area to Rexford Industrial Realty for $65 million. Totaling 150,736 square feet, the four assets are located at: 14243 Bessemer St. in Van Nuys 17011, 17023 and 17027 S. Central Ave. in Carson 2970 East 50th St. in Vernon 2843 Benet Road in Oceanside Arctic Glacier Co. currently occupies all the properties, which are cold production and distribution facilities. Vincent Polce, Robert Bickel, Barbara Perrier, Eric Cox and Rebecca Perlmutter of CBRE represented the seller in the deal.
CARROLLTON, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 125,000-square-foot, full-building industrial lease at 2020 McDaniel Drive in the northern Dallas suburb of Carrollton. According to commercialcafé.com, the property was built on seven acres in 1981. Nathan Denton of Lee & Associates represented the tenant, BuzzBallz, a locally based provider of premixed alcoholic beverages, in the lease negotiations. Jeff Thornton of Duke Realty represented the landlord, Texas Dugan LP.
SOMERS, WIS. — Lee & Associates has negotiated the sale of 132 acres of land located at 1735 120th Ave. in Somers, about 30 miles south of Milwaukee. The sales price was undisclosed. The buyer, Becknell Industrial, plans to build Somers Logistics Center. The development will consist of a 795,471-square-foot speculative industrial building with a clear height of 40 feet, 148 loading docks and 184 trailer parking spaces. Completion is slated for the fourth quarter. Tom Boyle of Lee & Associates represented Becknell in its purchase from a private owner. Lee & Associates will also market the project for lease.
With each year that passes in the current cycle, industrial real estate, along with multifamily, becomes more deeply ingrained as a darling asset class among commercial developers, lenders and investors. For all the talk about Americans being social creatures, there remains a massive contingent of the population that, when it comes to shopping, overwhelmingly prefers the convenience and relative anonymity of e-commerce. What started out as pandemic-related justifications for buying goods online as opposed to in-person has given way to a full-fledged, tacit acknowledgement of a trend that was already in place prior to February 2020. As such, demand for facilities — not just traditional, pure-play industrial spaces — that can function as e-commerce fulfillment and distribution centers continues to skyrocket. This trend is even more pronounced in markets with surging populations like those of major Texas cities. Industrial brokers are the ones who see it all. These professionals talk to tenants about acute real estate needs that are critical to serving customers without accruing exorbitant transit costs. Brokers work with developers who must build and price their spaces in accordance with their own escalating cost structures for land and construction. The deals that industrial brokers execute form the backbone …