NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the $3.2 million sale of 37-55 61st St., a 6,200-square-foot industrial asset in the Woodside neighborhood of Queens. The building includes office space. Stephen Preuss and Rani Bendary of Cushman & Wakefield handled the transaction on behalf of the buyer and seller, both of which were private investors. The site allows for future expansion of an additional 9,600 square feet.
HOUSTON — Lee & Associates has negotiated the sale of a 99,000-square-foot industrial building located at 701 Plastics Ave. in Houston. Trey Erwin and Dalton Knipe of Lee & Associates represented the buyer, Investment Property Exchange Services, in the transaction. Read King represented the seller, Usha Martin Americas Inc.
EASTVALE, CALIF. — Rexford Industrial Realty has purchased a 15.5-acre, fully entitled development site in Eastvale, within the Inland Empire West submarket, for $18.2 million, or $26.93 per land square foot. Rexford has retained the undisclosed seller as fee developer to construct the project, branded as “The Merge,” which will contain a total of 333,500 square feet of industrial space within six buildings. Once completed, the project will feature 10 warehouse spaces, ranging from 20,000 square feet to 45,000 square feet, offering 30- to 32-foot clear heights, ESFR fire sprinklers and market-leading dock-high loading capacity. Delivery is slated for the third quarter of 2020, after incurring incremental all-in development and construction costs of approximately $37 million.
DENVER — Unique Properties / TCN Worldwide has negotiated the sale of an industrial asset, located at 6400 Washington St. in Denver. Gibraltar Property Management acquired the property from North Denver Group Co-Tenancy for $4.1 million. Situated on 4.7 acres, the asset consists of a 14,540-square-foot industrial service and rental center. The property features a large storage yard, oversized drive-in doors and a showroom area. At the time of sale, the property was fully leased to United Rentals under an absolute triple-net lease basis. Brett MacDougall and Michael DeSantis of Unique Properties / TCN Worldwide represented the buyer and seller in the transaction.
WILMINGTON, ILL. — Elion Partners has renamed RidgePort Logistics Center to Elion Logistics Park 55 (ELP 55) and planned a $2 billion development project at the site in Wilmington, approximately 40 miles southwest of Chicago. Following the expansion, ELP 55 will become the largest rail-served industrial park in the Midwest, according to the real estate investment firm. Elion began acquiring land for the park in 2016. To date, 6.3 million square feet of multi-tenant and build-to-suit space exists. Some of the tenants include Post, Lineage and Batory Foods. The master plan comprises up to 2,500 acres, which includes an existing, full-service TA Petro Travel Plaza and up to 140 acres for planned commercial development. Current projects underway include an on-site first responders’ station, interconnectivity via planned pedestrian walking paths and an on-site helipad. ELP 55 features two miles of frontage along the BNSF’s Transcontinental Mainline with up to 12 million square feet of potential rail services, and three miles of I-55 frontage with a complete interchange. The park is located in a regional distribution hub that reaches 27 percent of the U.S. population within a one-day drive, according to Elion. “The goal is to develop a mixed-use logistics park that …
DILLON, S.C. — Equus Capital Partners Ltd. will break ground on a 373,100-square-foot speculative industrial building in Dillon in the third quarter of 2019. The site is situated off I-95 and one mile from Inland Port Dillon. The property will offer warehouse and logistics space, 32-foot clear heights, a 180-foot truck court, 189 parking spots, 58 loading spaces and 64 trailer parking spaces. The Philadelphia-based developer expects to deliver Phase I in 2020. Bob Barrineau and Brendan Redeyoff of CBRE as well as Drew Chaplin of Palmetto Commercial Real Estate are leading leasing efforts at the property on behalf of Equus. Phase II is proposed on a nearby site, which allows for the construction of multiple build-to-suit buildings with up to 1.5 million square feet of additional development capacity. A timeline for Phase II was not disclosed.
BARTLETT, ILL. — Colliers International has arranged the sale of a 50,080-square-foot warehouse in Bartlett for an undisclosed price. Located in Brewster Creek Business Park, the property sits on 2.8 acres at 1291 Humbracht Circle. Built in 2003, the facility features a clear height of 24 feet and 66 car parking spaces. Bremskerl, a Germany-based producer of abrasives for industrial applications, occupies the facility for its North American headquarters. John D’Orazio of Colliers represented the private seller in the transaction. Cabot Properties purchased the property.
CLIFTON HEIGHTS, PA. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of a 718-unit self-storage facility in Clifton Heights, a western suburb of Philadelphia. The property comprises 82,116 rentable square feet with 590 climate-controlled units and 128 non-climate-controlled units. Units range from 18 to 320 square feet. Mike Mele, Robert Bloch and Noah Obuchowski of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, an affiliate of Vertical Fields Capital LLC, in the transaction. The buyer and sales price were not disclosed. CubeSmart has been retained as a third-party manager. More than 200,000 people with an average household income in excess of $80,000 live within a three-mile radius of the property.
AUBURN, MASS. — The F.W. Webb Co., a wholesale distributor of plumbing, heating and cooling products, has purchased a 75,000-square-foot industrial building at 33 Sword St. in Auburn, just west of Worcester. The property, which fetched a sales price of about $4.4 million, is situated on three acres and was formerly owned by Imperial Distributors, which services non-food merchandisers that sell products in grocery stores. David Stubblebine and James Stubblebine of The Stubblebine Co., a brokerage firm active throughout New England, negotiated the transaction.
CHINO, CALIF. — SteelCo USA has purchased a manufacturing facility located at 13900 Sycamore Way in Chino. A private individual sold the property for $10.7 million. Built in 1986, the 68,175-square-foot facility features 10,116 square feet of office space, 26-foot minimum clear height and eight ground-level drive-in doors with 1.8 acres of excess land. The property will serve as SteelCo USA’s sixth facility in the Inland Empire. West Coast Steel divisions include SteelCo USA, Great Pacific Elbow, Mission Metals and Deluxe Building Products. Tim Pimentel, Chuck Belden and Kyle Kehner of Cushman & Wakefield’s Ontario, Calif., office represented SteelCo USA, while David Nguyen of Lee & Associates and Brad Yates of Colliers International represented the seller in the transaction.