ELMHURST, ILL. — Euroview Enterprises LLC has entered into a 47,861-square-foot industrial lease in Elmhurst, about 18 miles west of Chicago. The manufacturer and distributor of glass shower doors will occupy the space at 342 Carol Lane. The company is moving from a nearby location at 420 W. Wrightwood Ave. Adam Haefner and Zeke Rowan of Darwin Realty represented the landlord, an institutional investor. Justin Lerner of Transwestern represented the tenant.
AURORA, COLO. — Majestic Realty Co. has broken ground on a 701,900-square-foot speculative warehouse/distribution facility in Aurora. Nicknamed the “Big Bomber,” the building will be the state’s largest facility of its kind once it’s completed in early 2018. The building is being constructed on 36 acres at the 1,500-acre Majestic Commercenter, situated at the intersection of I-70 and Tower Road. It will feature 36-foot ceiling clearance, 146 dock doors, 198 trailer parking spaces and 426 car spaces. Designed for larger users, the facility will be divisible for multiple tenants who require as little as 150,000 square feet. Majestic has been Aurora’s largest industrial developer over the past two decades.
The need for storage and distribution space for the variety of fruits and vegetables imported from Mexico has long been a driver of industrial demand in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV). Overall industrial occupancy is on the rise throughout the region — about 92 percent in the Greater McAllen Area — and the role of agriculture is becoming a major part of it. The agriculture industry has fueled rapid growth in the RGV city of Pharr and continues to bolster its economic prosperity today. As a global agricultural powerhouse, Pharr is home to a variety of thriving businesses in the agriculture industry. The Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge represents the sixth-largest land (in the United States and currently processes more than $30 billion in international trade on an annual basis. The most influential element behind this uptick has not been agrarian, financial or demographic, but rather infrastructural and on the Mexico side of the region. The Baluarte Bicentennial Bridge, a 3,700-foot cable-stayed bridge completed in late 2013, provides direct access from the Pacific coast city of Mazatlan to the inland metro area of Durango. From Durango, product can be transported directly to the Mexico border city of Reynosa, which has a thriving …
DALLAS — Mujeres Banderas III, a partnership between Commercial Real Estate Women Dallas and San Francisco, has sold a 16,000-square-foot warehouse property located on Duncanville Road in south Dallas. The property was the last asset owned by the Mujeres Banderas partnerships. The buyer and sales price were not disclosed.
UNION CITY, GA. — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF), in collaboration with British counterpart Knight Frank, has negotiated a 1 million-square-foot industrial lease for ASOS, a London-based fashion retailer, in Union City, roughly 18 miles south of Atlanta. The online fashion retailer is investing approximately $40 million in the new fulfillment center at Majestic Airport Center IV along South Fulton Parkway. The facility will create 1,600 jobs upon completion and have a 10 million-unit capacity. Catered toward the millennial shopper, ASOS carries over 850 brands and features 85,000 products online, with 5,000 new items added each week.
TAMPA AND ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has brokered the $16.1 million sale of a two-property industrial portfolio in the Tampa Bay area — Airport Corporate Center, located at 6702-6712 Benjamin Road in Tampa, and Bay Tec Center, located at 2810-2880 Scherer Drive in St. Petersburg. Douglas Mandel of IPA arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, Massachusetts-based Calare Properties. The IPA team also procured the buyer, California-based Avistone. The properties include 14 buildings totaling 231,867 square feet.
CHANDLER, ARIZ. — IPT Acquisitions has purchased a 91,204-square-foot last-mile logistic center in Chandler for $10.7 million. The center is located at 550 E. Elliot Road. Amazon occupies the property. Will Strong, Mike Haenel, Andy Markham and Phil Haenel of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Globe Management Co., in this transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — New York City-based REIT Gramercy Property Trust (GPT) has entered into an agreement with a private real estate development and investment company to acquire a nine-property, 2 million-square-foot portfolio of Class A industrial buildings for $331 million. The portfolio is 100 percent leased with a weighted average remaining lease term of 10.4 years. The properties are located in Atlanta; Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago; the Inland Empire; Minneapolis; Reno, Nevada; and Spartanburg, South Carolina. More than 80 percent of the NOI for the portfolio is concentrated in four markets (Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and the Inland Empire) and nearly 90 percent of the rent from the portfolio comes from a single tenant. At closing, which is expected to occur by the end of third quarter 2017, GPT will assume $137 million of in-place debt, and will issue $133 million in operating partnership units (OP units) to fund the acquisition. The OP unit price will be based on a 30-day volume-weighted average price as of August 29, 2017, or $29.56 per share. The company is acquiring the portfolio at a 6.3 percent cash capitalization rate. Including this nine-property industrial portfolio, as well as other recently announced transactions under …
LINCOLNSHIRE, ILL. — ML Realty Partners has acquired a 70,957-square-foot industrial building in Lincolnshire, a northern suburb of Chicago. The purchase price was not disclosed. A single tenant occupies the entire property, located at 500 Bond St. Jeff Devine, Steve Disse and Matthew Stauber of Colliers International represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Coldwell Banker Commercial Advisors has brokered the sale of an 11,679-square-foot office/warehouse property in Arlington. Roughly two-thirds of the property, which is situated on 1.5 acres at 2309 Superior Drive in the Pantego area of Arlington, is office space and the remainder is warehouse space. Wayne Burgdorf of Coldwell Banker represented the seller, 2309 Properties LLC, and the buyer, 2309 Superior Drive LLC.
