MORRISTOWN, N.J. — A partnership between global investment management firm Nuveen Real Estate and New York City-based Taconic Partners has acquired a 296,000-square-foot warehouse in the Northern New Jersey community of Morristown for $55 million. The property was built on 17 acres in 1986 and was fully leased at the time of sale. Cushman & Wakefield brokered the deal. The seller was not disclosed.
BILLERICA, MASS. — CBRE has negotiated the $23.7 million sale of a 91,649-square-foot industrial building located in the northern Boston suburb of Billerica. The property features a clear height of 26 feet and 268 parking spaces. Scott Dragos, Chris Skeffington, Doug Jacoby, Anthony Hayes, Roy Sandeman, Tim Mulhall and Dan Hines of CBRE represented the seller, The RAM Cos., in the transaction. The buyer was locally based investment firm The Davis Cos.
DALLAS — Zuri Furniture, which specializes in outfitting homes and offices, has signed a 270,686-square-foot, full-building industrial lease at 601 Tittle Drive in Dallas. The space is under construction within the 1,700-acre Austin Ranch master-planned development on the city’s north side and is expected to be available for occupancy by March 1. Chad Albert of NAI Robert Lynn represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. George Billingsley represented the landlord, locally based developer Billingsley Co., on an internal basis.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — CBRE has negotiated the sale of Mercantile Distribution Center 40, a 182,500-square-foot industrial property in Fort Worth. New Jersey-based Faropoint purchased the property from Austin-based Marbella Interests LLC for an undisclosed price. Randy Baird, Jonathan Bryan, Ryan Thornton and Eliza Bachhuber of CBRE brokered the deal on behalf of the seller. Mercantile Distribution Center 40 was fully leased to a single, unnamed tenant at the time of sale.
HOBOKEN, N.J. — Locally based investment firm Faropoint has acquired a portfolio of 10 industrial buildings totaling 654,633 square feet in Northern New Jersey for $132.5 million. The portfolio was 98 percent leased at the time of sale. Four of the properties are located in Whippany, and four are located in Oakland. The other two are located in Fair Lawn. Marc Duval, Jose Cruz, Michael Oliver, Jordan Avanzato and Nick Stefans of JLL represented the seller, Kushner Cos., in the transaction. Faropoint will implement a capital improvement program that will include fresh paint jobs, replaced roofs and new lighting and sustainable features.
DAYTON, N.J. — Chicago-based investment firm CenterPoint Properties has purchased a 198,000-square-foot warehouse in the Northern New Jersey community of Dayton. The property sits on a 14-acre site and features a clear height of 31 feet and a separate two-acre parking lot. Bunny Escava and Isaac Setton of Kassin Sabbagh Realty brokered the transaction. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
WOBURN, MASS. — CBRE has negotiated the $18 million sale of a 66,225-square-foot industrial building in the northern Boston suburb of Woburn. The building is located at 225 Wildwood Ave. and features clear heights of 17.5 to 23 feet. Scott Dragos, Chris Skeffington, Doug Jacoby, Anthony Hayes, Roy Sandeman, Tim Mulhall, and Dan Hines of CBRE represented the seller, GFI Partners, in the transaction. The buyer was San Francisco-based Berkeley Partners.
CHAFFEE, MO. — NewLake Capital Partners Inc. has purchased a 70,000-square-foot cannabis cultivation and processing facility in the southeastern Missouri town of Chaffee. NewLake’s total investment in the property will be $21.1 million, which includes $16 million at closing and a $5.1 million commitment to fund tenant improvement allowances and building renovations. Organic Remedies is the tenant.
AUBURN, WASH. — Fortress Investment has acquired a seven-acre industrial property in Auburn from MK Holdings for $22 million in an off-market transaction. Matt Murray and Matt McLennan of Kidder Mathews brokered the deal. Located at 904 W. Main St., the land includes a 24,000-square-foot building. Utility Trailer Sales of Washington Co. occupies the property.
NEW YORK CITY AND DALLAS — CBRE Investment Management has agreed to acquire a portfolio of logistics real estate assets in the United States and Europe from Hillwood Investment Properties, an industrial developer and owner based in Dallas. Under terms of the $4.9 billion acquisition agreement, affiliates of New York City-based CBRE Investment Management will purchase the 57-property, 28.4 million-square-foot portfolio from Hillwood. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, and CBRE Investment Management expects to close on the assets in stages. The portfolio includes 33 properties in the United States totaling 19.2 million square feet and 24 assets in Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom totaling 9.2 million square feet. “This milestone transaction reflects our ability to leverage the strong financial capacity of our parent company to secure compelling opportunities that help to drive strategic real assets solutions for our clients,” says Chuck Leitner, CEO of CBRE Investment Management. “Backed by a $35 billion AUM global logistics platform and a skilled team with deep domain expertise, we are positioned to be one of the world’s leading investors and operators of logistics assets.” The portfolio is one of several multi-market portfolio transactions in the industrial sector in the past …