CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Dogwood Industrial Properties has signed two industrial leases totaling 90,180 square feet at 5130 Hovis Road in Charlotte. An undisclosed Fortune 500 company signed a 66,430-square-foot lease and Plazit Polygal signed a 23,750-square-foot lease. Dogwood Industrial Properties acquired the 166,980-square-foot property in November when it was 34 percent leased. With the recent signings, the building is now fully occupied. The asset sits on seven acres two miles from Interstate 85 and four miles from I-77. The property features a fenced truck court, 20-foot clear ceiling height, new ESFR sprinklers and an existing CSX rail spur with rail doors. Plazit Polygal North America specializes in manufacturing thermoplastic sheets. Matt Treble, Eric Ridlehoover and Patrick McGrath of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord in the transaction.
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EL PASO, TEXAS — CBRE has brokered the sale of an 18,540-square-foot industrial building located at 1525 Magoffin Ave. in El Paso. According to LoopNet Inc., the single-tenant property was built in 1950. Chad McCleskey with CBRE’s El Paso represented the seller, Lanestone LLC, in the transaction. Ricardo Fernandez, also with CBRE, represented the buyer, Marivani LLC, which is expanding into a larger space for its commercial equipment sales business.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Local real estate development firm NorthPoint Development has launched Beyond Brokerage, a commercial real estate advisory firm. The brokerage will service the office, retail, industrial, land and multifamily sectors with experience in leasing, sales, site selection, consulting and investment transactions. NorthPoint began as a developer specializing in industrial and multifamily. Since its inception in 2012, the firm has grown to a family of seven companies spanning several industries.
RIVERSIDE, CALIF. — PGIM Real Estate has secured $66 million in acquisition financing for an industrial facility located at 6275 Lance Drive in Riverside. The fixed-rate loan features and eight-year term and was arranged on behalf of the undisclosed borrower, for which TA Realty provides investment advisory services. Situated on 47 acres in California’s Inland Empire, the 1 million-square-foot Class A property is fully leased to an investment-grade tenant in the healthcare industry as of January 2020 through a 10.5-year, triple-net lease. The facility features a 36-foot clear height, truck courts ranging from 140 feet to 185 feet in depth, 147 cross-dock high doors, 11,400 square feet of office space and 355 surface parking spaces. Brett Ulrich of PGIM Real Estate led the transaction for PGIM, while Val Achtemeier of CBRE’s Debt & Structured Finance Group brokered the financing for the borrower.
CBRE|Raleigh Negotiates 93,685 SF Industrial Lease Near Durham for Furniture Company
by Alex Tostado
BUTNER, N.C. — CBRE|Raleigh has negotiated the 93,685-square-foot industrial lease for Nugget, a manufacturer specializing in creating furniture that can be transformed into entertainment for children. The property, Falls Lake II, is situated at 200 Business Park Drive, 14 miles north of downtown Durham and less than one mile from Interstate 85. Austin Nagy of CBRE|Raleigh represented the tenant in the transaction. Foundry Commercial represented the landlord, NWI Butner LP.
DALLAS — Over the next eight weeks, Amazon plans to hire approximately 1,500 people in preparation for opening its 2.3 million-square-foot fulfillment center at 1301 Chalk Hill Road, located approximately seven miles west of downtown Dallas. The facility is expected to be fully operational by May 31. Last fall, The Dallas Morning News reported that Amazon had signed a 20-year lease at the 101-acre facility, which had recently been acquired by Toronto-based Granite REIT. The property features 41-foot clear heights, 2,500 auto parking spaces and 300 trailer parking spaces. As the largest e-commerce firm in the world, Amazon is investing more than $800 million in the establishment of safety measures like temperature checks, enhanced cleanings, sanitation stations and onsite testing for COVID-19.
IRVING, TEXAS — JLL has arranged an undisclosed amount of construction financing for DFW Park 161, an industrial project near DFW International Airport in Irving that will eventually total more than 2.4 million square feet. The development team, a partnership between Invesco Real Estate and Perot Development Co., broke ground in late February on Phase I of the 196-acre project, which will feature about 1 million square feet of speculative space. DFW Park 161 will ultimately consist of four Class A buildings with cross-dock configurations, 32- to 40-foot clear heights and a total of 383 trailer parking spaces. Stephen Bailey, Dustin Volz and John Rose of JLL arranged the five-year construction loan on behalf of the development team.
Dermody Properties Acquires 172,445 SF Goodrick Logistics Center in Richmond, California
by Amy Works
RICHMOND, CALIF. — Dermody Properties has purchased Goodrick Logistics Center, a two-building, 172,445-square-foot e-commerce and distribution facility located at 2589 and 2593 Goodrick Ave. in Richmond. Terms of the transaction, including the name of seller and acquisition price, were not released. The property at 2589 Goodrick Ave. is currently available for lease and can accommodate one to three tenants ranging in size from 15,000 square feet to 57,872 square feet. An international mattress distributor occupies the entire facility at 2593 Goodrick Ave. Built in 2018, 2589 Goodrick Avenue features 24-foot clear height, 10 drive-in doors, 75-foot by 65-foot column spacing, LED warehousing lighting and an ESFR fire protection system. Mark Detmer, Bo Mills and Ryan Sitov of JLL represented Dermody Properties in the sale. Jason Ovadia, Patrick Metzger, Eddie Shuai and Mike Murray, also of JLL, will handle leasing for the property.
LINCOLNSHIRE, ILL. — Premier Design + Build Group has completed a tenant buildout for Probat, a global manufacturer of industrial coffee processing equipment. Probat’s new space occupies approximately 118,000 square feet of a new industrial building located at 325 Marriott Drive in Lincolnshire. Premier’s team completed design and construction of the 186,616-square-foot building last year. The property features a clear height of 36 feet and 14 exterior truck docks. Harris Architects Inc. was the project architect. Jim Woldenberg owns the building.
The southeastern Wisconsin industrial real estate market had a banner year in 2019 and remains strong. According to Catalyst, the industrial market in southeastern Wisconsin had a vacancy rate of approximately 4 percent at the end of 2019 and that rate has moved down slightly to 3.9 percent during the first quarter of 2020. This rate is well below the historical vacancy rate in southeastern Wisconsin, which averages between 7 and 9 percent. Several submarkets are significantly lower than the southeastern Wisconsin average: Racine, where the massive Foxconn project is underway, has a 3.8 percent vacancy rate; the large Waukesha submarket, which has nearly 83 million square feet of inventory, has a vacancy rate of 1.9 percent; and the Sheboygan submarket, which has about 27 million square feet of industrial space, has an astonishing 0.1 percent vacancy rate. These extraordinarily low vacancy rates suggest that demand for industrial space in southeastern Wisconsin remains very robust and that, particularly in certain submarkets, supply has not been able to keep up with demand. While lease rates have remained fairly steady throughout the last year, upward pressure on such rates continues to build. Nevertheless, there are some signs of the market taking a …