OKLAHOMA CITY — Tulsa-based investment firm Admiral Square Inc. has sold a 41,000-square-foot industrial building located at 4601 SW 36th St. in Oklahoma City. Jason Hammock, Caitlin Mazaheri and John Lenochan of CBRE represented Admiral Square in the sale. Brett Price and Kris Davis of Newmark Grubb Levy Strange Beffort represented the buyer, 857 Traction Avenue LP, which purchased the property for roughly $2.2 million.
LAS VEGAS — RealComm Advisors Commercial Real Estate has brokered the acquisition of an industrial property located at 6435 Karms Park Court in Las Vegas. McBeath Holdings LLC purchased the property from an undisclosed seller for $1.7 million. The property features 13,354 square feet of industrial space. Mike De Lew and Greg Pancirov of RealComm Advisors represented the buyer in the transaction.
LAKELAND, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the $59.6 million sale of CenterState Logistics Center, a 605,412-square-foot distribution facility located at 8060 State Road 33 in Lakeland, roughly halfway between Tampa and Orlando. The facility was completed in 2017, and is fully triple-net-leased to Quaker Sales & Distribution, a wholly owned subsidiary of PepsiCo. The company uses the building to distribute its sports drink, Gatorade. Mike Davis, Rick Brugge and Michael Lerner of Cushman & Wakefield arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller and developer, a partnership between Brennan Investment Group and Greenfield Partners. Los Angeles-based Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT Inc. acquired the asset. The building features tilt-wall construction, 36-foot clear heights and cross-dock loading.
WHITEHALL, PA. — 1788/Riverside Business Center, an affiliate of 1788 Holdings, has acquired Riverside Business Center, a 423,900-square-foot single-story light industrial building in Whitehall for $11.7 million. Located at 1139 Lehigh Ave., the Class B light industrial property was 87 percent leased at the time of acquisition. Constructed in 1910, the building has been improved and renovated multiple times, most recently in 2006 when the property was converted from a single-user manufacturing facility into a multi-tenanted warehouse. Positioned on 34 acres of land, the structure features average ceiling heights of 20 feet and is located less than three miles from Lehigh Valley International Airport.
PHILADELPHIA — US Storage Centers has acquired a 107,606-square-foot facility in Philadelphia from Philly Self Storage. The 1,545-unit self-storage facility is located at 1910 S. Christopher Columbus Blvd. in Pennsport, directly off Interstate 95. The property is the first US Storage Centers location in Pennsylvania and will be rebranded as a US Storage Centers self-storage facility. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.
ATLANTA — Birmingham, Ala.-based GCP has acquired 6047 and 6049 Fulton Industrial in Atlanta for $17.1 million. The adjacent, rail-served buildings total 411,056 square feet and serve as light manufacturing and distribution warehouses. At the time of sale, the buildings were leased to two national third-party logistics tenants and a furniture distributor. The acquisition increases GCP’s portfolio to more than 7.5 million square feet. The name of the seller was not disclosed.
HUTCHINS, TEXAS — Indianapolis-based development firm Scannell Properties has completed a 450,000-square-foot distribution center at 1401 W. Wintergreen Road in Hutchins, a southern suburb of Dallas. The rail-served property was developed as a build-to-suit project for Biagi Bros., a California-based logistics firm for the beverage industry. Ware Malcomb provided design services for the project and Evans General Contractors handled construction. The facility is the third industrial facility leased to Biagi Bros. in Texas.
WAUWATOSA, WIS. — An affiliate of Phoenix Investors has acquired the JCPenney Logistics Warehouse and Furniture Outlet Center for $31.2 million. JCPenney sold the 2 million-square-foot property, which is located at 18000 W. Burleigh St. in Wauwatosa, just west of Milwaukee. The buildings are situated adjacent to Interstate 45 and feature 100 loading docks. The first buildings were constructed in the 1950s. JCPenney has made regular improvements to the buildings and infrastructure over the years. Phoenix plans to renovate the property, both structurally and cosmetically.
In 2017, newly signed bulk space deals in the greater Indianapolis industrial market totaled 10.2 million square feet. Of that total, over 50 percent had some affiliation with e-commerce. With 26 new buildings and another 5.7 million square feet under construction, the Indianapolis industrial market will clearly become increasingly linked to the performance of e-commerce as the total share of online retail sales remains in a significant growth mode. Projections by Cushman & Wakefield show that by 2020 nearly 12 percent of all retail sales will be associated with e-commerce — three times what it was 10 years ago. Stronger growth will be driven by the onset of e-grocery and e-pharma. Additionally, e-commerce will continue to be a driving force in these industrial deals because the online industry is getting better at what it does. Coming off the strongest holiday season since the Great Recession, companies are now focused on the cost of package returns and are re-examining the value of brick-and-mortar stores. When it comes to package returns, not only is the processing time significantly slower, but it is six times costlier to return a package using regular shipping methods. Returning items to physical store locations is the cheapest …
ATLANTA — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $35.3 million sale of a FedEx Freight facility located at 4400 International Parkway in Atlanta, a half-mile from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The 292,000-square-foot facility is situated on 50 acres and was constructed in 1997. Todd Harrell of Marcus & Millichap arranged the transaction on behalf of the undisclosed seller and procured the buyer, a private equity real estate operator. Harrell also arranged the sale of a second FedEx Freight center in Marcus Hook, Penn., on behalf of the same buyer and seller. The 150,000-square-foot facility sold for $15.4 million.