BLACKSBURG, S.C. — GTIS Partners and Collett Industrial have broken ground on Stateline 85, a new, 933,120-square-foot industrial development in Blacksburg. Located near the state border between North and South Carolina, the three-building project will be developed in two phases. The first phase, which is scheduled for completion in summer 2025, will comprise two buildings. Buildings 1 and 2 will span 198,720 and 224,640 square feet, respectively. Building 1 will feature 32-foot clear heights with 171 car parking spaces and 50 trailer parking spaces, and Building 2 will offer 36-foot clear heights with 175 car spaces and 63 trailer spaces. The second phase will include up to 500,000 square feet of leasable space. Drew Coholan, Matt Treble and Fermin Deoca of Cushman & Wakefield will oversee leasing at the development on behalf of the joint venture.
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NEW YORK CITY — Global alternative investment firm Investcorp has acquired three national industrial portfolios that collectively total 1.5 million square feet across 41 buildings. The sales price was approximately $300 million. The seller(s) was not disclosed. The details of the three portfolios are as follows: Following this transaction, which comes on the heels of the firm buying a five-building, 435,000-square-foot industrial portfolio on Long Island, Investcorp now owns 640 industrial buildings totaling roughly 42 million square feet across the country. “We remain confident in the industrial asset class, which now represents nearly 60 percent of our real estate assets under management in the United States,” says Herb Myers, co-head of real estate, North America at Investcorp. “While the overall sector has shown signs of normalizing from pandemic-era highs, a lot of this stabilization is concentrated among newly built speculative properties, and we continue to see strong performance and compelling investment opportunities for existing infill assets in high-growth markets.” “As reshoring and nearshoring have reshaped the industrial and manufacturing landscapes, well-located, multi-tenanted industrial assets have continued to attract robust interest from tenants and investors,” adds Michael Moriarty, managing director and head of commercial acquisitions at Investcorp. “The properties comprising these …
— By David Nelson, regional president of brokerage for Northern California and Nevada, Kidder Mathews — After record figures across most U.S. industrial markets in 2021 and 2022, key fundamentals cooled in 2023 and have been recalibrating ever since. Total net absorption has been negative in recent quarters, sublease space is on the rise, vacancy and availability rates have been steadily inching up, and average asking lease rates are relatively flat. Furthermore, the recent surge in development activity due to the rise in ecommerce penetration has been slowly drying up with construction starts dropping by more than 60 percent in 2023 and 2024. Core industrial markets in the Bay Area experienced notable increases in both vacancy and availability. Silicon Valley vacancy rose from between 1.5 percent and 2.5 percent last year to 3 percent and 4 percent in 2024. Meanwhile, East Bay rose from 3.5 percent and 4 percent in 2023 to 5.5 percent and 6.5 percent in second-quarter 2024. During the first half of the year, an increase in sublease space has been a major contributor to the higher rates. They have increased from the pre-COVID average of 9 percent of total available space to 19 percent at the end …
MIAMI — Avison Young has brokered the $9.1 million sale of an industrial property located at 7400 N.W. 37th Ave. in Miami. RAM Steel Framing occupies the building, which totals 109,000 square feet. John Crotty, David Duckworth, Michael Fay and Brian de la Fé of Avison Young represented the seller, Plage Associates, and the buyer, Azora Exan, in the transaction. The same team previously arranged Plage Associates’ $7.5 million purchase of the property in 2020. RAM Steel Framing will continue to occupy the building, which is situated roughly three miles from Miami International Airport.
HOUSTON — Los Angeles-based investment firm Lunada Rose Partners has acquired a 185,413-square-foot industrial building located at 13612 Furman Road on the south side of Houston. The building was completed earlier this year and features 32-foot clear heights, 34 loading docks and two drive-in doors. At the time of sale, the building was fully leased to Empire Auto Parts on a long-term basis. JLL represented the undisclosed seller in the off-market transaction. The sales price was also not disclosed, but the deal traded in all-cash and was originally listed for $21.8 million.
MILLSTONE, N.J. — California-based brokerage firm Matthews Real Estate Investment Services has arranged the $10.3 million sale of a self-storage facility in the Central New Jersey community of Millstone. CubeSmart operates the facility, which was built in phases on a 10-plus acre site between 2021 and 2023. The property totals 59,605 net rentable square feet across 488 units (340 climate-controlled and 148 non-climate-controlled). Milton Braasch II, Ben Tracy and Simon Assaf of Matthews represented the undisclosed seller/original developer in the transaction. The buyer was also not disclosed.
ROMULUS, MICH. — PACE Loan Group has provided a $1.5 million C-PACE loan for a 475-unit self-storage project under construction in Romulus. The 25-year loan, which closed out the $9 million capital stack, will be used for the building envelope, Energy Star windows, high-efficiency HVAC, plumbing and LED lighting. The property, located adjacent to the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, will consist of seven one-story buildings with a mix of 298 climate-controlled units and 177 drive-up units. Completion is slated for summer 2025. Extra Space Storage will manage the property. The renewable and energy conservation measures are expected to save $57,616 annually in a payback period of 8.5 years. A local bank provided a senior loan of $5.5 million.
DENVER — Hercules Industries has acquired a 100,175-square-foot industrial property located within Stapleton Business Center in Denver from Anchorage-based Pacific Acquisitions for an undisclosed price. Situated on 5 acres at 4690 Florence St., the property features 84,000 square feet of 30-foot clear warehouse space, 16,000 square feet of office space and ESFR sprinklers, as well as functional loading and parking. The locally based manufacturer and distributor of HVAC products will use the Class A asset to support operations for a new business line. Mike Wafer Jr. and Mike Wafer of Newmark represented the buyer in the deal, while Jim Bolt of CBRE represented the seller.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Bradford Commercial Real Estate Services has negotiated the sale of a 13,465-square-foot industrial building in northeast Fort Worth. According to LoopNet Inc., the single-tenant building at 7200 Midway Drive was constructed on 3.8 acres in 1986 and features 16-foot clear heights. Chris Wong of Bradford represented the seller, an entity doing business as RBE Midway LLC, in the transaction. Doc Perrier of Outpost Partners represented the buyer, Regis Berkeley A&R Properties LLC.
BEDFORD, MASS. — A partnership between Boston-based Camber Development and Connecticut-based Wheelock Street Capital has completed a 147,000-square-foot industrial and life sciences project in Bedford, about 20 miles northwest of Boston. The project represents Phase I of a larger manufacturing campus known as 44 Middlesex, and the second phase will also center on the delivery of a 147,000-square-foot building. Construction of that facility is expected to begin in 2025 and to last about a year. Both buildings will be two-story structures and will have 105,000 square feet on the ground floor and a 42,000-square-foot mezzanine space on the second floor, as well as clear heights of 36 feet. Newmark is the leasing agent for the development.