ITASCA AND ELMHURST, ILL. — Lee & Associates of Illinois has negotiated a pair of industrial lease renewals totaling 112,917 square feet in DuPage County. Jeff Janda and Mike Plumb of Lee & Associates represented tenant Atlas Wire in its lease of 54,690 square feet at 1601 Glenlake Ave. in Itasca. Building owner, Prologis, was self-represented. Janda also represented landlord DRA Advisors on a lease of 58,227 square feet at 951-953 Larch Ave. in Elmhurst. Kevin Segerson of CBRE represented the tenant, Closet Works.
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Lee & Associates has arranged a 255,000-square-foot industrial sublease in South Brunswick, about 50 miles south of New York City. According to LoopNet Inc., the 610,949-square-foot property at 301-321 Herrod Blvd. was built on 39.5 acres in 1998 and features a clear height of 27 feet and 119 parking spaces. Drew Maffey, Will Ziegler and Matt Esposito of Lee & Associates represented the subtenant, an undisclosed storage company, in the lease negotiations. Dave Saltzman, also with Lee & Associates, represented the sublandlord, which also requested anonymity.
MCCOOK, ILL. — Tru Vue, a manufacturer of glazing products for the custom picture framing, museum, photography, technical glass and acrylic markets, has renewed its 299,200-square-foot industrial lease at 9400 W. 55th St. in McCook, an industrial suburb of Chicago. Fischer and Co. and Tom Condon of Lee & Associates represented the tenant. Terry Grapenthin and Ryan Earley of Lee & Associates represented the owner, High Street Logistics Properties.
BROOKSHIRE, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 167,120-square-foot industrial lease in the western Houston suburb of Brookshire. The tenant, SOLogistics, has leased the entirety of Westside 10 Industrial Park, a front-load building that features 32-foot clear heights, 38 dock doors, two overheard doors, 145-foot truck court depths and parking for 227 cars and 15 trailers. Robert McGee, Taylor Schmidt and Austin Bartula of Lee & Associates represented the landlord, a partnership between Growth Capital Partners and Phelan Development Co., in the lease negotiations. Will Clay of JLL represented SOLogistics.
CARROLLTON, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 31,835-square-foot industrial sublease in the northern Dallas metro of Carrollton. According to LoopNet Inc., the property at 1215 W. Crosby Road was built in 2014 and totals 184,855 square feet. Corbin Blount and Adam Graham of Lee & Associates represented the sublessor, Grand Fusion Housewares LLC, in the lease negotiations. Mike Cleary, Bill Buntyn and Danny Stimson of Colliers represented the sublessee, Accelevation LLC.
BEDFORD PARK, ILL. — Food manufacturer Snyder’s-Lance Inc. has renewed its 72,956-square-foot industrial lease at 5025 W. 73rd St. in the Chicago suburb of Bedford Park. Jeff Janda and Brian Vanosky of Lee & Associates represented the undisclosed landlord. Sally Macoicz of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant.
GARLAND, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has brokered the sale of a 27,161-square-foot industrial building in the northeastern Dallas suburb of Garland. According to LoopNet Inc., the building at 2025 Wall St. was constructed on 1.4 acres in 2004 and features 18-foot clear heights. Taylor Stell and Brett Lewis of Lee & Associates represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyer was also not disclosed.
FLOWER MOUND, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has brokered the sale of an eight-acre industrial development site located at the corner of Lakeside Parkway and Gerault Road in Flower Mound, located in the northern-central part of the metroplex. Alex Wilson of Lee & Associates represented the buyer, Canadian firm Hopewell Development, in the transaction. The seller was an entity doing business as P3 FM Development LLC.
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Property Owners Recalibrate Expectations Following Financing Challenge, Shifting Vacancy Rates
High costs, modulating occupancies and a lack of financing options reshaped the industrial, office, retail and multifamily sectors in the fourth quarter of 2023, signaling the determining factors for 2024, according to Lee & Associates’ 2023 Q4 North America Market Report. The industrial sector saw stabilizing tenant demand — the number of new buildings delivered increased in the fourth quarter, while new construction starts slowed. Meanwhile, the office sector’s struggles deepened as more than half of the office leases signed pre-2020 approach their expiration by 2026. With low-rate loans maturing into a high-rate environment, the factors troubling the office sector seem insurmountable in this decade. In the retail market, low vacancies did not lead to booming construction in that sector in the last quarter of 2023 — financing costs plus land and labor costs have hampered new development in spite of high demand. Finally, the health of multifamily markets is tied closely to geography. Sun Belt multifamily properties and their Midwest and Northeastern market counterparts are seeing reversals from the multifamily trends of 2021: formerly fast-growing Sun Belt markets are experiencing slowed rent growth or rent decline, while rent growth for slower-growing, major North and Midwestern metros has grown steadily. Lee & Associates …
NEW YORK CITY — Lee & Associates has negotiated the $18.2 million sale of the Clock Tower Building, a 20,000-square-foot historic bank hall located at 46 Lafayette St. in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. Peter Braus, Brad Schwarz and Cory Gahr of Lee & Associates represented the seller, locally based investment firm Elad Group, in the transaction. Anne-Brigitte Sirois from ART STATE LLC represented the buyer, Jack Shainman Gallery, which plans to new art exhibition venue at the property.