CYPRESS, TEXAS — Greg Usher of Cypressbrook Co. has represented Argen Polymer LLC in the purchase of two tracts of land totaling 10.8 acres and a warehouse building containing 15,000 square feet on Telge Road in Cypress. Steve Adkisson of Adkisson Group represented the seller, SF Telge Park LLC.
DAVIE, FLA. — PREMIER Design + Build Group LLC has finished construction on a speculative industrial warehouse in Davie, a town in Broward County. The 145,800-square-foot project, known as Bridge Point Davie, is located at 3501 S.W. 46th Ave. PREMIER completed the project on behalf of Bridge Development Partners LLC. Bridge Point Davie is a Class A facility featuring 32-foot clear heights, 43 truck dock positions, four drive-in doors, an ESFR fire protection sprinkler system and 241 parking stalls. Mark Melone and Michael Pacini of PREMIER were the project managers and Ed Lebak, also with PREMIER, was field superintendent. RLC Architects provided architectural services, and Landplan Engineering Group Inc. was the civil engineer. David Wigoda and Steve Wasserman of JLL are leasing the project on behalf of Bridge Development Partners.
NORTH AURORA, ILL. — American Realty Advisors has acquired a 604,565-square-foot industrial property in North Aurora, approximately 40 miles west of Chicago, for an undisclosed price. The I-88 Gateway Logistics Center is fully leased to a single tenant through 2022. Built in 2014, I-88 Gateway Logistics Center is situated on 33 acres and features 32-foot clear heights, 60 cross-dock truck doors, four drive-in doors, ESFR fire protection, a fully air-conditioned food grade warehousing facility, 63 trailer stalls, 46 trailer staging bays and 300 parking spaces. A joint venture between Opus and USAA Real Estate Co. sold the asset to American Realty Advisors. Jeffery Devine and Steven Disse of Colliers represented the joint venture in the transaction.
SCHILLER PARK, ILL. — Transwestern has brokered the sale of a four-building industrial property in Schiller Park, approximately 16 miles northwest of Chicago, for an undisclosed price. A trust in the name of Howard Bernstein, the late founder of Atlas Cos., sold the 7.3-acre site to Skyline Properties LLC. The four buildings total 160,961 square feet. The property currently serves as the Atlas corporate headquarters. The distributer and servicer of material handling, construction and floor cleaning equipment will relocate to Elk Grove Village in March as part of an expansion. Phillip Rosenberg and Ryan Phillips of Transwestern represented the seller in the transaction. Nick Saraceno of CTK Chicago Partners represented Skyline Properties.
LONDONDERRY, N.H. — Calpine Corp. (NYSE: CPN) has purchased the Granite Ridge Energy Center power plant for $500 million. The natural gas-fired, combined-cycle plant is located at 21 N. Wentworth Ave. in the Southeast New Hampshire town of Londonderry, near the Massachusetts border. The seller was Granite Ridge Holdings. The power plant features two combustion turbines, two heat recovery steam generators and one steam turbine. It began operating in 2003. Granite Ridge has a nameplate generating capacity of 745 megawatts, resulting in a purchase price of approximately $671 per kilowatt. “The addition of Granite Ridge strategically enhances our footprint in New England,” says Thad Hill, Calpine’s president and CEO. “Now with approximately 2,000 megawatts of modern gas-fired capability in the region, Calpine is well positioned to provide clean, flexible and reliable energy and capacity to the market.” Calpine financed the transaction with proceeds from a $550 million first lien term loan, secured in December 2015. Calpine Corporation is America’s largest generator of electricity from natural gas and geothermal resources. Champion Energy, the company’s wholesale power operations and retail business, serves customers in 20 states and Canada. Calpine’s stock closed at $15.31 on Friday, Feb. 5, down from $22.16 one year …
PARSIPPANY AND GARFIELD, N.J. — Madison Realty Capital (MRC) has provided two first mortgage loans totaling $71.1 million for commercial properties in Northern New Jersey. In the first transaction, Madison Realty provided $45 million in acquisition financing for a 404,515-square-foot office property located at 2 Gateway Drive in Parsippany. The undisclosed borrower plans to re-tenant a portion of the property, modernize the property’s common areas and enhance the building’s amenity package. MRC funded $33 million at closing to facilitate the borrower’s acquisition and reserved a future funding component of $12 million for good-news leasing. In the second transaction, MRC provided a $26.1 million loan for the recapitalization of a 1.1 million-square-foot industrial property located at 141 Lanza Ave. in Garfield. Situated on 33 acres, the industrial property includes a warehouse and self-storage space. The undisclosed borrower plans to continue leasing and asset management efforts to fully stabilize the property.
Depending on who’s speaking, or what you’re reading, the forecasts for the 2016 Houston industrial real estate market run the full spectrum from bull to bear. Whether you are a landlord trying to fill a vacancy; a developer weighing the decision on whether to build or not; or an investor or a potential tenant looking for the best lease terms, your decision making is driven by a few key factors. These include the price of oil and where you think it is headed, the type of industrial facility you build/own/require, and in what submarket of Houston it is located. With current oil prices hovering in the low $30s per barrel, and threatening to go lower, you don’t have to look hard to find plenty of economists forecasting a rough 2016 for Houston industrial real estate. But that’s not the whole picture. No doubt the ongoing drilling downturn has hit the city hard. A recent survey was conducted of single-tenant manufacturing facilities ranging from 10,000 to 50,000 square feet in the West, Northwest and North Houston submarkets. The survey reported over 2.4 million square feet available in 120 buildings, with an additional 240,000 square feet under construction in 15 more buildings. …
KENNESAW, GA. — TerraCap Management LLC has purchased Bailey Park, a five-building, 198,475-square-foot industrial/flex park located in Kennesaw, a northern suburb of Atlanta. The private equity fund manager purchased the asset for $18.3 million, marking the first time the company has acquired a property outside of Florida. The park features 12-, 14- and 18-foot clear heights; grade-level and dock-high loading; surface parking and well-maintained landscaping. TerraCap has retained Lincoln Property Co. to provide leasing and management services to the park, which is currently 80 percent leased. Tom Shafer of CBRE represented the seller, J.W. Richardson Enterprises Inc., in the transaction.
ELGIN, ILL. — Associated Bank has closed a $10.6 million acquisition and bridge loan for a 246,446-square-foot industrial property in Elgin, approximately 40 miles northwest of Chicago. Molto Properties was the borrower and acquired the newly-constructed building from Ryan Cos. The cross-dock industrial building is located at 2770 Alft Court within the Randall Crossings Business Park. Molto Properties, founded in 2008, focuses on the acquisition, development and operation of real estate. Craig Przygoda of Associated Bank managed the loan.
WEST CHESTER, OHIO — CBRE has arranged the sale of 9.1 acres of land in West Chester, approximately 22 miles north of Cincinnati. Becknell Industrial acquired the property from IDI Gazeley and plans to build a 138,750-square-foot industrial building on the land. The plot of land is located at the corner of Union Centre Boulevard and LeSaint Drive and is part of Port Union at Union Center, a master-planned park. Construction is scheduled to start this spring. Jeremy Kraus of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction. CBRE will also market the property on behalf of Becknell.