SAN ANTONIO — Skyview Advisors, a Tampa-based brokerage firm specializing in self-storage, has brokered the sale of a 763-unit Extra Space Storage facility in San Antonio. Approximately 97 percent of the units at the Class A facility are climate-controlled. The property sold during lease-up at 50 percent physical occupancy, according to Ryan Clark of Skyview, who represented the seller in the transaction. California-based FollettUSA purchased the property for an undisclosed price.
HOUSTON — Moody Rambin has arranged the sale of a 19,200-square-foot warehouse situated on 1.4 acres at 3511 Jensen Drive on Houston’s north side. Zachary Taylor and Doyle Toups of Moody Rambin represented the buyer in the transaction. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
LITTLETON AND MIDDLEBOROUGH, MASS. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged a $36.3 million loan for L&B Realty Advisors to finance the purchase of a two-building industrial portfolio in suburban Boston. L&B Realty Advisors acquired the portfolio on behalf of an institutional client. The 775,000-square-foot portfolio consists of two warehouse distribution buildings, one in Littleton and the other in Middleborough. Both buildings are fully leased, with the 275,000-square-foot building at 154 Campanelli Drive in Middleborough occupied by a single tenant. The 480,000-square-foot building at 1 Distribution Center Circle in Littleton is leased to six tenants. A life insurance company provided the 10-year loan.
HOUSTON — Philadelphia-based Binswanger has arranged the sale of a 700,644-square-foot grocery distribution center situated on 70.2 acres at 10700 Telge Road in Houston. The facility was formerly leased to Randalls, a grocer owned by Idaho-based Albertson’s that operates 44 stores in Texas. It includes 517,500 square feet of dry and perishable grocery warehouse space, 113,200 square feet of frozen warehouse space and 6,200 square feet of office space. Other features include 25- to 40-foot ceiling heights and an ESFR sprinkler system. Holmes Davis of Binswanger represented the seller, Albertsons Cos., in the transaction. Cory Driskill and Will Mundinger of Crow Holdings Industrial represented the buyer internally. Crow Holdings plans to expand the facility by developing three additional buildings on the site.
MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS — A partnership between San Antonio-based SurePoint Self Storage and Houston-based Johnson Development Corp. will develop a 673-unit self-storage facility in Missouri City, a southwestern suburb of Houston. The three-story property, which will be SurePoint’s fifth facility in the Houston area, will span 67,000 square feet of mostly climate-controlled rentable space. Construction is scheduled to begin over the summer.
WACO, TEXAS — Paint manufacturer and retailer Sherwin-Williams has opened its $39 million distribution center in Waco. The 615,000-square-foot center will service eight states, including Texas, and will require a workforce of 326 employees. The company projects that daily activity at the center will involve the rolling out of 65 trucks delivering roughly 3 million pounds of paint to 700 stores. Bob Moore Construction served as general contractor for the project.
EDMOND, OKLA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of U Storage OK, a 623-unit self-storage facility in Edmond, a northern suburb of Oklahoma City. The Class A property features both climate- and non-climate-controlled units and recently underwent a 28,000-square-foot expansion. Trey Hammond and Michael Mele of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company, in the transaction. Brian Fulton of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer, a private investment group. Both parties requested anonymity.
MCDONOUGH, GA. — PNK Group has broken ground on the first building at Southern Gateway at Lambert Farms, a more than 3 million-square-foot speculative industrial development in McDonough, a southern suburb of Atlanta. The first building is a 1.1 million-square-foot, cross-dock distribution facility with 40-foot clear heights. Additional plans for the Southern Gateway project include an adjacent 1.5 million-square-foot cross-dock building and two rear-load facilities totaling 358,000 and 275,000 square feet. Pat Murphy, Ray Stache, Lisa Pittman and Tara Healy of Cushman & Wakefield are handling the development’s leasing assignment. Upon completion, the park will feature a 1.2-mile landscaped walking trail, a food truck court and electric vehicle charging stations. Pattillo Construction Corp. is the project’s general contractor, Macgregor Architects & Associates is the architect and Eberly & Associates, Contour Engineering and Contour Environmental make up the project’s engineering team.
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILL. — Colliers International has brokered the sale of a 225,006-square-foot industrial warehouse in Elk Grove Village. The sales price was not disclosed. The property is located at 1501 Nicholas Blvd. The buyer, GHP Group Inc., is a manufacturing company that specializes in electric fireplaces and accessories, personal heating products and gas grills. Chris Volkert and Brendan Green of Colliers represented GHP Group in the sale. Ken Franzese and John Cassidy of Lee & Associates represented the seller, Prologis.
LITHIA SPRINGS, GA. — LRC Properties, in a joint venture with Ladder Capital, has acquired 7705 Staples Drive, a 644,040-square-foot industrial building in Lithia Springs. The manufacturing and food processing facility is located on 40 acres roughly 18 miles west of Atlanta. The building, constructed in 2007 and renovated in 2015, features a wastewater treatment plant, air compressors, large electrical load capacity, air conditioned space and a laboratory. Colliers International arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, a joint venture between Keurig and AB InBev. The sales price was not disclosed.
