Industrial

BH Properties Leases 409,180 SF Industrial Space in El Paso

by Haisten Willis April 1, 2016

EL PASO, TEXAS — A business unit of Stockholm, Sweden-based Electrolux Group has leased 409,180 square feet of industrial space in El Paso. BH Properties bought the 655,000-square-foot building from Electrolux in 2009 and leased it back to the company until February of 2014. The property is located at 9600 Pan American Drive. Terms of the five-year lease were not disclosed. Cushman & Wakefield | PIRES International’s Brett Preston and David Hingst were the brokers for the transaction. Champlain Cable Corp. occupies 117,000 square feet in the building, and 128,000 square feet is unoccupied. Electrolux also operates a manufacturing facility across the border from El Paso in Ciudad Juarez.

April 1, 2016

NAI Partners, CBRE Broker 100,000 SF Industrial Lease in Houston

by Haisten Willis April 1, 2016

HOUSTON — GSL Capital Management LLC has signed a new lease at 2200 Lauder Road in Houston. The 100,000-square-foot lease is for a crane-served manufacturing facility on 14.7 acres. Clay Pritchett of NAI Partners represented the landlord, GSL Capital Management LLC. Carlton Anderson of CBRE represented the tenant.

April 1, 2016

Industrial Midwest Wisconsin

PREMIER Design + Build to Construct 214,533 SF Speculative Warehouse Near Milwaukee

by Christina Cannon April 1, 2016

WAUKESHA, WIS. — PREMIER Design + Build LLC will construct a 214,533-square-foot industrial distribution warehouse in Waukesha, approximately 20 miles west of Milwaukee. The speculative facility, situated on 11.8 acres, will feature 32-foot clear heights, 28 truck dock positions, four drive-in doors, 52 trailer stalls and 91 car parking spaces. The Class A building will be located at 901 Northview Road. Partners in Design Inc. is the architect for the project, and Pinnacle Engineering Group is providing civil engineering services. HSA Commercial Real Estate is the building developer, Roger Siegel of JLL will market the building for lease.

April 1, 2016

Illinois Industrial Midwest

Handi-foil Signs 213,000 SF Industrial Lease in Gurnee, Illinois

by Christina Cannon April 1, 2016

GURNEE, ILL. — Avison Young has arranged a 213,000-square-foot lease for Handi-foil in Gurnee, approximately 40 miles northwest of Chicago. The building, located at 5650 CenterPoint Court, sits inside the Grand Tri-State Business Park. Built in 2005, the property features 32-foot clear heights and 9,800 square feet of office space. The building will be an expansion for Handi-foil, a manufacturer of recyclable aluminum products, based in Wheeling, Ill. Brett Kroner, Keith Puritz and Eric Fischer of Avison Young represented the tenant in the transaction. Ryan Bain and Zach Graham of CBRE represented the landlord, CenterPoint Properties.

April 1, 2016

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The Tale — and Tail — of El Paso’s Industrial Market is a Happy One

by Haisten Willis April 1, 2016

Mexico is what drives El Paso. Mexico is the dog and El Paso is the tail. When the dog is happy the tail gets to wag, and we’re wagging pretty hard right now. The El Paso industrial market hasn’t been this strong since at least 1990. Juarez, Chihuahua, El Paso’s Mexican counterpart directly across the border, posted a third consecutive year of positive industrial absorption in 2015. Build-to-suit development activity is at a level not seen in five years. As a direct result, El Paso’s industrial vacancy rate dipped below 9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015, the strongest tenancy performance in nearly a decade, according to Cushman & Wakefield | PIRES International. All the leasing activity we’ve been seeing has been chewing into the city’s vacancy rate. El Paso’s Class A vacancy rate is now below 2 percent. For example, in February, Los Angeles-based BH Properties leased a 409,000-square-foot industrial space located at 9600 Pan American Drive between Interstate 10 and the Rio Grande to a subsidiary of Sweden-based Electrolux Group. Electrolux Group chose the location because it is near the Zaragoza Bridge, El Paso’s far-east port of entry, providing convenient access to the company’s plant across the …

April 1, 2016

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RAF Pacifica Group Acquires Six-Property Industrial Portfolio in San Diego

by Nellie Day March 31, 2016

SAN DIEGO — RAF Pacifica Group has purchased a 16-building industrial portfolio in San Diego. The price was not disclosed, though the firm secured a $19.6 million loan at 50 percent leverage for the acquisition. The 277,040-square-foot portfolio is fully leased. It contains six projects with a total of 87 tenants. The projects include Carroll Way Industrial Park, Rancho Pacifica Business Center, Sorrento Mesa Commerce Center, Enterprise Business Center, and Oceanside Business Park I & II. Oceanside Business Park I & II was purchased from a private owner, while the remainder were acquired from a private international real estate investment firm. James Ruiz and Lori Wendel of Keystone Mortgage Corp. provided acquisition financing. Randy LaChance of Voit, Bob Willingham of Kidder Mathews, along with John Witherall, Josh McFadyen and Joe Crotty of Colliers International, executed the transaction.

March 31, 2016

Illinois Industrial Midwest

CenterPoint Properties to Develop 250,575 SF Industrial Expansion for DS Containers in West Chicago

by Christina Cannon March 31, 2016

WEST CHICAGO, ILL. — CenterPoint Properties will develop a 250,575-sqaure-foot expansion for DS Containers Inc. at the DuPage Business Center in West Chicago. The expansion will bring the building to 550,853 square feet. The build-to-suit project will increase the building office space to 25,183 square feet and create 22 exterior dock doors and 139 car parking spaces across 25 acres. The new space will house DS Containers’ manufacturing operations. Rich Brolly and Gerard Keating represented DS Containers in the transaction, and Dominic Carbonari and Frank Griffin of JLL represented CenterPoint.

March 31, 2016

Industrial Midwest Wisconsin

The Dickman Company Completes Sale of 66,310 SF Industrial Property Near Milwaukee

by Christina Cannon March 31, 2016

OAK CREEK, WIS. — The Dickman Company Inc./CORFAC International has completed the sale of a 66,310-square-foot industrial building in Oak Creek, approximately 15 miles south of Milwaukee, for an undisclosed price. Southbranch Property LLC purchased the building from 2250 W. Southbranch LLC. Samuel M. Dickman Jr. and Samuel D. Dickman of The Dickman Company Inc. were the sole brokers in the transaction.

March 31, 2016

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Speculative Construction Remains Rare Despite Toledo’s Tight Industrial Supply

by Christina Cannon March 31, 2016

The Toledo industrial real estate market continued its steady improvement in the second half of 2015. Tenant demand for space was solid at a time when virtually no new speculative space was added, which led to a shrinking vacancy rate. At the end of 2015, the vacancy rate stood at 6.8 percent, down from 7.2 percent at mid-year and 7.7 percent at the end of 2014. The market absorbed 564,947 square feet in the last half of 2015 on top of the 632,775 square feet absorbed in the first half of the year. With vacancy rates contracting, the overall average asking rental rate in the Toledo industrial market rose 10 cents to $3.14 per square foot between June 2015 and the end of the year. We have commented in prior reports on the dearth of new speculative construction in the region. This trend continues. Only one speculative building has been constructed in the market since well before the Great Recession. That building — a 100,000-square-foot warehouse/distribution building located in Overland Industrial Park in the North Toledo submarket and developed by Harmon Family Properties — was delivered in the second half of 2015. As of December 2015, the building was still …

March 31, 2016

Industrial New York Northeast

Marcus & Millichap Negotiates $4.6M Sale of Brooklyn Industrial Building

by Amy Works March 30, 2016

NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & MIllichap has negotiated the sale of an industrial building located at 1077-1081 Atlantic Ave. in Brooklyn. A limited liability company acquired the 11,500-square-foot facility for $4.6 million. Jakub Nowak and Jason Grunberg of Marcus & Millichap’s Brooklyn office represented the seller, an individual/personal trust, while Nowak, Grunberg and Jim McGuckin, also of Marcus & Millichap, represented the buyer in the transaction.

March 30, 2016

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