STREAMWOOD, ILL. — The Opus Group and USAA Real Estate Co. have unveiled plans for a 423,725-square-foot speculative industrial building located at 10 Falcon Court in Streamwood, approximately 35 miles northwest of Chicago. Located on 35 acres just off the Elgin O’Hare Expressway, the cross-docked warehouse will offer 32-foot clear heights, up to 88 exterior truck docks, up to 117 trailer parking stalls and 193 parking spaces with room for expansion. The site also offers quick access to O’Hare International Airport. Construction is expected to start this month and be completed by the end of this year.
EL PASO, TEXAS — Guy Arnold has been named president of Hunt Real Estate. In this role, Arnold will be responsible for managing all aspects of Hunt’s real estate equity investment portfolio, including acquisitions and dispositions of real assets. Arnold has more than 25 years of real estate experience. In 2013, he founded GMA Holdings, a commercial real estate investment firm in Denver. Prior to that, Arnold served as president of Denver-based Dividend Capital Diversified Property Fund, where he led all functions of the $2.9 billion REIT, including property acquisitions, dispositions, asset management, finance, reporting, human resources and investor relations. Arnold also held the position of managing director at Cherokee Investment Partners and vice president at Colorado & Santa Fe Land Co. Arnold is a member of the Board of Directors of the Meridian Fund Inc., a family of mutual funds; a member of the Board of Directors for The Children’s Hospital of Colorado Finance Committee; chairman of the Trusts and Endowments Committee for the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado; and a former member of the Board of Directors of Steele Street Bank & Trust, a $550 million Denver community bank that recently sold to MidFirst Bank. Arnold earned a Bachelor …
ORLANDO, FLA. — McCraney Property Co. has purchased 66 acres at the intersection of Taft Vineland Road and the Florida Turnpike, which is adjacent to the company’s existing Bent Oak Industrial Park in Orlando. The company plans to develop six buildings totaling 1.1 million square feet on the site. The project is officially Phase II of Bent Oak Industrial Park, which McCraney plans to deliver by the end of the second quarter of 2016. The design team for Phase II includes general contractor Edwards Construction Services Inc. and architect C4 Architecture LLC.
HOUSTON — HFF has arranged the sale of 8451 Market St., a 120,810-square-foot industrial facility in Houston. HFF marketed the asset on behalf of the seller, Mayfield Properties LP. ATCAP Partners purchased the asset for an undisclosed amount and was assisted by HFF in arranging acquisition financing. The property is situated on five acres near the intersection of I-10 East and Loop 610 adjacent to the Budweiser beer plant and the Houston Ship Channel, six miles east of Houston’s central business district. The property features 24-foot ceiling heights and a 7.8 percent office build-out. Tenants at the fully leased facility include Santini Export Packaging Corp., who has been in continuous occupancy since the early 1980s, as well as Area Wholesale Tire and Interglobal Plastics. Rusty Tamlyn, Trent Agnew and John Rogers led the HFF investment sales team representing the seller. Brian Carlton led HFF’s debt placement team.
SANTA CLARITA, CALIF. – A 22,470-square-foot industrial building in the Los Angeles submarket of Santa Clarita has sold to Stanford Avenue Industrial LLC for $2.7 million. The building is located at 27822 Fremont Court. The seller, Neotech Products, will be relocating to a facility in nearby Valencia. The LLC was represented by Joel Hutak of Lee & Associates. The seller was represented by Trevor Gale and Jon Reno of Heger Industrial.
PHOENIX – Jack Travis Logistics has signed a lease for 20,000 square feet of industrial space in Phoenix. The new facility at 236 E. Pima Street will allow the modern freight shipping and logistics company to relocate from nearby Tempe. Its new space is within the Pima Distribution Center. Jack Travis was represented by John Grady and Jackie Orcutt of Cushman & Wakefield’s Industrial Properties group. The landlord, TPRF II/Pima Industrial LLC, was represented by Stein Koss and Tom Louer of Lee & Associates.
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. — Atlantic Beverage Co. has signed a lease for 97,800 square feet of industrial space at 450 Oaktree Road in South Plainfield. The 257,000-square-foot property features 21-foot ceiling heights, 14 tailboards, one drive-in door, more than 150 car parking spaces, parking for 50 trailers and proximity to Interstate 287 and the New Jersey Turnpike. Steve Bussel of Bussel Realty Corp. represented the tenant and the landlord, Paramount Assets, in the transaction.
The industrial market in Los Angeles County is extremely tight and shows no signs of letting up as the trend for conversion of industrial property to creative office space by tech and media industries is very prevalent. Many industrial property owners either sell their assets and realize major equity gains with the new buyer planning a conversion, or choose to convert it to creative office themselves, garnering two to four times the rental rate for creative space. The vacancy rate of 3.2 percent in the first quarter of 2015 was parallel to that of the last quarter of 2014. To give some perspective, the downward trend of industrial vacancy has continued since the second quarter of 2013 when vacancy posted at a 5 percent rate. Additionally, the majority of larger industrial development in the region is build-to-suit product, which has virtually no impact on vacancy. The Downtown Los Angeles industrial market continues this trend of industrial property conversion to creative office. The Arts District is ground zero for this. While the rejuvenation and gentrification of Downtown is a welcome sight, the industrial users are now having to relocate, seeking other spaces throughout the LA basin. Many of these users are …
EL PASO, TEXAS — CBRE has arranged two long-term lease renewals for logistics tenants in El Paso. The buildings are part of a larger industrial portfolio purchased by Phoenix-based ViaWest Group earlier this year. Foreign trade and door-to-door logistics services firm Jichasa renewed a 20,000-square-foot lease at 7189 Merchant Ave., with plans for future expansion. The El Paso operations support a powdered milk supplier in Chihuahua, Mexico. Third party logistics provider Superior Transport & Logistics Inc. also renewed a 20,000-square-foot lease at 7157 Merchant Ave. Since acquiring the four-building, 245,745-square-foot portfolio in March, ViaWest Group has installed new roofing, resurfaced the parking lots and updated the exterior paint. Additional renovations are planned for the future. The portfolio is 58 percent occupied. Arturo De la Mora with CBRE’s El Paso office represented the landlord in lease negotiations.
CHESTERFIELD, MO. — St. Louis-based Hilliker Corp. has arranged a 5,250-square-foot lease for B&G Industries, a material handling solution provider. The company relocated to 717 Crown Industrial Court from 744 Spirit of St. Louis Blvd. in Chesterfield. The new location offers 1,500 square feet of office space and 3,750 square feet of warehouse storage space. Will Aschinger of Hilliker represented the tenant, while Scott Properties represented the landlord, Scott Family Properties, in the transaction.