Industrial

DURHAM, N.C. — Developer Welcome Group has opened the first phase of Welcome Venture Park, a new business park situated on 160 acres in Durham. Upon completion, the project will total roughly 1.3 million square feet of space for industrial, flex and life sciences tenants. Phase I comprises four industrial buildings totaling 394,800 square feet. RW2 Development Co. is managing entitlements, development and project management on behalf of Welcome Group. Other members of the project team include Choate Construction, Withers Ravenel, Maurer Architecture and Sullivan Eastern. Colliers is handling leasing for the development, and U.S. Bank provided construction financing for the first phase.

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UNION CITY, TENN. — An affiliate of Phoenix Investors has acquired a 411,489-square-foot industrial complex located in Union City, a city in the northwestern corner of Tennessee. MVP Group International sold the property, which is located at 600 E. Sherwood Drive, for an undisclosed price. Built in 1985 and renovated in 1995, the development comprises roughly 398,000 square feet of warehouse space, as well as 13,500 square feet of office space and a 2,200-square-foot breakroom. The building features 18 dock doors, clear heights of up to 28 feet, two compressors and an extensive racking system. Phoenix Investors plans to implement a capital improvement plan at the property.

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FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Hillwood will develop a 1.1 million-square-foot industrial project on its AllianceTexas campus in North Fort Worth. Alliance Westport 24 will feature a cross-dock configuration, 40-foot minimum clear heights, 60-foot loading bays, 190-foot truck court depths and onsite infrastructure for future electric car and truck charging stations. In addition, the site is currently configured to support 394 car parking spaces and 227 trailer parking spaces but can be expanded to 564 and 704 spots, respectively. RGA Architects is designing the project, and Westwood is the civil engineering firm. Hillwood Construction Services will serve as the general contractor. Construction is scheduled to begin before the end of the month and to be complete in late 2025.  

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ROUND ROCK, TEXAS — Matthews Real Estate Investment Services, a California-based brokerage firm, has negotiated the sale of a 270-unit self-storage facility in the northern Austin suburb of Round Rock. Life Storage operates the facility at 506 McNeil Road, which was originally constructed in 1980 and totals 28,450 square feet of net rentable space. Austin McLeod of Matthews represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyer and sales price were also not disclosed.

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MUNDELEIN, ILL. — Colliers has arranged the sale of a 195,375-square-foot industrial building in Mundelein, a northern suburb of Chicago. The sales price was undisclosed. Known as Route 60 Logistics Center, the property is located at 1300 Allanson Road just west of a four-way interchange at I-94 and Route 60. Completed in 2021, the facility is fully leased to two tenants. Jeff Devine, Steve Disse and Tyler Ziebel of Colliers represented the sellers, Affinius Capital and Venture One Real Estate. An institutional real estate investor purchased the asset.

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CONYERS, GA. — The Storage Acquisition Group (TSAG) has purchased a 911-unit self-storage facility located at 4489 McDonough Highway in Conyers, about 30 miles southeast of Atlanta. The 76,125-square-foot asset was the final facility of TSAG’s 18-property portfolio purchase from True Self Storage that spans 13,714 units across 10 states. The sales price was not disclosed. Bill Sitar Jr., John Cranley, Andrew Burachinsky and Monty Spencer led TSAG’s acquisition team on an internal basis.

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SAN DIEGO — Boston-based Rockpoint has completed the disposition of a two-building industrial property located in San Diego’s Otay Mesa neighborhood to Badiee Development. Financial terms of the transaction were not released. The sale is the third in a series of three industrial properties that Rockpoint and Badiee jointly purchased and developed and completes Rockpoint’s realization of all three properties. Located at 2080 Sanyo Ave. and 9350 Airway Road, the 243,000-square-foot asset offers 32-foot clear heights, a desirable dock door ratio, access to the 125 and 905 freeways and the flexibility to accommodate multiple tenant configurations in each building. Rockpoint and Badiee acquired the 15-acre site in June 2021 and subsequently developed the two industrial buildings.

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PHOENIX — Berkeley Partners has completed the disposition of Pima Street Logistics Center, a standalone industrial building on 4.2 acres in Phoenix, to Ares Management Real Estate fund for an undisclosed price. Situated in the city’s Sky Harbor submarket, the 97,240-square-foot Pima Street Logistics Center offers a multi-tenant layout, multiple storefronts, LED lighting and approximately 0.5 acres of secured yard. At the time of sale, the asset was fully leased to three tenants. Will Strong, Michael Matchett and Molly Hunt of Cushman & Wakefield’s National Industrial Advisory Group – Mountain West represented the seller in the transaction. Ares Industrial Management will manage the asset.

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By Taylor Williams In the eyes of some commercial brokers, especially those who represent tenants, there actually is such a thing as too little vacancy. When markets are running super-hot, meaning demand is far outstripping supply, tenants have minimal options and often end up paying premiums just to be able to secure space. That’s great for landlords — to a point — because markets can only bear so much rent growth in so much time before tenants start looking for workarounds to physical occupancy. Enter the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) industrial sector, which has been on fire for the past seven-plus years. Explosive volumes of new deliveries, frenetic paces of absorption, stiff competition for space, record levels of rent growth and a national coming-out party as an undeniable Tier 1 market have all been hallmarks of this activity. But such torrid paces of growth were never really sustainable in perpetuity, and although both the supply and demand sides of the market have cooled, the slowdown in some ways reflects a return to healthier dynamics. Editor’s note: InterFace Conference Group, a division of France Media Inc., produces networking and educational conferences for commercial real estate executives. To sign up for email announcements …

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PACE Appeal Rafi Golberstein

The Federal Reserve’s decision to begin aggressively hiking the federal funds rate in 2022 threw the commercial real estate market into turmoil. Property investors found it difficult to refinance much cheaper short-term loans that were often used to renovate or develop properties. However, the interest rate spike greatly enhanced the viability of commercial property assessed clean energy (C-PACE) financing, a type of loan that becomes an assessment that borrowers pay along with their tax bill. The program emerged more than a decade ago and generally pays for energy, water and seismic resiliency upgrades in new construction and rehabs, including retroactively. As a result, developers embraced C-PACE as they sought ways to pay down debt to secure new financing or loan extensions and modifications. Sponsored: A smarter way to finance your next CRE project – PACE Loan Group Now that the Federal Reserve has reversed course with its 50-basis-point federal funds rate reduction in September — and with Wall Street anticipating additional rate cuts before the end of the year — will C-PACE demand start to cool? Don’t count on it, says Rafi Golberstein, founder and CEO of PACE Loan Group, a direct lender of C-PACE financing based in Minneapolis, Minn. …

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