BRASELTON, GA. — Lee & Associates’ Atlanta office has arranged a 589,680-square-foot industrial lease at Park 85 Business Park in Braselton. Billy Snowden, Rick Tumlin and Mike Sutter of Lee & Associates represented the tenant, California-based Comptree Inc., in the lease transaction. Bob Currie, Brad Pope and Reed Davis of JLL represented the landlord, Los Angeles-based CBRE Global Investors. The newly built facility is located at 1380 Jesse Cronic Road in Atlanta’s I-85 Northeast submarket. This is the third Atlanta facility for Comptree, which specializes in the acquisition and distribution of furniture, outdoor accessories and printer media. The company supports e-commerce via websites Meritline and ABCink.
MCKINNEY, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has negotiated two industrial leases totaling 91,992 square feet at McKinney Trade Center, an industrial development by ML Realty that is located on 24 acres in the northern Dallas suburb of McKinney. Blount Fine Foods Corp. preleased 28,212 square feet, and L&S Plumbing Partnership Ltd. preleased 63,780 square feet. Adam Graham and Ken Wesson of Lee & Associates represented ML Realty in both sets of lease negotiations. Brett Lewis of Lee & Associates represented Blount Fine Foods, and Kent Smith and Stephen Cooper of NAI Robert Lynn represented L&S Plumbing.
BARTLETT, ILL. — Lee & Associates has arranged the sale of a newly constructed, 207,575-square-foot industrial building located at 1560 W. Stearns Road in Bartlett. The sales price was undisclosed. Situated in DuPage County’s Brewster Creek Logistics Park, the property features a clear height of 32 feet, 28 dock doors and parking for 246 cars. Mark Baumhart of Lee & Associates represented the buyer, Platinum Converting, a provider of finishing services to the print and graphic arts industry. Platinum plans to relocate from its Itasca facility this summer. Adam Marshall and Mark Deady of Newmark represented the seller, Logistics Property Co.
BENSENVILLE AND WOOD DALE, ILL. — Lee & Associates has negotiated four industrial leases totaling 178,978 square feet in suburban Chicago. Chris Nelson, Jeff Janda and Michael Plumb of the brokerage represented owner Prologis on a lease of 92,000 square feet at 491 Supreme Drive in Bensenville. David Haigh of NAI Hiffman represented the tenant, Expo Lanka USA LLC. Next, Nelson and Calvin Gunn of Lee & Associates represented tenant Hoson Logistics on its lease of 47,379 square feet at 472 Thomas Drive in Bensenville. Sam Durkin of JLL represented the owner, Link Logistics Real Estate. In the third deal, American Distributors leased 30,226 square feet at 1049 Industrial Drive in Bensenville. Brad Simousek and Michael Plumb of Lee & Associates represented the undisclosed landlord. Last, Simousek represented Dental Health Products in its lease of 9,373 square feet at 1371 N. Wood Dale Road in Wood Dale. Hamilton Partners owns the building.
HOUSTON — Lee & Associates has brokered the $56.8 million sale of a 383,750-square-foot industrial building located at 8017 Breen Drive in northwest Houston. The sales price equates to approximately $148 per square foot. The building is fully leased to locally based oilfield services firm National Oilwell Varco (NOV) on a triple-net basis. John Berger and Mauricio Olaiz of Lee & Associates represented the buyer in the deal. Colliers International represented the seller.
The situation is a familiar one from the past year: 2020 changed a banner year full of promise into a difficult scenario full of fear and challenges. Jeffrey Rinkov, CEO and chairman of the board at Lee & Associates reflects on how his company took an emphasis on technology and communications infrastructure and used the past year as a time for reflection and a period to promote growth and client engagement. He also discussed trends he’s seeing for the future, the lessons he’s learned from a most unusual year and why he’s feeling optimistic for 2021. Focusing on Clients from the Start It’s hard to believe that less than one year ago, Rinkov’s team was experiencing an industry-wide high of momentum with massive pipelines and robust capital. What happened when the unthinkable came to pass? Rinkov explains that the executive leadership team at Lee & Associates took a moment in the early chaos to pause and evaluate what was critical, “Employee and agent safety, client connectivity and how we could deploy resources throughout our platform in a completely different way to support our agents and their client pursuits and interactions.” Tech savvy, hours of leadership phone calls and ingrained communication …
BURLINGTON, N.J. — Lee & Associates has brokered the $110.5 million sale of a 116.8-acre industrial redevelopment site in the Southern New Jersey city of Burlington. The property currently houses a 1 million-square-foot warehouse that was previously occupied by the U.S. General Services Administration and will be decommissioned. The new ownership, a partnership between New York-based Clarion Partners and MRP Industrial, plans to build two Class A distribution centers on the site on a speculative basis. Bob Yoshimura, Joe Hill, Eric Mattson and Joe Hill Jr. of Lee & Associates represented the seller, Boston-based STAG Industrial, in the deal.
WILMINGTON, ILL. — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 500,000-square-foot, full-building industrial lease at 30260 Graaskamp Blvd. in Wilmington, about 60 miles southwest of Chicago. The new building is part of the Elion Logistics Park 55 in Will County. Walter Murhpy of Lee & Associates represented the tenant, Dynamic 3PL. Jeffrey Kapcheck and Jason Lev of CBRE represented the owner and developer, Elion Logistics Partners.
MILLS RIVER, N.C. — Collett Industrial has broken ground on a 90,720-square-foot logistics facility in Mills River. The property is being built on a build-to-suit basis for an undisclosed Fortune 500 retailer. ABC 13 News reports the site is located on School House Road, five miles from Interstate 26 and six miles from Asheville Regional Airport. Randall Bentley and Jordan Skellie of Lee & Associates secured the lease on behalf of the developer. Vannoy Construction is the general contractor for the asset, which is expected to deliver in summer 2021.
The ability to find debt and equity financing for acquisitions and new development has been deeply affected by the coronavirus. Heading into 2020, there was plenty of inexpensive capital available to real estate investors and developers. The once wide field of potential lenders has shrunk significantly over the past nine months. And as for equity availability, it will be important in the coming months to be patient and diligent. REBusinessOnline recently spoke with Gary Sopko, senior vice president – structured finance/investment sales of Lee & Associates and principal at Baden Advisors (an affiliate of Lee & Associates) via video conference about his company’s approach to investment sales, debt financing and equity placement for commercial real estate clients in the midst of an unprecedented year. Sopko interprets what the lower loan volume across the board means for the commercial real estate industry, trends he’s seeing and his role in educating borrowers/clients on how to navigate this challenging time. Changing Lender Pools At the start of the pandemic, a variety of lenders were still ready, willing and able to lend; however, as the pandemic continued and shutdowns spread, the lender pool shrunk. Many private debt funds had to suspend lending for a …