COPPELL, TEXAS — Lee & Associates Dallas/Fort Worth has completed a lease extension and expansion totaling 445,695 square feet located at 777 Freeport Parkway in Coppell, about 22 miles northwest of Dallas. Bob Gibson of CBRE represented the tenant, C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc., a wholesale grocery supplier and leading supply chain company for the food industry. Ken Wesson and Mark Graybill of Lee & Associates represented the landlord, GLP, a developer of logistics facilities based in Baltimore.
NORTH HAVEN, CONN. — Calare Properties has acquired a warehouse distribution facility, located at 33 Stiles Lane in North Haven, for an undisclosed price. Situated on 14 acres, the property features 175,000 square feet of warehouse and distribution space. Along with the purchase, Calare secured a 10-year lease with a supplier of chemical additives and measuring instruments, bringing the building to 100 percent occupancy, including the current tenant Millwood Inc. The one-story steel-frame warehouse features 32-foot ceilings, 18 tailboard docks and three drive-in doors. The name of the seller was not released.
AURORA, CAROL STREAM AND NEW LENOX, ILL. — Colliers International has arranged the sale of a 1.4 million-square-foot industrial portfolio in metro Chicago for $95 million. All six buildings in the portfolio are located in business parks with immediate access to interstate highways. The buildings include: 494 E. Lies Road, an 89,380-square-foot facility in the Carol Point Business Center in Carol Stream; 2520 Diehl Road, a 130,000-square-foot facility in the White Oak Business Park in Aurora; and 2700 Ellis Road, 2101 Haven Road, 2201 Haven Road and 2200 Haven Road within the Cherry Hill Business Park in New Lenox. Collectively, the buildings were 100 percent leased to seven tenants at the time of sale. Jeff Devine and Steve Disse of Colliers International represented the seller, institutional investors advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management. A comingled fund managed by CBRE Investors purchased the portfolio.
TROY, MICH. — Bontaz Centre has signed a 40,000-square-foot industrial lease for its North American headquarters in Troy. Previously occupied by International Automotive Components, the property is located at 1099 Chicago Road. Founded in 1965, Bontaz Centre is an automotive fluid management company that specializes in subassembly design and production. The company, which has had a small presence in Madison Heights, will begin occupying the new space in March 2018 and expects to expand its lease by an additional 20,000 square feet to increase production processes and accommodate a growing workforce. Peter Kepic and Peter Kepic Jr. of Colliers International represented the landlord, John Secco of Allegra Development, in the lease transaction. Gary Grochowski and Bryan Barnas of Colliers represented the tenant.
BUFORD, GA. — JLL Income Property Trust has acquired Mason Mill Distribution Center, a 340,000-square-foot industrial property in Buford, roughly 38 miles northeast of Atlanta, for $31 million. The newly constructed building is fully leased to a publicly traded global pharmaceutical distribution company through 2027. Mason Mill Distribution Center features 32-foot ceiling heights, an ESFR sprinkler system, LED lighting, a cross-dock design and 376 parking spaces. In addition, the facility is fully air-conditioned.
HALETHORPE, MD. AND MIAMI — Ready Capital Structured Finance has arranged two loans totaling $20.4 million for an industrial property in Halethorpe and a mixed-use property in Miami. Ready Capital arranged a $14 million, three-year loan for the acquisition, renovation and stabilization of a 313,000-square-foot industrial property in Halethorpe, a city roughly seven miles south of Baltimore. The borrower plans to upgrade the property with full interior unit renovations, exterior renovations and infrastructure upgrades, followed by re-tenanting the property. In Miami, Ready Capital arranged a $6.4 million, three-year loan for the acquisition, renovation and stabilization of a 19,600-square-foot mixed-use property. The borrower plans to fully renovate unit interiors, build out new retail space and re-tenant the property. Both loans feature floating interest rates, two extension options and flexible pre-payment structures. The names of the borrowers were not disclosed.
Demand for data center space stems from a variety of sources. The vast majority of companies across most industries have some sort of web presence, and their customer and employee records and information are stored electronically. At the same time on the consumer side, smartphones and tablet devices are all but ubiquitous, their owners constantly upping their usage of apps and social media platforms. Nonprofit communications firm CTIA tracks aggregate wireless data usage across the country on an annual basis. The Washington, D.C.-based company found that in 2013, Americans used approximately 3.2 trillion megabytes of data. By 2015, a year in which there were about 228 million smartphones and 41 million tablet devices in circulation, that figure had increased threefold to 9.6 trillion megabytes. By 2016, a year in which there were more than 261 million smartphones in circulation, wireless data usage had exceeded 13.7 trillion megabytes. That total represents more than 35 times the volume of data traffic recorded in 2010, according to CTIA’s website. Web presences, records storage and electronic communications — not to mention the ever-expanding role of e-commerce in retail today — each contribute marginally to the growing demand for data center space. However, when combined …
WARREN, N.J. — Devli Group has purchased a two-building flex industrial property located at 150 Mt. Bethel Road in Warren for an undisclosed price. Situated on 15.7 acres, the buildings feature a total of 121,954 square feet of space with 26-foot clear ceiling heights and nine loading docks, as well as 355 parking space. Additionally, the property has approved plans to develop an additional 46,000-square-foot building. Andrew Schwartz, Andrew Merin and Ryan Larkin of Cushman & Wakefield represented the buyer and seller in the transaction.
MCDONOUGH, GA. — Trammell Crow Co. (TCC) and its partner, Allstate, have sold Phase II of King Mill Distribution Park, an approximately 1.6 million-square-foot industrial park in McDonough, roughly 30 miles southeast of Atlanta. Canadian REIT Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust (PIRET) acquired the 760,256-square-foot warehouse, located at 150 Distribution Drive. Frank Fallon, Chris Riley and Trey Barry of CBRE arranged the transaction on behalf of the joint venture. Other terms of the deal were not disclosed. The building features 36-foot clear heights, ample trailer storage, employee vehicle parking, ingress/egress with two separate entrances and the flexibility to accommodate multiple tenants. In May, TCC and Allstate sold the first phase of the development to American Realty Advisors. The 846,496-square-foot building is fully leased to Wayfair, a Boston-based e-commerce retailer specializing in home furnishings and décor.
SAN ANTONIO — Bellomy & Co. has secured the sale of the 606-unit Judson Self Storage facility located at 14989 Judson Road in San Antonio. Rockville, Md.-based Store It All Self Storage purchased the facility for an undisclosed price. Harry Botkin of HLB Investments in New Braunfels represented the San Antonio-based seller. Bill Bellomy, Michael Johnson and John Arnold of Bellomy & Co. procured the buyer. The 129,573-square-foot Judson Self Storage was 72 percent occupied at the time of sale.