Industrial

THOMASTON, GA. — Brightmark LLC, a recycling solutions company based in San Francisco, has announced plans for a $950 million recycling facility project in Thomaston, about 65 miles south of Atlanta. Upon completion, the “circularity center” will comprise 2.5 million square feet with the capacity to repurpose 400,000 tons of plastic per year. According to the company, the project will create 200 advanced manufacturing jobs in the central Georgia area. Plans include a $20 million investment in additive infrastructure in Thomaston, with upgrades to utilities, roadway improvements, rail access extensions and other improvements.

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GARNER, N.C. — Johnson Brothers Mutual Distributing, a wine and beer distributor, has broken ground on a 625,000-square-foot industrial building in Garner, a southern suburb of Raleigh. Upon completion, the property will feature 40-foot clear heights with dock-high, drive-in doors and trailer parking. Johnson Brothers plans to relocate and occupy 420,000 square feet at the development in early 2026. Jim Allaire and Alexis Lambeth of Foundry Commercial will lease the remaining 205,000 square feet. LS3P designed the project, and Evans is the general contractor, with DCI serving as project manager.

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MIDLOTHIAN, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Lakeridge Self Storage, a 564-unit facility located in the southern Dallas suburb of Midlothian. The property, which totals 59,517 net rentable square feet, was built in 2005 and expanded by roughly 20 percent in recent years. Danny Cunningham and Brandon Karr of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a locally based private investor, in the deal. The duo also procured the buyer, an Austin-based investment group that plans to renovate the facility.

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HOUSTON — CBRE has negotiated a 273,480-square-foot industrial lease within Beltway 35 Business Park in southeast Houston. The tenant, global shipping and logistics firm Wallenius Wilhelmsen, is taking space at Building 2, a cross-dock facility that features 48 dock doors and parking for 245 cars and 72 trailers. Quinten Davis and Hoan Le of CBRE represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. JLL represented the landlord, Greystar Real Estate Partners.

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AUSTIN, TEXAS — California-based investment firm KBS has sold SouthTech Business Center, a 260,112-square-foot light industrial property in South Austin. SouthTech Business Center consists of four buildings on a 20.2-acre site. Each building features 21-foot clear heights and 145-foot truck court depths. Trent Agnew, Charles Strauss, Lance Young and Brooke Petzold of JLL represented KBS in the transaction. MIG Real Estate represented the buyer, an undisclosed 1031 exchange investor. The property was 93 percent leased at the time of sale.

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ARGYLE, TEXAS — Storage King USA, the self-storage arm of New York City-based investment firm Andover Properties, has completed a 232-unit expansion of its facility in Argyle, located in Denton County. The project added 38,500 net rentable square feet of climate-controlled and non-climate-controlled space, as well as 5,750 square feet of flex space. The facility, which also offers enclosed and covered storage options for boats and RVs, now totals 865 units.

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HOUSTON — Locally based brokerage firm Oxford Partners has arranged a 32,000-square-foot industrial sublease in northwest Houston. According to LoopNet Inc., the property at 5910 North by Northwest Blvd. was built in 1998 and totals 96,000 square feet. Austen Buckalew and Matt Rogers of Oxford Partners represented the tenant, SiYi America Hardware LLC, in the lease negotiations. The name and representative of the landlord were not disclosed.

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FALL RIVER, MASS. — Massachusetts-based development and investment firm VMD Cos. will develop The Campus at Innovation Way, a 900,000-square-foot industrial park that will be located near the Massachusetts-Rhode Island border in Fall River. The Campus at Innovation Way will consist of four buildings ranging in size from 203,800 to 291,200 square feet. Each building will feature a clear height of 36 feet, 48 tailboard loading docks and 180-foot truck court depths. The development is fully entitled, and VMD Cos. expects to break ground in the coming days. Delivery is slated for the second quarter of 2025. Newmark has been appointed as the leasing agent. 

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BOISE, IDAHO, AND CLAY, N.Y. — Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MU) has signed a preliminary memorandum of terms (PMT) with the Biden Presidential Administration to receive $6.1 billion in funding under the CHIPS and Science Act to support new microchip manufacturing operations. The grants will support Micron’s plans to invest approximately $50 billion in gross capital expenditures for U.S. domestic memory manufacturing through 2030. These grants and additional state and local incentives will support the construction of one manufacturing facility to be co-located with the company’s existing R&D facility in Boise, as well as the construction of two manufacturing facilities in Clay, a suburb of Syracuse. Micron says the facilities are expected to create approximately 75,000 domestic jobs over the next 20-plus years. In Idaho, this includes 2,000 Micron jobs, 4,500 construction jobs and 15,000 indirect jobs. In New York, this includes 9,000 Micron jobs, 4,500 construction jobs and 40,000 indirect jobs. The two projects, as planned, will represent the single largest private investments ever made in the states of Idaho and New York, according to the company.

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ELGIN, ILL. — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 106,120-square-foot industrial lease renewal and expansion at 300 Airport Road in Elgin. The tenant is UVA Distributors, a wine and spirits distributor. The lease includes UVA’s current unit of 46,130 square feet plus a 59,990-square-foot expansion. Kenneth Franzese, John Cassidy and Jeff Janda of Lee & Associates represented the owner, LINK Logistics. Mike Berkowitz of Entre Commercial represented the tenant. Built in 2010 and known as Fox River Business Center, the property totals 176,799 square feet and features a clear height of 30 feet.

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