DALLAS — McCarthy Building Cos. is underway on a 141,000-square-foot expansion project in Dallas for Southwest Airlines’ Leadership & Aircrew Development Center at the company’s Dallas headquarters campus. The project will add space for eight additional flight simulators — up from its current 18 simulators — additional room for briefing rooms and space for smaller flight training devices. The opening is slated for fall 2020.
LENEXA, KAN. — Meritex has broken ground on two 120,000-square-foot industrial buildings in Lenexa. The new buildings will each feature a clear height of 28 feet and insulated wall panels. The buildings, located at 9800 Britton St., will share a truck court. Site work will continue this fall with vertical construction expected to begin in the spring. Project completion is slated for December 2020. Colliers International will market the properties for lease.
BENSENVILLE, ILL. — Third-party logistics firm Axis Warehouse Management has signed a 174,178-square-foot industrial lease in Bensenville. The property is located at 500 Country Club Drive, about 24 miles northwest of Chicago. Built in 1974, the facility features a clear height of 22 feet, 31 exterior docks, two drive-in doors and 6,300 square feet of office space. CenterPoint Properties owns the building. Rick Daly of Darwin Realty led the lease transaction on behalf of both parties with assistance from colleague George Cibula.
OAKLAND, CALIF. — CenterPoint Properties has purchased an industrial building, located at 5901 San Leandro St. in Oakland, for an undisclosed price. Situated on a 6.8-acre parcel, the 130,500-square-foot property offers rail-served industrial warehouse space and an ample yard area less than six miles from the Port of Oakland. The facility features 10 rail doors, 28 dock-high loading positions, six grade-level loading doors, a fully fenced and secured perimeter, and ample paved yard for truck/trailer parking and staging. The acquisition of 5901 San Leandro Street represents the fourth East Bay acquisition for CenterPoint over the past 10 months. Justin Smutko, Mark Maguire and Nick Mascheroni of Colliers International represented both the buyer and undisclosed seller in the deal.
EL MIRAGE, ARIZ. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the $4.1 million sale of West Thunderbird Mini Storage, a self-storage facility in El Mirage. Paul Boyle and Rick Danis of Cushman & Wakefield represented the undisclosed buyer and seller in the deal. Located at 12500 W. Thunderbird Road, West Thunderbird Mini Storage totals 400 units. Built in 2002, the 45,230-square-foot property features on-site management, drive-up access, air-controlled units, perimeter fencing, gate entry, surveillance cameras and RV, car and boat parking. At the time of sale, the property was 94 percent occupied.
PLANO, TEXAS — A partnership between Dallas-based Trez Capital and Houston-based Hines has acquired a 1,603-unit self-storage facility located at 525 N Ave. in Plano. The four-building facility, which is located near the intersection of President George Bush Tollway and U.S. Highway 75, features a gross square footage of 235,400 square feet and 124 for-lease parking spaces. The new ownership plans to increase the leasable parking space by 30 to 40 percent. The transaction marks the first self-storage acquisition for the partnership, which has primarily focused on single-family development over its six-year existence.
NASHVILLE, TENN. — Holladay Properties has broken ground on Phase III of Airport Logistics Park, a 95-acre master-planned industrial park near Nashville International Airport on Old Murfreesboro Pike. Phase III will span 330,000 square feet. Holladay expects Phase I and II to deliver in spring 2020 while Phase III is expected to deliver in fourth-quarter 2020. Ronnie Wenzler of Cushman & Wakefield oversees leasing efforts for the logistics park. Phases I and II comprise 402,500 square feet, 329,400 square feet of which is leased to companies including Aramark, DHL, Power Home Remodeling Group, Advance Electric & Industrial, PGW Auto Glass, Safeway and Overhead Door. Airport Logistics Park’s design team includes civil engineer Kimley-Horn and architect TRC Worldwide. Eutaw Construction has begun site work and a general contractor has yet to be named.
LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — NAI Long Island has brokered the 1.6 million sale of a 10,000-square-foot industrial building in the Huntington Station neighborhood on Long Island. The single-tenant manufacturing facility was completed in 1966 and offers 14-foot clear ceiling heights, one dock-high door and two drive in doors. Gary Pezza of NAI Long Island represented the seller, 55 Craven Realty LLC, in the transaction. Alberto Fiorini of Alliance Real Estate Corp. represented the buyer, Giambrone Realty LLC.
LIBERTY, MO. — LANE4 Property Group has unveiled plans to develop a three-building, speculative industrial project in Liberty known as Liberty Logistics Center. Situated on a 68-acre tract of land at Missouri Highway 69 and Liberty Parkway, the project is adjacent to the Ford assembly plant and visible from I-35. Construction is expected to begin within a month and the first building, spanning 741,000 square feet, is slated for completion in late 2020. The two smaller buildings will measure 80,000 and 132,000 square feet. The project will also include a retail portion known as Liberty Parkway Plaza, containing eight pad sites fronting I-35 and the industrial buildings. LANE4 serves as developer for the entire project and leasing agent for the retail component. Joe Orscheln of CBRE will market the industrial portion for lease. Davidson Architecture & Engineering is providing architectural and engineering services.
SAN FRANCISCO AND MALVERN, PA. — San Francisco-based Prologis Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pennsylvania-based Liberty Property Trust in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $12.6 billion, inclusive of outstanding debt. The deal between the two industrial REITs is expected to close in the first quarter of 2020. Under the terms of the agreement, Prologis (NYSE: PLD) will acquire roughly 107 million square feet of stabilized logistics space, 5.1 million square feet of logistics product in various stages of development and 1,684 acres with a future build-out potential totaling 19.7 million square feet. In addition, Liberty (NYSE: LPT) shareholders will receive 0.675 in shares of Prologis common stock for each Liberty share they own. Both the board of directors of Prologis and the board of trustees of Liberty have unanimously approved the transaction. Prologis plans to dispose of $3.5 billion in assets, including $2.8 billion of non-strategic logistics properties and $700 million of office properties, to help finance the acquisition. “The joining of these two platforms at this moment, when industrial logistics has become so pivotal to the new economy, will further the industry’s ability to support the nation’s supply chain and enhance value creation for …
