TEJON RANCH, CALIF. — Dollar General has expanded its presence at Tejon Ranch Commerce Center (TRCC) just south of Bakersfield with the addition of more than 240,000 square feet of warehouse space. The dollar store currently operates out of a separate building at TRCC. This expansion will allow retailer to increase its footprint by nearly 40 percent. Dollar General has used the Tejon Ranch Commerce Center as the hub of its California distribution operations for the last six years. With its expansion into the new Tejon Ranch-Majestic Realty-developed facility, it will now occupy a total of more than 850,000 square feet of space within TRCC.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Alliant Credit Union has provided a $6.4 million loan for the refinancing of an industrial building located at 8825 Statesville Road in Charlotte. Alliant closed the 10-year loan with five years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule on behalf of the borrower, RU 8825 Statesville Road Charlotte NC LLC. The 64,637-square-foot building serves as a research and development facility for Husqvarna North America, a producer of outdoor power equipment. The property is located adjacent to Husqvarna’s U.S. headquarters.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — Colony Industrial, an affiliate of Colony NorthStar, has acquired Westside Industrial Park in Jacksonville for $77.5 million. The 1.3 million-square-foot park, located at 4601 and 4910 Bulls Bay Highway, includes four Class A industrial buildings. The Jacksonville Business Journal reports Pattillo Industrial Real Estate sold the portfolio, which was 99.8 percent leased at the time of sale to nine tenants. Frank Fallon, Chris Riley and Trey Barry of CBRE arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller. The acquisition marks Colony Industrial’s fourth investment in the Jacksonville market over the last nine months.
MILWAUKEE — Affiliates of Milwaukee-based Phoenix Investors have acquired an eight-property industrial portfolio located throughout Kentucky for $9.3 million. The properties total 831,000 square feet and are located in Morehead, Carrollton, Danville, Maysville and Mount Sterling. Affiliates of Pope Cos. sold the properties, which were constructed between 1989 and 2004. The new owners plan to renovate the portfolio, which was 63 percent leased at the time of sale, and find new tenants for the vacant space. Bryan Flaherty of CBRE arranged the sale, and Walker & Dunlop Commercial Property Funding LLC provided financing.
ELGIN AND ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, ILL. — Plymouth Industrial REIT Inc. has acquired two Class B industrial buildings in the Chicago area for $15.7 million. One of the properties is a 236,736-square-foot building located at 1600 Fleetwood Drive in Elgin. Stamar Packaging fully occupies the asset. The other property, 3 West College Drive in Arlington Heights, is 100 percent leased to Arrow Up, a provider of containerized bins for the oil fracking industry. Midwest Industrial Funds was the seller.
BOISE — L M Construction Co. has broken ground on a 119,200-square-foot industrial building in Boise. The facility will be located at 8485 Federal Way. The cross-dock, multi-tenant building is a design-build project for Brass Cap Development. The project is currently 50 percent pre-leased. The future tenant, Teffco, is currently headquartered in nearby Nampa. Teff is an ancient grain and the staple of Ethiopian and Eritrean diets. Teffco hires local Idaho farmers to raise Teff for these communities, supplying them with American-grown teff. The concrete tilt-up building boasts a clear height of 30 feet and includes an ESFR fire sprinkler system. The balance of the project’s divisibility can be as small as 14,900 square feet or as large as 59,600 square feet. The facility is scheduled for completion this October. It is situated directly across the street from Micron Technology and is visible from Interstate 84.
WALL TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of Monmouth Shores Corporate Park, an eight-building office/flex complex totaling 400,000 square feet in Wall Township. Andy Merin, David Bernhaut, Gary Gabriel, Brian Whitmer and Frank DiTommaso of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Mack-Cali Realty Corp. The buyer was Monmouth 2 LLC, an affiliate of BHN Associates. Monmouth Shores Corporate Park is one of the largest business parks in the region, according to Cushman & Wakefield, and it was 88 percent leased to 24 tenants at the time of sale. The park is comprised of five single-story flex buildings and three office buildings.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the $12.8 million sale of a commercial building and lot in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn. Located at 80 4th St., the purchase includes a 180-by-107-foot lot and a 17,942-square-foot, single-story, brick warehouse. Winfield Clifford and William Barrett of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, sculptor Tom Otterness, in the transaction. The final closing price of $12.8 million equates to approximately $714.40 per square foot and more than $300,000 above the original asking price. The buyer was The Brooklyn Home Company. The property is located in an M3-1 zoning district, allowing for 35,954 square-feet of commercial development.
PAWCATUCK, CONN., DELAWARE, OHIO and POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — Affiliates of Phoenix Investors have acquired three industrial properties totaling 1 million square feet in Pawcatuck, Delaware and Poughkeepsie. The sales price was $12.8 million. The seller was Industrial Realty Group. The properties range in size from approximately 250,000 to 450,000 square feet. The occupancy rate across the portfolio averaged 65 percent and included a diverse roster of 20 tenants at the time of sale. Phoenix intends to renovate these assets in order to attract new users. Following the transaction, Phoenix affiliates own approximately 22 million square feet of industrial real estate across 23 states. Walker & Dunlop Commercial Property Funding LLC provided senior mortgage financing for the purchase.
MURPHY, TEXAS — The Jenkins Organization, a Houston-based developer and operator of self-storage facilities, will open Murphy Self Storage, a 635-unit facility in Murphy, a northeastern suburb of Dallas. The property will feature both climate- and non climate-controlled units. The grand opening is slated for Saturday, April 21. The Jenkins Organization plans to open three other facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) area this year.