LOS ANGELES AND RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, CALIF. — Rexford Industrial Realty has purchased two industrial properties for a combined total of $30.3 million. The acquisitions were funded using cash on hand. The company acquired a single-tenant industrial building, located at 15835 Oxnard St. in Los Angeles for $16.8 million, or $235 per square foot, in an off-market transaction. Situated in the Van Nuys neighborhood, the 71,467-square-foot building features 24-foot clear heights and 1,000 feet of freeway frontage along the Interstate 405 and substantive excess paved lane. Rexford also purchased a low-coverage building, located at 19100 S. Susana Road in Rancho Dominguez, for $13.5 million, or $77 per land square foot, in an off-market transaction. Situated on four acres, the 52,630-square-foot property features 24 dock-high loading positions, excess land for trailer storage and Interstate 710 freeway frontage. At the time of sale, the property was fully leased to a regional logistics operator.
KENT, WASH. — Bridge Development Partners has purchased a 4.7-acre development site, located at 26524 79th Ave. in Kent, from an independent seller for an undisclosed price. Bridge Development plans to construct Bridge Point Kent 100, a 97,522-square-foot industrial facility, on the site. Slated for delivery in first-quarter 2020, the facility will feature 30-foot clear ceiling heights, 14 dock-high doors, two grade-level doors, flexible size configurations and an ESFR sprinkler system. Steve Brunette, Shawn Childs and Andrew Stark of CBRE represented Bridge in the acquisition. Childs and Stark will serve as leasing agents for the property.
Businesses and industries whose supply chains are tied to Port Houston are dealing with tariffs on select imports, volatile energy markets and a one-two punch of rising rents and construction costs for any industrial space they want to lease or have developed for them. But based on the performance of Houston’s nearby Southeast industrial submarket, these larger geopolitical and economic forces are wreaking minimal havoc. An increasingly diverse mix of industrial users has landed in Houston over the past five or so years. These tenants include national retailers and third-party logistics (3PL) firms that see Houston as an emerging regional distribution hub, as well as suppliers of durable consumer goods and companies that service the petrochemicals industry. The port submarket is seeing heightened activity from all of the above. At the same time, the infrastructure within Port Houston has expanded. Ship channels are in the process of being deepened and widened. Special equipment has been introduced that allows overweight containers to safely and legally leave the port and hit the roadways. Demand for rail-served properties is growing, particularly on the north side of the Houston Ship Channel, leading to more of those projects. And Harris County has begun work on …
TORONTO — Dallas led the nation in construction and absorption of industrial space between the beginning of the second quarter of 2018 and the end of the first quarter of 2019, according to a new report from Toronto-based Avison Young. While Dallas technically finished behind Los Angeles as the No. 2 city in completions of industrial projects over the last 12 months, the city took the gold medal for total space under construction at 30.9 million square feet. In addition, Dallas claimed the top spot for industrial absorption during this period, with positive net absorption of 23.4 million square feet. As such, the report pegged the city’s industrial vacancy rate at a healthy 6.8 percent. The report also cited the growth of e-commerce and demand for last-mile logistics services as the principal drivers of industrial growth, and noted that a total of 272 million square feet of new space was completed across 46 markets during the past 12 months. Philadelphia, the Inland Empire (California), Atlanta and Chicago rounded out the Top 5 with regard to space under construction.
BARRINGTON, N.J. — Boston-based commercial lender Tremont Mortgage Trust has provided a $37.6 million first mortgage bridge loan for the acquisition of Barrington Business Center, a 931,682-square-foot industrial facility located in Barrington, just south of Philadelphia. The multi-tenant property offers convenient access to I-295 and the New Jersey Turnpike, 30- to 34-foot clear heights and was approximately 94 percent occupied at the time of the loan closing. The floating-rate financing includes $34.9 million in initial funding and a future funding allowance of $2.7 million for property improvements and leasing capital. The loan is structured with a 79 percent loan-to-value ratio and a three-year term with a one-year borrower extension option. The borrower was not disclosed.
HINGHAM, MASS. — Boston-based mortgage banking firm EagleBridge Capital has arranged $2.1 million in acquisition financing for a 23,600-square-foot industrial building located at 80 Sharp St. in Hingham, a southern suburb of Boston. The borrower, Yankee Trader Seafood, which prepares and sells frozen prepackaged seafood meals, will occupy and renovate the space. Ted Sidel of EagleBridge Capital secured the loan, specific terms of which were not disclosed, through a Massachusetts thrift institution.
CUDAHY, WIS. — Menasha Packaging Co. has renewed its 113,778-square-foot industrial lease in Cudahy, about seven miles south of Milwaukee. The property is located at 6185 S. Ace Industrial Drive. Bill Langhoff of Colliers International brokered the lease transaction. The landlord was not disclosed. Menasha Packaging is an independent, retail-focused packaging and merchandising solutions provider.
ATLANTA — Broadrange Logistics, a third-party logistics provider, has signed a full-building industrial lease for 408,600 square feet in Atlanta’s Fulton Industrial submarket. The Atlanta-based firm offers air, ocean, trucking and warehouse logistics services to several major companies including Amazon, Wayfair, Drive Medical, SP Richards and Smith Cooper. The facility is located at 105 Kendall Park Lane, 13 miles west of Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and 16 miles west of downtown Atlanta. Bob Robers and Brian Monaghan of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant in the lease transaction. LaSalle Investment Management is the landlord. Brian Alcorn of Cushman & Wakefield will oversee build-out of the space, though details of the build-out were not disclosed.
MIAMI LAKES, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged a 192,454-square-foot warehouse and distribution lease renewal for Miami International Freight Solutions (MIFS) in Miami Lakes. MIFS fully occupies the facility, which is situated at 14100 NW 60th Ave. in Miami Lakes Business Park East, 10 miles north of Miami International Airport. The property was built in 1971 and sits on 13.2 acres. It offers numerous loading points, 10,000 square feet of executive offices and a fully secured truck staging and storage yard. Wayne Ramoski and Gian Rodriguez of Cushman & Wakefield represented MIFS in the lease negotiations. Carlos Velasquez and Rene Vivo of The Vivo Group represented the landlord, San Francisco-based Terreno Realty Corp.
KNIGHTDALE, N.C. — CBRE|Raleigh has arranged the $14.3 million sale of Eastgate 540, a 30-acre industrial site in Knightdale. The property houses a 150,000-square-foot industrial building with room for an additional 150,000-square-foot building on the parcel. Francini Marble occupied a portion of the existing building at the time of the sale. Eastgate 540 is situated at the intersection of Hodge Road and Spectrum Drive, 10 miles east of downtown Raleigh. Chester F. Allen, Barry Bowling, Carlton Midyette III and Tiffany Hilburn of CBRE|Raleigh represented the buyer, Trinity Capital, in the transaction. Scannell Properties was the seller.