WALPOLE, MASS. — JLL has brokered the $26 million sale of an 85,159-square-foot industrial building in Walpole, about 30 miles southwest of Boston. The building at 295 Union St. is home to tenants such as Tesla, Home Depot and Goodyear and features a clear height of 40 feet and 450 car parking spaces. Michael Restivo, David Coffman and Tommy Hovey of JLL represented the sellers, Casco Real Estate Partners and Berkeley Partners, in the transaction. The buyer was San Francisco-based investment firm Stockbridge.
BRISTOL, PA. — New Jersey-based investment firm Faropoint has purchased a 60,000-square-foot industrial flex building in Bristol, a northeastern suburb of Philadelphia. The building, which sits on a 4.7-acre site within Keystone Industrial Park and offers a clear height of 26 feet, has been occupied by Estee Lauder for 30 years. The seller was undisclosed. Jeff Licht and Jared Licht of NAI Mertz brokered the deal.
EDEN PRAIRIE, MINN. — Brisky Net Lease has brokered the $5.7 million sale-leaseback of an industrial property located at 7975 Wallace Road in the Twin Cities suburb of Eden Prairie. Max Mantey of Brisky represented the seller, 360 Wall Systems. The tenant has a new 10-year triple-net lease with zero landlord responsivities and annual rent increases. The primary tenant, 360 Wall Systems, occupies the majority of the building, complemented by Hagen Automotive, a subtenant that has occupied space for more than 30 years. 360 Wall Systems is a specialty contractor that has worked on apartment buildings, medical offices and industrial buildings in the Twin Cities.
DEERFIELD BEACH AND POMPANO BEACH, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the $55.4 million sale of The Broward Collection, a two-building industrial portfolio totaling 221,045 square feet in South Florida. The first property includes 1111 SW 30th Ave., a 158,000-square-foot distribution center in Deerfield Beach that is fully leased to an undisclosed e-commerce user. The second property, which is located at 1121-1141 N.W. 31st Ave. in Pompano Beach, totals 63,045 square feet and is fully leased to two tenants. Mike Davis, Dominic Montazemi, Rick Brugge, Rick Colon and Greg Miller of Cushman & Wakefield’s Industrial Advisory Group, along with Matthew McAllister and Christopher Thomson of the firm’s industrial leasing team, represented the seller, Elion Partners, in the transaction. EQT Exeter Real Estate was the buyer.
BESSEMER, ALA. — Range Light Investment Partners has acquired the former Mall at Westlake, a 323,000-square-foot shopping and dining destination located southwest of Birmingham in Bessemer, Ala. The Ohio-based investment firm plans to redevelop the property into an industrial flex complex that will be known as Marvel City Business Park. The former mall, which originally opened in 1969, permanently closed 40 years later in 2009 after retail activity migrated elsewhere, according to Range Light, leaving the property available for alternative purposes. “Shopping malls built from the 1960s through the 1990s were the distribution centers of that era,” says Pat Foran, founder of Range Light Investment Partners. “All of the features that made them great malls years ago are the same features light industrial and flex tenants are looking for today.” “There are many more tenants looking for 30,000 to 50,000 square feet than 300,000 to 500,000 square feet in the Birmingham area, and there are virtually no options for them,” adds Foran. “Marvel City Business Park will cater to those smaller bay-sized tenants that don’t need 36-foot-high ceilings and want more affordable rent than what the newer big box developments demand.” Situated on a 40-acre site at the intersection of interstates …
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — New Haven Cos. Inc., which sells and distributes high-quality moving equipment, has signed a 24,837-square-foot industrial lease in North Fort Worth. The space is located within Building 3 at Parc North, a 642,000-square-foot development by Mississippi-based REIT EastGroup Properties. Luke Clardy of Bradford Commercial Real Estate Services represented the tenant in the lease negotiations.
EAST SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of The Storage Mall, a 548-unit self-storage facility in East Syracuse. The site spans 7.5 acres and is situated adjacent to Syracuse International Airport, and the facility totals 57,775 net rentable square feet of space. Matt Junkin, Kevin Bledsoe and Jared Houck of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of which requested anonymity, in the transaction.
ARVADA, COLO. — Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors has brokered the $5 million sale of an industrial property located at 5335 Xenon St. in Arvada. The single-tenant property offers 15,975 square feet of industrial space. Mark Alley of Schneider Grimes Investment Services Group of Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors represented the undisclosed seller in the deal. The buyer was not released.
ELMHURST, ILL. — Elmhurst-based DarwinPW Realty/CORFAC International has arranged a $100 million loan for the refinancing of a 2.2 million-square-foot portfolio for Darwin Investment Group in metro Chicago. Wells Fargo provided the loan for the 40-building portfolio. The new loan structure and 50 percent loan-to-value ratio enables Darwin to acquire new buildings to add to the portfolio, according to Matthew Lewandowski, principal of DarwinPW Realty. Darwin Investment Group is a privately held real estate investment company that focuses on commercial real estate investments throughout Chicagoland. The firm last refinanced its portfolio in December 2015 when it was made up of 1.4 million square feet across 27 buildings. The current portfolio is home to more than 225 tenants across buildings from the south suburbs of Chicago to Southeast Wisconsin. Lewandowski, George Cibula, Erin Cibula and Patricia Liston of DarwinPW Realty worked on the transaction.
HOUSTON — Hines Global Investment Trust (HGIT), a real estate investment trust (REIT) sponsored by Houston-based global asset manager Hines, has acquired three industrial assets located on the East Coast for a total $309 million. The acquired properties include two distribution facilities situated within the Georgia International Trade Center (GITC) in the Savannah market and two warehouse/distribution facilities located in Upton Crossing, a warehouse campus in Wilmington, Mass. The Davis Cos., a real estate investment and development firm based in Boston, sold both assets, which total 2.5 million square feet. Additionally, HGIT acquired I-85 Logistics Center, an industrial property in the Greenville-Spartanburg metro in South Carolina’s Upstate region. The seller of I-85 Logistics Center was not disclosed. The properties in Savannah total 2.2 million square feet and were fully leased at the time of sale. A joint venture between Davis and Atlanta-based Stonemont Financial Group developed GITC, which comprises a total 7.7 million square feet of manufacturing and warehouse space across 10 buildings. The site is located roughly 10 miles from the Port of Savannah. Totaling 215,000 square feet, the properties at Upton Crossing in Wilmington were 81 percent leased at the time of acquisition. Davis acquired Upton Crossing in …