KANSAS CITY, MO. — Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated the lease of 81,997 square feet of industrial space in Building III at Three Trails Industrial Park in Kansas City. Shuttlewagon Inc., a designer and manufacturer of mobile railcar movers for aggregate, mining and refining industries, will occupy the space located at 8701 Elmwood Ave. for 15 years. At least 60 employees are expected to work in the building. Joe Accurso and Rob Holland of Cushman & Wakefield represented Shuttlewagon in the transaction. Mark Fountain and Nick Tinnel of True North Industrial Realty LLC represented the landlord, NPIF2 Three Trails Building III LLC.
LEBANON, TENN. — Premier Design + Build Group LLC plans to construct Commerce Farms V, a 650,000-square-foot spec distribution facility situated within the 145-acre Commerce Farms Industrial Park in Lebanon, a suburb of Nashville. Premier Design + Build is building the property on behalf of the developer, HSA Commercial Real Estate. The facility will sit on 41 acres at Highway 109 and feature 32-foot clear heights, 144 truck dock positions, four drive-in doors, a parking lot with 184 trailer stalls and a TPO roofing system. Joe Ahrens is the project manager and Johnathan Nelsen is the field superintendent from Premier Design + Build. Harris Architects will deliver architectural services for the project, and Joe DeLemos of NorthStar Real Estate Advisors is leasing the building.
R.W. Holmes Realty Facilitates $1.9M Sale of Office, Warehouse Property in Bellingham, Massachusetts
BELLINGHAM, MASS. — R.W. Holmes Realty has arranged the sale of an office and warehouse building located at 24 Williams Way in Bellingham. Gainsboro Brothers LLC sold the property to Matt Clark of TMC Holdings & Development for $1.9 million. Situated on three acres, the building features 34,700 square feet of office and warehouse space. The buyer plans to renovate the property and site for multi-tenant use. John Eysenback of R.W. Holmes represented the seller and buyer in the deal.
BROOKLYN PARK, MINN. — CBRE has negotiated an industrial lease expansion for Point B Logistics in Brooklyn Park near Minneapolis. The logistics company has expanded its lease at 610 Commerce Center from 34,780 square feet to 61,097 square feet. This brings the industrial building to full occupancy. Other tenants include Scholastic Book Fair, Blackhawk Industrial and Varitronics LLC. The building is the first phase of development at the site, with another 202,000-square-foot industrial building available for occupancy in fall 2017. A third 100,000-square-foot building is also planned for the site. Dan Swartz of CBRE is exclusively marketing Phase II and III for lease on behalf of the building’s owner and developer, CSM Corp.
The self storage REIT industry is sizzling hot. Last year, when stocks were flat and REITs generated a mere 2.8 percent return on average, self storage REITs returned a whopping 40 percent, far surpassing all other REIT sectors. Occupancy rates at the 51,000 self storage facilities in the United States have grown by 11 percent from the first quarter of 2012 to the first quarter of 2016. The need for storage facilities continues to increase as Baby Boomers retire and downsize, while millennials flock to rental apartments without garages and basements. In fact, the growth in the inventory of self storage facilities mirrors recent increases in apartment occupancy. Although net absorption of apartments is slowing, self storage REITs remain a solid investment. That’s because the existing inventory of storage facilities is relatively low due to a slowdown of construction during the recession. This lack of sufficient supply prompted Integra Realty Resources to predict record-level prices and continued demand for this strong investment type into 2017. One of the advantages of self storage is that it involves so little capital outlay when compared to other kinds of commercial real estate, such as malls, offices or apartments. Indeed, it requires less capital …
WESTWOOD, N.J. — NAI James E. Hanson has arranged the sales of an industrial property and a mixed-use building in Westwood in two separate transactions. John Schilp and Andrew Somple of NAI Hanson represented the buyers and sellers in both deals. In the first deal, DR Music acquired a 16,400-square-foot industrial building located at 40 Carver Ave. in Westwood Industrial Park. 40 Carver LLC sold the building, which features 22-foot ceiling heights and two loading docks, for an undisclosed price. In the second deal, an investor acquired a 2,700-square-foot mixed-use property, which was in foreclosure, for an undisclosed price. A New Jersey banking institution sold the building, located at 57 Jefferson Ave.
HOUSTON — NAI Partners has arranged the lease of an industrial office and warehouse building located at 5808 Hamblen Road within Logistics Park at World Houston in Houston. Winchester Source Technology LLC will occupy the 12,000-square-foot speculative building. John Ferruzzo and Nick Peterson of NAI Partners represented the landlord, Adkisson Development, while John Ginder of Caldwell Cos. represented the tenant in the transaction.
HOUSTON — Lee & Associates has brokered the lease of an 8,000-square-foot industrial and office building at 3023 Farrell Road in Houston. Eurochem International Corp. will occupy the single-tenant facility. Reed Vestal, Cameron Hicks and Taylor Schmidt of Lee & Associates represented the tenant, while Mike Spears and Robert Noack, also of Lee & Associates, represented the undisclosed landlord in the deal.
Industrial activity in Louisville is growing at an exponential clip and doesn’t appear to be slowing anytime soon. As famously quoted in Field of Dreams, “If you build it, they will come.” And indeed they have. In Louisville and extending into southern Indiana, more than 3 million square feet of new construction has already been delivered this year. What’s more, the current pipeline of projects under construction — coupled with proposed construction — could deliver as much as 3 million square feet or more in the next nine to 12 months. The real estate landscape in Louisville is forever changed. Historically, institutional investors expressed interest in the region but were reluctant to take action. Now, with robust projects on the horizon, the pool of institutional owners making large-scale investments continues to grow. New players like The Opus Group, Dermody Properties Inc., Browning Investments LLC, Molto Properties LLC and VanTrust Real Estate LLC have all established projects in Louisville in the last two years. But why Louisville? Investors are setting sight on Kentucky for more than just new construction. Prime Locations Even during the economic downturn between 2008 and 2011, Louisville was never a victim of the extreme fallout experienced by …
BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Investcorp has expanded its U.S. real estate portfolio with $250 million in acquisitions in Boston and Denver. The five investments include 20 buildings totaling 1.8 million square feet of office, industrial, flex and laboratory space. The company’s Boston acquisitions include the four-building Boston Metro Industrial, a 900,000-square-foot development in Boston that is 95 percent leased, and Blackstone Science Square, a 99 percent-leased, 76,038-square-foot office and laboratory property in Cambridge.