RICHARDSON, TEXAS — NAI Robert Lynn has brokered the sale of an 82,960-square-foot industrial facility located at 1301 Apollo Road in Richardson. Baker Drywall Investments LLC, an affiliate of Mesquite, Texas-based BakerTriangle, purchased the property for an undisclosed price. BakerTriangle is a drywall and plaster specialty contractor with more than 1,300 employees across six offices in Texas. Michael Stanzel of NAI Robert Lynn represented the seller, The Trident Co., and Craig Phelps of JLL represented the buyer. Trident, a metal services company based in Richardson, sold the excess building but maintains a location nearby at 405 N. Plano Road, according to NAI Robert Lynn.
MONROE TOWNSHIP, WOODRIDGE, CARTERET AND CRANBURY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Bridge Development Partners has agreed to sell a 10-building industrial portfolio totaling 3.4 million square feet, along with two land parcels, to Duke Realty for $515 million. Each of the assets are newly constructed facilities in the infill industrial markets in Northern New Jersey, Southern California and South Florida. The transaction will be completed in phases, with the first two phases having closed Sept. 27 and Oct. 25, and the final phase expected to close near the end of the year. In addition to the 10 completed properties, the acquisition includes two land parcels on which two properties totaling 852,745 square feet will be constructed, beginning this year. Once fully constructed the total cost of the portfolio will be nearly $700 million and span 4.3 million square feet. The first two phases include four properties in New Jersey: Bridge Point South Brunswick, a 488,884-square-foot facility at 773 Davidson Mill Road in Monroe Township; Bridge Point Meadowlands, an under construction 193,805-square-foot facility at 5 Ethel Blvd. in Woodbridge; Bridge Point Carteret, a 206,500-square-foot property at 900 Federal Blvd. in Carteret; and Bridge Point Cranbury, a 264,085-square-foot building in Cranbury.
YORK, PA. — STAG York, a wholly owned subsidiary of STAG Industrial, has acquired an industrial facility located at 2925 E. Market St. in York. Alliance Partners HSP sold the property for $19 million. Stauffers Biscuit Co. occupies 255,000 square feet of the 390,000-square-foot facility. The buyer has engaged Cushman & Wakefield to market the remaining 135,000 square feet of the property, which is suited for warehousing and distribution. Prior to selling, Alliance completed capital improvements at the property including a new roof, upgraded loading docks and enhanced truck circulation. Gerard Blinebury, Joseph Hill Jr., Pat McBride and Robert Yoshimura of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the deal.
MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS — Electronics retailer Best Buy will occupy a new 550,000-square-foot distribution center on a 36.4-acre tract along U.S. Highway 90A in Missouri City, a southwestern suburb of Houston. Seefried Industrial Properties and 4M Investments LLC will co-develop the property, which is scheduled to open prior to the 2018 holiday season, according to realtynewsreport.com. Best Buy currently operates about 130 stores throughout Texas, including 13 in Houston proper.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Dallas-based design-build general contractor ARCO/Murray has completed construction of Lakeline Storage, a 736-unit self-storage facility located at 11000 Lakeline Blvd. in Austin. The three-story, climate-controlled property consists of 115,000 square feet of gross rentable storage space, with both drive-up and interior units currently available for rental. The Jenkins Organization, a Houston-based real estate firm specializing in self-storage assets, will operate the facility.
RICHARDSON, TEXAS — NAI Robert Lynn has brokered the sale of an 82,960-square-foot industrial building located at 1301 Apollo Road in the northeastern Dallas metro of Richardson. Michael Stanzel of NAI Robert Lynn represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. Craig Phelps of JLL represented the buyer, Baker Drywall Investments LLC.
EDWARDSVILLE, ILL. — TriStar Properties has sold two industrial warehouse and distribution centers at Gateway Commerce Center in Edwardsville, about 25 miles northeast of St. Louis, for $64 million. Dallas-based L&B Realty Advisors purchased the buildings, which total 1.1 million square feet. The properties are 100 percent leased to GEODIS and DB Schenker, which are international third-party logistics firms. TriStar teamed up with PCCP to develop the buildings at Gateway Commerce Center, a 2,300-acre logistics and bulk distribution park. Cushman & Wakefield is the leasing agent for the park.
ROMEO, MICH. — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has brokered the sale of a 90,000-square-foot industrial build-to-suit land site in Romeo, about 45 miles north of Detroit. The parties closed on the land and signed a construction agreement. The property is located at 100 Peyerk Court. Lanzen, Inc., a defense contractor, will relocate to the property from its current location at 30980 Groesbeck Highway in Roseville in 2018. Lanzen has occupied 34,000 square feet in Roseville since 1966. The company also has manufacturing facilities in Mancelona and Petoskey, which it will continue to occupy. Mike Davidson of NKF represented both the buyer, Lanzen, and the seller, Kemp and Peyerk LLC. Kemp Building & Development began construction on the property in October with completion scheduled for mid-summer 2018.
BALTIMORE — Amazon.com Inc. has unveiled plans to open its fourth Maryland fulfillment center at 1700 Sparrows Point Blvd. in Baltimore’s Sparrows Point community. Amazon currently employs more than 5,000 associations in the state at its various centers. The new 855,000-square-foot facility will create more than 1,500 full-time jobs upon completion. Associates at the facility will pick, pack and ship customer items such as electronics, books, housewares and toys. The new facility will open in 2019, according to The Baltimore Sun.
TULSA, OKLA. — Sales of net leased properties settled in at nearly $11.4 billion during the third quarter of 2017, up 15 percent over the average for the past five third quarters ($10 billion), according to a recent report from Stan Johnson Company, a national brokerage and advisory firm specializing in net leased assets. The report tracks net leased properties across the office, industrial and retail real estate sectors. “This was the largest third-quarter move in six years and represents resilience in the net lease sector,” says John Zimmerman, director of Tulsa-based Stan Johnson Company. “We may be on our way to another record sales year.” The total is the highest quarterly sales volume in the past 12 months and follows a lackluster second quarter that saw investment sales volume drop more than 20 percent below the average for the past five second quarters. Growth occurred across all net lease sectors, with office, industrial and retail increasing 35 percent, 43 percent and 55 percent, respectively. The results were overwhelmingly driven by growth in the sheer number of transactions — more than 750 — as opposed to the amount of the assets traded. “In recent years, a lot of the growth …