HOUSTON — Henry S. Miller Brokerage Co. (HSM) has negotiated the sale of two warehouses totaling approximately 29,000 square feet in Houston. The two buildings are located at 10440 Windfern Road on the city’s northwest side. Sam Chang of HSM represented the buyer, GAC Windfern LLC, in the transaction. Adam Strauss of New Regional Planning represented the sellers, the estates of two private investors.
WAUKEGAN, ILL. — HSA Commercial Real Estate has sold a 218,500-square-foot industrial building in Waukegan for an undisclosed price. The property is located within the Delany Commerce Center, a 22.7-acre development. HSA developed the building in 2013 in partnership with Washington Capital Management Inc. The property is fully leased to Eagle Foods, a manufacturer and distributor of household food and snack products, and Trifinity Partners, a third-party logistics firm that serves major retailers. Mike Caprile, Ryan Bain and Zach Graham of CBRE represented the sellers in the transaction. A private investor purchased the asset.
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA. — Vint Hill, Va.-based Assured Communications Advisors International (ACA International) will invest $52 million to build a 130,000-square-foot data center in Virginia Beach. The telecommunications consulting firm will build the new facility on a 10.2-acre site within Corporate Landing Business Park, a 325-acre, publicly developed business park owned by the Virginia Beach Economic Development Authority. The new facility will house ACA International’s new corporate headquarters and a Tier III data center providing network-neutral co-location services. In addition, the building will serve as a cable landing station for future subsea telecommunications cables. The building will create 30 jobs upon completion in the fourth quarter of 2019. ACA International provides strategy, project planning, development and oversight of broadband, satellite, subsea cables, wireless/mobility and smart city planning.
ATLANTA — Akron, Ohio-based The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and Nashville-based Bridgestone Americas Inc. have formed a tire distribution joint venture and will locate the newly created company’s headquarters in Atlanta. TireHub LLC will provide U.S tire dealers and retailers with a range of passenger and light truck tires, with an emphasis on distributing larger rim diameter premium tires. TireHub will lease 30,000 square feet at One Ravinia in Atlanta’s Central Perimeter submarket for its new headquarters, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. The 50-50 joint venture will initially operate more than 80 distribution centers and warehouse locations throughout the country. TireHub will combine and complement Goodyear’s company-owned wholesale distribution network with the Bridgestone-owned Tire Wholesale Warehouse (TWW). The new company will also complement both Goodyear and Bridgestone’s existing networks of third-party distributors and provide distribution, warehousing, sales and delivery solutions following the closing of the transaction, which is expected in mid-year. At launch, TireHub will have the scale to reach the vast majority of retail locations across the country daily.
FARRAGUT, TENN. — Ziff Properties Inc. has acquired the former U.S. Golf & Tennis Center in Farragut with plans to convert the building into a 65,000-square-foot self-storage facility. The building is located on six acres, roughly 17 miles west of Knoxville. ExtraSpace Storage will manage the facility, which will include climate- and non-climate-controlled units. A construction timeline was not disclosed.
SAN FRANCISCO – CIM Group, in partnership with fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547), has commenced construction for its 240,000-square-foot data center campus on 7.3 acres at 400 Paul Ave. in San Francisco. The first phase of development will include the renovation of two existing 1930s-era buildings. Totaling 54,225 square feet, the buildings will be modernized to provide creative office and support space for data center tenants. Additionally, construction will start immediately for the campus, including a 187,000-square-foot purpose-built data center. The two-story building will feature a secure and scalable data center with 24 MW of power capacity.
SAN LEANDRO, CALIF. – Colony Industrial has purchased the two-building East Bay industrial portfolio in San Leandro for an undisclosed price. Totaling 587,051 square feet, the portfolio includes two light industrial buildings located at 2380-2388 Williams St. and 1717 Doolittle Drive. The portfolio is leased to five tenants. This is Colony Industrial’s first investment in the Oakland/East Bay area. Darla Longo, Barbara Perrier, Rebecca Perlmutter Finkel and Michael Kendall of CBRE brokered the transaction.
CHANDLER, ARIZ. – Alliant Credit Union has arranged a $14.6 million loan for the refinancing of an industrial property located in Chandler. The property features 162,714 square feet of distribution space. The undisclosed sponsor had recently closed with a higher interest rate bridge loan and was seeking a low-leverage transaction to replace that debt. Alliant structured the 10-year loan with a 30-year amortization schedule and two years of interest-only payments.
ELGIN, ILL. — iHerb Inc. has signed a 257,344-square-foot industrial lease in Elgin. The company sells nutritional supplements, vitamins, personal care, baby care and other health products. The industrial building, Zilber Industrial I, is located at 2640 Auto Mall Drive with immediate access to I-90. Jack Brennan and John Hamilton of CBRE represented the tenant in the lease transaction. Dominc Carbonari and Frank Griffin of JLL represented the owners, Zilber Property Group.
EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Sheldon Gross Realty has arranged the sale of a 41,500-square-foot warehouse and retail facility in East Brunswick. New Jersey based HSJE Realty purchased the property, which is located at 2 Claire Road, for an undisclosed amount. Jonathan Glick and Glenn Jaffe of Sheldon Gross Realty represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. Corporate America Realty & Advisors represented HSJE Realty. The facility, which is located approximately halfway between New York City and Philadelphia, currently has three tenants, each of which uses a portion of the building for warehousing and retail.