OTTAWA, ILL. — Ottawa Easy Storage has opened with 200 units in its first phase. An additional 200 units is planned for future development. The facility offers a one-year rate guarantee, meaning that rental rates will not increase during a customer’s first year of storage. Sean Garrett of Columbus Development Co. developed the project. The firm also owns local shopping centers North Ottawa Plaza and Columbus Square, and has plans for additional development along East Etna Road. Blunier Builders served as general contractor. Monument provided facility management software. SafeLease and StorageDefender offerings will be available to tenants.
PIKE COUNTY, OHIO — OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) platform best known for ChatGPT, has signed a 20-year lease agreement to be the customer at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus, an AI data center redevelopment of the decommissioned Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Pike County, located in southern Ohio’s Appalachian region. The size and cost of the campus has not been released, but The New York Times reports that it will be among the world’s largest data centers and that the build-out could cost as much as $500 billion. SB Energy, a data center and power infrastructure company backed by Tokyo-based SoftBank Group Corp., will build, own and operate the campus. Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), a hardware manufacturer of semiconductors and networking systems for AI data centers, will provide the full build-out at PORTS-Pike Technology Campus using its DSX AI factory platform — encompassing all aspects typical to an AI-ready data center, including GPUs (graphics processing units), CPUs (central processing units), servers and infrastructure software. Nvidia has secured land, power and shell (LPS) rights at the Pike County project through a partnership with SB Energy. Nvidia will immediately invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy to support the project’s build-out. SB Energy and …
DENTON, TEXAS — Developer Jackson-Shaw has broken ground on Horizon 35, a 908,730-square-foot industrial project in the North Texas city of Denton. The site is located at the northeast corner of I-35 and Loop 288, and the first phase of the development will consist of three rear-load buildings totaling 543,550 square feet. Building features of Phase I, which is expected to be complete in the third quarter of next year, will include 32- to 36-foot clear heights, dock-high loading doors, 18-by-20-foot drive-in doors and “ample” car and trailer parking allotments. ARCO/Murray is the design-build firm for Horizon 35, and Stream Realty Partners is the leasing agent.
FRISCO, TEXAS — Base Power Inc. has signed a 32,375-square-foot industrial lease in Frisco. The provider of home batteries is taking space within Building 3 at Frisco Trade Center. Brett Lewis, Taylor Stell and George Tanghongs of Lee & Associates represented the locally based landlord, Dalfen Industrial, in the lease negotiations. The tenant representative was not disclosed.
BLACK CREEK, GA. — JLL Capital Markets has secured $30.5 million in joint venture equity and $39.9 million in construction financing for Black Creek Commerce Center, a three-building industrial development underway in Black Creek, roughly 23 miles northwest of Savannah. Bobby Norwood, Mark Sixour, Britton Burdette, Jim Freeman, Kelsey Bawcombe and Austin Smith of JLL arranged the construction loan through Seacoast Bank on behalf of the developer, Xebec, and placed the joint venture equity with a unnamed, private investment group. Scheduled to deliver in the third quarter of 2027, the 687,890-square-foot development will include three rear-load buildings that feature 36-foot clear heights, 50-foot loading bays with 60-foot speed bays, 130-foot truck courts, ESFR fire suppression systems and TPO roofing. The site sits nearly seven miles from Hyundai’s $7.6 billion Metaplant America facility underway and 28 miles from the Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal. Xebec will continue to hold a right of first refusal on Phase II of the project, an adjacent 77-acre parcel, through April 2027.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — Nashville-based Bluecrest Capital Advisors has acquired Cypress Point Business Park, a 226,500-square-foot industrial flex development in Jacksonville, for $28 million. Philip Rachels of CBRE secured debt financing through First Horizon Bank on behalf of Bluecrest Capital. Robbie McEwan and Jesse Jones of JLL Capital Markets represented the seller, an entity doing business as Viking Partners Cypress LLC, in the transaction. Constructed between 1999 and 2004, the six-building park features four office buildings totaling 146,500 square feet and two light industrial buildings totaling 80,000 square feet. The property was 62 percent leased at the time of sale to five regional and national tenants including US Assure Insurance and ADT. Bluecrest Capital plans to convert 85,000 square feet of vacant space to small-bay light industrial infill space (SBLI). Within three years, the company says it expects to have converted approximately 76 percent of the gross leasable area converted to SBLI through lease rollovers and strategic build-outs. The remaining 24 percent is expected to be converted following year three. Bluecrest Capital also plans upgrades and renovations to subdivide larger suites into smaller units.
EVERETT, WASH. — Breakthrough, a joint venture of Tishman Speyer and Bellco Capital, has acquired a biomanufacturing facility in Everett, a suburb of Seattle, for $78 million. In tandem with the acquisition, Breakthrough secured a separate 21-year lease for the entire campus with a global biopharmarceutical company to create a U.S. manufacturing facility. The 270,000-square-foot facility can support a range of uses, including drug manufacturing, quality-control lab operations and, warehouse/distribution functions. The property also offers administrative office spaces and an onsite café. The site, located at 215 Shuksan Way, was originally leased to a biotechnology company that invested approximately $350 million to build out a biomanufacturing facility but never moved in after being acquired in 2023. The transaction marks Breakthrough’s first investment in the Puget Sound region. The name of the seller was not released.
DOWNERS GROVE, ILL. — Associated Bank has provided a $16.3 million loan to a fund managed by High Street Logistics Properties LLC for the construction of a Class A warehouse at 3900 Finley Road in Downers Grove. The 123,927-square-foot project will feature 20 dock doors, two drive-in doors and 147 car parking spaces. The nearly 9-acre property between Butterfield and Ogden Avenues was formerly vacant. Construction is slated to commence this month with completion anticipated in June 2027. Krista Casper of Associated Bank managed the loan arrangements and closing.
LAKE FOREST, ILL. — SVN Chicago Industrial has arranged the $3.7 million sale of a 35,482-square-foot industrial flex property located at 28041 N. Bradley Road in Lake Forest. John Joyce and Margaret Ames of SVN represented the seller. Situated on 2.8 acres, the property features two buildings, allowing the buyer to occupy a 23,000-square-foot headquarters while generating income on a separate 12,000-square-foot building. The facility features 1 acre of paved outdoor storage, two interior loading docks and two drive-in doors. It is located less than one mile from I-294.
SPICEWOOD, TEXAS — Self-storage brokerage firm Versal has negotiated the sale of Double Horn Storage, a 119-unit facility in the Central Texas city of Spicewood. The facility totals 40,160 net rentable square feet. Bill Bellomy, Michael Johnson, Logan Foster, Hugh Horne and Kirk Silas of Versal represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of which were limited liability companies, in the transaction.