FORT WORTH, TEXAS — San Francisco-based intermediary Gantry has arranged a $60 million loan for the refinancing of a 1.4 million-square-foot industrial building in Fort Worth. An undisclosed insurance company provided the loan, which was structured with a fixed interest rate, interest-only payments and two one-year extensions. George Mitsanas, Tim Storey and Chad Metzger led the transaction for Gantry. The borrower was also not disclosed. The building was fully leased at the time of sale to a toy company.
WILMER, TEXAS — Alta Warehousing & Logistics has signed a 392,066-square-foot industrial lease in Wilmer, a southern suburb of Dallas. The California-based freight and storage operator will occupy the entirety of Building 2 at Port 45, a development that spans 568,868 square feet across two front-load buildings. James Friedrich of Cresa represented Alta in the lease negotiations. Ben Wallace of Colliers represented the landlord, Griffin Partners.
PASADENA, TEXAS — Local brokerage firm Finial Group has negotiated a 24,150-square-foot industrial lease in Pasadena, an eastern suburb of Houston. The tenant is Paton Engineers & Constructors, and the space is located within the building at 218 N. Preston Ave., which according to LoopNet Inc. was completed in 2018. Jason Gibbons and Tyler Holt of Finial Group represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations.
MEDFORD, MASS. — Locally based owner-operator The Davis Cos. has sold a 922-unit self-storage facility in Medford, a northern suburb of Boston. Davis acquired the facility at 970 Fellsway, which spans 80,995 net rentable square feet, in 2019 and subsequently implemented capital improvements, as well as a 297-unit expansion. Extra Space Storage operates the facility, which was 84 percent occupied at the time of sale. The buyer was a joint venture between Invesco Real Estate and Baranof Holdings.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Averitt, a transportation and supply chain management company based in Cookeville, Tenn., has announced plans to develop a regional logistics campus near Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Charlotte Business Journal reports that the freight company is investing $200 million for the 100-acre campus. The development will include two distribution centers totaling more than 500,000 square feet; a 75,000-square-foot cross-dock facility; a two-story regional office totaling 16,000 square feet; and parking for more than 400 trailers. The campus will also offer fleet maintenance, fueling and driver support facilities. The investment is expected to double Averitt’s Charlotte area workforce over the next four years and will replace its current 40,000-square-foot service center at 3708 Westinghouse Blvd. that houses 182 full-time associates. Construction on the new campus is expected to begin immediately and wrap up in 2028.
SOUTH WINDSOR, CONN. — Webster Bank has provided a $33.2 million loan for the refinancing of a 315,000-square-foot industrial property in South Windsor, located northeast of Hartford. The distribution building at 456 Sullivan Ave. features a clear height of 31.5 feet and was fully leased at the time of the loan closing to a single tenant. Christopher Kramer, Christopher Lozniak, Ryan Bub and Jack Fenton of Newmark arranged the loan on behalf of the owner, Metropolitan Realty Associates.
LOS ANGELES — IPA Capital Markets, a division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged $116.5 million in financing for the development of a 1.4 million-square-foot industrial property in the Pacific Northwest. Gary Mozer and Lee Norman of IPA secured the financing on behalf of a national real estate development investment firm specializing in the acquisition, development and management of commercial real estate. “The credit nature of the tenant allowed us to secure 95 percent loan-to-cost financing at a five-year, fixed rate of 5.28 percent,” said Mozer. “The loan includes yield maintenance prepayment terms, with the final six months open with no prepayment penalty.”
By Taylor Williams Defined by Gemini as “the division of a system, structure or entity into two distinct branches or parts,” the term “bifurcation” is coming up more frequently in the context of industrial development in Texas — a sort of umbrella term for the process of establishing new subcategories of the property type. The past seven or so years have constituted one of the most massive industrial building booms in modern history. Like matches and gasoline, Americans’ newfound obsession with e-commerce paired with unimaginably low interest rates for much of that time, sparking an all-out industrial development and leasing mania. Capital flowed into the sector with insatiable appetite, eventually forcing yield-chasers to devise new means of unlocking value within the space lest they cannibalize each other. Of course, even before e-commerce irrevocably changed the way Americans shop and allowed industrial real estate to ascend as an institutionalized asset class, functional differences were recognized between manufacturing and distribution facilities, or between pure-play industrial and flex buildings. Investors understood the relative differences in how these subcategories of industrial product were built, operated and valued. And in terms of development, at the most basic level, the size of a building has always …
HOUSTON — Locally based brokerage firm Oxford Partners has arranged an 11,057-square-foot industrial lease in northwest Houston. According to LoopNet Inc., the building at 13805 West Road was completed in 2000 and totals 61,600 square feet. Nathan Buckhoff of Oxford Partners represented the tenant, medical supplies provider Arpovo Health, in the lease negotiations. Jack Rathe and Brandon Preece of Stream Realty Partners represented the landlord, an entity doing business as Westland EPA LLC.
BOSTON — Locally based owner-operator The Davis Cos. has sold a 491-unit self-storage facility in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood. Davis acquired the facility at 235 N. Beacon St., which spans 28,885 net rentable square feet, in April 2018 and subsequently implemented capital improvements, as well as a 56-unit, second-story expansion. Extra Space Storage operates the facility, which was 90 percent occupied at the time of sale. The buyer was a joint venture between Invesco Real Estate and Baranof Holdings.
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