DALLAS — Taylor Communications Inc. has signed a 241,931-square-foot industrial lease renewal in South Dallas. The provider of commercial printing and branding services will remain a tenant at Stoneridge 9, a building located at 8700 Autobahn Drive that according to LoopNet Inc. was completed in 1999 and totals 372,610 square feet. Scott Gredler of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. John Gorman and Canon Shoults of Holt Lunsford Commercial represented the landlord, TA Realty.
TAMPA, FLA. — New York City-based GTIS Partners has acquired approximately 116 acres in Tampa to develop 4Ward Logistics Center, an industrial development that will span 382,500 square feet across two rear-load distribution buildings. Situated near I-4 in the East Tampa submarket, the site benefits from two nearby interchange access points, providing immediate access to local and regional logistics corridors, as well as direct connectivity to Port Tampa Bay. 4Ward Logistics Center is expected to be delivered in the second half of 2027. JLL will handle leasing and marketing for the project.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged the sale of 8000 Baymeadows Way, a 458,617-square-foot office campus located in Jacksonville’s Butler/Baymeadows submarket. Robbie McEwan, Tucker Brooks, Hunter Smith, Jesse Jones and Jesse Shimp of JLL represented the undisclosed seller and procured the buyer, Orlando-based Foundry Commercial. J. Paul Reynolds represented Foundry Commercial in the transaction. The sales price was also not disclosed. 8000 Baymeadows Way spans five buildings and previously served as an office campus. Foundry Commercial plans to redevelop the property.
CHASKA, MINN. — Peavey Road Partners LLC has purchased a 42,886-square-foot industrial property at 4024 Peavey Road in Chaska for $3.1 million. The buyer plans to position the site for one of Minnesota’s first “mezzobusiness” cannabis cultivation, manufacturing and retail operations. The tenant will be Blom Inc., a Minnesota-based cannabis company pursuing a mezzobusiness license, the state’s most vertically integrated license type that allows for cultivation, manufacturing, processing, packaging and retail operations within a single platform. United Prairie Bank provided acquisition financing for the transaction. In addition, Peavey Road Partners plans to invest approximately $4 million for building improvements to convert the former industrial facility into a state-compliant cultivation and retail operation. Kai Thomsen, principal at Lee & Associates Twin Cities, and Wade Shatzer of Equimax created Peavey Road Partners to address the unique real estate and capital challenges specific to Minnesota’s cannabis industry. Hudson Brothen of Cushman & Wakefield represneted the seller of the property, Highland Development.
ATLANTA — Atlanta-based investment and development firm MDH Partners has received $195.9 million in financing for a portfolio of seven industrial buildings totaling approximately 1.6 million square feet, three of which are located in the northern Dallas metro of Carrollton. The other four buildings are located in Salt Lake City, Chino, Calif. and Murfreesboro, Tenn. Capital One provided the financing. The portfolio was 91 percent leased at the time of sale.
LOCKPORT, ILL. — Core Industrial Realty has arranged the sale of a 120,000-square-foot industrial building in Lockport. The single-tenant building is fully leased to a company in the specialty plastics industry. Constructed in 2000, the property features 8,000 square feet of office space, 11 exterior loading docks, ceiling heights of 26 and 30 feet, over 5,000 amps of power a heavy crane system throughout. Matthew Lee and Nick Krejci of Core represented the buyer, TradeLane Properties.
By Jesse Tollison, Transwestern When analyzing the Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) metro area, urbanicity plays a deep role in understanding the opportunities for making a significant impact and profit in the commercial real estate markets. This is not a story unique to Minnesota’s largest metropolitan area, where roughly half of the state’s inhabitants live, but MSP serves as an illuminating case study as to how widely opportunity can vary between urban and suburban markets. Indeed, many areas across the country exhibit stark differences between their urban and suburban commercial real estate markets, but those differences cannot be uniformly applied to each metro. The qualitative and quantitative analysis of local minutiae lends tremendous insight when evaluating opportunities. Developers, investors, tenants, brokers and every other player in the commercial real estate world are paying close attention to the diverging urban and suburban trends as they assess the market for opportunities. In such a fragmented market, decision-makers are using more data than ever to inform their strategies. High-level views aren’t enough to benchmark a property’s performance, and it’s important to understand the localized trends when evaluating an opportunity. Industrial history As the historical industrial hub of Minnesota, the Twin Cities’ urban core has many …
RICHMOND, VA. — A joint venture between Lingerfelt and Partners Group has sold a nearly 1.2 million-square-foot industrial portfolio in metro Richmond for $175 million. JLL represented the joint venture in the transaction. The buyer was not disclosed. The portfolio includes three buildings within Walthall Distribution Center in South Chesterfield, Va., and one building within Northlake Distribution Center in Ashland, Va. Lingerfelt and Partners Group acquired the portfolio in March 2023 for $105.6 million, with Partners Group as the majority investor in the joint venture. The partnership invested $9 million in capital improvements into the portfolio and executed 875,000 square feet of new leases and lease renewals during its ownership period. Range Commercial Partners previously handled property management and leasing for the portfolio, which was fully leased at the time of sale.
HUDSON, MASS. — Local owner-operator National Development has received approval from the Town of Hudson, located west of Boston, for a 950,000-square-foot industrial conversion project. The 148-acre site at 75 Reed Road, which is located less than two miles from I-495 with direct access to the I-290 interchange, formerly housed the campus of chipmaker Intel. National Development acquired the property, which can support advanced manufacturing as well as warehouse and logistics uses, in late 2023. Construction is expected to commence upon National Development’s securing of an occupant.
MERIDEN, CONN. — UniUni Logistics Inc. has signed a 43,104-square-foot industrial lease in Meriden, located roughly midway between Hartford and New Haven. The space is located within the 119,775-square-foot building at 45 Gracey Ave. Mark Berkowitz of local brokerage firm O,R&L Commercial represented the landlord in the lease negotiations. Damon Bowers of Cushman & Wakefield represented UniUni Logistics.
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