GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — A joint venture between aircraft manufacturer Airbus Helicopters and French aerospace firm Thales Group will develop and operate a $40 million training facility at Airbus Helicopter’s headquarters in Grand Prairie. The facility will have the capacity to train several thousand pilots and maintenance personnel per year. It will also house the flight simulator for the H160, the latest helicopter model being developed by Airbus. A timetable for construction has not yet been established.
Industrial
LAREDO, TEXAS — California-based Majestic Realty Co. will develop a 423,280-square-foot warehouse within Port Grande, a 1,992-acre, master-planned business park located in the south Texas city of Laredo. The project represents Phase II of development and follows the delivery of 366,080-square-foot building that still has 200,000 square feet available for lease. The new building will feature 32-foot clear heights, 120 dock-high doors, four ground-level doors, 242 trailer parking spaces and 208 automobile parking spaces. A firm timetable for construction has not yet been established.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Hunt Southwest will develop a 300,000-square-foot cold storage facility in southern Fort Worth. The property, which is being built on a speculative basis, will be located within Carter Industrial Park with convenient access to Interstates 35 West and 20. Features of the rail-served building will include 45-foot clear heights, LED lighting, ample automobile and trailer parking and the capacity to accommodate one or two tenants. Hunt Southwest expects to obtain a building permit in approximately two months and deliver the facility within nine months of starting construction.
HOUSTON — Levey Group, a Houston-based industrial developer, has signed an industrial lease with Omnisource, a processor and distributor of scrap metals. The tenant will occupy 48,276 square feet within Northwest Industrial Park, a 7.9-acre business park in Houston. The 64,850-square-foot, multi-tenant building that will house Omnisource features 32-foot clear heights, as well as dock-high and grade-level loading ramps.
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — Greycor Construction Co. Inc. has completed the 324,480-square-foot expansion of a manufacturing and distribution facility in Huntersville leased to Pactiv LLC, a food packaging company. Prairie Brookwood LLC owns the facility, which is located at 14201 Meacham Farm Drive, roughly 15 miles north of Charlotte. The facility remained fully operational during the expansion, which more than doubled the size of the building. The $14 million expansion included eight concrete placements of roughly 40,000 square feet each, 70 concrete tilt-up walls, structural steel, metal decking, TPO roofing and 35 new loading docks. In addition, the build-out created new jobs in the area. The original facility was constructed more than 10 years ago and was the first building within Commerce Station Park, a public-private partnership between Prairie Brookwood and the towns of Cornelius, Davidson and Huntersville.
CORSICANA, TEXAS — Dart Container has purchased a 1.4 million-square-foot industrial building in Corsicana for an undisclosed sum. The building formerly housed Home Depot’s distribution center. It is situated on 139 acres just south of Dallas. The building consists of 13,248 square feet of modern, air-conditioned office space with paved and lighted parking for 560 cars and 1,130 trailers. The asset’s rail access is served by Union Pacific on the northwest boundary. The facility is situated on Business Highway 45 South, near I-45 and State Highway 31, and provides direct access to the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. The seller, Eliken Property Management, is a private, self-administered and self-managed real estate firm that owns and manages high-quality industrial properties. Eliken’s current portfolio includes more than 3.5 million square feet across the Midwest and Southeast. The firm is looking to expand its presence in Texas and Arkansas, as well as other target markets. Holmes Davis of Binswanger represented Eliken in the transaction. Mason, Mich.-based Dart Container produces a variety of plastic and foam cups and food containers, including Solo party cups. The company plans to invest $38 million in its new Texas space. Dart operates more than 40 locations in six countries, …
PHOENIX — Prologis has completed 710,000 square feet of tenant improvements and shell space in Phoenix. The new space is situated within Prologis Riverside Distribution Center and Prologis Park Riverside. Prologis Riverside Distribution Center received a 115,000-square-foot build-out for bathroom refurbishment company Home Brand, which is expanding and relocating within metro Phoenix. In addition, the property received a 115,000-square-foot build-out for video game accessory company Performance Designed Products (PDP), which relocated from California to Arizona. The tenants occupy the entire 230,000-square-foot Prologis Riverside Building II. Shell construction was also completed on the 480,000-square-foot Building III at Prologis Park Riverside, an industrial distribution center at 55th Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road. The project also included a 15-week, $15 million tenant improvement for a national e-commerce tenant. Building III sits adjacent to Prologis Park Riverside Building II, which is fully occupied by StitchFix, and Prologis Park Riverside Building I, which is fully occupied by Marshalls. Graycor Construction Co. completed construction on all the projects.
BRISBANE, CALIF. — DHL Global Forwarding has leased a 76,375-square-foot industrial warehouse building in the San Francisco Bay Area submarket of Brisbane. The building is located at 99 S. Hill Drive. The full complex contains 165,000 square feet on seven acres. The building features 22-foot clear height, 15 loading docks, two grade-level openings, sprinklers and trailer/employee parking. There is immediate access to US 101 and to the Bayshore Commuter Rail. The property is close to San Francisco International Airport and the Port of Oakland. Greig Lagomarsino and Mike Davis of Colliers International represented DHL, while Joe Harney of HCM Commercial Properties represented the landlord in this transaction.
PLEASANT PRAIRIE, WIS. — CTDI has signed a 166,620-square-foot industrial lease at Majestic Badger Logistics Center in Pleasant Prairie, about 37 miles south of Milwaukee. The global engineering, repair and logistics company will occupy the space within the 424,164-square-foot Building 1. Features of this building include a clear height of 36 feet, ESFR sprinkler system, large truck courtyard, 292 car parking spaces and office space. CTDI is the first tenant within the industrial park, which is owned by Majestic Realty Co. John Morrissey of Jackson Cross Partners represented CTDI in the lease transaction.
NORTH CANTON, OHIO — Combi Packaging Systems LLC has signed a 156,000-square-foot lease at 6299 Dressler Road N.W. in North Canton, about 20 miles south of Akron. The facility will serve as Combi’s new corporate office and house its manufacturing, engineering and management departments. A joint venture company with 3M Packaging Systems Division and the MJ Maillis Group, Combi is a manufacturer of end-of-line packaging equipment. Herb Verderber of CBRE represented the tenant in the lease transaction. Sean Sanford of CBRE represented the landlord, One Whipple Co. LLC.